Friday, June 28, 2019 9:15 AM to 10:15 AM EDT
Duquesne
The ABACUS benchmarking report is designed to provide easy-to-understand guidelines for identifying independent bookstore business performance improvement opportunities. If you have never participated in the survey and would like to learn more about reporting to ABACUS-19, which will open in spring 2020, this session will teach you:
- The importance of reporting to ABACUS
- Information you need to prepare to complete the report
- Best practices from booksellers who reported their store's numbers to the 2018 ABACUS
- Actionable steps to take when you return home to prepare for ABACUS-19
Dan Cullen, ABA (White Plains, NY); Sarah Hutton, Village Books (Bellingham, WA); Tina Ferguson, Face in a Book (El Dorado Hills, CA); Andy Perham, Books Inc. (San Francisco, CA)