Would You Like an At-Home Quilt Bookstore?
August 21, 2007 by Mary Emma Allen
Filed under Arts & Crafts
Over at Home Biz Notes, guest blogger Yvonne Russell provides advice and suggestions for operating a home based bookstore, whether it’s one where customers come to your home shop or you sell solely online. In Start Your Own Specialist Home Based Bookstore, Yvonne discusses how to research before starting your business, how and where to obtain your books, how to find a niche…in short, many tips to start you on the way to success rather than failure with a specialty bookstore.
So…have you decided your niche might be quilt, fabric art, and related books? Perhaps you want to operate simply a bookstore. Or you may want to add a book nook to your quilt fabric and supply store.
The information Yvonne offers at her Home Biz Notes post gives some great information to start you thinking, researching, planning, and actually setting up a bookstore, if that seems feasible.
(Yvonne Russell is a freelance writer who blogs at Grow Your Writing Business. She has operated and sold a number of businesses including an award winning bookstore. She also is the director of People People, a small development and training business.)
Thanks for mentioning my guest post. Adding quilt books to an existing home based quilt or fabric business is a perfect match, Mary Emma.
If customers visit your home based store, you can still offer a mail order option from catalogs, a website or newsletter, as well as instore books.
You could even offer a subscription book club, book of the month service or gift vouchers. There are lots of book related opportunities for value adding in a home based craft business.