I really can't believe that it has been six weeks since we opened Red Kite Books!
Yes, that's right. We are up and running!
It's been such a whirlwind and though I often thought about blogging, I'm afraid that I'd fall asleep before I'd finished getting the laptop out. We managed to secure the licence and the insurance (a steep learning curve in itself!), arrange display units and sort out a lot of stock.
We've been making ourselves at home on the stall each week and things are finally coming together. Each week we find a slightly different way to display the books and are learning what works and what doesn't. We're also learning a lot about advertising and promoting ourselves.
In fact, we have a Facebook page! The website is a work in progress but will hopefully be unveiled soon enough, our daughter has been helping us with that side of things, which has been incredibly useful.
We have been so pleased to see some of our regular customers from the old bookshop coming along to support us. We've steadily been taking orders over the weeks and also seem to have a fairly steady stream of sales from the stall as well. It's still very early days but things look positive so far.
In fact, we were extremely excited to hold our first author signing today. Local author Carole Divall was signing copies of her latest book - Inside the Regiment - with us and it felt like a huge step forward.
So once the Bank Holidays are over, it will be full steam ahead with trying to grow our business. We need to sort out more advertising (any ideas on the best way to do that on a limited budget?) and do some more work on some exciting ideas we have!
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