Industries · Retail and shops
Websites for bookshops
You cannot out-stock the internet. Events, recommendations and ordering in are the business.
An independent bookshop cannot compete on price or range, and customers know it. What brings them in is curation, events, and a person who knows what they might like.
Ordering in is also a genuinely competitive service that most customers do not realise exists, frequently arriving as fast as an online order.
What your customers want answered
- Can you order a book in, and how quickly
- What events do you have coming up
- What do you recommend
- Do you do book tokens, subscriptions or gift wrapping
- What are your opening hours
Publish the events calendar properlyAuthor visits, book groups, children's story times and signings bring people through the door and are searched for by name. An events page that is current, bookable and easy to find is worth more than any attempt at an online catalogue.
Building a shop nobody will use
A full online store competing with the major retailers is expensive to maintain and rarely used. A simple order-in request form achieves most of the benefit at a fraction of the effort.
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Tell me about your business.
One message is enough to start. I’ll read it and reply myself, usually with a couple of questions and a clear price.
Liam Tapp, Website Builds