Not only did the 50 attendees of this year's 4 mininars learn tons of new information and skills,
network with knowledgeable people, eat lots of excellent food, and simply have a good time but each Mini-nar had a drawing for a $25 visa gift card! And the winners are:
Beth Wells, Mount Angel Abbey
Heather Gillespie, Lewis & Clark College
Karissa Trahan, Salish Kootenai College
Monica Hildebrandt, Spokane Falls CC
Please register online for the any of the four 2011 Mini-Nars described below. Payment options include checks, credit cards, or cash/checks at the event itself. You need to register ahead of time even if you will pay at the door in order to let the host store know who will show up and how many lunches to buy.
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Creating Dynamic Displays Workshop
Join Joanna Hunt from CWU and host Barbara Racine at the University of Puget Sound Bookstore to practice building dynamic displays!
Put your skills to the test or develop a new eye for design by creating (and taking apart) large and small cross merchandise displays.
Joanna will share some easy and fun displays from her CAMEX “Creating Dynamic Displays” presentations as well as some
inexpensive product ideas to easily integrate into your store. Using inexpensive ideas, let us help you utilize what you have on hand to take
your displays to the next level!
July 20, 2011, 10am - 3pm: University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
August 3, 2011, 10am - 3pm: Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA
Cost: $25 per attendee (includes lunch)
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Textbook rentals; purchasing used books online; offering price comparisons to students; dynamic pricing of textbooks; de-coupling of used and new prices; beating the online competitors on price; surviving on lower textbook prices; utilizing price analytics to set your prices; increasing your used-book inventory; master textbook list (MTL). If any of these topics are of interest to you, you don't want to miss the Course Materials Summit. Through mix of round tables, presentations, and group discussions you will see what other NCBA folks are doing to keep fighting to be the best resource for our students' course materials needs.
July 27, 2011, 9am - 3:30pm: Reed College, Portland, OR
August 10, 2011, 10am - 3pm: Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA
Cost: $25 per attendee (includes lunch)
Register for any of the above mini-nars
Mini-Nars are small educational sessions offered in the spring and summer in various parts
of our membership area. They are designed mainly for non-managerial staff who often are not able
to attend the bigger national or regional meetings. The locations are selected to make sure that (most) everybody
can attend these sessions with just a one-day trip and registration cost is kept to a minimum to allow all stores to
send as many of their employees as possible without putting their budget in jeopardy. Networking with peers tends
to be as valuable as the actual topics presented. While these mini-nars are geared towards our lower-level staff,
many managers have found these events useful, too.