Thursday, September 06, 2007

Salespersons extraordinaire

It seems as if the legend about St Swithin's Day is pretty accurate. The poor weather we had around 15th July did indeed continue for another 40 days - up till the end of August, in fact. And now we have Indian summer. Beautiful weather when tee shirts can again be worn and legs can be brought out of hiding.

Goldenford (www.goldenford.co.uk) therefore spent a lovely day at the Farmers' Market on Tuesday, and while we were there, Irene (www.myspace.com/ireneblack) and I practised our selling skills by calling on both branches of Waterstone's. There used to be four bookshops in Guildford, not including Smiths, but this is now down to two. Whether this says something about Guildford, about Waterstone's, or about people's reading habits, I'm not quite sure. At any rate, we got a good reception at both branches. This inspired us to meet up today and take a trek to Woking for the same purpose. Once again we received a very pleasant welcome, the only problem being the huge difficulty of finding our way around Woking and the maze that is the Peacock's Centre, and similar difficulty in escaping from the multi-storey car park.

We also offered our services if a Creative Writing evening was required by either of the Woking Waterstone's. Invitations have also gone out now for the launch party of Irene's forthcoming book, Sold to the Lady with the Lime-Green Laptop at the end of September.

4 comments:

Anne Brooke said...

You're so brave!!! You're both definitely now the Goldenford Sales Experts - officially!

:))

A
xxx

Jackie Luben said...

It's always good to do these things in twos. You each give each other confidence. And carrying lots of brochures, etc. helps too.

Sue said...

Sounds like you had a very successful day. Well done!

Jackie Luben said...

Thank you Sue.