Data Demystified: A Gentle and Totally-Non-Intimidating Introduction to BNC SalesData

Are you currently reporting your bookstore’s sales information to BookNet Canada? What even is BookNet Canada?

There’s a good chance you are (especially if you’ve received or applied for the CBF's Support for Booksellers program) and in this session you’ll find out what this actually means! Led by SalesData expert (and expat bookseller), Kalpna Patel, this introduction will show you:

- what happens to your sales data, and who can see it

- how reporting your sales benefits the Canadian book industry, your friendly sales reps, but most importantly: your store

- how to start using the SalesData website and tool to find out what’s selling in independent bookstores across the country

- how other booksellers currently use SalesData in their day-to-day operations to make informed buying decisions, do basic market research, and discover their new must-have titles

Join us for the first installment in this new, informal and informative series designed for data dabblers and number nerds alike. Each session will be an opportunity to ask questions, and learn how to use SalesData one feature and report at a time. No spreadsheets, we promise.

Presenter: Kalpna Patel has over 20 years of independent bookselling and retail experience. After half a lifetime spent buying, managing, merchandising, and marketing, her focus now is to empower retailers and booksellers to make smart decisions, improve inventory performance, and to identify and take advantage of easy and exciting opportunities for growth.