Museum Store: The Manager's Guide: Basic Guidelines for the New Museum Store Manager

by Museum Store Association

Overview

This practical guide is a “must own” resource for every museum store office.

The eight-chapter volume includes a wealth of advice on best practices compiled by the MSA to help members become more successful in every aspect of their business. Get guidance from experienced store manager pros to help you correctly evaluate your store’s performance and get on track to boost every aspect of performance. If you add just one educational resource to your library this year, this book should be it! The information it contains is that valuable.

The revised and updated Fifth Edition of Museum Store: The Manager’s Guide includes invaluable new tools.

Features include:

• Updated information on social media, online and mobile shopping to help you maximize the value of these important channels
• How-to’s for analyzing and measuring financial performance, visual merchandising, marketing, managing personnel and more
• BONUS: Forms found in the book that you can download from the MSA website
• New insights into unrelated business income tax (UBIT) and copyright issues

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781538185315
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	08/06/2024
Edition description:	Fifth Edition
Pages:	134
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

The Museum Store Association (MSA) community advances the nonprofit retail industry and its professionals through advocacy, education, and collaboration. Nonprofit retail professionals and providers turn to MSA to build connections, learn best practices, and conduct business to enhance the success of nonprofit stores and their vendor partners. MSA supports museum stores and vendor affiliates by offering industry publications, virtual and in-person education, access to wholesale vendor expos, leadership development opportunities, networking, and professional resources.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The Retail Store: An Integral Part of the Museum Chapter 2: Building Budgets and Tracking Stats Chapter 3: Managing Merchandising Chapter 4: Legal Considerations Chapter 5: Designing Displays Chapter 6: Managing Staff Chapter 7: Creating Great Customer Service Chapter 8: Developing Effective Marketing Chapter 9: Setting up Shop Online Terms and Definitions