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Nature Stores
Description
Get ideas on improving your nature store, how to set up an on-line sales offering, and what it takes to do “off-site” pop-up stores for special events. Learn about new products in support of refuge branding.
Hear from the manager of the very successful DC Booth Hatchery Nature Store about inventory management, product identification and suppliers. We will present how to set up an on-line sales outlet for your store, and the steps needed to operate a successful “pop-up” store away from your building for special events. We will also get an update on revisions to a new “Blue Goose Passport” and some other ideas on sales merchandise that supports the refuge system branding effort.
Speakers
- Tom Worthington – Director at Large, Coalition of Refuge Friends and Advocates
- Nancy Pummel Cole – Gift Shop Manager, Assistant Director, Ruby’s Garden Event Planner for DC Booth Society, Inc.
- Jill Bachman – Nature Store, Friends of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge
- Melissa Worthington – Volunteer Manager, Minnesota Valley Refuge Friends
Recording and Materials (11.4.25)
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