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COLLINS BOOKSELLERS

Mount Gambier

From November 1998 until 2016, my husband David and I owned a Collins Booksellers franchise in Mount Gambier.

Between us we ran the day to day operations until October 2011, when I left Mount Gambier for Adelaide and a position as Graduate of Architecture at Brown Falconer.

Collins Booksellers Mount Gambier is a general bookshop, catering to a wide range of readers with a smorgasbord of genres.

Although avid readers, and despite having worked independently previously, running a bookstore was a steep learning curve for us both and provided a wealth of experience in many areas, including:

  • Buying - selecting stock for local readers from the tens of thousands of books published in Australia each year

  • Selling / customer service - There are many, many opportunities to buy books in the world. A local bookshop in a regional (or any) area relies very much on the level of customer service it can offer

  • Financial management - debtors, creditors, payroll, etc.

  • HR - a small business is very dependent on excellent people. This is an unassailable truth.