HowToDoItFrugally Books Presents
The Survive and Thrive
Series of Books for Retailers

Written by a veteran retailer for retailers and already winning accolades!

A Retailer's Guide to Frugal In-Store Promotions
How-To Increase Profits And Spit In The Eyes Of Economic Downturns Using Thrifty Events And Sales Techniques

Retailers need more than crossed fingers to get and keep customers. In-store promotion--everything from in-store branding to events--is the most effective and economical way to do that. A Retailer's Guide to Frugal In-Store Promotions gives retailers the benefit of Carolyn Howard-Johnson's nearly three decades experience as founder and manager of her own chain of stores, a stint as a New York publicist, and as a retail consultant and journalist. It is the first in the Survive and Thrive series for retailers in her USA Book News award-winning HowToDoItFrugally.com books.

A Retailer's Guide to Frugal In-Store Promotions was named best business book award by USA Books News and is a Military Writer's Society of America gold medal winner.

 
Visit A Retailer's Guide page where you'll find:
Review for Frugal In-Store Book Promotions Book Excerpt
Contents for Frugal In-Store Book Promotion Endorsements
Free Podcast on Retailer/Author Partnerships
Authors Retail Biography
Available for Kindle and as a paperback on Amazon.

 

Retailers looking for help with editing their blogs, their Web sites, and their business letters will find The Frugal Editor a fine companion to A Retailer's Guide To Frugal In-Store Promotion. Just substitute the word "book" for "my store" and retailers will find most editing helps will work for store owners and their staffs!


Frugal and Focused Tweeting for Retailers
Tweaking Your Tweets and Other Tips for Integrating Your Social Media

Retailers don't want to be left in the dust created by competitors who are active social networkers. Even big business finds that Twitter is one of the most effective means of reaching large numbers of eager customers and communicating with them. But there is a knack for using it effectively. This Frugal and Focused Tweeting for Retailers book gets novices on the right Tweeting track and inspires veteran Tweeters with pin-point perfect Tweeting ideas and methods for integrating their efforts with everything they do online and in their stores.

"[After having read Frugal and Focused Tweeting], I’m having so much more FUN on twitter now!"  
~ Nanci Arvizu, host of Page Readers on Blog Talk Radio

 

Visit The Frugal and Focused Tweeting page where you'll find:
Review for Frugal and Focused Tweeting Author's Retail Biography Sponsorship for Frugal and Focused Tweeting
Frugal and Focused Tweeting Excerpt Contents for Frugal and Focused Tweeting Endorsements for Frugal and Focused Tweeting
Available for Kindle and as a paperback
on Amazon.

Frugal and Focused Tweeting's online book launch was powered
by Aggie Villaneuva of Promotion a la Carte
including reviews, interviews, opinion, and more.


Your Blog, Your Business
A Retailer's Frugal Guide to Getting Customer Loyalty
And Sales-Both In-Store and Online

Blogging is an essential part of a retailer's online marketing plan, yet many retailers avoid it because they dread its intricacies, the time it may consume in their busy schedules, or the unease they feel about finding meaningful material. Your Blog, Your Business addresses those fears with nitty-gritty, practical ideas for minimizing each of them. It helps businesses-large or small, online or off-set up a blog, integrate it with their other social networks, and manage it frugally. It gives retailers the benefit of Carolyn Howard-Johnson's nearly three decades experience as founder and manager of her own chain of stores and stints as a New York publicist, a retail consultant and journalist. She also runs several blogs of her own and contributes to countless others. It is the second in the Survive and Thrive series for retailers in her USA Book News award-winning HowToDoItFrugally.com books. Her blog for the retail trade is at www.frugalretailing.blogspot.com.

“As a columnist for Home Décor Buyer, Carolyn’s no-nonsense approach to retailing and her easy-to-read writing style made her a coach to thousands of retailers.”
~ Jim Carper, founding editor of Home Décor Buyer


These books were launched at The National Stationery Show at Javits Center in New York where Carolyn served on the buyer education faculty. Frugal and Focused Tweeting and Your Blog, Your Business are sponsored by Gift Shop Magazine


What Others are Saying
about
Carolyn's Books

Endorsement for Frugal and Focused Tweeting

The use of social media by retailers is tricky business. Frugal and Focused Tweeting for Retailers details practical strategies for retailers to connect with their target audience in a way that delights them, builds relationships, and creates a sense of community with people of like interest. It will help you not only drive new traffic to your site, but it will also help you create a loyal following of repeat clients . . . It’s a treasure trove of information."
~ MaAnna Stephenson, Web site training and designs and author of BlogAid's series of books on tech aspects of sites www.Blogaid.net.



Endorsement for In-Store Promotions

"This book is just what retailers need to help them through this economy. Step-by-step with nearly no money at all!"
~ Debra Gold, acknowledged expert in buyer education for the retail industry and President of Gold & Company


 

“Experts say that when business is slow, the last budget one should trim is advertising. The Guide to Frugal In-Store Promotions lets a retailer have their promotions and do it without spending much money.”  
~ Robert Ricciardi, President of well-known gift supplier, About Face.
 

“In 35 years in the industry, there are only a handful of retailers I have observed reach the success level of Carolyn Howard-Johnson. There is only one thing you need to learn from her to succeed... everything she says!”
~ Randy H. Eller, industry speaker, business consultant and President Eller Enterprises, LLC
 


 


Author's
Retail Biography

Carolyn Howard-Johnson has shared her nearly three decades of retail experience plus oodles more in the fields of journalism, public relations, publishing, and marketing into this Survive and Thrive series of books. She consults in the three Ps: publishing, promotion, and publicity and is the author of the multi award-winning HowToDoItFrugally series of books for writers and award-winning books of fiction and poetry.

She founded and operated stores ranging from home décor to gifts to antiques and other collectibles. She owned and operated the souvenir shop at the world renowned Santa Anita Race Track. During that time, she served on the boards of directors of the malls where her stores were located, of the boards of cooperative catalogs her stores utilized, and on the board of the California Gift Show. She speaks at retail industry conferences including The National Stationery Show, The California Gift Show, The California Mart and the LA Mart and has written articles for LA Mart, Home Decor Magazine and others. She puts this world of experience in retailing to work for you with this series of Survive and Thrive books or in private consultation sessions.

Howard-Johnson was named by members of the California Legislature Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment and American Women Business Association (ABWA) Impact Council’s Woman of the Year. Find more information on her speaking in the retailing industry and others here. Learn more about her other awards.


Buy Links for Carolyn's Books

Great Fiction
Purchase THIS IS THE PLACE
and
HARKENING at Amazon in their new and used feature.
Both of these books are out of print. They are available only on Amazon's New and Used feature for about $1.

Great Poetry
Purchase TRACINGS (Finishing Line Press) at Amazon.
IMPERFECT ECHOES: Writing Truth and Justice with Capital Letters,
lie and oppression with Small

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and
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CHERISHED PULSE: Unconventional Love Poetry
IMAGINING THE FUTURE: Ruminations on Fathers and Other Masculine Apparitions
SHE WORE EMERALD THEN: Reflections on Motherhood
BLOOMING RED: Christmas Poetry for the Rational
DEEPER INTO THE POND: Celebration of Femininity
SUBLIME PLANET: Celebrating Earth and the Universe
 

HowToDoItFrugally Series for Writers
Purchase THE FRUGAL BOOK PROMOTER,
THE FRUGAL EDITOR
Second Edition
GREAT LITTLE LAST MINUTE EDITING TIPS FOR WRITERS
GREAT FIRST-IMPRESSION BOOK PROPOSALS
HOW TO GET GREAT BOOK REVIEWS FRUGALLY AND ETHICALLY

Survive and Thrive Series of HowToDoItFrugally Books for Retailers
A RETAILER'S GUIDE TO FRUGAL IN-STORE PROMOTION
FRUGAL AND FOCUSED TWEETING FOR RETAILERS
YOUR BLOG, YOUR BUSINESS

Most of Carolyn's books are also available for the Kindle reader.
Did you know that with the Free app, Kindle can be adapted to any reader--even your PC!

 "Careers that are not fed die as readily
as any living organism given no sustenance." 
~
Carolyn Howard-Johnson

Studio photography by Uriah Carr
3 Dimensional Book Cover Images by iFOGO
Logo by Lloyd King

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Frugal E-Book Tip

Kindle E-Books Aren't
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Find Carolyn on the Web

  writers retailers

Carolyn's Blogs

The Frugal Retailer Blog
Carolyn shares nearly three decades of retailing experience   with
an emphasis on marketing.


Sharing with Writers
All things publishing with
an emphasis on book
promotion. Named to
Writer's Digest
101 Best Website list.


The New Book Review
Great way for readers, authors, reviewers and publicists to get more
mileage out of
a great review.


The Frugal Editor Blog
This is the Frugal, Smart
and Tuned-In Editor blog.
Covers editing, grammar, formatting and more.
Get the answers you need.



Time to Kindle

Carolyn's how-to books and poetry books are available on Kindle.
Click here to buy the big, powerful Kindle I love with free (Frugal!) WiFi  (Now in Paperwhite!)
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Carolyn's Awards

Awards for Carolyn's Books, Blogs and More

The New Book Review
Named to
Master's in English.org Online Universities'

101 Essential Sites for Voracious Readers

Writer's Digest 101 Best Websites
for
Sharing with Writers blog.

 


Best Book Award for The Frugal Book Promoter (2004) and The Frugal Editor (2008) and the Second Edition of The Frugal Book Promoter (2011).

 

Reader Views Literary Award for The Frugal Editor

New Generation Award for Marketing and Finalist for The Frugal Editor

Book Publicists of Southern California's Irwin Award

Military Writers Award of Excellence for
Tracings, A Chapbook of Poetry.


A Retailer's Guide to Frugal In-Store Promotion wins author Military Writers Society of America's Author of the Month award for March, 2010

 

Gold Medal Award from Military Writers Society of America, 2010. MWSA also gave a nod to She Wore Emerald Then, a chapbook of poetry honoring mothers.

The Frugal Editor Named #! on Top Ten Editing Books list.

Finalist New Generation Book Awards 2012, The Frugal Book Promoter; Finalist 2010 The Frugal Editor;
Winner 2010 Marketing Campaign for the Frugal Editor


The Oxford Award
recognizes
the alumna who exemplifies the Delta Gamma precept of service to her community and who, through the years, devotes her talents to improve the quality of life around her.

The Frugal Book Promoter is runner-up in the how-to category for the Los Angeles Book Festival 2012 awards.

Glendale City Seal
Winner Diamond Award for Achievement in the Arts
Glendale California's Arts and Culture Commission and the City of Glendale Library,
2013

And more than a dozen other awards for Carolyn's novel, short story collection and poetry. See the awards page on this site.


Published Works Almanac


Other Interests

Acting
Speaking
Travel

Tolerance


Carolyn's Poetry

Tracings
Imperfect Echoes
Celebration Series
Travel


Carolyn's Literary Works

This is the Place
Harkening
Published Shorter Works


Carolyn's How to Do it Frugally Series

For Writers
For Retailers


Video Trailer

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Tip

Thank goodness for the Web: Retailers can utilize the marketing power it affords them by cross promoting and interlinking everything they do online--from their blogs to their Web sites.

 Find at least one tip on writing, promotion, or tech on every page of this Web site. 

 


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