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April 2007 | Vol. VI - No. 4

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How to Keep Your Toy Store Thriving

By: Alison Marek
4/1/2007

What are the secrets to keeping your customers from crossing over to the mass-market dark side? Everything from owning your toy store’s building to wrapping birthday gifts with lizards, 26 toy-store owners told TDmonthly Magazine. Find out how they’re continuing to prosper in a competitive market, and why some other stores have gone belly-up in the May issue of TDmonthly.
Alison MarekWriter's Bio: ALISON MAREK is an award-winning writer, director and cartoonist whose work has been published by Fairchild Publications and DC Comics (Piranha Press), broadcast on Showtime and other cable networks, and viewed worldwide in film festivals. See her short films and print work on www.alisonmarek.com. Watch her nefarious villains in the web series www.MuggsMovers.com. Get inspired by her cartoons "Daily ARFFirmations to Unleash Your Inner Fido" at www.ARFFirmations.com. Phew! And then ...  Read more articles by this author


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