Shelfwiz Shelf Talkers
Part of the secret sauce of successful Independent bookstores is YOU. You read, you curate and through your shelves, you hand sell every book. Developed by a bookseller, these shelf talkers keep things tidy while providing an opportunity for messages to your customers.
Shelves are the silent sales force – give your shelves the tools to do a great job.
Available for ¾-inch & 1-inch thick shelves in 4 different Plexiglas models.
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Make your customized labels directly in the
Shelfwiz Shelf Talker Template Generator.
Creating a custom label couldn’t be any easier!
How To Order + Shipping Info:
For the shelf talker order form, CLICK HERE.
Upon receipt of your order form, we will email you a confirmation with a link to our credit card portal.
Shelf talker orders generally take 1-2 days to process and 3-5 days to arrive via FedEx.
Shipping is $15 for the first dozen, $3 for each additional dozen. (Power Pakz ship at the rate for 2 dozen.)
If you have standard Franklin fixtures, your shelves are 3/4" thick.
Shelf Talker Tips
Do you find yourself wondering how best to use shelf talkers? Should you use shelf talkers for face out books or spine out? Is more or fewer better? Handwritten or typed? The list of questions continues ...
While there's no wrong way to use them, there are best practices.
We recommend using them to highlight certain books, not to give a full description of each book your staff has read. And placing them under a face out book allows to customer to identify the book with the talker much easier than spine out – unless you're using talkers under a series, then spine out works well.
A bookcase full of books with shelf talkers under each one is just too much to take in. It's visual overload and overwhelmed customers seek other places for their eyes to rest.
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Libraries Use Shelf Talkers to Increase Circulation
Libraries, while not in the business of selling merchandise, provide a community service that Shelfwiz is well equipped to manage. Librarians use SHELFWIZ to promote library and community events. Though libraries are often quiet places, SHELFWIZ shelf talkers speak loudly to patrons to and can provide a personality and ambience that libraries so often lack.
The children's section in libraries report that SHELFWIZ guides their young readers to discover new books and keep track of books in series. School librarians say their students discover the joy of reading through creatively designed shelf talkers.
Bookstores Use Shelf Talkers For Display & Recommendations
Shelfwiz provides a way for booksellers to highlight their recommended books neatly, legibly and unobtrusively. Besides creating their own book reviews and recommendations, many booksellers download the monthly Indienext, bookseller-written book reviews from the Shelfwiz website or the website of the American Bookseller’s Association.
It is undeniable, as hundreds of booksellers will attest, that a neat, easy-to-read shelf talker can lift a book from obscurity to a bestseller while providing a boost to a bookseller’s sales. The Original Short and Compact Short models are also useful in bookstores for labeling categories or sub-categories.