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Well, Free Comic Book Day has passed once again. What a great and joyous experience! Lots of new faces. Lots of new kid faces. A great day of sales (possibly the 2nd best day ever). And a whole lot of fun.

I was lucky enough to have Dave Hawksworth, an outside sales rep for Diamond Comic Distributors in the store both Friday and Saturday. His primary job is to make sure we are aware of lots of good, award winning trades and other products. He also usually takes pictures of the store and does a little profile on the Diamond site for other retailers. He didn't take any photos on Friday and I think I impressed him by having all but one of the books he was promoting. I had sold the other one, but had not reordered it. I even sold him 2 books so he could promote them at other stores on his voyage.

Dave came back on Saturday to take pictures during the Free Comic Book Day festivities. Luckily he was there at about the busiest point of the day, with lots of kids in the store. I was waaaay too busy on the register to talk to him, but I could hear customers talking me and the store up to him, and I really appreciated it.

Dave gave me lots of compliments and heaped praise on me and the store and how I am running the store. Now I do see this 2 ways. 1st, I doubt he ever tells anyone they are doing a crappy job. But, 2nd, he sees a lot of stores in his travels. So he knows good and bad, and I really do think he thinks I am doing a good job.

I am not the biggest store in the area, either in sales volume or in store size. But I do try to carry a very diverse stock. It was nice to have almost all of the books he was recommending. Its also fun to surprise people by having the oddball books they are looking for.

So I guess I will keep doing what I am doing. Hopefully, I'll keep getting better at it. And thanks to everybody that came down this past weekend. And thinks to everybody that shows up every week or month. I couldn't do it without you.