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Jamie McDowell posted a reply on Re: Gift Shop Best Sellers
Tuesday, Jan 13, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Said: We have a decent-sized store and cover many price points. Our best sellers are $5-7 items, often from Toy Network or Schylling. While successful as a revenue stream for our Museum, the items definitely aren't all mission-ali...
Jessica Weikert posted a reply on Re: Direct Service Delivery Discounts
Tuesday, Jan 13, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Said: We're looking into offering something similar to this as well, so I'd love to hear and implementation styles as to how you're operating this. We're considering adapting our existing membership model for the service providers that their ...
Hannah Lally posted a reply on Re: Memberships for Therapists (speech, occupat...
Tuesday, Jan 13, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Said: We offer what we call "Social Service Memberships". This is most often used by Early Intervention organizations who frequently meet with their clients at the museum. The benefit of this system is that once the whole organization registe...
Christina Melton posted a reply on Re: Light and shadow exhibit
Tuesday, Jan 13, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Said: The Fleet Science center in San Diego has some interesting offerings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xdl2wlkLjng
Stephanie Smith-Gragg posted a reply on Re: Consignment rates for gift shop
Tuesday, Jan 13, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Said: In the past I have done a 60/40 (60% of the artist) split and a 50/50 split in several museums and museum types. If you offer discounts on your consignment items 20% might be a difficult margin to turn in a positive direction.
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