ciaraldi@rochester.UUCP (Mike Ciaraldi) (02/23/84)
From: Mike Ciaraldi <ciaraldi> A local comics store is thinking of computerizing, and I am giving them advice. The first things they want to automate are the catalog, mailimg list, and orders. The catalog is simple, basically just a big word-processing document. The others are harder. Now they have 30,000 file cards, each with someone's address, and a notation of each of their orders (date and amount, not the actual comics ordered). Thety want to be able to keep of record of the addresses to be able to send out catalogs, but also the orders to cull people who don't order anything. Releated to that, they would also like to get statstics on buying habits (again, just the mail-order customers, at least to start). At the end of the year, they'd like to know how many of each title and issue were sold. It might be nice to link this to names, so that if they had a special on, say X-Men, they could send letters to people who had ordered lots of X-Men in the past. Does anyone know if this sort of software already exists? Do you know of a computer store which is already compiuterized? Any other ideas? Thanks. Mike Ciaraldi ciaraldi@rochester