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How a Bookshop Chain Beat Amazon at Word of Mouth
Episode 19 of Brand Storytelling with Fexingo examines how a 50-year-old independent bookseller chain turned its greatest liability—a small footprint and limited inventory—into a storytelling weapon. Lucas and Luna unpack the specific narrative strategy that drove a 27% year-over-year increase in foot traffic across 90 U.S. locations in 2025, without a single national TV ad. They trace the campaign from a single handwritten staff recommendation card photographed by a customer in Portland to a viral hashtag that generated 1.4 billion organic impressions in six weeks. Along the way, they…
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