By Navina Nirada dasa
The VTE Graduate Course on Book Distribution is being taught at at the Mayapur Festival 2009 on the occasion of the 10th aniversary inauguration of Sri Mayapura’s Vaishnava Academy.
This course is an intensive 30 hour seminar for devotees wishing to learn the art and improve their style of distributing Srila Prabhupadas books.
It is recommended for devotees who wish to aquire basic and advanced skills of book distribution and removing all sorts of obstacles in their preaching.
It focuses on personal interaction, foundational principles, psychology of book distribution, communication, customer care, follow up, dealing with challenges, different methods of distribution, proper standards & aims.
Interested students are requested to write to navina.nirada@pamho.net
The course is facilitated by two experianced book distributors: Anakadundubhi Dasa and Navina Nirada Dasa It takes place from the 23rd – 27th February 2009 at Vaishnava Academy.
I have cases of Srila Prabhupada’s books sitting in my closet and in my car because I don’t have the skills to get people to take them. I wish I could go to a course like this, but Mayapur is halfway around the globe. With so many encumberances like family, farm animals, job, etc., there is no way I can get there. Perhaps ISKCON or the BBT could sponsor expert book distributors to visit each ISKCON center to give courses on book distribution. I imagine that distributing books in Mayapur has little in common with distributing books in Central Pennsylvania, where few have heard of Bhagavad-gita but everyone knows John 14:6 (“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life; no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”). Giving instruction to interested local devotees would allow for more focus on how to overcome local challenges, in addition to making it accessible to anyone who wants to attend. Hare Krishna.
Nice program. It would be worthwhile to have something similar online. I mean doing a basic course online for devotees who can’t attend.
Many great courses need to be made available online. These online editions and e-coaching will have to be done by someone expert at this format who likes to spend lots of time on the computer.
I am ready to visit to teach and train temple- and congregational devotees in the art of book distribution in your local area. Please write to me personally at navina.nirada@pamho.net for such requests. ys nnd
Due to the Maha Abhiseka and other seminar schedules which collide, we have moved the Book Distribution Graduate Course to 6th till 10th of March. So we start on the day the parikrama gets back to Mayapur.
ys navina nirada dasa
Just a note for those who are in the USA and are interested in book distribution. Vaisesika Prabhu (ACBSP) the world famous book distributor does amazing seminars in the USA. His temple in California distributes thousands and thousands books a month. There is only a tiny handful of devotees who live in the temple. The book distribution is mainly done by the congregation via medium of weekend warrior events, maha monthly book distribution events, and smart boxes/smart tables. Here in Dallas the devotees sponsored Vaisesika Prabhus ticket and he happily and enthusiastically agreed to perform the seminar here. At the end of the seminar we had 50 new book distributors. To contact Vaisesika Prabhu or to learn more about book distribution see http://distributebooks.com Hare Krishna
Your humble servant,
Nityananda Chandra Das