"Unraveling the Mystery of Tsutaya" Reading Club: Learn User Management from Tsutaya Bookstore

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Someone once asked me, how many new books do I read in a month? I’ve never kept an official count because I sometimes buy (or receive) several new books in a day, but I imagine the number is in the dozens. As a book lover, it seems normal to visit bookstores of all sizes.

As a result, I was often “captured” by netizens at Eslite Bookstore, and I also visited Japanese bookstores such as Tsutaya Bookstore and Kinokuniya Bookstore. This time I am very happy to have the opportunity to learn from the two gang leaders of the Book Fan Alliance Sary and [Meifen](https://nancy wei.org/2018/12/05/users/) jointly organized an event to discuss the interesting theme of “[Learning user management from Tsutaya Bookstore] (https://www.facebook.com/events/307630540076224/)”.

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Have you ever visited Tsutaya Bookstore? What is your impression of it? Is it a temperament bookstore that looks very similar to Eslite, or do you have other ideas?

To paraphrase what my friend Lin Chengyi said, [Tsutaya Bookstore](https://www.cheers.com.tw/blog/blogTopic. action?id=504&nid=7525)’s business focus is not on selling books. Books are just an important contact point it has set up. The actual focus is on curating exhibitions through experiential elements. The purpose is to make proposals to the customers who live in Taipei and have a lot of money and have relatively high material and food requirements. In other words, this is a concept store that starts from the needs of users and presents its imagination of a better life in the future through real-life performances.

Tsutaya is a practical place that uses “planning power” to stimulate inner needs and desires. It is definitely not a bookstore, but an experience store that uses “environmental education” to inspire you on how to live.

After actually visiting Tsutaya Bookstore, I also discovered some differences in service experience design between it and Eslite Bookstore. I heard that Tsutaya Bookstore had previously sent staff to Eslite Bookstore to observe, and later they blazed their own path.

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From my point of view, Tsutaya Bookstore has three attractive attributes, namely planning, appearance and data. From a planning perspective, this is the strength of the founder of Tsutaya Bookstore [Muneaaki Masuda] (https://www.thenewslens.com/article/83639). From time to time, you can find on the Internet or media reports that the various curatorial activities they launch are quite fascinating; but I must also say in fairness that the performance of our Eslite Bookstore is not inferior. As for appearance (software and hardware design), to be honest, Eslite Bookstore’s performance is not bad either!

But in terms of data operation and application, Tsutaya Bookstore, which has the T-POINT alliance system, is obviously better. How they manage users and then create loyal fans is a topic that I am very interested in.

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If you have read “[Unraveling the Mystery Tsutaya: TSUTAYA’s Future Life Proposal Laboratory](https://www.books.com.tw/exep/assp.php/vista/products/0010749297?utm_sou rce=vista&utm_medium=ap-books&utm_content=recommend&utm_campaign=ap-201812)”, “[Style is a business opportunity: Tsutaya Bookstore founder Masuda Muneaki only teaches it to his employees Business thinking and work mentality](https://www.books.com.tw/exep/assp.php/vista/products/0010788099?utm_source=vista&utm_medium =ap-books&utm_content=recommend&utm_campaign=ap-201812)》If you read these books, you should understand that Masuda Muneaki’s intention is not just to open a bookstore, but also to sell interesting life suggestions to everyone.

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Therefore, he put CCC Group(カルチュア・コンビニエンス・クラブ) has been built into a strong planning company. Every time a new branch of Tsutaya Bookstore is opened, it never forgets to start from customer value and actively explore customer needs and market trends.

Only by integrating a lifestyle into products can we transcend eras, races, generations and genders. ——Masuda Muneaki To analyze the user management strategy of Tsutaya Bookstore, we can start from different aspects such as field, marketing and community management, such as: contact place, user value, operational goals, category strategy, crowd strategy and marketing purpose, etc.

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We can also understand that Tsutaya Bookstore adopts a generous customer retention strategy and encourages consumers to hang out in the bookstore as much as possible-whether it is drinking a cup of coffee or reading a book, it will help the company convey its brand image and user management.

Different from other merchants’ views on selling lifestyle style, Masuda Muneaki prefers to interpret life proposals as a longing and yearning for a better life. Everyone’s interests and preferences are often completely different. In addition to providing book buying guides such as rankings, Tsutaya Bookstore also makes extensive use of event planning or store staff guidance to help every consumer find the books and products they love.

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In recent years, Masuda Muneaki has brought together diverse products and diverse people through Tsutaya Bookstore, thereby producing a very attractive lifestyle proposal and continuing to provide unique value to a wide range of customers. Anyone who comes to Tsutaya Bookstore can quickly find their favorite products or books; from the perspective of this customer journey, the most valuable thing is not only promoting consumption and performance growth, but also jointly participating in and creating a new life proposition.

I think this is where we should learn more from Tsutaya Bookstore!

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Further reading

• “You can be more than just an office worker” theme lecture: Transform into a successful business owner in 27 days
• “Business Studies from Maker Entrepreneurship Mentor Cheng Tianzong” Book Club: Be the Maker of Your Own Life
• I read “Small Group Effect: The Invisible Power Sweeping Massive Users”: Make good use of profit drivers to gain an advantage in the era of quick success

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