It can take a lot of steps to actually sell used books, you have to find them, evaluate them, buy them, store them, organize them, list them and sell them. However, after all that there is one last step, and as far as your customer is concerned, it’s probably the most important of all: sending [...]
Shipping the books you sell on Amazon may soon cost you more than ever. The U.S. Post Office is in trouble. Deep trouble. And that means we can expect more rate hikes coming down the pike. The USPS’s woes stem from a number of factors. The continued encroachment of the internet on mail’s traditional role [...]
How can you possibly make $1000 selling books online in just 7 days? It’s simple. Just find 100 books that you can sell for $10 each. Still sounds impossible? Here’s a true story: Back in 1999, I was still working for a high tech company, but I was already involved in selling online in my [...]
Everybody remembers their first time. The nerves, the uncertainty, the thrill. I’m talking about selling your first book online, of course. What did you think? For me, it was a book called “Inheritance of Coat Colour in Dogs” that I picked up for 25¢. I turned around and sold it on Ebay for $44. This [...]
According to an article posted today on thedenverchannel.com (the website of ABC’s Denver, Colorado affiliate), Goodwill is currently trying to overhaul their image. This includes stocking more high-end, brand name merchandise, as well as giving the stores themselves makeovers. The idea is to bring Goodwill stores more in line with other retail stores and to [...]
You just wanted to make a few bucks selling used books online. It all seemed so simple and straightforward until you ran into the one thing you didn’t count on: dealing with customers. Now that we’ve talked about difficult customers and scammers, you may be feeling pretty vulnerable. Can a disgruntled customer damage your business [...]
Selling books, like selling just about anything else, means dealing with customers. In part 1 we talked about difficult customers. In this post we’re going to look at customers who just out-and-out lie to you, the ones who try to scam you out of your hard earned money. Beware of scammers. Especially if you’re selling [...]
Selling used books online is actually a kind of retail sales. Even though you’re not standing in a brick-and-mortar store, handing people receipts and wishing them a nice day, you’re still selling directly to individual customers, and that means interacting with those customers to some degree. A lot of people learned all they know about [...]
If you are serious about selling used books, you don’t want to limit yourself by only listing on a single marketplace. On the other hand, creating individual listings on all the different marketplaces, Amazon, Ebay, Abebooks, etc., can be very time consuming. The best solution I have found is to use Inventory Management Tools which [...]
In talking about buying used books, and explaining why it is that I’m sharing information about selling books, I’ve already mentioned “scanners” and “scanner people” a couple of times, which to some of you out there may beg the question “Just what the heck is a ‘scanner’ anyway?” To understand scanners, you first have to [...]
