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MASTERING THE ART OF SOURCING FOR ONLINE BOOKSELLERS & COLLECTORS
THE MOST COMPREHESIVE STUDY ON BOOK AND MEDIA SOURCING AVALABLE TODAY! How to Buy Books, DVDs, and CDs for at least 80% below Market Value Guaranteed! Direct from the publisher This Paperback Edition is specifically designed for easy study.
Book Details Format: Paperback Size: 6" x 9" Pages: 242 Author: M. Mitch Freeland Publisher: Las Vegas Book Company Edition: First Paperback Edition, October 03, 2018
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CONTENTS Introduction Booksellers and Collectors Defining Mindfulness in Book Sourcing Your 5 Percent Edge How to Use this Book
PART I
Chapter 1: Thrift Stores Goodwill and Salvation Army Independents—Mom and Pop’s Thrift Store Auctions Pricing Scheduling a Route Killing Many Birds with One Stone Eliminating the Bad Stores Focusing on the Good Stores Restocking Times Discount Days Where to Find Stores Summing Up
Chapter 2: Swap Meets and Flea Markets An Average Day at the Swap Meet Cutting Deals for Large Quantities One Good Swap Meet Hundreds or Thousands of Books From One Vendor The Regulars New or Periodic Sellers The Go-Getter Negotiator Inflexible Sellers Storage Unit Offerings Get on the List Seventy DVDs and Two hundred Forty Eight More About Four Thousand Books Unrealistic Sellers No Scanners It’s All About Relationships Probing for Products How Much Money Should You Take with You? Summing Up
Chapter 3: Garage Sales & Yard Sales Are Garage Sales and Yard Sales Really Worth While? How Many Books, DVDs, CDs, etc. are For Sale? Questions to Ask Over the Phone Have Any Dealers or Booksellers Come to See Your Books? Have the Books Been Scanned? How Much are They? Are You Selling them Individually or Altogether? Could You E-mail Me a List of Your Books? My $15,000 Blunder: Don’t Let This Happen to You! A Little Trick to Keep the Competition at Bay Summing Up
Chapter 4: Estate Sales A Worth the While Estate Sale A Couple of Bins of DVDs Hourly Rate Rundown Why Should You Care About an Hourly Rate? How to Determine Your Hourly Sourcing Rate or What are You Really Worth? Strategy for Estate Sales Estate Sale Questionnaire Summing Up
Chapter 5: Church and Private School Fundraisers Prices Religious Books Leather Bibles Study Bibles in Particular Multiple Language Bibles are Always Worth Picking Up The Koran and Other Non-Christian Books Jewish Books, the Torah and Others Locating Church Book Sales Private Schools Other Nonprofit Charitable Organizations and Events Summing Up
Chapter 6: Buying Books from Other Websites and Online Classified Adds Arbitrage with, Amazon, Abe.com, Alibris, Barnes & Noble, Half.com and Others Classified Adds Summing Up
Chapter 7: Bookstores Dollar Bookstores Used Bookstore Large Chains Stores Going Out to Business Video Store Liquidations Summing Up
Chapter 8: Storage Unit Auctions Summing Up
Chapter 9: Book Buy Back Websites Customer Service is Priority Number One List of Online Book Buy Back Websites Summing Up
Chapter 10: Donation Bins What to Consider Before you Get A Donation Bin Summing Up
Chapter 11: Book Auctions Online Auctions sale Houses Pricing of Books at Auctions U.S. Treasury and U.S. Postal Auctions Summing Up
Chapter 12: Marketing for Products Marketing to Family and Friends Free Newspapers Business Cards Bulletin Boards Neighborhood Campaigns / Fliers: Canvassing your Area Summing Up
Chapter 13: Colleges and Universities University Bookstore Shorting Books Summing Up
Chapter 14: Dealing in Autographed Books and Collectables Getting Autographs Yourself Where to Find Autographed Books Book Fairs and Shows Long Lines Celebrity Autographs Popular Authors First Time Authors Dated and Inscribed—Yes or No Where Should a Book be Signed? Summing Up
PART II
Chapter 15: The Library Book Sale Why are Library Book Sales Important and Why does Part II Comprise Half the Entire Book? From this Powerful Section You’ll Learn You’ll Learn the Following Strategies that will Propel You to Superstar Status First Big Score Summing Up
Chapter 16: Strategy for Library Book Sales Setting Realistic Goals How Important are Plans? Affirmations Establishing Performance Measures The Judo Strategy of Book Acquisition Principal 1: Movement at the Sale Principal 2: Balance at the Sale Principal 3: Leverage at the Sale Partners, Assistants, Hoarders and Blocker The Beachhead Strategy Illustration of Beach Head Strategy at Book Sales Von Clausewitz's Maximum Force Blocking Out a Cluster Strategies that Could be Applied to Library Book Sales The Octopus Strategy Subtle Manipulation or Persuasion and Influence (The Honey Strategy) The Counterattack Offensive Strategy The Tunnels of Cu Chi Maneuver The Moon Light Strategy Maneuver The Three Forces Value Stream and Process Mapping The Self-Actualized Plan Unpredictability Devising an Action Plan Strategy Revisited Strategy Process at Library Book Sales Strategy for DVDs, CDs and VHS tapes Strategy for Seniors and the Physically Handicapped Differentiation Differentiation by Duplication People Need to Execute
Chapter 17: Enriching Your Environment Building Relationships
Chapter 18: How the Friends of the Library Works Nonprofit Fundraising Consultants A Typical Friend Becoming a Member Benefits of Membership The Preview Day Non Published Sales and Poorly Marketed Sales Locating Libraries Booksalefinder.com City Search
Chapter 19: Positioning Yourself at the Sale: The Five Stages Controlling a Section or Category with Double Teaming Advantage Window and Door Peaking Getting in Before the Sale
Chapter 20: How to Get More For Less: Cutting Deal The Second day or Last Day of a Sale The Bag Sale Working with Volunteers The Law of Reciprocity How to Produce The Law of Reciprocity to Work in Your Favor Influencing the Right People Volunteering or How I Made $975 in Fifteen Minutes
Chapter 21: Which Sales to Attend How I Categorize Library Book Sales Mega Sales Categorized Placement and Floor Plan The San Francisco Book Sale
Chapter 22: Hiring an Assistant Training your Assistant Your Personal Hoarder How to Train Your Hoarder Two Scanner Advantage Three Scanner Advantage Who to Hire? Costs of Assistant Assistants without Scanners Prerequisites for Books, CDs, DVDs and VHS |