Planning Your New Year

Planning Your New Year

Best wishes for a Happy and Prosperous New Year. So did your year go well? I sure hope so. It can always be better, though, no? I have an old article on how to change your thinking to make your goals become reality. Successful Mind Strategies is the name of

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Get the Home Run Guide Compiled by Janelle Elms

I was honored to write a vintage children’s book guide for this ebook. I wanted to post because today is the final day of the early launch discount. It’s still at $29 today and will go up to $50 tomorrow. If you at all sell on either eBay or Amazon

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Russell and Lillian Hoban

 A hint to booksellers around the holidays is to overprice vintage children’s books rather than under price. Books tend to sell for more during the holidays. This is true also for the classic Christmas books. Ordinarily these books don’t sell for as much as I have recently sold them for

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How to Store Your Collectible Books

Care, Handling and Storage of Books Damage to a book is cumulative. The repeated incorrect handling and storage of a book can quickly transform a new book into a worn or even an unusable one. Proper handling and storage in a stable, cool, clean, non-humid environment, can prolong its life.

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Edmund Dulac

Edmund Dulac 1882-1953 Writing descriptions for these books is not as cumbersome as one might think. The key is to list on eBay and take excellent pictures of the illustrations. You want to place at least four or five in the listings. This illustrator has been reprinted numerous times in

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Ladybird Books – Vintage Readers

Wikipedia —> With the demise of the traditional Ladybird publishing format has come an increased interest in collecting, often by adults who were children when Ladybird was in its heyday in the 1960s and early 1970s. A great many second-hand Ladybird books are available and it can be an inexpensive

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Dick and Jane Reading Primers

We make great money off the old Dick and Jane books. Here is another sleeper series of books which most sellers will pass by. Catholic version of the Dick and Jane books are the Faith and Freedom series. Dick and Jane readers continue to be great sellers. However, the

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Book Pricing Strategy for eBay and Amazon

From my inbox: How do you decide on a pricing strategy for children’s books when there are no books on Amazon in which to guide you?

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Customer Service Advice – Killing Them with Kindness

All the way around it’s a better way to live. Sure, it may feel good when someone has intentionally wronged you to get even, but it feels better to do good even when the person least deserves it. More often than not your kindness will soften the disgruntled customer.

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ScanLister a Family Business Opp

I know so many of you have wanted to buy a scanner and learn how to make this book selling business an expedited affair. Well, this is a product that I think is very good for the beginner. Perhaps a person who is just starting out and listing on two venues – namely eBay and [...]

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Book ISBN Scanner Tool

I was recently emailed about which scan tool or scanner  I recommend. This tool is used to scan ISBNs to see what the going price is online for that book. It really is a neat piece of technology. There are several choices on the market. I will link you to

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Tools for eBay Keywords in Your Title

So what do you think relevancy and desirability have in common? They are the parameters eBay uses in gathering data on placing your listing in a buyer’s search page results. When a buyer has a search phrase he enters into the search box eBay will determine relevancy by analyzing the

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D’Aulaire, Ingri and Edgar

D’Aulaire, Ingri and Edgar Keywords: homeschool, vintage, hardcover, HBDJ, D’Aulaire, date if original copy Biography series Written and illustrated beautifully with brightly colored pencil drawings these books are about America’s famous builders and American folktales.  George Washington (1936) is the first of seven books celebrating the lives of explorers, discoverers

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