Online Bookselling For Fun & ProfitYou can start your own online bookselling business part-time or full-time and earn a very nice living while having the time of your life. Thousands of people just like you earn $10,000 to $50,000 per year selling used books online. Those people aren’t smarter, richer, or know the right people. They simply made the decision to take charge of their financial lives and build a better future. Getting started with online bookselling is incredibly easy. All you have to do is find a few books that are in demand on the Internet, upload their ISBNs to a marketplace and wait for orders to roll in. I can’t make it any more complicated than that. Every day I buy books for $1 - $3 and sell them for $5 - $100. Every single day! You’re intelligent aren’t you? Why can I do this and you can’t? Believe me, I’m no smarter than the next guy or gal. But I’ve made as much as $30,000 in a single month buying and selling books on the Internet. There’s no reason why you can’t too.
Here’s How It’s DoneFirst you find a source of supply. For example, library book sales are an excellent place to buy extremely valuable books at a very low price – usually for just a dollar or two. Library sales can be found several different ways. My book scouting resources page lists more than a dozen websites that help you find inventory suitable for online bookselling. The trick is to learn to spot books that sell for at least three or four times your cost. If you pay $2 for a book, you should be able to sell it for at least $6 - $8 to allow yourself an adequate profit. Put Your Books OnlineOnce you’ve found books that you know will earn a healthy profit, you have to get them online so people who want those books can find and buy them. Where do you sell books online? Amazon.com is the biggest online marketplace in the world for selling books. Amazon also has a basic account that’s free to list books for sale. You don’t pay a commission or fee until after the book sells. This makes being in business for yourself practically risk free. Half.com is another good place because it’s free to list your books too. Fill Those Orders!Online bookselling doesn’t do you much good if you don’t sell books now does it? Of course not! After you put your books online it won’t be long before they begin to sell. Sometimes books will sell in hours or just a few days. Other times, it’ll take months or years. It all depends upon the book. You'll need to learn how to properly fill orders once the cash starts rolling in. Basically, to fill an order you need bubble mailers, packing tape, and a felt tip pen. (You also need a computer and printer. After all, if you don’t have those you can’t operate an online bookselling business.) You’ll be notified by the marketplace by eMail when you’ve made a sale. You then logon to the marketplace and retrieve the order information so you can service your customer. Insert the book that was sold into the bubble mailer, seal it with packing tape, and write the customer’s name and address on the outside of the mailer. Then ship the book to your customer. Nothing Could Be EasierThose are the basics. But if you want the nitty gritty details of how to start and operate an online bookselling business, then you need more information. You can learn everything you need to know about this business in my book, Internet Bookselling Made Easy! It’s the most comprehensive, up-to-date, encyclopedia of information about selling used books online you can buy. Click the link above and you can learn all about this fabulous resource. Return To Top: Online Bookselling Return To: Bookselling Blog Return to Home Page: Making Money Online Selling Used Books Would you like to comment on this article?
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