Sell Used Books Online!
Own A Home Based Bookstore

It is easy to sell used books through your own website, Amazon or eBay! According to Steve Weber, the author of "The Home-Based Bookstore",

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"Now, one of every 12 books sold is a used book, and two-thirds of those are purchased online from small businesses - with total annual sales of $609 million."

What a business opportunity!

Imagine owning your own home based bookstore. You can work from home, set your own hours, and be your own boss! Best of all, you get to keep all the profits!

There isn't any need to open a brick and mortar store. You can start to sell used books online part-time with a few hundred dollar investment.

What Used Books Should You Buy And Sell?

I would concentrate selling used books that have unusual titles. These books should be hard-covered, in good condition, with the paper jackets that are not tattered and torn.

Your goal is to sell used books that are scarce, in high demand, unmarked, and out-of-print. I'm not talking about rare books here.

Avoid books of fiction, most paper backs, and introductory textbooks.

Where To Find Used Books

You can start your home based book store by selling books you already own. Soon however, you will need to expand your search to other sources.

Estate sales are an excellent place to look for used books. Your newspaper will advertise these sales.

You should also look at the legal section of your newspaper and look for probate notices. You can contact the executor of the estate, who is generally a relative of the deceased, for a discrete amount of time after the notice is published.

Your county courthouse has a file for each case that is before the court. You can read the content of the file and find the executor's name and address. Contact the executor by mail or phone and let the executor know you are interested in used books if they have any to sell.

A faster way is to check the court records online if your county and state publishes them there. Probate court records are public records.

Other places to look for used books to sell are library sales, thrift shops, used bookstores, and bargain tables at bookstores.

How To Sell Your Used Books Online

In my opinion the best way to sell used books online is to sell them from your own website. I recommend that you host your website at SiteSell. (new window opens)

SiteSell, from my own experience, is by far the best place to create your own website that will generate free online traffic.

You do not need to know the technical details of building a website. SiteSell provides all the online tools and knowledge that will help you succeed.

You just need to create the content - articles that will draw Internet visitors to your online book store. It will take some time to do this, but it is worth the effort.

If you would prefer that a professional build your website for you that gets free search engine traffic, I would use SiteSell Services (new window opens)

SiteSell's Specialists know how to make a website that works! Few local designers know how to get free Internet traffic. Most just know how to create a fancy and expensive website.

Want proof? Check the Alexa traffic ranking (www.alexa.com) of their company's website. If their ranking is a number larger than 1000, they are not getting much free traffic. The highest ranking any website can get is 1 which is Yahoo. Google is 2.

You want your website to rank in the top 1%. Following SiteSell's Action Guide , (new window opens) will get you there. I have proved that. It works!

You have other options to sell used books online. Read my articles about selling on eBay.

While you can sell books through eBay and Amazon and other book websites, the trouble is, you don't own the traffic. You are dependent on those websites to generate traffic.

You are also competing with other sellers in the same marketplace. To make matters worse, you are also paying ever increasing fees to a middle man.

I would highly recommend building your own website with SiteSell or have a SiteSell Specialist build one for you.

If you do use eBay, you can import your auctions to your SiteSell website. This is a great way to increase traffic to your auctions.

Of course you can have an online store right on your SiteSell website with a shopping cart.

Be sure to read SiteSell's informative guide "Make Your Store Sell! Everything You Need To Know To Build A Profitable Online Store". This is a free eBook you can download after you have purchased a website from SiteSell.

Sell used books online! It's interesting and profitable. Get started today. You can do it.

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