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    Creative Sourcing For Booksellers, Expanded and Updated: Expanded and Updated, With Double the Cutting-Edge Book Sourcing Content.
    Creative Sourcing For Booksellers, Expanded and Updated: Expanded and Updated, With Double the Cutting-Edge Book Sourcing Content.
    Creative Sourcing For Booksellers, Expanded and Updated: Expanded and Updated, With Double the Cutting-Edge Book Sourcing Content.
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    Creative Sourcing For Booksellers, Expanded and Updated: Expanded and Updated, With Double the Cutting-Edge Book Sourcing Content.

    By Frank Aaron Florence

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    Simply put, this course shows you new and creative ways to find inventory, including books, CDs, VHS and other media, that you can sell online or in your store. This course will show you not only new places to buy books and media, but also abundant sources of FREE INVENTORY.

    How Is This Course Different?
    Creative Sourcing for Booksellers is the first and only course of its kind.
    This course is designed to increase your book selling profits by showing you both the methods and the places the pros use to find inventory!

    How Will This Course Greatly Improve My Profits?
    The wealth of information in this course will improve your sales dramatically by showing you where to find the best books for the best prices! Many times booksellers end up buying inventory from the same place as everyone else; namely, library book sales. This course will show you new and creative sources for finding books and other media that will put you way ahead of the competition and will increase your sales. In addition, this course will show you where to find FREE INVENTORY! Nothing improves your bottom line more than free sources!

    Knowledge is the Key to Big Profits

    All It Requires Is The Knowledge,
    And A Top Pro Guiding You
    Every Step Along The Way.

    The major limiting roadblock
    to growth in the book selling business...
    has always been knowing where to find
    enough continuing supplies of highly desirable,
    highly saleable, books at super low prices...
    so that you can then continue to...
    sell lots of books at a really good profit.
    It can make you darn angry... the frustration that you feel... the tightening knot of stress in the pit of your stomach, and self doubt that sets in... when you realize that you don’t know the secrets and best techniques of running your book sales business for maximum profits, and for total financial rewards.

    You watch other people in the business that seem to know the secrets that cause their book business, and profits, to soar... secrets and techniques that you don’t know (yet).

    You are as smart as they are, you know that... but what do they know that you don’t? A wave of self doubt sets in... doesn’t it? It’s just not a good feeling.

    Those feelings are totally needless... and I am going to remove each one of them from you. I am going to change those feelings of inadequacy about the book sales business within you... into wonderful feelings of...
    Happiness – Enjoyment –Confidence – and Economic Freedom
    This course has all the knowledge
    for you.

    This course is going to take you by the hand and teach you step-by-step, everything that you need to know, about how to so easily find the sources for a constant endless supply of books and other book seller inventory to sell for a profit... a really good profit... to grow your business big time.

    You will learn these secrets, sources, and techniques that have taken me so many years in the book business to discover for myself along the way. You can then watch your business grow well beyond your wildest dreams. And you can build your book business into the financial fortress, and financial future, that you, and your loved ones, crave and deserve.

    Get ready to learn how to
    grow your book business rapidly
    into a high profit financial success!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFrank Aaron Florence
    Release dateMay 16, 2011
    ISBN9781458180735
    Creative Sourcing For Booksellers, Expanded and Updated: Expanded and Updated, With Double the Cutting-Edge Book Sourcing Content.
    Author

    Frank Aaron Florence

    Frank has been a very successful Amazon seller for many years.During this time, he built his business up to the point where he was able to spend a whole year traveling across South East Asia. This trip was financed entirely from the ongoing profits produced from his Amazon business. Frank's online inventory continued to fully fund him while he took in sights from across the sea. What a wonderful lifestyle his Amazon business affords him.Years ago, as he was first building his business, he realized that the missing link to attaining maximum success was learning all the techniques and tricks involved in sourcing an endless supply of the most profitable inventory on Amazon, so he set out to learn absolutely everything he could about that process.The more he learned, the more his Amazon business prospered. He became respected as one of the most knowledgeable people in the industries of online selling and sourcing inventory.Frank is a true industry professional and is a respected member of the ABA (The American Booksellers Association). He hopes to share the knowledge he has attained with others who desire flexible work hours, high profits, and a stable, enjoyable standard of living.

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      Creative Sourcing For Booksellers, Expanded and Updated - Frank Aaron Florence

      Creative Sourcing For Booksellers,

      Expanded and Updated,

      With Double the Cutting-Edge

      Book Sourcing Content.

      www.CzarNovel.com

      By

      Frank Aaron Florence

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

      * * * * *

      PUBLISHED BY:

      CzarNovel, Inc.

      on Smashwords

      Creative Sourcing For Booksellers,

      Expanded and Updated,

      With Double the Cutting-Edge

      Book Sourcing Content.

      Copyright © 2008-2013 by Frank Aaron Florence

      Smashwords Edition License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the author's work.

      * * * * *

      Limits of Liability/Disclaimer of Warranty:

      The author and publisher of this Book and the accompanying materials have used their best efforts in preparing this program. The author and publisher make no representation or warranties with respect to the accuracy, applicability, fitness, or completeness of the contents of this program. They disclaim any warranties (expressed or implied), merchantability, or fitness for any particular purpose. The author and publisher shall in no event be held liable for any loss or other damages, including but not limited to special, incidental, consequential, or other damages. As always, the advice of a competent legal, tax, accounting or other professional should be sought. The author and publisher do not warrant the performance, effectiveness, or applicability of any sites listed in this Book.

      All links are for information purposes only and are not warranted for content, accuracy, or any other implied or explicit purpose. This manual contains material protected under International and Federal Copyright Laws and Treaties. Any unauthorized reprint or use of this material is prohibited.

      Copyright © 2008-2013

      CzarNovel,Inc.

      All Rights Reserved

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Section 1 - Before the Book Sale

      Chapter 1.1 - Scanning

      Section 2 - Book Sales

      Chapter 2.1 - Things to Keep in Mind When Attending a Book Sale

      Chapter 2.2 - Volunteering at Book Sales

      Chapter 2.3 - Ongoing Library Sales

      Chapter 2.4 - After the Sale

      Section 3 - Book Sale Listings

      Chapter 3.1 - BookSalesFound

      Chapter 3.2 - ScoutBotPro

      Section 4 - Spreading the Word

      Chapter 4.1 - The Mail Carrier

      Chapter 4.2 - Professors and Teachers

      Chapter 4.3 - Realtors

      Chapter 4.4 - Trash Collectors

      Chapter 4.5 - Doctors and Lawyers

      Section 5 - Advertising Your Book Buying Business

      Chapter 5.1 - Classified Ads

      Chapter 5.2 - Bulletin Boards

      Chapter 5.3 - Radio

      Chapter 5.4 - Television

      Chapter 5.5 - Social Media

      Section 6 - Jobs that Lead to Books

      Chapter 6.1 - Thrift Stores

      Chapter 6.2 - Libraries

      Chapter 6.3 - Book and CD Stores

      Chapter 6.4 - Paper Recycling Centers

      Chapter 6.5 - Landfills

      Chapter 6.6 - Foreclosures

      Section 7 - Craigs List

      Chapter 7.1 - Advertising

      Chapter 7.2 - Searching the CraigsList Classifieds

      Section 8 - Acquiring Inventory from Online Auctions

      Chapter 8.1 - Introduction

      Chapter 8.2 - Basics

      Chapter 8.3 - Searching

      Chapter 8.4 - Browsing

      Chapter 8.5 - Sniping

      Chapter 8.6 - Tips for Bidding

      Section 9 - Private Collections

      Section 10 - Other Online Sources

      Chapter 10.1 - ScoutBotPro

      Chapter 10.2 - Back Page

      Chapter 10.3 - Free Classifieds

      Chapter 10.4 - U.S. Free Ads

      Chapter 10.5 - Classifieds for Free

      Section 11 - Universities and Colleges

      Chapter 11.1 - Professors

      Chapter 11.2 - University Libraries

      Chapter 11.3 - Bulletin Boards

      Chapter 11.4 - Campus Book Stores

      Section 12 - Opening a Book Buying Location

      Chapter 12.1 - The Man with the Van

      Chapter 12.2 - The Clicks-and-Bricks Bookstore

      Section 13 - Book Buying Website

      Section 14 - Estate Sales

      Section 15 - Yard and Garage Sales

      Chapter 15.1 -Garage Sales Tracker

      Section 16 - Auctions

      Chapter 16.1 - Auction Zip

      Section 17 - Used Bookstores, CD Stores and Video Rental Stores

      Chapter 17.1 - Used Bookstores

      Chapter 17.2 - Used CD Stores

      Chapter 17.3 - Video Rental Stores

      Section 18 - Expanding Inventory Possibilities

      Chapter 18.1 - CDs

      Chapter 18.2 - VHS

      Chapter 18.3 - DVDs

      Chapter 18.4 - Software

      Chapter 18.5 - Books on Tape

      Chapter 18.6 - Books on CD

      Chapter 18.7 - Collectible Items and First Editions

      Section --18.8 Selling Toys

      Section 19 - Dumpster Diving

      Chapter 19.1 - Dumpster-Diving Tools

      Section 20 - Trash Day

      Section 21 - Remainder Distributors

      Section 22 - Circobe

      Section 23 - United States Postal Service (USPS) Auctions

      Section 24 - Treasury Department Auctions

      Section 25 -- Gov Deals

      Section 26 - Large New Bookstores

      Section 27--Buying in Bulk

      Section 28 - Sourcing Out of the Box

      Section 29 - Czar Novel

      Section 30 - Closing

      Appendix A:  Recommended for Additional Information

      Appendix B: List of Remainder Distributors

      Bonus Chapter

      Introduction

      Book selling can be a rewarding and lucrative business. However, with book selling becoming more and more competitive, the only way to stay ahead of the competition is to master the standard ways of acquiring

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