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I asked informally at a few of my favorite online forums where work at home moms hang out if they naturally included or excluded their children in their home businesses. It seems most mothers exclude their children but I think there is a good reason that my question was answered that way. It’s because most of the moms still have very small children to care for while they etch out a few uninterrupted minutes tending to their businesses.
There are traditional ideas like swapping child care or using the one eyed babysitter aka as the VCR to take care of your charges, but not everyone is comfortable with those alternatives or even have the resources available to them.
Those of you who are at the very young child stage may want to [click to continue…]
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Ah, the perfect career path! Stay at home work. You get to enjoy the family and make money. What could be better than that? Well, it’s not all easy and perfect living for the at home entrepreneur. For the successful work at home parent to stay at this long term it takes discipline and dedication. Believe it or not, not everyone is cut out to be a self employed business owner.
I want to discuss the realities or the down sides of working at home today. Now that I have been doing this for over seven years, I have some insights. We were all sold initially on the idea of working from home. Sounded, great, didn’t it? – work when you want, in your pjs with the kids playing under your desk, or wearing your swimsuit while you’re staring at the ocean on your latest vacation. Yes, working from home gives you a huge amount of flexibility, but there are also quite a few pitfalls that you don’t really hear about until you’re knee deep in it already. Here are some of them. Let me know if any of this sounds familiar…
You’re constantly interrupted by your spouse, kids or friends who just want to ask you something quickly. (Really, it won’t take a minute!)
Your “office” also happens to be the living room, so you end up trying to focus while the television is going, and people are running all around the house.
You spend almost every waking hour either actively working on your websites or thinking about marketing strategies, product ideas and such when you should be spending quality time with your loved ones.
You waste hours each day surfing the net (and call it research), checking your stats or answering email.
The point is, we all develop these bad habits that don’t make us very productive. [click to continue…]
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I love to sell books online. A wonderful part about my job is the market I get to cater to. They are a fun group of people who are usually whimsical about their buys and can’t wait to share the book with a loved one sometimes of a much younger age . If you are a child of a baby boomer you may remember Gene Zion’s works like Harry the Dog series. He has a few vintage collectible books that will serve you well should you find one.
A book to look for that sells regularly at about $50.
If you have a vintage copy of Sugar Mouse Cake it may be time to part with it and begin to sell books online. Gene Zion wrote and Margaret Bloy Graham illustrated this famous and valuable book published in 1964. Don’t worry about the library discards you are most likely to run into. The children’s valuable book market is quite forgiving with the library discard status of a collectible book. In fact, many of the folks reminisce even more since their memories were of a library book. Be on the look out for another one of Zion’s sought after works titled Meanest Squirrel I Ever Met published in 1982.
If you like this information, I’d love to help you with my service. I send this type of information out every month to my subscribers. You get over fifty titles with pictures of the books to look for that make you the money online with books. Learn more about my service here especially if you want to learn how to sell books online. http://www.SellChildrensBooks.com
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I thought it might be fun to post some feedback comments from my eBay account. I find the short and many times creative sentences to be encouraging. Sometimes when I am feeling burnt out I read them to bring me back in alignment with my selling purpose. It is all about my customers, after all.
Here are the funny ones (and some don’t make sense) ~~~
Book sent across the world in four days. Wow! What speedy service!! Excellent. A1
(As if I have any control over that! It was an over seas shipment. Speedy indeed.)
nice motto, wrapped very well, great ebayer
Very good
nice item and fully conform
5 thumbs up!
thanks, we are really excited
(not sure what I sold them!)
This guy has VERY good products it is like brand new! I am very happy.
(Ahem, that would be a gal, thank you very much!)
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There are so many very good reasons to start selling books online especially if you are new to an internet business. They do ship rather easily and are so darn lovable. You can read them and pass them along. You know, field testing. Alright, really here are nine great reasons to start with the selling of books in your start up internet biz.
1. Books are commonly found.
2. You can obtain the books at a very low investment. In most cases less than $1!
3. There is a huge market for books. eBay’s number two most commonly searched category is books.
4. There is potential to make GREAT money in resale if you are educated.
5. Books can be easily listed online using templates where you just fill in the information. This lends itself well to family members helping you.
6. Marketing can be really fun since there are so many book loving online groups, author and illustrator fans, and collectors.
7. Packing supplies are minimal in investment and time saving since you are dealing with one size and non fragile merchandise.
8. You can save your customers LOTS of money by using the post office’s special services to ship.
9. Overall the book selling niche is quite rewarding since MANY people are blessed by a childhood find, a book they want for their child or the information they need to identify a long forgotten title.
I have a subscription service that will help you get started in knowing which books are valuable. I send out this report once a month. It contains all sorts of juicy tidbits in running a business. Two articles in each issue, but the meat is the list of book leads with hyperlinks to the pictures of each book. I include over SIXTY links. This saves you hours of work each month. Check it out here. http://www.sellchildrensbooks.com
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