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Selling children’s books online is such a great way to make money. I love doing what I do. I wanted to highlight yet another children’s vintage book you have likely passed up at the yard sales and thrift stores. This will be an ongoing series about which books you will always make money selling on eBay. The first of the easy to find gems was this post. Next I have a hardcover to tell you about which is likely to appear in your wanderings.
A Chip Hilton Sports Story – Comeback Cagers by Clair Bee. This is a pictorial hardcover and it was published in 1963 by Grosset and Dunlap. A chapter book found in the young adult section of the library, we sold it this month for a whopping $155! Ours was a first edition indicated by the published works list listing to itself on the front end page. The series is quite popular again for the baby boomer collectors and had a subsequent print run with a tweed cover and dust jackets. The valuable titles are Hungry Hurler from the baseball series, Backcourt Ace, and our mentioned title from the basketball series. [click to continue…]
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My first three parts to this series were hopefully inspiring to you as a business owner or one who is thinking about making money at home. I do want to note an interesting paragraph in the book since it’s food for thought. The excerpt from the book highlights a philosophy that no longer is applicable to our generation, it would seem. Here is a serious stumbling block should you not check the opposite thinking:
The successful application of these steps calls for sufficient imagination to enable one to see and to understand the accumulation of money can not be left up to chance, good fortune and luck. One must realize all who have accumulated great fortunes first did a certain amount of dreaming, hoping, wishing, desiring, and planning before they acquired money.
I think at the turn of the century it went without saying that when you planned you acted on those plans. 
I see a trend with people when it comes to making money especially online. That successful people are either gifted or very lucky people. The thinking goes something like this, you have to be talented or have some inside charisma or special abilities to make real good money. Further, yes, the successful person can go to school and learn some of the skill set required to make lots of money but [click to continue…]
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Multiple streams of income provides needed security in a fickle consumer led business. A certain business principle in any successful business is diversification. Market diversification should part of the plan. The market diversification step is that period when the product is modified to meet new market opportunities or when new products are developed to meet existing market demand.
Technically we’re not diversifying for the market but the reach to the market. We look at multiple ways to bring revenue and seize every opportunity that makes financial sense.
Objective: The objective of the market diversification step is to address changing market conditions.
Always a step that needs to be looked at frequently. We watch trends and dips not to get knee jerking like eBay does with its constant changes but to keep a thumb on the pulse of what is working and how you can increase the bottom line.
Here’s a portion of a newsletter I was reading which succinctly says what I have been thinking since, well, for several years really [click to continue…]
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Part of my mission here at Family Business Ideas is to teach you how to include your children in your work at home business or at least give you wonderful resources to help you with your children while you grow your business.
I am a huge advocate of reading and teaching your children the love of books. Heavens! I sell books so I’d better love them. I have a friend, Lisa Roberson, who has created a super cool subscription service. [click to continue…]
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One of my favorite books that I try to read at least once a year is the book titled Think and Grow Rich. I especially like how you can plan your business using the principles discussed in the book.
In continuing the series on Hill’s book let’s take a look at our second step in the subject of creating desire. I bet you didn’t think you could actually take action to create desire, but you can. Besides serious focus we need to do not only change our thinking in our endeavor to become successful online.
Determine exactly what you intend to give in return for the money you desire.
Let’s dig into this a bit. I love action steps. I want to do something to make my goals happen!
In today’s vernacular this step would be termed as “paying it forward”. Here’s some helpful questions “What’s it all for and what am I willing to give in exchange for this success?” Perhaps the what, which may be defined as your why, can be replaced with the word who. Profound sentence, huh? … Who is it all for? Why do I want success so badly I think about it all the time?
… and what am I willing to give to achieve this success?
For me, one of the exchanges has been [click to continue…]
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A Chip Hilton Sports Story – Comeback Cagers by Clair Bee. This is a pictorial hardcover and it was published in 1963 by Grosset and Dunlap. A chapter book found in the young adult section of the library, we sold it this month for a whopping $155! Ours was a first edition indicated by the published works list listing to itself on the front end page. The series is quite popular again for the baby boomer collectors and had a subsequent print run with a tweed cover and dust jackets. The valuable titles are Hungry Hurler from the baseball series, Backcourt Ace, and our mentioned title from the basketball series. [click to continue…]
