As we prepare for the New Year I always recommend that entrepreneurs, especially work at home entrepreneurs, take time to reflect and set goals for the upcoming year. Be sure to look at the things that went really well in your business this past year not only what did not get done and is going to be rolled into next year’s goal setting.
As you reflect on your good progress note how and why that happened. Don’t gloss over it and notice the negative. Our minds gravitate toward majoring on our failures, but we need to retrain ourselves to see potential. Take time to notice your success before you write out your goals for next year. Now you’ll be in the right mindset to think about your goals you have for your next full year in business.
Be sure to include a few motivational reads along with your year’s plans. One of my favorite books that should be read at least once a year is the book titled Think and Grow Rich. Go to that link for a free text download.
Mindset is everything and the actions that accompany that mindset is what puts the 3% of this nation’s people who are rich at that level. I will be continuing my blog series on this book and the steps every business owner should take very soon.
Until then …
Which books are your ulmitate favorite motivational reads? Tell me in the comments below.
To your success!!
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Having a list of valuable books to sell online not only helps you know what is valuable (who knows what lurks on your bookshelves!) but a list of titles helps you know what to look for while you’re out. It will pay you many times over. I have spent hours putting such lists together for myself as a online bookseller for my own personal training and the training of my helpers.
I share my book sale winners each month so you can create your own lists. Last month’s post has some real jewels that will make you some very good money. The list is at this post url http://familybusinessideas.com/1664/valuable-books-lis/.
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Top Ten Sales for September
FOL stands for the Friends of the Library. I have included a link to the online maps of the local used book sales at the libraries. These are the organizations that sell books which were donated to raise funds for various public libraries. The lower dollar amount is what we paid for the book we sold.
After you read each lead go to eBay or Amazon and put the title in the search box then you will see the closed auction or listing with a picture of the item. You have more valuable books imprinted on your brain if you take a look at the cover graphics. Additionally, you will discover title keywords that the sellers used to sell their books. It is vitally important to use your keyword real estate wisely on eBay’s listings. [click to continue…]
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Let’s face it making money online is hard work. For you to work online it takes focus, but not only focus, it takes a gut directed drive or a deep desire to make it happen. I talked about the steps required for this drive outlined by Napoleon Hill in Think and Grow Rich . In my first post in my blog series which debunks wrong thinking on what it takes to succeed online Think and Grow Rich Pt 1; What Will Work Online Passion or Desire? I mentioned the difference between passion and desire. Hill’s book gives us a blueprint in how to achieve this required desire to be very successful in our online career. If you aren’t familiar with the book it’s in the public domain and can be downloaded for free. Think and Grow Rich PDF
Here is a summary to chapter one titled Step 1 Toward Riches: Desire
Thoughts are things. Think about what you want and know what that is in your very core. Wishing will not bring you success but dreaming will if the dreams are put into action. Desiring success to the point of obsession with planning definite ways to acquire it through goal setting will bring these dreams to reality. Backing those plans with thoughts which do not recognize failure will bring you what you desire even quicker. A quote from Think and Grow Rich supports my view:
Put your dreams across, and never mind what “they” say if you meet with temporary defeat, for “they” perhaps, do not know that every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.
Now on to the first step to develop desire toward your goal of making great money while you work online.
Step one in creating desire: Be definite to the amount you would like to earn . This can be as little as $100 a week to $100 a day to thinking really big to several hundred a day. [click to continue…]
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Did you know Halloween costumes make great money on eBay? Seller niches can be quite successful. One niche is the holiday clothing niche. Halloween has become almost as big as Christmas for many retailers. As online merchandise sellers this should perk our ears.
How can you capitalize on a strong selling niche on eBay? Just like the moms who are reselling their designer label kids’ clothes on eBay the designer label costumes can be sold for a pretty penny. You, like the many others who have jumped on board, don’t have to be a mom who has a child that’s outgrown their designer item to resell on eBay. You can go find these items specifically for resale.
Designer label costumes can easily be found, if you keep your eyes open and go to specific selling places like baby bazaars, moms’ meetings rummage sales, thrift stores and other second hand consignment shops and selling places that you can find these designer costumes. They won’t be like purchasing a dollar book, you may have to spend between five and twenty dollars. Yet if you know the market trends and cost profit ratio you can make some decent money. Be particularly mindful of the baby and toddler sizes. But as you will discover all sizes do well. The baby age, however, is when parents will spend big money for a tyke to wear an outfit for a single night.
The season starts now and goes through all the way until only days before the big trick or treat day. Yes, even if moms have to pay huge to get that perfect costume for their darling child they will shop up to the very last minute. This might entail asking the seller to throw it into a overnight priority envelope and paying an extra $30 to overnight it to their home. Nothing is too good for little Susie or Jonnie, right? Be sure to emphasize your willingness to do so in your listings. We’re here to please. Right? [click to continue…]
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A list of valuable books to sell online not only helps you know what is valuable but helps know what to find while you’re out. It will pay you many times over. I have spent hours putting such lists together for myself as a online bookseller.
I like to help people who have elected to become book sellers the best I possibly can. So I decided to share my winners each month so you can create your own lists. This is by far not a comprehensive list of what I sell or have sold but is the top sellers of the month. [click to continue…]
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