Just a quick entry to share a simple technique that has worked wonders for me for obtaining book inventory. I originally printed up a simple business card to hand to auction company owners to see if they had any books that they wanted to sell me. Before long, I was handing out these cards everywhere and have gotten some awesome inventory from it – and CHEAP!
I printed 250 basic business cards at Staples for about $25 (you can get some made for much less at Vistaprint.com) I kept it simple: my name, phone #, email address, the slogan “I Buy Books – any age, any genre”. You can get more specific if you wish but I am pretty much buying everything right now. I ran into another book seller who had a card – she elected to put her Amazon & eBay links on hers – I prefer to keep mine more simple but it’s up to you.
I’ve been leaving them around town anywhere that displays cards and handing them to people I buy books off of. I even hand them to people working at thrift shops and tell them to call me if they ever get too many books to handle and just want to sell a bunch at one time in bulk.
Hope you find this tip useful – please let me know if you have any success with handing out business cards!
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