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Why I Love Amazon

I Love Amazon because they make it so easy for the ordinary Joe to earn a few dollars from their website or blog.

It's possible to set up your own Specialist Amazon bookshop for your club, business or church in just a few minutes. Now what's really cool about that is not that it will instantly earn you a fortune, but rather that those few minutes of work can carry on earning you a little money for years to come.

I make even more money however from selling used books on Amazon, see below for all my tips from two years experience.

How to Become an Amazon Associate it's Simple!

Click here to Become an Amazon.Com Associate

Click here to Become an Amazon.co.uk Associate

And then click the button "Apply now"

It is simple to join apart from the usual contact details, name address etc, they will want to know how you mean to promote your Amazon Store by website, mailing list, Squidoo.

As Nike Say just go ahead and do it, I was so surprised and delighted make my A-Store (Amazon store) made its first sales!

So click below

Click here to Become an Amazon.Com Associate

See below on how to actually create your A-Store

Examples of Amazon Affiliate (Associate) Book Shops

Learn how to set these up for your Company, Club or Church

Look at these Affiliate Bookshops which took just minutes to build using Amazon's Wizard Tool. I'm adding to them all the time. See below for how to do this for yourself
Success Books (USA)
Amazon.com Success & Self-Improvement Books
Aloe Vera Products (USA)
Amazon.com Aloe Vera books & products
Specialist Success/Self-Improvement Books (UK)
Specialist Success/Self-Improvement Books
Abingdon/Oxfordshire Walks Books (UK)
Abingdon/Oxfordshire Walks Books
Amazon Aloe Vera Health Books (UK)
Amazon Aloe Vera Health Books
Hot Water Bottles (US)
Best Hot Water Bottles/ Winter Warmers/Hand Warmers from Amazon.com
Hot Water Bottles for the UK
Best Hot Water Bottles/ Winter Warmers/Hand Warmers from Amazon.co.uk
Salt Pipes for Respiratory Problems Relief
Salt Pipes are a recent development they allow people suffering from Asthma and other respiratory problems to get some relief by breathing pure salty air
Routemaster Bus Books and Models (UK)
Books and models of the Legendary Routemaster Bus, symbol of London

How to Create your A-Store

It's not very difficult to make an A-Store which appears to be an integral part of your website. However I prefer to use the even simpler Amazon's A-Store wizard which you just have to link to. Login to your Associate Account, choose a Template, type in your Store Title and Description, then choose the books you wish to display. You can always modify this later. Click Finish and it's done, just as easy as creating a Squidoo Lens.

See the YouTube Video for more information

Sell Books on Amazon

My most reliable income source

I started selling on Amazon by accident , I bought a book on Cosmic Ordering which was in the best seller lists at the time, ready it quickly, and put it up for re-sale on Amazon, it sold in a few hours. I then bought a few books from thrift/charity shops and was surprised to see a regular trickle of sales. I've been selled now for nearly two years, read my tips below.

Why Selling Used Books on Amazon is a Good Business

At any time a high percentage of books are out-of-print. There is still demand for many of these books but not enough to make it worth while for the publisher to do a print run. This creates a niche for sellers of used books who trawl through the books at Garage Sales and in Thrift shops. I even rescued two very vaulable books on steam trains that were about to be thrown into a skip.

What Books to Sell on Amazon

After a while you will start to recognise books likely to be valuable

Valuable books are mostly those required for study or for business:-

Specialist Books
Unusual books
Research
Academic
Books still in the best sellers lists
Out of print books

What Books NOT to Sell

This is my experience, there ARE exceptions of course

Over time you will start recognise second hand (used) books with value

  • No Cookery
  • No Popular books
  • No Coffee table
  • No Religious
  • No television based books
  • No Childrens
  • No Fiction unless current best seller
  • No Dictionaries
  • No General advice books
  • No Biographies
  • No Diet books
  • No Readers Digests

    General Book Selling Tips

    Avoid heavy or bulky books (take up too much space, postage expensive)
    List Internationally I've had few problems
    Describe all defects, tears, creases, markings, stains absolutely honestly
    Respond to queries instantly
    Respond to rude queries politely
    Always send a "just shipped email"
    I wouldn't sell a book for less than $8/£5
    Don't buy a book unless you can sell for 5 times buying price (there's more work than you imagine)
    It's easier to stay organised if you have lots of storage space
    I use jiffy bags 1-6 for packing
    I now use my cell-phone to check price of a book on Amazon before buying (type in ISBN)
    Beware of books you would like to buy yourself
    Try and become specialist in a few areas
    Don't be sentimental you are not there to "save" books but to make a profit
    Be aware that a newer edition usually destroys the value of older editions (except for certain fictional books)

    Buying Used books for Resale

    It's always worth checking books for problems, these are things that will upset your buyers and cause then to demand a refund or worse they just give you a bad mark. If you notice these problems after you've bought the book then you must decide whether to donate the book to a thrift shop or list it on Amazon noting carefully all the book's faults. I will sometimes try and sell but mark the as "Acceptable" which is lowest category.

    Really old books are often in poor condition and the buyer may accept that.

    If in doubt don't list on Amazon
    • Yellow Highlighting
      A few may be ignored but sometimes people have highlighted page after page
    • Underlinings, Scribbles and Margin Notes
      If in pencil you may erase them
    • Pages missing
      Yes they are torn out or fall out of weak bindings.
    • Damaged Bindings
      Usually makes the book unsaleable.
    • Stored in Damp Conditions
      Even when dried seems to permanently weaken the paper.
    • Foxing
      Yellowish dots usually on very old books, some kind of mold.
    • Coffee and Other Stains
    • Page Corners Folds , Creases To Covers or Pages
    • Torn or No Dust Jacket
      Usually bad
    • Funny Edition
      Sometimes there has been an early edition, with fewer pages, different cover, this is usually not good.

    Locating Rare Books (flip from eBay)

    Every now and again you will find and sell a rare sought after book. You will then wish to find more stock. One possible source is eBay where books tend to sell for less than on Amazon and are often put up for sale by sellers who have no knowledge of their rarity. I set up eBay "Saved Searches" which will quickly alert me should one appear on the market. Otherwise I Google for the book or check alibris or abebooks.

    Craigslist and community websites (free cycle) often have very good books for sale)

    Selling Books : Where I am now

  • I am trying reduce my stock by eliminating books that have dropped in value (anything less than a dollar)
  • I am trying to be far more selective in what I buy
  • Keep my book stock under a 1000
  • Building my list of rare/out of print books that are actually IN DEMAND

    • Long Tail Marketing (Why it is so wonderful)

    Amazon were surprised to notice that the total number of sales of low volume items exceeded the total number of the relatively few current bestsellers and blockbusters. This is called the long tail (see image). Internet Marketers can exploit this by having as many sales pages and products as possible, gradually adding to them with time, knowing that each page increases their chances of a sale. Look at the long tail graph and you'll see that most sales are in the yellow zone.

    Become an Amazon Associate (Affiliate)

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    Now Put an Amazon Search Page on your Website

    Multiply your Chances of Earning some Pin-Money by placing an Amazon search Engine on your website.

    See an Example here I cannot demonstrate it here at in my Lens because iframes are not allowed. But see the image below for the Amazon Wizard which supplies you with the HTML for your Search Box


    Sell Books CDs and Books on Amazon

    This is by far my best Internet Business

    This is a way to make money from Amazon even if you don't have a Website. Start by selling your own unwanted books, CDs, Dvds etc and then start buying from Garage Sales,Thrift and Charity Shops. As usual you have to know what is sought after and what is not.

    Read more about selling on Amazon by clicking here

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    Selling Hot Books on Amazon

    High Ranking Books still in the Charts

    The higher a book's rank in Amazon the more are being sold daily. Thus if I come across a highly ranked book I know that there's a good chance I can sell my second-hand book that day (rather than weeks,months and years later). I know such books will sell like hot cakes or gimmes. I will then break my own rules on how much profit I need to make (see elsewhere). I've put one up by Paul Mckenna today I'll let you know if sells in the next 24hours

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    Keep adding different ways of earning passive income to your portfolio, most once set up just work away as "Silent Sales Machines". Of course they don't all fire off at the same time, but nothing ventured nothing gained. It's taken me over two years all the same to see some regular income and growth.
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    Selling Books on Amazon Successfully (my Successes)

    • An Esoteric Book Store had gone out of business and taken several boxes of their stock to a charity shop. I without great enthusiasm bought the whole lot at 20p a book. They hot-caked, one even sold for a £100 (The Healing Power of Illness: The Meaning of Symptoms and How to Interpret Them
      ).


    • This was the first time I'd come across a really sought-after scarce book, I was then able to source 4 more of these books (from Cambodia) which also hot-caked.


    • At a garage sale, a seller was packing up for the day, I wanted to buy just one book but the seller gave me the whole box for the same price. The books were in Italian and appeared to about Italian Theater, they just hot caked.

    • A huge Church Bible we bought for £12, sold for £160 that's mt best sale ever

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