Operating a second-hand shop is like holding owning a recycle
Center - not too attractive until you see the owner's
Bank accounts
This is an ideal "absentee owner" type business, or small
Investment type business for someone to start down while holding down
Regular full-time job. To people type "best suits"
Move a cleverly used bookstore, a loving person or a woman
I have collected and enjoyed books for many years to read
Association with people of similar interest.
Startup is a high average risk
About three years to firmly establish. After that, "
"Only ownership of stages can enjoy while
Business, plus income without extreme market fluctuations
It is close to $ 50,000 / year or more.
Ideally, you will need a market population at the book store that will be used
The least 50,000 people to support it. Please find your shop
"High traffic" area, as close to the university as possible or
University campus. Keep in mind that something is shopping
Buyer's habit on average usage books: First, he is a browser. He
Notice your shop, fall, start watching around to see what
Types of books you can use. If he find something
Actually make him interested, he probably will buy there and there. Otherwise,
And you made it made him feel comfortable with this first time, at
Your store may be backdroped by him to browse at any time
area.
Shopping malls are excellent locations for book stores.
Place near the other, or "new" book store is also very good -
If the buyer does not find what he wants, the "other" book
The store, he checks your shop. Grocery store Shopping center
There are generally bad positions for all kinds of book shops.
It is important that you have plenty of casual strollers in you
When the region declined to these people,
And, surrounding browsing.
If you want to show the entire front of your store as a show
Window .. Take the pain to organize the display of your windows
Ordered way to indicate the type of your book
have. .. But window display is not really necessary. ..More
What is important is the window for passers-by to see in you
Shop if you go to the window display ... keep it at any speed
Leave a lot of room for low - never more than 36 inches high
Notice the people and people crossing to see at youe's shop
Browse your book. We have successful operators
His family, had relatives and friends members, intentionally
"Browsing" Inside the store, images like a project
A store.
After choosing the store location, paint the whole
Dark, warm interior, such as mahogany. Installation
It is completely behind the indoor / outdoor carpet writer. Lighting
Should be indirect and conquered to slightly give the store warmer
feel.
I will find a checkout counter side by side
It's a wall ... so the block or guard input is roughly so
Exit from your store. I want your customers to feel comfortable
Just visit your store. In other words, Kala Papa National Historical Park
In order to encourage browsers, it proves time and time gains
Browser is to be a book buyer. Allow people to come
And as you like, do generally; to pick up your thumb through the book
To read them and to "fall in love" with them.
These are the points of this book.
Your bookcase, along each side wall, and
Behind the store. Do not build them above 6 feet high.
Split these shelves into sections about 4 feet wide,
Place symbols at the top of each section
Shows the general subject of discovered books
In that section.
Paper the wall of your shop from the top of your book shelf.
Poster and ceiling - colorful and intuitive travel
Posta
A dust jacket from popular books for many years.
The next thing, half the shelf, the table, and
Rotary shelves for other or more books. Half of shelves - about
The size of 4 feet is the same as 4 feet high In case of reservation
Home - You need to put it at right angle on your wall shelf
The back of your store. The width of the table is about 3 feet
It is 4 feet long and about 30 inches tall. These are also necessary.
It is placed at right angle on your wall shelf, but closer to you
The front of your store. Rotary wire shelf, now to grasp
Popular or specially featured books.
Your store will be a special extra merchandising effort
I will really pay for your book sales.
By finding your half of the shelf and the middle of the table
Store, shift them - 1 3 feet from the wall shelf, next
One 6 feet, and four feet etc. With this, people
Reducing formal appearance, being "seen" at shops
Or military layout, and project
Browsing, this is exactly what you want to do. This kind of
You can arrange or have space
With increasing traffic.
Very much to the idea of other products, Fira Barcelona, Kamp
Wheel rotating wire shelves. .. These are you pushing outside
Position near the entrance of your store. You are popular
Paperback, and bright and some oversized hardcover books,
A flashy color of these racks.
Your store's time should match your neigbors' stuff ... In fact,
By opening a cold half time, you jump off to a quick start
It is earlier than your neighbors. I am using half an hour of his opening to take
Worry about paperwork, and get yourself organized during the day. When
Early shopper still coming soon
While waiting, to your store to "see time kill"
Other stores to open.
If you can not stay there, hire part-time "open store"
help me! The best sort is home wife or university student
Shifted by 4 hours with minimum wage.
First, please write a list of obligations you want each clerk to have
He runs while shifting. In addition to taking care of sales
It might be good to trade stockings, dusting,
Cleaning, sorting and prcing. The number of bears is low
Enjoy the problem and great benefit when you formally write these
Make a "shift job", post them as a requirement of work,
I will explain and adopt an interview.
Try to find and hire a lover of books that is the only possession,
Outgoing, and business aptitude your train
Those people at all stages of your operation think of in
They run the shop in your absence and eventually
I am your manager. The best way to find such people is
Talk to your customer and observe which one is pleased
Your
You need an outside sign for your store - preferably it
It hangs at right angles to the flow of traffic in front of your store.
Many successful second-hand shops use hand-carved wooden products
Sign, while other people are displaying calligraphy paint signs
Lettering spend an extra hundred dollars or so by all means
Install spotlight on the store front
Sign of the store. Plastic sign with backlight,
A comfortable image necessary for the success of good secondhand books
Small tits.
Newspaper and / or broadcast advertisement will be far
It is more expensive than it is worth. Your best bet is to create a
In the browser for comfort and public offering, price
Let's focus on the stock considerably, personal service
Advertisement of word mouth and time will do the rest.
Even so, you should run ads on yellow pages. Probably, advertisement
In university papers, from time to time, with special sale advertisements
Local shopping. Cheap flyer inviting people
Replacement can be viewed and printed with
Deployed or under local quick print shop
Car windshield at big shopping center parking lot.
Like advertising and special sales during the holiday period
Christmas, Mother's Day and Father's Day are generally pretty
Effective by bringing new customers to your store.
Entrepreneurs of the most used bookstores make their own books
As a startup inventory base. In addition, please talk to many people
As much as possible for your donation, friends and relatives
Afterwards, then, sales of all garages in times and
When should you have at least 10,000 books of flea market inventory
You open for business - it's a lot of books. Twitchy knick.
Book selling - what you can buy for less than 25 cents - at all
Used goods store, goodwill store and salvation army outlet. A church
Sometimes bazaar and real estate sales sometimes offer most
"Complete" library.
You may put a small ad in your newspaper announcing it
You are looking for a good second-hand book to buy. Generally, you
Evaluate the book according to the price you think you can get it
For your store. Two-thirds of the total is subtracted,
And provide it as your "purchase" price. Always divide books
I'm sure I'm not sure about what you can sell from them.
It will take some time for you to be proficient as a book
Buyer, but with practice and experience, soon
Develop the "intuition" you need to realize all the benefits
A book you buy. Always flip through the pages of each individual book,
And be sure of the conditions before quoting the price. many
Instance You can also see that you are out of a box of 25 books
Interested in purchasing only 10. .. There are generally sellers
I want to get rid of his book now. .. And for a couple of
Dollars more than your "bid price" of the ten books you want,
I guess it was probably 25 things. This is like a racket to you
Please use it so you can "and" items as a book reader "
Or extra to generate traffic during 2 to 1 sale; all books
Nickel only for a specific table, or freedom of choice
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