subject: Looking For An Affordable Home Based Business Opportunity? Check Out 2 Of My Favorites. [print this page] Selling used books on Half.com is a very affordable home based business opportunity because unlike eBay there are no listing fees to pay. This is a very simple business to run and can be done on a very flexible schedule.
Used books are everywhere and it's not uncommon for an older book to bring in amazingly high profits. Some old books will bring in hundreds, and collectors are constantly scouring the site for the titles they are so desperately trying to acquire.
That old dusty $1 book that someone picks up from a yard sale could be worth hundreds to a collector, but even newer books sell well at a nice profit!
Getting set up with Half.com isn't difficult. Once you have your seller's account, most titles can be sold by just entering the ISBN number of the book and the quality level of the book you are selling, Half.com does the rest.
The best books to start with are travel books and cookbooks, these typically do very well. (One example was a cookbook from 1955 that was gathering dust on a kitchen shelf, It brought in $79 on Half.com!)
Where can you find books to resell? Here's a list of places to look to get you started:
1 ask relatives
2 your workplace
3 library old-book sales/giveaways
4 book stores always have sales
5 goodwill-type thrift stores
6 estate sales (these can be great!)
7 dollar stores
8 moving sales
You can advertise in local classified ads such as Craigslist using this approach; We will haul away old books. Youll have people calling you saying, Please, come get all the old books out of my attic.
A great way to automate this business is by using one of the many scanner tools on the market that simplify the entire process of listing these books on Half.com down to the swipe of the barcode on the book.
Another twist on this concept is to use Amazon.com's FBA program. FBA stands for Fulfilment By Amazon. You can actually box up dozens or hundreds of books at one time and send them to Amazon. They will sell and ship them for you and pay you for doing so! This completely eliminates the hassle of shipping them one at a time to your customers, and it greatly increases the potential profit of each book because Amazon.com gets far better shipping discounts than you or I ever could.
Another very affordable home based business opportunity that anyone can start involves taking your digital camera to a local popular event, taking footage, and then selling it to others online.
Examples of events include:
1 Parades
2 Car Shows
3 Expos
4 Political Events
5 After the game celebrations (think 'party in the street' after the big game)
You get the idea?
This is a very affordable home based business opportunity because a DVD only costs between twenty-eight to fifty cents, the odds of you not making your money back are very slim.
After the initial time investment, this is almost totally hands-free income.
It is important to understand what kind of event is a good event to film. You want to film an event that has thousands of fans who have a strong interest and are willing to pay for their hobby or pastime. If the event is missing one of those three elements (thousands of fans, strong interest, and willing to pay), this concept won't work.
Once you have a video, you need to learn how to sell it.
eBay is a great way to sell your videos because it receives high traffic, and the selling process is easy. It's best to list the item in multiple categories to gain more exposure for the video.
There are lots of ways to promote the video, ranging from affiliate programs, niche-based websites, newsletter advertising, and youtube.com.
When using youtube.com, upload a section of your video for free to youtube.com and mention in the notes that you are selling a full version, and include instructions on buying the full version. Your youtube.com video will likely show up in the Google search engine, bringing even more interested buyers to you.
You can either burn copies of the DVD on your PC at home or use a service like Kunaki.com that burns, labels, adds shrink wrap and ships each order as it comes in, making the entire process hands-free for you, Just send them the orders!
There are software programs available that will tie your eBay account to Kunaki.com and ship every eBay order out on autopilot. Making this not only a very affordable but entirely hands-free home based business opportunity!
