Selling online
One of the challenges of selling online is the lack of people contact. It’s something I really notice. One of the things I do to combat this is to volunteer at an Op Shop (Charity Shop) for half a day a week. I was very careful when I chose the op shop, I looked at the volunteers who all seemed very nice and were quite happily talking to who-ever walked in. I liked this so I promptly volunteered. I was feeling particularly bold that day as I had recently shaved my head for the Leukaemia Foundations Shave-For-A-Cure and so it was easy to bite the bullet and speak up. I was quite open about selling books online and they were rather blase about it. They did ask for more details but they also exclaimed over my lack of hair in the same way. I was quite explicit about needing to pay the same for books as regular customers and some of the other volunteers actually stick to that and don’t make me pay the volunteer rates. I’ve met some lovely people at the op shop. One lady I’ve worked with asked me to get her two copies of a particular book, Something That Happens to Other People, a book I’ve recently reviewed on my own blog. She tells me she is in the book and I’ll talk to her about it in the New Year. Then there’s the lady who does scrapbooking and has returned a number of times, I have some little craft items from my house that are waiting for her in the new year that she might be able to use.
