Bruce K. Hollingdrake It’s always been my understanding that to understand any business thoroughly you must not only participate in it but read anything and everything you can get your hands on. From close to our first day in business we signed up for BookThink’s free weekly newsletter. It’s been and continues to be a terrific source of … Read more
Free classified sites as well as social networking site are becoming more and more popular, actually they are the most popular thing going on the web today. Can your business take advantage of these? All of your advertising expenditures need to be a carefully considered balance between cost and benefit. Often the first thing new … Read more
I came across this post from Larry Portzline over at THE BOOKSTORE TOURISM BLOG. I thought the sentiment was so well expressed and I couldn’t agree more strongly so here it is: I had a pleasant email exchange with a visitor to my blog a couple of days ago about the temptation to buy new … Read more
We will try and bring you a steady stream of resources related to books and book selling. Some of the things we’ll mention may seem obvious to the seasoned seller but we want to help those just getting started as well. Fine Books & Collections magazine should be on the counter top of every brick … Read more
As an online seller you should be selling anywhere and everywhere that a buyer might be browsing. There are many buyers that frequent eBay daily that have never heard of Abe.com. There are also buyers that simply search Google for a particular title or happened on a favorite co-op site and have become loyal after … Read more
We have a guest today giving us his take on the future of online sales. Guy Weller, of the World Book Market This is in response to the statement – ‘the reason sales are diminishing has mostly to do with the fact that the number of bookdealers and books online has been constantly increasing since…‘ … Read more
We’ll start by asking you if you’ve found any great ideas that have helped bring more traffic to your blog? Feel free to share. Here’s one for you. Have you tried Stumble Upon yet? Our more experienced readers will tell you that it’s one of the best places to show off your site. Stumble Upon … Read more
Here’s what we want to offer. A permanent spot on our front page under a list of a few ‘Contributing Writers’ with a link to your own blog or website. Also within each post another link back to your web presence. We will be aggressively marketing this blog and will strive to create substantial readership … Read more
