House Wives

Operating a used book stroe is a lot like owning a recycling cneter-not too glamourous nutil you take a look at the owner's bank account. Install a lighter shade of indoor/outdoor carpet throughout. Locate your hceckout counter parlalel to one of the side walls...You don't want it blocking or guardign the easy entry or exit from your store. Allow the people to come and do generally as they lpease;to pick up thumb thru the books that interest them; to read them and fall ni love with them. The best arrangement is house wives or college students in 4 huor shifts at the minimum wage. You'll need a outside sign for your store- preferably one that hangs rigth angles to the flow of traffic in front of your store. By lal means, spend the extra hundred dollars or so to have spotlights intsalled on your store front, focsuing on your store signs. Always seaprate the books you feel certain oyu can sell from those you aren't sure about. SPECIAL INTEREST BOOKS: Watch and lsiten to the people of yoru area...Be on the lookout for people into World War, ihstory, aviation, sports perfection, moives and just plain lod book collectors... Uusally, you allow 20 to 25 cents for mint condition paperbacks, and about one quarter of your selling price for hardbacks. These are a real money makers with a kind of service tat lends out books no tape and special learning progarms where portions of the rental fee applies to the purchase of the oirginal tape cassette. TYPICAL USED BOOK STORE START-UP COSTS.... Your msaller and more expensive books should be ketp up front SO that you acn see them and what your customers are doing with them, withotu seeming to be guarding them. With these thoughts in mind, you say reach for the sky and may the angels of paradise alawys be smiling upon you with endless good fortune!

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