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    How to Yard Sale: The Unknown Business
    How to Yard Sale: The Unknown Business
    How to Yard Sale: The Unknown Business
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    How to Yard Sale: The Unknown Business

    By Enock Lynn Norrbom

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    One of the main reasons people organize yard sales is so they can sell enough items to pay the bills. But at the end of many events, most sellers have not accomplished their goal.

    Before you even hold a yard sale, be sure to steer clear of violating any ordinances. Go to your town or city hall, and check if you need a license. This will be an operating expense just like advertising and promotional costs. But once you take care of it, the selling can begin!

    In this step-by-step guidebook, you will learn

    the sales techniques that will make people buy;

    the appropriate pricing to help your items sell;

    the importance of having stoppers that will generate a crowd;

    the strategies to beat your yard sale competitors and maximize profits.

    Written by Enock Lynn Norrbom, who has been generating revenue from yard sales for decades, this guide offers a better understanding of how selling at yard sales can be a serious home-based business that generates income. Move closer to your customers and achieve your objectives as you discover How to Yard Sale.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateFeb 14, 2011
    ISBN9781450287388
    How to Yard Sale: The Unknown Business
    Author

    Enock Lynn Norrbom

    Written by ENOCK LYNN NORRBOM, who has been generating revenue from yard sales for decades, this guide offers a better understanding of how selling at yard sales can be a serious home-based business that generates income. Move closer to your customers and achieve your objectives as you discover How to Yard Sale.

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      How to Yard Sale - Enock Lynn Norrbom

      Copyright © 1992, 2011 by Enock Lynn Norrbom

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      ISBN: 978-1-4502-8737-1 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4502-8738-8 (ebk)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2011900572

      Printed in the United States of America

      iUniverse rev. date: 02/04/2011

      Contents

      Introduction

      CHAPTER 1

      CHAPTER 2

      CHAPTER 3

      CHAPTER 4

      CHAPTER 5

      CHAPTER 6

      Introduction

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      The distinguishing characteristic of the human species is that we invent new tools in which to enhance our ability to earn money.

      From the earliest stone ax to the space shuttle, the evolution of human civilization can be measured in part by the tools we have surrounded ourselves with, big and small. We have used these tools to create the world we live in.

      This is an attempt to portray the human urge to invent, the strength of that inventive process, and its impact on our lives.

      In the beginning we created our homes and put great demand on them.

      It became more and more important to fill our homes with new and better products for a richer and easier life.

      Now we find that our homes are getting full to the point that we can hardly move.

      Now, for the first time, we would like to see less in our homes. Okay. That sounds all well and good to me, but what do we do with the old products that we have bought through the years? How do we afford to buy better products for our home now?

      All inventions start with a problem or a need.

      We only have to invent the answer. This is my answer: YARD SALE.

      I was a tooling machinist for some fifty years. As my family grew and we wanted more and better things in our lives, my paycheck got bigger but so did inflation. So it was not easy to keep our heads above water. I used yard sales to supplement my income and learned how to make money by selling. I have gotten very good at that job.

      Now, looking back I find that I have a mountain of information in my head. So I decided to attempt to put it in writing in the form of this book. My greatest thrill through the years has been watching people and learning how they think. And now I have decided to share this information with you. I hope that you will be as successful as I have been.

      Your spouse may have urged you to have a yard sale to get rid of all the things you do not need. Rather than junking those possessions, I suggest that you sell them and make some extra money, and then take your spouse out.

      Now before we go further, I recommend going to your city hall license department to the rules governing yard sales in your city. You may need a license, which would be an operating expense, just like advertising and promotional costs. But first, it all starts with selling.

      CHAPTER 1

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      SELLING

      This brings me to the heart of this book.

      Okay. You ask, But how can I make money by having a yard sale? I can’t sell! I don’t have anything to sell! I won’t make any money!

      Okay. I know what you mean, and I am here to

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