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I came up with an idea! This is from Avril Harper’s book:

Make Money Tearing Up Old Books and Magazines and Selling Them on eBay

In Avril’s Book is a section called “start a clipping service”.

This is interesting to me because I have a ton of magazines that I need to go through and pull out stuff for “me” to use for some projects and then get rid of the magazine.

I think I can make more money by “cutting the mag” into articles or clipping bundles.

I’d like to go through “some” of her suggestions:

• Copy and package advertisements by subject or profession.
• It’s a good idea to create information packs about specific subjects and events and ask a standard price across the board. Avril’s daughter does this on eBay, selling what she calls ‘Doggy Bags’ which include pictures, articles, newspaper cuttings, puzzles, and lots of other printed bits and pieces about individual dog breeds. She only needs one copy of a particular item, in the public domain, which she can then copy to add to hundreds of doggy bags she might sell on eBay each year.
• You might specialize in certain subjects like: genealogical matters, astrology, fishing, gardening, recipes and cooking, and so on. Your service could be marketed on eBay or through magazines targeted at your specific audience.
• Copy and package advertisements by subject or profession. For example, she found dozens of advertisements from butchers, dressmakers, soap manufacturers, and more, in a pile of old Illustrated London News publications from the early 1900s.The entire bundle of twenty plus magazines cost £3 (about $6) and included ten or more full-page prints and posters per issue almost all of which sold at between £5 (about $10) and £30 (about $60).The more successful items she listed in categories described as ‘Hot’ in eBay’s regular Hot Items report. Those categories included specific condiments, such as Mustard; soap and perfumery advertisements went like a bomb under ‘Advertising: Chemists’, and a huge number of sporting prints, mainly horse-racing went like hot cakes under Collectibles: Horse Racing.

And here is one I know someone would love but I have no interest in:

• Here’s another great idea for out of copyright advertisements, especially smaller classified ads. They created our very best selling marketing book both on and off eBay, which they called HEADLINES THAT NEVER DIE, which was simply a collection of headlines we had taken from out-of-copyright, otherwise called ‘Public Domain’ publications.She simply typed them into a Microsoft Word document under categories, such as Travel, Children, Soaps, and so on. She also scanned some of the best advertisements of earlier times into the Word document to make the book visually appealing.

So I think that I would like to pick a pile of magazines from my stash and go through them… make a plan for using this stack of stuff to sell on ebay.

About The Author:

Debra Conrad is an online entrepreneur, information publisher, and author that has been using Public Domain material to create profitable products and businesses since 2007. She is also co-author of "The Public Domain Treasure Hunter's Survival Kit" available here. For more info Debra, click here.

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