Homeschool Zoo Annex

Selling at conventions

I have known a few homeschool families who make at least part of their living by selling books, both old and new. Doing this means carefully scheduling trips to homeschool conventions. With children, this can take no small amount of effort but it can be done.

It also means you need to have equipment for both hauling and displaying books, curriculum, and educational games and accessories. One dear friend used to have an enclosed trailer along with quite a few covered totes plus tables and a few chairs. The totes contained all the books and accessories she had for sale. The trailer was pretty large and she had to find a hitch through a source like curt trailer hitches in order to hook it up to her Suburban.

She and her husband were able to ride comfortably, along with her daughter, in the truck and had lots of room for luggage. Probably the only drawback was that they did have to find a motel for out-of-town conventions. Still, by selling some of the top rated curricula and manipulatives, they were able to add quite a bit to their income.

Labels: Entrepreneurism, Homeschool families

posted by Ann crum @ 6:52 AM