Estate Sales Throw Back Thursday – A 1931 Model A Coupe With Video
A great video and antique auto for sale at Blue Hill Estate Sales in Florida.
Blue Hill Estate Sales will be selling this 1931 Ford Model A Coupe in West Melbourne, Florida on February 13 and 14, 2015. To view more click here for a link to Blue Hill Estate Sales website.
Spring Time Is Only Weeks Away – Estate Sale, Moving Sale, Consignment or Auction
Now that Ground Hog Day is past spring is approaching and with it come decisions about moving, downsizing, relocating, or just a clean out.
For those in our audience that are doing more than just a clean out it is time now to start deciding what you want to keep and what you don’t. Then comes the big decision, how to eliminate all the unwanted or unnecessary items.
Now is the time to start looking for estate sale companies if you have more to eliminate than keep. You might even consider finding an estate sale company that would conduct what they call a partial sale, where it is limited to just a few rooms. Not all estate sale companies perform this particular liquidation, but it is wise to ask.
Start asking your friends, relatives, Realtor or attorney if they can recommend an estate sale company. Also start looking at estate sale listing websites like EstateSales.Net, EstateSales.org and Estatesale.com to see who is working in your area. There are other listing sites as well to check out.
When speaking with liquidators ask them if you don’t have enough for a sale if they would consider buying out what you have, take on consignment or recommend a local auctioneer that may do consignment auctions for small lots.
You may also want to inquire with an estate sale company if they assist in a clean out. Many now perform this function for a fee as well. The estate liquidation business has many facets today.
With the last 6 or so weeks of winter left (hopefully less) now is the perfect time if you are going to relocate to get the chore of sorting through and making your key decisions, but remember – if you have a lot “don’t throw anything out” until you have interviewed some estate sale companies. You may be giving away money unknowingly.
Estate Sale Dos’ And Dont’s For Buyers On Estate Sale Friday
Years ago when the estate sale business was a small industry and only visible in newsprint most buyers understood that courtesy, calm, patience, and good manners could go a long way to helping them buy items they sought to purchase.
To those buyers that remember their estate sale etiquette this article is an attempt to encourage all estate sale buyers to keep in step with you and estate sale liquidators nationwide appreciate you and your business.
Since the personal property liquidation industry has soared to over 7,000 companies buyers appear to look at the number of estate sales in their area and many assume they can enter a sale, make inappropriate comments, and make low ball offers.
Remember when entering a property to not push or shove, and please keep your patience while waiting in line.
Estate sale companies do not own the items in the sale. They represent sellers or heirs and have a fiduciary with them to sell the goods at the best possible price. It won’t help you to say “I’ll give you…”. Please ask if they offer a discount.
Estate liquidators do not need verbal abuse. Cussing, shouting, and constant condescending statements or discussion about pricing is uncalled for. Estate liquidators are knowledgeable and experienced business people. An estate sale company can and probably will ask you to leave and not return to any of their future sales. This results in you losing your purchase. Estate sale companies communicate with each other about difficult buyers so please, be courteous and don’t risk being turned away from estate sales in your area.
Estate sales should be fun, save you money, and present an opportunity to own items you might not otherwise be able to purchase so as you attend sales this week and every week maintaining estate sale etiquette is beneficial and good public relations for you, the buyer.
Estate Sale Companies Working Through Events and Storms
With the start of the last week of January estate sale companies are busy and contending with several different events.
This coming weekend is the Super Bowl. Estate sale companies that we have spoken with are proceeding with their sales. With the Super Bowl starting later than normal in Arizona this should not affect most of the country. A few west coast liquidators that have sales will be closing in mid-afternoon on Sunday.
Valentine’s Day is on a Saturday, February 14th, but all the liquidators we heard from indicated that this would not impede their sales and some even planned to make the day festive with treats for buyers.
We are grateful to all the estate sale companies that responded to us and shared how they are working with these various events.
The storm affecting the east and mid-Atlantic coast today will have an influence on traveling for staging sales and keeping appointments, but the more important affect will be how well the communities and municipalities clear their local roads of snow to allow for entrance to sales on Thursday and Friday. This is one of the primary reasons that estate sale companies that conduct liquidations in any area where snow or ice may be a consideration should include a paragraph in their contract with sellers clearly stating who is responsible for the plowing and/or shoveling of snow as well as the treatment of walkways and driveways to dissolve and slippery areas.
Estate Sales ThrowBack Thursday – Vintage, Antique, Designer, New
The fourth Thursday in January and once again time for ThrowBacks. Estate Sales, however, present throwbacks every day they are open. Vintage, antique, designer, and new are ever present at most estate liquidations.
Estate Sales News takes a look at what’s coming up for sale.
Check out these websites for thousands of estate sales.
New Advertising Ideas For Estate Sales In 2015 – Facebook
2015 has begun with many places experiencing stormy weather and the addition of many new companies.
Now is a great time to start implementing new or different advertising.
We have talked about social media, however, in 2015 getting your message out to a large audience is vital and Facebook may well be the newest and best way to advertise without breaking your budget. If you don’t have a Facebook business page you should and be posting about your upcoming estate sales and company. Consider boosting your Facebook page posts. You can boost your post for as little as $5.00/day and keep your promote your website with or without a targeted audience for $10.00/day or more. Affordable with a wide audience.
Craig Robinson of Guerrilla Marketing wrote an article back in September of 2012 “Facebook vs Google”.
To quote Mr. Robinson from his article “With Google, you’re attempting to drive people to a destination. That destination isn’t on “Google” per se; it’s just your site. On Facebook, you’re driving within the network and can drive outside of it. Thus you can narrow the focus tremendously. Your fan page or business page can pick up a head of stream through likes and sharing and unique content within the social context of the Facebook framework. You have many different filters that can be applied to help you keep this focus as narrow or as broad as you wish. It’s much easier to reach the right audience, and the word-of-mouth factor is exponentially increased on a social network when compared to the Internet at large.”
In a January 15th, 2014 article in the New York Times by Eilene Zimmerman wrote about Facebook revamping their ads to compete with Google click here for link to article .
Putting it simply Facebook likes can do more for your estate sales attendance and website than Google and your audience is broad and can grow.
Twitter also offers advertising although some question it’s effectiveness, however, keeping your Twitter audience connected to Facebook with #(hashtags) and mentions can be of great assistance.
With the growing number of estate sale companies, keeping a step ahead of your competition is not only important to you, but to your sellers.
When interviewing and conducting your presentations with perspective sellers either with the use of tablets, laptops, or print media showcase your Facebook business page. Let the world know you are there and what your selling.
Shop Estate Sales For Valentine’s Day – Tell Someone Their Special
The first big shopping day for 2015 is one month from tomorrow. Valentine’s Day isn’t just about candy and flowers anymore.
Looking for a way to let your loved one know how special they are? If you didn’t start last weekend start this weekend, checking out estate sales. You can find unique, collectible, vintage, antique, designer, or rare gifts and demonstrate how truly important that person is to you. Here are just a few suggestions. There are hundreds of thousands of items to purchase at estate sales across the country. Online “window shopping”. We suggest you look at these websites. EstateSales.NET, EstateSales.org, Estatesale.com, and Estatesale.company. Photos and descriptions can be reviewed and you can plan ahead which estate sales to visit. If you are an estate sale company now is the time to start promoting your sales for this very special day.
ThrowBack Thursday For Estate Sales – Vintage IBM Computer For Sale
All of us that write about estate sales, estate sale companies, estate sale listing websites, along with sellers and buyers use laptops, tablets, desktops, and other computer equipment. Most is not “vintage”.
Your editors’ first computer was a Gateway desktop (it truly took up most of the desk) that worked only in black and white and DOS. What a long way we have come to now even our smartphones. Here’s a throwback from a sale taking place starting, Saturday, January 10th in Georgetown, TX being conducted by The Gypsy Junk Lady Estate Sales that we found on EstateSales.Net.
Enjoy Winter Sports? Shop Estate Sales, Skis, Skates, Snowmobiles, Snowshoes
With snow falling in more areas of the country this is the time for those who want to enjoy winter sports with a limited budget to start looking shopping estate sales.
Families relocating or moving often don’t want to pay the extra cost of moving these items because of size or weight or a changing their climate.
With a three day weekend less than two weeks away take advantage now to shop at local estate sales, and if you don’t find any in your area try looking at a local auction or consignment shop.
Prices should reflect that the equipment is used and we are now into the winter sports season.
Another estate sales tip from EstateSalesNews.com.
Kick Off 2015 Estate Sale Companies And Be Seen And Heard
2015 begins with 7,000 plus estate sale companies, and there is a lot of competition to get the attention of perspective sellers and buyers. Financial success is determined by the number of sellers and buyers you reach.
Sellers are using search engines to find estate sale companies in their areas and buyers are using them to find estate sales. They are searching “estate sales” and what usually shows up in their search are the estate sale listing websites; EstateSales.Net., EstateSales.org, Estatesale.com, Estatesale.company, Tagsellit.com are among the most well known.
These companies utilize several ways to attract the attention of sellers and buyers, but one of the most important is search engine optimization (SEO). Wikipedia offers the simplest description of this “the process of affecting the visibility of a website or a web page in a search engine’s “natural” or un-paid (“organic”) search results.”
SEO considers what people search for when using Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc typing in what are called key words. Some examples would be estate sales, estate sale companies, estate sale commission, etc. Without getting to complicated a good example would be to type into a search engine what you are specifically looking for and observe what responses you receive on the first page. Many estate sale companies (as well as other types of companies) are unaware that the more often a company appears on page one of a search engine such as Google as the result of a search and the more frequently it is clicked on the more often it will appear on page one and it’s position on the page can move from the bottom upward toward the top. Google remembers and tracks everything. That is a good reason to have some type of analytics for your website (a topic for another day).
It is important when having a website created that whoever is developing the website seeks out what terms (key words) are being typed into the search engine. Either you or them should check out your competition by searching. These words should be incorporated into your website both on the visible page and in an area that is known as meta tags or head space and these are put within the code of your website not visible to the public. These are crawled (reviewed) by search engines. Keeping you on page one and as close to the top as possible is important. There are many companies both here in the United States and abroad that offer SEO so you don’t have to be a computer geek to do this. It may be some of the best money you will spend and you can also let your sellers know that you are keeping technology proficient for their benefit.
One consideration is the pay per click or ad space that is usually at the top of the search engine page after typing in and receiving the results of your search. This can be costly, so if you or someone you pay can optimize your site it can save you many dollars. The paid advertisers will always have the space or spaces at the top of the page.
Kick off 2015 by getting your website noticed and your estate sales seen. A great New Year resolution.
