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Books Are Fun is renowned for offering the best best selection of books, gifts, and educational products at savings of up to 80% off retail prices. Our book fairs and book displays have become known as "North America's Most Popular Employee Event" supplying innovative, premium quality products to corporations, schools,small businesses, hospitals, and early learning centers throughout the United States. The objective of Books Are Fun is to provide customers with the most exciting, in demand product offerings at incredible values. Books Are Fun's success is greatly attributed to its set of very experienced and diverse buyers from around the world that source and find the most cutting edge, and creative lineups of merchandise to supplement our book fairs. Books Are Fun has also established long standing relationships with some of the most globally recognized publishers around the world such as Reader's Digest, Taste of Home, Publications International, DK, Penguin, Random House, and many others to supply the cookbooks, children's stories and all the best-seller books you love best . Due to these unique and substantial relationships with key vendors and suppliers, the products available though Books Are Fun fairs and school displays are only available through Books Are Fun events.
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Liquid capital required
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$10,000
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Looking for a chance to build and run your own business with a dynamic, multi-million dollar company to support you?Success starts with Books Are Fun - A Reader's Digest Company!
Join the world's leading display marketer for a rewarding and flexible career as a Book Fair Representative. You have the freedom to manage your own business while receiving training and support from Readers Digest – a company with a reputation for excellence. We provide high commissions, web portals, assigned territories and reward incentives!
Here's how it works:
- Books Are Fun decides to partner with you and will support you while you run your own small business.
- Your customers will shop at the fair just as if they were to shop at a bookstore.
- Customers will receive a discount of 40-70% off the regular retail price of books.
- To support our newly contracted reps we fly you to the Chicago, IL corporate office for thorough field training so that you are armed with the information needed to be successful.
- During training, your telemarketer will be busy formulating new corporate contacts to grow your book of business.
- Upon arriving home, Books Are Fun will deliver the first shipment of books and goods to your warehouse or garage storage location.
- There is no inventory investment as books and products are sent on consignment! Books Are Fun would run a credit check because of the consigned inventory.
- Other responsibilities include maintaining accurate inventory records and submitting a weekly sales report with all collected funds to Books Are Fun.
- These are new, top-quality books which include children's books, home and gardening, cookbooks, history DVDs/books, best sellers, games, spa products and seasonal items.
- There is an initial investment in buying the materials to hold and transport the books and run the business.
The requirements needed to become a BAF representative are:
- A high level of professionalism
- Strong organizational skills
- An entrepreneurial drive
- Articulate communication skills
- Storage space of at least 400 to 600 square feet
- A computer with Excel
- Truck, Van, or SUV for transporting product
- Investment in display equipment
- Good Credit History
Interested parties should have at least $1,000 to invest.
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Books Are Fun - A Readers Digest Company is listed in the Franchise Directory under the Business Services category. It's also listed in the section for Franchises Under $20,000.
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