Ignore Local SEO, and Your Estate Sales Business Will Falter

Oh No! I can’t Fail, I hired an Expert Web Guy… What is local SEO: Your Local Estate Sales SEO can best be understood by entering the keyword “Estate Sales” into a browser search box along with the name of your city or geographical region. The results of that search can reasonably be described as [...]

Estate Sales The Billion Dollar Business You Need To Know About

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Well, Estate Sales as a Business, is Even Bigger Than That… I am not writing about the Gingerbread Houses of Real Estate. I am not driving you to, or away from yet another tiny Garage Sale – Or waving a fruitless blade of grass about the virtues of Yard Sales – Or even teaching you [...]

The Estate Sales Business

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Estate Sales as a Business, Some Things You’ll Need to Know… …because a reader has asked, here is her letter, paraphrased, and excerpted. Reader: “Do you recommend being a certified Antiques Appraiser or not? “ Fine Estate: This is a very complex question. For starters, most Estate Sales Professionals are not certified appraisers, and most [...]

New Items From Fine Estate, and some new dealer advice

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4 New Items From Fine Estate Sales: This shows why I am in the business – Diversity – is the name of the game…for dealers. When I first started in the antiques business, even before I became an Estate Liquidator, I read a book about becoming an Antique Dealer. I wish I could remember the [...]

Contemporary Art at Estate Sales

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What to do with it, How to sell It… Here is an email I received today: Dear Martin, Let me begin by saying thank you, your website is amazing, and you seem very approachable. Hence this email. I am relatively new at conducting Estate Sales and am embarrassed to say I need a little advise. [...]