How I Set Up My Reselling Business For Success Before Going on Vacation!
hi everyone my name is becky park i'm a part-time reseller and in one week my family and i are going to hawaii for two weeks i can't even tell you how excited i am we're going to three different islands we're going to oahu first and then we'll be in maui and then we'll be in kauai and i'm just so excited the kids have never been to hawaii they are super excited about going and i it's just been quite a year so we're excited to you know rest and spend some time as a family and we're also going with some family friends to oahu however that means that there is so much that i need to do at home before we go the first thing is just kind of getting my house in order just cleaning so that we don't have to come back home to a mess and that means i need to deal with a lot of inventory that is just in random places throughout my house so i just got done filming like an hour and a half long video that is gonna be part one of a series of where i show you some things that my friends and family have given me to resell whether it's just you know given me for free for me to just make money off of or whether we've worked out some sort of consignment deal together and so i showed the pieces that i got from one of my friends and it was a lot of stuff an hour and a half worth of stuff um but i'm trying to get through that kind of stuff and organize it and also kind of list some of that i also need to list so let me show you like all the stuff that needs to get listed so um i think what i'm going to try to do well first of all let me just show you so this is all stuff on that rack that is ready to go it just needs to get listed you know photographed and listed the stuff on this rack needs to get steamed and you can see it's like a pretty full rack but not only that um this whole box of stuff needs to get steamed there's my hair and this whole box i mean there's a box on top of it but like that box down there is filled with clothes and that also needs to get steamed and then there is this box of stuff that i did an unboxing of it's like hard goods it's a lot of random stuff they're like amazon wholesale pieces or amazon polls and then over here let me show you what i have going on over here i have a bunch of bottoms just from different halls that i've done that need to get photographed and listed so there's that several days later let me show you my progress so we're so close to having an empty rack i only have maybe like three more items on here um i'm gonna eat lunch now that's why i'm stopping but that feels really good and then again i gotta get all this steamed moved over onto this rack and then we can start dealing with this stuff so this is everything that i have photographed um you know people have all sorts of systems and every time i show this and talk about how i need to get this stuff inventory people and there's daniel tiger but people are always like why don't you bag it as you go and to that i would say you know everyone has their own kind of systems of what works for them and that's what's cool about this is it's your business you can do what you want with it and you know have your systems work the way that they do i really like to batch work i like to like stay in the zone of something and not break that up because when i do when i go back and forth from like photographing to opening up my computer to put in a skew and to get out my bags and i don't know it like breaks up the flow for me so i personally like to just kind of photograph and turn on a podcast turn on a show and just be in the zone of photographing and then later i'll just be in the zone of bagging up you know that stuff some other stuff that we have going on this is a small little pile of stuff next to this little felt egg thing that's kind of cute but this is a little pile of stuff that my daughter photographed because some of you know that she's been photographing for me um yeah she gets through about like four or five things and then she's she's tired she's done this is stuff that i don't want to list and i'm gonna tag it for the consignment sale and this cute little number my goodness it's like a czar piece but i decided i want to wear it it's like a cute little linen jumper this is mine why how did this even make it into the room with all the stuff so i'm going to eat lunch we picked up some chinese food and then we are going to go outside it's beautiful and my friend chiwan and her kids are going to come over we're just going to garden we're going to have a fire pit we're going to just hang out and i'm very much looking forward to it so got a lot of work done this morning not as much as i wanted to but i always kind of like overshoot when it comes to goals knowing that i'm not gonna get everything done but i feel really good about what i did get done and then later throughout the day hopefully i can tidy up in here i don't know just make it not so crazy overwhelming we'll see all right so it's a little bit later in the day we went to the park we hung out with chiwen and her boys um i also got some new grow lights they're not like super intense so i don't know how good they're gonna do but they're better than having nothing um so here's the plan for stuff for clothes for reselling so here's where i'm at right now i have an entire box of stuff in that box that needs to get uh what is it called it needs to get steamed but it's in there because as you can see i didn't steam anything yet what i did was i actually started hanging stuff that didn't need to get steamed from these wholesale boxes that i got a while ago this box has more wintry stuff that i'm just gonna wait to list because clearly there's a lot of stuff here that you know not necessarily that it's spring and summer but it's not quite so like you know fall winter type sweater type things um this is an entire bin of bottoms that need to get steamed and this dates back months and months and months like there's a lot of stuff that in here that i've just had for a long time um this is still stuff that my daughter has to photograph i think what i'm going to do now is steam this rack again there are things that have been sitting on this rack for months and so i just want to knock it out and then really spend a lot of good time photographing tomorrow i would photograph more like i would just maybe do more of this rack here or even let me show you this whole stack of bottoms i could actually photograph two because they are not in like crazy shape they could be photographed right now and it would be fine it's just that the lighting is not good right now as you can see i have like the light turned on in this room and that really kind of affects the coloring of the you know of the garments i like to photograph them in natural daylight so i don't know it kind of rained a little bit it's just kind of cloudy outside so the lighting isn't great but i might see if i can get through those pants first and then steam when i don't have good lighting to photograph and so that's always kind of what dictates what i do when i have long stretches of time like this it's is the lighting good enough for me to get a lot photographed but i did get a good amount photograph today so it's not like i have to but it's just you know trying to knock out these items in the way that makes sense so that's what i'm gonna work on and then also while i'm gone my sister-in-law is going to come over to my house every few days and do some shipping for me she has learned how to ship from me in the past and she actually has also listed for me in the past so she like knows what's up she's especially good with poshmark but it's more ebay citizen facebook marketplace those kinds of things like she just needs a refresher so um i'm gonna have her over one day this week we're gonna go over how to ship again just so she can do it probably on my end what i'll do even while i'm in hawaii is i will like make a list every day of the pieces that need to get shipped with the inventory number she can just literally look at the like sales sheet and then just pull everything and ship it out i'm hoping it's that easy but that also means that i need to get everything that i have listed into bins because currently at this time i don't have everything in bins because they're just lying all around my house and so i have to get that stuff in order and then finally not finally there's probably a hundred billion other things on my list of things to do but another thing that i am doing is prepping listings to go live while i'm in hawaii it's the easiest on ebay because you can schedule out listings for like i want to say a month out versus poshmark i think you can only do like a week or two out and mercari they don't even have that kind of function they have like where you can save things as a draft but the annoying thing about that is because i cross the list using lists perfectly this perfectly doesn't recognize those items as a listing if you've put them in draft form so it's whatever it is what it is but this way at least i have listings going live where i have listings up in draft form that i can just push live as soon as i'm ready that day and i'm trying to make it so that i have at least five listings going live every day while i'm on vacation and then i also want to have um some videos go live so i'm trying to like make an access number of videos and get them edited and get them ready to upload on random days while i'm on vacation as well just trying to make sure that things don't come to a screeching halt all of a sudden even though i know that resting is great and honestly a hundred percent necessary i feel like i would stress out while on vacation if i was thinking to myself oh my gosh like i'm just digging this hole that i have to dig myself out of once i get back from vacation i just like the idea of working a little bit harder pre-vacation so that once you're on vacation you can truly relax because of the work that you've done ahead of time if that makes sense so that's kind of the mode that i'm in right now um two other things that i'm gonna do since i'm thinking about it one is i want to send in a box to the real real before i leave on vacation so that hopefully those things can go live as well while i'm on vacation and then finally i want to send in a box of like at least 20 items to ebless that is a company that i use to ship some stuff out for me i'm still working on like sending them everything but yeah it is what it is several days later so this here feels really good um the ikea bag is just um my bag of packages for the day which i think they actually took which is why it's on inside and looks empty but these three other boxes are things going on in my house ups is coming to pick them up excuse our uh what is this broken lawnmower and a little car thing there but um let's see the costco box is going to ebless i nope i'm a liar costco box is going to the real real so i just have a handful of things that i'm sending there nope that's a lie costco box is the books from our musical anastasia so it's like the music books that the kids use to learn their music plus instrumentalists and then one of the lowe's boxes is going to the real real and one of the boxes is going to ebless and the thought process behind that is that um you know i'm going to send about 21 pieces to ebless and they will um get those items up and running once they get them and if and when those pieces ship which hopefully are while i'm on vacation they will be able to ship them out for me which is great and then the real real items kind of the same thing you know i'm getting items to them the hope is that those items go live while i'm on vacation and i'm able to make more sales that way wow i'm bad at getting in the car and holding my and holding my phone steady that's what i'm using is just my phone right now um right now i have to go to school because i have to like do our health insurance thing like every year in the summer you have to go and like pick what kind of insurance you want and stuff and i do have to make a couple changes which is why i have to go in so i'm gonna do that and then i'm gonna finish fencing in my last garden bed and just do some last-minute things before a trip i saw one of my students while i was checking out a target so that was so fun but let's do a little haul of everything that i got okay so first of all i got five of these bins i did not get the lid that comes with it because i have so many lids at home already that just go unused um these were eight dollars a piece they're usually five so inflation what can you do um i got some gallon bags to put myself in and then for our trip i got myself some underwear some water shoes um this is just for us to have at home because we didn't have any sunscreen and this is the kind that comes without the oxybenzone because that's not good for the environment and then some sunglasses for the trip that's for lucy that's for levi six bucks a piece all right so i'm feeling a little accomplished because i was finally able to record a couple videos i tried to film them last night and everything that could possibly go wrong was going wrong i was not able to film on my camera because it was out of battery and then i tried filming on my phone i had a minute left to film and then my phone just stopped recording and the video was nowhere to be found so i filmed those this morning only to find when i was done that the video was on my phone it was a mess but i also i'm like looking for a pair of keens that i know i have somewhere in my house for myself to wear um on vacation in hawaii and i cannot find them but one place that i looked let me show you one place that i looked was in here this is like my death pile of things to photograph in my light box so it's things like shoes there's like accessories actually this stuff has to go back in there some of this stuff i don't i don't think i'm gonna sell i don't know we have to see like this jewelry type stuff i might just consign it with like local consignment stores because what is this oh there's like new earrings look at all this stuff that's just look at that that's really i should list that anyway um i'll list that one like this maybe my kids would like i think i'm just dropping stuff i think my kids would actually like this bowl and stuff so maybe i'll save that but these like jewelry pieces i think i need to just go ahead and let someone else sell because i have no desire to sell these things i don't even know if they're any good but this bin was like overflowing up to here with stuff and so what i did was i looked through it i pulled out a bunch of stuff this is stuff that i am going to actually just donate it's just stuff that is no good like i mean these are a pair of fry boots i got them in a thread out rescue box a long time ago but look look at all this like gunk that's on it like this side it's really bad and i've tried scraping it off i've tried doing a couple things plus if they don't like zipper very well like closed and shut so i don't know and then just some stuff that i got in some reseller buyouts things like kids pjs but they have like stains on them like doggy clattered like i'm just gonna go ahead and donate this stuff these couple things i think i'm gonna say for whatnot when i try doing some live sales over there um yeah we're getting through the stuff this is stuff that i will probably list so yeah just trying to be productive trying to clean and get some sanity um still trying to be productive we still have a few days before hawaii and on my to-do list today is stuff like cleaning up our garden beds while the kids play outside on the sprinklers um editing some videos maybe filming some more videos which means in order to film them i have to prep them lots to do so let's get going all right so i just spent a ton of time outside um the kids were playing in the sprinkler and i was weeding one of my three garden beds it's it is in rough shape you guys but what i'm doing now is everything that's been photographed thus far i am bagging it i actually had my daughter a few days ago she honestly has like better handwriting than me um she wrote out some more numbers for me because we've run out and i picked up some more bins and stuff at target like you saw and so um she used up all those bags we are putting the pieces that have been photographed into bags and then what i'm going to do after that is i am going to photograph some more stuff and instead of just like photographing it and throwing it off to the side and then doing inventory later like putting them into the bags later i'm actually gonna take the time i'm just throwing it over by my bins over there i'm gonna actually take the time to bag it up as soon as i'm done photographing it and the reason for that is because number one i'm photographing a ton of stuff because we're leaving for our vacation in a few days and i want to have a ton of stuff to list up until that point i also just met with someone yesterday who is gonna try doing some listing and cross listing for me i've had some people do this in the past it didn't stick mainly just because life got in the way but this is actually a former reseller someone who's inventory i bought out and we met up yesterday at a local coffee shop and oh no that didn't quite make the um the spot i'll have to remember to pick that up and put it in a bin but um we met at a coffee shop to kind of talk about how to do this and how to make it work and also i gave her a refresher a refresher on this perfectly she had used the free trial before but didn't see the need to use it because she was only listening to poshmark and ebay um and so i showed her how to cross list using lists perfectly to all the different platforms that i sell on by the way if you're not using this perfectly yet i highly recommend it it's also really great i think if you have a va um it's pretty va friendly i would say so anyway um i talked her through how to use lists perfectly how to cross this to all the platforms that i sell on and i want to have a bunch of listings ready for her so that while i'm on vacation she can list you guys it's like a dream come true the feeling or the idea that i can have things listed but not do it myself while on vacation that is the definition of being hands off um and i am here for it i am super here for it so um i want to have a bunch of stuff photographed so that in the nights to come i can just prep a bunch of listings and the way that i'm going to do is i'm going to write out the listing title i'm also going to put in the price like if there are any flaws or anything put that in the description so that she knows i don't know like i'm going to fill out a good chunk of the listing but she's gonna finish it off and then she's going to crosslist those items to all of my various platforms and i'm very excited about it so that's why i'm photographing a ton of new stuff and then the reason why i am bagging things up right away is because while i'm on vacation my sister-in-law tina she's gonna come over and she is going to ship for me which is just so sweet um she's only gonna come every like two or three days so i do have to change my shipping and handling time on ebay to um like three days instead of one but i think that's gonna really help me not lose any momentum so between my sister-in-law shipping for me and between my new assistant helper if you will listing for me i am hoping that it's gonna keep the momentum of my reselling business going so that i don't have to rebuild that when i come back from my vacation that is the hope and the goal and that's why i am bagging everything so that my sister-in-law doesn't have to go digging through piles of clothes if any of this new stuff sells so that's why as i'm listing so that's why as i'm photographing i'm going to go ahead and bag things up so that there's nothing just like sitting out everything has a spot when it sells she is able to pull it super easily because she's doing me such a favor i don't want to make it any harder for her than it needs to be i already like we got dinner for her family and my family at like this place that we like to eat that's kind of expensive um so he like paid for that and i'm gonna get her like a gift card or i don't like i'm i'm gonna make it well worth her time but she knows how to ship she actually sold on poshmark for a little bit but she also came over the other day and we did a little refresher course on how to ship on the you know various platforms that i sell on and that is the thing right like when you sell on a ton of different platforms there are all these like little nuances that you have to think about and take care of um from platform to platform even when it comes to cross listing like i found myself having to explain to my like new assistant all the little quirks about each platform it's so weird i don't know i don't get it but yeah i'm so thankful and so excited so now that everything that was just kind of hanging out is bagged up i'm gonna keep photographing and like i said as i photograph i'm gonna put stuff into list perfectly so that things are more ready than usual and then we'll see what else we do my husband is actually um in chicago for like a boy's trip they're like eating dinner at some fancy restaurant i don't know and then um while he's gone the kids and i were just gonna hang out i also wanted to like photograph now so that later when it gets dark we can um just what's it called i was going to watch some disney movies my son especially has not watched a lot of the classic disney movies and so i just wanted to make sure that he watched a lot of the ones that would be worth watching especially for when we go to disney um so that he has some context to like the winnie the pooh ride when we're on it or a little mermaid you know stuff like that so um lots to do but i'm very thankful that i was able to get as much done as i did so we're gonna keep going tomorrow we leave for chicago and then the next day we'll be in hawaii you guys i cannot i cannot wait i'm so excited all right well i'm gonna end the vlog here we are about two hours out from leaving to go to chicago we're going to spend the night there and then um i get on a plane tomorrow morning i think it leaves it like no it leaves like nine so we got to get to the airport by like seven ish um but we're leaving tomorrow for hawaii there's still so much to do this is always how it goes right like you're like oh we've got time like we'll just do a little bit here and there and then the day sneaks up on you and you're like what the heck um some of the things that i didn't think about that are kind of sneaking up on me that i'm going to try to finish before we leave one is i'm taking my laptop to hawaii with us because i'm going to try to like edit videos and stuff on the plane um i'm going to try to do some listings in the car on the way to chicago stuff like that and because i'm taking my laptop i have to um have my sister-in-law use my husband's laptop to ship while she you know when she comes in to ship for us and so i have to get his laptop ready which means i had to download like the dymo software i have to like reconfigure all of the shipping label settings for you know even when things ship on like or when she prints like even poshmark labels and stuff because none of them are configured correctly so i have to figure that kind of stuff out we just still have last minute packing to do and we thought we'd have like a kid free afternoon to really like get stuff done because my son still has school and my daughter had gymnastics and then we just got a phone call from her gymnastics saying that she had a really bad nosebleed she gets really bad nosebleeds sometimes so she's got a really bad nose blade and she uh wants to go home from practice because it's really bad so my husband went to go get her so i am scrambling to get stuff ready here i have to also put away last minute things that i photographed so that if those things sell my sister-in-law can find it easily without having to look in a pile of clothes so lots of last minute things we're going going going but i'm super excited for my trip thank you all for your support in watching my channel in using my links down in the description below in ever purchasing anything from me those are the reasons why you know we're able to do things like go to hawaii i want to thank you from the bottom of my heart so thank you for your support thank you for watching and i'll see you in the next one bye
2022-07-05 08:18