How I Set Up My Reselling Business For Success Before Going on Vacation!

How I Set Up My Reselling Business For Success Before Going on Vacation!

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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

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