What is reselling to you? A lucrative hobby? An easy part-time income? A serious business? No matter what platform you sell on, the basics are pretty much the same and you’ll need the same tools to excel. When we first started reselling we thought we’d wait until we had some success before we started purchasing …
If you’ve been around for very long, you’d know that I have a serious problem with thermal printers. Mainly, I don’t have space to put them all. Since I started selling full-time on eBay (and chronicling my experience and reviewing items here) I’ve purchased 7 thermal printers for personal use (and more to resell). Why …
When it comes to shipping from home, very few things are actually necessary to make the process run smoothly. You don’t need personalized boxes, cute work area decorations, a Rollo label printer, etc. Those things are cute and helpful, but if you’re looking to get into selling for maximum profit, none of those will increase …
My first trip to the Goodwill Outlets to source books for Amazon was a disaster. Apart from finding a shoe full of poop (that’s a story for another time) I was absolutely blown away by how crazy people can be. I had been selling full-time on eBay for a couple of years but was just …
Choosing a handheld label maker from the hundreds of options on the market can be confusing and time-consuming. In the past 5 years, I have used more than a dozen different portable label printers at 2 different jobs, at home, and then in my own business. With that experience (and a good deal of research) …
Since getting married 7 years ago my wife and I have moved 4 times and shipped over 4,000 packages. What do those things have in common? Tape. Lots and lots of packing tape. During that time we’ve purchased at least a dozen different types of packing tape. We’ve tried heavy-duty packing tape, clear packing tape, …
List Perfectly is probably the most important piece of software we use in our reselling businesses. When it goes down or doesn’t work right, I wouldn’t say that it’s catastrophic but it definitely disturbs our workflow. Luckily, List Perfectly is rarely down. However, when it is, we have found several fixes and work-around that have …
I’ll admit it, I don’t love actually shipping things after I sell them. I love almost every other part of my business but actually boxing things up to ship out is such a drag. Because of this, I had hesitated to spend much time looking at (or improving) my shipping set-up and my old LP2844 …
When I first started selling on eBay and shipping orders my packages looked horrendous. I mainly relied on free shipping supplies to keep costs down so I shipped items in diaper boxes, recycled Amazon boxes, and just about anything else I could find. Discovering that I could take a box and make it whatever size …
I’ve been griping about my Rollo thermal printer for more than two years. Don’t get me wrong, I love it. In fact, I think it is the best-priced printer on the market for anyone running a small business. So what was I griping about? Not being able to print from my phone or wirelessly from …