When most new business owners start looking for ways to make their operations more cost-effective and efficient, they land on a thermal printer. Or, in my case, their aging father tells them to “stop being an idiot and get one of those hot label printer things because they’ll save you money.” The problem was, I …
It doesn’t matter whether you sell on eBay, Shopify, Poshmark, or Mercari, in eCommerce, exposure means sales. The more eyeballs you can get on your product listings, the more you’ll sell. At least, you will if your items don’t suck. The problem is, how do you get more potential customers to see your items without …
If I created a shortlist of the most effective decision I made in streamlining and business and increasing my bottom line, switching to shipping almost everything in poly mailers would be in the top 3 (along with using a thermal label printer and using cross-posting software). If you are on the brink of utilizing poly …
Most people who start a small business do so on a shoestring budget. For the longest time after I started my eBay business, I didn’t care what the best thermal printer was or the best shipping scale. I just wanted the cheapest possible item that would do its job without breaking or causing issues. Which …
After selling full-time on eBay, Mercari, and Poshmark for more than 5 years, there are only a handful of tools I feel like I can’t do without. Sure, you can bootstrap a reselling business. You don’t need a camera, mannequin, or thermal printer. However, as you try to grow and scale your eBay hustle, you’ll …
When my wife and I first started on eBay we took all of our pictures on an iPhone 4. I had a point-and-shoot camera and Kirstie actually had a DSLR but it just seemed easier to have everything in one place so we could upload them onto the app. Even though we upgraded our iphones …
Taking great pictures is one of the most important aspects of your online listings. Whether you sell on eBay, Poshmark, or another platform, they truly are worth 1,000 words. I would rather have excellent pictures and a blank description than a killer description and no pictures. If your pictures are well lit and attractive your …