How to start a general partnership or sole proprietorship. In this podcast, we also talk about tax and paperwork stuff. No one said it’d be easy ( especially not us). Do a little every day and soon our sales are paying the bills. But stuff has got to get done and we have to do it. Turn on the radio and list for four or five hours. We took the time to develop the kind of days we wanted to have. We’ve been all these people BUT we pushed through. I’m now basically just a hoarder who lied about wanting to sell on eBay. Even if I work all day, it all seems endless. There’s so much to do so I don’t know where to start. Getting Overwhelmed: I scavenged too much stuff too fast without a plan for storage and listing, and now I’m paralyzed by the dreaded unlisted piles everywhere. Why don’t I sell things everyday? I’ll never make enough money doing this. I’m now waiting since I don’t want to list too much stuff till I know it’ll sell. I started a data entry business that I hate.īeing Half-Ass: I want eBay to be my full time business so I’ve listed 100 things in my store. You mean this is now my life? This sucks. It’s cool to sell for a couple weeks at a time, but can you create a pipeline that makes you money for the next ten years?īurnout: It’s easy to get sick of listing “junk” all day. The three pitfalls we see with new sellers (and experienced ones) are burnout, being half-assed, and getting overwhelmed. So when people write us about how to get started, we always remind folks to take their time. We made sure we balanced our fun scavenging days with “sit at home and list” days. We took time to figure out how to make that listing time as enjoyable as possible. We took time to figure out how much listing we needed to do each week to build up a large inventory. We took time to figure out what we liked to scavenge and sell. Like any small business, it had to become our “everything” so we had to make sure we were building the life we wanted to live. But how did we figure out how to do eBay full time? Every time we moved in the past, we always did a big sell off that helped us make money for gas or the next rental security deposit. The mechanics of online selling are incredibly convenient. It’s easy to grab something from your closet, snap a photo, and sell it on eBay or Amazon.
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