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01/01/2017 at 11:14 am #9272
If you’re selling on eBay/Amazon/etsy full-time, congrats on working for yourself successfully for another year. It’s a big accomplishment. Hope the freedom is sweet!
If you’re selling online part-time to supplement your income, that’s a big accomplishment too. Hope the extra income is making your life fuller and easier.
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01/02/2017 at 1:53 am #9326
I have made the mental switch to being a “full time” seller. I listed, (and just sold), my stethoscope. It’s a little bittersweet.
On the bright side, no more working weekends, holidays, and 12 hour overnight shifts! So, yay!
Happy New Year to you and Ryanne, Jay!
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01/02/2017 at 8:32 am #9347
Society needs good nurses, but if those days are over for you, congrats on the successful transition. We know nurses know how to work hard.
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01/03/2017 at 9:49 am #9446
I still can’t part with my stethoscope. It was a high quality one I bought when I worked in the ICU. I’m not normally sentimental, but some things are harder to part with than others. I hung onto my textbooks far too long. Good for you on your new transition. It is much more fun!
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01/04/2017 at 2:50 pm #9559
Jay… Hope you and Ryanne have a Great, Wonderful New year. I was just poking around and say a number that made me remember something and then I got a big smile and it was the thought for all of the Kudos you two deserve.
I was poking around in my profile stats and saw the numbers for the new forum here. It said 387 Topics, 576 threads, with 4,464 comments and 856 members. Then I remembered a very early pod cast from you guys where you ended it by you asking for the members-readers to “come on and join in, don’t be shy. Post some comments we really need them.” Then, Ryanne said, “yeah, we got 12 comments last week” and you said “Come ‘on guys, let’s get that up to 24 by the next pod-cast”.
What a smile to think that at 12 commenters you were asking for more and now in less than a month with the new site you have 4,464 comments and 856 members. That could project out to being approx. 55,000 comments in a year not including new members. WOW!!! That is a great accomplishment and in my opinion shows the power of the process of having an open and honest, forthright area for like minded business people to come, gather, share, learn and help each other.
I was telling a friend who owns her own consignment store, how the group was so small a few years back but still provided very valuable information that helped us build our business. She would ask me occasionally how it was coming and I always told her good but sort of kept the site on the quite. She is a great source for us and the SL info. helped us learn to make great deals for us along with her system of selling.
The other day she informed me of thinking of changing her business model from being a consignment store to now including her own sourcing and selling her inventory online. I immediately told her to join in with us and hope to see her here. A consignment store owner would be neat to hear from and see how the transition goes.
My point being is you two deserve all the kudos for investing the time into this forum and creating such a great place to others to come, share, learn, grow and in turn be propserous.
Good luck in all of your “experiments” :-), this year and may all of your projects come to fruition without major hassels and may we all grow and build our futures together through sharing.
mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
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MDC Galleries & Fine Art.
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01/04/2017 at 6:58 pm #9576
Thanks Mike. This place is only as good as you guys. Pretty amazing how we all randomly found each other. Scavengers always searching.
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01/04/2017 at 7:35 pm #9577
Well you deserve it.
Speaking above of my friend who owns the brick and mortar consignment store wanting to move things online. I told her if she joined the SL Forum first, and then also rented your farm house for 1 full week during Jan. or Feb she would get a SL discount. Then if they bought you guys dinner that she could ask all of the questions she wants about taking her business online. Sorry if I threw you under the bus but figured a full weeks rental during your slower time would be worth it. Her husband came in while we were talking and she immediately begin pitching him and he seemed receptive. We see them every week because we have bought from her almost every weekend for the last three years. I will check in with her again this Sat. for a weeks rental for you guys.
She used to have a B&MS for all vintage clothing, then gravitated toward the Consignment model. Now years later she is thinking hard about everything we have been sharing with her as well as some of her competitors and is now seeming to want to either mix the two or move online. So what better way to get the coaching as to do the rental and the sit down with you guys.
Will give you an update after we speak with them again later this week.
mike in Atlanta-
01/05/2017 at 5:58 am #9583
We’d be happy for the business. Thanks for the recommendation.
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