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What a long time coming! The last couple months have been a standstill with personal stuff. The building got built, but I’m having issues with electrical and insulation getting put in so I’m not moved in yet, and I haven’t been able to be at the office, so I haven’t been listing. A couple weeks ago I went to a free-sale where everything was free and they had a bunch of vintage and new clothes and even though I never sold clothes before I started listing them and have sold 3 things already this weekend. I just broke 1000 and I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to do, but I’m happy to be here. Thank you for everyone along the way, here’s to the next 1000 listings
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The best part about hitting a listing milestone is waking up the next morning and seeing that you dipped below your magic listing number because things sold while you were asleep. It’s one of the best and most unique things about creating what J and R called the pipeline.
Keep those listings coming, you’ll be at 1234 and beyond before you know it!
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@Lauren – Congratulations on hitting your milestone. Hard work pays off.
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Thanks! To be honest, sales have been slow the last 6 weeks or so- I haven’t been listing at all. Gram broke her kneecap and I’ve been on full blown caregiver mode. So, this weekend I finally said enough and hung a shop light in my dining room so I had some light and listed 45 listings of clothes and sold 4 things over the weekend. I’ve also been working on my vinyl sticker website and have been having some success there too, which is nice. Sitting at 1015 now. It’s so much easier for me to do clothing at my house than it is anything else, so I think I’ll pick up some more while I’m waiting for the building to get electric and insulation before I can move in, then everything will be normal.
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That’s very inspiring! I keep hovering around 700 and can’t seem to get much past that. I’d love to hit 1000……I’d love to even reach 800. Maybe I need to rethink my listing strategy.
Congrats on a job well done!
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Vintage lacy, Right there with you. A couple months ago I finally cleared 700, but I can’t seem to get much above 720-725 or so….I’m thinking of organizing two “piles”…..easy to photo and list stuff, and the harder stuff….do the harder stuff when I’m feeling more energetic, and keep the easy pile handy for when I’m tired but still want to keep listing.
We’ll see if it works…..
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For whatever one seller’s experience is worth — my process is basically something like what you’ve described. The biggest tip I have is to try and have a constant pipeline of items that are already photographed and just need to be listed. This way, even if you have a busy day or no energy/desire to list, you can still squeeze in a few new listings.
Related to that, I’m a huge advocate for batching listing processes as much as possible, both on micro and macro levels. For example, I ship 3 days a week (M-W-F) and I really don’t mess around with shipping except on those days. I will often print the labels a day before I ship but that takes just a minute or two. I take photos (in my current niche, the sports cards, this is typically front and back scans of individual cards) a few times a week and I edit them a few times a week (usually different days).
Most importantly, I try to list at least a few items every day, or almost every day. I think there’s a pretty decent case to be made that a steady stream of new listings is a big plus with eBay’s search algorithm and might even increase your sales to some degree. And of course that’s the biggest key to building up your listings — more sales means you can reinvest more into new inventory which leads to more new listings and the cycle continues.
I am sure others have different productivity tips (and I hope so, I love these types of discussions) but this is what has worked best for me.
PS – One last tip, and this might be controversial, but I don’t use drafts at all. When I sit down to list something, it’s getting listed no matter what. Even if the pictures aren’t perfect, even if I’m not 100% confident in what price to list it at or even if (and this happens a lot) I really don’t feel like it because the listing takes extra work or shipping the item will be a pain for whatever reason.
I’m sure this has led to some sales where I could have gotten a higher price and others where maybe they could have sold a lot faster. But I prefer to look at things with the big picture in mind — one listing, whether it sells or not, is never worth spending too much time on. No matter how cool or rare or expensive the item is, there will always be others.
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@craig-rex Thanks! Good tips—toughest one for me to follow—-but I’ve been trying to do the same—-is “Don’t spend too much time on any one listing.” what’s that saying? “perfect is the enemy of good”?….I need to make that into a poster and hang it above my PC LOL
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My college professor used to say “done is better than perfect”. I’m taking photos with my DSLR right now. They arent as great as my cell camera photos, but my phone is in the shop, and they get the point across, but I spent like a week where I wasn’t listing anything because the hump of listings not being perfect was just hard to jump over. Got over it. and now since my post on 9/22, I’m sitting at 1099!
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