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The good news is that you can make it what you want. Do more, do less…all up to you.
Looks like the Wisconsin University Logo (that is the same W).
Maybe some type of Alternate Jersey, since Wisconsin is Red & White.
Joe: We did that a few years ago, but then we killed it because it was putting too much garbage HTML code in our listings. We didn’t like it for mobile and for SixBit, so we (manually) removed the HTML code from our listings back then and never went back.
Welcome Jimi! And welcome to the full-time reselling game.
I went full time with my wife in the same year, but we are still raising kids and paying for a mortgage. Hope you keep enjoying the life!
05/20/2018 at 7:16 am in reply to: File Exchange v. Wonder Lister/Six Bit/Other eCommerce Management Platform #40454Mark: you idea of three people that are cross trained is our ideal setup as well.
05/19/2018 at 10:11 pm in reply to: File Exchange v. Wonder Lister/Six Bit/Other eCommerce Management Platform #40431Jay, I totally agree.
What see at the price for labor is that it is easier to segregate. If you want to have someone that’s doing it all, you’re going to have to pay a lot more per item or per hour to get that kind of quality.
When Veronica worked at her other company, they had to have the segregation and that would keep up the efficiency and keep the cost of labor down. Veronica was so good at her job, that she became the type of person you were talking about. Someone who is doing it all. But at that point, she could make more money just doing her own business. That is why she left and came back to do this full-time.
05/19/2018 at 9:26 pm in reply to: File Exchange v. Wonder Lister/Six Bit/Other eCommerce Management Platform #40423Marjean: that is our thought. If we want to divide labor, those are the two skill sets we see. Sometimes they are in the same person, but easier to look for two sets of skills.
05/19/2018 at 9:22 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 360: Is Diversification a Myth or Reality? #40422The younger folks could learn a lot from Mike…hard work gets results… 😀
Every seller has their hours and goals, but I love the work ethic of Mike (and my parents)…
05/19/2018 at 9:30 am in reply to: New Catalog Based Search & Ebay's Re-Structured Business Model Plans #40356Very good info to keep in mind. May be something, may be nothing, but we should always look for risks to our business and think about how to cover that risk.
05/18/2018 at 4:22 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 360: Is Diversification a Myth or Reality? #40308I can confirm what happens on the SixBit side. Our shipping cost pulls from eBay or Etsy directly for what we paid. Since we use Shippo for the labels, we don’t get the actual cost feeding into SixBit unless we use FedEx or Media Mail (Shippo doesn’t us those). When we use a Flat Rate pricing in eBay, then the Flat Rate Price shows up in Ship Cost. If we use the Calc rate on eBay, then we get a $0.
I agree with how you use the reports. I could use this for some management reporting if I want to make sure that the shipping is in there, but I don’t want to double enter. I use the SixBit reports for what may Inventory Value is and for what my COGS are for any time frame so that I can see Gross Profit.
05/17/2018 at 3:07 pm in reply to: File Exchange v. Wonder Lister/Six Bit/Other eCommerce Management Platform #40204And there is nothing wrong with making a more efficient process for yourself!
05/17/2018 at 1:17 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 360: Is Diversification a Myth or Reality? #40191Well said Mike!
Nice hearing someone else that uses that phrase: Whoever says a number first loses.
05/17/2018 at 11:54 am in reply to: File Exchange v. Wonder Lister/Six Bit/Other eCommerce Management Platform #40176Marjean: “My background is in compliance, QA testing, business operations, process flows, procedure writing, etc. So, that’s likely why I’m heading this way.”
Yup…that answers it! 🙂
Good luck!
05/17/2018 at 10:14 am in reply to: File Exchange v. Wonder Lister/Six Bit/Other eCommerce Management Platform #40164Funny how you talk about paying less than $2/item. We know someone that photography for some binners. They only pay him $0.75 per item to photo. It is basically front, back, tag, flaws. They have him do 400-500 items per week. Nothing but bin after bin after bin of clothing…
That is just a sweatshop…
05/17/2018 at 9:33 am in reply to: File Exchange v. Wonder Lister/Six Bit/Other eCommerce Management Platform #40161Marjean: We never went with them, as I couldn’t see a remote VA doing our listings on just the photos. And by the time we would have to provide enough information to them to do the listing, we could just do it ourselves in eBay or SixBit. So we decided to outsource the photography.
We have an outstanding young photographer that has his own studio at his place with his own equipment. I provided our mannequins, a table for flat lays, and a steamer to prep clothing. We pay $2 per item.
I work to keep him efficient by grouping the items. Batches of shirts, batches of pants, batches of shoes, batches of sport coats, etc.
Adding a separate lister would be our next step, in a similar fashion by them creating listings from their own home.
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