My favorite month is almost over!  I have made some great changes to my business and I am so proud of myself!  I have mastered the perfect organization for me (just need to get more shelving).  And I have been listing more than ever!  My only setback this month has been my car (it hasn’t been working for a week or two now).  Luckily my family has been giving me rides to the thrift shop.

As far as my organization, as soon as I list an item I give it a number and stick it in a padded flat rate envelope.  Then I organize the envelopes into groups of 20 and put them in an Ikea bag on my shelving unit.  Organization is really key when running your own business.  I find that whenever I do become even the slightest bit unorganized (which happens more than I’d like to admit) I get panicky and frantic and so overwhelmed I won’t list anything until I tidy up again.  Prior to my new organization, I would keep everything on my shelves and would have to look through almost a hundred items before I found the one I was looking for.  Now, in the mornings before I go to the post office, I know right where to look for my item, put the packing slip in the package, close it up, and slap a label on it, easy peasy!

So far this month, I’ve sold 117 items!  I believe that is a personal record for me!  I have made over $3000 in sales and about $2000 in profit.  My goal is to list 200 things in July, I already have 134 items listed, so this will bring me to about 330 items.  (This is where my math degree comes in handy haha!)  My average profit is about $17 and my sell-through rate is about 50%, so if I meet my goal I should make about $2800 in July.  If I continue that way, in August I will be making over $3000!

Here are a few of my flips from June:

I’ll update you at the very end of June with some, hopefully higher, profits!  

When I first started selling on eBay, I literally had no tools besides a camera to help me along.  Since then, I have found quite a few things that have really helped my sales and made things easy-peasy!  First of all, for better pictures and higher sales I strongly advise you to get a white background (I use 2 white posterboards from the Dollar Tree, which are only 2/$1) and some sort of light set-up.  My boyfriend made my light set up with some castor wheels and some wood that someone had given us, so it was virtually free.  The pictures may be the most important part of the listing.

These are what I would get if I didn’t have such a handy boyfriend – you can get them for about $50 on amazon.

I can not believe that I have been eBaying so long without power banks!  These things have literally saved my life!  I used to have to cut my shopping time short because I didn’t have enough battery to look up everything.  I have three power banks and probably have enough battery to look up the whole entire thrift store now! 

I have three of these life-savers!

The last thing I suggest you have for eBay is sticky labels.  These are so much faster than cutting and taping labels on!  It doesn’t really seem like these would make that big of a difference, but trust me, they do!

You can order these on amazon, also.

The lights are a bit of a splurge, but if you are considering becoming a seller I definitely recommend getting yourself a power bank or two, some self-adhesive printing labels, and a clean white background.  Thanks for stopping by, I’ll be making a post with some recent flips soon!

June!  I love June!  It’s sunny and hot and my birthday month.  It’s also turning out to be a great eBay month so far!  I was doing extremely well the first week of June and pretty good – but not as good this week.  I am averaging about $70 a day and spending around 25 hours a week.  I’m pushing to get to that 40 hours a week, but I’ve started devoting a lot more time to trying to reach followers on my blog and instagram.  I bought 47 things today and will hopefully profit over $1,000.  It will take me two days to list everything and I will be ready for another thrifting road trip on Wednesday!  

Here are some of my flips:

I’m too excited about my sales today!  It has been one of my best days.  I had $254.92 in sales, which gave me a profit of a nickel over $180!  This has probably been my most profitable day yet.  June is really looking like my month to shine.  In the first two days of June, I’ve made about $275. 

Hey guys!  As often as I can, I am going to try to give you my daily sales update.  So far today (I still have hope for more sales, it’s only 10pm!) I have had $131.95 in sales.  Not bad at all!  From this, I profited about $94.51.  Here was one of my best flips of the day: