posted on December 13, 2005 08:52:06 AM new
Has anyone come up with any good goals for 2006?
Pesonal:
1) Finish my BA
2) Get into Grad School on a teaching assistanship in the Fall.
Business:
1) Get rid of my to-be-listed product backlog. That'll clean out roughly half a bedroom.
2) Clear out slow selling inventory... Anyone interested in 6000-7000 indexed, scanned priced comic books?
3) Clear out lower profit items.
4) Set specific dollar profit goals for each month and list until I actually hit the goals.
5) Find an auction management service that I'm actually completely happy with. Yeah right.
6) Build up international sales again. I was doing all right with these last year, but stopped due to lack of time to wait in the PO line.
Your turn... Just things you REALLY plan to do, not just vague hopes please!
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posted on December 13, 2005 11:19:42 AM new
Nah, they don't make more than me (though I think that my nanny might ). My personal life (i.e., wife and children) simply doesn't allow me to work most Saturdays and late on Thursday, so the business is doing 50% or less of what it should be doing.
Money matters a bit to me, but I've made money in the past, and not spent all of it, so I'm a bit less sensitive to that.
posted on December 13, 2005 12:23:57 PM new
Dump a lot of E-Bay. Post a few auctions and sell in the store.
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posted on December 13, 2005 04:39:32 PM new
Get organized, oh how I want that & I just can't seem to get started.
It could happen a day if I would just get to it.
List lots more. I have a huge inventory of rubber stamps just sitting here taking up space.
posted on December 13, 2005 05:02:41 PM new
1. De-Clutter my house (hello Dump!)
2. Organize my house
3. Find a balance between ebay and homelife
4. Stop writing resolutions AND DO SOMETHING!
Replay - isn't M-W working out? I thought you were happy with them?
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posted on December 13, 2005 07:01:16 PM new
Neglus, last summer when things were slow I dropped MW and converted over to eBays SAPRO for listing and SMPRO for post-sale. When school kept me busier than planned last Spring, my listings dropped off quite a bit. Between FVF and image hosting fees, MW was getting to be a significant expense.
SMPRO is definitely cheaper at $24.99 with no FVF. Since this is a flat fee, I can always plan ahead as to what my expenses are. And the reporting is much more accurate (exact eBay and Paypal fees are computed in the profit & loss report).
But I do miss many of the features like auto-relist and the store. Inventory management is also easier with the other system. I'm also trying Vendio again on one of my accounts, but it's just not turning me on ;(
I like both MW and VD, but it just KILLS me to pay for image hosting through these services when I already pay ipowerweb only $7.95 a month for 10 GB of storage. But since both services work so much better when you use their hosting... Well, you get the picture.
If anyone wants to discuss auction services by email (this isn't really the place), just email me. [email protected]. Believe me, I've tried just about all of them at one time or another.
I'm planning on sticking where I am, but always hope that a competitor will make a change to fee structures or add features to actually come up with "The perfect system." Someday it'll happen!
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Quidquid Latine dictum sit altum sonatur.
). My personal life (i.e., wife and children) simply doesn't allow me to work most Saturdays and late on Thursday, so the business is doing 50% or less of what it should be doing.
