Hello! This is the start of my series in which I detail what I’ve gotten up to today, with regards to grinding away at good ol’ TCG Bulk Kings. Kind of a snapshot of the behind the scenes for today. What my goals are, what my struggles are, what my achievements are, and what I’m thinking about on a day-to-day basis. Hoping to publish this once a day, M-F, for the foreseeable future.
Anyway, I didn’t publish yesterday because in the evening I *drumroll please* ran my first Whatnot stream yesterday! Especially given how nervous I am and have been about live streaming, I would call this an unmitigated success. I was live for about 3 hours, and made 120 sales for nearly $300! This was mostly vintage Magic stuff, with The Dark heavily represented. A lot of stuff I’d been meaning to get sold but hadn’t put the last bit of work into moving it.
Today, I spent a while figuring out how I want to manage Whatnot sales through my inventory management system. I also got all the orders shipped. I can tell you that, once you get used to it, the shipping on Whatnot is pretty straightforward. Just took some time really trying to get in there and do it. The only way to figure it out is hands-on; even the tutorial videos they have aren’t very clear, though I suppose they were helpful enough for me to figure it out and get these orders processed. If you’re wanting to look into selling on Whatnot, they’ve given me this link that will set you up with a matching bonus from your first week (of course, I get a bit of a commission too).
Speaking of, the inventory management system I’ve developed is coming together nicely. There are a couple bugs in the spreadsheet formulae that I need to work out, but that just requires some mechanical work and some time, not big-brain thinking. Once I get it working great and am a bit more confident with my day-to-day interaction with it, I will certainly be doing a video and seeing about getting a version of it set up for others to use as well =].
The day swiftly ran out on me though today, with a big trip to the store so my son could spend some of his Christmas gift card money. I wasn’t able to reach my daily goal of 50+ Ebay listings today (only got 26). I did go ahead and cross-list them to the WooShop though – they are viewable in the Newly Listed category. I also was only able to add a few cards to TCGplayer today. I will have to make up for the lost time from the last couple days over the weekend so I can keep up with my goals.
Goals for tomorrow: simply try to get another good amount of Ebay stuff listed, and roll out a few hundred TCGplayer listings. Also, my son randomly wants to help sort some things, so I’ll be getting him to do some of that tomorrow afternoon. Till next time~~