Hello again, friends!
Sorry this hasn’t started as “daily” of a posting as I had originally planned. Big things happening and whatnot.
News item #1 – I have taken a part-time job just to smooth out the personal income stream while I get the business back into tip-top shape. I will be driving a school bus in my kids’ school district for a while. Early mornings and mid-afternoons will be accounted for, but I’ll have time in the middle of the day to do this kind of thing and web development and such. And the evenings for shipping and listing and content creation. And of course the weekends.
News item #2 – I am moving houses. Very soon. We’ve finally resolved our differences with the massive rental corporation that owns the house we moved into when we moved to Tucson. We are going to move into a privately owned rental house, almost identical in size and less than 2 miles away, for less rent and all around just nicer and better for us. So look forward to a new office/warehouse setup coming soon. I did also find a new desk for free on Facebook Marketplace, just before realizing we need to move, so I haven’t set that up at all. Really looking forward to moving off of my folding white table desk and into a proper desk setup.
I had meant to post a lot of this yesterday, but apparently when I believed I had charged the Chromebook that I’ll be taking with me during the day, I had in actuality been *checks notes* not charging it. So, I didn’t get to do much on the computer. Had to instead do some brain work in the old analog notebook – came up with an updated flowchart for how I process raw bulk (ideally anyway).
Anyway, goals for today – I will be spending some time updating the Bulk Buylist prices on the Buylist page. I am not quite ready to start paying cash for bulk yet, but will be accepting Store Credit submissions. Please wait to send until I update with a new mailing address or I tell you directly where to send your submissions. Also hoping to update my own prices, as well as the submission form. If I also have time, I plan to work some on the Inventory Tracking spreadsheets I’m putting together. Almost finished with that project, just a few bugs to work out.
Hoping to spend the evening doing a MASSIVE amount of moving prep work – we are looking to get moved entirely by Sunday 1/12. Have a couple orders to ship as well, but that will just take a few minutes. Not likely to do much listing in the next few days, so I’ll have to plan to list extra fast starting next week.
Current inventory counts:
TCGplayer: 507
Ebay: 137
WooShop: 25
Note, some of the WooShop inventory is cross-listed from Ebay, so many of the WooShop and Ebay listings will represent a single piece of inventory.
January listing goals:
TCGplayer: 11000
Ebay: 1100
WooShop: 2500
The WooShop one again is the most up in the air. It will be cross-listed Ebay inventory and excess bulk inventory. Not sure really where that number will end up, but having a goal will *fingers crossed* cause me to focus somewhat on adding to it.
So tell me: what are your goals for this year? Quarter? Month? What kind of process do you have for taking in collections, if you have one? What kind of features would you like to see in an inventory tracking system? Let me know!