New year, new goals! I just looked to see what my goals were at the start of 2016, wondering if I had come close to hitting them, but it doesn’t look like I posted any.
I love the new year, the feeling of starting off fresh, all the possibilities. Goals are fun, but of course they aren’t anything more than wishes unless I’m willing to put in the work to make them happen. Here are my current goals for 2017:
List 100 new items/week
This is actually a slightly toned-down goal from the start of the school year. I had HUGE expectations of what I should be able to accomplish with both boys being in school. I thought I would be able to use all of the time they were in school to list. Reality – notsomuch. I spend most of Monday volunteering at their school, and there are some other weekdays that I work at my “real” job, so I get little to no listing done. Also, there is shipping, photographing, and other life things that take up time I would like to be using to list. So, I am starting 2017 with a workable, achievable listing goal, with the knowledge that how many items I am able to list each day will probably change day to day, week to week, depending on how our schedules go. And that will be okay, as long as I am hitting 100 by the end of the week.
Sales average $150/day ~ $1000/week
I was hitting this for awhile, notsomuch lately. It’s totally doable if I am consistent with my listing.
Get organized, stay organized
I need to reorganize my office, it looks like an explosion of packing materials. And I had been letting my inventory creep back into our living areas. No more.
Inventory all totes
This is a long-term goal, because I usually wait for the obscene number of free listings to pop up, and then I go through totes and end listings, tweak listings, add Best Offer, sell similar, or just end them for good.
Keep blogging
I’ve neglected it. I know it. I enjoy blogging, and want to feel like I have the time to dedicate to it. But it requires me getting my listing done first, so I can focus on more fun things guilt-free.
Become a morning person?
I think I’m gonna try it. I used to be a real night owl, but I feel like I am getting very little actually accomplished in the late hours lately. I’ve been moving my bedtime earlier and earlier, and I think when the boys start back to school I will head to be shortly after they do, and get up at 5 a.m. to get some work done before they get up. I am usually most motivated first thing in the morning. (We’ll see how this one goes.)
What are your goals for 2017? I would love to hear about them!
Chris @ Flipping A Dollar says
January 2, 2017 at 5:12 amLol at the last one. I’m definitely a morning person. I’m also a night person but if I’m a night person, I can’t be a morning person the next day!
100 items a week is an awesome goal. Definitely challenging but the returns will be huge!
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Fonda Rush says
January 2, 2017 at 2:42 pmBest wishes to you in the new year. Be glad for goals — something to achieve — but don’t let them be your life. I’m sure when you don’t meet your goals, something stood in your way, like giving your family the time they need or giving yourself a break so you don’t fully burn out. Only you know. Cheers to 2017!
Melissa says
January 2, 2017 at 6:53 pmYes, morning time is great! I am a new reader and I love this blog; am a military attorney who hates being a lawyer…but I retire in 18 months and can’t wait to spend time with my 2 year old and do ebay full time. I do love mornings. I get up at 5 to exercise and take pictures and measurements, since that has more moving parts to me than writing the listing. I can write a listing on my phone during my lunch hour or break or waiting for doctor appointment… and use the pics on my phone and measurements I noted down. Break here: I am also on a thrift shopping fast since early December, but I do make an exception for one shop once a week. Found a men’s Prada windbreaker there on Dec 28 for $12 (normally all clothes are $1) ; it sold in 15 hours for $150. So maybe during your fast, you should still make an exception once in a while! Thank you for the tax info too.
Shannon says
January 3, 2017 at 2:49 pmMy online selling world is Etsy, eBay and Shopify so that’s a lot to manage. It starts to take over and things go by the wayside like exercise. I need to start breakfast at 7 so I’m thinking of getting up at 6 to work out on the days I can’t walk our neighborhood loop. If only I could squeeze more hours into the day that I don’t need to sleep, prepare food or answer anything, LOL!
Margaret @ Live Like No One Else says
January 3, 2017 at 5:53 pmNice goals Kari. You rock with your listings. I barely got any done this year as life kind of got in the way. I have three main ebay goals for this year. No buying of new inventory as I too have tons of unlisted stuff, go through all my listed inventory to make sure that it is actually listed (I had times when listings disappeared, and to list at least 15 items/week. Wow..If I could list 100. That would be awesome.
You are an inspiration!
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Sophia says
January 9, 2017 at 9:24 amWow, 100 items a week! I want to have that motivation. But then the couch and Netflix binging calls my name.
Awesome goals, and I’m sure all ebay sellers can relate and will aspire to the same. Here’s hoping you hit all those goals!
I’ve only made one goal for myself – get rid of stale inventory. At this point, I’m thinking of just giving it all back to thrift stores rather than selling it for next to nothing.
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