Surviving Holiday Selling Well!

Recently I was a guest on eBay radio and shared these tips for surviving the Holiday selling season - I hope there is something here to help you!

1. Check your supplies & inventory. My point here was that you should take 15 minutes to save 15 hours.  Christmas shoppers are not as understanding about 'Out Of Stock' conditions so you need to keep that up to date! For shipping supplies, check out USPS eBay boxes and eBay seller Bubblefast
2. Keep Your Routine - Christmas season is stressful - don't start any new programs or even diets! during this time. 
3. Establish Cut-off Dates. Check the USPS site for Holiday Shipping Times and decide how your business wants to handle this. A lot of online shopkeepers ship right up to Christmas eve and their customers love it! But if this won't work for your family - don't worry about it - YOU are an entrepreneur so that YOU can make the business decisions that work for you.
4. Communicate with your Customers! Use the wonderful eMail program that comes with your eBay store and let your customers know about your decisions on shipping dates, new inventory or out of stock situations. Keep them informed at this time of the year and they will be grateful for the rest of the year!
5. BREATHE - remember, whatever Holiday Season you are celebrating - there is a reason it's special to you. If you please all your customers but your family never sees you this Holiday Season - there is something wrong! Remember to USE things and LOVE people and you'll be fine!

eBay Radio November 23, 2010

First Success! I Have A Kloset!

Okay, I know that ONLY eBay sellers will appreciate photo number 2 - a closed closet, ahhhhh. but see, how long has it been since you've been able to close your doors? Been quite awhile for me on this particular closet, LOL.

and photo 1? that's an organized closet, believe it or not. I can FIND stuff now, LOL and I through out a trash can full of boxes I'd been saving but just too many. To see the before photos of what this area looked like, click and check out my Picasa album!

THE Pictures that STARTED it ALL!

Ladies and Gentlemen, THESE are the pictures that started our GROUP REORGANIZATION PROJECT! Our friend Trish had the courage to post these pictures and we all jumped in with out own. So here are the BEFORE Pics of Trishs' office! AFTER photos coming as soon as you readers BUG us enough, LOL

GROUP OFFICE REORGANIZE PROJECT!

Those crazy DSR Sellers are at it again! One of the group decided that January was a great month to make a real effort to reorganize our offices. So in the next few days, we will each be posting our BEFORE photos and then you can bug us about getting our AFTER pictures loaded. This, my dear readers, is Kat's Kloset, LLC headquarters! It's a bit overwhelming! the REST of the photos for BEFORE are online in all their glory and can be seen here:
Picasa Showcase