what's going on everybody this is scott
also known as cha-ching king and if this
is your first time here my wife melody
and i run an online sales business
we sell on platforms like ebay poshmark
and etsy with ebay being our primary
platform and this video
has taken me a lot to get out because
there's a lot that i want to get into it
the hardest part about running any of
these businesses
is just getting started
and if you've tuned into this hopefully
that my title and the thumbnail brought
you here because
you want to start something maybe one of
your goals for 2022 is to take control
of your finances maybe it's to clear out
some of the stuff that's accumulated
over the years whatever that reason is
i want to help you get started and so i
have broken this video down into the
most simple steps possible
i'm going to actually open a new ebay
account i'm going to do it for the
cha-ching king it's not going to be our
main store
it's going to be a place where i can put
some of my merchandise out hopefully
what you will see
is
somebody starting an account and
actually where you can see it step by
step
and i i really think it'll be helpful
the um
to make this as authentic as possible
i'm not even going to
open my new account on google chrome
which is what i use it's what i'm
comfortable with so i've installed
firefox
i don't have any passwords saved there's
nothing on there
and so what i'm gonna do is start on a
new platform
going through ebay and walk you through
those steps the biggest hurdle is
getting started
let's jump that hurdle right here
together
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all right so let's dive right in uh what
you're looking at here is the
opening page where i click create an
account
and i'm going to enter my first and last
name
i would recommend having an email
account that is specific to your
um
an email account that is specific to
your ebay page and i'm going to use a
chinking one i have and
then after that you create a password
this is going to go much faster than you
might think
always always always keep your password
secure then we're going to click create
an account
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i'm on my own computer so i do save the
passwords
so at this point you know you get here
and you're starting to look around so
what do i do first thing i'm going to do
is go up the upper left hand side there
and go to account settings and it brings
up this page with a lot of information
and i need to enter my personal
information i'm going to need to enter
payment information
and so here we're going to put in your
street address
and and i'm going to protect a little
bit of mine
and after that we're going to be able to
need to make payments you're going to
have to be able to buy things so we're
going to continue here
and i'm going to add a payment option
that i use and i use a separate bank
account for
my ebay business you don't have to start
there
um
i do now because so much of it is on
there if you look up here i don't like
the name i do change that later
i think you can change it once uh
like you can change it right away but
you can change it after a month or so
also
and
when you edit your profile you can put
in things like a banner and a personal
picture and i do have some stuff for
chichen king that i do put in there
i'm not gonna do that right now i'm kind
of just walking you through showing you
some of the stuff that you're going to
see
and
i i i could have found the picture very
quickly here i would have probably
entered it for you but i didn't
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so
back to payment options uh now i'm going
to add one
and here is where you know you enter
your card number your expiration date
all of those kind of things and when
you've entered all that information
then you i've added a debit card and now
watch what happens when you click on
paypal the choice is still here but i
want you to see that it's no longer
available you can't use paypal as your
primary payment method
these are uh if you had accounts that
you were giving access to
we're not going to do any of that i'm
taking you through some of the ones that
you won't need today just so that you'll
have seen
and heard that it's not necessarily
something you have to do right now
these are the advertising ones
and honestly i turn all of this off i
don't want them sending me a bunch of
junk that i don't want i can turn them
on later if there's something that i
need
but for right now i don't need any extra
messages whatsoever
so again i clicked on it just so you can
see it the default on those should be
that you're not getting those things
and so now we're going to go down to the
communication preferences
and take a look at some of those
um
i normally want the picture if they're
gonna send it to me in case or something
a lot of times that's the important part
um
and you you pretty much have to click
through these they want you to look at
it uh on the buying activity
um i want to know anytime my account is
accessed i i didn't do it right here but
on the product review communications all
that i do want all of that stuff
on best offer i want to know if i've
sent somebody a best offer and i want to
know if they've sent me one
on
feedback i want a reminder if i haven't
done it
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so let's take a look we're going to
start selling and this
was a little different than the last
time i did it because
in order to start selling
um
before i had to absolutely i had to put
in my
um where are you going to send my money
information first so what i want to do
here
is i'm going to list one of my cha-ching
king stickers it really doesn't what
matter what you list what i recommend is
you you start
if you don't know what you're going to
start with start with things around the
house find something that you already
have something that you know you don't
use that you think might have a little
bit of value
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and so what i'm going to do i'm listing
a sticker so i'm trying to figure out
where am i going to list that
and so i think that it will go
here
so like i say i keep
uh looking for the best place for it
if you copy somebody else's ad but here
we go non-sport stickers
and it's a single sticker is what what
uh what i would send out
and now what that did is it brought up a
bunch of them that were close to mine
none of those are going to match mine
because i have my own
if you have something other people have
you could do it that way so continue
with the listing
and here the title is so important i
have an entire video on how to create um
a listing that sells and i really
recommend you go watch that it is about
a 30 minute watch and i didn't want to
put the whole thing in here
but it tells you everything from how to
create a proper title how to handle a
lot of the very same things that we're
going to go through right here i just
won't do them in depth so if you get a
chance go watch that one and i'll put a
link to it
one of the issues i've seen other
resellers have is that people steal
their images and i don't know if that's
i don't know why anybody would steal a
picture of me on a sticker but
just in case i i don't want somebody
else selling them
um
i actually have uh
quite a bit of time and effort and
money into creating it so i'd prefer to
to not uh have somebody else profit from
it
so manufacturers me
it's going to be one sticker
and sticker condition they don't have
new but i near mentor better
keep in mind most of the things that i
will be selling here they'll be going to
friends of mine so
i'm not too concerned with
some of the things that i would be if i
was listing items that
um if i were listing items just that uh
strangers would be buying so there's no
franchise
not getting them graded
i'm putting 20 22 on them
and
i may redo these every year put out some
new ones
so
now comes the photo time and what i'm
going to do here is cut away and come
back to the photo
all right what i'm showing here is just
how taking pictures can be really simple
this is a screen grab from my phone
and
i am going to take pictures of the
sticker and i am literally there's a
sticker and i am literally standing by a
window i have no other
photo lights or anything like that i'm
using a a bubble mailer for my
background
and i'm just going to try and hold it to
where the glare and the shadows are even
and once i do that
i'm going to take a picture
probably take a couple of extra pictures
here just to make sure we get a good one
and once i've got a picture
i'm going to that looks pretty decent
i'm going to go back and i'm gonna use a
program called photo room now i have
paid for this but there is a free
version works just as well it's just
gonna have a watermark but like on this
one you could easily crop it out and
look at that
and once it's there i'm to click on the
picture i want that one
and then i'm going to save it
and let me show you when you go back and
look at the picture in my gallery let me
go down to
photo room
and look at this
just like that
as far as price goes you've got a choice
between auction and buy it now you can't
just turn on auction you have to turn
you can't just turn on by now you have
to turn off the auction otherwise you've
just got to buy it now price on your
auction as a new seller i would never do
that
i put the price at 3.99 because we're
gonna come up on something that
and i'll have to go back and adjust the
price they're getting one
and i'll explain why here in just a
second we're going to scroll down the
quantity i've got 50. they only get one
at a time but
the stickers should be able to mail in a
regular envelope
however
on ebay in order to upload tracking
the the lowest offer that they have is
first class
and so first class is going to cost me
a bit over three dollars to send these
the envelopes you'll see shortly i'm
going to buy the envelopes
there isn't another option here for
regular mail and i had completely
forgotten that that i can't just send
things in a 58 stamp envelope normally
things have to be under one ounce to
send that way and this comes in at one
ounce but it won't ship for that price
so it'll have to go first class
and since the stickers cost almost a
dollar
and the shipping is going to be over
three dollars
i will have to adjust the price a little
bit i put my envelope
dimensions in there if you do all of
that up front and it's accurate it just
saves you a lot of time when you're
shipping
you could have local pickup
i don't have local pickup
for stickers
that would be for something i didn't
want to ship
i don't do three business days i do one
business day i live a half a mile from a
post office in a community with 181
people
i i ship every day i'm the only one
there
as far as returns go i guess
somebody might get my stickers and think
gosh i thought that guy
i didn't realize how bad looking he was
i'm sending the sticker back and if
that's i will take the stickers back
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all right so it's not ready to list we
will have to save this but before i do
that you know the shipping is going to
eat up all of it and so that i don't
lose money on the stickers i'm going to
change the price
you can do this after it's listed but
i'm not done listing it yet so
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and it won't matter how many times you
go back and look at it there's not going
to be another shipping option
and now i save it for later so that i
can do the pictures
and after the pictures are done i'm
going to come back to my drafts
and let's put a picture in here
so it brings the ad up
i scroll down to the pictures and add
from the computer
and i took some of that off there was
some personal information
and here is a picture of my sticker
i normally on a sticker it won't be
important but normally if you're you're
selling an item that um other people
aren't familiar with i would put
six to eight pictures in there at a
minimum normally
i'm just double checking everything my
description is not complete i forgot to
go back so let's go back and add that
the description is probably enough
sometimes less said that uh the better
but i do want to try to protect my
my image i do want to try to protect the
the graphic that i made
one of the reasons this means a lot to
me is a friend of mine is a graphic
artist
and he did this for me and
he just did such a good job
there's a there's a secondary
recommendation here if your friends are
artists or
musicians or you know
i pay going rate
every time i can if i can afford to i
pay going rate to them i've reached a
point in my life where i think that i
can
and gosh if your friends aren't going to
support you
how do you expect strangers too so i i
did pay for this and i don't think that
he cut me
the brother-in-law deal i hope not i
hope that he charged me
uh what it would normally cost but it
certainly wasn't a fiverr deal for me it
uh
i'm very very happy with it
so i'm trying to put in here not to use
my picture without talking to me and i
know my friends
you know if if they're talking to me on
instagram or youtube i certainly don't
mind my friends
um
you know commenting or saying something
i just
i don't want
somebody else selling my stickers i
guess
and yes i type like a drunken monkey
the sad thing is is i edit out most of
the mistakes in my typing
let's go
you'll see some hesitation at times
because it's kind of scary
so now after i've done the listing it's
like hey we're going to have to pay you
so i verify my address and things like
that and they're going to text me a
one-time code to verify that it's me
they're talking to
and then from there they're going to
enter some
personal data
and then we complete the sign up
this is just some of the selling
information you're going to have to have
in order to get paid
so i'm going to go in and now i'm going
to add my bank account
and
you guys don't need that stuff
after i've entered my
routing number in my account number
we'll go back to
our
main ebay page
the you get an opportunity to share it
and once this is up and running i
probably will share it to instagram
for my friends there
but
there is something that still needs to
be done and i will explain it
one of the things you want to do so this
is a brand new account and if you've
noticed it has zero feedback
what i want to do now is i want to start
creating some feedback and i don't want
to wait until something sells so i know
that i need envelopes for these
so my next step
is to go look and find some envelopes
that will fit these that i can ship in
it'll just make it having the right
stuff here will be so much easier for me
so we're going to scroll down here until
i find one
and there's a couple of things i'm
looking for i'm not just trying to find
one that i like i'm also trying to find
one from a big enough seller that once
the payment is processed
and they've shipped it
that they're going to leave me feedback
buying on ebay the feedback counts
exactly the same and so i'm gonna go
over and i'm gonna take a peek and i
wanna see
if this guy leaves feedback
as big as his store is you should see a
bunch of them and there we go the whole
month he sent out a gob of those things
so that's good enough for me he's going
to leave me feedback as soon as the
transaction is complete
so i'm going to order
i listed 50 of the stickers so i'm going
to go ahead and get 50 of the envelopes
i'm less concerned about
you know just the top price as i am
getting one
that isn't going to
cost me too much but one from somebody
that is absolutely going to leave me
feedback
and everything looks right
the only other thing i looked at there
is make sure they were shipping from the
united states i don't want to wait for
them to come from china
and
and then it'll bring me up to screen
where i confirm and pay
and that's it that's it
i hope you found that useful there's a
lot of things that still have to happen
as soon as my bank account gets back to
me with the micro deposits then i can
get that updated and then my feedback
will show up and my products will go
live so that people can buy them
the whole process for me uh off film
from beginning to end was about 35
minutes
and keep in mind that i've done it
before even though it was a very long
time ago i opened my account in 98
and 99
that even though it was a long time ago
i have been through the process before
but you can go from beginning to
business in about an hour
beginning to business in about an hour
and i promise you there is nothing
special about me melody and i uh we run
a pretty good business
but we aren't
straight up attacking it every day
working from
dawn till dust
we work a lot of hours but man for us
it's fun finding the stuff is fun
and and we have a business and we're
making money on it and it meets our
goals
so up front don't forget what we talked
about at the beginning you need to
decide why you're doing this
and make sure that as you build your
business it's meeting those goals so
that you're getting what you need out of
it not what i need what some other
youtuber needs that it's creating the
income that you need and the time that
you need and it meets your goals because
ultimately that's what really matters
that's that's the whole reason behind
having your own business is so that
you're in control of your life i hope
that you enjoyed this video i really do
and i really hope that as this year
unfolds regardless of what it's going to
have in store for us
that use that you get the best out of it
that you can it's really truly the
reason that i make the videos i spent my
life in education and i i believe in
people i believe in you and i believe
that you can do this and
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so
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you