[Music]
hi guys welcome to my channel or welcome
back to my channel so i wanted to do a
couple of these videos and to do this as
more of an informational video because i
know some of you want to start your own
business and maybe you're lost i was
pretty lost at one point so i feel like
this is really going to help
other people that want to just start
their own small business and you know
just get a lot of information down for
me personally i look through a lot of
youtube videos
and one was never enough i went through
thousands and thousands and like
just a lot of videos to kind of get
the concept around my head on how
shipping works
how um the website that you use um kind
of correlates with the shipping
and other things like that but if you
guys are really interested in these type
of videos
please leave a comment down below
because i would love to make more of
these you know
i have so much ideas for the future so
i could obviously make a video about it
and this will not be one of the last
videos that i will do for this whole
business journey i'm
totally gonna do more but if you guys
are curious
and you want to learn a little bit more
keep on watching so i am going to pack a
couple of items today and i'm just going
to show you guys how i pack my items and
how i put all my things in there and how
shipping usually runs i know shipping
can be a little confusing
and personally it still kind of confuses
me to this day
because i just started off guys i
started off about a month ago already
obviously my page isn't crazy and i'm
not selling out quick
i'm not a big influence or anything but
i'm pretty happy with
what i'm selling right now and i'm happy
that i'm getting sales and
even if i only have one or two i'm
perfectly fine with that
i'm selling i'm doing something that
makes me happy and if you guys are
honestly
really interested in starting a business
go right ahead and start it off
always look for more information because
there's so much to it
it's not just sending things and there
you go you get your money like
it actually has a lot to do with the
government and things you have to put in
but that's going to be a separate video
but today i'm just going to show you
guys how i ship my items
i have my laptop right here i'm gonna
show you guys how i package one of my
items
i'm not gonna obviously package all of
them right in front of you because it's
gonna take a while personally
what i use for my shop is big cartel
there is
shopify if you guys already done your
research and there's other
more websites that you guys can use to
post your items
personally if you're barely starting off
i really really really recommend big
cartel you don't want something really
big especially when you're starting off
i'm going to tell you guys right off the
bat unless you guys have a lot of
followers and are a big
influencer you will get a couple of
sales but if you're barely starting off
like me
please don't lose faith or hope how can
i put this moment in my life i was
really debating if i should do this or
not because i wasn't getting any sales
the more i promoted
and the more i put my stuff out there it
really really helps guys
promoting is key honestly if you don't
promote
it can get rough if you guys are barely
starting out i know big cartel has a
couple of packages that you can get
i will put them right here but i know
the lowest package that you can get is
like putting five items on there and i
know
you can work your way through that there
is a couple of videos that i've seen
where people
claim they have five items but honestly
they have more so they put
a lot of photos in one category and a
lot of options
big cartel does have a package that is
free and i think that's really amazing i
personally use
i believe it's the second package which
is nine dollars a month
plus taxes and stuff it's ten dollars
but honestly
that's not bad at all because i know
shopify the lowest
package that they have is thirty dollars
which is insane
but it does come with more things so if
you guys are looking more into detail
and just have more products and want
everything to look really really
professional
i really recommend shopify if you
already have like a big platform and you
know you're going to sell out quick
personally since i am small i recommend
using big cartel if you're starting off
really small
nothing really crazy and it really does
help a lot because you save money
and it has a lot of options to customize
your website which is really great
because
you really want a website to look good
and professional and clean
so i just go on bigcartel.com and it
will show your page
that you start off with and you're going
to press orders
on the order section of the page it's
going to show you the orders that you
have
and it's going to show you what the
person has ordered throughout your
website so here it just shows me what my
customer has ordered
so my customer order a scrunchie and a
t-shirt and it will show you the price
um i can make another video if you guys
want to learn how to make
a big cartel website it's really not
hard so it shows here the address her
name and what she ordered
so i'm gonna go and package that up and
i'll show you guys how i do it so like i
said before she ordered a scrunchie
and she ordered a t-shirt and the
t-shirt is the size small
and in the bottom of your title or the
thing that you named your
product it will say what kind they got
so i had three different options for my
scrunchies
i had black leopard and pink and she
chose black
so what you're going to be needing is a
poly mailer
or a type of box you can get at usps i
personally use poly miller's because
it's easy to get to
easy to transfer around and it's cheaper
so how shipping works is you
can pay different types of fees
depending on what you ship
i know there's a flat rate fee i don't
remember the flat rate fee price but i
will leave it here
then there's the first class shipping
which i usually use because
my products are under five pounds i
think it's five pounds or three pounds i
will leave it on here as well
so i checked it out myself and it
actually says that you can do a 1.3
ounce padded envelope or a small box
of 13 ounces or less for under five
dollars guys
and it's first class shipping that's
great
there's like other options you can use
but personally since my things aren't
really that heavy
and i'm not really getting that much
crazy orders
i put my shipping for everything three
dollars and
if you add something else it will give
you an option i will leave a screenshot
or a video
but it will give you the option of
shipping price the product itself so i
put 3.99
i am just gonna get a polymeller you can
get free polymellers at usps guys i
don't know if you guys knew this
it is a life hack you can get free
packaging at usps just ask them or give
them a call and
they'll give it to you personally i just
really like my packaging to be really
cute
because the usps packaging is just white
i just really want everything to go with
its theme which is like
pinks rose gold marble really cute girly
stuff so i just got these
shipping poly mailers they're bubble
mailers actually they're not your normal
poly mailers i know
the normal polymers are just plastic you
have to be careful because
things can break and you're gonna have
to buy like separate
bubble packaging is that what it's
called you know the bubbles
you mean bubble wrap alexandra what the
heck
how did you not know that
i got these on amazon they were really
cheap i got them in bulk i'm going to
show you guys the types that i have
here is the one that i'm going to use on
her it is just a medium polymer
really cute and then you can get like so
many sizes guys there's literally like
endless sizes
i do sell jewelry as well if someone
just buys jewelry off of me obviously
i don't want to give them a really big
polymer so i have these little ones
right here
they're really cute and they can
actually fit a lot and then i have
the biggest one i use these for like
shoes
so i put all the bigger items in here if
they order a lot more
definitely going in this one since she
did only order two things
i'm gonna put it in the medium sized one
to be more sanitary i am going to wear
some gloves because i just don't want to
be touching
things right now because of the
coronavirus it's just being safe
and sanitary i'm getting her t-shirt and
i'm just going to put it inside
believe me or not your sales will
increase and get more people interested
in your products if they see that you
put a lot of time and effort into your
products and then the next thing that
she got
was this scrunchie this crunchy is so
cute guys
i have him on my shop if you guys
haven't seen my shop already
it is called ali's closet boutique the
website is ali's closet.bigcartel.com
and you can check me out i will leave my
instagram link down below and my website
link down below so you guys can
go and take a little look see what
you're looking for i have
so many cute items that i personally
love wearing around this isn't your
normal scrunchie this is like a little
zipper
so you can put your stuff in there so
here is the scrunchie that i'm putting
in
and then the little cherry on top i get
these little plastic bags
and then i add my business card i get
them off vistaprint they were super
cheap i'll leave the price over here but
guys
honestly i got so many i have another
box of these and they were like
so cheap and i designed it on my own so
this is how
the the card looks like i don't know if
you guys can see it but it just says my
name
um where to contact me all the
information
and thank you in the back i didn't want
to waste that much paper
so i just put the thank you card and the
business card together
and i put that here something cute that
i add on since i
am latina latina
and i am a latina owned business um i
add mexican candy i'll just poop these
little
candies in there and i added a masa bun
a little chamoy candy and then i'm gonna
add
a little elote chile lollipop because
these are so good that's how it looks
like oh my god guys
tell me this is not cute it's just
little things like this that make me
happy and i'm so happy that
i'm able to you know give little things
like this to people
so i'm just gonna add that in here i'm
just gonna fold that right there
and i am gonna fold this really tight
because this girl is
far away from me so here is how it looks
like
so cute and then for a personal little
touch
i'm gonna add some of these stickers i
also got these at
vista print and i add these on my
jewelry boxes
and on my little polly miller so i'm
just gonna stick that on there
and there you go there is my polly
miller
ready to get sent out and now i'm to
show you guys how
i ship my items and what the process is
for creating a label because that is
very important guys
you guys can see this well this is a
good angle but i personally use pirate
ship
i know there is a lot more shipping
websites that you can use but personally
i
really recommend pirate ship i didn't
know how to do it at first
but once you get the hang of it i
promise you it's so
so so easy especially big cartel has all
the information that you need
to transfer on here and then this is how
it should look like i'm not going to
show you guys the address
and the customers that i have these are
just the previous
shipments that i have so what you're
going to do now that you're on here is
you're going to go on create a single
label
so right here it's just gonna show you
where to ship and the customer's address
and all their information to keep
everything secure and safe
this is so so so easy so i am in the big
cartel website where my hand is
covering the little box right here where
it says customer all the information
that they put on your website you
transfer all of that
to the pirate ship website you're going
to put all their information here and
then you're going to scroll all the way
down
once you scroll all the way down it is
going to give you this option first
which is box and rigid packaging
since i am only packaging a little poly
mailer that is not heavy
i do not want to put box because
obviously i don't want to be end up
paying more
just confusing the people that are
shipping my items
so i'm going to go and press envelope
now that i'm here
it's going to ask you the length and the
width of all that
i have all the information on my amazon
order
when i ordered these packages so i'm
just gonna put it on here
i'm just gonna put eight and a half
times eleven and then this
is where it gets really important guys
right here
you are going to be needing a scale so
that is something that you guys should
really invest in when you are starting
your own business
getting a scale is really important
because you are going to have to
weigh your items to see what kind of
shipping
and prices you will need to pay for
the customer right here i have this
scale
and this scale was super cheap guys i
got it on amazon i will leave the link
down below and i'll leave the price
right here around the screen
but it was really cheap it was probably
under 20
and it's really really convenient it's
by the brand accu-tech
from there i'm just gonna go and measure
my package
so i'm just gonna put seven right here
ounces point two
to go all the way down and press get
rates
so right here it's gonna show you the
rates and then from here on out
this is what you're gonna pay so i am
going to pay three dollars and 52 cents
i'm gonna go and show you guys what i
use for my labels
um i don't have a fancy printer you
can't go
and invest in a nice thermal printer
those can actually save you a lot of
money because they don't use any ink
or you can use a regular printer that
uses ink like the little ones i think
they're called like
roller printers i am trying to save up
my money and invest in one of those
but for now since i'm not really getting
that many shipments since i just started
off
i am just using my normal printer and if
you guys don't want to spend that much
money on a printer use your normal
printer you can do that
that's literally so easy to do you just
connect it to your printer and you press
print and it'll print out
you can use a sheet of paper and just
like tape it on your polymer print out
the label
print it on the piece of paper and then
tape it but for me i really like it to
look a little bit more neater
so what i use are these labels right
here i got
a big pack of them for i believe like
ten dollars
i really recommend these you can get
them on amazon for a big pack
you can get a bigger pack of these so i
just printed out the label and this is
how it looks like
here it is um it's a little uneven but
you know it gets the job done it's so
easy guys honestly
i really really thought it was gonna be
harder than this i don't want you guys
you know barely starting off and
spending a lot of money on
um usps doing the shipping for you
you're saving so much
and you're saving those coin sis so this
is pretty much
it for the video it's just a short sweet
video on
how to do this hopefully you guys liked
it and if you guys really enjoy this
videos please comment down below so i
can make more
any questions you guys have about this
please feel free to leave me a dm on
instagram i will have my instagram down
below that's pretty much it
thank you guys so much for watching i'll
see you guys next time bye
you