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hello guys welcome back to my youtube
channel so today's video it's gonna be
super fun and I'm so excited I've wanted
to do this video for a really long time
but I just kind of forgot about it for a
while I am going to be kind of giving
you guys a walkthrough kind of day in my
life of a girl who has a clothing
reselling / lifting business so
basically I'm going to take guys surf
ting with me I'm gonna explain the ins
and the outs of how to start a reselling
business and how to be successful my
main platform that i use is instagram I
do use Poshmark and depop sometimes but
mainly I do use Instagram I'm gonna be
kind of talking to you guys about like
everything that I do kind of how I make
sales how I grow my engagement of my
audience and my following so that I can
make more and more sales and sell more
stuff so yes it's gonna be super fun and
I'm so excited so we're gonna be
starting off by first obviously going to
a couple thrift stores I'll probably go
to two or three just get some things and
then I'll show you guys how I take the
pictures of my clothing how I edit them
and then how I post them what I'd say in
the caption and stuff like that and then
I'll kind of give you guys my little
story of when I started reselling and
kind of go from there oh and then I will
show you guys how I packaged up and ship
out my packages tomorrow morning so I
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each week all right guys let's go
thrifting alright guys so I just got in
my car but I realized that I really want
coffee so I'm gonna stop at the coffee
shop and probably get a caramel latte
with almond milk because that is my
favorite drink to get and I'm super
excited so it's time to get caffeinated
because I went to the gym this morning
came home kind of cleaned
oh my gosh and I made a smoothie but I
really want some caffeine right now I
feel like I just need to like get going
the gym took so much out of me I just
like I feel numb so we're gonna get some
coffee and then we will be on our way
through if Tina
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alright guys so I just made it to our
first goodwill and I knew that this
would happen
I'm gonna drink way too much caffeine
the size of my coffee was like this big
which isn't even that much but I am just
really sensitive to caffeine and it
affects me so I am like ah I need to
like scream and like run a lap to like
get all this energy out but I am gonna
go to the bathroom first because I have
to pee so bad from all that coffee that
I just drank so I am about to pee my
pants so I will see you guys in a couple
of minutes in the bookstore
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the lighting is so bad in here but this
dress is so cute
a really long black dress so true I love
it
literally
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I usually like looking through the men's
section because I can usually find
better things like better quality things
if I'm looking for like sweatshirts and
crew necks
I usually go and look to the men's
section I always like to check to make
sure that there's no stains because if I
get home and dries that there's a stain
on it that I can't get out it's really
frustrating some dirty page for it but I
try to look for better quality things in
the section because you can usually
you're more likely to find brands like
adidas and stuff in the manufacturing
because it's like she's born here not
saying the girls aren't supporting it
just kind of easier to find from what
I've noticed this goodwill is the reason
I usually find a lot my stuff in the
random section which is a distal device
is on the coolest ring jacket
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yeah those are usually the brands that I
try to look for or leave is also
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College beer sells really well on
reselling pages especially on Instagram
for like girls who are like still in
high school and sororities because a
college and if they're in a sorority
they definitely want to support their
college and stuff like that so I find
that getting college beer can definitely
help least yourself a lot all right guys
excuse my mess of a trunk but fifty
dollars later and I got two huge bags of
stuff so I'm gonna grab the receipt show
you guys how I calculate how much I pay
for everything guys can hear me over the
air blowing in my car it's just really
hot in here
but basically the way that I calculate
how much I spent on it is instead of
going through and seeing how much each
item is I just take the total number
that I'd spent and I divide it by every
single item that I've purchased so that
just makes everything the same price so
let's count how many things I got
alright so after dividing like the 51
that I spent divided by the 14th the 14
items that I got it came out to around
three dollars and sixty cents per item
which isn't bad but I'm gonna go ahead
and round up to four dollars for each
item and then have that extra like
couple cents for each item add up as
like gas money because I do like to
consider the fact that I am using my gas
to drive to go thrift
so I do add that price on to the items
I'm gonna hit up one more thrift store
just because I found so much at that
first store I'm just gonna go to one
we will be on our way back home and of
course I have to pee again like really
bad so let's hope that I can get to this
other thrift store
all right I'll see you guys there I'm
hoping that I find some good stuff in
this one today
all right two guys so I know that I
didn't really film that much in there um
I just kind of wanted to get in and out
because it is almost four o'clock at
this buoy and I want to make sure I'm
able to get home and take pictures
though I will see you guys when I get
back home also I found lots of cool
stuff and I promise I'll show you guys
okay guys so I just got home and these
are all of the clothes I got three big
bags
I'm currently eating popcorn because I'm
still hungry
all I had today was a really tiny
smoothie
it was probably equivalent to like a 12
ounce smoothie and then I had a medium
coffee which has two shots of espresso
and that's literally all I've eaten all
day
so I'm starving so basically what I'm
gonna do now is kind of show you guys
what I got show you guys like what type
of stuff that I make sure to look out
for when I went to the thrift store I'm
really glad that you guys can't see my
room because it's an absolute wreck
there's clothes that I need to fold
there's clothes that I have to put away
it's just a mess
so bear with me so I'm just gonna show
you guys a couple things like a couple
of my favorite things I got just because
I did get a lot of stuff and this video
is gonna be so long if I go through
everything but I found this super cute
maxi dress and if you guys look at the
pattern up close it's so cute I found
this kind of vintage II blush floral
dress guys look how cute this is I'm
sorry the Lighting's bad it is almost
like five o'clock here so it is getting
a little bit like dimmer outside I've
got a super cool pattern to t-shirt it
does have a stain so I can go in and
crop it but I just thought was pretty
cool
this super cute kind of eyelet dress and
it ties like this in the back the brand
is kimchi blue which I believe is a what
the heck is it called Urban Outfitters
brand this is like the one thing that I
was so excited about it is a Walt Disney
purple Mickey crewneck look with the
little Mickey it's so cute
guys I found these jeans the back has
little butterflies on it and the front
has these really cool little buttons and
then some more little like butterflies
and rips on them so I found some Levi's
mom jeans and I usually try to buy my
jeans pretty big because usually if
they're bigger girls can still fit into
them like like you know tinier girls can
still fit into them with a belt so it
kind of gives a wider variety of options
of who would buy it you know so cute I'm
gonna kind of demonstrate to you guys
how I go about taking pictures for my
account
I usually just set up my camera against
my door because it's just like a blank
space you can see back there it's like
wait so yeah we are gonna go ahead and
get into taking pictures so let's go
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alright guys so that is essentially how
I take pictures of my clothing I didn't
do everything I just kind of wanted to
show you guys like how I did it I do
take pictures with the clothing on I
know that some people who resell don't
take pictures of them wearing it I guess
it really depends if it fits me or not
because if things are too small
obviously they're not gonna look good on
me alright so as far as editing the
pictures go I don't really do much to it
other than just kind of adjust like the
brightness and the contrast a little bit
because sometimes when it's darker in my
room it can just look kind of weird so I
try to like pull up the brightness a
little bit just make it look more
presentable without altering the actual
color of the item or making it look
different because then that would be
like false advertising
definitely make sure your pictures look
presentable as far as engagement like
hashtags kind of getting your posts out
there the things that I did to kind of
kickstart my thrifting page was
definitely definitely definitely make
sure that you're using hashtags that
relate to your post you don't want to
put like hashtag you know love' or
hashtag sports because that doesn't have
anything to do with what you're posting
but yeah relatable hashtags will
actually draw people in as long as it's
relating to what you're selling I've
also noticed and I guess this could be
different with most people depending on
like what your account looks like and
that's another thing is that you really
want to make your account look
presentable you want to make it look
clean and you want to make it look
structured and you want your feed to
just overall blend and flow you don't
want to be like one picture super dark
and then the other ones super sex
saturated and the other ones like super
bright and then the next ones like
really cool toned and the other ones
really warm toned if you're kind of
catching my drift you want everything to
essentially look the same if that makes
sense
you don't want to have like different
filters on all your posts so I actually
use the app darkroom so I just made my
own filter so it makes it super easy
when I go into edit pictures when I have
like 20 things I'm editing and just like
hit the
one filter for each thing back to
engagement definitely try to follow a
lot of people who you're trying to
target so what I do and I think that
this has actually helped me to grow a
pretty good amount I've definitely
gained a couple hundred followers from
it is to go on other resellers accounts
if you are selling on Instagram which is
essentially what I'm kind of making this
video about just because that's what I'm
doing I like to go on other resellers
account and look at the people who are
commenting on their posts look at the
people who are like bidding on their
stuff and follow those people you want
to follow people who are engaged in the
reselling community because if you're
just following random people those
people might not even be ordering stuff
off of Instagram you want to go through
the people who are liking their pictures
who are commenting on their posts and
who are essentially engaging with them
the most and you want to follow those
people because that way they're gonna
see your account and they're gonna think
Oh a new reselling account let me check
it out and then you could possibly gain
some sales from them which has actually
happened to me before it actually does
work recently the algorithm has been
really working against the reselling
community make sure that if you are
gonna start reselling clothes that you
have the time to put in to constantly
posting stories constantly posting grid
posts even if it's not close even if you
haven't had time to go thrifting all
week which has happened to me post a
picture of you and just be like hey guys
little update blah blah blah
I do that or I'll ask people a question
that's the one thing you really want to
do you want to get comments because the
more comments the more likes you get the
more followers you're going to get this
is why people do giveaways and this is
why the reselling community also does
giveaways basically they will get a
bunch of girls together who all are
resellers and they'll all pitch in money
and on each of their pages they will
post a giveaway all for the same item
and that way you're getting cross like
you're crossing
customers with other girls so you're
getting other girls customers other
girls are getting your customers it just
works out great for everyone and I would
totally recommend doing giveaways
especially if you're a smaller account
and you just started it's gonna help to
get your name out there the main thing
that you guys need to remember if you're
planning on starting to resell and
Instagram is do not get discouraged it
can be really really frustrating
sometimes when you're going out and
spending your hard-earned money on
clothing to resell and no one wants it
it sucks and you will learn what types
of items people want and what types of
items people don't want tomorrow morning
I am going to ship out all of my
packages and stuff that people have
ordered ship out all my clothes that
people have ordered for me this week so
I can get them out before I leave to go
camping with my family tomorrow
afternoon I'm gonna get all those
packages out using an online shipping
website which is so much easier if
you're shipping out like big batches of
clothes um and you can save a lot of
money than just going to like your USPS
and paying them to ship it for you so I
hope you guys enjoyed this little
adventure thrifting with me today I am
going to go relax so the rest of my
night because it's literally like a
little mini job / side hustle that I
have so it takes a lot out of you when
you're running around thrifting all day
I will see you guys tomorrow morning to
ship out some packages so this is
basically the setup that I have each day
I set up all of my clothes I'm shipping
out excuse my room it's an absolute
wreck as you can see I have like 10
packages I'm shipping out basically this
is the website I use this called ship
pirate I'm not gonna go down below
because I don't want you guys to see my
address but basically it gives you the
option of package just select and you
just choose like one of these packages
and then you measure it out and enter
all of that in there you put their
address and everything and it's super
easy and then all you do is just hit
purchase label and that's literally all
you do in pirate ship or ship pirate or
whatever the heck it's called
is a really cheap shipping website which
I love so I'm gonna go ahead and pack
all of this stuff up and I will see you
guys
in like an hour my time one second year
time there are so many packages in here
there's like almost ten I think which is
actually not that much but considering
how slow I've been on the shop this week
it's it's a pretty good amount I did
want to briefly talk about this little
book that I have right here it's the
book that I use to track my sales each
month
I have September written and then if you
flip the page you can see these are all
of the stuff that I've sold in September
then I write down like you know the
profit that I made that much or whatever
and it's just a really nice way to kind
of keep everything in track to figure
out like what profit you're making off
of everything anyways I hope that kind
of made sense a little bit um yeah but
if you guys are interested in checking
out my thrifting account and kind of
like getting some inspiration feel free
to message me on there I'm always down
to you know give new up-and-coming
accounts some advice or help or anything
if you guys need it so I hope you guys
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alright guys have a great day