all right so you want to start making a
little bit of extra money from home and
clothes seemed like an easy way to do it
and you would be right
close everybody needs clothes everybody
wears clothes and a lot of us are really
starting to focus on shopping secondhand
which I absolutely love because I try to
be as low waste and eco-friendly as
possible so we personally at our house
try to buy everything secondhand if we
can so I love that the trend is kind of
going in that direction so sewing
clothes online is a great way to make
extra money from home so today I'm just
gonna give you some tips for selling
clothes online for extra money you can
sell on a bunch of different platforms
there's eBay posh mark mark re there's
another there's a lot of other platforms
out there if you look for them but those
are the three main ones that I look at
if you sell vintage you can also sell on
Etsy so let's just get started so the
first thing you're gonna want to do is
clean out your own closet see what you
have that you don't want anymore that
might be selling online for a good
amount of money and just clean your
closet and see what you have make a nice
pile and move to the next step so the
first thing you want to do after you
clean out your closet if you find some
stuff is do some research look up your
items on eBay or on Poshmark I'll have
my posh part referral code down below so
you can get a credit on your first
purchase on Poshmark if you're
interested and just look it up search
similar words it searched the brand
search what kind of item it is like a
sweater I sweat a sweater a top jeans
whatever and see what those items are
selling for see if they're even really
selling at all and see what kind of
money you can get for it next is
figuring out how to price during that
research you should be able to see what
items are selling for and you need to
figure out for yourself what's worth
your time is it worth for you is it
worth your time to photograph and list
an item that you're gonna sell for five
bucks ten bucks 15 20 when you're first
getting started it might be a better
idea to have your minimum sale amount be
a little bit lower while you get things
built up but if you are really crunched
on time and it's just not worth it maybe
you want to only sell things for 20 or
30 bucks it's really up to you one great
thing that you can do if you're a little
bit handy with like a needle
read or you're like a pro at getting
stains out is to rehab flawed items I
can't tell you how many times I've gone
to the bookstore to buy stuff and I come
home with something blog so if you are
also going to the thrift store and
you're finding things that are flawed
maybe you can grab those items if it's a
good brand or a good style and Rehab
them to sell online
one thing you want to figure out is
where you want to sell I recommend eBay
and Poshmark for the most part because
that is the easiest place so those are
the easiest places for me to personally
sell clothing online or car is also a
good option although I find that the
sales aren't quite as great there so
figure out where you want to sell eBay
is going to have way more people and
you're probably going to sell the item
faster there depending on the item but
they do have fees up front for listing
so if you want to start for no money up
front and not have to pay for listing go
ahead and if you list on Poshmark
it's a 20% fee after the item is sold so
you can list as many items as you want
and you won't pay anything until it
sells once you start selling you want to
make sure that you have some sort of
organizational system unless you're just
selling like three or five things once
you get to ten or twenty things it's
really important to keep those items
organized whether you just pick a spot
in your closet where you keep all the
stuff that's for sale whether you grab
like a bin a plastic bin from Target and
throw them all in there have some sort
of organizational system because I
promise you you will lose something even
if you try not to you will lose
something I've done it too many times it
happens so the more organized you can
say the less likely it is you're gonna
lose something and having to refund
someone because you can't find an item
is literally the worst I did a video on
how we organize our items which I will
link to down below and also put a card
up here next to my face and I also have
an inventory spreadsheet that's free if
you want to go ahead and download the
instructions for that I'll link to that
down below so you can check that out
make sure you take amazing photos okay
you don't have to take like amazing
photos you're selling something for ten
or fifteen or twenty dollars but if you
have a phone with a camera on it and a
bright window and a clear background you
can take pretty good pictures it's
pretty funny the pictures that people
put up sometimes where you can barely
see the item just make sure you have a
brightly lit area not too bright so the
vitamins washed out
area with no clutter in the background
preferably and you can showcase the item
really well show the front show the back
show the tags and show details if there
are buttons or anything like that show
details show close-up of the fabric and
any flaws so just make sure you take
good pictures people want to see what
they're buying and the more clearly you
show that the more likely they are going
to buy something with confidence from
you don't forget that there are also
apps out there so if your bedroom where
you're taking pictures isn't that bright
you can also download some apps I
actually often just use the editor in my
iPhone to brighten my pictures but also
Snapseed and picked app though are both
great editing apps that I think are free
still remember to pull use be honest
there is nothing worse than buying
something online and getting it and
finding up there it's a terrible flaw
and you don't want it so always be
honest about the condition of items
point out any flaws even if they're
really tiny you don't want to sell
something to someone and be misleading
not cool when you're listing items you
use search friendly words so when you
list something don't just say pink top I
mean some people might be searching for
a pink top but they're probably looking
for a specific brand of specific style
instead do free people pink tunic
sleeveless those are all words that
people would search for when they're
looking for something so just in your
head pretend you're the buyer and say
how would I be searching for this online
if I wanted to purchase it and use those
words in the title and the description
of your item my last tip is to only buy
what's selling once you've sold the
stuff from your closet and you're
reinvesting and you want to continue to
make be making a little bit extra money
online make sure that when you're buying
things to sell you're only buying stuff
that's actually selling go do that
research go on ebay go on Poshmark and
look through the sold items search for
that item look through the sold items
and make sure that the item that you're
purchasing is actually selling don't
waste your time on stuff that you're
hoping you can sell there that you
personally like that might not be
selling just do the research don't waste
your money on stuff that's not selling
selling clothes online is a great way to
make money a lot of people will tell you
that it's so saturated and you can't
make money but you know what people are
still buying clothes people need clothes
and
going to buy them on eBay on Poshmark on
Merck re you just need to make sure that
you buy good stuff optimize your
listings so that people can find them
have good pictures and you'll sell stuff
so don't let anybody tell you that
selling clothes is dead maybe you can't
make as much as use to be able to maybe
the sales aren't as great as whatever
people were used to in the past but you
can still sell clothes online because
people are still buying clothes online
so thank you so much for watching
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