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Business Experiment Has Begun: Etsy.com

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I am officially in business! After nearly two weeks of getting my first batch of purses and handbags (22), I finally put all of them online. I haven’t gotten any emails or purchases yet but know with a little of marketing, the business will start to make me money.

I can’t tell much difference from one bag to the next, besides the colors of the bags.

It took me roughly 5 hours to photograph and upload the photos onto my computer, measure and write the descriptions, post onto Etsy. Right now I have a shitty system. I could have done everything in 3 hours.

Already Thinking of a New System of Operation

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Ecommerce, it has begun.

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It has begun, I have set up the account, thought of a name, and am ready for business. I saw what my brother was doing and knew it was time for me to get into the game of ecommerce. I rejected the notion of even participating, and even was almost bullied into doing something I didn’t want to do (at the time) by my dad.

What the Fuck am I Talking About?

I have joined the saturated field of ecommerce, and in this case, selling antique/vintage shoes and purses through Etsy.com.

Why?

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Book Review: Young Guns, The Fearless Entrepreneur’s Guide to Chasing Your Dreams and Breaking Out on Your Own

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I’ll tell you right now, this review doesn’t do the actual reading of the book justice.

I’ve read many business books in my day. There have been some that have been a total waste of time and some that have helped me along my way of becoming an entrepreneur. This book, however, has been more of a gem than I ever thought possible. This book is less fluff and ‘Ra-Ra’ chatter, and more about an action plan, backed up with personal anecdotal stories from a person, who had a dream, thought, and passion for an idea and did something about it.

Young Guns is broke down into 16 chapters. Some of the chapters are:

The Decision (chapter 2)

The Big Idea (chapter 3)

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