RESELLING — BASICS · YOUR OPERATING COMMITMENT (chapter 1) Free from ePORTS — eports.global/resources/reselling Four numbers, written before you buy a single thing. Honest, not ambitious. ===================================================================== 1. YOUR HOURS ===================================================================== Hours a week I can really give this, in a normal week (not my best week): _____ hours (Five is plenty to start. Eight is a lot. Write the real one.) ===================================================================== 2. YOUR CASH-AT-RISK CEILING ===================================================================== The most money I'll have tied up in things bought but not yet sold — money I could lose without it hurting my rent or my sleep: $_____ Rule: when my unsold pile holds this much cash, I stop buying until something sells. ===================================================================== 3. YOUR MINIMUM NET — tied to time ===================================================================== The least profit, after every cost, an item must clear to be worth my hands: $_____ for no more than about _____ minutes of hands-on work. (A good starting rule: $15 of profit for no more than about thirty minutes.) Below this floor I don't buy, however cheap the thing is. ===================================================================== 4. YOUR QUIT TRIGGER — a real condition, not a feeling ===================================================================== "After _____ days, _____ items I've properly researched and listed, and the weekly hours I committed to above — if my total profit is still under $_____, I'll stop and reassess." (Example: ninety days, thirty items, under $100.) Hours: _____ Cash ceiling: $_____ Minimum net: $_____ Quit trigger: written [ ] Date: __________ --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Reselling shelf: Basics · Intermediate · Advanced Free resources: eports.global/resources/reselling ePORTS — your ecom source. eports.global