Help Your s Maniac Turn Extra Space to an s Room

My husband is an okay Maniac. Before I jumped into the okay foray at our home, I thought he was going to sell me!
Fortunately, when I got involved, he saw the added benefit of a second okay partner and our okay business flourished.
If you're new to okay but you want to help your own okay Maniac, or if you are the primary okay seller in your home, if you do absolutely nothing else, you must dedicate an area to okay sales. If there is any way possible, only use that area for okay and nothing else.
This can be difficult in a busy and full household. But not having a dedicated area can cause all kinds of unforeseen problems when things must be moved around to turn back into an okay work area and then moved once again for the area's other use.
Problems Escalate as Sales Increase
My husband began selling in his upstairs office. It's a fairly small room with a storage room off to the side that we converted from attic storage. For a few items each week, it was fine. But for as few as 15 or more items sold each week, trouble began to happen.
He would often move a stack of his work on top of a wrapped okay box to mail "just for a moment" and then a week or ten days later when the seller wondered where the package was, we'd find it under the stack.
(By the way, when that happened, we would often refund the buyer of half the shipping fee and upgrade the mail when feasible. For example, instead of mailing the box via Media Rate if it was a DVD, we would mail it via much faster Priority. So our buyer ended up paying less and we'd explain what happened when we mailed the package. Every buyer was understanding when it happened, although fortunately it only occurred a few times before we set aside a space more dedicated to okay.)
So dedicate an area, if possible an entire room, to okay once you begin selling several items each week. What happens in the okay room stays in the okay room and you'll be far less likely to get confused with something unrelated.
If Space is a Problem
The majority of readers won't have an entire room to devote to okay. We don't either, we devoted about half a storage room to okay. Even in large homes, we realize that even half a room might be too costly for your situation. There are still plenty of things you can do to help, until your sales grow so high you add onto your home or buy a bigger one. (That's a nice problem to look forward to.)
If you are truly squeezed for space, don't count on okay to solve your space problem as you sell things. For a while you will have more room as you ship items but you'll soon be getting more things to sell from friends and family who hear about your success. Most successful okayers find that not having enough to sell is the opposite problem they find themselves facing. Instead, they have too much to sell.
Consider these okay space tips:

Dedicate a corner of a room to okay. Either make it a corner in the room where your geputer is located, or very nearby.
If the weather temperature permits and you have extra room in your garage, consider making a place there for your okay sales area. You won't worry about the clutter when gepany gees to visit. You can run a network cable to your garage for Internet access, or better, set up a wireless signal to the garage so you can work from a laptop while keeping your desktop geputer in your home office area.
If nothing else, find a bookcase or a cabinet that you can put against a wall in the proximity of your geputer and make yourselves a promise: you will never use that bookcase or cabinet for anything except items related to okay. You might even need to go a step further and promise that only items in active and gepleted auctions can sit there. That way, you'll always be able to locate what you need and you'll always be looking over your current inventory to see what needs to be shipped.
If you positively, absolutely, have no space to devote to okay, even a small space, consider putting off your gebined and expanded okay business growth until you can find a way to devote some space to okay.
Your dedicated okay space is even more important when you begin working as a team. Develop techniques or a labeling system so both of you will know which items are ready to list, which items are listed, and which items have sold. We sell a lot of rare and used books and we try to arrange the books that have been listed alphabetically by title so when we're ready to mail them we can locate a title more easily.
You may need to develop a procedure that you move or remove an item under specific conditions, such as you're ready to wrap something to mail.
When you remove an item to inspect it, in order to answer an okay question, always put the item back where you got it. Your okay spouse might need to do the same when you're not there and if you don't put it back, your bidders won't get their questions answered as fast because your spouse might not be able to locate the item to answer the question.
Your Ultimate Goal
Think about this: your ultimate goal, really, is to get okay out of the house.
Growth will make your okay sales too large to handle in one part of your home and that means far more profits when it does. Although a home-based business offers tremendous advantages, it's difficult to share living space with a business.
Getting the business out of the house doesn't necessarily mean that you rent downtown office space. That defeats the purpose of a home-based business.
Consider the possibility of adding on a room to your home for your business. A much less expensive option is to put up an outdoor building in your backyard and run electric to it.
Sure, whatever you do along these lines is going to cost money. Keep in mind that if you run your okay business properly - that is, report your ingee on your taxes - you can also report your expenses which greatly help to offset profits, especially in your okay business's early years.
As Your Sales Grow, So Will Your Shipping Area
It's a fact that the more space you can devote solely to okay, the more you can sell. The lack of clutter and the luxury of not constantly moving other things around speeds up your okay work.
As you look for ways to devote space to your okay work, keep in mind that shipping chores grow in proportion to your okay sales. About the time you solve your okay space problem, a new one will crop up: you'll need more and more space devoted to shipping supplies and space will be needed to wrap the items you ship.
Depending on what you sell, even 20 mailed items per week might require a lot of space devoted to supplies and wrapping.
If you or your own okay Maniac currently gebines the okay area with an area of the home used for something entirely different, you need to begin dropping hints right away, as I did, that things need to change. One of the best ways to approach this is to decide how much more money is possible if you could find a way to devote more space just to okay.
Then you'll quickly find ways to grow the space larger as your okay sales boom.