
Welcome to my resell business called 19 Sells.
At 46 years old I finally had enough of wondering “what if” I owned my own business and decided I need to just start. I’ve always been one to listen to motivational speakers and life coaches but I got a hold of a Gary Vaynerchuck YouTube clip and that’s all it took. He was saying exactly what I was thinking about life in general. Self awareness, not caring what others think, not being afraid to lose. Here was someone with “It”…..someone who flat out motivated me! So in August 2017 I decided I had enough. It was time to just do. I started feeding my mind with Gary’s shows and then one day it happened! I watched a show about reselling and he mentioned a guy named ReezyResells and well, that was all I needed.
I had Gary’s inspiration along with Reezy’s “how to” and next thing I knew, I had an Amazon Business. Registered and ready to go! So now what? I tried not to over think it and just “do”. Fast forward 2 weeks and after mental overload my wife Danielle and I headed out and started buying some books. Now a big motivating factor is my wife’s battle with migraines and fibromyalgia. Either one of these conditions alone are debilitating so can you imagine both? So this is our “why”. We need to be able to make up the income we lost with her and we want to be business owners. So I guess you can say, it was time to start the journey.
We have managed to place some things for sale on eBay and on Amazon. We opted out of FBA just in the beginning but I feel we will quickly move towards it. With minimal working capital, every dollar counts. Having a full time job I have been tackling this at night. Planning, uploading inventory, learning, etc. The magic happens between 5pm and 1am. There is nothing in life that comes easy so we work! We’ve never been afraid of work. 14 years in the Army I learned that perseverance and determination and instrumental in succeeding. We plan on buying during the weekends when we have more time. So where are we today you ask? I have listed on eBay 7 items. 3 have sold and we are always looking for items to turn quickly around on eBay to help with the Amazon side. I have mainly stuck to books as we start and going through every part of my house trying to identify items that I no longer need. I also have listed some Mother Goose Collector Plates we found on Amazon as well as books and 2 Collector baseball stuffed bears.
I have about 12 more books to list and that’s about it at the moment. I do have a partner who I will be investing with to sell private label but I will not be documenting that journey. Only my personal hustle. We have adopted #embracethehustle because one of the things we always said in the military was “embrace the suck”. So now we are ready to “Embrace the Hustle”. I look forward to documenting this journey and I hope later I can inspire someone to take action as well. I will say that what you will get from me is brutal honesty. I will share our wins as well as our failures.
Thank you for stopping by! We will also document on all social media FB:@19Sells, IG:19Sells, Twitter:@19sells and I will also document on my personal Snapchat @LLIZARDI Please join me there too. Thank you!
