Shownotes
Brianna is a former teacher & a competitive figure skater, with over 20 years experience in Ecom. She is an online business developer, serial entrepreneur, marketer, influencer and consultant who has successfully built multiple income streams that have afforded her and her family the freedom of time to travel, explore and live life full throttle on their own terms. Interesting Notes Bri stands 5'9, a tall one for a figure skater. She joined skating competitions from age four to sixteen. In 1996, at the age of fifteen, she started selling. She never had fun as kids often do. Instead, she would go door to door hustling and selling stuff. She did not have enough money to buy stuff to sell. So when she heard about eBay, she liquidated her bedroom. That started her endless journey of having side hustles that sometimes become big. She got a Master’s Degree in Biology and started teaching when she was 21 years old. She was living way beyond her means. Her eBay business started to take off in tandem with her teaching career. The more she was into teaching, the more she continued to grow eBay on the side. In 2010, she got her second Master’s Degree. eBay had been amazing to her too. She made more money from it working as a part-time. She felt burned out teaching and took a calculated risk. She left a stable, tenured career to follow her passion for entrepreneurship. eBay is a big part of Bri's life. When she was starting out, it taught her to be scrappy and resourceful. It made her realize that she can sell anything. It pointed her to the best place to find stuff at rock bottom price, that is, the rummage sale. She once went to a rummage sale where there were luxury men's clothes. She looked around and calculated the stuff to be thousands of dollars. And she got it all for $200 only. She had also gone to Junk Auctions. The Junk Auction is a regular auction that is clearing out its stuff. She and her mom would go and buy the leftover tables for a dollar to learn about products. It does not matter what was in there because she will figure out a way to sell it. She learned a lot that way. eBay also taught Bri the ins and outs of learning how to run a business. One can go quickly from a hobbyist to a business owner. Her average day starts early, around four in the morning. She would go through all her social media accounts, emails, and personal messages. Then, she would work for a couple of hours with her company Design4Dollars. She does her eBay listings every day and places her Amazon orders too. Then, she would attend her meetings with business partners or client calls or consulting sessions. Bri loves what she does because every day is different. She keeps a list of things to do every day as well as a list of floating things. She can cancel or reschedule her meetings to spend time with her daughter. She has the flexibility to make changes anytime she desires or needs to. She sees so many people whose passion lie in different areas. But they can spend more time on their passion when they use something like eBay to monetize it in some way. She knows of a musician that sells things on eBay related to being a musician. It funds what he enjoys and that is being a musician. Bri had taken her eCommerce experiences to multiple levels and multiple businesses. She has a team of amazing people. She believes that all the other things would not have taken place if she did not start with eBay. She also believes that getting into Facebook Groups and connecting with people is an important part of her journey. Without that piece, she would not have known how to make the jump into other platforms and help people. As a way to pay forward, Bri makes herself accessible to everyone. You can come up to her and ask her anything you want. She is also one of the speakers in the eCom Chicago Conference this October 18-20. Her utmost goal is to live comfortably. That is to live with the freedom to do whatever she wants and whenever she wants. She also wants to travel and take her five-year-old daughter. She wants her daughter to be able to see and experience things that others cannot do. Advice, Tips, and Tricks She goes to rummage sales and take advantage of the free stuff. She would go on the last day of the sale, take a garbage bag, and fill it with stuff. eBay is the perfect platform for starting. With it, you will learn all the different aspects. Make sure that you get into the Facebook Groups about eBay and learn all the information as well as connect with people. Be concise in making an item description. Give the important information, nothing more, nothing less. 65% of people are shopping on their mobile phones. Make your post above the fold. The fold is the very first thing that a buyer could see without having to continue to click through. She found success in charging people with the shipping fees. This way, people know what they are paying for, and it works on her eBay store. Quotes "It does not matter if you are tenured or not. If you've got to go, you've got to go." "You don't know what your fate is! I look at it that way - I'm not in control." "The journey thus far has made complete in other sense as to why I am where I am. And that I had to take the route that I did." "I love what I do. I'm passionate about it. I want to help people and I won't shut up about it." "There is a lot of cool stuff that you can do!" "Successful does not mean selfish!" - Ron Contact Information eBay Store: House of Greene WNY Facebook: Brianna Moller Greene Website: Design4Dollars Sponsors Solutions4Ecommerce eCom Chicago Norila Digital Marketing