My eBay Dropshipping Stores [Update on My Sales]

in this video I thought I would give you guys an update on what's been happening with my eBay store ever since I came back from vacation and turned my store off vacation mode so if you guys are subscribed to my channel and stay up to date with my videos then you know about three weeks ago I released a video talking about how for the first time ever I was putting one of my eBay stores on vacation mode and the reason for that was just because I was going somewhere that had no internet connection and this one store wasn't fully automated while my other stores were much more automated like pretty much completely automated so those ones ran while I was away but this one it just wasn't gonna work so I put it on vacation mode and I was really nervous about it because a lot of people told me that when you put your store on vacation mode when you turn it off your sales are just never the same it takes a while to get the momentum back get your sales back to where they were before you went away on vacation now the first thing I'll say right off the bat was that I do not regret turning my store on vacation mode because I have a lot of fun during my trip I'll put some footage at the end of this video and so I don't regret it for a minute and I think it would have kind of ruined the trip had I been trying to keep up with things while I was away not to mention the fact that there really was no internet connection where I went so it just wasn't gonna work so I turned my store off and it was supposed to be off for about ten days but when I came back from vacation took me about two days just to get settled in answer suiting questions I got a lot of emails from my students answer all the questions on YouTube comments so I waited about two almost two and a half days to start turn vacation mode off so it's almost like two full weeks that this store is off and then on the Thursday towards the end of the day I turned vacation they know all right where was I so yes I turned my eBay store back on a Thursday that day my cells it was late in the day so you know I had like very low sales volume for that day but that made sense because I only had it on for a small time period that day the next day was Friday than Saturday those sales were a little bit lower than normal for this store but nothing crazy low I thought you know it's just back to normal then Sunday Monday Tuesday sales were really low I wasn't actually - a little worried at first but then I remembered that it was prime day on Amazon so I thought you know maybe all the customers that would normally shop on eBay are now shopping on Amazon so there's just not as much volume happening on eBay hence I'm not making good sales on that's on my eBay store because my Amazon store did really well so then the sales kind of went up then he went down then they went up but then they went down but ultimately they're up now this is a pretty inconclusive test unfortunately because with any sort of tests like this you know you only want one variable this variable was supposed to test what happens when you turn your store on vacation mode had been off but several months ago on this account I was running promoted listings for the account which is basically a way for you to pay eBay extra money for them to put your listings higher in the search results essentially so I was paying for that it was working and then I'll send it to stop working they were not working at all now as of a few days ago it started working again so yes my sales went back to the way they were before I went on vacation but also the promoted listings are working which might be part of that reason now with that said my cells are still better than they were before vacation so I'm kind of thinking that they did go back to normal and then the promoted listings helped even further but again I really can't say for sure so unfortunately when people ask me this I still know it don't have an answer does vacation mode impact your sales I'm not sure now that's what's happening with vacation mode update but I do want to update you guys on what else I'm doing with my eBay stores as well so while I was away I was doing a lot of thinking and why it cited was that I really wanted to kind of shake things up with my eBay stores specifically with the my virtual assistants that I've hired I wanted to build a team right now before the way my system worked was I hired about nine virtual assistants and they each worked independently I told them what to do they did their one task and for the most part they did not communicate with each other at all everything came back to me which means that I was kind of a bottleneck right if I was sick or I was away on vacation things just slowed down they didn't work that's not what I want

a team that can run without me so I told Isaac Reed this vision right where I have one VA who's kind of in charge kind of like my replacement and all the other VA is working underneath her and I also set like these are the hours I need the virtual assistants to work for different jobs and I told my virtual assistants this is what I'm doing some of them weren't on board with it and they were gone now others said they were on board but then when push came to shove they weren't so a few of them are now gone and I'm in the process of hiring others that really want to be part of a team and build this team with me that can support itself without me and so far I'm really excited about this I haven't been this excited about something in a really long time because I really have this great vision of what it's going to look like to have this like working entity sort of that completely runs without me and not in the you know I've had stores run without me my stores for the most part do run without me but it's like the higher-level decision-making that I want to get rid of I want them to be in charge of that as well that's going to be really challenging I'm not a hundred percent sure how it's going to work but that's kind of my challenge in myself is to see if I can do this at the very least I want a stronger team a team that works together supports each other helps each other problem-solve a lot more instead of just asking me when they have a problem so if you guys do want more updates on how this goes whether this works or whether this is a failure subscribe to the channel because of course I'll be making more videos about this and guys if you are interested in learning more about eBay dropshipping I will be hosting a free webinar soon that will be linked up down below you can see what days and time and times I have available I'll be doing a couple of them so check that out if you want to learn more it's a completely free like I said if you got any value out of this video make sure to give it a big thumbs up and leave me a comment down below letting me know if you've ever put your store in vacation mode what happened and if you have any experience like hiring a big team of virtual assistants and really having them work together without you I can use some tips on this one for sure otherwise guys thanks so much for watching and I'll see you next video bye for now