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Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter March 2, 2025

I am thinking about a tag line that I learned in Woodbadge back in 1996 that went something like “know and use your resources”. In my case that will be the retired Air Force Colonel who does most of my shipping. I met her through Sunday school at church and when I asked her to recommend someone who wanted to work a flexible hour job she answered the call.

She has been working for me well over a year now and lately after finishing the shipping she has asked what else can she do. I’ve give her various sorting jobs and things that move us forward but are not really equal to her talents. But Monday I think I am going to pop the question.

She was a meteorologist for NASA so she has a very scientific mind. I am going to ask her to do an audit of all of our processes in the warehouse and try and figure out the inefficiencies and recommend improvements. A lot of what we do is just years of tweaks and adjustments. I am usually too preoccupied juggling emails, marketing, sorting etc to really take a step back and look at operations.

I have 238 live auctions on eBay this week. Going forward I am going to tweak my schedule just a bit. For over a year I have kept a schedule with a small number of auctions ending every night on eBay 7 days/week. My change up is I’m going to push some of those together and just have 3 nights during the week that my auctions end.

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