Rob and Melissa Stephenson from Flea Market Flipper interview Julie from Casa Chic about how to resell clothing.
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Interview with Julie from Casa Chic
Rob: What's up, pro flippers? On today's episode we have a special treat. We are so excited to talk to Julie with Casa Chic, and we're very excited to just learn a little bit more about her business and how she makes this flipping income full time and just, yeah, it's going to be so much fun to talk to this.
Julie, thanks for jumping on.
Julie: Thank you so much for having me. I'm a big fan of you guys.
Melissa: Awesome. I love following you on Instagram. It's really fun. I think one of my favorite things, I was just telling him a little bit about it is you're very real and very like cut to the chase like this, like. I don't know, really good tips.
And it's, I like, I, I love that.
Julie: So. Well, I'm a lawyer. I, I started my life as a lawyer, so I'm very blunt.
Rob: Yes. I love that. We need more of that in this world.
Julie: Sometimes that's not good, but
Melissa: That's all right. I, I personally am attracted like my friends and like people that I have stayed connected with are people that are just tell me how it is.
Don't sugarcoat it. Let me know. Cause I can only improve if you really tell me, you know, for real. Right.
Rob: Yeah. Melissa always said, she came from horseback riding and she'd have coaches that would fluff stuff and try to give you the best part. And she's like, I can't learn unless you tell me what I did wrong and how to fix it.
So, yeah, we totally get that. And that's awesome about you that you're a no fluff and you give it how it is. You absolutely love it.
Melissa: Very cool. And very good tips too. So definitely, at the end, we'll tell, we'll tell people where to follow you, but you definitely have to go follow her on Instagram. So, so give us a little background.
How did you get started in this whole reselling business and kind of where you're selling?
Julie: Okay. So I was a trial lawyer and my husband was a stockbroker and I really loved being a trial lawyer, but it was very. I was busy all the time and we, I had a baby and we had a live in nanny and then I had another baby and we, on the first day of working back at work after two, three month maternity leaves.
So I had a baby. They gave me three months paid maternity leave. I had another baby. So in two years, I took almost six months of paid maternity leave. On my first day back from work, we caught the nanny in a terrible lie. And I freaked out. I was like, how can I leave my babies with this with strangers?
So I took what I thought was going to be a sabbatical or like unpaid leave to just figure out what maybe when the kids got in preschool, I could go back to work or something. We went from two incomes to one. And, we, you know, which is horrible. And I had these little babies and I thought I am not having any more kids because my little one didn't sleep.
I had a toddler, so I started selling my maternity clothes and the office I worked for was very formal. So I had to wear suits every single day. So I had these really nice suits and I didn't know what to do with them. I didn't know any pregnant lawyers and they were really too expensive and too nice to just, you know, drop off at the Goodwill.
So someone, and I wish I knew who, because they really did start my trajectory in a totally different direction, told me, sell them on eBay. Now this was 24 years ago, so eBay was brand new. I didn't know what it was. I figured it out and everything sold back then, everything you just auctioned it and it sold within a week.
So everything sold for all this money. And I was like, what else is in my house? So I started just going through my closets and dealing with these two babies, but here and there just selling stuff. And then in the fall, so that was like in the spring, in the fall, I was I made some mom friends. I'm at the playground.
And the night before I had sold a handbag out of my own closet for $300. And I told my girlfriends and they were like, Oh my God, I'm giving you stuff. So they started giving me stuff and I started a consignment business. I had never been in a consignment store. I had never dealt with secondhand stuff before, and it was able, I made enough money and I, my business grew totally through word of mouth.
I made enough money that I didn't have to go back to law. I was able to, my husband was putting, keeping the roof over our head, but it was a lot of extra money and it really helped us. And so fast forward to now, my kids are one just graduated law school. The other one is finishing his MBA. And I, I do law very part time.
I have a consulting business, but I've been reselling this whole time. And it's been such a great way to work part time, bring in a full time income and not have to, it was great because I was a full time all in PTA, front of the carpool line parent like you guys are, but still working when I wanted to, when I could growing a business.
And it's just been a really great ride.
Melissa: There's not many people that can say they've been on eBay for that long. Like there's, you know, there's all these resellers out there cause you started to it back when they started, you know, and that's a, it's a long time that they've been around.
It
Rob: is. And you know, how the changes have come apart.
Just like you said, it was a seven day auction, a 10 day auction that came with a little bit after that, and you listed something and it sold. And that's how you sold it. It wasn't the buy it now prices. Then they moved in to buy it nows, along with bidding and you had to buy it now if you wanted to.
So. Yeah, we've seen the growth of eBay and to where they are now is crazy, how different it is compared to years and years ago.
Melissa: You get paid by check. Was that the same? Yeah.
Julie: Oh yeah. Yeah. Money orders would come in the mail. I think so. It was easier then, but it was much harder then because you had to wait in line at the post office and you had to either have a really expensive digital camera.
I would take photos with my little like camera and go to bloggers and scan the photos at home. I mean, it was a lot more work. It's easier now than ever to be a reseller. You have, you have everything, right? You can run a whole business from your phone and you could do research from your phone and. It's, but it's harder too, but the business.
Yeah, I don't have to tell you the business reselling changes. It's changed even since the pandemic. It's changed a lot. So adapting is really part of the longevity of the whole thing.
Rob: Absolutely. I want to pick apart something on your story as well. So you started doing this, you said on consignment stuff.
So you have friends who saw what you were doing. They brought you stuff. Tell a little bit more kind of, of how that has morphed into where you are now. And also what kind of stuff were you selling for your friends?
Julie: Well, I'm like the opposite of you guys because I, I think we have the same type of business.
I'm in Florida, you're in Florida. We're both resellers. If we put, and we both help resellers grow their businesses. So if our resume line would be the same there, but while you guys see ambulance stretchers and think, oh, where's the forklift? I, my rule was always, people would ask me to sell furniture and stuff.
And I'm like, if I can't carry it and put it in the back of my car, I'm not interested. So I'm a fashion reseller in general. I'll sell other things, but I've been a fashion reseller. So when I started my consignment business. I really had, I had so much business and people would really clean out their closets that were full of stuff for years and years and years.
And then they would give me smaller amounts. So usually that first consignment was huge. And then every six months they'd give me a bag of stuff or whatever. So when I was running, when my kids were like in elementary school and I had more time, I didn't have, I needed more work. So I started thrifting. I had never been in a thrift store.
I had never been in a, I'm not a garage sales shop or anything like that. And I realized that my knowledge that I had learned from all the consignment really translated well. And so. I, my business currently is a hybrid of consignment and thrifting. So it's, the thrifting obviously has better margins, but the consignment is such a efficient way to get inventory.
I go to somebody's house and I'm in and out in five minutes and I get sometimes carloads full of really good, clean, authentic, great stuff where thrifting, you could go all week and not find that amount of stuff. So it's been a really good balance.
Melissa: So would you, did you already say a percentage is, is it like 50, 50 or?
I do 50, 50. Okay. Nice. Nice. But also like the percentage of your business being consignment versus being the thrifting, like, is it depends? It depends on the month. Okay. Okay. Yeah, that's.
Julie: During the summer. I had two clients that were moving and like gave multiple car loads full of clothes and stuff. And so like during the summer, I was probably a little heavier on consignment, but, I love to thrift. Thrifting is really fun too. So it depends on the month.
Melissa: You had mentioned just a little bit ago too. I'm gonna go back. We're probably gonna go back and forth a little bit. That's okay. Just cause you, you say stuff that makes us think of stuff. But, you had mentioned like, you know, even since the pandemic things have changed, what would you have seen?
How have you seen things change? Cause we are like, like you said, we're doing the same thing, but we have different business models really. So like where, what, what are some changes you've seen over the last couple of years?
Julie: Well, I think with the economy and with the good thing is the pandemic made everyone of all ages be even more comfortable buying online.
So people like my, my parents and my in laws are in their eighties and they now shop for groceries online and things like that they would, would have never done. And they buy a lot more stuff online and with the supply chain issues and everything like that, people really gotten even more into buying clothes and things online and discovering eBay or Poshmark.
I saw an eBay and Poshmark, but with the economy and you know, I don't have to tell you, you have a bunch of little kids. Your grocery bill probably doubled in the past couple of years. And, it's harder. So you have to adapt and be buying in the fashion world. I'm still selling more than ever. My sales are better than ever.
2023 was my most profitable year. 2024 is raging right now. My sales are great and it's what I'm selling a hundred percent of what I'm selling. I'm not selling anything anybody needs. I'm not selling anything you can buy on Amazon. I'm not selling anything you can buy at Target. I'm buying things that people want and that people with disposable income will pay for.
Nice. And that's the difference. And I think a lot of resellers who jumped into reselling during 2020, People were buying anything you could put, you know, a bag of Oreos and somebody would buy it. And now because people are holding on to their money tight or they, or they just can't afford to, you know, pay their bills, which is horrible.
You really have to target a different audience than maybe what you were targeting in 2020. Your business, it may be better because maybe somebody who wouldn't buy a used stove will now, right. But I'm selling something you don't need.
Melissa: Yeah. So I like that point because that also comes against a lot of times people like, well, nobody's buying anything because the economy is bad, but that's not a blank, you can't say that blanket statement for everybody. That's not like, cause things are higher costs. There's a lot of people who can still afford them. So.
Julie: Go on vacation. Try to book a vacation now. Everything is booked and it's expensive. Yeah. And so people are still spending money and people still have money to spend.
Not everybody. Right, right. And you don't want to target the people who who can't, you know, who are struggling to just feed their kids because they're not going to buy from me. They don't want my stuff. They don't want to pay what I want for my stuff.
Melissa: So I've been telling him the other day, we walked downtown and our downtown has lots of little shops and lots of, you know, restaurants and nice and whatnot.
And it was jam packed. I was like, you can't say that nobody's spending money. Cause look at all these people, like they're everywhere.
Julie: So, no, I'm in South Florida and it's packed here this winter, packed, packed, packed. And I mean, I'm, this is my back, this is my view. There's yachts, billion dollar yachts going by. So there's still people.
And some of the wealthy people I know have surprised me in the past few years because they've discovered secondhand shopping. And these are people that would have never even thought about it. And it's not necessarily because they can't afford to go to the mall. It's just the mall sucks now. There's nothing really to buy there.
And the stores are, the quality of the clothes are terrible now. They don't have a lot of stuff. And so you have to go to them. They realize you can go on eBay and type in your shoe size and the shoes you want and get them. And so I've been shocked by some of the people that I know that I'm surprised or like, oh, have you heard of the real real or, and I'm like, yeah, you know, okay.
It's been around a while, but that's what I think. That's who my market is. Yeah.
Melissa: Are you finding people also who are buying some of your stuff? So it sounds like you have the higher quality items. Are some of the things that work, cause in our stuff, like some of the old, say we sell appliances or whatever, the older ones are built so much better.
Is that the same in fashion? Like, I know there's fast fashion right now, which is a whole different thing, but like in the stuff that you're, are they well better made or, you know.
Julie: I think probably yes. And, you know, I don't just sell high end stuff. I sell my, the model I teach is buy things for $3 to $5 and sell them for $30 to $50.
You have an easy $20 or more profit in them. Sell five things a day. You're making $36,000 a year in profit. Easy peasy, part time on the side. You want to make $100,000, sell 15 things with $20 profit. Those things are easy to find and easy to sell. So, you know, if you take your kids out for burgers, you're spending a hundred bucks.
So spending $50 on a top is isn't that hard? It's not that hard to click buy it now. So a lot of the things I'm selling are really cute, nice things, but it's not the Gucci and the Prada are very small percentage of my sales actually. It's the my bread and butter is not $10. I don't want to sell stuff for $10.
I don't want to, as a lawyer, I know what my time is worth. And so I'm always asking myself, is this worth my time? So I think the quality of stuff. It's just, I'm selling stuff. They can't find anywhere else or it's hard to find anywhere else. Yeah.
Melissa: And we're very big on the, your time is money. Like we, which is, yeah, we do the higher value items for sure.
Julie: I love that. It's important because if you're working 10 hours and you sell 10 things for $10 profit in them, you might as well go get a job at Target and get the insurance. I mean, honestly, there's plenty of, if you're working a hundred hours a week, you should probably be a real estate broker or stock broker or something, you know, something that you don't need to go to college for.
You can, you can make a good career. If you're going to work a hundred hours a week, I want you to be making seven figures, you know? So, managing your time and making sure you're not wasting your time is super important. Yeah.
Melissa: I was going to ask you, what is that your, when you got on Poshmark, did you start when Poshmark first started?
Like, did you kind of jump in? No. How'd you get started on Poshmark? And are you?
Julie: I wish I would have gotten started on Poshmark sooner. I was always on eBay. I have two eBay stores. They've always done well. I've always been able to consistently, so for six years, I, had a separate business. I had a retail store in a mall and then I got one in the airport and then I got another mall.
So I had this retail business and I dialed down my eBay for a while. This was when my kids were really little, like, like five and like five to five and seven years old. And I did that for five or six years with my husband. I just dialed back up the eBay when we decided to get out of that business. And it was like within a couple of months, I was right back to making full time income on eBay.
And so I never felt the need to look at anything else. But then I kept hearing about Poshmark, Poshmark, Poshmark, and I was like, oh, okay, I'll start listing stuff. And now my Poshmark sales sometimes beat my eBay sales. So I'm like, it, it just depends on the month. I love Poshmark.
Melissa: That's awesome. Do you find either, probably they're the same, because people complain about Poshmark and they complain about eBay, and there's always going to be something that you don't love about them, but like, they've been pretty easy to work with.
Julie: No, Poshmark is terrible. They're a terrible platform. Their customer service is horrible. So, you can be selling, I don't really give numbers, but I saw a lot of stuff on Poshmark and you can't get anybody on the phone. They don't know who I am. They don't care. I feel like they, it's just one big party.
However, the Poshmark shipping is so easy because everything under five pounds ships for $8. So you can sell something heavy and the buyer has three days. And if the buyer accepts it within three days or doesn't accept, you know, unless they open a case, it's gone. But eBay, I mean, I've partnered with eBay on projects.
eBay, I've, I know people that work at eBay. There's actually people there, and they're great. really amazing. And, you know, once in a while you get a bad eBay buyer. But I always say if I was going to buy something, I would buy it on ebay because you know, as a buyer, if you don't get what you ordered, it's no problem, it's like Amazon, it's no problem.
And so without the buyers, you don't have sellers. So while we love to complain as sellers, when eBay allows a scammy buyer or something, which is really, really a small percentage. It's still a great place to buy, so that makes it a great place to sell in the long run.
Melissa: Absolutely. I've only barely tried Poshmark, but then like I get into doing some clothes, and then I thought, started with the kids stuff, and then I was like, I, I don't know, I need to learn more about it.
I, I do find it interesting though, if you get into it, so, and cross posting on them too, for sure.
Rob: But I feel the same, same way about eBay. Back in the day, eBay was the wild, wild west. You didn't know what was going on. You didn't know what was accepted. You, it was like one of those things you grew with it, but now they are really, they're trying to protect both the buyer, the seller.
It's a hard place to be in, but they're trying to do the right thing for, for the most part when it comes to these types of sales. And we deal with big sales, I mean, we're dealing with $2,000, $5,000, single sales. And when you deal with that kind of stuff, some people are really nervous to go to that and they're like well, what if somebody has 30 days that say they don't want that anymore?
How do you deal with a return and you shift a pallet and hey? And it's like it for the most part when we're selling the larger items people want what we're selling and we're under promising over delivering So they're getting a really good deal on it, but eBay ultimately is there to protect both and that's what they do now. And I think they do a pretty good job of it right now.
Julie: I I agree. I think It's a, it is a hard place to be in because there's some bad sellers. I bought something last week on, I always have bad luck. I bought something on eBay. I bought, my husband needed a headset for work. My husband's not a reseller. He's in corporate America. He needed a headset and I ordered one on eBay and it said new in package and it came like in a Ziploc bag.
And I was like, this doesn't look like new and package. And I was like, kind of my husband's like, it works. It's okay. But, honestly, that's not a good seller. No. Right. So, but I, on Poshmark, when there's a case, you have to argue like a lawyer. So I got something on Poshmark a couple of years ago, and it said, new with tags, and it wasn't new with tags.
It had like the Goodwill tag on it and I wanted it new with tags and I paid for it. And like, I had to argue back and forth with the seller on Poshmark before they would send me a return label. It was a very hassle filled experience. And so as a seller, that's great cause you can win a case. As a buyer, I wouldn't, I wouldn't buy something big on Poshmark for worry that I would be stuck with it.
So. Yeah.
Melissa: No, absolutely. Absolutely. And you are a lawyer. So that does help. Yeah.
That does help. Do you sell on any other platforms other than Poshmark and eBay?
Julie: I have sold on a lot of platforms. I do sell on Mercari and I'm sort of analyzing, is it worth my time? Because it's, it's very inconsistent, but then the stuff that I sell on there sells for really good money. Okay. So.
And it's not that big of a deal to cross post. I've given up on Etsy for now and I have tried Amazon, but that just that Amazon business model just wasn't what I wanted to do because I do work part time. I make a full time income, but reselling is only one of my three things that I do. So I'm not. I, Amazon wasn't for me.
Melissa: Yeah. It's a lot. There's we've thought about doing Amazon for a long time, but never really, I don't know, every time you hear a friend doing it and it's like, Oh, that sounds great. And it's like, no, there's a lot more stuff involved with it.
Julie: Very small. They, they love to show the numbers. Like, ooh, I sold a hundred thousand dollars.
And you're like and I kept three dollars. Yeah, exactly. Really, the profit margins are very narrow and the running around and all of that is, doesn't sound so fun to me.
Melissa: I'm sure there's some people have done it really well. But there was a post just the other day that I read to you. They had a hundred thousand for the month.
And by the end of the day, they were like, in the red $6,000. Like, I was like,
Rob: that doesn't sound like a good viable business. When that happens, a hundred thousand dollars, you should not be losing $6,000 when you're making a hundred thousand.
Melissa: So anyway
that's not everybody.
Rob: No, it's not, no.
Julie: I, yeah, I know. I've heard a lot of horror stories about it.
Wow. No, I sell $100,000. I want to keep a lot of it.
Melissa: Yeah. Us too. I love your business. Like what you say to tell, you tell people is, you know, if you're going to spend $5 or $10, you want to be making like $50, you know, something like $40, $50 like you, cause that, it is worth your time then. And we totally agree with that.
We're not in it to make $5. So like that is just not worth your time. You got to list it. You got to ship it. Like. Not worth your time. So. Anyways, yeah, is there a tip or something you would give to somebody who has thought about getting into this flipping gig, reselling gig, that you would like to tell everybody?
Julie: Well, I think don't just watch social media and a, it's not easy. So I love reselling. I think it's a great business. It's fun. And it's really fun when you go treasure hunting and you find something great. It's so much fun. And when you sell something, it's really fun and great. But in between, it's a business and you always need to think of it like a business.
You have to analyze it like a business. I don't have a business degree. I was an English major. I went to law school. My husband's the business guy. He went to business school, but I do know that you need to analyze your business. all the time and you can't just. I think a lot of resellers think it's so fun and it's fun as a hobby if it's your hobby and you're doing it just for fun you go to the flea market you buy you sell something. You're like oh this is fun, but you have to be disciplined and you have to be consistent and I think if you're going to start out you should sell stuff in your own house first obviously. But then if you're thinking oh what do I want to get into and you might see my content and be like oh I want to do fashion I want to be like her. But you don't really care about fashion or it all looks the same to you, you should pick something you like. So if you like bicycles or you like, I always say golf is a good one. So we live in Florida, every thrift store you go in has a bunch of golf clubs and probably a bunch of golf shirts. That all looks the same to me, but if you're a golfer or you want to learn about golf, you could make a whole business out of that in Florida.
You could just go to thrift stores and garage sales and flea markets and buy golf clubs and learn how to learn which ones are worth picking up and which ones aren't. And you could probably build a really good business that way. So focus on what you're interested in. And learn become a pro at it. And I think that's really important because sometimes maybe people will see your content and be like, I want to, you know, do all these big things.
I want to sell, you know, refrigerators, but they really don't know what they're doing. That could be get ugly really quick.
Rob: Absolutely. Such great advice. And, and yeah, we try to tell people that as well as what you're passionate about, cause you can do this business just like you said, you can do anything to make money, but it really, you know, it's, it's in sync when you're doing something that you enjoy, something that you're interested in versus something that you're just doing it to make a paycheck.
So I couldn't have said it better myself. You know, that's such a great advice to give to anybody who's looking to do this as a side hustle or even go full time into it.
Melissa: Would you recommend somebody starting out doing, consignment? Like, how do they get started in consignment?
Julie: Consignment is such a great way to add inventory to your reselling business.
So if you have a basic knowledge of reselling and you start just tell everyone, tell your hairdresser, tell your next door neighbor, tell you the teachers in your school, you'd be amazed. They don't have to live in mansions. You'd be amazed at what people, everyone has too much stuff and no one knows what's to do with it.
And most people don't have the time, energy inclination to put it online. So it's a great way of getting inventory without paying for it upfront. So it helps your cashflow in your business. So if you're thrifting and you do a little consignment, you're adding inventory to your business, but you don't pay for it till it sells.
It's, and it's efficient. Like I said, I pick up a carload of stuff it for as long as it takes me to drive across the street to pick it up and put it in my car versus. running around to a million different thrift stores. In addition, I'm really good, and I'm not saying this like in a cocky way, I'm really good at sourcing fashion.
I know what sells and what doesn't. And most of that knowledge originally came from my consignment clients because they would give me stuff and I learned what sells instantly, what sells for hundreds of dollars. What is absolutely never going to sell and not worth my time. So I've learned new brands, new styles, and I still do because my consignment clients, a lot of them give me stuff that is very recent because they buy something and they don't wear it.
And they're like, oh, I can make a few dollars. They're happy to get it out of their closet. So I still learn from my consignment clients. So it's such a good way. And it's. It's way easier than you think because everyone has stuff and then somebody's moving or somebody's moving their parents or somebody's, you know, just renovating.
There's a lot of stuff out there and people are happy. To just get a few dollars for their stuff.
Melissa: Do you ever have people that you've told, maybe not now, cause now you have relationships, but like starting out that you'd tell people that, you know, ask them if they would, are interested in getting, you know, consignment and being, making a little bit, and then they're like, just take it just hot.
You can have it.
Julie: You know, I, I, not too often, but my mom, who is 83, it was going to be 83. She was an eBay seller too. We started eBay. Not working together, but at the same time, cause she saw what I was doing and she's actually not really doing eBay now, but up till a couple of years ago, she's much nicer than I am.
She's very nice to people. She brings them soup when they're sick and she's just a social butterfly. And her whole business for probably during the pandemic was people. Not only giving it to her, but dropping it off to her saying, Oh, you're so nice. I don't want any money for it. So she like had this great little pandemic business from free inventory.
But people will give you, when I was moving out of my own house, I moved here like six years ago and we had lived in my house that I raised my kids in for 20 years. And even with me selling everything. And even with me, I thought I was giving a lot of stuff away when we went to move. The amount of stuff coming out of my house was overwhelming.
And so I was just giving it away. Like anyone wanted, I'm putting it on Facebook Marketplace. I didn't want to sell it. I just, you know, especially when you're moving, you want it out. And so people will give you free stuff for sure.
Melissa: Do you sell some on Marketplace or no?
Julie: I've tried it. I did. It's not for me.
I don't want to meet anybody. I don't want to go and meet anybody in person.
Melissa: I was just curious if you did like the shipping, the whole like, because now that they did,
Julie: it was really not. The reason eBay is great is I know what to do. And I know I will have consistent sales. My eBay sales. Or, you know, year after year, but month after month, I know what money is going to come in.
The minimum amount of money is going to come in on eBay. Facebook marketplace just was really hard to, to do that. So it didn't seem worth my time at all. Lots of questions and yeah.
Melissa: Tire kickers. Not really going to pull the trigger. And do you have anybody else working with you or are you doing, like you get the stuff, you list it.
And it's just you.
Julie: I'm a one man band. That's awesome. And I always have been, and I always want to be. When I did have my retail stores, that I consider that like my MBA. So my husband and I had these three retail stores. We were going to grow to six and we thought if we have six of these stores, we're going to be set for life.
Right. And it was a really great business when it was great. 2008 hit, the recession hit, and it was. We felt it in our business. The malls were empty, even the airport, which you would think shooting fish in a barrel, it wasn't as good. So we decided to get out of it. My husband decided to go back in corporate America, but I learned that I don't like to manage people at all because we had to have employees.
The airport was open 365 days a year at six in the morning. And we would get the call at five in the morning. Oh, my babysitter didn't show up. And you know, I would have to get dressed and drive to the Miami airport. I don't want to deal with it. And so I'm sure I could grow more if I wanted to with employees, but I don't, I, I'm less stressed on better inventory.
Yeah, absolutely.
Melissa: A lot less stress. We even had one of our members talk to us about like he, instead of going up in management, like his next step was the next step up in management to get a raise. He used reselling to, you know, take that stress off. So it's like, no, I'm just going to go do my job, come home and do make my extra money this way.
And I don't have to deal with the stress. So it makes a lot, it makes a lot of sense.
Julie: And it's good to diversify, if you're in corporate America too. Well, I think that a lot of resellers, I've seen a lot of resellers do that. And get into trouble. So I, I know a lot of, I'm sure you do too. After being in this business so long, I met a lot of people and some of them are like, Oh, I'm making, you know, X amount of dollars by myself.
If I add two employees, I'll triple the income. So they get a warehouse and they get a lot of inventory and then they, you know, they need to buy inventory and liquidation, and you have to pay those employees regardless of your sales. They're not working on commission or contingency. And so all of a sudden they've got all these bills.
I work out of my second bedroom, which is the bedroom when my kids come home. You know, I mean, and I have a little storage unit and keeping your expenses low is always a good business decision. So.
Melissa: I love that. No. Yeah. I think that's a great way to deal with business. Absolutely. Well, where can everybody go and find you?
Where's some of the best place to follow you on the internet?
Julie: I'm at Casa Chic store on Instagram. It's Casa Chic underscore store and I'm on TikTok. Awesome. Casa Chic. But I, I've been posting a tip of the day on Instagram for like, I don't know, eight years, seven or eight years. And I've made so many good Instagram friends.
So, that's the best place to find me.
Melissa: We'll put the links below in the show notes too. Yeah. Instagram's my favorite. I don't know. It's just nice. It seems like a good environment. It's fun. People are nice.
Rob: So yeah. Awesome. Well, Julie, thanks for jumping on here with us. We greatly appreciate you.
Julie: I'm so glad to meet you guys.
Rob: You too. It's so much fun. I didn't even know you're in Florida, but I love the canal that's right behind your house.
Julie: That's the intercoastal. Oh, I love it. I'm in Fort Lauderdale.
Rob: I love it. That is awesome watching those big boats. I'm a boat guy. I love boats. I've had boats my whole life. So that's just making me drool while I'm here talking to you.
You want to go check out all the boats, huh? Absolutely. But we greatly appreciate all that you bring to the reselling world. Appreciate your time that you spent with us.
Melissa: Go follow her on
Instagram and TikTok for sure.
Rob: Absolutely. You are awesome. Thank you so much again for spending some time with us.
Julie: Thank you so much, you guys. You're the best.