My Marie Gems Business Supplies list on Amazon has 81 items on it, which is too many to read from top to bottom, so I sort it by the job each item does in a product shop: pressing, labeling, photographing, and the paper goods that go with an order. My other storefront lists cover the home office side of working from home. Here is how they all fit together and which one to open first.
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What is on my Marie Gems Business Supplies list?
It is an 81-item list on my Amazon Influencer storefront, and the description I wrote for it reads "Essential tools and materials for DIY crafters and small business owners." You can open the whole thing on my Business Supplies list. Marie Gems is a DTF transfer and custom product shop in Wichita, Kansas that has shipped more than 500 orders across Shopify, Vinted, Whatnot, Etsy, and direct sales, so the list leans toward the physical work of a shop: heat presses, a printer, label supplies, and photography gear.
Which list covers pressing gear, and which covers printing gear?
Pressing gear lives on two lists and printing gear lives on a third. My Sublimation Starter Kit list has 19 items, including the HTVRONT auto heat press 15x15 and several tumbler presses. The Business Supplies list has the HTVRONT heat press 12x10 with a pressure display and the HTVRONT auto hat press. DTF Printing Must-Haves has 7 items and is for printing your own transfers: a printer, an oven, ink, and powder. It has no heat press on it, so do not look for one there.
It helps to keep that split clear, because printing a transfer and pressing one are two separate jobs. Marie Gems' ready-to-press transfers are pressed at 320°F for 15 seconds with a cold peel, and that pressing step needs a press whether you print your own film or buy it already made. If you are still choosing a method, DTF vs. sublimation vs. HTV is the comparison I wrote for exactly that decision.
Where are the label printer and the photo gear?
Both are on the Business Supplies list. For shipping, it has a MUNBYN Bluetooth 4x6 thermal shipping label printer, a MUNBYN 4x6 thermal label holder, and YEGAWEN 2 inch round purple thermal label stickers. For product photos, it has a Glendan 12x12 LED photo light box and a Yoocheese tabletop product photography backdrop. For paper goods, it has Avery Clean Edge printable business cards, sold as a 200 pack.
Which of my lists are for the home office side?
HOME MUST HAVES has 31 items and includes an L-shaped electric standing desk, a wireless mouse, a laptop cooling pad, and a USB hub. Overwhelmed Mom Brain Essentials has 7 items, including noise-cancelling headphones and a visual timer. My Lavender Gift Set has 5 items, including a purple leather journal and a pack of gel pens. Those are the three I would open for a work-from-home desk rather than a shop.
How many lists do I keep, and are my picks anywhere besides Amazon?
My storefront holds 10 lists, and some items appear on more than one list. Four more lists are not about business at all: a reading nook, fall decor, Peanuts collectibles, and a 52-item Baby and Mom Must Haves list. Beyond Amazon, I keep a profile on Benable at benable.com/mariegems that holds 11 lists in total, and four of them are business lists. My DTF Business Starter Kit has 16 items and covers the equipment and supplies behind a DTF transfer shop, including heat press tape, silicone parchment paper, and heat press pillows. My Sublimation Must Haves list has 31 items across sublimation presses, tumblers, paper, and blanks. My Pinterest Marketing Tools list has 16 items of desk, planning, and content-creation gear from my Marie Glow Studio work. My Web Designer's Must Haves list has 21 items covering web design tools, Flodesk, and planners. Benable links are affiliate links too.
How should a new shop owner work through a list this long?
Start with the job you will repeat on every single order. For a shop like mine, that is pressing and labeling, so the heat press and the label printer come before anything else. Photography comes next, because a listing needs images before anyone can buy. Everything else can wait until you know what your shop actually asks of you. Prices on Amazon move around, so check each listing before you decide.
If you want the human context behind the shop, how the days actually work is the post about running my businesses alongside seven kids, and my Brands page shows what I have built so far.