About

Hi there! Welcome – and Thank You for visiting my About page.  I’ll keep this short and sweet.  Kinda.

My name is Nanette Thorell, but everyone calls me Nan.  Originally from California, I now live in my own home, in a small mountain community in the piñon and ponderosa forests of  New Mexico. The impossible blue skies, breezy cool pines, fresh mountain air and clear starry nights allow for a clarity of mind and peaceful existence that I thrive on.  If you’re curious about the house, I took pictures during the construction and posted them at my Log Home New Mexico website.

I am schooled in Commercial Art, which developed into an interest in what is commonly called Internet Sales and Marketing.  I can see your eyes glazing over right now – stay with me.  It’s an overused and generic phrase, but it’s accurate.  IS&M was not my original intention when I first put my foot on this path many years ago, but here I am anyway.  In a nutshell, one might describe it as “getting folks to buy your stuff“.

I started out where a lot of others in this particular tribe started out – on eBay.  I’ve been an eBay seller since 1998.  I branched out to Amazon as a marketplace seller sometime around 2003.  And I added Etsy to my list of venues in 2005. At this point, I have three sales channels at eBay, one at Amazon, and two at Etsy.

I started writing this blog for many reasons, but if I had to narrow it down to one objective, it would be: to get stuff outta my head and maybe help someone in the process.  In this blog, I will share my selling techniques, my successes, and failures, things that work for me, mentors I read and follow, and – when that gets to be too much like work – some small-town stories, and single-woman-living-in-the-forest household hacks.

That’s about it – thank you for visiting, and reading my About page.