Selling Product On Your Website – The 3rd Way To Monetize Your Site
You might have a garage full of some product that your looking to sell, or perhaps you have a book that you’ve written that is ready to publish. Maybe you’re a gifted teacher or knowledgeable in something that people would be interested in learning about. The internet can be a great place to sell any of those items and even more!
Figure Out A System Based On The Product
If your are selling something tangible that will need to be shipped, be sure you have an idea on how the whole operation will work if you sell a bunch of product daily. Setup your work area, shipping area, know your cost to ship and how you plan to replenish your stock. Make sure that your bookkeeping is going to work so your accountant can understand it and you can track your profits or losses. If you’re selling an e-book or e-course, your job just got a little easier since there are so many great automated tools to take care of that for you. You will still need to figure out a system that will support people who have problems, but it is definitely a lot less troublesome than shipping your product since the internet takes care of the delivery for you. Whichever you plan to do, try to find someone doing something similar that works well for them and copy what they do.
Learn a Little Marketing Skills
Now, all you have to do is get a site up, find and put a good shopping cart inside the site to take payment, and watch the orders come in right? Nope, sorry, it’s not that easy. Now for the hard part! MARKETING
If you can, take some internet marketing courses from people all over the web. I would say that you should get pretty far in learning marketing skills without having to pay a lot of money just on the internet alone. Find a way to promote your stuff without having a bunch people get made at you. Copywriting is a skill that is very valuable. Even if you studied it a little and practiced some, you’d be able to do some amazing things and convince a lot of people to buy your stuff almost magically.
Next, we’ll talk about selling a tangible item and let a company do all the work for you after you’ve built the site.