Selling stuff directly can be a good idea

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As the title reads, selling things directly and making money online can be a good idea rather than selling someone elses products and earning commissions out of it. Lot of people have started selling CDs and DVDs on eBay after eBay said NO to digital products. Many eBay sellers are making much more selling eBooks on CDs as compared to what they were making selling just the eBooks. Selling directly means you keep the 100% profit and you need not share a cent with anyone. Sounds good but it might not be that easy at it seems to be.

Selling things directly to end users means first you need to have something to sell. Once you have "something" to sell, you need to have the right price for it. You cannot afford to sell something for $100 when the world is selling it for $10. You need to do lot of research on how similar products are sold and at what rate. Still its not that easy. Once you have a product and a reasonable price, you need to convince the end user to buy it. Now many would say that same has to be done for selling other’s products as well but this is a bit different and tough. When you are selling someone else’s product, you automatically come to know about the product from a website, testimonials etc. Your product has nothing, no write up, no testimonials, nothing. This means you need to to do a lot of background work on your product.

Also, you need to ensure that the product is delivered to the right person on right time. You need to check if the payment is received by tracking. The last thing you would be doing here is taking care of the refund. You will have to refund if a customer asks for which will waste more time and energy. Selling your own product would be a good idea but then it takes lot of pains. You end up getting good money though.

For my readers who are thinking about what to sell directly. Here are few tips:

1. Write an eBook on a topic you know the best or buy one with reseller rights and send it to Kunaki. They will burn your stuff to  a CD or a DVD and ship it for you.

2. Sell something like entrecards.

3. Be creative and sell crazy stuff like this by Ian Usher.

Trust me, people are crazy and buy any stuff on eBay. Just use your creative mind to make something up and sell it!!!!

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