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Gone are the days when businesses were required to open up stores in order to sell something. The trend is slowly shifting from selling at physical locations to selling on online platforms.
The incredible advancement in technology in recent times has given rise to many different online platforms. These platforms allow you to sell online.
So what can you sell online? You are not limited to selling a particular category of product. You can choose to sell a number of things.
Here are 6 things you can sell/resell online:
1. Tickets
Concerts, festivals, and events are only getting more popular and bigger than ever before. Passionate fans are always looking to attend their favorite events.
This presents an opportunity for you. You can purchase tickets and resell them after adding a markup to the original price.
Tickets are not sold in the hard-copy format. They are sold electronically. So you do not have to worry about meeting up with someone to handover the tickets.
You do not have to limit yourself to selling in the country you are in. You can sell event tickets to people in different countries.
If you make $40 on reselling a ticket and you sell 2 tickets every day to anyone in the world, you would make $560 in a week.
TicketSwap
TicketSwap provides a safe and a convenient platform for buyers and sellers to buy and sell tickets online.
It is easy and free to create your ticket listing on TicketSwap, you can create one in a few clicks. They claim that tickets on TicketSwap are usually sold within an hour of listing.
You can sell your tickets at a maximum of 20% markup from the original price. They charge you a service fee of 5% when you sell your tickets.
Ticketmaster
Ticketmaster is the ultimate ticket platform for all the fans out there. Millions of people already use Ticketmaster to buy concert, event, sports and theater tickets.
Ticketmaster too allows you to resell tickets online. Ticketmaster may be a better option for you to sell your tickets online because of its widespread popularity.
Listing a ticket on Ticketmaster is free but they charge you a service fee when your tickets are sold. You are free to set your own price.
StubHub
Similarly, StubHub is another platform you can use to sell your tickets online.
StubHub is a ticket exchange and resale company The popularity of StubHub is second to none. Over 100 million people use this platform to purchase their tickets. Every second, more than 1 ticket is sold on StubHub.
With StubHub, you can set your own price for your tickets. Listing is free but they too charge a fee when your tickets are sold. The fee differs with each listing buy you can see the fee amount during the listing process.
2. Photos
You do not have to be a professional photographer to sell photos.
Everyone who owns a smartphone has most likely taken photos. You might already be taking pictures of food, nature, things, etc. from your phone. You can sell these pictures and make money.
Unless you post it on a platform for others to see, you would never know how good your photo really is.
As long as your photo is of high-quality, it has the potential to sell.
Shutterstock
Shutterstock is one of the most popular platforms out there for buying and selling photos.
They have been around for more than 15 years. Sellers have already made over $500 million selling photos through Shutterstock.
500px
500px is another platform where you can sell your photos. Their algorithm circulates your photos and makes sure that your content gets viewed and discovered by many people.
It is free to sign up with them. They even provide statistics and data that can provide insight on how your photos are performing.
Etsy
Etsy is a yet another platform that you can use to sell photos. Etsy’s marketplace is mostly known for having unique handmade goods. But you can also sell your photos on Etsy.
On Etsy, you can sell digital images as well as prints. Listing an item on Etsy is not free. They charge $0.20 (C$0.27) to list an item for four months. In addition, they charge other fees such as transaction fee and payment processing fee when you make a sale.
3. Sneakers
Sneakers get worn out fairly quickly. Sometimes, people just get bored of the sneakers they already have. No matter what the reason may be, people are always looking to buy new sneakers.
You can purchase sneakers and resell them to make money. You can also sell your used sneakers online for a very good price.
People easily make between $25 and $100 reselling every pair of sneakers.
GOAT
GOAT is perhaps the number one platform to sell sneakers. Buyers buy with confidence as GOAT provides them with an assurance of authenticity.
GOAT verifies each item before it is sent out to the customer. For this purpose, as a seller, you are required to ship out your products to GOAT first. They provide you with a prepaid shipping label.
You have to pay a seller fee that is dependent on the country you live in. GOAT also charges a commission fee that varies based on different factors. They also charge a cash out fee of 2.9%.
StockX
StockX is another platform for buying and selling sneakers and other products. It is different in a way that it is a stock market for trading things.
Buyers place bids and sellers place asks. Bids and asks are updated in real-time. When bids and asks meet, the transaction occurs automatically.
After you make a sale, you are required to send the sneakers to StockX. They verify the product for authenticity and then ship it out to the buyer.
There is a payment processing fee of 3% and a transaction fee that varies depending on your sales amount or sales frequency.
Poshmark
Poshmark is an online marketplace where you can list and sell sneakers. Footwear is just one of the many categories in Poshmark’s marketplace. They are known for having higher end brands.
They charge a commission fee that varies depending on the price you sell at. Learn more about selling on Poshmark.
4. Customized Products
Did you know that you can start your own business empire on print-on-demand platforms from your bedroom?
Selling customized products is one of the ways you can not only make money in the short term, but also build a business that would serve you in the long term.
There are plenty of opportunities out there to make money selling custom products such as t-shirts, hoodies, handbags, watches, mugs, jewelry, furniture, etc.
The best part about selling customized products is that you do not have to buy and hold your inventory in advance and wait for them to sell.
All you have to do to is create your unique designs and let the print-on-demand companies handle the inventory, printing, shipping and customer service for you.
Printify
Printify is a print-on-demand platform that allows you to customize over 250 products and sell them online in your e-commerce store.
They have more than 90 printing facilities all over the world, so you can confidently sell your products worldwide.
You can connect Printify with different platforms such as eBay, Etsy, Shopify, etc. and start selling your products.
You do not have to pay to sign up. Their basic plan is free, and you pay only when you make sales. So get started right now and start making sales!
Printful
Printful is another popular platform that you can use to customize and sell over 200 different kinds of products including t-shirts, towels, pillows, hats, etc.
You can get products delivered to your customers around the world quickly from one of Printful’s 5 fulfillment centers across the United States and Europe.
You can connect Printful to one of the many selling platforms they support such as Amazon, eBay, Etsy, Shopify, Wix, etc.
There is no fee to sign up with Printful and you only pay them the cost for printing and shipping the product after you make a sale. Sign up now and start selling!
There are many other ways to sell custom products. Here are 16 print-on-demand platforms you can use to sell customized products without ever holding any inventory.
5. General Range Of Products
If you are not sure about what exactly you want to sell or resell online, you can try selling a number of products to determine what exactly you want to focus on.
In this day and age, almost everything can be sold online. There are platforms that allow you to sell almost anything.
You can either sell that things that you already have or purchase goods from a wholesale market and resell them for a profit.
The amount of money you make can vary depending on the type and the category of product you want to sell.
Facebook Marketplace
There is no doubt that Facebook is the largest social network platform in the world and is very popular all over the world.
Facebook Marketplace allows you to sell new as well as used products. Because of how heavily people use Facebook in their daily lives, you can easily and quickly connect with prospective buyers.
What’s even better is that Facebook doesn’t charge you a fee when you make a sale. It is basically a win-win situation when you make a sale through Facebook Marketplace.
After you list the products you want to sell, potential buyers interested in your product would start to contact you.
Amazon
Amazon is the world’s largest online marketplace. You can buy almost everything on Amazon from pencils to furniture.
Since Amazon is so popular, it only makes perfect sense to sell on Amazon. You can make a living only by selling on Amazon.
You can either fulfill orders yourself or send your inventory to Amazon’s fulfillment centers for them to fulfill your orders.
They do charge fees. They charge a referral fee on each product that you sell on Amazon. In addition, depending on your selling plan, they either charge a per-product fee or a pick-and-pack fee.
6. Services
You might have skills, talents, passions or hobbies that can add value to other peoples’ lives. You can start selling your services to those people and make money.
Fiverr
One of the ways to sell your services online is by freelancing. Freelancing is an excellent way to not only make money in the short term, but also build a solid career based on what you like and enjoy doing.
You can choose to freelance in any field you can think of including music, business, photography, graphic design, marketing, acting and programming.
Fiverr is the largest marketplace in the world for buying and selling digital services. You can choose from over 200 categories to sell in any field that interests you.
After you join Fiverr, you are required to create a gig. You can set your own price and offer packages. When someone orders your services, you can start working on their project.
You can join Fiverr and list a gig for free right now. Fiverr keeps 20% of every transaction amount and you get to keep the remaining 80%.
TaskRabbit
Assisting people with their tasks is another way you can sell your services online.
With TaskRabbit, you can choose the tasks that you would like to perform. They have tasks related to admin work, research, data entry, etc.
Depending on your skill level, you can choose to perform the task you think you would be good at. Since there are many different kinds of tasks to choose from, you can choose a task that would allow you to work from your home.
TaskRabbit allows you to set your hourly pay for the task you choose. This could be a great way to make money by doing what you enjoy doing.
TaskRabbit charges a one-time non-refundable registration fee of $25. This is the only fee they ever charge you as a tasker.
Sign up on TaskRabbit USA or TaskRabbit Canada and become a tasker.
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