WAYS OF SELLING

ONLINE

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 Five Things You Need to
Start Online
 Know What to Sell
 Know how to sell
 Choose a Place to Sell
 Decide How You’ll get Paid
 Get Customers
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1. Auction Sites
Auction sites provide the convenience of not having to set
up a website to begin setting. Offers are automatically fed
into the system and this allows the seller to monitor
potential buyers. When payment is made, the seller is
obligated to deliver the item. Auction sites cater to specific
categories of items. Thus an auction site may specialize
only on antiques or cars, or more specialized items, like
property of deceased celebrities.
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2. Fixed price marketplaces
These are websites where goods are sold with
definite prices. An example is Amazon.com.
Sellers or merchants do not need to worry about
website creation, maintenance and traffic. The
item being sold is simple placed in a list, usually
for a fee or a percentage of the sale.
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3. Online Craft Fairs
The craft fair is like a bazzare and is an excellent place
for craftspeople, who are generally specialized artiest,
to connect to the public and garner followers. To
artists, it’s better than a gallery where people have to
buy from dealers. Fairs and shows are where artists
usually find new customers and make sales with
hardly any overhead.
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4. Classifieds
Classified advertising is often associated with newspapers
wherein small ads are grouped together into categories in
their own sections. In the online world, any item that you
sell will not be physically present for the potential buyer.
There may not even be a picture to admire. Online
classifieds often contain a contact number or email
address for the interested buyer to contact.
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5. Online infomercial
An infomercial is a direct response video advertisement.
Infomercials used to be the domain of television, but the
Internet now provides the most convenient way to play
videos. Infomercials began to invade the internet as early
as 2003 when more direct selling companies began to
make their television infomercials available online in
streaming format.
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6. Social networks
When social networks came out online, they were only
meant to connect people with one another. Thus began a
transformation of social networks like Facebook and
Myspace which eventually became a primary choice of
businesses to do their social network marketing.

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7. Storefront
Many services online have picked up on the boom and
now cater to entrepreneurs who wish to set up their own
stores on the internet and get up and running with their
business in no time at all.