Selling online is more than setting up a website and uploading product images; it requires passion, expertise, and marketing chops to succeed. The good news is that there’s a plenty of tools to help your online shop be a success. Yamkela Nxazonke carefully compiled 15 ways that people use to sell their businesses online. We hope you use those that apply to your business.
Email marketing
Email marketing is the act of sending a commercial message, typically to a group of people, using email. In its broadest sense, every email sent to a potential or current customer could be considered email marketing. This involves collecting email list and building an email list is not an easy task as it takes time and some companies hire an agency that specialise in email marketing.
Facebook is a site where many people are most exposed to it, they use it to chat with their peers, and many people sell their products on facebook through marketplace. share pictures of your product so that people can an clear image of what you taking about, facebook have many people who may be customers of your product.
Twiter is also a social network where people communicate, gets updates about everything like whats happening around the world. Who does what at what time, and there are people who sell their products online post pictures of their products, do videos with their customers that use the product, and get comments so that people can be more interested in the product like people who sell inuka and avon post videos of their happy customers online?
some people use this platform to sell their business, post on their whatsapp statuses. Create a group so that he or she can communicate with the customers and post on that group about new things in your product.
Advertise on TV or radio
Go to a local radio station make an appointment so that you can tell people about your product, what it does and tell people what changes will bring to them.
Apply on SABC to do an ad
Do an ad advertising your business, if its a skin product show what it does also a hair product do the same thing show your hair before you used the product and results after you used the product.
Linkedin is also a website that people use to sell and do their businesses. Other people apply for jobs in linkedin.
Ebay
It is a great way to sell products online, it it expensive but it helps you to get your product in front of ore people because it has millions of users
Free products
I think giving away free products online can help you to sell your products, you can have a competition to give away free products to people, don’t only give away that person must first answer a survey on why she want to try your product.
Shopify
With Shopify, merchants can build and customize an online store and sell in multiple places, including web, mobile, in person, brick-and-mortar locations, and pop-up shops and across multiple channels from social media to online marketplaces
Create your own selling product
Thare are many online platforms that people can use to sell a product. Choose an suitable name for your product
Zara
People can use zara to because it specialises in fast fashion for those who sell clothes, accessories, shoes, swimwear, and perfumes. It is the largest company that I know that is famous and that people love and use.
Sell your product to other stores online
So that they can first advertise your product online and maybe if people love your product the store will work with you and help you sell your produt to many people using the store website.
Write an article
Explain more on social media using an article educate people about your business, an make sure you write your contact details so that people can get back to you and comment about your product.
Gumtree
Is also an advertising business thatsome people use to do their businesses, it makes ads you provide your product details, create an account
