What type of products can be sold online

The answer is plenty. In fact, there are products sold online that you may think it doesn’t even make sense to do so.

Granted, there will be products that doesn’t make sense to sell online. Stuff like hot soup for example, where it must be kept warm all time time until it arrives at your customer’s house.

Wild ideas aside, here are the list of items you can sell online just like that *snap fingers*

 

Apparels, costumes, cloth based products

This is a given. It is light, easily folded into small package and easily sold online. Just drop them into a hard envelope and off you go. In fact, you can even use the plastic, water-proof envelope that are given away free by courier companies.

 

Books, Magazines, Newspapers

Another very logical product to are easily sold online. Newspaper and other paper based products has been delivered to your door steps long before internet was born. Flat, small and light, these are the formula of a good product to sell online.

 

Products Refills

There are products that you would prefer not to go to the shop to get. After all, you are getting the same item over and over again. Some examples are shampoos, detergents, water filters, printer inks and vitamin pills.

That’s not all. Consider some service-based item. Like cosmetics, nail polishes, disposable contact lenses and even teeth whitener’s gel. These are the products you go into the service center, get a professional opinion on what to use and you just continue to buy it month after month online.

As a service center, you could offer to sell these online to save your customers’ travel time and you spending manpower entertaining them. Just get them to buy online, and you send the products over. You could spend the time getting new customers instead.

 

Wholesale

You may not be selling to consumers but to another businesses instead. Again, selling your products online makes sense. Other businesses logs onto your website, choose what they want, pick minimum order quantity (MOQ), make the payment and you just send a truck over with your products.

 

Private products

For the lack of better word, these are the products you would be ‘shameful’ to buy in public. For more conservative nations, lingerie, sexy costumes, porn and sex toys fit into this category.

There are always demand for products like these, the problem is, some conservative nations disallows shops to sell these item publicly. So where can your customer get them? Online! Just be sure to pack them in an unmarked package

 

Services

If you are a spa owner, restaurant owner, photographer, designer, hotel owner or software developer, you would assume the best way for you to sell to your customers are walk in customers. You would think the Internet is your marketing channel, nothing more. It just simply doesn’t make sense to sell your services online.

But with the recent rise of group buying companies, we see a very successful and profitable way to sell these services online. By simply using a voucher. Your customers choose the services they want, make the purchase, gets a voucher, print them and bring them to your shop to redeem for the service.  Best part? You get your money upfront regardless they turn up or not.

 

More and more

As our technology improves and our delivery services gets more and more affordable and convenient, we will see more creative companies selling their products and services online. Everyone is very much aware that the online commerce is going to boom in the coming years, so why not join in the fun and expose your products to all your potential online customers?