How About Selling Someone Else s Products



There are only a few ways to grow a business. You have to find more people to sell your products or services to, or more products and services to sell to your existing people. Or both. Selling someone else"s products can be an excellent and useful way to grow or expand your business. Let"s look at a few scenarios.

Scenario #1: You"re just starting out and you"re in a hurry. Using other people"s products is a fast way is a fast way to attract others to your site and to start building a list. It"s also a good way to "test" markets and products. That is, use a wide range of products to see what people want the most, or try different products to see what a market segment will respond to.

Scenario #2: You have an established site and you"re looking to make some quantum growth. Using other people"s products to up-sell and cross-sell to your existing clients is a good way to increase the value and life of your existing customers. Build a complete product line of complementary and accessory products using 3rd-party wares. It"s the essence of retailing and it has the effect of increasing your credibility as a merchant as well.

Whatever your scenario, the ideal way of selling someone else"s products - particularly if you"re just testing products or lists -- is to do so via an affiliate program, or to do so via a pure sales arrangement with the manufacturer. That is, you do the selling, they maintain the inventory, they do the shipping, administration, etc.

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