If you want to develop your own business at home, then you need a product to sell. But what? If you are skilled in an area, then possibly you might make something or provide a service. But what can the rest of us do?
For a start, unless you desperately want to, the produce or products that you will sell through your work at home system do not actually need to be delivered to you for repackaging and sending to a different place. There are a load of other choices!
You can try drop-shipping, where you accept the orders and then pass them on to a wholesaler who sends the items out for you. But, this still leaves you handling payments and orders. Not only does your business grind to a halt when you go on holiday, you are exposed to chargebacks and fraud.
So, for me, the best products to sell for a homeworking system are affiliate items. Here you are just matching impending customers and available sellers. Let someone else deal with packaging, chargebacks and customer complaints whilst you move on to the next customer, earning commissions along the way.
But, where do you start? Well look to your interests and hobbies. Not only does this make you more authoritative in generating your adverts, it makes the marketing more interesting and later steps as for instance article writing much simpler.
Once you have decided on a niche, for example golf, scuba diving or soccer, pay a visit to affiliate forums and affiliate directories. Also, visit some of the better known, and perhaps not so well known, retailers in the industry and see which ones advertise their own affiliate schemes.
Now that you know what retailers you could work with, see if any offer up stats let's say Earning Per Click (EPC), which will show you for every affiliate click to their site, what the average order is. Be aware that some might offer stats for Earnings Per Hundred Clicks and still call this EPC, or EPM, which is per thousand clicks.
This might give you a good idea as to which merchants to sign up with and probably start working with. All you need to do now is to probably decide which of their merchandise range you are going to work with at first.
But keep your mind open to change. You may like to pick a few products from several stores and see which merchants work best for you, rather than relying on general trends.
Of course, stacks will also depend on how you will be selling. If you are merely promoting within your own country then this works well, but if your promotion will work outside of your country, but your merchant might't handle foreign orders, then you have a problem.
In this case, someone like ClickBank who provide electronic goods that might be sold around the world might merely have an edge. Perhaps, instead of trying to promote highly expensive drivers, which each pay good commissions, lower cost ebooks that sell round the world would be a better choice.
Find a product you are happy to work with, but be ready to change if the merchant is not serving you well.
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Written by Keith Lunt of My Home Working . If you want any more work from home ideas , just call in!
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