OddThoughts

Now Wait!

Before you get all high and mightily telling me how those magazine selling businesses are a \”waste of time\”. Just please give me 2 minutes of your time.

I’m not suggesting that you sign up for Avon, or Tupperware, and try to sell their products.

I’m suggesting you create your own product line and have others do the selling for you!

Why be at the bottom of the pole, when you can start at the top?

First you create a simple website, that lists all of the products you want to sell, perhaps it’s a custom T-Shirt business, or eccentric geek gadgets, or even a book club. Decide what your buisness will be, (once you get it up and running you can then lauch others!)

Create a set of instructions and marketing materials to give to people explaining on how to sell your product. This should include

a) A catalog of items available for purchase

b) A price list containing prices for your sellers to “sell at”. Give you sellers the ability to customize this list and include their own customized ‘mark up’ to their situation.

c) Instructions for hosting a “party\ for your sellers to sell the wares.

You don’t have to actually have your own product list.  Instead you create a special site that lists the items in your catalogs and uses affiliate links to other products.

You seller buys the items from your affiliate pages (which are made to look like your catelog) and you get the commission. They then buy the items from the items collected and keep the difference (or pay you a %age of the sale as well).

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