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Are any of you selling a physical product?

by Banished Shirts
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I feel as though most of the posts on here are for trying to sell an eBook or get a email for a list. Is anyone driving traffic to their own website and selling a physical product? If so what do you do differently and what methods have worked best for you?
#physical #product #selling
  • Profile picture of the author salegurus
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  • Profile picture of the author AllanJames
    Originally Posted by Banished Shirts View Post

    I feel as though most of the posts on here are for trying to sell an eBook or get a email for a list. Is anyone driving traffic to their own website and selling a physical product? If so what do you do differently and what methods have worked best for you?
    I sell a physical product - but not through my own website. Through a providers site that I've worked with for over seven years. It's a product that is helping patents build their children confidence and self esteem.

    I can't think of anything I would change. Schools and even a Mayor are taking it up in the thousands.
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  • Profile picture of the author paulie123
    Ebay and Amazon can serve as your model as to what physical products are selling. The key to selling those items are the same. SEO, an email list, competitive pricing, etcd. The key for you or any seller, of course, is at what cost did you acquire the product at. This is still the number one problem for those who sell on eBay, Amazon, or any other selling platform. My two cents.
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    • Profile picture of the author Importexport
      Originally Posted by paulie123 View Post

      Ebay and Amazon can serve as your model as to what physical products are selling. The key to selling those items are the same. SEO, an email list, competitive pricing, etcd. The key for you or any seller, of course, is at what cost did you acquire the product at. This is still the number one problem for those who sell on eBay, Amazon, or any other selling platform. My two cents.
      Paulie, you are among the few who understand that profits begin with buying.

      In the sub forum Building eCommerce Sites - Wholesale, Drop Shipping you will find countless posts by sellers talking about profit margins and in most cases they are pathetically low. Those who make 30% (way too low) are the happy ones, lots of others make less.

      The reason for the low profits is that people buy from sources such as dropship suppliers and wholesalers instead of buying direct from the factory.

      The majority who try sourcing overseas get disillusioned because they find big Minimum Order Quantities (MOQs) quoted and prices too high. The reason for that is that they go to the sourcing sites that everybody on the forum suggests.

      On those sites nearly every supplier listed as a manufacturer is in fact a trader, wholesaler, reseller, agent, or some other middle man who has bought from a manufacturer and added a big margin.

      It is possible to ignore big MOQs if you use the right approach and you can find genuine manufacturers on a few sourcing sites where what you see is what you get.

      Profit margins when buying direct from the real manufacturers in China are way beyond the wildest dreams of most people selling physical goods.

      There are plenty of people making good money selling physical products. I know because I have taught people in 19 countries how to do it.
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  • Profile picture of the author lerxtjr
    haa, yeah, can't always believe what you read. A lot of warriors sell physical product. I sell both with different sites of course. What I see as different between the two is that with physical products, you'd better really know your price to sell at. Not only for the reason of maximizing sales potential but also so that you cover your costs and can afford to still pay your referrers/affiliates. So, you wind up paying a lot more attention to adding bonuses that add value so that you can charge even just a little more to clear unexpected costs like returns or second shipments.
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    • Profile picture of the author honestim
      Hi,

      There are a lot of people selling physical products successfully. For starters do a search for the following systems and marketers

      Jim Cockrum
      Jan Roos
      Sam England
      FBA
      Amazon Affiliates
      Dropshipping

      That will give you an idea of how successful these guys and systems are with physical products.

      Cheers
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  • Profile picture of the author derekwong28
    I used to sell physical products and I used to visit e-commerce forums where promotion were discussed all the time. One things that came out was that most small businesses tend to rely on SEO whereas larger businesses on PPC. Affiliate and mailing list sales make a relatively minor proportion.
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  • Profile picture of the author seobro
    Most people sell services. For example, they design web pages. However, a few people sell physical products and they generate a lot more money. It is easy. Let's just say you want to sell hair spray. Well, go to a private label cosmetics company. Typically, they have a set minimum. OK so that will probably be 1,000 cans. Also, you need your own logo and other art work, which is something for which they will charge you. Hey, get ready to pay. It is called a set up fee and that is one of many. Bottles of hair spray eventually arrive. Well, you need a place to store em. I am guessing that you are a micro company. Yo, store the cans in your garage. Later on, you will out grow your garage. By that time you will be making real money. Then you can afford to rent a warehouse or even buy one.
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  • Profile picture of the author garyt
    Hey folks, physical products sell quite well online in this modern day. Look at Amazon. In fact, I like promoting physical products as they fetch a higher price
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  • Profile picture of the author mandy135
    What kind of site can be regarded as selling physical products?
    Just like our company has the website of yuanye chemical, these products are all physical products.
    So is our site selling physical products?
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  • Profile picture of the author ppetri
    Some of my electronic products can also be purchased as a physical product. You setup up a white-label printing company to produce the book on demand and most of them drop-ship for you as well.


    Nothing is done differently when it comes to marketing or list building. The only difference is instead of directing the customer to a download link they are sent an email saying their product will be shipped soon. At the same time another email goes to my drop shipper saying print and mail to my new client. From there, my drop-shipper updates my backend system and client with shipping details and delivery dates.
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