How to Directly Sell on Social Media

[Jasmine]

Social media is not just a platform to promote, market and advertise your business, social media sites are also the platforms to sell your products and make money. You can use youtube, tiktok, or twitter to promote and advertise your products but you cannot directly sell on these platforms. Not all social media platforms allow selling products directly. In fact, there are few social media platforms where you can sell directly.

If you want to sell directly through social media, Facebook and Instagram are the best platforms.

Selling on Facebook

You can sell in two ways, through Facebook Marketplace and through a Shop on your business page.

Selling on Instagram

If you have 10k followers, you can open a shop on Instagram.

Conclusion

You can use any social media site to run ads or promote products to drive traffic to your store. Each of these sites has a specific audience and will help you generate sales. However, you can sell directly only on Instagram and Facebook.

 

[Mika]

While you might not be able to create a multi-million dollar business just by selling on social media, however, if you want to start a small and medium business, you can start selling on social media. Selling on social media had two major benefits, one, selling is free, and two, marketing is easy. You do not have to spend money to sell. Social media platforms have billions of users and offer different kinds of marketing methods. Therefore, reaching customers is also relatively easy. For example, if you sell on Etsy, you will have to promote your products on Facebook or Instagram and send users of these platforms to Etsy to generate sales. However, if you are selling directly through Instagram, you can promote your product on Instagram and complete the sale without having to leave the platform. Etsy has millions of users, however, Instagram has 1 billion users, facebook has 2.97 billion users.