Selling Online: Digital Products, Physical Products, or Services

[Mika]

You can sell digital products, physical products, or services online. However, between these there which brings you more money and which one is relatively easier to sell?

When you can create your own store to sell these items, selling from third-party marketplaces is relatively easy because you do not have to spend money on creating your store.

You can sell digital products on digital marketplaces and physical products on general ecommerce marketplaces. However, a lot of ecommerce marketplaces allow you to sell both physical products and digital products from their platform. For example, you can sell digital products on Creative Fabrica but on Etsy, you can sell digital products as well as physical products.

Freelance marketplaces are for selling your services. Some freelance marketplaces are specifically designed for certain kinds of services, whereas some freelance marketplaces are for all kinds of services. On Fiverr and Upwork you can sell all kinds of services. On 99Design you can sell only design services and on iwriter, you can sell only writing services.

 

[Jasmine]

Unless you have a dream to become very big and compete with Amazon, I don't recommend selling physical products. You need a lot of investment in order to sell physical products, you need to manufacture or procure, you need to store, and you need to pack and ship. You need to pay rents, wages, etc. If you want to sell physical products the best way to do it either through print-on-demand method or through droshipping. In both methods, you don't have to spend money on products, you do not have to fulfill the order. For small and medium business, selling digital products and services is the best way to make money. If you have skills, you can easily create products or sell services, even when you do not have skills you can hire someone to create products for you or work for you. Selling digital product is one of the best business automation ideas.