Do you want to Start Selling Items Online? Find Profitable Opportunities. Learn about affiliate programs. How to Sell Items Online With A Niche Website? Affiliate Marketing Business is the fastest growing market today.
Hi, my name is Stefan, I am an internet entrepreneur and today I want to show you how you can sell any item on the internet. I myself have three selling websites running. My no 1 recommendation is for you to build your own website.
How To Sell Items Online, Two Major Ways to do That
The easier one but the less lucrative way is to let a big existing website sell your products. You have to pay a fee or percentage and big sites like eBay, Etsy, ClickBank or Amazon, just to name a few, will do the selling for you. This is a convenient way but if you want to make a sustainable income you want to build your own selling site or work with both models.
If you want to sell something without owning the items your self, like drop shipping or affiliate marketing you will definitely have to have your own website. How and where you best build your website I will disclose in this article.
eBay: Auction or Direct Sales Worldwide 
Here you find a platform, famous for selling all kinds of articles. They are well-known and recommended for their auction program. You can sell secondhand items and new stuff, set a minimum price and a final selling date, eBay then lets potential customers bid for your product and takes its share once the item is sold.
eBay was founded in 1995 by Pierre Omidyar and is the ninth biggest internet company by revenue today. They earned 8.97 Billion USD in 2016. They sell a lot and earn tons of dollars from you who wants to sell your products to a huge audience.
For you who has only some few secondhand or new products that you want to sell occasionally and have fun with observing the auction this is a great option. For someone that produces or re sails products on a regular basis and wants to be professional, I think a privately owned website is the better option, at least in long-term thinking.
On eBay, you can sell everything from nail-polish to used guitars to new refrigerators to cars. You can sell and also buy digital products, books, and even website domain names. You can even buy a ready to use websites on eBay.
Etsy: Handmade Products Specialist 
This is the site you want to sell your handcrafted items like self-made art crafts, toys, paintings or clothing. There is no auction involved and the articles can stay for a maximum time of four months. Etsy lets you open an Etsy shop for free and provides help and suitable tools.
Etsy was founded in 2005 by Rob Kalin, Jared Tarbell, Chris Maguire, Haim Schoppik. Etsy’s stock price is now $19.74 and growing. The commissions on Etsy are relatively low and they claim to have over 30 million shoppers around the world.
All these programs offer you to be an affiliate partner, means you can sell their products on your own website and get a commission. For example, you can choose a double landing approach to selling your items. First, you let them being sold on one of the mentioned big websites and secondly on your own website.
Clickbank: The Software Specialist 
Clickbank is not an actual selling portal but an affiliate provider program, means, people having websites can promote the products offered by Clickbank on their websites and earn a commission. Clickbank has mainly specialized in digital products. Anything from programs to education and software of any topic, Clickbank sells the product.
As you see, with this option, you will have to wait until a Clickbank affiliate partner chooses your product and makes a sale on his or her website, before you see your money.
In addition to your own website, this possibility of distribution might be an interesting way to go. Clickbank was founded in 1998 by Tim and Eileen Barber claims to have 200 million customers and presents an online-retailer brand of the top 100 in the world.
If you are into creating helpful software or digital books or instruction software and not have the time to build your own website, you can either let Clickbank sell your products or buy a working website and just customize it. In-depth and free education on how to do this I will disclose later, in another post or you find all you need “here”
Amazon. Com: Sells Everything New And Secondhand 
Here we have the most successful and best-known online-retailer in the world today. Amazon.Com was founded by Jeff Bezos (today one of the richest men) on July 5, 1994, they are the biggest e-e-commerce store and the second biggest private employer in the US.
Selling items of almost every kind are easy made by Amazon, although they have not only satisfied customers. (See this). Through an assortment of millions of items, Amazon relies very much on affiliate retailers like me or you to funnel niche customers into defined product segments.
Privately produced, smaller websites, targeting a specific audience and providing helpful information and recommending the best possible suitable products are selling a great part of the Amazons virtual stock. Millions of people search different topics on the internet daily and open “niche websites”, where they get informed about things they want to know and find the matching products. Some sold on Amazon.
The video below is showing you a lot more options for other websites you can sell your Products. It would take too much space to describe all the e-commerce portals here, on-site, and writing them out, so check the video and learn more
Build Your Own Brand Website & Make The Best Profits
You will hardly make a million dollars by selling items on Amazon but you have a realistic chance to make a million dollars by selling Amazon items.
Today it is quite easy to create your own free website, there are loads of better and worse programs teaching so and providing tools and website hosting. I had no idea of how to build a website not too long ago and today I manage three of them.
To build and successfully sustain a lucrative website is some work, especially in the first couple of years. It takes only a minute to get your first website on the internet but to get it visible to a huge crowd it needs dedication and hard work. If you are willing to invest time plus a little money, you are able to create something big, people will talk about in the future.
Websites like Amazon, eBay, Tripadvisor or Facebook, even Google started as a one-man project at some point. Today the people behind these websites are some of the richest in the world and enjoy the merit of their efforts and unbreakable believe in success. If you have the time and some inspirational qualities you will be able to grow within the fastest growing business sector in today’s world.
You want to know how to sell items online, then I assume you know what items you would like to sell. There you already have the first and I think the most important component of your own brand and website. You have a “niche”. A successful website needs to have a defined niche first of everything else.
Let’s say you want to sell your self-made ceramics, then you research a more specific niche matching your ceramic products. You can call it the “stevemade.com, Hand Made Ceramic Artefacts” or whatever suits you. I have a post here that helps you define a great money making niche.
If you want to sell a product you do not own yourself you want to be an affiliate marketer like I am. I don’t want the risk of having to stock loads of items here and ship them to customers, I just want to recommend a place where people can purchase the desired object and earn a commission.
I also want to share all the experience I have and the information about the topic I research on the internet. I want to help people make better buying decisions and warn them of products that might disappoint them or just want to steal their money.
You can see now, making your own website can be very interesting and educating even for your self. One of my websites sells flip-flops, now after months of writing reviews and researched advising content, I know so much more about flip-flops. When I buy a new pair, I look at them from a totally different angle and can choose a much better product for myself.
The internet is a platform where people are looking for help, about 4 billion people daily to be exact. Our job as website producers is to help a chosen group of these people. With time this group will learn to trust in our knowledge and keep visiting our site. That is when the selling starts.
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Thank’s for reading this article, I hope I answered your most important questions. Feel free to click away on my site and find more helpful information.
If you have any more questions please let me help. Below you find the comment section where I would love to see your requests, opinions, and suggestions.
Do you know where to sell your items online now? Did you like what you see? What else would you like to learn about? How can I help YOU?
See you, have a fantastic time, Stefan 🙂 asuperaffiliate.com
Very nice website.
Lots of great information and ways to get valuable products and information.
Not sure what else to say other than I’m blown away.
Hi Tim and thanks for commenting.
Thanks for the kind words. Don’t get blown away though, there’s a lot more great information to be seen on this website 🙂
I hope to see you back, best success, Stefan 🙂
Thanks for all the great information.
I believe it will be helpful as I continue to grow my business.
I did not know a lot of the things you talked about. Keep bringing us more information…
Hi Lynn and thanks for commenting.
I’m glad to be able to give helpful information. The MMO business is hard enough and some facts should be made public so you don’t have to experience everything yourself.
I’ll do my best to collect more and better information. At the moment I’ll be writing reviews about all kinds of online products. This will have me engaged for the next few months.
I hope you have a great time, see you, Stefan 🙂
Excellent information on how to sell items online.
I have been thinking of starting an online store, and this info will help me to build the website, find the best products and affiliate networks to use to optimize my success.
Thank you for sharing. Tom
Hi Tom, and thanks for the comment.
There are a lot more affiliate networks than the ones I mentioned here. This post is more to highlight the possibilities you have monetizing your website.
For more affiliate programs you can check out this post.
I wish you all the success with your online shop, see you, Stefan 🙂
You offer great explanations for selling products online. I, too, am a Wealthy Affiliate member and will say that they and their members offer the best sites for information on affiliate marketing.
Hi Tanya, thanks for the comment. Isn’t it so, WA is where I learned all this and much more. I can rely on the program to learn everything needed to sell things and make a great ranking website.
Have a great day, much success and all the best.
See you, Stefan 🙂
Hi, very informative and valuable information for those of us learning about how to make money online. I didn’t realize Etsy had an affiliate program as well. I have tried to sell on Etsy before, but with not much success. I also didn’t have much knowledge of how to increase my presence or create a reasonable look, so I was competing with the ones who knew more and had larger stores which I didn’t have. Your site certainly provides more information for us online entrepreneurs.Thank you.
Thanks for sharing your experience, Kathleen. I believe, getting up in the hierarchy of sites like Etsy or Amazon etc takes time and experience. Not that making an own website is not taking at least the same amount of engagement but at least, in the end, your own website is a lifetime property.
I hope your business is doing good now and wish you all the best.
See you, Stefan 🙂
Hello, thank you for sharing the many
ways to sell online. Now, I have a guide to direct me to the appropriate source.
Hi Luisa, I’m glad if I could help. I hope there is a way for you too to make money on the internet.
I’ll be posting more detailed info on several topics soon.
Have a great day, please stop by again, Stefan 🙂
Hello Stefan,
Very well laid out site and quite informative. Only thing I saw off was the flip flop image is blurry. Other than that, great job on the site.
Ever Forward,
Joe Maggio Jr
Hey Joe, thanks for your comment.
I can say I do sell on AMAZON and also have a Wealthy Affiliate account, and the money is real. The nice thing about Wealthy Affiliate is the community feel. You will learn, and will have the support of many experienced people who are actually involved and doing what you are. I’ve been with other hosting sites, but I’ve had more success, and learned more since signing up with Wealthy Affiliate. If you are thinking about it, just do it.
Hi James, and thanks for the comment. I am not surprised that you are happy working with Wealthy Affiliate. I wish you all the success in your project, see you Stefan 🙂
Hello, very in-depth and informative Thanks for providing this information that will be a good help to all of your readers.
Hi, Norman, I am glad to be of help. To help people have a successful online business is the point of this website.
Feel welcome to look in again and hopefully find some articles that can help you get closer to your goals.
See you, have great day, Stefan 🙂
Thanks for laying out all these different opportunities to sell things online. Do you need to have your own product for all these methods? Or there are things like dropshipping or affiliate marketing involved?
Hi Jerry, I am glad you like the info. These methods are meant for both options, having your own articles or sell things you do not own and just recommend.
I do affiliate marketing on my website and sell things from eBay and Amazon etc. You could also do drop shipping and sell on your website or sell on eBay, Amazon etc.
I hope you understand. If you need further information please contact me by email: asuperaffiliate2018@gmail.com
Thank’s for your involvement and have a great day, see you, Stefan 🙂
What an informative post!
Before having my very own website, I was planning to write an eBook and sell it on Amazon because this is what a successful Filipino online marketer has been teaching in his Internet Master Class. According to him, you can make a lot of money by selling your own products, specifically digital products, online. I believed him because he has shown proof of his sales. As a matter of fact, he was able to quit his 9-5 job and is now teaching many Filipinos how to build their own online businesses.
Selling items online is indeed a profitable business opportunity and this mentor I am talking about is just one of the many proofs that internet marketing really works.
Anyway, after learning how to build my very own website, I thought it might be better for me to sell other people’s products through affiliate marketing and this is what I intend to focus on, for now.
But there have been times when I’ve thought of trying drop-shipping, something I am not knowledgeable about but willing to learn. What advice can you give me in case I decide to pursue drop-shipping? What’s the most important thing I should know?
Hello, Alice, Thank’s for your comment. What you need to know about dropshipping, the number one rule in every selling items business is: The price you pay defines the profit you can make. Means, you have to be very strict and buy cheap. the cheaper you get your products the more profit you can make.
Next, you want to look for a supplier that has a good recommendation, you don’t want many complains from your customers and returned items.
I’ll be here with a post on this topic in time. Step by step 🙂
It is already a good step forward to have built your own website, work on your brand and then you can gradually add some drop shipping items to your selling posts.
I wish you the best of luck with your online business, hope to hear from you again, see you Alice, Stefan 🙂