Craigslist has been great… but hello Mercari Local Delivery!
I’ve shared a few ways to make money online. One of the ways was through reselling items you have around the house or collecting dust in the closet. I have been reselling on Poshmark and some times Craiglist for a while now, and in 2020, I started using is Mercari. Mercari is a an app/website where you can sell anything from toys to clothing and accessories, and even furniture. It’s pretty easy to get set up and start your reselling business within minutes. Just make sure you have great pictures, pricing , and descriptions of your items.
In the past , you could only ship your sold items through via USPS, UPS, or FedEx, but Mercari has partnered with Uber to provide local delivery. Here are the reasons why this is a good thing:
After your item sells, an Uber driver will pick up and drop off your item, contact-free. You will never have to share your address with the buyer
You get to pick the time that works for you, which ensures that your item gets picked up and dropped off on your time.
All of the transactions are taken care of within the Mercari app….so no need to exchange cash.
No need to print shipping labels, which saves you time and ink.
So for those of you who use Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace to resell items , you should give Mercari a try. It’s a lot safer to use their local delivery option , than to deal with the scheduling meet up spots, cash exchanges , and awkward exchanges with strangers.
Problem: You want to add a t-shirt or product line to your business. You need a new revenue stream for your online business, and you don’t want to purchase a bunch of inventory that may sit and collect dust. You also do not have the time to add more clients to your schedule. (BTW, this post contains affiliate links)
Solution: You could use a drop shipping company to create and send your custom designed t-shirt or product directly to your customers. There are many options to choose from but today I’m going to talk to you about how to use Printfulto create a t-shirt line for your brand or business.
Printfulmakes it easy to put your designs on products such as tshirts, mugs, hats and even canvases. All that you have to do is upload your designs to products of your choice. Printful will fulfill your orders with on-demand printing and will send the products directly to your customers.
Last time I spoke with you all, I had just created a new site for Comedian Lance Thompson. Since then, he has booked more shows and he’snow ready to start selling t-shirts and DVD’s both in person and on his website. So what’s the solution? Should he build a new site? Sign up with Shopify or another E-commerce platform, or should he build on the site that we already created?
We decided that the best solution is to extend the site that he already has. In order to sell products on his site, we must add a shopping cart and connect it to a payment processor. We will also give people the option to download a digital version of the DVD or have a hard copy shipped directly to them. It sounds like a lot of work, but wit the help of WordPress, Woocommerce and Paypal/Stripe or Square, we can make it happen.
The look of his site won’t change much. We will add a shop section that will include a picture and description of the product and an add to cart button. The customer will purchase their product and receive a receipt. Easy peasy….
Stay tuned for the end results. In the meantime, comment below and let me know your thoughts on the chosen solution.
We’ve been discussing e-commerce lately. Over the past few months, there has been an increase in E-commerce sales due to our new normal of being quarantined and home more . You don’t have to be an expert in business to start an e-commerce business. Some of these ideas require little to no financial investment. Just in case you needed a little kick in the butt or a few ideas, I put together a quick list of e-commerce business ideas for you to start today :
