47+ Ideas to sell your products

Offline marketplaces for products

Offline marketplaces include local cafes, opportunity shops, farmers markets, car boot sales, community fetes, school fundraising events, mother day stalls, garage sale, etc.

By advertising your products for sale on local Facebook pages and Craigslist, you can skip paid newspaper advertisements and keep all of the profits for yourself.

For items that you feel are better tried on or viewed in person, whether it’s clothing, shoes or vintage furniture, try consignment shops like ThredUp or TheRealReal.

Online marketplaces for products

If you are serious about making money on the side, use existing online marketplaces that have loads of traffic and existing customers that are ready to buy.

Online marketplaces include Amazon, Backpage, Bonanza, eBay, Etsy, Gumtree, Newegg, ShareASale, Tophatter, and Wish. Set up your product listing, research how much to charge, and pay a commission on the sale.

You could also set up your own website to sell your products.

Launching a product line and turning it into a sustainable e-commerce business, even as a side project, takes time and continuous long-term effort.

Baking at home

If you enjoy baking and have a bit of artistic touch, you can sell your baking creations.

People are willing to pay others to create custom cakes for birthday parties and special events.

Whether it is cakes, cake decorating, cupcakes, cookies, artisan loaves of bread or pastries, people always prefer homemade products.

Collect bottles and cans for deposit

If you live in a location that offers cash for cans and bottles, you can collect and deposit them in specific locations to earn some cash.

Connect buyers with suppliers

If you have a good network of suppliers, you can make money connecting buyers with suppliers.

Visit websites like Amplifinity and ShareASale. Vendors set the referral fees they’re willing to pay and for what. You get paid for each item sold.

Espresso or coffee cart

If you have the skills and experience of a barista, you could brew up profits by serving hot drinks.

Buy or rent an espresso cart or van, and head to sporting events, concerts and farmers’ markets. You may need to apply for permission to sell.

Herb farming

If you like herbs and have a big enough space in your garden to grow herbs, you could sell them in pots, freshly picked or dried.

Licensed product distributor

If you are fortunate enough to obtain licenses to sell foreign products domestically, you are in a good position to potentially reap the rewards for years to come.

Make and sell custom-made furniture

If you can make handmade furniture of exceptional quality and craftsmanship, you can sell them through websites like Handkrafted.

Make and sell food

If you can make jam, sauces, cheese, etc., using special homemade recipes, you can sell them at a weekend market, festivals, etc.

Make and sell toys

If you have toy making skills and experience, you can sell these toys online or offline.

Toy making is a huge business since every parent gets a room full of toys for their children.

Print-on-demand service

You can actually create your own products using print-on-demand platforms like CimpressOpen, GearBubble, Gooten, HandBubble, Printful, Printify, Redbubble, Represent, Society6, TeeChip, TeeSpring, Teezily, and ViralStyle. With these services, you can design and print designs on mugs, T-shirts, yoga mats, etc, and sell hundreds of them.

You can find talented designers on Behance, Dribbble, and Upwork. Finding good design talent is the most difficult part of the process.

Sell your art

If you are an artist, you could sell your artistic art.

Sell your beer

If you have experience in brewing your own beer, you could sell your homemade beer.

With patience and skill, you might end up brewing something that people are willing to pay to drink.

Pick up an easy-to-use starter kit from MrBeer online.

Sell your CDs, DVDs, games

If you have CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays, and games, you can sell them.

Visit websites like GameXchange, CeX, Music Magpie, and WeBuyBooks.

Sell your eggs and chickens

If you have a big enough place to have chickens in your garden, you can sell eggs and chickens for money.

Sell your gold and silver

If you have unused gold or silver coins or jewelry, you could sell them.

Find out the purity and use Dendritics to estimate the potential value. Shop around for the best offer.

Sell your hair

If you have hair with the required weight, length, thickness, color and hair condition (virgin hair / non-virgin hair), you can get money for it.

Visit websites like HairSellon, the biggest and best marketplace for buying and selling hair online.

Sell your handmade craft, jewelry, soap, etc

If you sew, knit or can hand make stuff like pieces of jewelry, soap, etc, you can sell anything handmade through local gift shops, craft fairs, or on websites like ArtFire, Etsy and Zibbet.

Sell your music

If you are an artist and can create music, you can sell your musical creations.

You can sell music, music videos, ringtones, etc. through websites like Amazon, AudioJungle, Bandcamp, iTunes, and Tunecore.

Sell your old electronics

If you have old usable electronics lying around your house, try selling them to stores like Gazelle, Next Worth and USell.

Sell paper mache

If you can use scrap and old newspapers to create artistic paper mache, you can sell your work in arts and craft shows.

Sell your photos

If you are always taking great shots with your digital camera on the weekends or when you are on holidays, you can sell your original digital creations on marketplace websites like 500PX, Creative Market, Instaprints, iStockPhoto, ShutterStock, and Twenty20.

There’s an app called Foap that allows you to turn your smartphone photos into cash.

Once you post your photos on these platforms, you are selling royalty-free rights to your photos. You get a percentage of the price paid for your photos. Each time someone downloads your photo, you get paid.

Everything Microstock is dedicated to helping beginners start taking and selling photos.

Sell animal clothing and accessories

If you have good sewing skills, enjoy designing or have suppliers who can provide you with animal clothing and accessories, this could be a great business for you.

Research what’s ‘in fashion’ and what appeals to pet owners. Sweaters, rain jackets, T-shirts, and boots are popular items to consider.

Sell art

If you have a good eye for spotting art that people like and buying other people’s art to sell, this could be a business for you.

You don’t have to be an artist yourself to buy and sell art for a profit.

Sell balloons

If you can source different types of balloons, you can sell balloons because kids love balloons.

Sell bottled water and food

If you have permission to sell food and water at festivals and events, you could buy these items in bulk and sell them for a profit.

Sell clothing

If you have the skills and experience in making stylish clothes or can find a supplier of popular brands, designs, and styles, you could sell clothing to people who are willing to pay a premium for clothes that are just the right style for them.

If you have clothes that are just sitting in your closet, you could sell them on websites like Poshmark. Shop for new and gently used items at prices up to 70% off retail.

Sell coffee and tea

If you can find a reliable supplier for good or popular coffee and tea, this is a worthwhile business to consider.

Like spices, coffee lovers and tea connoisseurs are often willing to spend money on just the right flavors.

Sell shoes

If you have a passion for shoes (or anything that relates to shoes and footwear) and can find a unique spin for your products, this is worth considering.

You can design and market your own niche shoe range. This can be anything from flip flops to heels.

Sell designer pillows, linen, towels, and shower curtains

If you can come up with great designs, styles, and colors, this is another niche for you.

Options include pillows that have neat designs, clever messages sewed onto them, and others designed to provide some unique benefit for consumers.

Sell educational products

If you can source educational products for children and adults, this is a profitable and thriving industry to start your business.

Materials such as kids learning pads, story books, Lego, jigsaw puzzles, and educational video games, CDs and DVDs are highly sellable if you position the business in a location where there are loads of children.

Sell games

If you love games, you could sell all sorts of games from board games to card games to video games.

Sell gardening supplies and tools

If gardening is your hobby, there will be people who will require different supplies and tools to do gardening.

From crop cages to garden covers to fertilisers, there’s a lot you can sell that your average gardener will be quick to buy.

Sell handmade chocolates

If you can hand make unique chocolates, sell them locally or online.

Sell hand bands, hair bands, and ribbons

If you can source hand bands, hair bands, and ribbons at low prices, this could be a business for you (or even your children).

You can sell these items to kids and adults in your neighborhood. This business could be done during school holidays and after school hours.

Sell hats

If you love hats, you could sell hats to people who like them.

Sell kitchen utensils

If you can find a good supplier, this is a worthwhile business to consider.

From everyday kitchen utensils like serving spoons and spatulas to more specialty items like lemon zesters and spiral slicers, kitchen supplies are big businesses.

Sell mugs

If you can sell mugs with unique designs and styles, mugs that show a little personality, mugs with popular phrases on them, or customisable photo mugs that make great gifts, this could be a great business.

Almost everyone drinks either coffee or tea and mugs are a necessity for many people.

Sell personalised gifts

If you can source or make personalised gifts that are meaningful in the context of people’s relationships, personalised and corporate gifts are an excellent segment.

Organisations want gifts that are personalised and branded.

Sell pet travel accessories and toys

If you can source or make pet travel accessories and toys, this is a good niche to get into.

Travel accessories such as pet carriers and car seat covers are in demand. Pet owners buy toys for their pets to play with and to exercise them.

Sell phone and tablet cases

If you can design and source personalised phone and tablet cases, you’ve got a business.

Smartphones and tablets cost too much money for consumers to be risking them every time they get clumsy and drop them.

Sell puzzles

If you love puzzles, you are able to sell puzzles to people of all ages.

Sell quilts

If you can make or source quilts that people like and who are willing to pay big bucks for, this could be for you.

Sell ready-made craft kits

If you are great at a craft, sell kits of materials for craft projects aimed at specific markets (kids, teenagers, bird lovers, etc.).

Keep projects simple and include clear assembly instructions.

Research what’s popular, easy to assemble and fun.

Sell T-shirts

If you could source great T-shirts, you could sell T-Shirts.

Sell tote bags

If you can sell tote bags with unique designs, tote bags that show a little personality, tote bags with popular phrases on them, or customisable tote bags that make a great gift, this could be a great business for you.

Tote bags are practical and an easy way for people to show some personality and style. The key is to customise the bag for each customer.

Sell woodwork

If you can make tables, doors, frames, chests, desks, or any other commonly needed wood item, you’re likely to find a market for your handiwork.

Wood both looks great and can be put to a large number of both practical and decorative purposes.

Skincare products business

If you have an eye for making skin look good, you may want to start a skincare products business.