How to sell products locally
BEST APPS TO SELL STUFF FAST! | HOW TO SELL LOCALLY
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I'm gonna show you guys what I do to get
customers to come into our business
every single day welcome back to my
weekly building my business vlog the
four local market places that I use
every single day offer up let go
Craigslist and your Facebook marketplace
let's go ahead and get started these are
our display model chairs and I want
someone to coming here right now and buy
them so I'm going to go ahead and take
50% off these chairs right now and list
them on those marketplaces that I just
described so just start off open up your
camera on your phone so what I like to
do is I like to take three photos of the
product and I'll go into why I like to
take three different photos in a moment
now that I have three of the photos I'm
gonna go ahead and walk over to my
computer to show you guys how you can
list these very very efficiently some of
you might be asking me hey boo I'm
trying to sell stuff online like you why
are you showing me local customers the
reason why local customers and local
sales are so important to me is that it
helps build your brand when a customer
is able to walk through the door and buy
something give you their credit card
give you cash and leave with your
product you're able to sell something
and cut out all the other costs
associated with selling on online
marketplaces like the marketplace fees
shipping and other chaos that could
occur when you ship something across the
United States so let's get back into
this so earlier you guys saw that I took
three photos of two chairs I'm trying to
sell at 50% off so normally that set is
250 bucks I'm gonna put it for sale
that's set for a hundred bucks I wanted
you to see what happens
I personally
have an iPhone and I have a Mac right in
front of me so when I took that photo it
was easy for me to transfer it to my
computer you guys have to figure out how
you're going to transfer your photos
over to your computer once it's on your
computer I look at how you fish it you
could be you can obviously post these
products on your phone but I'll show you
how fast I can post it using my computer
so right now I'm on Facebook itself in
Facebook there's a marketplace I know
you guys use Facebook for a lot of
reasons but check out the marketplace
sometimes there's a lot of activity so
I'm going to go ahead and click on sell
something items for sale I want to go
ahead and choose a category that was
furniture what am i selling I'm going to
keep it very simple and I'll tell you
guys the reason why in a second two bar
stools and the price of two bar stools
is $100 even here I'm in Clackamas
Oregon and I'm gonna copy and paste what
I'm selling the marketplace Facebook
lets me pull us up to ten photos I'm
gonna post three because I have those
three photos I took earlier so I'm gonna
go ahead and post and as you can see
thing that has re went into the
marketplace so I'm going to go ahead and
move on to my next marketplace locally
which is Craigslist I want to go ahead
and click on post to classifieds I'm
gonna go ahead and click on the County
I'm in here I'm an owner of these items
so I'm gonna click on for sale by owner
since I'm the owner and I'm gonna go
ahead and click on furniture same thing
since I already saved it I'm gonna paste
two barstools a hundred bucks total
Clackamas and my postal code I'm only
pre filling it
what I need to fill in these are our
showroom models so I'm gonna put them as
excellent
since there are showroom model I'm not
gonna fill in anything else because
again Craigslist isn't asking me to fill
anything else in I'm gonna go ahead and
add the photos
which are the three photos I'm gonna go
ahead and click done what's ahead done
it brings me back to a page where I
asked me to publish it thing as you can
see very quick and easy from your
computer
the third market place in a work on is
let go I want to go ahead and click on
sell your stuff in the top right corner
when I click on where you add your
photos I'm gonna drop in all three of
these photos with let go they're gonna
ask you the price first so I'm going to
put a hundred bucks that's for two by
the way and then it's gonna ask you now
if you want to add more description the
title is optional the description is
optional but I'm gonna fill both of
those in and now as you can see the
product is listed on offer up it's
slightly more tricky to list it on your
computer
tricky eyes and you can't listen
computer you can go in on your computer
and erase your listings but you can't
list it so I'm going to go ahead and
open up my offer up app to start the
selling process you have to go ahead and
hit the camera it's gonna ask you to
take a photo or select the photo I
already took three photos earlier so I'm
gonna go ahead and hit select I'm gonna
choose the three photos next I'm going
to make it very simple the title two bar
stools hit done hit next then I'm gonna
go ahead and also choose two bar stools
in my description I want to go ahead and
change the condition of it as an open
box and our automatic is set as
furniture I'm gonna hit next I'm gonna
set this out a hundred bucks for the
pair and I want to go ahead and hit post
it's 4:00 p.m. I'm about to go home
earlier at about 8:00 a.m. this morning
I showed you guys how to post on for
local marketplaces I waited until my
ship was over to check my phone to see
if anyone anyone at all
in the portland local community has
messaged me my phone was chiming and
dinging and making noises all throughout
the day by a purposely ignored it so i
can show you guys the responses that we
got eight hours later my facebook
marketplace shows 17 messages my let go
app shows six messages and finally an
offer up 38 people in oregon want these
chairs for a hundred bucks earlier in my
video I told you guys to write short
descriptions and short titles the reason
why is interaction you want to interact
with these buyers who want to buy from
you so when you listed your product
someone's going to send a message
they're gonna try to set up
communication with you and that's what
we want there has been a lot of
communication for these sparse tools
that I'm selling locally I know you're
selling a lot of stuff online and you're
shipping things out from your location
consistently but it's super important to
our business growth that we have
customers coming in and buying our
products the reason why is when they buy
it they're building your brand locally
they're telling other people about your
products they're telling their network
we sell business products in our four
major categories so these people who are
buying our products also have friends
and acquaintances in these categories so
that's my tip why we love to sell things
locally the final key this is the final
final key that's very important and even
I have to remind myself every single day
is respond back we just spent about 5-6
minutes doing all that work to sell
these two stools but you need to respond
back says you saw my phone earlier
there's a lot of messages that occurred
during the day while I was working now I
need to go back
these people know like hate is for sale
first person who comes in gets the
stools so I just open up my offer up app
and John will like to buy this gazelle I
want it for 100 wallets for sale for 100
so as you can see here it's their lucky
day I want to go ahead and pick one of
these people and let them know
first-come first-serve to close out this
video don't forget about your local
customers they want to buy your stuff
too but they don't even know who you are
or where you are so help them out by
selling on these four local marketplaces
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