How To Make Money With No Products To Sell

STOP! Don’t sell the house…

So… you need some extra cash coming in hey and you’re looking for a way with nothing to sell?

Let me tell you, You don’t have to sell the house for that little extra money.

Really; it’s not that difficult but it does help if someone can point you in the right direction.

What is the right direction?

There’s a couple of easy steps you can take if you don’t have products to sell. You can…

1.      Sell your services or products …or you can…

2.      Sell some else’s services or products

DO YOU HAVE SERVICES TO OFFER?

Selling your services may be quite easy. I remember when I was much younger, there was a phase in my life when I loaded a lawn mower, an edger and some big plastic bags into my car and took a drive to the industrial estates near where I was living at the time and promptly offered to mow the nature strips in front of factory complexes.

It was literally that easy and I was well paid for it also.

Now we’re living in the online digital age and while things may have changed other things still stay the same, if you know what I mean.

You could still offer your services today, services like

• Gardening
• Handyman work
• Hair & beauty treatments
• Pressure cleaning,
• You could even be a driver if you have a license and driving isn’t such a hard gig.

All these services are still in demand so take note.

What about selling someone else’s products or services?

Maybe you could build a website and promote other people’s stuff, have you thought about that? Websites are so easy to build these days with ready-made themes and templates and drop and drag boxes – it’s never been easier.

If you have a little flair for creativity and a eye for sensing what right online, it could be a fret experience.

What about building a website and selling other peoples products?

5 DIFFERENT WAYS TO MAKE MONEY WITH NO PRODUCTS

1. Become a social influencer

Some people have turned their hand to starting Instagram accounts with popular topics and in doing so have managed to not only increase their followers but monetize their accounts at the same time by promoting other people’s products or services.

Not so hard to do but definitely needs consistency. Like everything else, if you want to make money from doing this you’re going to have to treat it like a business. Put the time and effort in and you will reap the rewards.

A little bit of research and you’ll quickly learn how others are monetizing in popular categories. I have come across a few influencers recently, each with over 1,000,000 followers. Totally amazing to see and hear their story.

Many have success with this.

2. YouTube

You can make money with YouTube through their partner program. Joining this program lets you share in the ad revenue generated on your videos. To get started, make sure your channel has at least 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 watch hours in the past 12 months. After meeting these requirements, apply for the program via YouTube Studio. Once accepted, focus on creating high-quality content that attracts viewers and encourages them to stay longer, as higher engagement leads to better ad payouts.

You can sell your own merch via Teespring or Printify, incorporate affiliate links, offer exclusive video content, partner with brands and use numerous other actions to acquire income streams without selling physical products.

3. Offer local businesses promotion on Google my Business

If you’re a little web savvy and are up to learning new things then helping people put their businesses on “Google my Business” could be very useful to you. There’s still plenty of small local proprietors that need a lift up to get their businesses online and get noticed and this is an easy way to do it without fighting the SEO giants about town.

In fact if you are smart and do some research you’ll discover that there’s people out there owning what is known as e-real estate. That’s right, electronic real estate. People pay to have their businesses looked after on other peoples websites and Maps sites.

You could be earning anything from a few hundred dollars a month to a few thousand dollars or more a month, and when you have that organized you might just want to scale up and hey presto… off you go to bigger and better things.

This has been called rank and rent.

4. Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is time honored and a very trustworthy way to make income. It’s defined as; being paid a commission for sales of a product or service. The commissions could be just a few dollars for small cheap items or payouts in the hundreds for high ticket items.

Think – CheapTickets, Qatar Airways, TripAdvisor, Hotels Combined, even Amazon, eBay and Walmart have affiliate programs as well as many other major businesses.

Affiliates can either blog, advertise or run their own websites or social media pages. By doing this they can point people in the direction to buy a product or service. The buyer pays no extra when they’re directed to their purchase with an affiliate link. The affiliate is paid a commission from the sales price.

Take a look at some of the product review pages next time you’re looking online,. Chances are it’ll have a disclaimer letting you know they receive some sort of compensation for the product they offer if you click a link.

5. Offer Coaching or Consulting Services

Do you have knowledge or skills? Perhaps you could offer yourself to coach or tutor in a certain field or on a particular subject. People are always needing help to learn skills and information.

Specific skillsets can earn very good money and if those skills are associated with things like website building, SEO, content writing or blogging you could offer your skills on any of the freelance work sites online.

If you have specific knowledge in a particular field you could offer that. It might be cooking, baking, menu planning, accounting, book keeping, business management or any other number of things. You’re the one who knows what you have to offer now you just need to make yourself available and offer what you have.

6. Self Publish

Are you a writer? Have you ever considered self-publishing a book. The likes of Amazon allows you to list your book on the world’s largest online bookstore. Books sell day and night online so you could literally be making money while you sleep.

You don’t need to write a novel, all you need is to write a book that solves a problem for people. If you do your research well you can find lots of topics that people are want answer and solutions to.

For example, if you’re a motor mechanic, write a book about how to get better fuel consumption for your car. If you’re a golf pro, write about perfecting a golf swing. There’s every chance  you can gain authority and with time the money should follow. Did you think about turning that book into an audiobook? You can narrate that audiobook yourself or hire someone else and you can sell that book also.

7. Try Arbitrage

Considered re-selling, arbitrage is buying a product at a lower price and then re-selling it at a higher price and taking a profit for your efforts.

YouTube is full of videos of people showing you how they arbitrage.

This is probably one of the best and easiest ways to make money but you will need to buy products to resell lol. Just make sure the products you buy are ones people want otherwise you could get stuck with them.

It’s not difficult to buy items at one place like Walmart or even Amazon and sell them elsewhere with a marked up price. Basically the whole commercial world revolves around this principle.

Take note: You will need to do your homework so you don’t get caught with the product without making a profit. You could search what’s trending?

Buying from a cheap store or when an item is on sale will give you the opportunity to make better profit.

TAKE ACTION TO REAP THE BENEFITS

These are just a few ideas that will work if you apply yourself and taking action. Of course there many more ways you could make money, but you’ll will need to search them out to find what fits you best.

We hope this little list has opened your eyes to some of the possibilities and that you will take action and follow through so you won’t have to ask the question again but perhaps you could in turn make some money and then help someone else follow on the same path.

All the best to you and please leave a comment or question if you want to learn more or have something to say.