If you have not sold physical products, add them to your exist A great opportunity to increase income-and your relationship with customers.
However, in the case of limited time, resources and budgets, adding physical products may
sound is not bad, but it is actually difficult to achieve. Not everyone can store physical inventory, rent warehouses, or take into account transportation and logistics.
So what should the shop owner do? Starting from the first point:
Add simple physical products to supplement your existing business, and you don’t need to completely change your store to sell.
Whether through providing small gifts for customers or directly transporting goods, there are several ways to solve this problem without destroying banks. Let’s take a look at some of them.
Starting from the stickers of leisure fans
One of the most common ways to immerse the toes into the water with physical objects is to provide small fans with small Gifts or stolen goods.
If you have a customer who loves you, they may be keen to share this kind of love with others -Bing this incident is as simple as you.
If your customer loves you, SWAG will help them help them Share this kind of love with others.
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You can try a cheap but effective physical item: sticker. The stickers do not take up too much space, can be installed in the envelope (that is, cheap), and can be pasted on the variety of surfaces that potential customers may see, from laptops to cars to lamp pillars, and so on.
Stickers are an interesting way to represent your brand. They are also cheap and can be placed almost anywhere. Pass love. (Picture source: sticker mule)
If you can find a company to print a batch of stickers (we recommend Sticker Mule), You can use them in various ways
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Send them to customers who purchased digital products
Free hospitality for visitors to your actual location (if you have)
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If they are large or you have a large bag, they will sell them! (Just don’t let the price be too high) The following is Amber who lost forty wineries to use stickers:
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From the large surface stickers sold between the bar to the small mold -cut stickers we presented, the sticker is Lost Forty scene and non -on -site brand experience indispensable or out of or indispensable The lack of part. Because we encourage our fans to \”get lost\”, it is important to us that some of our identities can take risks with the forty drinkers we lost.
As Amber said, stickers can let customers, supporters and fans take your identity
. If your brand has been established and you have a fan who is eager to spread this kind of love, then stickers may be a good first step. In order to consider T -shirts and printed products in the growth brand In addition to stickers, there are several ways to add physical products to non -real stores -you can add several types of types The physical product. However, another item that is the same as stickers is a T -shirt.
Customers rush to T -shirts because they are a simple way to express love
. They are essentially more obvious than stickers: put on shirts, everyone you meet can see it and ask you.
shirts with your logo, slogan or other content related to your brand can be easily easy Sale online. Although it sounds a lot of work, services like Printful can easily add custom shirts, hoodie or hats, etc. to any store.
When the customer places an order to buy a shirt, the order will be transmitted to Printful to print, pack it on demand and ship them directly to them. Print on demand, so there is no need to worry about inventory products (especially products of multiple sizes or colors).
Quick entry of how it uses it with woocommerce:
Do you want to try Printful? Looking at our extension, it perfectly integrates your store and Printful, so you can do not inventive products or handle transportation.Complete the order.
If you have a mature store and are looking for a way to add physical products that resonate with your customers -and like stickers, you can help spread the word -consider adding T -shirts or Print stolen goods. What is more pleasant than customers’ love for you?
Link to your beloved product and make a little money in each sales (affiliated style (affiliated style ) According to the content provided by your existing websites supported by the existing Wookommerce, you may have some selected products you want to recommend. For example, if you sell digital content, there may be a useful book you think that the customer should read; if your website guides the customer to your restaurant, you may want to link to the sauce and sauce and the sauce they like (and want to buy) condiment.
What you may not know is that You can link to these off -site projects and earn a little money every time you buy . The key to doing this is to find a store that supports member style models, and you can provide you with a tracking link to earn commissions. You can use a subsidiary link in Woocommerce by setting up \”external\” products . The settings of these products are similar to inventory products, except for them to have a link to your usual \”Add to Shopping Cars\” button.
Selling Affiliated products? No problem: Select the correct product type in Woocommerce, everything is ready.
As part of our management product series in Woocommerce, you can read information about setting up external products here.
Finding an affiliated company
This may be a bit tricky, but the Amazon Affiliated Plan is always a good starting point, as well as the network such as CJ Affiliate Family retailers have contacted). Add the product to your store and cooperate with direct sales partners
Maybe selling stickers or shirts is not suitable for you -you may not have a brand with this cognitive degree. Maybe you don’t like to connect with other stores, but just take the commission as a form of profit -it is certainly limited. If you want to sell physical products and want to make profits and completely \”own\” the experience of the shopper, but do not want to hold inventory, then there is a last last timeSelection: Dropshipping . Using a direct selling plan, you can create a mature online store, which is full of any number of products you like, but you don’t need to store any product in storage.
No product space? no problem. Dropshippers will be happy to cooperate with you, and there are usually many well -known companies to choose from.
Establishing a store supported by the goods requires some preliminary efforts and outbound work:
You need to contact the supplier and partner of the customer who are willing to transport the goods to your customers [ 123]. According to your sales (or planned expansion) industry, finding these contacts may be easy or some time. If your space is insufficient and still wants to completely control the products you sold without the need to associate links, then direct sales may be a great way to \”test water\” physical products. Next: Inventory.
A complete guide to how to start using Dropshipping
, please read this step -by -step article. You can also read this guide to understand how to find reliable direct sales partners, including some contacts helping you move. Selling physical products does not always need warehouses
Adding physical products to your store may be a great way to make more money and improve the relationship with customers and fans. As you can see, there are at least four ways to do this. There is no need for warehouses, complex logistics or a lot of time or money investment .
If you have not sold physical products, how do you think of these ideas? Do you think any of them or all of these may be suitable for your own store?
Leave us a message in the comments, let us know your thoughts and whether you intend to start with these ideas. We want to know what your next move is!
Related reading:
How to pack your product online
How to start directly selling
at Woocommerce Add external or affiliated products
