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I found a niche that has a ton of people selling their wares, but they have no official platform. They do not move enough product to be accepted into retail. There are a ton of these very small time businesses running off instagram, and they are selling through shopify or free sites like bigcartel.
It seems like a lot of these guys are flying under the radar, and would do better if people could find them in one place, similar to the etsy platform. I would estimate that they are doing $500 or less a month in sales, but there are hundreds of these businesses. Ive contacted a few of them to try and get them to list their products on my site, but they were not interested, and I don't know if they didn't want to be bothered, my pitch was presented well enough or to enough people, or if i wasnt established enough.
I can't really think of how I can attract these people to the level I want though, and the only idea I have gotten so far is to try some arbitrage. Im thinking about listing all their products on my site and when somebody buys something i can just place an order through the vendor and have the item shipped to the customer. The big negative I see is processing fees and people looking for the vendors actual site to get the product for a little bit cheaper. Im hoping I can get some traction though and people will jump on board and I wont have to fake the whole process.
Does anyone have any ideas of what I should possibly do?
It seems like a lot of these guys are flying under the radar, and would do better if people could find them in one place, similar to the etsy platform. I would estimate that they are doing $500 or less a month in sales, but there are hundreds of these businesses. Ive contacted a few of them to try and get them to list their products on my site, but they were not interested, and I don't know if they didn't want to be bothered, my pitch was presented well enough or to enough people, or if i wasnt established enough.
I can't really think of how I can attract these people to the level I want though, and the only idea I have gotten so far is to try some arbitrage. Im thinking about listing all their products on my site and when somebody buys something i can just place an order through the vendor and have the item shipped to the customer. The big negative I see is processing fees and people looking for the vendors actual site to get the product for a little bit cheaper. Im hoping I can get some traction though and people will jump on board and I wont have to fake the whole process.
Does anyone have any ideas of what I should possibly do?
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