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I’m reaching back into the vault and picking up from where I left off… We’ve already covered several legitimate ways to make money online in Kenya. We’ve already covered making money online in Kenya blogging, making money online in kenya freelancing, making money online in kenya with your own VRE and now I’d like to touch on making money online selling physical or tangible Products in Kenya a bit.

Today, we are going to talk about making money online selling physical (tangible) products in Kenya (such as computers, clothing, perfumes, sports gear, collectibles, books, gifts).

I am willing to bet that there are many Kenyans that come seeking to find a way to sell some sort of tangible products online. Something physical and solid… Something they might have to warehouse. I could be wrong, but that seems logical doesn’t it?

There is GREAT opportunity to sell and make great money with physical products as well in addition to the digital products!

There are auction websites like eBay that can give you a huge market to sell to. Unfortunately, eBay is not available to Kenyan sellers (you can only buy from eBay).

Luckily, there is a new kid on the block in Kenya called kenyanonlineauction.com. I have not yet tested their system but I’ll get around to testing it some time soon.

Other than selling physical products in online auction sites, you can also simply set up a stand alone website and market your products that way…or do a combination of both.

You can create your own products and have them warehoused, you can buy products in bulk to resell OR you can simply do something called drop shipping! Drop shipping allows you to sell products without having to warehouse them. The warehouse keeps the products and if someone buys from you they ship it for you and it looks like it’s coming directly from your warehouse! Pretty slick!

I have not yet found a dropshipping company that works perfectly with Kenya but if you happen to know one, please let us know. You can either send me an email using the contact link at the top of this blog or you can share the website with us in a comment to this blog post.

The only drawback with physical/tangible products is the labor end of it. You have to manage every aspect of the business in contrast to other online businesses out there that go virtually on autopilot… but if you are not afraid of that, go for it! Someone’s gotta do it!

And I would never discourage you to go after something you’re passionate about. If you like guitars, go for them. Sell them online. If you like gardening, go for it. Or do you like golf? The same case; go for it. You see, there is far more satisfaction when your daily business activities have to deal with one of your hobbies and interests.

That’s not to mean that you shouldn’t start an online store in a niche not related to your hobbies. On the contrary, you can start your online business selling physical products in any line of your choice if you think there is profit potential. After all, we are in it for the dollars and if you can make some cash online selling some stuff you hate or don’t like so much, well, why not?

The choice is entirely yours.

I don’t care what your idea is and what you decide to do. If you think you have a good idea, and you’ve done the market research to determine there is demand, and you have room to make a profit, go for it! There’s nothing stopping you.

As you might have noticed by now, I like to give examples of websites doing what we are discussing just to give you some insight. So, here is a website by a Kenyan, my ex-comrade at the university, who sell memo stones (yeah, you can sell anything online).

To get even more insight; take a look at paypal shops.

NB: I am not telling you to open a paypal shop. Nope. In fact, you’ll find that it doesn’t work since you can’t use paypal in Kenya to receive payments online in Kenya. (for that purpose, we are instead going to use e-pesa). I am only telling you to take a look at paypal shops to get a feel for the kinds of stuffs you can sell online

As you can perhaps already see, we are not dealing with many limitations online. We are only truly limited by our own imaginations.

ECommerce is BIG business and is set to explode in Kenya in coming years. Whether you benefit from it or not is up to you.

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See you at the top!

Kevin

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