How Good Are You at Selling?

I really wanted to set up a business of my own but I guess it’s only all in dreams. I am so impressed by people who are born business minded. I mean they can sell anything and gain profit even at a young age.

Speaking of selling, I remember a successful businessman said, to become a successful entrepreneur a person must learn how to sell. Indeed it is true because no matter how small your capital is you can start a selling business and succeed. So I realized that I will not be able to become a successful entrepreneur because I don’t know how to sell.

I remember when I was in grade school, my mother urged me to sell pastries and delicacies in our small town (now a city). You know some out of school youth in our place used to sell candies, fried peanuts and cigarettes in the streets to provide for their daily consumption. In short poverty is the reason for such a child labor. I did the selling of candies and cigarettes too but only once. I think it was during the summer after the fifth grade.

I am an introverted person and as a child I didn't really hang out and play with a lot of kids in the neighborhood. In fact I feel so ashamed whenever I hold an umbrella. I really hate it even when it’s raining. I would rather be wet walking through school than holding an umbrella. So my mother bought a “kapote” (raincoat) for me.

Going back to selling candies, I don’t recall how my mother had forced me to do so because I was kind of timid as a kid. I just found myself holding a tray of candies and several packs of cigarettes wandering around the streets in town while announcing, Cigarettes! Candies! You know we have a lot of trike and pedicab here in our place as means of transportation in short distances. So mostly I sell that stuff in terminal stations.

Somehow I was able to sell and make profit out of small capital. Nevertheless I did not grow up as an entrepreneur maybe because that thing is not really my fate.

However these days there are now different ways to sell goods and commodities. Even if you lack courage to ask people to buy your products, you can still promote it and earn money. One thing that makes it possible to sell and promote products without direct engagement with customers is through the internet.

When the internet was known to different countries particularly here PH, people have utilized it to sell and earn income. Online selling has become a trend and has been one of the main modes of buying and selling products especially during the pandemic.

Did you know that you can sell and earn without having a tangible product? Those are in digital form like E-books, software or video tutorials. In crypto verse NFT’s are a digital product. You can also sell products even if you don’t own it and that is through affiliate marketing.

Some said that affiliate marketing is dead. Well I tell you that it is not. In fact, read dot cash has affiliate programs just in case you are not aware of it. If you want to earn passive income by means of affiliate programs or affiliate products you must have a lot of patience and hard work of course. Honestly I have engaged in several affiliate programs. Unfortunately I only generated less income with it as I am not hard working. Besides, I have a daytime job and I can't give more time to it. My extra time is being consumed with writing for this platform.

However I have one passive income that is still earning even a little bit slow and that is with involve.asia. I don’t remember the time I registered on this site. I think it’s been a year now. For your awareness, involve.asia is legit and still in operation. They are based in Malaysia and earnings are in terms of their currency (MYR) which can be converted to USD.

I have seen some users in this community sharing about it and for the sake of redundancy I did not make this post as a tutorial.

Picture above is a screenshot of my earnings and it’s only MYR 13.32. As I have mentioned a while ago I am not that hard working so my earnings on this platform are kind of slow.

Anyway if you want to try affiliate marketing, involving.asia is one good app to start. I will not share here my affiliate link to avoid violation of the read dot cash policy. Tutorials are widespread on YouTube. Just do your own research.

Somehow I still wanted to be an entrepreneur someday. You know it is still better to own a business, even a small one. Perhaps we don’t want to be employed for the rest of our life.