Why would anyone want to bother with physical products when you can sell instant download digital ones?
Firstly, you can usually charge more for something people can see, touch, and handle.
Secondly, they have constant reference to it. Not like the old stories of people buying stuff that then it sits gathering dust on their hard drive because they’ve forgotten it’s there, and, in any case, they just don’t come across it easily – even if they search for it.
Thirdly, they’re less likely to return it to ask for a refund. It’s more of a bother and there’s the cost of postage, especially if it’s to another country.
There are two ways round the problems of posting and packing.
First, you can pay a dropshipper to carry the product to the customer. There’s almost any product imaginable that a dropshipper will deal with.
The great advantage is that you don’t pay the dropshipper until after the customer has paid.
The one thing to be careful about is that of choosing your dropshipper carefully. You need to do some research on them as to reliability and prices.
The second way, especially for sending discs of information, is to use a service, like Kunaki(TM), which will do all the work for you.
Even with physical products, you want to have automatic systems as far as possible.
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