Using Digital Point to sell your creations or services

In today’s increasingly diverse online marketplace, the chance for an individual to make money selling their skills or creations is becoming increasingly prevalent. However if you are just stepping into the realm of online freelancing, or are just beginning to look for somewhere to sell your skills where do you go? How to begin to build relationships and communication with potential clients? Digital Point Forums offers just the answer to those questions. Digital Point Forums (DP) allows the sale and trade of all sorts of online services and creations from scripts and themes, to websites, to services such as forum posting or article creation. This article will explore some of the features of the forum, as well as how you can utilize the forum to become a more successful freelancer.

I want to sell my websites

Within the forum you have many options including “Buy, Sell, or Trade”. This subtopic of the larger Business topic is the place where you can see all the topics of how to potentially make money of find services on DP. If you’ve got a website you want to sell, then you would navigate to the “Sites” sub-topic. When selling a website there are several pieces of information which you want to list in your thread.

Information for Sale of Website
Web URL
Length of time you’ve owned the site
Site Description
Any potential revenue the site may earn
Opening bid price with bid increment rate
Duration of auction
Buy it now price, the price you want to sell the site immediately

Selling a site on DP offers you many advantages to trying to sell on alternatives such as craigslist or eBay. On DP you are selling within an environment where a large portion of your potential customers are informed individuals. If you want to sell your site, look some something similar which has sold in the past. DP is great at determining the true value of what your site may sell for. Also an advantage to selling to a user on DP is that DP uses the iTrader rating method to score individuals in the marketplace. The higher an individual’s iTrader value, the more reputable within the marketplace this individual is.

I’ve got skills to sell

Another way to utilize the DP marketplace is by selling your skills. Also within the “Buy, Sell, or Trade” forum is a sub-topic called “Services.” If you are looking to market your design, coding, writing abilities this is where you create a thread. Each of the services I listed has its own respective sup-topic where you should create the thread. If you browse the forums you will that there is normally generally accepted common values placed on skills and services. Unless you can properly qualify yourself, you more than likely will not find you will be very successful if your pricing or timing standards are higher than the norm.

In these forums you normally create a thread stating the sale of your desired service. You list any qualifications you feel would make you a more suitable than your competition, and if applicable show samples of your work. Also in some cases an individual will post the rate at which they charge for their services. While there is no bidding in this section for services, it helps your image to have members who have employed you to give recommendations to you on your thread to bolster your credibility.

So to conclude, Digital Point Forums offer a range or ways for an individual to enter the online marketplace and begin freelancing their skills. The two money making opportunities discussed were just a sample, and DP in fact offers many more ways for make money within its “Buy, Sell, or Trade” marketplace. By creating a relationship with members and being a reputable seller your iTrader value will go up and your value to the community is something that can be publicly quantified making others more apt to use your skills. Good luck, and happy freelancing!

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December 11, 2007 | Filed Under Making money online

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