Last week I posted about how to make money from OkadaBooks. Sadly, OkadaBooks has announced their closure on the 30th of this month.

The vacuum that will be created with the departure of OkadaBooks from the online literary space is one that will be hard to fill.

Thankfully, in the search for alternatives I found Selar.

Selar is an eCommerce platform that helps creatives and entrepreneurs sell their content and products across borders without any hassle.

It is an all in one ecommerce store builder to sell any kind of digital product or service to anyone, anywhere in the world.

Unlike OkadaBooks, Selar covers the gamut of digital products and services.

On Selar you can sell the following:

  1. Digital Products
  2. eBooks
  3. Courses and Memberships
  4. Event Tickets and Training
  5. Services
  6. Physical Goods

You can get started on Selar for free. However Selar takes 4% + N50 on each sale from its platform.

Selar has multiply payment gateways integrated so you can receive payment from anywhere in the world.

With Selar you create a storefront for yourself and sell the product and service you want to sell from there. To get a feel for having a store, the team at Selar have created a demo store for you to try out.

The main way for make money on Selar is to sell digital and physical products and services.

To make money as a merchant, you have to drive traffic to your Selar store. This can be done by social media or email marketing.

Selar also has an affiliate program. With Selar Affiliates a merchant can generate a custom link for their products which an affiliate will make use of.

As an affiliate you can make money by promoting products listed on Selar that were created by others.

As a merchant you can get others to work for you. as affiliates. The platform handles all the nitty gritty of paying the affiliates.

To get started, visit the Selar Affiliate Marketplace page. As at the time of this writing, the amount to join is N2,000 per year.

The key to both methods is to drive traffic to your offer where as an affiliate or as a merchant.

Once you have the traffic, the conversion of that traffic into paying customers based on the value of the offering is easier.

That is how in a nutshell you make money on Selar.