By Tammie Caldwell


Whether you have a full time job or not, buying and selling is an activity that nobody can avoid in these times. It is because human beings developed the habit of exchanging goods and services in the past generations. Let see how to trade stuff with other people for a living.

Barter was the exchange of good for good. People would walk many miles to reach a common market place where they will find people who had the products that they had. For example, if you had a bag of corn you would exchange it with maybe a goat. However, when the years went by individuals discovered minerals and other precious metals. The discovery of these metals changed the market landscape.

The discovery of gold, silver and other precious metals changed the business landscape. People could now use silver and gold as the mode of exchange. The precious metals made life easier because you could now quantify the commodity using the amount of minerals a person had.

Others just negotiated, and they could agree on the terms and condition of the transactions. We need to realize that the habit of selling and buying has over the years transformed, and it when to a point that the government was controlling the market. They since realized that if they control the market so much their influence curtails creativity. It is because some people would feel that the policies favored certain individuals. Money transformed how we could do the trade because now two people would reach a deal by settling on the amount.

As time went on paper money came because these metals were heavier, and that was the invention of money. With the money, the market place changed for the better. You could now buy and sell without traveling ling distances. Shops and supermarkets now brought goods closer to people. The essence of trade is to make profits. Profit making is the ability to make extra money from your sales.

Individuals have been building companies that began with little money, and they go and become multinationals that serve millions of persons in the world. The twenty first century life has been very competitive, and individuals desire that they are on top of their game at all time. In this generation if you discover or innovate a product others will also develop the same idea and compete with you on the same platform.

That means that if you want to trade products for others you must be on top of your game and always deliver high quality services. Many individuals are becoming wealthy each day if you have high quality services people will just come no matter how much you charge the services.

On the same note, Studies show that, a person would prefer to pay more as long as they get value in what they are buying. It should then be the priority of companies to put the interest of the customer first. If you focus on the profit and ignore the fact that you will only make real profits if your customers like your services. Many individuals across the world have been complaining that there is no job. But they forget that the internet has made it easier for a person o sell and buy from the comfort of their homes.




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