Sunday 17 May 2015

Trade Stuff With Other People

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.

It began as a simple act of getting a good for a service or a good for a good, and it has transformed to become an integral part of human life. We live in a generation that we see big companies making real profits, and they began as small start ups. The journey towards a defined market has been one that has gradually changed. It began with barter, barter took some time, and it went to the exchange of goods for precious metals.

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.

Unlike previously it was difficult because there were no exact measuring equipment that would quantify a goat and a bag of corns. Being that the precious metals were also hard to come by the scarcity of these metals lead to it being a reliable tender.

Money made it simple to buy and sell because you did not have to get the exact product to trade and at the same time you could now sell to any person as long has you agreed on the amount. Many persons are currently selling for profit which means that they get an extra amount of money on the products they sell compared to the production cost.

Liberalization made trading easy because it promoted innovation that lead to high competition. Today even if you are the pioneer of an idea and you do not offer the right services another person will take up the idea model it to fit the market structure then sell the product. Competition has given us an opportunity to get different products at the right market price.

Nobody can complain that a particular trader is extorting them by selling at high prices because there is a variety in the market. On the same not if you provide high quality products to persons they will be ready to pay any price as long as they get value in your products.

We live in a generation that nobody can be able to produce everything they need, and therefore they have to buy other products. At such as the time that people are looking for jobs, and they do not find them people are resorting to buying and selling as their chief source of income. If remain a resilient person and work hard at what you do you will get the full benefits of hard work because you business will grow create jobs for other individuals.




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