Ways to help office workers earn extra money during Tet

The leader of e-commerce site FSell suggests some business ideas for best-selling items during Tet, helping office workers earn extra income.

Lucky money envelope

Beautiful, unique, and strange red envelopes that express the personality of the giver and receiver are a suitable business suggestion for those who do not have much time to invest in trading.

Self-designed and creative lucky money envelopes are a hot item this year. Dog-printed designs are chosen by many people during the Lunar New Year, especially strange dog breeds that many people love such as pull dogs, poodles... Not being bound by traditional wishes, many people choose to buy lucky money envelopes printed with funny sayings, with positive meanings such as "Year of the Dog, no worries about poverty", "receiving lucky money, promise to be good", "have a leisurely new year, freely go out"... Many lucky money envelopes are nostalgic in yellow and brown.

Red envelope business requires little capital investment and high profits. Depending on financial capacity, office workers can import many products at once or in many batches to effectively rotate capital.

Lucky money

On this occasion, many people hunt for unique and strange money. According to FSell, popular bills are the two-dollar bill with a dog image, other foreign currencies with a dog image such as the 2018 Kamberra 50 Numisma bill, from Australia, Macau 10 and 100 Pataca bills... The price of these souvenir bills ranges from 25,000 to several hundred thousand VND, depending on the design.

In addition to dog-related coins, consumers also look to buy coins that are believed to bring good luck, such as the Maldives' 5 Rufiyaa coin with a sailboat on the back, meaning "smooth sailing", or the Costa Rican 5 Colones coin, with a trade image, meaning "good buying, good selling".

Tet decorations

This is an indispensable item during Tet holiday. Most families look to buy home decorations such as red parallel sentences, gold bars, gold coins, fake firecrackers, fake apricot, peach, and kumquat trees for decoration... The diversity of this item makes it easy for sellers to import and promote, and easy for buyers to access and choose.

Fruit

Tet is the time when every family buys fruits to decorate the altar, to eat and to serve guests. Depending on the concept of each region, buyers choose different types of fruits for the five-fruit tray.

Women can choose traditional fruits for Tet but with unique features such as lucky watermelon, engraved watermelon, gold bar-shaped watermelon, gourd grapefruit, coconut printed with the words "wealth", "luck"...

This item is in the expensive segment, for those with large capital. Unique and strange fruits such as gold bar-shaped watermelons, gourd grapefruits... usually cost from several hundred to millions of dong.

Handmade food

Some of the most easily consumed foods during Tet are cakes; candies; jams; ham; banh chung, banh tet with the words “an, khang, thinh, vuong” (prosperity, prosperity, prosperity)… and drinks such as wine, tea, soft drinks… Many people choose to buy handmade foods because they trust in the quality and food hygiene and safety. Handmade foods are best-selling items for skillful women.

Clothing, accessories, cosmetics

During Tet, consumers not only have a need for fruits, food or decorative items, but also look for products to refresh themselves such as clothes, accessories, cosmetics...

According to FSell, these items have a sudden increase in views and purchases during Tet, especially with beautiful, new designs.

To support sellers on the occasion of Tet, this classifieds site has launched a promotion program to give 18-20% of the listing price on the top-up value, along with account upgrade incentives, helping women post ads to find customers more conveniently and increase business value.