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 on the occasion of the Year of the Dog, especially strange dog breeds that many people love such as pull dogs, poodles... Not bound by traditional wishes, many people choose to buy lucky money envelopes printed with funny sayings, with positive meanings such as "Dog year, no worries about poverty", "get lucky money, promise to be good", "have a leisurely new year, go out comfortably"... 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 divide into 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, the 10 and 100 Pataca bills of Macau... 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 5 Rufiyaa coin from Maldives, which has a picture of a sailboat on the back, meaning "smooth sailing", or the 5 Colones coin from Costa Rica, which has a picture of a trade, 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, kumquat trees, etc. The diversity of this item makes it easy for sellers to import and promote, and 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 fruit 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" and "prosperity"...

This item is in the expensive segment, for those with large capital. Unique and strange fruits such as gold bar-shaped watermelons, gourd-shaped 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” (good health, 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, not only is there a need for fruits, food or decorative items, consumers 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 sellers to post ads to find customers more conveniently and increase business value.