Business of DIY

This article is from Shopify, and was republished and shared through Elksourcing with the permission of Shopify. Original link：https://www.shopify.com/blog/things-to-make-and-sell Salted fish and tobacco are traded for fur and feed grains. A block of raw wood is whittled into a toy horse and sold at a local artisan market. Watermelon seeds, sowed and tended, become full-fledged fruit before exchanging hands at a roadside stall. Making things from scratch, cultivating them by hand, and carving out a living by selling and trading them—these are the inceptive transactions of commerce. Commerce has evolved in the past few hundred years, with the biggest changes coinciding with rail transport, the manufacturing boom, and the internet. As far as we’ve come, the roots of commerce remain firmly planted. Today, thousands of Shopify merchants produce made-by-hand goods, selling them at craft shows, pop-up shops, and through their online stores worldwide. Ecommerce gives makers more reach, and apps help keep their…