How to sell on WhatsApp Status and in groups

Your Status only reaches people when you have each other's numbers saved. A customer who hasn't saved yours will never see your new stock, however good it is. So asking people to save your number is the most useful marketing you can do.

• After every sale, send: "Please save my number so you can see new stock on my Status."
• Save the customer's number too, as soon as they message you.
• Put your number on your packaging, your receipts and your Instagram or TikTok bio.
• Check Status privacy in your WhatsApp settings is on My contacts, so nobody is left out by accident.

• One product per post, in daylight, on a plain background.
• The price on the post. "DM for price" costs you the people who won't ask.
• The sizes or colours you have left, so nobody asks for one that's finished.
• A code or number for each item, so a buyer can say exactly which one they mean.
• Any flaw, shown clearly. One honest photo saves one angry customer.

Statuses disappear after 24 hours, so what sold well yesterday can go up again today. WhatsApp shows who viewed each post: use that to learn what people stop for, and message the viewers who keep coming back.

1. Read the group's rules, and ask the admin if you can post. Being removed from a group full of buyers is expensive.
2. Post your best few items, not your whole shop. Long floods get muted.
3. Put a link or your number at the end, so people can order in private.
4. Answer in private, so one buyer's questions don't fill everybody's phone.

This is where most sellers start losing money. An order on Monday is under forty messages by Wednesday. Decide how you'll keep them before you get busy: an exercise book works, and so does an app. Here's what to write down.

A store link helps too. Instead of sending the same twenty photos to every buyer, you send one link and they pick. Tapstall gives you a free one, and orders still come to your WhatsApp.