A large number of people who sell on market stalls tend to make the very products they sell themselves. Those active in the food sector, inevitably prepare and cook the food at the stall for immediate consumption, or they package the uncooked or pre-prepared food in bottles, plastic containers, packets, or similar packaging for the customer to take home and consume at home. The food category is quite challenging as it has heath issues associated with it. The last thing will want, is to make your customers sick.

If you are interested in making and selling fresh or pre-packaged food, here are some considerations:

• Cleanliness
• Freshness
• City and municipal regulations
• Weights and measures
• Pricing
• Packaging alternatives

Other than food, people who make leather belts, clothing, welded items for the garden, ornaments, knives, art works, wooden items, creams and lotions, and a thousand other types of products also use market stalls quite effectively to market and sell their products. In fact, more often than not the person who ends up at a market stall to sell something they make, started off with the product or hobby first and then looked for a way of making some money from their hobby, ultimately turning to a market stall as a way of selling their product.

So, tips and hints about the products you make:

• Quality
• Uniqueness
• Product ideas
• Weights and measures
• Pricing
• Packaging alternatives