🛍️ Open a Product Business in Jamaica: Shops, Food and Made-to-Order · Lesson 6 of 8 · free
The order to build the places you sell: a WhatsApp catalogue with prices, one post a day of the product, a free directory listing, a one-page site, and the online store when the orders say so.
⏱ About 15 minutes · read it, then do the "Do this now" steps before the next lesson
Switch to WhatsApp Business on the same number. Build the catalogue with every product, price and photo. Greeting message, away message, quick replies for delivery, payment and hours. Labels for New, Paid, Packed, Delivered. This is the till for most Jamaican shops, and it is free.
Instagram and TikTok are where people discover you, not where they pay. Post the product in use, a customer's status, a packing video, the drop date. Price in the caption. Link in bio to the WhatsApp catalogue or your page.
List the shop free in the Jamaica Business Directory, so a Google search for your type of product in your town finds a real page with your name and link. When you are ready, a one-page site with the catalogue, prices and a WhatsApp button makes you a shop instead of a chat.
The signal is time: when you are typing the same prices forty times a week, answering "is it still available?" all day and chasing transfer screenshots, the store earns its keep. Products, stock, bank transfer with proof, card checkout, delivery zones, order messages on WhatsApp — the shop runs while you pack.
Catalogue live, directory listing submitted, and one post of the product every day for a week.
List the shop free in the Jamaica Business Directory today — reviewed by a person, live in a day. When you are typing the same prices forty times a week, the online store is J$35,000 to build, then the Store plan at J$9,500/mo with Ezy Cart, hosting and support included.