Working from Home, Do I have to stock Inventory?
You have decided to sell from home and you have been offered a very good deal selling hard products. By Hard Products, I mean items such as cameras, bicycles, children’s toys and keep fit equipment. Also in this is the sale of DVD’s for any manner of training.
Have you ever heard of the term ‘Drop Shipping‘? Drop Shipping is a method whereby when you get an order, you contact a specialist company and they send out a fully packaged item to the buyer. They handle the packaging, delivery, courier or postal delivery and if it is for another country they will fill in the details of content for the border crossings. http://www.marketingwithjohn.com/
This type of selling is mostly on EBay and is profitable and also easy for the seller as the ‘hard graft‘ is done by someone else. The cost is also fairly low as these companies supply this service in bulk and have huge warehouses. I live in a remote area of a country that has not fully grasped what the Internet can do for them but Internet Sales, mostly from another nearby country enabled me to buy things that would have cost a fortune if they had to be imported from the USA. The origination was Asia so it did not matter which seller I used. I used the one with the lowest charges on top of the price of the goods. http://www.webcolleagues.info/
Small items you may want to stock yourself but there is a drawback to that. You have to pay for your goods in advance. By using the Drop Shipping method, you only get charged for each sale you make. There is no stock to eat into your profit. http://www.iceni-it.co.uk
Di Chapman -