Drop Shipping Business

There is no market in retailing other publishers’ correspondence courses, but if you are able to write a course yourself on a subject in which you are suitably qualified, teaching by correspondence can make a very good mail order business. The business has two elements to it: the provision of course material, and the marking and supervision of students’ work. Whatever the subject matter, the course material and the student supervision both need to be of a high standard — certainly not less than the standard you would expect of a specialist full-time schoolteacher or college lecturer in the subject.

Correspondence courses are in their nature specially designed to exploit the postal service and so, not surprisingly, they have many favourable mail order characteristics. Almost exclusively, they are composed of written or printed material which is ideal for mailing, easily handled, difficult to damage in transit, with a good price/weight ratio.

Among the difficulties are that the market is well served by long-established schools offering a range of all the more popular subjects. A costly, sustained and highly professional advertising campaign would be needed to win a share of the popular market; but if you are offering only one subject, such a campaign is clearly out of the question. Perhaps a beginner hoping to make an effective entrance into the market should be one who can promote himself as a skilled practitioner in the field offered as a course of study, for example WRITE EBOOKS.

Even a single subject, provided you get enough students, can make at least a part-time venture, though like any business based upon the sale of your skilled personal attention, its scope for expansion is limited by the amount of work you can reasonably fit into the available time. Virtually limitless expansion, however, is possible by commissioning other experts to write — and supervise — courses on other subjects which can then be offered through your school.