Drop Shipping Business

Small Stuff, Big market! Start Selling Figurines

January 16, 2010 at 1:31 AM | Posted in Mail Order, Online Auctions, Small Business | Leave a Comment
Tags: advertising, design, figurines, home, items, mail order operation, nature

All sorts of figurines are popular as household ornaments. Some are made in distinctive styles so that different figurines form part of a series and therefore appeal as collectibles, and hence generate their own follow-up orders.

If you manufacture the figurines yourself, take account of possible mailing problems in your designs. For example, favour figurines of compact shape without fragile protuberances, such as a model of an angler with a thin extended rod. Items like this can be very difficult to pack and mail securely, and breakages may reach a level which renders the whole operation uneconomic. Of course, the material which the figurine is made of has an important bearing on the problem, and you would not want to embark on the manufacture of items, however charming, which in their very nature are unlikely to withstand the rigours of mailing very well.

Specially formed expanded polystyrene packs make excellent damage-proof mailing boxes, but the more specialised your packaging, the less flexible your mail order operation. Try not to be too committed to a particular item in a particular pack before having the experience to judge whether this is precisely what the market requires.

If you do not manufacture the product yourself, consider seeking out less well-known manufacturers, either at home or abroad, so that your items have a freshness of appeal.

Advertising obviously needs to be well illustrated. The cost of mounting a mail order operation in items of this kind is quite high, so be sure to choose figurines which you can reasonably _expect to command a sufficiently high price.