Drop Shipping Business

Sell Office stationery Online, easy to start and more to sell

February 1, 2010 at 7:24 PM | Posted in Mail Order, Small Business | 1 Comment
Tags: business, customers, internet sale, journal, life, online business, online marketing, supplies

Envelopes, computer stationery, carbon paper, typing and printer ribbons, pens, pencils, adhesive tape, staples, duplicating and photocopying supplies, record cards etc — there is not a business in the land which does not need a regular supply of at least some of these items and others like them. Note that these are all unprinted items, entirely standard, and can be shipped without individual processing between your receipt of supplies from manufacturer or wholesaler and your despatch of them to retail customers. Bulked-up supplies — which is what you will be dealing in — can make quite large and heavy cartons, and you may have to use non-Post Office delivery services for many of your sales.

Being consumables, office stationery items have the attraction to the mail trader of building up a business which, if successful, quickly acquires a certain momentum: satisfied customers keep coming back for more. And as these supplies are the necessities of life for a business, not optional extras like most consumer products sold by mail, you’ve a higher than usual chance of getting a customer for life.

Advertising need not be elaborate or expensive. A small classified ad in the right place, eg appropriate trade and professional journals, inviting enquiries for your office stationery price-list may be all that you need. Bear in mind also that as you are seeking long-term continuing customers, you can afford to take a short-term loss on your initial advertising and sales if this seems a good way of pulling in a reasonable number of customers to get the business going. This is not to say that you should go for a short-term loss as a matter of policy, but you certainly have it as an option if it seems appropriate.