Thursday, May 21, 2009

How to Change Your Life in 30 days...by Swapping the Train Commute for the Kitchen Commute

By Sambi Ojon

You know those mornings when you wake up and do not fancy the trip into work. When, if you could you would opt to stay at home with the kids but are mindful of wanting next month's paycheck you force yourself out of bed anyway.

Initially, you want to be looking for some part time work at home to test the waters to see if you are really cut out to live without a pay check at the end of the month. Truth be told, not everybody can sustain a home based business long term so you do not want to put all your eggs in one basket.

Choosing to go down this route dictates a little common sense as in start small and part time just so you can test the waters of internet business.The safest way to do this is via research, look into the type of products you want to sell and how you are going to deliver these to your customers. The cheapest and safest venture to get into to do this would be drop shipping. Hopefully all your hard work into researching your particular niche product will pay dividends in the form of your first online sale. Actually, it is not a question of luck, a properly researched niche product will lead to sales because you are now selling something that a particular part of a particular market want.

Other unavoidable costs would include a laptop with a broadband connection, a printer and creating some space on the kitchen table. With these two physical things you can be up and running, earning from your online business sooner than you think possible.

As a business model drop shipping is when the supplier of your product accrues all the cost of shipping your product to your customer. This leaves you with no stock occupying any physical space in your house or anywhere else for that matter. Through your creative advertising efforts you start receiving orders and then you contact your supplier informing them of the purchase order. The goods are then packed and sent to your customer by your supplier, basically you are making a supplier aware of business in a certain area and then the rest is taken care of in terms of making the goods get there.

When drop shipping there a few things that are worthy of taking note of so you are properly informed,

Drop shipping Pros : 1. You do not have to fill up your living room with stock and packing materials. You can literally commute from the bedroom to the kitchen table and turn on the laptop and you're ready for work. 2. Drop shipping means you don't have to pay a carrier to bring stock from the distributor to your own storage area, which can mean big savings in the long term. 3. You don't have to organise the packing and posting systems nor do you have to drive to the post shop each day to post your packages. This gives you a significant increase in time to spend on other tasks such as marketing and communicating with customers.

This type of business venture is ideal for most people because you do not need a massive amount of money to start. Of course you might need some funds to improve your work from home business once it is up and running but for that all important initial investment to set up your earning online infrastructure to take customer's orders, you can manage with just a computer even if it is your friend's. In a month from now you will definitely have something to celebrate about with him.

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