I’ve had several online businesses over the years from fashion to wellbeing boxes. I’ve absolutely loved doing them but had to close them all either due to lack of time or lack of sales, or a mixture of both.
But my love for having an online businesses remains, as does my entrepreneurial spirit, and now that I’m working fewer days I’m already thinking about what I can do.
But this time I want to think it all through a lot more carefully than I did before. I also need to launch it on a minimal budget, but I’m up for a challenge.
I don’t have any space to store products and I’ve learnt from previous ventures that I don’t want to spend hours trekking back and forth to the post office.
So the answer is either Print on Demand, which I’ve tired before, or another style of business where I can order products in very low quantities and scale it over time if funds allow.
I know the market is saturated but I want to do something I enjoy and that won’t cost me a fortune. The one thing I absolutely love is good quality stationery.
I love opening a brand new notebook or journal to write down notes, thoughts, ideas, and things to remember. It’s so nice to write in the pages of a book after spending so many hours staring at a screen.
The idea of creating something to sell really appeals. I can easily set up a Shopify store as I’ve done that before, so at the moment I’m looking into who would manufacture the products.
I’ll probably end up launching with just one or two products, but we all have to start somewhere, and I’ve wasted money in the past launching with a larger product range and finding very little of it sells.
I’d love to be able to stop trading time for money and to have something that is mine.
It’s something to keep me going and give me hope for the future. Working in the NHS five days a week has proved to be too much for me, but running a small business from home definitely appeals.
It’s something to think about, and it might just get me somewhere. We’ll see.
It’s a saturated market, but who’s to say there isn’t room for one more?
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