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PART (3)

Maybe you are thinking of the ‘normal’ functions of a business, as they exist ‘offline’ in the ‘real-world’...maybe you are still thinking a business ‘sells’ either ‘products’ or ‘services’. Well to be fair, many ‘online’ businesses do do just this. Many ‘virtual’ shop-fronts exist and allow people to access and purchase specific products, or maybe engage in acquiring the ‘services’ of the ‘website company’.

But, these are not the only type of things an online business may do to produce an income. True, if you develop a website that sells ‘something tangible’, you may suspect that you have to either produce, or buy in wholesale stocks of something in order to receive orders and ‘post out ‘items’ that your customers order. This is, though, only one possibility. In this new electronic age of commerce it is quite possible to ‘sell tangible goods’ but never have to ‘see’ those goods yourself.

Nowadays you can use the services of (a 'carefully selected’) drop-shipping company to send on goods ordered on your website from their warehouses to your customers…you pay for the ordered item out of the money received from your customer and keep the ‘profit’ for yourself…no need to store stock, stock-take, and hope you sell stuff…because you never actually have to hold the stock…the drop shipper (whose business is viable because he provides goods for hundreds of similar ‘small virtual shops’) hold all stock and mails out all orders.

But ‘selling hard goods’ is only one option (and there are things that you would need to do to ensure that you did not experience certain pitfalls with this choice – but that’s covered in another article!)

You could be promoting and selling a service… in fact small service businesses are incredibly short sighted if they fail to develop a ‘web presence’. All small businesses really should develop a website to ensure that they miss no opportunity to bring in the trade that seekers for their goods or services who are regularly using the web might provide them with.

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