You read the news and you see many small business start-ups and home based businesses starting and growing. You think to yourself hey they all need Office Supplies I can sell them office supplies and create my own business. This is just like the old Gold rush where the people selling the shovels and mining tools made all the money.

Let’s take a step back and think about this. First off where will you get your inventory to sell? How will you sell this inventory?

This business opportunity is not one to get into unless you figure a unique selling proposition with a great angle. Also unless you can find a wholesaler that will give you decent enough discounts to make a decent profit it is still a no-win situation.

First off most small business owners of home based self employed are more likely to get their discounted supplies at Staples, Costco, or Wal-Mart. They will do this by having an employee go and shop for supplies as needed. There is no way unless you are truly creative that you can compete with these companies on general office supplies for a good price point. See most office supplies are a commodity.

Generally most small and large businesses have their office supplies delivered from these companies or W.B Mason. Here again you are dealing with very sophisticated competition that gets the supplies for much cheaper wholesale prices then you will ever be able to garner. They even now manufacture or license their supplies so that they can make more profit on the sales. This makes the market even tougher and tighter for you.

So now you are thinking to yourself you can sell on the internet. Well all of these large companies also sell on the internet. In matter of fact they have such a sophisticated supply and delivery chain that they take all their orders on the internet and delivered to their customers. Even if you were to find a drop-shipper and sell on eBay you are competing against many other sellers doing the same thing. What I mean by this is that you are not again able to get it cheap enough wholesale for you to make a profit. First you will have to deal with eBay and payment processing fees which will eat up close to 20% of your profits not leaving with you with much.

Unless you find some sort of specialized office supply to sell on the high end, I have a suggestion.

You can sell on the internet, what you can do is sign up as an affiliate to these large companies. You can now design your site that has some unique content or tips for office supplies that people find value in the information on your site to help them with purchasing decision for office supplies. This will be difficult and you will need to be creative, what I am trying to do is give you some ideas if you really want to pursue this. Now once you have driven traffic to your site through Internet Marketing, you have your site loaded with affiliate offers and links that when your visitors click these and go the site and purchase you receive a commission. Try to think of a site like hotels.com or Travelocity.com all they are doing is being front end salesmen for large corporations and receiving a commission from the sales generated for their sites.

To me this would be the best way to approach this business.

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