Due to working full time I have the following business for sale, easily run from home or any location, great opportunity and huge potential too. Turning over £15,000+ from launch in its first 4 months shows you how it performs.
Here are details of the business I have for sale at Purchase here Zippo lighters., it far exceeded my expectations after it launched last year at the start of November 2005. In under 4 months it turned over £15,000+.
At the end of March I stopped the advertising as I had to concentrate on other things after working on this full time for 4 months hence the low sales since March, I simply didn't have the time. The site has 2 suppliers, 1 is zippo direct and the other is a very well established rolling tray company that don't usually allow other companies to sell their products, the rolling tray company send direct to the customer for you so no stock required, zippo you have to order the stock but what we do is we make an order every few days or every 30 orders you receive, so you email or faxed your order to Zippo, pay them via card, usually it takes 2 days to receive the stock from zippo then i just pop the lighter into a jiffy bag with printed off order sheet and post, easy. I buy the jiffy bags in bulk so works out about 20p per jiffy bag and postage normal first class is around 54p. So I usually charge 99p postage as it covers it. I then just bagged up all the orders and dropped the bag off at the local post office for them to do during the day.
I also have details of one other major supplier that I always intended to add but never got round to it who are massive and have a wide variety of related products like lighters and so on. The sites had around 550 orders since it launched and can be run from home by 1 person.
The business is run from an online admin interface which is very easy to use, its easy to add products, have sales, do gift vouchers or discount codes, keep track of income and sales, who's on your website, send newsletters to all customers at once etc, plus so much more, its quite smart.
As for potential well its there to see, its the best looking site out there selling zippos and as you can see in December it turned over nearly £9,000, profit is about 20% after advertising costs taken off but I did also intend to register for VAT as that would increase the profit even further.
The business can be run from home by just 1 person as I work from home and run this business by myself. I will include everything even the advertising accounts I set up which have added to the success of the business, also theres a business product side of Zippo which I never used which allows you to supply bulk items to companies like pubs, clubs etc, companies who want their logo or own design on a zippo lighter, zippo do this too but I never advertised it though I have been asked many times by companies for quotes etc.
I had requests daily for engraving the zippos which is a major source of profit but again I just never got round to it, you could do this 2 ways, either agree a deal with a local engravers (most markets do this) or purchase an engraving machine yourself and learn it, there is usually a few on Ebay, its one option anyway, basically you get everything and my ongoing support too if I can help as i work in online advertising.
Running costs are low, website hosting is around £30 every 6 months, the only ongoing costs are the advertising costs which vary depending on how busy you want to be and the materials ie jiffy bags and postage.
I think I've covered everything, if you have any questions just ask. The site has a database of over 500 customers now, they can be contacted by 1 button on the interface or send a newsletter, theres all sorts the admin area lets you do, even affiliate marketing is there too.
Email me for stats and things on the business, I am asking £6,000, I will offer my full support and help after teh sale and also the pay per click accounts will be included and transferred to you.
Any questions just ask.
Here are details of the business I have for sale at Purchase here Zippo lighters., it far exceeded my expectations after it launched last year at the start of November 2005. In under 4 months it turned over £15,000+.
At the end of March I stopped the advertising as I had to concentrate on other things after working on this full time for 4 months hence the low sales since March, I simply didn't have the time. The site has 2 suppliers, 1 is zippo direct and the other is a very well established rolling tray company that don't usually allow other companies to sell their products, the rolling tray company send direct to the customer for you so no stock required, zippo you have to order the stock but what we do is we make an order every few days or every 30 orders you receive, so you email or faxed your order to Zippo, pay them via card, usually it takes 2 days to receive the stock from zippo then i just pop the lighter into a jiffy bag with printed off order sheet and post, easy. I buy the jiffy bags in bulk so works out about 20p per jiffy bag and postage normal first class is around 54p. So I usually charge 99p postage as it covers it. I then just bagged up all the orders and dropped the bag off at the local post office for them to do during the day.
I also have details of one other major supplier that I always intended to add but never got round to it who are massive and have a wide variety of related products like lighters and so on. The sites had around 550 orders since it launched and can be run from home by 1 person.
The business is run from an online admin interface which is very easy to use, its easy to add products, have sales, do gift vouchers or discount codes, keep track of income and sales, who's on your website, send newsletters to all customers at once etc, plus so much more, its quite smart.
As for potential well its there to see, its the best looking site out there selling zippos and as you can see in December it turned over nearly £9,000, profit is about 20% after advertising costs taken off but I did also intend to register for VAT as that would increase the profit even further.
The business can be run from home by just 1 person as I work from home and run this business by myself. I will include everything even the advertising accounts I set up which have added to the success of the business, also theres a business product side of Zippo which I never used which allows you to supply bulk items to companies like pubs, clubs etc, companies who want their logo or own design on a zippo lighter, zippo do this too but I never advertised it though I have been asked many times by companies for quotes etc.
I had requests daily for engraving the zippos which is a major source of profit but again I just never got round to it, you could do this 2 ways, either agree a deal with a local engravers (most markets do this) or purchase an engraving machine yourself and learn it, there is usually a few on Ebay, its one option anyway, basically you get everything and my ongoing support too if I can help as i work in online advertising.
Running costs are low, website hosting is around £30 every 6 months, the only ongoing costs are the advertising costs which vary depending on how busy you want to be and the materials ie jiffy bags and postage.
I think I've covered everything, if you have any questions just ask. The site has a database of over 500 customers now, they can be contacted by 1 button on the interface or send a newsletter, theres all sorts the admin area lets you do, even affiliate marketing is there too.
Email me for stats and things on the business, I am asking £6,000, I will offer my full support and help after teh sale and also the pay per click accounts will be included and transferred to you.
Any questions just ask.
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