How self-storage and online businesses fit together
Many today dream of making quick and easy money. If you go online to find out more, you will stumble upon many people saying you should get up and pursue your goals instead of lounging on your coach.
Consequently, many rush into starting their own business and become self-employed without a sound plan in place. This is not to say that building up an online business is necessarily a bad idea. It’s not!
And for this reason, LAGERBOX has developed an initial plan for the prospective business owners out there. And we let you in on what self-storage and our storage units have to do with each other.
But before we go any further, here are some of the basic prerequisites for successfully building an online business. First, it’s good to develop some business acumen. Seeing as the entry barriers to doing online business are so low, you have to be able to handle money. It’s also good to nurture motivation and endurance and to stick to your business plan.
Don’t embark on the first thing that comes along, but let your business idea develop and mature. You should also be prepared to invest a certain amount of your own money. Lastly, your idea might require some technical know-how.
So, here are our tips for you: Start by developing a business plan. Make sure this is well-thought-out. If you go online, you will find many templates to help you start. When developing your idea, it can help to find a niche and identify a need that people have. This will make earning money with your idea more likely.
The best thing to do here is some market research. It will help you to verify the niche and be able to realistically assess the competition you will face. Your business plan should include financial projections from the onset so you can review them later.
It’s best to structure them to ensure exponential growth. Legal aspects are also important to make sure you don’t accidentally do something illegal. Familiarise yourself with the rules and regulations beforehand.
Once you have done all that, you’re well on track. To make sure that a) you have a good website and b) nobody steals your idea, it’s a good idea to be quick in registering a good domain name.
And off you go: Your online shop is ready for the public. Now it’s all about building your brand step by step, attracting visitors to your store, and generating sales. To make sure you know everything there is to, it is recommendable to measure your success and scale up.
LAGERBOX can also help the success of your online shop
What is it we can do? Of course, we can help with storage: If you don’t want to store all your sales items in your own four walls, go to your nearby LAGERBOX facility.
Self-storage is simple: Save space in your home by renting a storage unit and storing your things there.
Our private customers tend to use them as furniture storage. For our business customers, LAGERBOX offers very special, additional services like receiving goods and packages for you. This way, you don’t even need to be on location at LAGERBOX to receive the goods you want to send out.
This reduces stress and frees up more time for you to tend to your business.
Many smart people who have identified the business potential of self-storage and storage boxes early on are already using these LAGERBOX services. By the way, self-storage means exactly what’s inherent in the name: you take care of storage yourself.
