Is your home based ecommerce business outgrowing your space?

If the answer to the question in the header is “yes” then you’ll probably not be too surprised to hear that you are not alone.

Running a home based ecommerce business can provide a great work/life balance. Roll out of bed, no commute, log on, watch your sales pour in, pack your orders up, pop them down to the local Post Office, knock off early and, whilst out enjoying the finer things (like a social life), your website beavers away taking your next set of orders.

Okay, reality check! If it was that simple we’d all be doing it, but you get the drift.

The reality is that for any business to grow takes huge amounts of effort and, as they grow, so do the problems associated with running them. In the case of home based ecommerce businesses the two biggest problems are often a lack of space and distribution.

The situation many find themselves in is that they outgrow their space at home but cannot afford the leap into taking on business premises, especially with the ever rising cost of rent and rates.

Another issue is how do you grow a business when you spend half your working week packing and despatching orders? You could take on a member of staff of course but it’s hardly ideal and, let’s face it, a lot of workers would be wary about taking on a job based from the bedroom of a three bed semi in Croydon. And when they go on holiday…………Yep, it’s just you again.

Fulfilment houses are an option, but if you’ve been down that road you’ll know that they can be expensive, inflexible and often disinterested in the small low volume shipper.

So that’s it, you should give it all up and go get a proper job, right? Err. No. You see at Mission Despatch we’ve come across this scenario many times. We’ve had people selling anything from fizzy drinks to furniture, and umbrellas to underwear. They all shared the same problems, lack of space, paying too much for delivery, and spending too much of their time packing orders and organising distribution.

So imagine a perfect scenario where you have more space, better distribution, access to competitive delivery rates and, most importantly, you have your time back, time to grow your business. These are the key ingredients required to help you through the transition between “too big for home” and “not big enough for premises”.

If you are a small business owner you may be thinking you can’t afford something like this, or perhaps you might feel that you are managing perfectly well alone, but how confident are you that you can grow your business whilst spending so much time on non-revenue generating tasks?

With this in mind you should be pleased to learn that we can make the scenario above a reality for a lot less than you probably think. With storage from as little as £7.00 per pallet per week, and UK delivery starting from less than £4.50, we can provide the perfect platform to help you springboard to the next level.

Excited yet? We sincerely hope so. So what to do next? Well, stop packing that order, clamber over the boxes in your lounge, pick up the phone and dial HELP……. 0845 094 2040.