An ideal supplemental income business meets these criteria:
You do not have to work in a fixed location. Therefore don’t open a storefront, restaurant, or bed & breakfast.
You are not required to maintain certain hours of work. You do not have to work a 40 hour week from 9 to 5. You work when you want for as long or as little as you want. It depends on you.
You will not have employees. You will not have to deal with a payroll and employee management issues. You do the work yourself or out-source to subcontractors.
You need little or no capital investment. You should be protecting the funds you have and not putting them at risk. This also means you should not be holding inventory.
Your product(s) should be unique to you. Don’t sell something that customers can buy elsewhere, especially from major department stores.
Your business should be about something that interests you. If you are not excited about your topic, other’s won’t be either.
You do not need specialized skills, licenses, or certifications.
You cannot be fired as you will no be dependent on one boss.
Here’s how it works…
1. Create an ecommerce website using either WooCommerce or Shopify
Additionally, you can sell your products on various marketplaces including Etsy, eBay, and Amazon.
You can pick any niche that interest you: Pets, Location and Travel, Careers, Hobbies, Sports, Lifestyle, Family & Relationships, Seasonal, Humor, or a combination (such as niche + location).
2. Design Products and integrate with Print on Demand
Using royalty-free images and text, you can create an unlimited number of customized products that are uniquely yours. We’ll show you how to determine what is selling so you can apply it to your niche and make your own designs at no cost. These designs can be applied to a large number of products from t-shirts and coffee mugs to towels, curtains, and even shoes!
Items are automatically uploaded into your website.
3. Print on Demand Company fulfills orders and dropships to your customers
All you have to do is market and sell your products – the Print on Demand company will not only create your products on the fly, but ship them to your customers using your address!
Let’s say for example that a customer orders a coffee mug from your site. The order is sent automatically to the fulfillment company who prints the mug with the selected design, and ships it to your customer.