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haggy

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1,955 posts

245 months

Thursday 9th April 2009
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Whilst running my existing business 9-5, during the daytime i have plenty of spare time on my hands being in carsales. Alot of this time is spent on pistonheads! im thinking i could use this time more productively & set up an online business/shop? i have plenty of secure storage space so thats not a problem. Does anyone have any idea's on what would be good to start selling?

Thanks

KevF

1,996 posts

229 months

Thursday 9th April 2009
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Storage space.....?

derestrictor

18,764 posts

292 months

Thursday 9th April 2009
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Ammo, camouflage, etc.

haggy

Original Poster:

1,955 posts

245 months

Thursday 9th April 2009
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Its not warehouse size! 30ft by 15ft, but is big enough to store as an example plenty of alloys wheels/tyres before sending them

haggy

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1,955 posts

245 months

Thursday 9th April 2009
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derestrictor said:
Ammo, camouflage, etc.
Is there a good market for that then?

silver.fox.2008

820 posts

221 months

Thursday 9th April 2009
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haggy said:
Its not warehouse size! 30ft by 15ft, but is big enough to store as an example plenty of alloys wheels/tyres before sending them
How about car parts. Don't know what the market is but since you're already in the trade why not expand into this.

Dick Dastardly

8,326 posts

294 months

Thursday 9th April 2009
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Any ideas you have stick the keywords into here to see if people are actually searching for them:
https://adwords.google.co.uk/select/KeywordToolExt...

And then stick them in here for an indication of whether it's a growing market or not:
http://www.google.com/insights/search/

Edited by Dick Dastardly on Thursday 9th April 15:59

bigTee

5,546 posts

252 months

Thursday 9th April 2009
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i've just set this up www.shopofhorrors.co.uk in my spare time.



Goochie

5,804 posts

250 months

Friday 10th April 2009
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Dick Dastardly said:
Any ideas you have stick the keywords into here to see if people are actually searching for them:
https://adwords.google.co.uk/select/KeywordToolExt...

And then stick them in here for an indication of whether it's a growing market or not:
http://www.google.com/insights/search/

Edited by Dick Dastardly on Thursday 9th April 15:59
Thanks for those excellent links - never knew you that information was available!

anonymous-user

85 months

Friday 10th April 2009
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How about buying some tents from China and floggin them cheap for the festivals

..You are looking at a market of a least million, and cheap tents always sell...

maser_spyder

6,356 posts

213 months

Friday 10th April 2009
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jaymodunn said:
How about buying some tents from China and floggin them cheap for the festivals

..You are looking at a market of a least million, and cheap tents always sell...
I've had numerous enquiries to source these from customers in the UK this year and tail end of last year.

You may have missed the boat on this.....