Business At A Glance
Startup Costs: $10,000 – $50,000
Home Based: Can be operated from home.
Franchises Available? Yes
Online Operation? Yes
Business Overview
Stake your claim in the multibillion dollar communications industry byopening a communications store. Stock and sell items such asresidential and business telephones, fax machines, pagers, Palm Pilots,cell phones, and accessories.
Ideally, you’ll want to secure anauthorized agents agreement for the wireless side of the business.Securing this type of agreement should not prove difficult given thevast number of communication companies now providing paging, cell-phonecalling, and two-way radio systems.
Locate the store in a highlyvisible area of your community like a store or kiosk in a mall or astorefront on a major street. Additionally, be sure to employ outsidesalespeople to cold call on businesses in the area to bid on theircommunication product and service needs.
In most cases the salespeopleyou hire will be more than happy to work on a commission-only basis dueto the earnings potential for these types of sales. Thus you’ll be ableto maintain minimal overheads, while having the potential to increaserevenues via your outside sales contractors.
The Market
Customers will be anyone looking for a cell phone, page, fax machine or other type of communications device