Selling online doesn’t have to go to the pile marked unfulfilled dreams. It can be a full-time occupation or side hustle if you get the right framework in place, including Edinburgh Self Storage business storage.
When you’re running a business from home, hanging around to accept a delivery that if you miss is sent back to the depot is a hassle and a further waste of time. You can arrange for deliveries to be sent directly to your storage unit*, keeping your products secure until your next visit, plus we’re able to handle amplified volumes once your business scales up.
The benefits of selling online
The first thing that springs to mind is of course the savings on overheads and setting up costs compared to a high street premises, plus business rates etc. Selling online is your shop window to the world: a global reach with so many more sales opportunities than a physical shop presence ever could.
Better able to compete with larger businesses because you never have to flip the sign to closed and can operate 24/7, you can likewise reduce your order processing costs or automate the entire process and receive instant payments from online transactions.
Data protection-compliant data mining switches you onto the buying habits of your customers that you can then use to target them with marketing messages less likely to end up being binned because you know what they like.
The Edinburgh Self Storage location: the ideal self storage for e-commerce
Our central location in Edinburgh is tailor-made for storing and dispatching e-commerce orders, especially when compared to regular warehouses that are often out on the fringes and outskirts, along major trunk roads, plus the added spectre of parking issues.
You get locked into long contracts and pay for more warehouse space than you need, whereas our self-storage units are a fraction of the price, plus you won’t have to worry about electricity charges with Edinburgh Self Storage.
Online business should ideally be separate from your home
The process of running an online business is made so much smoother when you have a storage solution that isn’t your home.
It might sound like a good idea at the time to stack up your inventory in the makeshift warehouse/fulfilment centre that is your home, like in your back bedroom or garage, but these aren’t the right environments for several reasons.
Sprawling stock can get out of hand in your home office once your business begins to take off. What’s more, you don’t want to be spending hours trying to find what you’re looking for and possibly damaging delicate products in the process, or having pets or children spoil them.
As well as being inconvenient, rooms in your home might lack the right temperature required to keep your stock in mint condition, causing hiccups to the smooth running of your e-commerce operation.
Self storage allows flexibility
No need to guesstimate how far you’ll be scaling your business.
We will help calculate the optimum storage space required by your business, and you can expand or shrink your storage unit at any time should you be experiencing more fallow times – great for seasonal businesses too of course – plus you can take on an extra storage unit at any time.
There’s no end date on your storage contract means no long-term commitment, and as your business storage needs change, so can the space you rent.
Edinburgh Self Storage: safe in the knowledge your inventory is secure
Self Storage is your secure option for your e-commerce company. Unless your home could give Fort Knox a run for its money, Edinburgh Self Storage’s around-the-clock security, and CCTV, will bring you greater peace of mind, plus each unit has its own security padlock or code, which only you know.
Your merchandise in a humidity-controlled environment reduces the chance of anything spoiling.
Added extras
Free-to-use moving equipment on-site and packaging materials available for sale – plus our Business Storage customers get 10% off.
*Edinburgh Self Storage signs items “Unchecked” and without liability
