Moving the physical location of your ecommerce store is tough. I did it today and I will do it again in a couple of months. This was just a short move (about 20 miles), so there was no downtime. The only real problem was trying to find a place to store everything.
Why is it hard to find a place for everything? For the first time, the headquarters of Leotard Crazy will be in my home. Moving a business from a dedicated location to your house provides many benefits, but also few problems.
Benefits
- Closer to family
- No travel time
- Work the hours you wish
- Wear what you want
- Whatever your idea of an “at home” job is, you can create it
Problems
- Space (inventory is stored all over the house)
- Personal and work time blur together if you’re not careful
- Residential shipping rates are more expensive
- Must purchase a P.O. Box or something similar unless you want your home address exposed
- No physical retail space (usually only a problem if you started as a physical retail shop first)
For me, the concept of being closer to family is the main focus. Leotard Crazy doesn’t have too many products and all of them are small. The Leotard Crazy inventory, computer, and shipping supplies will easily fit into one bedroom. This made the decision to move the business to the house very easy.
Towards the end of May Leotard Crazy will move from California to Wisconsin, a much bigger move. While downtime could turn out to be a problem, I am looking forward to this move. My family’s new home will be picked out with the intent of having an in home business. In other words, it will be bigger. Being in the center of the US is a great place to be in terms of shipping, more people can get their orders quicker. Once the move is complete, I will post some pictures.
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