Home Based Entrepreneurs Share 2 Million Pounds

• Thursday, 19 November 2009

With on-line retail continuing to growing at over 10% year on year within the UK, the great British public are not simply viewing it as an opportunity to bag a few bargains. Full time parents, retired professional and home based entrepreneurs are increasingly reaping the rewards from their own on-line retail shops as the barriers to joining the Internet gold rush are removed.

With independents like asos.com sustaining 50% annual revenue growth, this kind of success is now being reflected in much smaller operations.

In fact the trend has become so pronounced that major high street retailers are having to throw considerable resources at Internet marketing on search engines and social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter to maintain their own growth in the face of increasingly diverse competition.

James Wilson, Dispatch Manager for independent martial arts retailer Paragon Martial Arts explained "Like a lot of on-line shops you see today We started as a small home based business trying to juggle home life with rooms full of stock! In the space of 12 months we've seen our turnover more than double and have now moved into commercial premises in Derby."

Entry-level Ecommerce service provider internetretailer.biz is just one of dozens of similar businesses now providing easy to use platforms through which thousands of budding entrepreneurs and stay at home parents are launching their own retail ventures.

Director of internetretailer.biz commented "Since we started helping those new to selling on-line set up with their own Internet based shops, we have now seen over 2 million pounds worth of orders processed through our software in just under 3 years of trading. Considering the vast majority of people using our service are new to selling online that's quite an impressive figure."

Whoever takes power in the general election next year must take care not introduce policies that might de-rail this growth industry. The Internet is here to stay and it would appear that more and more Britains are proving once again that we truly are a nation of shop keepers.

More Information:

David Geran
Director
internetretailer.biz
Tel: 05603 662 453
Email: info@internetretailer.biz

James Wilson
Dispatch Manager
Paragon Martial Arts
Tel: 05603 661 501
Email: mail@paragonmartialarts.co.uk

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