The market for online retail has exploded in recent years. With an increasing number of retailers eschewing the high street in favour of the worldwide web, there are plenty of opportunities to acquire an internet-based retail business with the potential to build an enviable online empire. Many online retail businesses operate with much lower ove more...
The market for online retail has exploded in recent years. With an increasing number of retailers eschewing the high street in favour of the worldwide web, there are plenty of opportunities to acquire an internet-based retail business with the potential to build an enviable online empire. Many online retail businesses operate with much lower overheads than traditional bricks and mortar shops and are able to tempt buyers from a much wider pool.
Some of the logistics and customer service processes are the same as in a high street shop and the lack of a physical retail presence means you’ll have to work hard to get customers to visit your virtual store. That said, there are more opportunities to create successful businesses that may find it tough to turn a profit from a single geographical location. Niche can be your best bet: if you already know a lot about knitting, for instance, you could bring your expertise to an existing online retailer specialising in exotic yarns.
The big advantage of running an online business is that you can usually set your own hours and grow it at your own pace – it may even be possible to manage it alongside an existing job. Consider how much time you want to invest before you start to search for online businesses for sale. It’s also easier to keep overheads under control: unless you require more storage space for stock than can be accommodated in a garage, it’s usually possible to run your online business from home.
The due diligence process for online retailers differs slightly from the norm. In particular, you’ll need to verify the sellers’ claims regarding web traffic and advertising revenue. Most will let committed buyers look at the back end, providing they agree to a non-disclosure clause, but it’s worth giving this task to someone who knows what they’re looking for.
Lincoln & Surrounding
This business is no longer available
Sittingbourne, Sheerness & Faversham
www.officalfidget.co.uk and .com is up for sale, along with the website. All you will need to do is provide hosting and I will happily transfer the site over to you.
Oswestry, Whitchurch Ellesmere & Surrounding
Ma-Ga London Ltd is a e-commerce company that has B2B partners that sell the products including TK Maxx. We have circa £15,000 cost stock with retail value at circa £60,000
Newark-on-Trent
Travelpalholidays.com is a online based comparison website. Comparing hotels, flights and accommodation. The business generates revenue through website visits.
Guildford, Woking & Surrounding
Runcorn & Widnes
Well established E-book business
Leeds
Befitin is an online e commerce website where verious catigories of products can be sold such as Clothing, Baby & Kids Products, Phones, Shoes, Computers etc......
Seaham & Peterlee
Mane Hair Extensions LTD is a young and small home based business. We supply high quality human hair extensions to hair salons over the UK including Northern Ireland.
Luton
An absolutely fantastic and fully relocatable business opportunity that AC are extremely happy to offer for sale.The business is easily run by our seller with the help of her co owner
Isle of Man
A start-up opportunity to purchase an online art magazine. The magazine website has been designed and established through Wordpress.org, promotional Instagram and Facebook accounts included
Hillingdon
Online Fine Art Gallery seeking a small investment for so as to build on a global market.
Isle of Wight
An online Classified Ads website for a local area with 30,000 registered users. We also publish a monthly magazine, 7,000 copies - utilizing the content from the website.
Manchester & Surrounding
CutClean is a natural blend of herbs, spices and extracts to help your weight loss goals and achieve lower levels of body fat. Each ingredient is scientifically proven to aid fat loss.
Newport
Unique online jewellery retailer
Worthing & Littlehampton
This is a brand new website loaded with products & ready to do the business & comes along with all the stock (£40,000)and packing material. ebay & Amazon accounts complimentary.
Hammersmith and Fulham
Drop Shipping Web based business Making £3000/Month Passive Revenue
City of London
2 Cobranded Ecommerce Sites | JusttheCats.co.uk & JustTheDogs.co.uk | Selling the coolest and funkiest pet products through your store. | 150+ Products , Google Indexed, Organic Traffic
Milton Keynes
Mansfield, Sutton-in-Ashfield & Surrounding
Established 10 years online hair extension business- data base of 1400 customers. Homebased- partime. £55k turnover fr regular customers. Priced for quick sale. www.heavenlyhairsupplies.com
City of Westminster
Fillm based social network with unique algorithm for movie recommendations very extensive database of movies. Check out our website (www.rattlemovies.com) or download our app on both stores