Can you Run a Part-Time Business on Shopify?

The first thing that you need to do is to display the opening hours that you’re operating. Customers will want to know when you are open and when they can contact you. It is also good to have set hours when you do work and not work ad-hoc. Ad-hoc works allows you to take too much time off that will lessen your performance.

In addition, if you don’t have opening hours, you might get calls or emails at any time. This can infuriate you and sound unprofessional to customers if you have loud kids in the background. Be sure that you give a reason for customers to come back to you.

You should always have a desk or a space where you work. This is important because it puts you into the frame of mind to work hard on your business. This space could just be a desk or you can turn an entire room into your office/storage space.

Put up branding items within the room to ensure that you create an atmosphere for your business and brand.

When you’ve got limited time you want to be as time-efficient as possible. One way to do this is to have as many things automated or running with third parties as possible. Part-time businesses are perfect for dropshipping where you manage the customers and marketing and others manage the production and fulfillment.

You can also use services like Chataffy to manage customer service on your website. This offer smaller profit margins, but can also help build sales, so you can earn more in the long term.

If you’re not looking to expand and only want an income of a certain amount, or happy with a smaller income, then be more exclusive with your customers. You can sometimes vet customers, based on their location or other attributes that allow you to ensure only the customers you want are making purchases.

It will limit revenues, but it might make the business more manageable if you want it to be part time.