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How to Start Your Own Bodybuilding Supplements Shop

Steps to Start your Own Bodybuilding Biz


Summary: Starting your own body building supplement shop is a lucrative and profitable business. You need to assess on the products that you will sell in your store as this can make and break your entire business.

Make sure that you keep track of your inventory. Do some massive marketing campaign so that people will know about your shop.

If you are fitness fanatic, it might have cross your mind to start a business related to it. It is a good idea to turn a hobby into a money making venture. There are a lot of options for you. You might want to start a gym, become a personal trainer or start your own bodybuilding supplement shop. The last one may prove to be lucrative as there are quite few shops that deal with bodybuilding supplements.

Assessing the Supplements

Bodybuilding supplements are the main selling point of your business. You need to take time to stock your shop with good body building supplement. It is so important that you take time to select products that you are going to sell in your store. Make sure that these supplements come from reputable manufacturers and distributors. These companies need to be respected by their clients and competitors. It is important that you do research on each of the product that you are selling. This way you would know if they are effective to be part of your inventory.

Tips for success

To make an impact in your target market, it is important that you are different. You offer something unique for your customers. You need to carry a certain product line that is hard to find. In this way people can really go to your store when they need something. Aside from body building supplements also offer other body building products like vitamins, proteins, etc. Keep in mind that you need to stand out above the rest. As come on, you might want to add a supplement plan or other promo that goes with the product that you sell.

Inventory management

Make sure that you keep track of your inventory. This way you are aware what products are sold out fast and what are the products that collect dust. In this way you can focus on the products that are popular and remove the ones that are not. It will also avoid the hassle of telling your customers that you run out of stock. The bottom line is that if you don’t have the product, you can’t generate sales.

Advertising your bodybuilding shop

Advertising is one way to make your store known to people. People will not be aware about the store if you don’t advertise. Placing an ad on the local newspaper or distributing flyers are few techniques when it comes to promoting your body building supplements shop. Be creative when it comes to marketing materials. Create a brochure or information guide to hand out to your customers. Make sure that you have a branding image so that people can remember you.

Make sure that you create a strong tie ups and partnership with distributors and manufacturer so that your store can get quality products from them. You could also arrange a special deal for your store so that you can able to get discounts. Better partnership with them can guarantee you on the time delivery as well.

Pricing your items

It is important that you have an organized pricing structure for your business. It will best if you still maintain a competitive price range. Make sure to do a research so that you are not charging too much for a particular brand or too little that can affect your business. Knowing your costing can definitely have an impact in your business.

16 Responses to "How to Start Your Own Bodybuilding Supplements Shop".

1. Steven Harvey on 3/30/2009 10:51:43 PM

interested in receiving a catalog please send out a catalog to: 1008 13th Street North Texas City, Texas 77590

2. JP on 4/6/2009 7:40:09 PM

Hi, I've been doing PT for a while now and i would love to start my own Bodybuilding Supplements Business, it would be an online shop. I'm outgoing and aggressive with my PT, and so many people ask me what and where to get supplements. It would just be a grate match for me. My PT with a supplements business.

3. manuel on 4/6/2009 9:04:00 PM

I'm a body builder and noticed people come up to me for info where to get them. it will be great for me to get my store open and going. i know about the DBA TAX ID but how to get the supplements is the hard part.

4. Jose M. Ortiz on 4/20/2009 3:52:04 PM

Please send me information regarding distributors and manufacturers of bodybuilding supplement in connection with creating my own bodybuilding supplement shop. Thank you very much.

5. JJ Field on 5/17/2009 10:09:01 AM

hi there, I’m looking at opening a shop but i can’t find any info on buying in the supplements like protein creative etc at prices that i could make a profit. Can u send me any info on suppliers that could help? Thanks Iain

6. hugo beca on 5/20/2009 6:17:06 AM

Hi, i would like to know if you could give me information about manufacturers of bodybuilding products, i'm opening an online shop. looking foward to hear from you soon. Thanks,Hugo

7. tisa on 5/24/2009 10:57:08 PM

please send me some information.

8. Anthony Pante on 5/25/2009 3:09:09 AM

Having a major problem in getting first hand contact with supplement manufacturers. Could you please send a list of manufacturers. Am looking at bulk importing quality body building supplements into Australia to open up a little store. Would rather work directly with manufacturers rather with than distributors. Your help would be appreciated, Regards, Anthony

9. Nathaniel on 6/2/2009 1:29:21 AM

Hi there, I have been trying to start my online supplement business for years now. It's more work then you would think. Tons and tons of data entry. I have used and tested many distributors. www.Europasports.com is the main one that most people use. www.bossonline.net is o.k. but they recently lost a few good manufacturers such as cytosport. So I do not recommend them as Muscle Milk by Cytosport is too big of a seller to miss out on. After you fill out there online form and submit your business license you are in and can then gain access to their online catalog and even get FTP access to download their inventory and excel sheets with pricing. However when dealing with these companies they will give you high prices and hope you keep your mouth shut. First things first, ask for the discount below wholesale excel sheet. These are deep discounts. Some are up to 30% below the original prices they give you. Now we are talking business. Now you have to be a wiz with excel. which I have gotten pretty good at creating the formulas needed for the pricing and inventory. You must also remember that Europasports.com has over 5,000 products that will all need descriptions and need inventory update at least a couple of times a week. Europasports.com do drop shipping meaning you don't keep any inventory you simply forward your orders to europasports.com then they bill you and you pocket the market that you billed the customer. Also, your discount below wholesale is not as deep if you do the drop shipping program. But I think the drop shipping is worth it as you only lose a small percentage on the discount usually around 2 to 5 percent. You will also need to know a little HTML and FTP depending on the shopping cart software you use. I have used a couple. I recommend 3dcart.com as you have control over your metatags, urls, description, titles, HTML, CSS, many other cool things as well. I do not recommend godaddy.com their shopping cart software is terrible. you will not have control over any of the things I listed above. Once you get into it you will realize how important these things are. If your website is not indexed by google and yahoo then you will not be found and you will not have a chance. 3dcart.com software is pretty good. I got indexed by google and yahoo in no time. However I have just given up on building my supplement website. It has just proven to be too much data entry. If I could find a business partner or two that are willing to sacrifice as much time as I am we could hang with the big dogs like bodybuilding.com, massnutrition.com and many more. Bodybuilding.com claims millions in sales each year. I would love to have a piece of that. Thanks for reading, Nathaniel, nathanielseeley@yahoo.com

10. scott thompson on 7/31/2009 10:09:51 PM

Looking to get some info on what it takes to open a small supplement store, i sold some stuff online awhile ago but there was too much competition. The best way to make money would be to open my own store

11. Mark Banks on 8/19/2009 10:34:09 PM

I am very interested in starting my own online business, I am interested in sports supplements, but I don't know how to get started. Can you offer help

12. Rick on 8/19/2009 11:56:54 PM

I'm very interested on opening my own supplement store. Can you help on how to get started.

13. Kyle Ewing on 8/24/2009 2:50:55 PM

Please send distributors and manufacturers list of bodybuilding supplements suppliers. I'm trying to get started and am having a hard time contacting suppliers. The only one to get back to me is Europasports. Hope to hear back from you. Kyle Ewing

14. santiago perry on 9/5/2009 7:52:38 PM

hello, my name is santiago perry. i want to make my own supplements and sale theme online and off line. i have a pretty good idea how to get started so do i need a license to get started like a tax license? i don't want to open a store to just sell my supplements so how do i get started? please help

15. MuscleBeach on 10/13/2009 1:43:30 AM

We have just started online in Australia and things are going really well. For those who want to try, just do the homework before you start and things should go fine. There may be some headaches along the way but thats business.

16. David Cagle on 11/20/2009 12:08:23 AM

I am very interested in receiving a catalog and a list of manufacturers. Am looking at opening up a store (online). Would rather work directly with manufacturers rather with the distributors. Your help would be appreciated, Regards, David, please send out a catalog to: 3109 Centennial Village Dr.,Pearland Texas 77584

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