- 1). Target a niche. This will enable you to carry a limited range of specialty supplies, and not have to spend as much on inventory. For instance, you can target emergency nurses, geriatric nurses or home birth nurses.
- 2). Secure the business permits your city requires to run a retail business. This may include a fictitious name certificate (DBA), resale permit, state tax identification number or employer identification number. Your local small business development center can tell you what is required.
- 3). Clear a space for your inventory free from sunlight, odors and dust and pets. This is to prevent your supplies from getting contaminated. An empty spare closet would work well.
- 4). Purchase wholesale supplies to sell from a distributor like All Heart or Medical Wholesale, Inc. Buying your nursing supplies wholesale will allow you to mark up their prices and make a profit.
- 5). Offer incentives for nurses to purchase from you, instead of your competitors. For example, you can offer free or reduced-price shipping.
- 6). Promote your nursing supplies business. Join a niche nursing association as a vendor or associate; launch a promotional website; mail fliers to local clinics, nursing homes and to colleges and universities with nursing programs and hospitals; or sponsor a local health fair nurses will attend. If launching a website, you also have the option of making it an ecommerce site, to add an additional source of revenue.
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