How to open a newsstand

A newsstand is an example of a small business that will bring a low but steady income. Despite the development of the Internet, people continue to read newspapers and magazines, so this business promises to be stable.

You will need

To open a kiosk, you will need land for the kiosk, the kiosk itself, business registration and coordination with the administration, product suppliers.

Instruction manual

1

The newsstand should be located in a "lively" place - near the metro, bus stops, shops. A good place would also be a shopping center. The greater the human flow in the kiosk area, the greater the profit.

2

You can either buy your own kiosk and install it in a chosen place, or rent a kiosk. In the first case, you will have to rent land from the local administration, which will be a rather long and costly process. Or you will need to rent an area in the mall. In addition, you invest a lot of money in a kiosk. Therefore, it is more profitable to rent an existing kiosk, especially if it is located in a good place. If its location does not suit you, then you can transfer it to the rented area.

3

You will need a minimum legal registration - registration as an individual entrepreneur. You can register at the tax office at the place of registration. The registration fee today is 800 rubles.

4

With suppliers of newspapers, magazines and other goods, you can arrange supplies online. In addition to newspapers and magazines, it will be profitable for you to sell other little things in demand: notebooks, pens, napkins, and more. This is especially useful if there are few shops nearby.

5

If you do not want to be a seller yourself, then you should hire two sellers working in shifts. It is not necessary to require special “art of selling” from such sellers, a certain flow of customers will be provided in any case. Therefore, you can take sellers with no minimum wage experience.

note

In the age of the Internet and television, less and less space is left for traditional information in the form of reading newspapers and magazines, but more young people are interested in new types of media, while the older generation continues to read newspapers. This aspect may be the reason for organizing your own business with the opening of a newsstand.

Useful advice

One of the possible ideas of small business in the conditions of lack of initial capital may be the opening of a small newsstand. The construction of such a kiosk will be relatively cheap, and the business itself can create a stable cash flow in your pocket. Despite the fact that the sphere of advertising, exactly like the sphere of sale, is increasingly moving to the Internet …