Small Business: Selling Toner Cartridges

There are many people out there who have started there own small businesses through buying and selling toner/ink cartridges. A lot of people may not know that the cartridges thrown out every month actually still have value. The fact that many businesses do not practice recycling their cartridges is of great benefit to you and me. By getting them to either allow you to recycle their cartridges for them, or by buying their cartridges, you stand to make a profit with no actual inventory.

How to Get Started:
1. Do some research finding websites that will offer you the best possible prices for the cartridges that you are trying to sell. Remember not all websites accept every make and model so try and utilize all of them that are available to you. Two that I would personally recommend are:

• www.tonerbuyer.com
• www.ecyclegroup.com

2. Do some research, find out what businesses in your area are doing with their empty cartridges and see if they are interested in either giving them to you to recycle for free, or if they would be interested in compensation for their cartridges. Make sure that you don’t let them take advantage of you, remember, they were going to throw these items away anyways. I would personally say something along the lines of, “What’s better, you throwing away your empty cartridges, recycling them, or having me buy them from you.”

3. After you’ve established a decent client base make sure that you are organized. Organization will be a key in this, you will need to know what cartridges are to be sent out to what websites in order for you to be paid. Keep in mind, their will need to be an initial investment if you are going to be buying the cartridges from these companies.

4. Stay strong and keep relationships with your clients, set up a time of the month when you would visit them for pickups and payments. Begin to reap the rewards and if necessary start to expand your business. This is in no way a get rich quick scheme, but with the right mind set, it can be a viable source of income.
Hope the article helps you and good luck on your ventures!