Any product based business, but especially a business that produces a dense and heavy product like concrete blocks, must decide early on if they are to be a “pick-up” based business, meaning that clients primarily pick up their purchase from your place of business, or a “delivery” based business. Obviously, these two choices have major ramifications for just about all decisions from then on.
If you are to have your clients always pick up their concrete blocks, you will save money and liability charges because of the fact that you will not have to have trucks, trailers, and qualified people to load & unload the concrete blocks. However, you will pay probably that much or more for the property you will have to lease or purchase to gain the accessibility you will need to attract the consistent traffic of contractors that are the lifeblood of a business making concrete blocks.
On the other hand, if you do decide to be a delivery-based business, you are free to choose your place of residence, professionally speaking. There are always outlying areas of town that still have access to the major highways, and will allow your drivers to get deliver the concrete blocks without too much trouble. This way, you pay a lot less for your land, plus you have less trouble to deal with in that you don’t have strangers in your lot all the time running into and breaking concrete blocks.
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