If you love scrapbooking and are interested in making money from this hobby, you may wonder how you go about representing scrapbook paper companies.  While many people purchase their supplies online this doesn't mean that these companies don't exist somewhere; they need designers, machines to make those papers and other items, warehouses and shipping procedures to get their products to customers.  But how do you become someone that actually works for scrapbook paper companies since so much of their business is done over the internet?

The simple answer is that many people start their own website and sell materials provided by what are called drop shippers; these are scrapbook paper companies that produce and ship products to the customers that you get.  When someone places an order on your site you collect payment and then turn around and enter the order information on the drop shipper's website.  They charge you a certain amount of money for the materials and shipping; your profit is the difference between what the scrapbook paper companies charge you and what you charge your customer.  You don't always make a ton of money this way but if you consider that it doesn't take very long to simply enter information, you realize that the money can be very good for the amount of work you do.

Getting a website in order to represent scrapbook paper companies is not that difficult.  Many places offer very affordable options for hosting and even allow you to download a certain program that will let you create your site very easily.  You can also usually offer other products as well so that you have many items available on your website, such as wedding favors, baby gifts and clothes, and things like these.  Anyone shopping for scrapbook supplies may also be in the market for these other types of items as well.

When you decide to represent these types of scrapbook paper companies you need to make sure they're what is called a drop shipper.  This means they handle the entire order fulfillment, meaning they'll ship directly from their warehouse to your customer.  You don't want to be storing scrapbooking supplies in your own basement and of course the shipping itself can be quite a chore sometimes.  Forwarding order information from your website to another's is a lot easier!  Many people choose to represent scrapbook paper companies this way and can make quite a nice profit doing so.