If you ask me, one of the best perks of the internet is having the ability to buy things online.
I don’t know how many times this has come in handy.
Most recently it came in handy when I needed to buy some HVAC products online, I own a small heating and cooling business and whenever we need more inventory for parts and such, I buy everything we need online straight from the supplier. We are not a big business, but a small shop that sells your average heating and air conditioning units as well as some supplies and parts. It is a business that I started ten years ago with my dad. My dad came up with the idea after retiring as an HVAC technician. He was the kind of guy that wanted to continue to work some even after retirement and since he had a love for his former job and the work he did, he decided to start a small shop selling goods to customers. The business has been doing very well, even if we can’t compete with the giant corporations. It probably helps that we live in a small town. Most recently we have started offering mobile HVAC. We saw this as a better opportunity to expand our business and reach our customers that couldn’t come to us. The mobile HVAC approach has been even more successful than our HVAC store and has allowed us to bring in many new customers that we may not have had before if it weren’t for our mobile HVAC idea.