Start reselling in IT

Find your local SCORE chapter and set up a business for yourself. SCORE is a non-profit company helping people set up small businesses.

Contact the distributors and set up accounts. Avoutn minimum purchases. Check out white-box retailers on the web who give incentives for reselling their product... www.neocomputers.com... Ingram Micro and Tech Data are two major ditributors, and Neo has reliable systems. I've been buying them for years. Make up business cards on your inkjet, and find a way to start pimping yourself out.

This is all I've seen done in the past, but have not run a business myself, so I'm sure there is better advice out there.

You could Identify the types of customers you will be targeting and interview some of their purchasing managers to explore what they would look for in a vendor, what their ideal vendor would carry for products/services, how they expect those products/services to be delivered. Meet those expectations and you will have them as customers. Also, the ability to really enjoy (endure) cold calling will go a long way to helping you grow. Good Luck