How Does Product Assembling Work

Now that you have read about the basic nature of product assembling jobs, you are probably curious as to how to go about getting your first project.

We will explain the entire process to you here. The very first step begins with choosing the product that you are interested in working with. This is usually done based on your instinct and knowledge about your own skills. You have a look at all the products and based on what you think you will be the best at you choose the product. There is an entire list of product assembling companies and crafts available on this website along with their addresses, phone numbers, website and fax details of each companies listed with them along with a brief description of the craft that you will need to make for them.. You can have a look at those.

Once you have decided on the product or a series of products that you think you are to make at home, the next step is to get in touch with the product assembling company using the contact information be it an address, phone number or website. You will find a lot of craft assemble company's listing only postbox addresses and no other details. For these companies you will read that you need to send an SASE for more information. SASE stands for ‘ Self Addressed Stamped Envelope’. This means that you have to send an envelope with the address on it and duly stamped.  This will enable the craft company to send you there are work details for no charge to them except for, perhaps, the printed material that they send to you.  Some companies send you a full color brochure of their crafts and work details.

For companies that list other contact information such as phone numbers and customer care helpline numbers, call up on these numbers to take additional directions of how you are supposed to proceed. Do not shy away from asking any and all questions that you might have about the work involved. You can even ask for more information about the company itself if that is not clear enough to begin with. Once you have contacted the product assembling company in one way or the other, you will in most cases be required to send in money for the starter kit. This starter kit contains the raw materials for you to make your first batch of finished craft items. Apart from the raw materials it also contains detailed directions and sometimes even finished product sample to guide you along the way.
There are a handful of companies like Valerie Hattery and the NEC that only charge the registration fee. The raw materials for your first batch and your subsequent matches once your first finished batch has been approved, is sent to you at no extra charge.

After having sent the money for the registration, you will receive your starter kit in mail. Some companies give you a deadline of 60 days to finish and ship the finished items of them.  While others put no restriction in terms of time frame.

In order to qualify for your first payment you need to finish a batch of products which can comprise of any number depending upon the kind of craft you have chosen. It can range from 6 to 50 and the difficulty of the craft chosen usually determines this number. Once you have finished making the entire batch you are supposed to ship to the company for their approval. It takes two to three days for them to pass an inspection check on your batch. Some companies process the payment within two days of giving approval while others do it on a weekly basis on a fixed given day such as Monday.

Some product assembling companies will need you to make an entire batch and ship it to them for approval.  While there are others like NEC and Cottage Industries that require you to send in only one finished product. They will keep sending it back to you with a report and instructions if it did not meet their approval. Once you have got this product right, you get approved to make the rest of the batch. This is a preferable method to the one adapted by other companies where you are required to finish an entire batch. If the batch does not need the approval sometimes an entire batch can be shipped back to you for the doing. This can prove to be very inconvenient.

You get paid only on the approval of your finished product and craft items. Some of the companies also be on the basis of per item.  This means that in case a few items in the batch do not meet the quality standards, you still get paid for the once that right.  Only the ones that did not get approved in the inspection are sent back to you for redoing. All this is information that you can clarify from the product assembling company when you speak to them.

(Important Note : But before you do do not forget to read the reviews of the same companies. There is an important section of must read articles and information that you must go through to get the real picture on product assembling. Do not get swept away by thinking that this is a get rich quick kind of work. )

Good luck and keep reading.