Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Drop Shipping

Drop shipping is a pretty straight foreword method of selling products online, and works very well with eBay. Here's how it works, you list the products your selling and when someone places an order, it goes directly to the warehouse, or perhaps even the manufacturer, and is then sent directly to the customer. This way you can still charge low wholesale prices, but you don't have to worry about buying and storing product you may or may not sell. There is however usually an investment on your part, as the drop shipping company itself will likely charge you a monthly fee to use the service.
Drop shipping tends to lean towards larger companies selling a large amount of products to tens of thousands of consumers. This is why there are now many web pages that offer a different kind of program. Worldwidebrands.com for example, has been building relationships with drop ship companies, warehouses, manufactures and various other businesses for years. When you join worldwidebrands.com, you are given access to all of these. This way you don't have to be a large scale marketer to get access, worldwidebrands already has it, and as member, so do you.
None of these are a real get rich quick deal, there is no such animal, at least not in the realm of the legal. It is, again, an online job, you have to work at it. If you want to drop ship you need to sell your product. Advertising is the key in an online market place. Again, using worlwidebrands. com as an example, as a member they actually give you a good start in that direction. Even having live chat with coaches and such to help you along the way. However in the end it's all up to you, the harder you work at it, the more money you can make.
Some even offer completely pre-made online stores, all you need to do is point people there, and you get a commission when someone buys something. This takes a lot of advertising as well. Here is mine for example http://www.myshopkart.net/victorvoice/

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