Dropship Guide
You can go different ways to start your drop ship business. One
of the ways to search drop ship suppliers is to make an
extensive research on the Internet. Another way is to search a
drop ship warehouse in your local area. If you locate a company
that sells the products that might perform well on the Internet
you can visit the warehouse and attempt to set the contact with
the folks. They can be unaware of drop ship business model and
it might you take some time and efforts to explain them the
essence and the advantages that they will get. Your task is to
make them your drop ship warehouse. You can fail with some
companies and succeed with others, so do not get desperate once
you are rejected. It is a great advantage in drop ship business
to have a local drop ship warehouse that you can visit and to
some extent control their operation. Finally, you can set
personal relations with the owners and become their exclusive
partner in drop ship business model.
How Drop Shipping Works
by: John Lynch
One of the most frequently asked questions on the Net is: "What
should I sell online?"
Many people know what products they want to sell. However, they
don't know how to do this. Should they physically stock the
products themselves or promote other companies through affiliate
programs?
Drop shipping may be the answer for some website owners who want
to become stockless retailers, whereby they keep no stock
themselves. Instead they promote products on their website and
get a drop shipping company to despatch these products for them.
Here are the steps involved in drop shipping:
1) You open an Internet Store with a shopping cart and accept
credit cards on your site. You can also sell on Internet Auction
sites.
2) You find a distributor who will "drop ship" the products you
want to sell.
3) You open an account with the "drop ship" distributor(s) you
choose.
4) You receive descriptions and images of the products you wish
to sell from the distributor and put them on your Internet Store
or Auction.
5) When a customer buys from your Store or Auction, they pay
with their credit card. Your Store or Auction charges their
credit card plus shipping.
6) You email the order to the drop ship distributor with the
customer's name and address.
7) Then the drop shipper despatches the product to your customer
from the warehouse with YOUR business name on the package.
8) The drop shipper charges you the wholesale price plus
shipping. Remember you have already passed the shipping charge
on to your customer, so the shipping costs you nothing.
So that's how drop shipping works. You don't have to buy
products in bulk and store them, hoping to sell. You don't have
to pay to have it shipped to you, and then pay again to ship it
to your customer. All you had to do was send an email to your
drop shipper.