Drop Shipping What Is Your Goal?
Your business plan is your path to your goal. What is your goal;
to be a drop shipper or to make money?
To be a drop shipper is probably not your real goal. Drop
shipping is just a solution to an order fulfillment problem.
Your goal is really something that you have probably already
defined and you think that drop shipping is the way to achieve
that goal.
As you plan your business, you should ask yourself the question,
"Why did I choose drop shipping?"
Did you choose drop shipping because you want to run a business
from home and it seems like a good thing?
Or did you choose drop shipping to satisfy a particular need for
your current business?
What are you trying to do? Are you looking for a home business
that will make you money or are you trying to be a drop shipper?
If you are looking to make money you should look at all the drop
shipping options and, perhaps, choose the most rewarding.
What is the most rewarding drop shipping method to make money on
the internet?
The most rewarding way to make money on the internet is to
follow in the footsteps of the people who make the most money on
the internet. And the people who make the most money on the
internet use the power of internet advertising to sell products
and services offered through affiliate programs.
The people who use the power of advertising to sell products and
services offered by affiliate programs make thousands and tens
of thousands of dollars per month. They do it from home, from
the beach and from their boats.
Compare that to most budding drop shippers that spend hours on
their auction sites, spend months perfecting their internet
stores and web sites, wait months for their web sites to be
indexed by the search engines and then barely make break even.
And they don't do it from the beach or their boats.
You should ask yourself some tough questions.
Do you want to be an eBay Power Seller because it will make you
feel prestigious or do you want to be an eBay Power seller
because that means that you are making more money than before?
If you say it is because you are making more money, then maybe
it is money that is your goal and you should be looking at how
to use your time most efficiently to make money? But, of course,
if you are looking for prestige, then being an eBay Power Seller
is for you.
Do you want to find products to sell by drop shipping because
you want to sell something on the internet or do you want to
sell something to make money?
If you want to make money, the answer is the same. Make money
the most efficient way.
Be honest with yourself. Why do you want a home business? To
make money or to make yourself important? No one is looking. You
can keep the answer to yourself. But do be honest about it.
Because that will set your goal in your business plan.
It all comes down to whether or not your goal is to make money
or to have a hobby that may not cost you much money.
If you make money like those who use the power of internet
advertising, you will have something that most web site owners
are struggling to get. Money. And you can spend it on as many
hobbies as you want.
Most web site owners, drop shippers included, struggle to even
make a profit no less have some extra spending money. You can
either be like them or do what so many others are doing.
You can do it. You just have to follow some very simple steps.
And what is absolutely amazing, is that the search engine
advertising departments will help you more than you would
believe. They actually want you to succeed - at least the people
in the advertising sections do.
With support like that it will just be a matter of time before
you get the hang of it and start making good money. Yes, you
will have to experience the joys of your own learning curve. But
if you approach affiliate programs as business venture, and work
to shorten your learning curve by reading how to books and
subscribing to free tutorial series on internet marketing, you
will learn quickly. We are not trying to discourage you from
drop shipping on auction sites or from your own store. We want
to be sure that you have looked at all the options before you
start spending time and money.
Do take the time to study before you start your business plan.
You might see a drastic difference in your financial results if
you look before you leap.
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