Drop Shipping Is Your Perfect Home Based Business Solution
Drop Shipping Is Your Perfect Home Based Business Solution
Drop shipping is one of the greatest businesses to operate from
home. With drop shipping you sell another company's products,
use their warehouse and shipping facilities, and they provide
you with the sales tools you need like product descriptions and
images and more - free of charge!
Drop shipping is great for small businesses because you can
start with literally nothing & gradually increase to higher
levels of success. Drop shipping allows you to leverage other,
much larger company's resources!
Any business owner who needs the an inexpensive & efficient
means to market items online should look into drop shipping.
Drop shipping allows you to sell almost any type of product you
want with no warehouse & no inventory.
No inventory = low risk! You only purchase an item from the
dropshipper after you've already made the sale! You never get
stuck with a garage full of products that won't sell.
Drop shippers packages all of the products for you, they place
your name on the return address of the package & then they ship
it to your customer. You'll look like you're a multi-million
dollar outfit to the customer!
In order to do business with a real wholesaler, some of them
(not all) may require proof that you're in business & not just
some consumer looking for great prices. So, you may need to file
for a Resale Tax ID for your State. It's easy to do I filed my
application online in just 10 minutes & even received a
temporary certificate that I immediately printed out. I was
literally in business within 10 minutes!
If you're SERIOUS about running a business you MUST have one! No
ifs, ands, or buts. And, it's so easy to get one, there's no
excuse not to.
If a wholesaler doesn't request a Resale Tax ID from you,
they're a very small company or they're not real wholesalers,
just middle-men.
When you find wholesale companies that drop ship many different
types of products, everything from toys to electronics, and they
don't request your Resale Tax ID, be aware that probably aren't
a real wholesale company. Most legitimate wholesalers focus on a
specific product type, like electronics or toys alone.
These middle-men companies just forward your order to the real
wholesale company. You won't be able to compete on a level
playing field with your competition if you do business with
these guys. Chances are your competitors have Resale Tax IDs.
So be aware that you're dealing with a middle-man wholesaler who
will have the real dropshipper dropship your products for you.
Do yourself a favor & avoid dealing with the middlemen and get a
Resale Tax ID. You'll save yourself a lot of money by be able to
compete with the big-guns.
After your account is set up with the real wholesaler, you'll
get a printed catalog and possibly a CD-Rom with product
descriptions and images that you can use.
Middle-men usually don't provide these "bonuses". You just
upload the image & description to your web site, decide on the
price & wait for the orders to come rolling in!
Drop shipping will allow any person to run a successful &
competitive business from home regardless of a lack of start-up
funds.
Mike Nalbone is the creator of "The Wholesale Detective"
http://www.nalbone.org/detective/ which is a complete resource
for people seeking to utilize drop shipping to start or expand
their own business.