Drop Ship Sites

Starting a Drop Ship Business - Part 1 - What’s in a Name?

admin — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:54:35 +0000

The first step to starting a drop ship based business involves choosing a name. Your choice of a domain name should satisfy two primary goals. Your domain name should be easy for your customers to remember and the name should be related to the content of your site so that the search engines will index it better. Here are a few tips to help in selecting a domain name: (more…)

Middlemen Schmiddlemen What’s The Big Deal?

admin — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 14:10:44 +0000

Unfortunately in the world of drop shipping there are those who act as drop shippers but offer nothing of value. I am referring to middlemen. These businesses pretend to be drop shippers but in reality when you order from them they simply pass the order on to the true drop shipper. This is a very profitable business for the middleman, but the decrease in your profit margin can keep your business from ever truly getting off the ground.

It can be difficult to determine whether the company that you are considering doing business with is a true dropshipper or not. Here are a few tips to help separate the wheat from the chaff. (more…)

The Hunt for that Elusive Drop Ship Vendor

admin — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:43:40 +0000

Finding a specific product that is available for dropshipping can often seem like an impossible task. With a little patience and some detective work you should be able to find a supplier for your particular product. A few of the methods described below will require a little human interaction, so be sure to brush up on the people skills since the best of business relationships are often forged through verbal communication. (more…)

Need Help? Hire a Freelancer.

admin — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:59:20 +0000

So, you have this great idea for a drop ship website, but do not have the programming skills to create it? Need content for your new webstore, but cannot write more than a few words without getting writer’s block? Want to promote your site, but don’t have the skills or the time to do it yourself? At times like this it is best to go to the experts for help.

You could pay a large sum of money to a large firm to complete your project, but why spend all that money when you don’t have to? (more…)

Drop Ship Disaster - When Things Go Wrong

admin — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 06:54:50 +0000

In every business problems can and will arise. Provided that you are prepared there is little to worry about. Having a plan in place when such an event occurs is vital to your company’s success. As a seller of drop ship products you will likely be required to act as mediator between the drop ship vendor and your customer, since you would not want to reveal the source of your products and perhaps lose a customer. (more…)

Shopping Cart Review - osCommerce

admin — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:20:23 +0000

What is osCommerce? OsCommerce is an open source online shopping cart script. Using this software you can set up and operate an online store. This script handles everything from inventory management to payment processing. Being open source means that every bit of the source code is available to you, thus if any changes that you would like to make can be done by editing the PHP code. OsCommerce is considered by many to be the shopping cart that all other open source, and perhaps all other PHP based shopping cart solutions are compared to. (more…)

Dropshipper Investigation via Ripoff Report

admin — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:15:57 +0000

When searching for suppliers to power your dropship business it is important to know if they are a reputable company. But how can you be really sure? One good way to do research on a particular vendor is to see if they have a report filed with Ripoff Report. In addition to offering legal and personal advice on what to do when things go wrong, they also offer hundreds of thousands of reports of consumers being “ripped off” by various companies. (more…)

Increase Your Sales Using Comparison Shopping

admin — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 19:18:21 +0000

What is comparison shopping? These are essentially pay per click search engines tailored specifically to consumer goods. They typically offer product images, product reviews and vendor ratings and reviews. Listing your products on these sites is done through product feeds which are normally in XML or a spreadsheet format. When a customer searches a comparison shopping site for a particular product your offerings will show along with other vendor’s.

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Sale Who? - An overview of Salehoo’s offerings

admin — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 19:49:05 +0000

Salehoo is a very useful online resource for product sourcing. The SaleHoo directory contains small wholesalers, bulk wholesalers, dropshippers, liquidators and manufacturers for hundreds of popular products such as PS3s, baby clothes, DVDs, cellphones, designer jeans, computers, jewelry and much more. Salehoo is not only a directory but a collection of useful services to help you succeed with your online sales whether they be through ebay or your own webstore.

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Drop Shipping for Dummies (AKA - What is Drop Shipping?)

admin — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:21:29 +0000

There is often a lot of confusion concerning what drop shipping is. Drop shipping is a method of product fulfillment and is not to be confused with “drop kicking” as this is something entirely different. All kidding aside, drop shipping enables those without a physical storefront or warehouse space to sell products without having to maintain any inventory. This means that individuals, such as ourselves, can set up a website, offer quality products and compete with the “big boys” in the field of ecommerce. (more…)