Drop Shipping
Continuation of Lesson 20 from You Can Make
Money Writing
You can sell things without having to ship them yourself.
You just set up an online store and advertise products that you
can get wholesale from companies which ship them to the customer
for you. This is called "drop shipping." The profit
margins are less than if you buy the things in quantity and ship
them yourself, but your time is freed up to concentrate on more
important things - like marketing your website through articles.
I have only researched this for a few hours, but here are
some of the companies that do business online and drop ship for
you:
http://www.worldwidebrands.com/
http://www.dropshippers.com/
http://www.aidandtrade.com/
http://www.mahibay.com/www.alibaba.co
http://www.doba.com
http://www.worldwidebrands.com
http://www.newdropship.com
http://www.operationdropship.com
http://www.simplex.com
http://www.thomasnet.com
http://www.indemed.com
Policies change, so I can't say how each of these companies
function. In any case, when you contact them - and any other
potential suppliers - ask the following questions:
What are your wholesale prices?
Do you drop ship?
Can we have your address as the return address?
The last question is important if you want to keep the business
simple at your end. You want the customer to return products
directly to the supplier. Otherwise you have to be home to receive
it from the customer, issue a refund, and ship it back to the
manufacturer or wholesaler yourself.
Although I can't guarantee that these will all still be around
by the time you read this, here are some directories of dropshippers.
They list companies in various product categories that are willing
to drop ship.
http://www.esources.co.uk/international-suppliers/1082/
http://www.wholesalecentral.com/Dropshippers.html
http://www.mommyportal.com/dropshipping.htm
http://www.vmwinc.com/Dropshipdirectory
http://directory.searchwarp.com/A118P4-Wholesale-Drop-ship.htm
http://www.dropshippingworld.com/
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Note: This is part of the book, You Can Make Money
Writing. There are links to all the all the lessons/chapters
on the home page.
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