Saturday, November 13, 2010

How to Make Money With Drop Shipping

by: Suzanne E Morrison

There are many ways to make money online, but one that is often overlooked is Drop Shipping. In this article we'll take a closer look at how drop shipping works.

Basically drop shipping is where you act as a middleman between the manufacturer and the customer. The customer purchases a product from you and receives the product from the manufacturer. You get paid for making the sale. This is one excellent way to start an EBay Business.

This is a great way to.

1. You do not have to store the products. This makes it a popular business model for Internet marketers.

The drop shipping business can be very profitable. As a matter of fact most Internet marketers do not really have any place to store products anyway.

Renting a storage space can be extremely expensive. It also takes away the advantage of working from your home if you have to leave home to conduct business. You do not have to worry about that at all when you sell products as a drop shipper.

2. It's inexpensive to get into. When you look at all the expenses of starting an off line business most ordinary people cannot do that.

Why would you want to pay for rent, utilities, employees, and so on. You can have a legitimate business from the comfort of your own home where you sell products at retail pricing and then let the drop shipping manufacturer take care of the rest.

3. Focus on Internet marketing. This really is the key to making a lot of sales. The key here is getting traffic to websites and having a great sales page.

In the off-line business world you would have to do various forms of advertising such as yellow pages, newspaper advertising, direct mail, or possibly radio and TV ads. With a drop shipping business you can do all of your promotion online and budget according to the amount of money are working with.

4. This is a profitable business to be in. Because you are able to control your overhead you can make a lot of money in the drop shipping business.

It is important is to find products that are competitively priced and allow you to sell them at a high margin. Fortunately there are many excellent drop shipping companies available for you to use.

Because of this these are four reasons you can make money with drop shipping!

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