With low startup costs for a virtual business, you can keep trying different forms of business or different marketing methods over internet without losing a fortune on your efforts. You can ‘lose little’ over many unsuccessful endeavors, but ‘win big’ on few business models which you get right.

Perhaps most attractive aspect of an online business is ability to automate it and let it generate income on its own. This is largely possible due to software to automate business process, like shopping cart software and email autoresponder software. Thus, Drop Ship businesses can run 24/7 without you being present physically to run it. Imagine having freedom to do whatever you want without being an ‘employee’ for your business! All you need to do is to get basics of business up and running, like website design and product catalogue. After which, you consistently market your website over internet to get a recurring volume of traffic to your website. This will bring you recurring sales and allow you to make a decent living over internet. You can repeat this process again and again with other markets of your choice. In long run, this will bring you multiple streams of income. Online Drop Ship businesses are thus strong examples of assets that generate passive income.

In conclusion, e-commerce industry is still very promising despite dot-com bust a few years back. With introduction of Drop Shipping, hassles of conducting a retail business over internet have been dramatically reduced. As industry is still relatively young, entrepreneurs should get in e-commerce game early to establish themselves as strong market players of future.

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Ray Yee is the founder and president of Dropshipperscentral, a website which provides a wealth of informative articles, tips and resources on everything you’ll ever need to know about setting up a Drop Ship Business and marketing it. Click here: http://www.dropshipperscentral.com

Step 4. Prove That Your Solution Actually Works _______________________________________

People today are so SKEPTICAL. No one believes anybody anymore. Every marketing message is taken with a grain of salt.

That's why you MUST PROVE what you're saying is true. Proof can come through customer success stories, study findings, quotes from experts, before and after photos etc.

You have to consider yourself as being on trial and your prospects are sitting in jury box. You've got to prove to them what you're saying is true.

Are you proving your solution in your marketing efforts?

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Step 5. Offer Them Additional Help For their Problem ___________________________________________

The last step is to naturally offer your prospect additional help. Up to this point you've only teased them. Now you must lead them to next step.

The next step should be some offer for help. This could be a free report, a video, an audio program (notice that I like low cost information products) or a free catalog, or even access to a free question and answer help line.

If you want to decrease your response and increase quality of prospects that come to you, you can charge a small fee to make next step.

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A Live Case Study _________________

I used to do a lot of direct response advertising to generate leads for potential hot tub buyers.

I offered a free video to respondents. We were getting a lot of leads, but many of them were from people who already owned a hot tub (if you can believe that).

So we simply asked for a shipping fee of $2.95 for video and it cut down our leads but dramatically increased our closing rate.

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How to Use this Process for Your Own Purposes ___________________________________________

You might be thinking, thanks David, but "how" do I use this information for my own business.

It's simple...take each step and ask yourself these questions...

Step 1 - "What headline, photo, or gimmick can I use that would stop my unique prospect and make them pause for a moment?"

Step 2 - "What problem does my prospect have that is painful, ugly, dirty, and smelly?" When you have answer to that question, use it in a headline, sub headline or opening statement to engage them in your message.

Step 3 - "How can I make problem in Step 2 sound even worse and then how can I explain to them how my solution solves it."

Step 4 - "What proof can I come up with that my solution actually works and has worked for many companies (or people)?"

Step 5 - "What offer can I come up with that would be so irresistible that my prospects would have to pick up phone and call me immediately?"

If you ask yourself these five questions and can come up with some good answers then you're well on your way to getting people to chase you down instead of you begging to steal a moment of their time. (Yuck!)