Seriously, be very careful about this, there are many wolves in sheep's clothing out there. So skip middleman, get your tax license, get legitimate and you will save yourself a lot of grief and money.

Once you make an account with a wholesaler, some will mail you a wholesale catalog and price list in mail with a CD full of product images to use on your website. The smaller companies will just allow you to copy pictures and descriptions off their website. With this product information, you can post products to your online store and wait for orders. It's as simple as that!

Then, when a customer places an order, you either call, email or fax your contact at wholesaler and give them customers name, address, and items they want, including any other miscellaneous information wholesaler may want. The wholesaler then charges you for cost and shipping of order at wholesale price, then packages it up and sends it off to customer. All you have left to do is turn back around and charge customers credit card for items with your profit margin markup.

The reason this is growing in popularity amongst wholesalers is because they get to have many other companies market and sell their products, thus reaching more people and selling greater volumes. The wholesale company is still able to sell their products for price they want, and you get to keep profit margin as a reseller. It's a win/win situation.

Drop shipping is enabling average person to be able to run a successful, full service online retail store from comfort of their home. Zero inventory, no shipping department, only buy when you have already sold -- this is perfect affiliate program.

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The point is, you need to test different strategies and, if possible, find one that is compatible to what you can do or enjoy doing. Working on something that you have an aversion to can only lead to stress and frustration if it turns out to be fruitless. Thus, a refinement of strategies can only bring you a step closer to success.

3. Your resources. Determine what you have. Do you have more time, less money; or do you have more money but less time? Perhaps you have an equal dose of both. Learn how to use both to your advantage. Contrary to what marketing trends want to dictate, there are still inexpensive and free resources one can use to effectively market. Go to my site and take a look what these are.

In contrast, there are expensive systems out there that give you nothing but hype. Worse, they're outright scams. You can try to find out what these are by going to Alexa.com and typing in a site you're doubting or you can visit marketing forums, where you can get a ton of excellent information.

In conclusion, online marketing has to be valuable to you if you wish to succeed in this business. It will return to you what you make of it. If you treat it as cheap dirt, that's what you'll reap. If you treat it as a business worth maintaining and refining, you'll soon enough discover gem that it is.

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