Drop shipping is one of greatest businesses to operate from home. With drop shipping you sell another company's products, use their warehouse and shipping facilities, and they provide you with sales tools you need like product descriptions and images and more - free of charge!

Drop shipping is great for small businesses because you can start with literally nothing & gradually increase to higher levels of success. Drop shipping allows you to leverage other, much larger company's resources!

Any business owner who needs an inexpensive & efficient means to market items online should look into drop shipping. Drop shipping allows you to sell almost any type of product you want with no warehouse & no inventory.

No inventory = low risk! You only purchase an item from dropshipper after you've already made sale! You never get stuck with a garage full of products that won't sell.

Drop shippers packages all of products for you, they place your name on return address of package & then they ship it to your customer. You'll look like you're a multi-million dollar outfit to customer!

In order to do business with a real wholesaler, some of them (not all) may require proof that you're in business & not just some consumer looking for great prices. So, you may need to file for a Resale Tax ID for your State. It's easy to do I filed my application online in just 10 minutes & even received a temporary certificate that I immediately printed out. I was literally in business within 10 minutes!

Well, 2 British guys may well have set bar at a new all-time high for affiliate marketing industry. The prestigious Sunday Times newspaper in London recently profiled astonishing success of web entrepreneurs Duncan Cameron and Simon Nixon of www.MoneySupermarket.com. Their web site enables visitors to easily compare a massive range of financial products such as credit cards, insurance and mortgages.

The UK-based entrepreneurs only started in affiliate marketing business in 1999 and their business is now valued by Sunday Times at an astonishing $925 million–Yes, you did read that correctly by way, although I did fall off my chair when I read their real life true story. This makes them near-billionaires, and achieved largely via affiliate marketing in less than 5 years! It also makes them probably wealthiest affiliate marketers in world today!

More importantly, what does their success tell us about affiliate marketing industry and what can we learn from their astonishing level of success?

1. Clearly, there is a lot of money to be made in Financial Services industry as an affiliate marketer. Credit card companies for example, pay huge commissions (from $30 up to $80 and more) for every successful card application completed. This highlights enormous potential of this niche.

2. Their site is easy to navigate and use, allowing comparison of several related financial products at one time.

3. The site solves problems for people and provides easy solutions. It is designed for people who perhaps do not spend too many hours surfing but need services like this one.

4. The web site "pre-sells" a massive range of financial products. "Pre-selling" has been a frequently used term in affiliate marketing industry. The site gently informs visitors of all key details associated with any financial product and allows visitors to make truly informed decisions.