What Is Drop Shipping? The Perfect SolutionWritten by Palyn Peterson
This article is free to publish with resource box If using this article, please send a brief message to mailto:palyn@futureinternetmarketing.com - Word Count: 717 words, 25 word resource box - Format: 60 characters per line - URL: http://FutureInternetMarketing.com/articles/fimarticle03.htm - Autoresponder: mailto:article03@futureinternetmarketing.com - Author Photo (80x105): http://FutureInternetMarketing.com/palyn.jpg - Article checked by SpamAssassin and is spam-safe.'What Is Drop Shipping? The Perfect Solution' by Palyn Peterson Drop shipping one of greatest business innovations since products. Seriously, don't laugh! I'm not joking! With what other service can you use another company's products, their warehouse, their shipping department, and have them provide you with all information you need? Do you see what I mean now? Every entrepreneur who is looking for most efficient way to sell products over internet should be very enthusiastic about drop shipping. It finally allows you to sell nearly anything you want, be it computer equipment, toasters, billiard tables, even planter pots, all without having any inventory. And do you know what zero inventory means? It means less risk! The only time you ever buy any products from wholesaler is when you have already sold it to a customer! And best thing is (or should I say, another best thing), wholesaler packages it up and ships it out to customer for you, and usually your business name is on box! As far as customer knows, you have a warehouse full of products. When you sign up with a wholesaler, they will most likely ask you for your tax license number, or a faxed/emailed copy of it to prove you are a legitimate business. If they don't ask you for this, they are either a very small wholesale company with a specific niche of products and just want to make process easy for their clients, or they are not a real wholesaler at all. If you ever come across a "wholesale" company that carries tons of items, ranging from Barbie's to hair dryers, and they say that you don't need to have a tax license to deal with them, then be very skeptical, because 99 to 1, they aren't a wholesale company at all. That sort of company will just take your order only to turn around and order it from real wholesale company at a much lower cost than you paid for it (and they did have to get a tax license to do this). It doesn't stop there either. Since you bought it at a higher price, you will need to pass this on to your customers by marking it up higher than you need to. And if you ever needed or wanted to, you would have less margin when lowering your prices to match or beat your competitors. And your competitors would probably have a tax license, so they would be dealing with legitimate wholesalers.
| | Marketing Refinement is Always a Step Towards SuccessWritten by Dean F. Mapa
A diamond is never a diamond until it's refined. When first mined it's an ugly piece of rock. When patient, skilled effort is put to work on it, removing dross and shaping it, diamond's value is revealed.It's so much like an online business. The time and effort we put into it determines its value whether by us or its visitors. Thus, we must always place a high premium on refining our business. In a previous blog, I wrote about taking a breather when marketing frustration seeps in (look for title, "When Marketing Frustration Threatens to Overwhelm You," at my site). Let me add this as a sixth point: Take time to refine your business. There are three areas you can refine: 1. Your organization. I'm not talking about your downline or your staff, if you have any, but how you organize yourself. Frustration is built by going around in circles. You must have an organized work time, whether you put in 2 or 10 hours in it. This means having a plan of action and an outcome of that action. For example, if your first hour is answering e-mail, you must know how that activity can help in your business. If a certain activity has nothing to do with your business, reorganize. It's always good practice to expend fresh energy on your business, especially important aspects of it. 2. Your marketing strategies. It would be pointless to continue on a strategy with little or no results. Or, for that matter, use a system that is fruitless. The Internet is full of marketing systems and programs that promise results. No doubt a good number of them work. Some are just full of it, if you get my drift. Yet many take some time and effort before you see any fruit.
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