Elements of a Successful Drop Shipping Business

For many people interested in going into business for themselves, drop shipping is the answer. Not only is it a type of business operation that can be run from home, it only requires modest investment. Hard work and dedication are required, but this type of business has proven time and again to be a safe investment and a great way to earn income. Setting up an eCommerce business, moreover, is easy given the wide array of helpful information contained on the internet and from wholesale sellers that provide the products you want to sell in your online business.

What is a Drop Ship Business?
Essentially, your drop ship business is a store front-frequently an online storefront. You choose wholesale products to sell but they remain in your wholesaler's warehouse. You then start a website (open an eBay store) and market the products. When purchasers come along to buy that product, you simply transfer the order to the warehouse and the ship the item to your customer. You never need to store that merchandise yourself or ship it. You naturally pay the wholesale rate for the product and transfer shipping costs and fees to the wholesaler, but you keep your portion of the retail sale. In essence, your part in the transaction is to market, sell, and provide customer service for your customers.

What Should You Sell?
There are thousands of wholesale products for resale that you can choose as your virtual inventory. Name brands like Weber, Samsung, Sony, Kodak, Timex, and so many more can be the basis for your online business. Often people starting drop ship businesses choose products they know well and can easily market. Others choose items they believe to be excellent sellers. You'll want to take considerable time deciding what to sell. Your ability to market and sell the items will eventually form the basis of your business and inform how successful it may be.

Set Up Your Drop Shipping Business
Setting up your account with a wholesale supplier is a major step in your start-up process. You may need to fill out an application and provide a tax ID. On the other hand, these steps are minimal-certainly compared to opening a brick and mortar business! Many suppliers are established and have the whole process simplified and are even willing to walk new sellers through the process and provide them with plenty of helpful tips. The wholesale supplier depends upon the business to sell the items so the relationship remains mutually beneficial.

The Benefits of a Drop Shipping Business
So many people who have begun their drop shipping business love what they do to earn a living. With the ability to run their own business from home, they are able to obtain the lifestyles they've always wanted-more time with the family and less time commuting to work somewhere else for someone else. If you've always wanted to go into business for yourself, consider this model-drop shipping has worked for so many; chances are it can work for you too!

Brett is an author and authoritative figure in the world of drop shipping. He has helped individuals start a successful drop shipping business by providing them with insights on the different elements you need to create an online business.

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3 Simple Tips to make money online

Have an idea about making money online but don’t know where to start?

There are several ways to make money on the Internet – even if you don’t have a product to sell. Keep in mind that running an online business takes time and effort, just like running any business. However, you can get started without any products, which is one less roadblock for most people wanting to start a business.

You don’t need to be a computer expert to run an online business, but  you do need to either be able to set up a website, or have the resources to pay someone else to do it for you. From my own personal experiences, it is advisable to learn some basic computer skill since you are going to market online.Below are the 3 ways that could make you some money online.



Affiliate programs
Being an affiliate means you are selling other people’s products, and you get a percentage of the sale, or you make a small fee for each person who requests more information. Most major retailers offer affiliate programs, along with many smaller retailers (with lots of good products and services). It’s not a good idea to try to compete with an established retailer like Wal-Mart, Target, or Circuit City. A better way to make money is to find a “niche” that serves a smaller group of people, that you can easily reach.

For example, rather than selling sporting goods to everyone, you might start a fishing site that sells canoes and fishing products to people who like fresh water fishing. You can also find smaller retailers who may offer more specialized products to those who know a lot about fishing, while selling the basics from Wal-Mart to beginners.

A good place to start is Commission Junction (http://www.CJ.com), and you’ll get an idea of the products you can offer. Be creative in finding your niche, start with something you know a little about, or enjoy doing, and before long you can be making money online!

Adsense from Google
Adsense is an advertising program from search engine Google.com (there are other advertising programs you can offer, but for now Google’s is the biggest and most popular). By placing ads on your site, you earn money for each person who clicks on the ad. Google will automatically determine which ads are best for your site, based on the topic of each web page. All you have to do is place the code on your web page, and Google does the rest.

You can also sell individual ads, and determine your own terms and price. But using a program like Google is simple, and if your set gets a lot of visitors, you can make good money. Again, the best way to succeed is to find a niche, create a website around that topic, and Google will be able to determine the best ads for your visitors.

Write a “How-To” booklet
If you don’t want to sell other people’s products, but don’t have a lot of money to create your own, a simple way to get started is to write your own “how-to” booklet. Pick a topic you know enough to write about, and start writing. Information products are always good sellers – the key is to solve a particular problem. “How to catch fresh water fish” or “How to plan a fishing vacation on a tight budget” are possibilities for the fishing niche mentioned above.

To learn more, do a search for “creating information products” or “writing e-books”, and you will find lots of resources. Once you create your product, Clickbank.com offers a simple service to help you sell your information product, and there are others to help you get started.

Again, be creative, there are lots of problems out there that people need help with. And offering a good solution can make you lots of money!

Making money online takes more than just building a website. You need to pick the right products or services. Then you need to find the right audience to sell those products and services. Then you need to promote your website to enough people so you can make money. For now, you should have enough ideas to get you started – even if you don’t have a product to sell yet!

The 12secondcommute-marketing tools

12 secondcommute is an easy system that is created for online success It provides you the convenience of having everything necessary to succeed in one place so you are not wasting your precious time and money bouncing all over the Internet to run your busines. Yes, It has a great affiliate program but the company's main focus is providing you with the online tools and honest training you must have to help you grow and manage your online business.


The tools are listed as below:

Autoresponder—You simply must have an Autoresponder if you are going to succeed, but you also need a reliable, powerful and easy to use AR and that is just what you will get with 12SC. Please note that you cannot import any leads into the AR as that will only produce spam. However those who succeed online, don't waste their money buying useless leads anyway and with our online videos and conferences we will show you exactly how to build a quality and responsive list using the only AR you will ever need.

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• Ad and Link Tracker—Do you know which ads and links are getting you the best results? Do you know where your hits to your site(s) come from? With the ad and link tracker in 12SC, you will be able to track pages, sites, URL's and more. You will get easy to use reports which will allow you to only advertise in places that give you the best results. Plus, you will be able to cloak any link you want so you never have to worry about losing affiliate commissions again. The ad tracker is the second must have tool if you are going to succeed online.
  
  
• URL Rotator—This amazing tool will allow you to promote multiple products, services and programs with one link which will save you time and money in advertising. It is also a great way to help your downline build their business which in turn ensures your business is built faster and with less effort. Time and money are the 2 things everyone wants more of and this third must have tool in 12SC will get you more of both.
  
  
• Capture Page Creator—This is another must have tool if you want to get out of the rat race and work from home. You must have the ability to easily create and maintain your capture pages and you must do this without having to learn HTML, Java or any of those other nasty 4 letter words. With the capture page creator in 12SC, you will be able to build your own capture page(s) or use one of the many templates setup in your account.
  
  
• Contact Manager—Building a list is great and necessary but if you don't keep in touch with your prospects and clients, you will never reach the top. Having a world class contact manager solves this issue and since the contact manager in 12SC will be automatically tied into your Autoresponder, your job is simply a matter of managing prospects and clients instead of having them manage you.
  
  
• Program Builder—This nifty service will allow you to quickly and easily get your downline on the same page as you without them having to do anything but sign up to 12SC with you. Regardless of the product, program or service you are promoting, you set this up one time and as you grow your business, your clients will be able to easily duplicate your success. The 10 Minute Setup is also included in the PB and it allows anyone to be up and running and building their own legal prospect list in 10 minutes.
  
  As Zig Ziglar says, "You can have anything in life you want if you just help enough other people get what they want" Other people want to succeed too, but they have no idea where to start. With the 10 Minute Setup service, this will never be a problem again because this tool will create an entire prospecting system including a capture page and pre-written Autoresponder messages. Nothing can be simpler and nothing is more powerful.



• Training Center for Newbies—It is easy to tell someone how to tie their shoes, but nearly impossible for them to follow you. This is why 12SC will have the Training Center for Newbies. This area of the site will show people how to do everything from copying and pasting to advertising and selling online.
• Conference Center—www stands for World Wide Web and that means that phone and email are not always the best avenue to reach people. With 12SC you will have the ability to attend and run your own conferences. The conference center will never close so whether you want to conduct a training session at 8am or midnight, you can do it.
  
  We also run multiple conferences each week at different times and on different subjects to ensure you keep up to speed on everything we do and everything new on the Internet. You will never again have to pay for a conference center because your 12SC account includes access to this amazing service.
  
  
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Sign up for a free account, credit card not required. This is my bonus to you, get the FREE Autoresponder Account today.


To Your Success
Amy G Tan
www.amygtan.com