If you already have a list of subscribers or steady traffic to your website then you can sign up with companies that specialize in drop shipping. Product that you don’t have to stock but can offer to your customers. When a customer places the order you collect the purchase price then send the company that’s doing the drop shipping your cost for the product and they ship it directly to your customer making it look like it came from you.

If you are just starting out with a business and don’t have a current base of customers then you don’t need to be signing up with drop shippers who ship for hundreds of other customers already. Some of the larger mail order firms have companies drop ship fro them but these are not companies who are shipping for hundreds of others in fact they may only be drop shipping for a few customers.

There a lot of companies out there who would love for you to sell their products online. They know that they would not have to ship anything until you get paid by the customer for the product. These companies don’t know about drop shipping so you have to seek them out and educate them.

When I was selling full time on EBay, selling PC and Video games, sales started to decline so I did some research of products that were selling good. The 2 products that were doing very well were DVD Movies and Designer jewelry. I then entered the necessary terms into my software, Net Prospector 2000 and found over 140 jewelry designers. I then contacted all the matches and asked them if I could sell their unique jewelry on the internet and have them ship to my customers once the product was paid for. I also told them that this would be a good way to move some of their slower moving pieces.

Over 50 companies responded positively to this, they provided me with pictures, weights and composition of each piece. I Processed all payments and they just had to ship to my customers. There are a number of sites that supposedly offer directories of Drop shippers but the only one I've ever found that was woth more than the paper it was printed on is the one by "Chris malta' in Orlando Florida.

Drop shipping allows anybody with a website to have products and have them shipped directly to their customers. my son, Jacob, uses drop Shippers to list products on his website but also so he can list products on auction sites like ebay. One thing to keep in mind is that you are not the only one that is listing products from one company that advertises that they do drop shipping. The best way to get one of a kind products is for you to go to your local businesses and see whether they would be interested in drop[ shipping for you. This would create a win win situation because you get products that you can sell and the store now has an outlet to move slower moving products.

Mr Solochek does research for himself as well as other people and posting what he discovers on his Blog. You can visit his blog at
www.nosugarcoating.info

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