7 Quick-Start Dropshipping Tips
With the intense amount of interest in wholesale dropshipping and ecommerce,
I’d thought I’d mention 7 ways to get started and be in business within a day. I would be very cautious about using any of these avenues on eBay. I would also encourage you to email or call up the companies I’m going to mention and explain what you’d like or hope to accomplish. This would be a chance to ask questions and get a gut level feeling for the businesses.
I’m going to mention 7 companies who style themselves as wholesale dropship product sourcing businesses. In brief, they provide data feeds with a vast inventory of goods and the option to acquire a site pre-loaded with their stock. The way this generally works is that for a membership fee you get the right to use the data feed on your site–or use a pre-loaded site provided by the business. You determine the price of the goods above that of the base price offered by the dropship company. When you sell an item, the dropshipper sends it to your customer under your business name. Your profit is the difference between what the dropshipper charges and your mark-up.
I’d be surprised if you haven’t already heard of these dropshippers or at least a few if you have spent any time at all searching on the Internet. I am not recommending them, but they are generally considered to be legitimate, and you might find them of use.
dropshippingwholesalers.com ezdropshipper.com dropshipdesign.com dropshipdirect.com shopster.com megagoods.com doba.com aidandtrade.com
I also mention that many hosting services, such as Hostgator, include a choice of shopping carts that you can automatically install on your site in few clicks. This requires no programming knowledge, though it is up to you to stock your site with products. This might be one way to set up a “practice” or learning site for little more than the cost of the hosting. This strategy would mean finding reliable sources for the products you want to sell. Or, you could subscribe to the data feed of one of the companies above and run it on your own site. All of this means more work, a steeper learning curve, though ultimately you have more control over your site.
If you decide to find your own product sources, then you might find the services of an online wholesale and dropship directory membership site helpful. A site that I am a member of and recommend is Salehoo. Salehoo is not a product supplier but a directory, or list of product supply sources. Salehoo claims to have around 5000 verified product distributors on file made up of wholesalers, dropshippers, light bulk wholesalers, liquidation and closeout specialists, and discount product distributors. If this sounds useful to you can
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