Drop shipping is a retail method in which merchandise is shipped to the customer directly from the warehouse or supplier rather than from the retailer. When a product is sold, the retailer passes along the customers' order information to the wholesaler or supplier who then packages and ships the product. This process minimizes the risk to you, as a retailer, because you do not need to buy the product until it has sold. Suppliers take care of the warehousing, packaging, and shipping of products, saving you a great deal of money.
*Basically, you ( the retailer) picks the products you are interested in selling/advertising. You sell these products at retail price.
Customers shop your store and pick their products they want to buy.
The drop ship company does the shipping etc and takes out the price of the item at wholesale.
This means whatever is left is your commission ( how much you profit).
Drop shipping is not a 'get-rich-quick' scheme. As with any business, it takes dedication and hard work to be successful. However, there are distinct benefits to using drop shipping in your online retail business:
- You can become a retailer without needing to invest large amounts of money.
- You can start a business with very little risk.
- You don't have to carry inventory or pay for inventory upfront—if the product doesn't sell, you never have to buy it.
- You don't have to buy packaging materials and shipping labels, nor will you need a shipping account.
- You purchase products at wholesale pricing and set your own retail prices.
If you have any business knowledge at all and are great with Blogger, you can set up a site store completely free. You can do many things with blogger as well as create a shopping cart and many other characteristics you would need for a professional looking store.
It depends on your budget to get up and running.
If you can afford a small fee, I would suggest using a company like BigCommerce. A company like this can take a lot of the headache out of the process, especially for beginners.
They will design your store for you, as well as host your store, and help with SEO ( technical term for getting your site seen in the search engines, like Google).
Info about BigCommerce
BigCommerce is the all-in-one, #1 rated ecommerce service for selling products online with over 25,000 happy clients and growing daily.
Using BigCommerce anyone can quickly and easily create an online store to sell products online, process and ship orders, track inventory and completely customize the look and layout of their store in just a few minutes.
Their software is the easiest-to-use on the market and includes all of the features online retailers demand. Their continued commitment to improving software and website has given BigCommerce an industry-leading conversion rate.
Another pointer...
You can also sell your products on Ebay, Amazon, and other similar websites to start out.
This article only touches the surface of the possibilities.
For more information you can visit these sites individually and they actually have step by step education courses to help beginners.
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