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How to Dropship Jewelry

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Jewelry is one online market that has really developed in recent years, and provides a great opportunity for all those who want to dropship jewelry items. While it might not stand out as one of the top dropshipping opportunities, with plenty of customers, and healthy margins on a huge range of different types of jewelry, sellers are finding that there’s lots of profit potential. However, if you want to be successful, there’s a few things you need to know about sourcing and selling your dropship jewelry items.

Where to source products

If you’re looking for a reliable supplier for dropship jewelry products, you have a number of choices. Countries like India, Pakistan, Thailand and China manufacture a lot of jewelry products, and there are dropshipping companies in those countries who will be able to provide you with products to sell.

You can gain access to many of these directly, which could be a bit of a risk, and you’d need to thoroughly check out any new supplier. Alternatively, you could try and source a dropshipping company through the major dropship directories like SaleHoo, which would reduce some of the risk. Even so, shipping items from these countries directly to your customer could result in your buyer becoming liable for customs duty on the item they’ve bought, and even if you made them aware of this and they were happy with the situation, what happens if there is a problem with the item and the customer needs to return it? These sorts of issues aren’t unique to dropshipping jewelry, but it is the sort of product that could be more susceptible to problems with quality.

You’re probably better choosing suppliers that are a little closer to home, at least until you get some more experience with dropship jewelry items. You should be able to find plenty of dropshipping companies in your own country, which means you won’t have any issues with import taxes and customs duty, and it should also make it easier to check out a new supplier, if you’re not using one of the dropshipping directories. A search on the internet, or spending a bit of time on the Dropship Forum should help you find a number of suppliers to contact. However you decide to source your supplier, you should always make a test purchase to verify the quality of the product and their service.

Where to sell products

While you can sell pretty much most dropship products on eBay, there are a number of exceptions, and jewelry would appear to be one of them. This is as much to do with buyers perception of eBay, as well as the reality for the seller.

Because a lot of buyers view eBay as the place to go if they are looking for something at the lowest possible price, items that aren’t well-known branded products can be viewed as cheap and low value. This makes it difficult for some dropshippers to sell non-branded high-value items, and jewelry is a really good example this.

If you’re looking to sell dropship jewelry products, especially if you’re selling higher value items, you should look at the alternatives to eBay. The best place to market this type of product would probably be on your own website, or one of the ecommerce sites you can set up with the likes of eCrater and Amazon Webstore. If you don’t have your own site, or don’t want to have to set one up just yet, the Amazon Marketplace has more credibility with buyers when it comes to higher priced and specialist items like jewelry.

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Dropshipping Products: What to Sell?

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The idea of dropshipping products appeals to many people who are looking for a way to make some extra money, or perhaps start their own business. A straightforward concept, that doesn’t need any investment, it’s no doubt one of the easiest business opportunities to get up an running. But before you look into suppliers, where you’re going to market your products, and whether or not you need your own website, you first of all need to decide what to sell.

Using tools like eBay Pulse and looking at the Amazon Bestseller lists will give you a good idea of what people are looking for and buying, but these may or may not be the best products to build your business on. Markets like clothing, electronics and toys are always popular, and will always have lots of hungry customers – but they are also very competitive too, making it hard for you to get established. So what’s the best way to go about deciding which dropship products to sell?

Choosing a market

In order to decide which products you want to sell, you first of all need to decide which market you are going to focus on. The reasons for this are quite simple. If you concentrate on selling a product, your business will only be profitable for as long as you can find customers for that particular item. However, if you concentrate on finding the right market to sell to, you can sell that product, as well as a whole range of others too – which is how you build a profitable dropshipping business.

There are plenty of different markets to choose from, and your selection criteria really comes down to four things – the level of competition, the number of buying customers, the range of products, and the availability of suppliers.

Markets like toys, electronics, and even pet supplies might have plenty of buying customers who are passionate about their particular interest, but there’s also lots of competition. More specialist markets might have less competition, but are there plenty of customers who are willing to spend their money?

You might find a particular product that seems to be selling well, but is there are market for other related items that will let you expand and grow your business, or is it just a one-off, fad product? And once you do find a good market that you want to focus on, will you be able to find a dropshipping company who can supply you with the products you need, at a price that will make you money? It doesn’t matter how much potential a market might have if you can’t get the right products at the right price.

This can be a lot to consider when you’re choosing your market, but it’s important if you want to make sure you get the right one. If you decide that you do want to try and sell dropship products in one of the popular markets, one of the best ways to establish yourself and your business, is to carve out a niche in a small part of that market, or another market related to it.

Carve out a niche

Spending a few minutes searching on eBay, or using some of the research tools, like SaleHoo Research Labs and Terapeak, which help you analyse what people are buying on eBay, will show you that things like iPods and mobile phones are some of the most popular items sold on the world’s biggest auction site.

If you were to try and sell dropship products in markets like these, all the competition would make it very hard to make a decent profit and build a stable, long-term business. But if you looked at smaller ‘sub’ markets you could exploit, or markets for related products, you could carve out a very profitable niche for yourself.

For example, sourcing iPhones would be hard enough, and doing it at a price that would let you compete with the established sellers will be nearly impossible. However, sourcing replacement screens for iPhones, and selling them with a video that shows you how to fit it, might be popular with the many people who drop their iPhones and don’t want to pay the high price the manufacturer might charge for fixing it. This is just one example, but the really successful dropshippers are those who can look at the popular markets and find other related markets that offer lots of profit potential.

Whichever market you decide to go into, it will play a big part in whether your dropshipping business succeeds or fails, so it’s definitely something you want to spend some time thinking about.

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How to Dropship Electronics

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You only have to take a look at some of the most popular searches on eBay using the eBay Pulse tool, to realise that selling dropship electronics is potentially a very profitable business opportunity. From iPods to mobiles and sat-navs to digital cameras, consumer electronics is one of the most poplar markets for online shoppers, all looking for the latest tech at the best possible prices. However, where there are plenty of buyers, there’s likely to be lots of competition. So if you’ve decided you want to build a business selling dropship electronics, here’s some useful information to consider.

Where to source products

Sourcing dropship electronics can be a bit of a minefield. If your looking for the latest branded items, like iPods and mobiles, you will find hundreds of dropshippers all over the world offering ‘genuine’ products at unrealistically cheap prices. The reality is, if you start your business in these ultra competitive sub-markets of the electronics sector, it’s going to be very difficult to get better products and prices than the established dropshippers on eBay and Amazon.

However, if you’re determined that this is the market you want to be in, to minimise the risks of being scammed with fake or low-quality products, you really should use a reputable dropshipping directory like Worldwide Brands, Doba, eSources and SaleHoo. They might not always be able to provide suppliers with the best prices, but they will be competitive, and their verification processes mean you’ll only be working with genuine, reliable businesses. Alternatively, you could look to work with local dropship partners in your own country to minimize any risk or hassle, although they will probably offer much lower margins.

A slightly different approach to take, might be to focus on generic products or brands that are slightly less popular and well-known in the west, which are manufactured out in the Far East. One dropshipping company that specialises in providing western quality technology, at far eastern prices is China Vasion. They were the first online Chinese wholesaler and they provide a wide range of products which they will dropship all ovaer the world. They are accredited by various trustworthy sources and could offer a profitable alternative to the big name brands.

Where to sell products

While you tend to see a lot of branded dropship electronics for sale on eBay, it might not always be the best place for these types of products. When buyers on eBay are looking for the latest technology, they are generally only bothered about two things – is it genuine, and how cheap is it. The sellers with good reputations, who do enough business to get the best deals with wholesalers and dropship suppliers, make it very difficult for new sellers to enter the market. If you want to sell on eBay, you will probably have more luck selling the cheaper branded and generic products you can get from the Far East, than trying to compete with the hundreds of iPod sellers.

While average prices for most dropship electronics products will tend to be slightly higher on Amazon than they are on eBay, you will still have similar issues with breaking in a market full of established competitors – although the odds against you are slightly smaller.

If you can’t compete on price, you need to try and compete on value – which means offering customers a much better buying experience, and one of the best ways to do this (and also avoid having to pay expensive eBay and Amazon fees) is to have your own website.

Of course, all of the above advice is based on it being difficult for new sellers to get the kind of prices for their dropship electronics that enable them to compete. However, because of the nature of the electronics market, the complete opposite of everything we’ve said is true, if you can indeed find a genuine supplier with the lowest prices. In this scenario, being able to offer the most popular products at the lowest price will guarantee sales on eBay, Amazon, and pretty much anywhere else you can find to market your dropship electronics.

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How to Dropship Pet Supplies

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If there’s one thing people tend to be passionate about, it’s their pets. In the USA, millions of dollars are spent every year on the dogs, cats and other animals, which means selling dropship pet supplies could be a very profitable business indeed. As well as all the essentials these animals need, there are all sorts of toys, accessories and treats their owners buy for them, which means that there is a wide range of products you can sell into this very popular market.

Where to source products

Depending on what kind of dropship pet supplies you want to sell, you should be able to find a suitable dropshipping supplier without two much trouble. Specialising in a particular area of the pet market will probably help focus your search – whether that be a particular type of product, like pet toys, or a wide range of products for a certain type of pet, e.g. dog, cat, horse etc… While there are lots of manufacturers of generic pet supplies and accessories out in the Far East, there are also plenty of manufacturers in the UK, Europe, and North America. This means that the dropshippers you can find in your own country will probably be able to supply you with good quality products at competitive prices, and without too much fuss.

For this reason, you might decide to approach some of the main companies offering dropship pet supplies directly, and try and negotiate your own prices and terms. Alternatively, if you want to make sure you’re working with reliable dropshipping suppliers who can still offer the products you want at decent prices, the main dropshipping directories like eSources and Worldwide Brands, have plenty of potential businesses you could work with.

Where to sell products

The best way to sell your dropship pet supplies will probably depend on what type of products you’ve decided to market. For example, if you are selling low value toys and accessories for a range of pets, eBay could be the best place to sell the kind of volumes you will need to move in order to make a good profit. If you’ve decided to concentrate on a particular type of pet, the quickest way to building a profitable business, will be to become recognized as the specialist in that particular market.

While it might be possible to build a reputation as a specialist on eBay, buyers might not appreciate the added-value this will offer them as much as low prices, so choosing another sales channel will probably be more profitable. A good option would be to try and sell your products on Amazon’s market place, where customers appreciate sellers who understand what they want and have all the products they need.

An even better way of developing your reputation as the seller to trust for all your customers pet needs, would be to have your own website. This is a great idea for a couple of reasons. First of all, it helps you establish a brand for your business, but more importantly, pet owners are repeat buyers – so getting repeat purchase on a website you own and control will mean more profit than paying fees over and over again to sell on Amazon and eBay.

People love their pets, and they spend a lot of money looking after them. So if you find the right supplier for your dropship pet products, and develop your market using the most appropriate sales channel, you could find you got a very successful dropshipping business in this lucrative market.

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How to Dropship Books

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Despite being able to access almost all the information we need on the internet, and the increasing number of people who are purchasing Kindles, iPads, and other ebook readers, people are still buying books – so is selling dropship books an opportunity that offers some profit potential?

Where to source products

Unlike many other products, there are a number of factors in your favour when it comes to sourcing dropship books. For a start, most books that are going to be sold in the US, Canada and the UK tend to be printed in those countries, which makes finding local dropship suppliers a lot easier. Secondly, you don’t usually have to worry about quality issues, or possible fake merchandise. While this might sound great if you are thinking of selling dropship books, you need to bear in mind that there are huge, established online retailers in this market; and even with a reliable dropship supplier offering great prices, it could be very difficult to compete in the mainstream book categories.

A better idea might be to concentrate on specialist areas, such as education books for example. The lower sales volumes in these niches usually mean that big retailers are less able to offer huge discounts, which levels the playing field a bit. You should be able to find a number of dropship suppliers who can provide your with products in a range of specialist categories, like Dropship Books for example; and then you just need to decide how to sell them.

Where to sell products

While eBay has made a lot of changes in the last few years that make it easier to list media like books (simply entering the ISBN number can create much of your listing for you), if you’re planning on selling a wide range of titles, it could be quite labour intensive. Unless you invest in some of the eBay selling tools, like Turbo Lister and Selling Manager Pro, or find a dropship books supplier who offers the facility to ‘push’ their listings into your eBay auctions, you’re going to have your work cut out for you. Even if you are able to sell a good volume on eBay, with Final Value fees of 10%, and then PayPal fees on top, you need to be making healthy margin to make it worthwhile.

Of course, you could always list your dropship books on one of the most popular places buyers go whenever they are looking to buy a book – Amazon. But this can be a bit of a double-edged sword. Sure, you get thousands and thousands of customers, all hopefully looking to buy the book your selling, but with world’s largest online book retailer frequently able to offer huge discounts on many of the popular titles, it will be very hard to compete. The only way to sell books on Amazon will be to focus on a particular niche or specialist subject, where you will have less competition from Amazon’s own products.

Whether it’s high fees on eBay, or low prices on Amazon, selling dropship books can be be quite challenging. A better approach would be to keep your costs as low as possible, which you could do by creating your own website with any of the free ecommerce platforms like Weebly and eCrater. This way, by focusing on a specialist market rather than the mainstream book categories, you might be able to make selling dropship books profitable.

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How to Dropship Toys

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Developing a successful dropshipping business is all about choosing the right market, and one that’s always been popular is toys – which could mean plenty of profit potential for online sellers who decide to dropship toys. Whether it’s the latest must-have Christmas present, or the more traditional offerings that have been around for years, toys are big business – at any time of the year.

If you are looking to start selling dropship toys, the first decision you need to make is what kind of toys are you going to sell. Will they be popular brand names that everyone knows and buys, even though they might be hard to source? Or will you stick to the generic products that are offered by plenty of suppliers, but typically sell for less – which might mean lower margins? It’s important you figure this out so your dropshipping business has some focus, and you can make sure you choose the most effective sales channel for the products you’re going to sell. So here’s a little more useful information.

Where to source products

The vast majority of toys sold in the West today are actually manufactured in the Far East – this is true for the branded children’s favourites, as well as the cheaper, generic ones. While you will be able to find plenty of suppliers who can provide you with dropship toys at competitive prices, dealing with them direct means there is always a risk of getting low quality products, or even fakes, if you’re selling branded toys. Even with the reduced risk associated with ordering non-branded toys form the Far East, you still have all the issues of dealing with import taxes and excise duty.

If you want to find reliable dropship suppliers close to the manufacturers in the Far East, you should really be using reputable directories like SaleHoo, and you might even find some wholesalers prepared to offer dropshipping on sites like Alibaba. Or you could stick to dropshippers in your own country, or more reliable countries like the US. There’s always plenty of choice and, while the margins might be a little smaller, they’re much easier to source directly, with less risk of any problems. Alternatively, you can use some of the more reputable directories that deal with suppliers in your country, like Worldwide Brands and eSources.

Where to sell products

In the most part, eBay would probably be as good a place as any to sell dropship toys, however, the usual considerations apply. Selling on the world’s biggest market place can mean a lot more competition, and buyers who are only interested in the lowest price. If you can source good quality products at competitive prices, and list them well, you could make a good profit from dropship toys if you’re selling a decent volume.

Nevertheless, with lower fees and buyers who tend to appreciate value a bit more, choosing an alternative selling channel like Amazon’s marketplace, might be a better way to increase your margins, especially if you’re selling branded items. If you’ve got the supply side organised, it’s probably worth trying a eBay and Amazon and comparing which gives you the most profitable results – you might even want to think about creating your own website, as an additional sales channel.

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How to Dropship Clothing

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Everybody needs to buy clothes, and with the boom in internet shopping over the last few years, more and more people are buying their clothes online. So if you’re looking to start dropshipping, and trying to choose a market, you might think that selling dropship clothing would be a great way to develop a profitable business. While there’s no doubt there is a lot of potential in the clothing market, there are also a lot of pitfalls, and competition. Here are some of the things you need to consider if you want your dropship clothing business to be a success.

What kind of clothing to dropship?

Clothing is a huge market, made up of lots of different sub-markets. If you try and be all things to all men, you will quickly come unstuck. What you need to do is focus on a particular category of clothing, and develop a dropshipping business around that. There are plenty of these categories to choose from – children’s clothing, designer clothing, women’s branded clothing etc… Identifying one profitable niche and concentrating on that, will make it easier to find a good supplier, and also choose the most profitable sales channel.

Where to source products

Where to find the best suppliers will depend on the type of clothing you are planning to sell. Dropship suppliers in the US could provide you with a good range of unbranded and branded clothing for men, women and children. But if you are looking for designer clothing, you’ll find a lot of suppliers in Asia and the Far East who claim to be able to offer ‘genuine’ designer apparel.

If you’re not selling branded or designer clothes, you’ll have a lot more scope when choosing your dropship supplier, as there is very little chance of you being scammed with fake, low-quality goods. So you might be able to use cheaper, foreign suppliers, although you will probably find it is much easier to find a suitable dropshipping company in your own country. That way you don’t have to worry about import tax and excise duty on what will typically be low-value items.

If you’ve decided you want to sell branded or designer clothes, the best advice we can give, would be to stick to reputable suppliers you find through leading directories which have plenty of clothing suppliers, like SaleHoo, eSources and Worldwide Brands. They will have verified each of their suppliers so, while you might not get prices as cheap as those you can find elsewhere, at least you can be confident you are getting genuine items – which is all the more important for your business reputation when you’re dropshipping, as the products are going straight to your customers.

Where to sell products

Again, this will probably be decided by the type of clothing you’re going to sell. Low value, un-branded items will probably sell pretty well on eBay, and possibly on Amazon as well. You could even set up your own website, or use one of the free ecommerce offerings like Weebly or eCrater.

If you want to sell branded and designer clothes, you really need to consider the alternatives to eBay. Buyers on the world’s largest auction site have become increasingly skeptical of designer and branded clothing items, which could affect the success of your listings. Even sellers with great feedback offering genuine products could find that, with most eBayers interested just in the lowest price, their products get de-valued and any sales they do get will usually mean less profit. Amazon has a lot more credibility with buyers when it comes to these higher-value items, and is a much better alternative. However, if you really want to maximise the profit from top brand names and designer labels, you should really think about setting up your own website.

Selling dropship clothing can be a profitable business if you get the basics right. Focus on a particular niche, develop relationships with good reliable suppliers, and make sure you are use the most appropriate sales channel to market your products.

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Tips on Starting a Drop ship Business

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Starting a drop ship business can be a great home business venture for you. You can sell products that you don’t have to store in your house. If you have a hard time picturing this out, then how about this one: Set your retail price for your customers and every time you sell; you have your wholesaler shipping the product to your customer’s door for you and all this in your name plus you get to keep the profit. You’ll ask me “can that be possible?” I tell yes it is, and that is the beauty of drop ship business. So let’s get started.

Drop shipping advantages

For people who want to start a home business, the greatest challenge would be where to find products for them to sell. Now if you want to do such business, and you don’t have a thousand dollars to invest` and buy products, let alone where to store, and you want to avoid the stiff competition or multi-level business then drop shipping is the business for you.

Here are the advantages of drop shipping that will interest you: No more headaches for storage or warehousing, the hassles of packaging and shipping, no need for you to do some inventory for your limited financial resources. There are other advantages as well such as: you don’t have to worry for leftovers, change or add products as easy as changing Facebook’s profile photo, and you can virtually and technically sell whatever products you want to sell.

Drop shipping disadvantages

Scam

Just like any other businesses, drop shipping has its fair share of wolves in a sheep skin. Drop shipping may be a simple business, but it’s about finding a reliable drop shipper that can be a problem. There are scam companies on a hunt, ready to snatch away your sweat and tears earned money, or the profits you got from your hard work. The most common scam in action is simply taking your money and disappears.

Back ordering

Another problem with drop shipping is back ordering. Back ordering is a big concern in drop shipping business, especially when you’re dealing with hot items. If you’re selling products quickly and easily like selling tickets for Pacquiao vs, Mayweather showdown (hypothetical), chances are you’re not alone selling it like hot cakes too. When this happens, the product you’ve been selling runs out of stock and you have to arduously wait for the next shipment while your customers are pulling their hairs for their orders.

Bottom line is can you make money with drop shipping?

To get the long story short, the answer is yes and no. It will work if you apply common sense, good old principles of service, knowledge and a hefty dose of wisdom. I’ll tell you one thing though, some power sellers and internet marketers operate on drop shipping and making a fortune out of it. So starting a drop ship business may have its shares of ups and downs but once you overcome the hurdles, expect success to be on your side and you’ll be a millionaire in just a matter of time.

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What Is Dropshipping?

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One question asked by a lot people who are wanting to start their own business working from home is, what is dropshipping? Dropshipping is often one of the first business opportunities most budding entrepreneurs come across, and if you’re new to selling online and have never heard of dropshipping before, you might be struggling to understand what it’s all about. So if you’ve been asking “what is dropshipping?”, and haven’t been able to find the answers you’re looking for, read on; and we’ll tell you what you need to know to see if it’s the right business opportunity for you.

What is Dropshipping?

Dropshipping is actually a very simple concept, which explains why it’s such a popular opportunity for anyone looking to set up their own business. So, what is dropshipping? Well, it’s basically a way for you to sell pretty much whatever you want on the internet, without having to actually buy or store the products you are selling first. Once you’ve found a drop ship supplier for the product you want to sell, you market the product on sites like eBay, Amazon, or even your own website.

When a customer buys your product, you collect their money, buy the product from the drop ship supplier, who then sends it straight to your customer. So you only have to order your ‘stock’ once you’ve made a sale, and you get to keep the difference between what you sold it for, and what the drop ship supplier charged you.

How to start a Dropshipping business?

Now you’ve got a better understanding of exactly what is dropshipping, and the potential it offers anyone looking to set up their own home business, you might be wondering how to get started. So many people choose dropshipping because it doesn’t take much to get up and running.

First, you need to decide what to sell. Then, once you’ve found a supplier who will dropship your chosen products for a price that will allow you to make a profit, you just need to get these items in front of potential customers, and there are plenty of websites that will help you do this quickly and easily – even if you’ve never sold before.

What are the benefits?

The main benefit of starting your own drop ship business, is that it requires no investment, since you’ll be buying the items you sell with your customers’ money. It’s also a relatively simple business to run too – as your supplier will take care of delivering your products to your customers, leaving you free to focus on getting more sales and growing your business.

Is a Dropshipping business right for you?

If you’ve been asking, “what is dropshipping, and could it be right for me?”, the great thing is, you’ve have nothing to lose by giving it a go and finding out. Because you only invest in products once you’ve got a sale, and there are plenty of sites that will help you to market your products for little or no cost, you can try dropshipping and see if you like it – and more importantly, if it makes you money. All it’s going to take is a little of your time.

If you’ve been looking for ways to make a bit of money from home, or even start your own online business so you can escape the 9-5 grind, dropshipping could be the answer. And if you’ve been asking “what is dropshipping?”, hopefully the information we’ve provided has answered you’re questions, and convinced you of the fantastic potential it offers.