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An Arm & A Leg for eCommerce?
As a site designer myself, I realize how much time and effort goes into registering, setting up, and designing a site; not to mention the creation of content and seamless navigation. But it is unbelievable how complicated and expensive this process...
Ask Mr. D - ECommerce Sales
Dear Mr. D, After spending about a year as an affiliate for other companies, I have come up with my own product. My product is similar to one that I was selling as an affiliate. I made real good money selling this product as an affiliate, but my...
Comparing Ecommerce Software Programs - 5 Tips
If you've ever been interested in selling products online, this is certainly a great time to go into business. With more and more online users everyday, and people becoming more comfortable spending and making purchases over the internet, there is a...
eCommerce: Installing and Configuring your Shopping Cart
You decided you're going to sell your products online. Or
perhaps you don't want to sell them yet, only display your
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Getting Started in ECommerce - Part Two
In Part One we talked a little bit about what Ecommerce is, getting a domain name and setting up a merchant account. Ecommerce is more than that, much more. To have a really good online presence that gets people to stop and shop you need a strategy...
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Drop Shipping Is Ecommerce Snake Oil
Drop shipping is not for everyone. Even though it is pitched as a cure for everything from starting up withoutmoney to being able to sell without investing in inventory, it does not cure the main problems that want to be drop shippers have.
Want to be web entrepreneurs are lead down the path of finding products that they can sell before they buy them.
And to do that, they are lead into buying all sorts of things from web sites to on line stores and lists of drop shippers. They get set up with what they need to sell. And they spend a lot of time and money in the process.
There is no doubt that they are, at the same time, given advice that they are starting a business. They are definitively told that they must comply with all those rules for success on the web. They are not misled.They mislead themselves. They get so excited and so tied up in their ideas that they are going to make millions that they do not stop to plan. They forge ahead with the plan to plan in the future. So they plan after their plan is already a failure.
The people supplying the drop shipping industry are not obligated to turn away customers. They have no way to determine who will or who will not fail. So they cannot be faulted for selling to people who run when they should be walking.
There is no doubt that some of these people do succeed and do very well for themselves. But 90 to 95
percent of them fail. A good percentage of them could have survived had they planned. But they fail because they chase the quick money.
Having said that, drop shipping is an excellent way for a small business to expand. If use properly it has many advantages.
Let us take a simple example.
Anna wants to sell amber and silver jewelry and exotics crystal pieces at home parties. And she wants to be able to vary her offering so that each time she attends a home party she has the opportunity to present other products. She
also wants a wide variety of products.
Now amber and silver jewelry is both expensive and there are many different pieces that can be offered. So if she were to maintain an inventory she would have to tie up several thousand dollars in jewelry, many pieces of which she might not sell quickly.
Now if she get some samples so that her customers see the products and the quality, she can take orders and have the ordered pieces shipped either directly to her or to her customers. Actually, she is better off to have the pieces drop shipped to her so she can visit her customers and possibly make additional sales during the delivery process.
So she searches About the Author
Gary Granai is the Director of the Poland Chamber that maintains the drop shipping portal that has complete information about drop shipping. You can see it at
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The largest collection of annotated links to web marketing and ecommerce articles and resources to be found at any single place on the planet. |
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Mal's e-commerce |
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Ecommerce Guide - Terms You Need to Know to Do Business on the ... |
An online computer dictionary and internet search engine for internet terms and techincal support. |
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