Dropship Business Opportunities

Learning how to differentiate legitimate home business opportunities from scams is important.  At first glance, all work-at-home businesses or dropshipping businesses offered in the market may seem genuine but once you take a closer look, you’ll see that many of these opportunities are actually rip-offs. Take a look at the following signs of home based business or dropshipping scams:

No track record of history. One of the best ways to find out whether a dropshipping opportunity is fake or real is by checking the dropshipping company’s track record.  This isn’t possible if the company is too new or has only been in the business for a few months or less than a year. Continue Reading »

If you are working online, then I’m sure you have been hearing about social networking. Why bother with sites like twitter.com , myspace.com and other networks? Its a great place for your customers and potential customers to get to know you! If you use your networks correctly you can build a loyal following.

Should you use services to build your social sites? I would have to say no. Social sites should reflect who you are! A service that churns out hundreds of sites for other companies tend to be very general and not that engaging.

We are just getting into social marketing so we will be posting our findings here. Soon you will even be able to read our “tweets” here!

Are you currently using social marketing? Care to share your findings?

Is it really important to pay attention to your branding? Can brand really affect the productivity of your dropshipping business? The answer yes! In fact, one study shows that people often make their decisions based on what they see. Thus, how you visually present your products will directly affect the response of your customers.

The Brand of Your Dropshipping Products

Every wondered why designer products that are sold at a much expensive price are so popular? Why do people prefer to buy them over a less popular brand? Yes, even if both items are of the same quality, if people can afford it, they will surely pick the designer brand. Why? Because people perceive designer brands to be of a superior quality, higher value, and therefore- worth their money. It only proves that branding determines the perceived value of your products. Continue Reading »

I had lunch today with a friend of mine that uses a dropship company to sell fashion handbags.  Over lunch she was complaining about an irate woman who had called because it had been nearly 2 weeks since the day she placed her order and still no hand bag.  I asked her if the client had paid with a check, or was her dropshipping company running behind or had the bag been lost???  Even I was taken aback at the thought of waiting 2 weeks for a bag.

My friend answered no, ” I just wait until I have 10 orders before I place my order with my dropshipping company”

What???  Why would you do that when one of the big perks of dropshipping is that you can place an order 1 item at a time??

I told her I usually wait until the end of the day to send in my orders, but I NEVER EVER leave my desk with an unfulfilled order.

I don’t know if I got thru to her, but I know one thing for sure, she lost what could have been a good customer.

When should you hold on to an order before placing it with your dropshipper?  The only acceptable time I think is if the client purchases your merchandise with a check.  If I get an order and they are sending in a check I will call them and see if I can get them to switch to credit card.  9 times out of 10 they do once I explain to them I can’t fulfill their order until I receive their check and then it can be another 5 business days before I know that the check has cleared.  Most people don’t want to wait that long.

The reason I call is that its more personal.  When I used to send them an email, many people would say that’s ok, they still preferred to send a check.

Even though most of us run our businesses online, don’t forget about the power of a  personal touch and good customer service!

If you have plans to start your own dropshipping business. This article is for you. Let’s talk about the advantages of drop shipping, how you can get started and why you should consider the Philippines when looking for dropshipping partners.

Advantages of Dropshipping

What’s great about dropshipping is that it gives more people the opportunity to venture in business. With the popularity of internet, we find more and more online sellers doing their business straight from the Web. Yes, there’s no need for you to lease or rent a store just to get started. You can start marketing products from your home with just a computer and an internet connection.

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