Top Ten Wholesale Tips for Dropshippers
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What is a wholesale dropshipper? Is it …
1: A supply chain technique through which The Retailer works directly with Manufacturers and Wholesalers, who ship merchandise directly to The Retailer’s Customers;
2: A smart way to avoid keeping excess inventory in stock. A way to manage a profitable merchandise reselling business without keeping any merchandise on hand;
3. A savvy way to start up a Home-Based Resale Business or be an eBay Powerseller; OR
4. All the above.
The right answer is, of course, #4: All the above.
Dropshipping 1,000,000s of available products to your customers – directly from a wholesaler or manufacturer warehouse – is the profitable way to start up your own small business. You don’t have to work all the logistics of warehousing, inventory audits and storage hassles; or shipping, delivery and product fulfillment. You can concentrate on marketing and promoting your reseller business and meeting customer service needs.
Here are Top Ten Wholesale’s 7 tips on types of dropshippers, product offerings and levels of the game.
Focus retail on one dropshipped product category, like Toner Dropship.com.
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1. Focus on One Discount Product Category: Toner Dropship.com is the source for discount printer inkjet and laser/fax toner cartridges, plus affordable quality imaging and printer supplies. Toner Dropship works with quality manufacturers – see their top web page navigation buttons for OEM brands like Brother, Canon, Dell, HP, Konica-Minolta, Kyocera-Mita, Lexmark, Samsung – who ship product directly to Toner Dropship’s retail buyers.
2. Own Your Own Customers’ Satisfaction: Toner Dropship offers attentive Customer Service, Support and a 100% Satisfaction guarantee. So, the end customer enjoys a risk-free buyer experience.
Also, Toner Dropship.com uses its shopping cart checkout page to poll its retail buyers. Community Poll offers a good list of answers for: Why Purchase Products Online? (More convenient shipping and delivery; Lower price; Bigger choice; Centralized product search procedure … without having to leave your home; Payments security; 30-day Money Back Guarantee.)
3. Speaking of Security and Trust: Very important for any online commerce site – especially for a dropshipping reseller who deals with many wholesalers and manufacturers further up the supply chain – is a valid seal as a Verified Business and Secure Payment Processor.
Sure, you may not consciously notice those little logos at the bottom of web pages that indicate “Business Verified” by Trust Guard, eTrust, BBB OnLine Reliability etc. However, buyers who are about to enter financial data, credit card numbers or business purchase orders DO NOTICE when those little seals of approval are missing. It’s a “trust” thing.
Toner Dropship.com displays the seal: Verified Merchant — Authorize.Net Online Payments.
Get tips and tactics from Sell and Profit -– also known as DropshipHQ — to drop ship 1,000,000s of products directly to customers and/or become an eBay Powerseller.
4. Drop Shipping & Online Auction Advice: At Sell and Profit.com, you’ll find “eBay and Drop Shipping Advice, Articles and Humor.” File HUMOR: Why the odd, strange and weird eBay sale items? (The Miracle Boot Shaped French Fry! The $60.98 Flexy Straw! Easter Bunny-shaped Popcorn!)
File HOT TIPS: Advance notice of Fee-Free Auction Days, like eBay’s waiver of traditional listing fees for two weeks this past March.
File BEWARE BUYING CLOSEOUTS: Tips to avoid problems in Buying Closeout Liquidation Clearance Items … Oh My! if you plan to resell closeout and liquidation merchandise in online auctions.
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5. Free Trial to Start an eBay Business: An affiliate of DOBA and an eBay Certified Provider, Sell and Profit.com (DropshipHQ.net) offers a 4-step plan to make money dropshipping products directly to customers … and locating suppliers of over 1,000,000 products available to online sellers, eBay powersellers and dropshippers.
Take the 3-minute Free Trial Tour from Sell and Profit’s web site button. Or click here at the DOBA PPC Tour link.
6. Manufacturers Who Dropship: Sell and Profit.com (DropshipHQ.net) is a Business Verified by Trust Guard, the BBB OnLine Reliability Program, and is also an eBay Certified Provider. As a small sample of dropshipping opportunities available to certified providers, Sell and Profit.com lists these merchandise manufacturers:
Dropshipping Manufacturers
7. Wholesale Pricing Guarantee: As an affiliate of DOBA, Sell and Profit.com extends its Wholesale Pricing Guarantee. They promise the lowest wholesale merchandise prices to you, as an online auction reseller/dropshipper. Or, they offer up to $120 in free membership. Rewards Back price guarantees are common at the end buyer and retail customer end of the supply chain. So, it’s nice to see a lowest price guarantee that works for Home-based Businesses and Online Auctioneers, too.
Great Tips here on drop shipping Marie – I really see the benefits of drop shipping and now understand why it is a successful and growing method of selling with out the hassle of logistics and inventory management. I might even try it myself!
toptendan …
Good tips for drop shipping. Small retailers can really benefit from drop shipping selected items that customers don’t necessarily expect to be able to take-with. This is an excellent way to expand assortments without expanding inventories, as long as the drop-shipped item doesn’t cannibalize sales of in-stock items.
Does anyone know of a wholesaler and dropshipper that handles a full line of hockey equipment.