Three Steps To Starting Drop Shipping Cheaply For Working at home

So you want to start earning through drop-shipping, how exactly are you going to do that? Could you set up for next to nothing, or will it involve a huge investment? Here are a few basic steps to take.

1) Find a suitable drop shipping company.
There are masses of different companies willing to drop ship for you, but do you really want to work with them? How do you find them to begin with?

Well, there is a huge industry in selling you directories of drop shippers. You pay your cash and receive a list of companies that you can work with. I do not feel this is good value for money really. A little bit of research should reveal to you loads of opportunities. Spend several time searching the internet for those wholesalers that you could work with.

It is best if you might find a product that interests you. If you know without doubt nothing of the product promoting the web site will be more difficult. Heaps of drop shippers also hide their catalogue until you have signed up. I prefer to work with those who at least show you their catalogue, if not their retail prices, before you sign up.

2) Create a selling web site
You do not need magnificent site design skills to create your own web site. You might employ a web designer, or for those on a budget, just download and install my favourite - WordPress. Use the page structure to create the catalogue of products for sale. Let's say, the first level of pages (under the home page) are the categories and then under these create the sub categories and then the products.

Now all you need to do is find a suitable theme and you are up and running. A bit straightforward and basic, but it looks after the budget. You can link into the PayPal basket and payment scheme for selling products.

This is where it is useful if the merchant you are working with allows you to see their catalogue before signing up to their system. You can have a good guess at their prices and try the system out and once you start to see orders and know your system is working, you can then pay your annual membership.

3) Promote your web site
This bit is totally up to you how you do it. If you are patient and hard working, then SEO is budding if you could find a few high traffic keywords without too much competition.

Or, you can buy visitors from Pay Per Click schemes and send visitors directly to your web site. This could be active within a few minutes and you could be selling and taking orders in no time. Just remember to send traffic straight to the most relevant page, rather than the home page. If you are advertising widgets, send them to the widget page. If they need to search out the widgets then they may get lost in the website!

That’s it - 3 steps to starting drop shipping on a budget. Find your product and merchant, build a easy web site and get some visitors. Now, you merely need to collect the cash and send payments to the merchant!

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