Online Business Brain Dump - Limit Your Sources
There are many companies that claim to offer 100,000, even 1,000,000 products for you to sell. Let me warn you. Be careful!
It is difficult enough to effectively market and advertise when you have 10 products, much less 10,000.
Plus, you have probably heard of small companies who grew too big, too quickly. That can be a real problem and you certainly don't want that to happen to you.
The key is to stay focused! It is much easier to become an "expert" in your field if you have a narrow product line to work with. It is better because you are then able to FOCUS all of your efforts on it. You'll want to make your business a niche' market and capitalize on it.
You may be tempted to sell "everything under the sun." The truth is that specializing in a specific, quality product will be much more profitable for you than attempting to offer a little bit of everything in your inventory. If you try to meet the needs of all potential online customers, you'll find yourself going crazy!
One option is to find a drop-shipping source that you can feel confident in because they dedicate themselves to drop-shipping specifically. A wonderful resource for finding drop ship suppliers who will ship the products to your customers after you've already sold the item is http://www.worldwidebrands.com.
You'll find many quality products to sell on their website, and you will find lots of information about drop shipping in general. There are many other businesses that offer drop shipping services, but they don't make it their primary focus, and it shows! It's actually more like an afterthought because their real focus is bulk wholesale.
After you begin dealing with these types of sources, you might find that the tools and support that you need as a distributor is not quite adequate to meet your needs.
Even worse, the tools and support may not exist at all! For instance, you might need access to inventory counts, quality images and descriptions from downloadable catalogs, and online package tracking. If these services are not available, you might consider looking elsewhere.
Here is my great list for finding physical products:
Electronics, Books, and DVDs
www.ingrambook.com www.techdata.com
Housewares and Hardware
Consumables and vitamins
www.expoeast.com www.expowest.com
Thomas Register
Dropship Source
Digital Products
(Note: This article is part of a mini-course with twenty lessons. You can find that entire free mini-course here: http://brentriggsblog.com/minicourses.asp)
G. Brent Riggs, author of "Life Without Debt", "Desperation Station" and SeriousFaith.com has over 20 years experience as an business owner, teacher, personal growth coach and mentor. You can contact him from his main website: http://www.gbrentriggs.com
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