This company is offering tons of dropship companies lists and more than 2,000,000 products are available and more Suppliers with more Products are added daily!
You can search with products , brand name, and company name.
The membership fee is $69.95 and it's only one time fee.
Also they are offering free dropship business ebook. The free ebook explains everything about dropship business.
Step 2 :
Decide what to sell in your dropship business using profitable keywords.
While you are looking at the dropship companies lists, you can check the products keywords for the profitability.
You must choose good attractive products that have high demand and profitability , low supply.
You can check the keywords here,
Click here check the keywords
They are offering free trial and you can use it until you found good keywords.
You can also check your keywords demand at overture.com
Overture.com
Step 3.
Get tax ID and business license and open a business bank account.
In order to apply for a dropship company and a merchant service which we can accept credit card from the customers payment, we need to prepare those three.
Also when you apply for a wholesale company or affiliate merchant service ( some mechant service don't need tax ID ) they will ask your tax ID.
Where to get them ? - I got my tax ID for free here.
Click here to get more info
Business license - Fill out the application form in this website, and bring it to the place it was stated in the website . The price I paid for it was about $12.00.
You can get business license here
- Open your business bank account.
You can open your business bank account in the bank around your house where you are using.
To open the business account, they will need your business license and tax ID.
Step 4:
Decide dropship company for your dropship business.
Once you found good products that have high demand and profitability, low supply, you need to apply for the dropship company.
They will send you their dropship program information. Most of the dropship companies offer about 50% to 65% discount as a wholesale price to the dealers.
Some companies offer dropship fee ( $1.00 to $5.00 for each order) and also some may offer minimum order about $150.00 in the first time order.
Please make sure to check all their dropship program information. I'm measuring at least 60% profits from the wholesale price. Your profit = retail price you set up in your store - wholesale price - transaction fees
If the dropship company offer dropship fee in each order, you can add the dropship fee in the retail price when you set up the price.
Step 5 :
Find a web hosting company and register the domain name.
I started from this service because I chose
drop ship method for my business.yahoo merchant solution is good for beginners who are selling
drop ship & wholesale products.
Domain name registration, online product Catalog manager and Inventory Management, shopping cart. They have two type of styles to build your site , template included.
Also you can transfer your web page if you already made it from Microsoft Front page or Dream waver.Automated UPS shipment processing, tracking, and shipping label generation.
You can check where your visitors came from, what keywords the visitor searched using Yahoo store manager. They have three optionals that are for
- starter $39.95/mo
- standard $99.95/mo
- professional $299.95/mo
- Set up fee $50
.
Easy to make and edit online products catalogue pages. inventory manager, UPS calculator for shipping option page etc.. If it is for only web hosting ,
- starter $11.95/mo
- standard $19.95/mo
- professional $39.95/mo
- $25 set up fee.
For more info please visit this site below,
Step 6 :
Build your online store.
Yahoo offers free download instruction to build your yahoo store. However for beginner's, it may be litttle bit confusing to build the yahoo store using only their instruction.
I found great ebook Online store profit/ build a yahoo store written by Andy Jenkins and Audrey Kerwood when I was struggling to build my yahoo store, it helped me alot. They are great teachers and they explain everything about how to build Yahoo store by step by step system. Fun to read and easy to understand.
They are also running their yahoo store, selling replica medieval swords and are earning more than $18,306 a month.
Online store profits, Build Yahoo Store !
How to Create a profitable e-commerce Store A Step By Step system for Selling on the Internet …
even if you have no inventory !!
Click here to go to the website
Step 7.
Apply for the merchant service to accept credit card payment from your customer.
I'm using this company to accept our customers payment with their credit card.
This company offers very low transaction fee rate. Visa, Master -
2.25% and $ 0.29 per transaction fee, American Express - 3.5%.
Also
quick apploval time it will take only 1 to 2 days and they have high approval.
The customer support is very friendly and helpful. The price we paid for this service when I applied for it was
$58.95 ( one time secure gateway fee $49 + monthly fee $9.95 )
Highly recommend !
This company also offers great tool. One time set up fee
$125.00 , Visa Master -
2.21% and $0.25 per transaction fee, American Express 3.5%, $5.00 a month, Discover - 2.38% and $0.30 per transaction fee.
no monthly fee. Quick and high approval. Step 8.
Get a traffic to your site
After you set up your payment system in your online store, you need to get traffic to get visitors to your site.
This is very important !
I collected many information about search engine optimization and tried everything.
As a result, my recommendation is these two.
Brad Fallen was one of Andy Jenkins's customer who purchased Andy Jenkins 's ebook Online store profit
Brad Fallen and his wife opened their yahoo store in December 2003, they sold their products wedding favors $10,000 in January 2004, and sold $ 1.3 million in 2004, sold over $4,000,000.00 in 2005.
One day in 2004, Brad Fallen called Andy Jenkin to say thank you for his great ebook and said that he owed Andy - big time! ( So, Andy asked him to participate in a phone interview that he could record and give to Andy's subscribers.
Brad told Andy how he used search engines to rank on the first page for EVERY product that he sells in his store.
But Andy does'nt take anybody at his or her word. He has been burned too many times by being too trusting. So, before He interviewed Brad, he asked Brad for the user name and password to his Yahoo! Store.
Brad gave it to Andy. Andy checked Brad's yahoo store using the password Brad gave to him. Andy thought there is absolutely no way to fake this information. Brad Fallen is the real deal.
Soon Andy flew to Atlanta where Brad Fallen lives to interview more about his search engine strategy Andy made CDs and Audio for this important interview.
The price for the CDs are $299. It was actually the highest price I've ever spent for my internet business. But it's worth it.
Since I used Brad Fallen's search engine sterategy, my google page rank changed from 0 to 5. One of my main keywords and many other keywords appear on the first page of Google , Yahoo, MSM and many other major search engines.
He is also offering free information of " 7 biggest mistakes search engine optimizers make".
Seo Elite ! Get Tons more traffic to your site ! Discover how easy to get top ranking with the software !
This is my favorite software. I believe this is a must have software for people who really want to get top ranking.
The developer of this software Brad Callen also offers free secret of search engine newsletter , you can learn many important things to improve your traffic. He explains the point of search engine strategy very clearly , if you are like me who wants to know the point first, you will love his newsletter.
He is also offering free 14 days trial. Highly recommended. Here is the advantages of his software below,
- You can spy on outranking competitors that are stealing your best prospects.
- You can easily find your competitors hidden links , also high page rank websites that have similar page title as your site.
- You can see why certain websites are mysteriously dropped out of Google, Yahoo, and MSN
- You can get indexed in major search engine as little as 24 hours.
- You can See the tricks your competitors are using to outrank and outdo you in the search engines.
- You can Find out exactly which websites you should and shouldn't approach for reciprocal link exchanges.
- You can Easily get a higher page rank on your website's most important pages, which can increase your rankings over 250 positions soon.
Step 9:
Email marketing.
This is the most effective way to increase your sales for your online store.Once you collected your customer's( or visitors) email address , write a newsletter to them.
Give them discount coupons or information of new products, this month specials, any other information customers are interested in. But don't push to sell your products, customers don't like to read pushing sales letter.
This is a powerful sales letter kit and already tested by successful ecommerce leaders and webmasters.
You can easily make your magic sales letter within 3 minute with their instant sale letter templates.
No Matter What Product or Service, You Have To Sell - You’ll Find A Sales Letter That’s Already Written For You.. This item is for people who want to send killer sales letters easily and fast without struggle to fing good words to write it.
The price is only $ 39.95
Click here to check the website Autoresponders - Once you collected many email addresses, " email autoresponder " is very convenient to do your email marketing. You can also set up " remove me " link at the bottom of the email . If your customers want to cancel their subscriptions, they can just click the link and it will automaticaly remove their email address from the email list.
This is a affordable autoresponder service.
Price:$17.95 /mo
Offers free trial,
Unlimit autoresponders, Instant, reliable delivery, Up to 5 follow-ups, Unlimited message length, Easy set-up and management, Built-in anti-spam filters.
You can also get a lot of free marketing materials when you sign up.
Highly recommended.
This service offers autoresponder software and also spam Filter Breaker, competitor's Spam Check Software.
Email Marketers are making at least one of the 21 deadly Spam Filter Violations that *guarantee* they'll fail and not get through.
The price : for silver member
$197/yr for gold member
