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DROPSHIP ARTICLES
Here's
your chance to work for yourself from home and say goodbye to
the
humdrum of daily working life. You can make money
selling our unique
range of
software titles either
online or offline, without
ever having
to buy anything
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We
Dropship Internationally.
All
shipping
and handling charges are fixed at just £1.50, and we offer
postage discounts for 3+ items going to the same customer, UK and
Overseas. We will
never
approximate your shipping charges. You will know exactly how much to
charge your customers for shipping and handling upfront.
With
a
Dropship Account with us you will have access to our unique software
range comprising of well over 300 brilliant selling Butterfly-Media
CD-ROM's and 600 additional titles from other UK publishers. You can
sell
with the knowledge that all of our products are fully guaranteed and
are delivered with our promise of your Customers Satisfaction. You have
nothing to lose and a world of opportunity to gain.

Drop Shipping Beginner Intermediate Advanced
Drop shipping is neither a sport nor a game.
It is a business. And
in business, customers neither want to deal with beginners nor
intermediates.
Customers want advanced service, advanced
communications and advanced reliability. Simply stated they want to
deal with someone in the advanced class.
When you start your drop
shipping business it is like jumping into the middle of the ocean. If
you are a beginner, you will simply drown. If you are intermediate
enough to stay on the surface, your competitors will try to put you
under. And you will be torn apart from below by the sharks out there
that prey on the newcomer. It is not the time to start learning how to
survive. You must be advanced before you jump into drop shipping.
More
than 95% of the drop shipping businesses fail within the first year.
There are many reasons. But generally it can be said that they did not
have enough experience to understand how tough business really is.
Business
is a constant war. You will be fighting competition for your market
share. You will be fight competition for search engine position. You
will be fighting to survive every day and it will never stop.
You will have to be set up to survive the
fight. You have to start your drop shipping business in the advanced
mode.
How do you jump from business level beginner
to business level advanced? You do a business plan!
A properly written business plan is more
than a writing exercise that you put in a soon forgotten book.
First
it is a beginners training manual. In writing your business plan, you
are forced to think through the details of what you must do to compete
in the market.
For example, it will make you think about
what is
your unique selling proposition. Remember that tens of thousands of
other drop shippers like you may be advertising the same products as
you. You have to create yourself some unique position in the market to
outsell them..
Second it is a test procedure that takes you
from
beginner’s status to intermediate status. If you work up a proper
financial analysis, you will actually confirm what your costs will be
and what you will get for the money that you pay.
Also test to
see if the drop shipper really delivers. Order something and check what
happens. Just consider the disaster if set up your entire business
around a drop shipper and find that the supplier is unreliable.
Third
it is a procedure manual that you will follow when you run your
business. It should contain your tutorials, source materials and the
miscellany you found important when doing your research. It is your
reference book. It is your planning and work procedure manual.
As
soon as you start to work your plan, you are in the intermediate mode.
That means as soon as you start spending money. Every spend should be
in accordance with your plan.
You have to be planned to keep
control of your budget. You will run into a lot of sharks just looking
to separate you from your money with promises of everything that you
really know is not possible but will likely buy if you are not working
your plan. If you are not careful you will be soon over budget and
wasting money that you could better use on something else.
It is
in this mode that you get your web site finished and on line under your
company name. And it is in this mode that you start testing it on
friends.
When you think that it is ready, it is time
for the
final exam. Have several friends, family and anyone else that you can
find make test orders from your site. Have them make comments on your
site.
This is a real time test run of your
business. You will
find where the holes are. Go back, rework your plan and test it again.
Test until your helpers and you are satisfied. You will not believe how
trying this experience is. Endure it. It can mean the difference
between success and failure.
Once you think that there is nothing
more to be gained in testing, you are advanced enough to go live. You
should now be prepared to make a good first impression on your visitors
and start making sales. Yes, you will make changes, but you will have a
chance to survive.
Think advanced, start advanced and be
advanced.
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2005 Gary Granai. You are free to use material from this article in
whole or in part, as long as you include complete attribution,
including live web site link. The attribution should read: "By Gary
Granai. Please visit Gary’s web site at http://www.masterpage.com.pl/
for additional information and resources on drop shipping." Gary Granai
works with small and medium businesses to help them achieve realistic
growth targets. You may get free tutorials and more information about
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