More entrepreneurs then ever are starting a website and making money by drop shipping items from an outside company? It’s a really great way to make some extra money from home without holding inventory.
I really like writing this blog because I get to collect articles I think will benefit our clients or perspective clients. At Brandings we provide our clients with complete turnkey brand packages. These packages include just about everything one needs to start their own site. With that in mind, I was looking at some of our brand names for children and children related products. Based on these names, I began to consider businesses to utilize them. Luckily, this article popped up. Here the author explains a great way to make money by commission through drop shipping baby items. This can be done either directly to the client or to a third party (i.e.- directly to a baby shower).
In the modern world we live in, particularly in reference to people moving far from where we grew up, the idea of wrapping a gift then dragging it across the country is absurd. I’ve heard horror stories about people at the airport having to unwrap the gifts their traveling with to get through security. What a great idea, drop shipping directly to the baby shower, if you connect to good company, you don’t even have to hold the item, it can be sent directly from the company so your not stuck with the carrying cost!
I hope this gives you some ideas and as always please let me know if you have any questions and feel free to post comments.
How To Drop Ship Items
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With an increasing number of babies being born around the world, and more importantly with the increasing popularity of the trend of baby shower catching up all over the world, the demand for baby shower supplies has been peaking to new highs with each passing year. Unique baby shower gifts are what every one desires and baby shower party favors are also a sought after commodity. Some, in fact most, of the stores in the US and around the world have gone online with their products and most are getting into the drop shipping business as well.
Drop shipping baby products is one of the newest marketing strategies that most big baby product manufacturers are resorting to lately. This is being seen as a move to tap the relatively under-tapped online market, which has a huge potential and depth for smaller and even large companies to show sustainable growth. This need for growth has led to healthy and at times unhealthy competition among most large corporate houses concerned with baby product manufacturing. Competition has led to better products, more thought, time and money going into research and development. All this has resulted in two things- new innovations and price wars- which have been beneficial to the end consumer in all totality.
Reasons for Drop Shipping Products
So what is drop shipping, and why is it proving to be so lucrative for everyone involved? Well, drop shipping refers to the process in which company employs common web masters, owning sites that have a moderate to high visitor count. The companies ask these webmasters to become affiliates with them, wherein, they will market the company’s products on their websites and once sold through the website, they’ll be entitled to a commission on the part of the company. This setup doesn’t have nay obligation on the webmaster pertaining to the physical delivery of the gifts and products purchased through their sites- the company arranges the shipping to the address specified and the customer gets the product desired at his doorstep. The product can also be arranged to be delivered to another recipient’s address on the request of the customer.
This whole set up therefore helps the company in selling large quantities of products fast and reach a wider audience while the webmaster has chances of making a handsome earning out of the commission bestowed upon him by the company. The final customer also has something in this whole setup- convenience of not having to roam around stores and waste time choosing a gift they desire. Therefore, the whole setup of the drop shipping arrangement is proving to be a great thing for everyone involved.
Another reason why people prefer online shopping mode over the actual physical shopping mode is that they are able to access a number of items which are not available at the physical stores of the company. The companies do this in order to increase the popularity of their online shopping stores. In their pursuit of making online shopping a lucrative affair, companies have also arranged for special discounts on these exclusive items- spelling great news for the end user.
About the Author
– This author lives in Flemington, NJ with her husband and 5 month old daughter and is an expert author for a luxury baby gifts boutique offering variety of baby shower invitations, baby gifts and baby gifts. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Sarah_McDermott
Update: We still love this idea. More importantly, we know many people that are making quite a bit of money, doing exactly this. Whether you decide to dropship products or not, if you’re conducting business online, you have to start with a great domain name. That’s exactly where the Brandings team comes in. On our site, we have hundreds of names perfectly suitable for starting an online business. These names come complete with the exact match dot-com domain name, so you can start that online business.
One final note, if you’re planning on running an online business full time, you’ll need to get proficient at it. Don’t leave your day job right away! However, like the mother in the article who needs to stay home to look after her child, extra money can be made at home. It’s a perfect way to bring in some extra cash without leaving the house.