This is perhaps a somewhat new concept in online business but it is fast becoming popular.As internet usage continues to explode globally,online shopping is quickly becoming the norm.This ofcourse presents a lucrative business opportunity for online merchants which as a result makes for a profitable home business.Drop-shipping is deeply pegged on online shipping.It involves three parties:the buyer(consumer),the merchant(you) and the distributor/manufacturer.
So,basically,drop-shipping is a method of trading whereby,the merchant(website owner) becomes a stockless retailer who gets a distributor company or manufacturer to dispatch products to the consumer.The retailer doesn't have a physical storage facility and hence does not hold any inventory.When a customer orders a product online(via the website) or from a mail-order catalogue,the retailer then fowards the particulars of the customer to the distributor or the manufacturing company.The products ordered are then packaged and labelled then shipped directly to the customer by the dropshipping company.
As aforementioned,the dropship business involves three parties.The customer,the retailer and the manufacturer or wholesaler.Each of these parties play a specific role.The manufacturer role is to act as the warehouse and hold stocks of products for sale to consumers.He also takes the customer's order and fowards it to the dropship company.The customer or buyer is the one who places an order with the retailer.He pays the retailer an amount for the products to be purchased plus the shipping charges.The retailer then has to pay the manufacturer storage and shipping fees.
To get started as a retailer,you need to open an online store with a shopping cart that accepts credit cards on your website,other options to this is to sell on online auction sites e.g eBay.But the best way to go is through your site.The next step is to find a distributor or a dropship company who will do the product despatch for you.You will be required to open an account with the dropship company that you'll choose.The distributor then provides you with descriptions and images of products that you'd like to sell from them for you to display on your online store.Payments by the customer are made via credit cards.The charges should include shipping charges.The customer's order should be emailed to the dropshipping company.The details should include,the customer's name and residence address.
The manufacturer or dropshipping company will charge you the wholesale price plus shipping.The shipping costs are incurred by the customer not you since he pays for product plus shipping.It's a pretty good arrangement.However it is important for you to carefully select products that you are comfortable with.To find dropshipping companies,you can browse 'The Dropship Source Directory'.You'll find a wide array of dropship products to sell.
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
Making money with Hub pages
Yet another fabulous way to make money online as you work from home.This is probably the easiest profitable way to do your online pill.And the best part is that it's all free to get started.No monetary investment required,well apart from your ISP charges.Like all the other ways i've mentioned before,this is by no means a get-rich-quick scheme.Hardwork and perseverance still reign supreme.
Now,hub pages is a publishing portal that basically allows publishers to publish articles in web pages called hubs.The choice of topic for publishing is left entirely to the publisher.You can publish absolutely anything but adult content.Hub pages shares with you the revenue accrued by your hubs.This revenue can be made through various ways.
With hub pages you can earn money through google adsense program.Google allows publishers to activate google adsense on their hubs.For example,when you publish a hub about dogs,google robots get relevant ads which can then be displayed on your hub.Everytime the ads are clicked on,you make money.Hub pages then shares that revenue with you.But you will only get this cash if you have a google adsense account.If you don't already have one,sign up for one.The procedure is easy.
You can also make money with hub pages through their referral program.What you do is to simply invite people to join hub pages.Hub pages will pay you 10% of what their(referrals) hubs generates from impressions(how often they are shown).To track your referrals,hub pages provides you with a special link.Through this link,you can sign up your referals to hub pages.
Another way to make money with hub pages is through affiliate marketing programs.With hub pages,you can sign up as an affiliate of either amazon or eBay and promote their products.As an affiliate,you will be given a unique I.D(to track your generated sales).Everytime you create a new hub and publish,you can add an eBay or amazon capsule to include products that match your content.Apart from eBay and amazon,hub pages also allows you as a publisher to post links of other sites that you are an affiliate of on your hubs.But it's always advisible to only post links of products related to your hubs' content.
The major advantage of hub pages is that it is highly favored by the google search engine.Hub pages articles tend to rank high on google.This notwithstanding,you still have to market your hubs and do some search engine optimisation(S.E.O).More on seo later.Now why don't you go ahead and sign up with hub pages and explore the site to get a feel of things there.
Now,hub pages is a publishing portal that basically allows publishers to publish articles in web pages called hubs.The choice of topic for publishing is left entirely to the publisher.You can publish absolutely anything but adult content.Hub pages shares with you the revenue accrued by your hubs.This revenue can be made through various ways.
With hub pages you can earn money through google adsense program.Google allows publishers to activate google adsense on their hubs.For example,when you publish a hub about dogs,google robots get relevant ads which can then be displayed on your hub.Everytime the ads are clicked on,you make money.Hub pages then shares that revenue with you.But you will only get this cash if you have a google adsense account.If you don't already have one,sign up for one.The procedure is easy.
You can also make money with hub pages through their referral program.What you do is to simply invite people to join hub pages.Hub pages will pay you 10% of what their(referrals) hubs generates from impressions(how often they are shown).To track your referrals,hub pages provides you with a special link.Through this link,you can sign up your referals to hub pages.
Another way to make money with hub pages is through affiliate marketing programs.With hub pages,you can sign up as an affiliate of either amazon or eBay and promote their products.As an affiliate,you will be given a unique I.D(to track your generated sales).Everytime you create a new hub and publish,you can add an eBay or amazon capsule to include products that match your content.Apart from eBay and amazon,hub pages also allows you as a publisher to post links of other sites that you are an affiliate of on your hubs.But it's always advisible to only post links of products related to your hubs' content.
The major advantage of hub pages is that it is highly favored by the google search engine.Hub pages articles tend to rank high on google.This notwithstanding,you still have to market your hubs and do some search engine optimisation(S.E.O).More on seo later.Now why don't you go ahead and sign up with hub pages and explore the site to get a feel of things there.
Affililiate Marketing
One of the best ways to make that online money yet.Basically,affiliate marketing involves you promoting another person's product(s) via your website or blog.You make money through commissions paid to you by the company which you are an affiliate of.This is really straight foward but the trick is finding the right or appropriate affiliate programs for you.You don't want to promote a product that doesn't sell or one that you really have no clue about.That's why doing research on your products is pivotal to this business.
Right,so how do you go about choosing the best affiliate programs?The answer is fairly simple.Just as in any business,you always engage in things you are familiar or conversant with.Things that you enjoy.This means that your blog or website should be about stuff you are really into.In this way,you can search for affiliate programs that are related to your web content.Say for example you have a blog about "dog breeds".You'd then look for "dog related" products to promote on your blog.Some of your readers may be interested in buying those products.All they will have to do is just click on the on your site which lands them on the product merchants 'order page'.You get your commission if that customer buys something.
So,to a great extent,your content dictates the kind of products you promote.As you start off,it would be wise to join affiliate program that are free to join.Don't spend your hard earned cash to join affiliate programs,at least not so soon.Learn the ropes first.Some of the affiliate programes am a member of include moreniche(it's really awesome)and SFI.It is possible to earn a decent living with affiliate programs.Ten-thousands of folks are doing it why not you ey?All you need is the right attitude,diligence and a little perseverence.You are not gonna become the next warren buffet overnight :-).
Right,so how do you go about choosing the best affiliate programs?The answer is fairly simple.Just as in any business,you always engage in things you are familiar or conversant with.Things that you enjoy.This means that your blog or website should be about stuff you are really into.In this way,you can search for affiliate programs that are related to your web content.Say for example you have a blog about "dog breeds".You'd then look for "dog related" products to promote on your blog.Some of your readers may be interested in buying those products.All they will have to do is just click on the on your site which lands them on the product merchants 'order page'.You get your commission if that customer buys something.
So,to a great extent,your content dictates the kind of products you promote.As you start off,it would be wise to join affiliate program that are free to join.Don't spend your hard earned cash to join affiliate programs,at least not so soon.Learn the ropes first.Some of the affiliate programes am a member of include moreniche(it's really awesome)and SFI.It is possible to earn a decent living with affiliate programs.Ten-thousands of folks are doing it why not you ey?All you need is the right attitude,diligence and a little perseverence.You are not gonna become the next warren buffet overnight :-).
Friday, March 12, 2010
Make money Freelancing
Tired of the daily 9-5 grind?Stuck with that boring workmate or that boss from hell and you just want out?Or maybe you haven't fond a job yet?Well,if so,then freelancing could be your thing.So,what is freelancing anyway?Freelancing is simply outsourcing whatever skill or knowledge in your possession on a contractual basis.So,you are a writer,a web designer or a programmer or even a teacher?Anything.you can work freelance online sourcing contracts(and they are in plenty by the way)and get paid for your work.Believe me it is as easy as it sounds.i actually know of a friend of mine who is a writer by profession.She makes a decent extra cash freelancing online.In fact she claims the prospects are so good she may soon quit her regular job.
I know the question is,but where do i get these contracts?right?don't fret.Just go to getafreelancer.com or elance.com.These websites should get you started.kind of give a feel of what freelancing is all about.I must say though that,just like in the real world reputation is of immense importance.So you have to start someplace,build your portfolio.Don't reject jobs just cause the pay is little or cause you don't really like them.Start small first that build your way up.Baby steps.
Another really important aspect to freelancing is that you have to have a website for you to be taken seriously.This website of yours is purely for information about you,what you do and what you have done.Think of it as a marketing tool.Getting a personal website is not as difficult as most people may think.It's quite easy.I'll post an article on how to build your own website later.For now just think of what skills that you have that you help other s with,hit the internet and try out the websites i mentioned above.
I know the question is,but where do i get these contracts?right?don't fret.Just go to getafreelancer.com or elance.com.These websites should get you started.kind of give a feel of what freelancing is all about.I must say though that,just like in the real world reputation is of immense importance.So you have to start someplace,build your portfolio.Don't reject jobs just cause the pay is little or cause you don't really like them.Start small first that build your way up.Baby steps.
Another really important aspect to freelancing is that you have to have a website for you to be taken seriously.This website of yours is purely for information about you,what you do and what you have done.Think of it as a marketing tool.Getting a personal website is not as difficult as most people may think.It's quite easy.I'll post an article on how to build your own website later.For now just think of what skills that you have that you help other s with,hit the internet and try out the websites i mentioned above.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Blogging
A blog,which is a contraction of the term weblog,is a kind of website in which an individual makes entries of commentary description of events,or other material e.g graphic or video.The entries are displayed in reverse-chronological order.A blog can be anything you make it.It can be your diary/journal or even a collection of poems.
Blogging has really exploded in recent years and many bloggers have benefited from this upsurge.As internet usage keeps increasing exponentially,there's no telling how big this thing could get.You too could jump into the band wagon and make some exploits up in blogosphere.
Getting started is really easy.As a newbie you'd want to start with free hosted blogs.This is convenient because you wont spend a dime and you get to make mistakes and learn from them without getting burnt.You also get to learn a few tricks here end there on how to make your blog successful.
So how do you make money.The big q right?once your blog is up and running and you have good traffic,you can monetize it by signing for google AdSense program or chitika.AdSense is a type of contextual advertising.Google robots find the ads relevant to your content and you can set them up as text ads or banners.The beautiful part is that signing up for AdSense is totally free.I'll talk about this in detail in coming posts.
You can also put affiliate links on your blog.These links lead your traffic to a selling page for the product you are promoting.You earn a commission whenever the product is bought.Again i'll go into detail about this later.For now,to get you started,go to your search engine and search for "free blogs".There are many out there but personally i prefer blogger.com.Setting up a blog is quite easy.You just follow simple instructions.alternatively you could use wordpress.com or livejournal.So go right ahead and try it out.
Blogging has really exploded in recent years and many bloggers have benefited from this upsurge.As internet usage keeps increasing exponentially,there's no telling how big this thing could get.You too could jump into the band wagon and make some exploits up in blogosphere.
Getting started is really easy.As a newbie you'd want to start with free hosted blogs.This is convenient because you wont spend a dime and you get to make mistakes and learn from them without getting burnt.You also get to learn a few tricks here end there on how to make your blog successful.
So how do you make money.The big q right?once your blog is up and running and you have good traffic,you can monetize it by signing for google AdSense program or chitika.AdSense is a type of contextual advertising.Google robots find the ads relevant to your content and you can set them up as text ads or banners.The beautiful part is that signing up for AdSense is totally free.I'll talk about this in detail in coming posts.
You can also put affiliate links on your blog.These links lead your traffic to a selling page for the product you are promoting.You earn a commission whenever the product is bought.Again i'll go into detail about this later.For now,to get you started,go to your search engine and search for "free blogs".There are many out there but personally i prefer blogger.com.Setting up a blog is quite easy.You just follow simple instructions.alternatively you could use wordpress.com or livejournal.So go right ahead and try it out.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
let's work at home online!
If you are looking for information on how you can earn some cash online then you've come to the right spot.This blog is specifically meant to empower you with knowledge on how you could work from home from your computer and be able to earn a living-a decent one if you are serious enough.But a quick caution,this is not a get-rich-quick scheme.There are plenty of those out there and most are scams so be extra careful.I'll not lie,there's a lot of hard work involved but nothing good comes easy right?if done right the fruits are sweet.So let's get to it.
For starters,what you'll need is a computer with good Internet access and a few hours a week.This blog deals explicitly with online methods.The best part is that it's all so easy anybody can do it and it's 100% legit!Now there are bazillion ways of making that cash online but what i outline here are simple but surefire ways of going about this business.They don't require much technical knowledge and you won't require much capital investment.In fact some you can start with zero capital!so,let me cut the chit-chat and get to it.Here are most preferred ways.
1.Blogging
2.Affiliate Marketing
3.Freelancing
4.Buying and selling on eBay
5.Selling digital photographs
6.Info-products
7.Domaining
8.Online surveys
9.Drop-shipping
10.Hub-pages
11.Info-barrel
For starters,what you'll need is a computer with good Internet access and a few hours a week.This blog deals explicitly with online methods.The best part is that it's all so easy anybody can do it and it's 100% legit!Now there are bazillion ways of making that cash online but what i outline here are simple but surefire ways of going about this business.They don't require much technical knowledge and you won't require much capital investment.In fact some you can start with zero capital!so,let me cut the chit-chat and get to it.Here are most preferred ways.
1.Blogging
2.Affiliate Marketing
3.Freelancing
4.Buying and selling on eBay
5.Selling digital photographs
6.Info-products
7.Domaining
8.Online surveys
9.Drop-shipping
10.Hub-pages
11.Info-barrel
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