Dropship Review - How To Dropship

In this dropship review you will find out how to start a dropship business. Selling drop shipped merchandise is a fantastic home-based business. There are no products to stock or ship - others do it for you!

when you make a sale, you send a message to the distributor and they will send the item directly to the customer with your company label on the box.

NOTE: A dropshipper is basically a wholesale supplier (product distributor).

You do not make any payment in advance. First you sell the item and get the payment from the customer. Then you pay your supplier (dropshipper) for the same item (wholesale price) and leave the margin in your bank account. The supplier processes the order and ships the goods out to your customer.

As you will see in this dropship review, dropshipping is one of the easiest and most risk free ways to sell products on the internet. You advertise products provided by the drop shipping company on your own website (online store). A visitor to your web store sees the product and decides to buy it. You receive the order and submit it to your dropshipper company, who ships the item(s) directly to the customer.

Here is how it works:

1. You post products for sale using your own E-commerce website (preferably), or online auctions (like eBay), forums, or retail outlets. You may choose whatever medium you feel will generate sales, but I recommend at least owning an E-commerce website.
   
   
2. Once you have made a sale, you simply collect your customer's money for the retail price of that sale, including the shipping and handling charges you add to their cost. You can accept any payment method you would like - credit cards, PayPal, personal checks, money orders - when collecting payments from your customers.
   
   
3. After you have taken your customer's order and his payment, you submit the order and your payment to the dropshipper company and they will "drop ship" the merchandise to your customer directly. In most cases, you can place the order simply by visiting the supplier's website or emailing in the order. You just specify the customer's shipping address.

How to find dropshippers

As this dropship review explains, your primary task is to find good and reliable dropshippers. They should offer a good selection of the products, brand new preferably, at competitive prices. It can be difficult to find the *best* dropshipping company in your particular business, and make sure they have sufficient stock, that products are of good quality, that they ship items in due time (correctly packed) etc.

To find reliable wholesale dropship suppliers and suitable products to sell, you may browse the internet, or you can use drop ship directories. These can get you in contact with lots of product suppliers who are willing to drop ship their products.  

I recommend Worldwide Brands (WWB). This directory can get you in contact with dropship wholesalers with a total number of over 8 million products (at the time of writing). They are accredited by the Better Business Bureau. A few of the steps they take to provide their customers with credible, verified wholesale dropship suppliers are... 

• They compiles its list of verified distributors by hand 
• All distributors listed in the Drop Ship Directory will single item dropship directly to your customer - no minimum order required. 
• WWB monitors the distributors listed in the directory, and drops distributors that fall below accepted levels of performance. 

WWB isn't a cheap service though, they charge a one time fee of $299 for a lifetime membership.

A dropship reviewlike this cannot cover every option, however there are other, more affordable dropship directories that might suit your wallet better. One that I can recommend is SaleHoo, who charges $67 per year for their service. They have more than 8,000 suppliers you'll get access to, in every thinkable category. 

An easy way to starting a dropshipping business is getting a turnkey online store with all functionalities, taking payment included, ready for you to load with your own products. If you are willing to accept other people's ads on your web pages, you can even get such a store for free! - at 1FreeCart.

Last but not least you can even buy a completely ready made online store, loaded with thousands of products that you can sell immediately. You can get your ready store at DropshipBusiness.com and start selling items on your website, on eBay, Amazon and several other places. You sell the products, and DropshipBusiness will drop ship them to your customers.

I hope this dropship review have explained what dropshipping is, and how you can get started. If you'd like to investigate other online selling options, please visit our How to Sell Products Online and Wholesale Dropship Business pages.

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