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Where to Get Your Products for Your Business

Drop Shipping

If you have decided to not stock anything, then you probably want to drop-ship products where you have an established warehouse/factory ship the products on your behalf. You would basically pick the products in their catalog(online/offline) you want to sell, and create those items in your site’s database. In a nutshell, when your customer makes the purchase on your site, you receive payment directly from them, and once you’ve verified payment, you then place an order with your drop-shipper (online or offline), and have them ship the order to your customer. You would basically pay the warehouse/factory your cost plus the shipping charges. The difference between your net sales amount minus what you have to pay them and what you charge your customer is your profit.

What to Sell on Your Ecommerce Site

Now that you have the big picture as to what is needed to start your ecommerce store, one of the first things you want to do is to decide what you want to sell.

So how does one decide what to sell? The conventional internet wisdom says to choose something you are passionate about. Well, that makes sense to some extent, and it would be nice if we really have something we are passionate about and would like to promote. In a perfect world, our area of interest would have good market demand, and have little competition.