If you think you need to put a second mortgage on your house, get a great big loan from the bank, or save for years to start your own online retail business, think again. By utilizing wholesale drop shipping, you can get your dream business started for less than it costs to by a Wii.

So, what is wholesale drop shipping? You get to advertise products on your Web store without paying for their actual acquisition. You heard that right. You don’t have to buy all your products first, you won’t have to figure out where to store them or pay to store them, and you won’t be saddled with the packaging and shipping fees and hassles.

Wholesale drop shippers already have established relationships with manufacturers. This gives them, and ultimately you, access to millions of products to sell. After a customer places an order on your Web store, you simply relay the order to your drop ship company.

The drop shipper takes the information you give and passes it on to the wholesale supplier that keeps the product on hand. The supplier fulfills your order by packaging and shipping the requested products to your customers.

It sounds like a lot of steps, doesn’t it? The reality is that your drop shipper has the process down. It all goes smoothly — and quickly. The best part for you is that your customer already pays for the product and shipping. You won’t have to fork out the money for it all to get done.

This doesn’t mean it’s all free. You will have some start-up costs like your domain name, server access (a place to put your site). Places like Yahoo! Domains, GoDaddy, and Microsoft Office Live allows doing this for less than $20 a year!

Plus, you will have some kind of membership and/or access fee for your chosen wholesale drop shipper. This is a little more expensive – anywhere from $20 a month to several hundred depending on the drop shipper you choose. But, some of these drop shippers also provide domain and sites for you, too.

Any way you look at it, using a wholesale drop shipper will cost thousands less than funding the whole shebang yourself. And you’ll enjoy the profits because all you’ll have to worry about is marketing your store!

Jake Sabey is an Education Specialist at Doba. Doba’s proprietary software works with hundreds of wholesale suppliers to provide universal access to over 1.4 million wholesale drop ship products to online retailers.

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