{"id":491,"date":"2023-10-25T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.worldwidebrands.com\/index.php\/?p=491"},"modified":"2024-08-01T10:37:56","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T14:37:56","slug":"drop-shipping-for-beginners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldwidebrands.com\/blog\/drop-shipping-for-beginners\/","title":{"rendered":"Drop Shipping for Beginners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.worldwidebrands.com\/dropshipping\/what-is-dropshipping\/\" target=\"_blank\">Drop Shipping <\/a>for beginners is a great way to get their feet wet selling products online. Drop Shipping is now a very well known term with people that sell online.&nbsp;But we remember when it was a &#8220;new&#8221; concept because we were one of the first to start talking about it!  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Beginners, Drop Shipping provides a low cost and low risk solution. A Beginner in online retailing, typically doesn&#8217;t have a lot of money to purchase inventory.&nbsp;Drop Shipping provides&nbsp;a&nbsp;wholesale option that allows beginners to start selling without&nbsp;a lot of start up expense or risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Drop shipping is usually an added service.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>For some wholesale suppliers,&nbsp;Drop Shipping is an added service.&nbsp;That&#8217;s because most wholesalers are not set up for single item product sales.&nbsp;It&#8217;s not always easy to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.worldwidebrands.com\/dropshipping\/\" target=\"_blank\">find a&nbsp;REAL wholesale drop shipper<\/a>.&nbsp;There are many websites that say they are drop shippers. But especially those that heavily advertise in the search engines, are usually not. You will find that they are usually a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"middleman (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.worldwidebrands.com\/wholesale-directory\/scam-watch\/\" target=\"_blank\">middleman<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But once you locate a REAL wholesale drop shipper, you will be asked to follow a process&nbsp;like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>You apply for and set up an account with the drop shipper.<\/li><li>The drop shipper sends you product pictures and descriptions that you can use on your retail site.<\/li><li>A&nbsp;retail customer buys one of the products you have listed.<\/li><li>You&nbsp;email&nbsp;the drop shipper and place an order for the item.<\/li><li>The drop shipper sends the item from THEIR warehouse to&nbsp;YOUR customer using YOUR name and label.<\/li><li>Your customer has&nbsp;already paid you the retail price.<\/li><li>Now&nbsp;you pay the wholesale price to the drop shipper once they ship the product.<\/li><li>Without touching the item, you make a profit on the sale.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">It&#8217;s not an end all solution though. <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.pexels.com\/photos\/4553277\/pexels-photo-4553277.jpeg?auto=compress&amp;cs=tinysrgb&amp;w=1260&amp;h=750&amp;dpr=1\" alt=\"drop shipping for beginners will eliminate the need to pick and pack your own products or have to buy inventory that might not sell\" width=\"232\" height=\"348\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Be careful not to view drop shipping as a magic solution.&nbsp;Each time you drop ship products, you will pay a higher wholesale price than when you buy those same products in volume.&nbsp;Because wholesaling is a volume business, the wholesale price you&#8217;ll pay on one item is <strong>higher <\/strong>than the wholesale price you&#8217;ll pay on an item in a&nbsp;<strong>bulk lot<\/strong>.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Typically, the wholesaler maintains&nbsp;separate warehouse space for drop ship inventory, and must pay their employees to go&nbsp;into the warehouse and pick, pack and ship each individual product for you.&nbsp;The drop shipper&nbsp;pays for shipping materials and special tracking software.&nbsp; They have a number of incremental costs to be able to provide this service for you.&nbsp;&nbsp; Your drop shipping wholesale costs will reflect that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With that aside, Drop shipping is an excellent entry point to start selling online.&nbsp; It is also&nbsp;a&nbsp;low-risk method for&nbsp;testing new products without having to purchase inventory that might not sell.&nbsp;It&#8217;s wise to use drop shipping to identify products that sell well into your customer base.&nbsp;You can then use the profits you make from your drop ship sales to&nbsp;start buying those better-selling products in bulk.&nbsp;This way you increase your profit margins, and your business&nbsp;grows faster. 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