Web Marketing - Internet Marketing - Wholesale

Web Marketing - Internet Marketing

You may wonder why so many people have jumped on the internet marketing wagon. Internet shopping is at an all time high. More people have computers in their home and do their shopping online. The convenience of shopping at home makes internet marketing more viable than telephone catalog sales. Although many companies still use catalogs, they find it better for the eco system to put their catalogs on websites. This way there isn't any paper waste. This can save time and money which can cut the costs of products, thus giving you the customer better prices.

Now if you are thinking about internet marketing there are several different ways of doing it to gain an income. First off you need to know that it can have some out of pocket start up fees. This can range anywhere from $15 to $5000 or more depending on the size and purpose of your website. Websites cost some money. Even if you try doing it yourself, there will be something you are going to have to buy. It is not a quick free way to getting rich.

Placing Advertisements on your Website

Make money by having advertisements on your website pages. There are a couple of avenues for placing ads on your pages of your website for web marketing. Google™ has Adsense where they pay you for the clicks from the links to the other sites on the ads. This is easy and great way to make a small amount of income. How much you make depends on of course the amount of visitors who click on those ads. The more visitors and placements of the ads give you more chances to make more money.

Yahoo™ also has similar type ads like Google™. There are other companies that also have a pay per click type ads, but we feel Google™ is the best way to go as more people use Google™ Adwords for marketing and advertising their websites.

We have also tried other companies and this is a warning stay away from expoactive.com. They are scammers and will not pay you any money from the clicks from your site. There have been website owners wanting paid advertsing that got scammed when activating accounts with money and the money was stolen. We want to make sure that we get the word out on this fraudulent site!

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Wholesale Drop Shipping

Drop shipping sounds easy from the name, but it can be a lot of work finding reputable companies to work with. There also can be those drop shippers that will give a bad name to drop shipping. These are the not so "wholesale" drop shippers. They say they sell close to wholesale, but actually most of their prices are retail. Their prices are jacked up so high that you can not compete with the other online retailers who are getting the items for actual wholesale costs. You end up losing in the end.

Some of you may wonder what drop shipping is. Drop shipping is a convenient way to go if you do not have money to buy from the wholesaler, or storage space. You don't need inventory as the drop shipper is supposed to have the items in their inventory. You buy from them and they send it to the purchaser. No hassle right? Wrong! It can be a trying experience. Like we mentioned there are those that give bad names to the good drop shipping companies. Some not only take too much of your profit from the wholesale cost they take forever to ship out the product. Thus making you look bad in the end.

We don't want to stir away folks from drop shipping, as there are the good companies out there. Some wholesale companies and manufacturers also offer drop shipping. You just have to find them.

Shopster is simple and easy to get started with an online business. You can get your own website and have it up and running in no time. Shopster's program allows you to build a website with ease and load products quickly and easily. Shopster also has one of the largest online drop shipping warehouse. You can add products to another previous online website and use their drop shipping service or you can also use the drop shipping service for eBay. This is one drop shipper that we use and have several Shopster stores, so we highly recommend them!

We have tried a few drop shippers and the one that we feel is the worst thus far is treasuretraders.us. They are slow to ship, their product is over priced, and it appears that they do not keep most of their inventory in stock, which is why there is such a wait on some products being shipped. We used their services Nov. 2006 to Dec 2007.

We were contacted by Treasure Traders to remove our statement of what the services were like with the drop shipping company at the time we used drop shipping from their company. They stated that the company was bought and is under a new management, however didn't give us any way to decide that the service was different only threatened us.

What we are stating is the service we received then, which was bad service and feel that it is our right to state we were delivered bad service f or drop shipping an order. We therefore are placing the emails on our blog and explaining libel. Please read our article Libel and Your Rights.

We will add more that we feel doesn't stand up to our standard in the future.

Self Manufacturing

So if none of the other ways of making your site make money suits you and you want to produce the product yourself, that is ok also. There are many people who prefer handmade items over machine made or handcrafted from other countries.

If you prefer to produce your items make sure that you are asking the right price for the items. You don't want to short change yourself. Keep in mind also how many other websites are out there making the same products you are. If your site never makes it to the top you will be like the rest of the crafters that tried and gave up.

Summing up Internet Marketing

Jezsta feels that internet marketing is the way to go. Even if you already own a retail store why not go online with your products? It would make your products available to so much more consumers out there. It would also give you more profit from your business.

Keep in mind true wholesalers never charge tax. Do a little research to find the best drop shippers if that is the way to go. Check their prices and compare the retail prices online to make sure you are not getting ripped off with their prices. Also get a couple accounts with some wholesalers, see what the real prices are to some things. The best way to find wholesalers is through gift mart exhibitors and gift show exhibitions.