Affiliate Networks and Drop Shipping

Affiliate networks are an invaluable resource in driving a high volume of traffic to your website. As previously stated, successful marketing practices are what is going to feed your dropship business. The networks provide your business with multiple advantages. The first main advantage is that you could literally establish an army of affiliates, ready to promote your website, OVERNIGHT! It sounds too good to be true, but it's not. Once you go live on the network, you will be listed under whatever category and subcategory you specify. Immediately attracting marketers with websites and adWords campaigns.

There are a handful of well known networks, and probably 10 times as many not-so-well know networks. Below we have listed our favorites:

· Share-a-sale.com

· Cj.com

· Darkblue.com

· Clickbooth.com

· Linkshare.com

· Performics.com

· Clixgalore.com

· ***Abestweb.com

***This is not an actual affiliate network, but rather an affiliate forum---THE affiliate forum, where all the big hitters are. If you have an affiliate program, you MUST have it advertised on abestweb.com! You won't regret it!

Although each of these programs has their own rules and pricing, they are all great affilite networks, it is just finding the one for your website. However, we highly recommend ShareaSale.com. They are praised time and again on AbestWeb, and from doing our own research, we have found them to be not only affordable, but also extremely helpful in the set-up process, and works seemlessly with almost any shopping cart system. We used it with a Yahoo store, and the setup was literally minutes..not hours or days.

Doba

The Drop shipping Details

Doba is one the largest wholesale supplier/dropshipping company on the web! They provide their retailers with over 1,200,000 products from hundreds of suppliers to promote, sell and profit from. In addition to providing a one-stop shop for products to drop ship, they also provide services such as advanced tools, data export, Push to Marketplace (eBay integration), intricate training and learning materials. They offer professional, quality product pictures, detailed descriptions, guarenteed lowest wholesale prices, and have everything on their site in stock about 90% of the time.

Pro's	Con's
1,200,000 Products	Thousands of marketers
eBay integration	Costs extra for that feature (not included in regular monthly fee)
Beautiful photos and descriptions	n/a
Beautiful, name brand products	Some prices aren't as competitive as marketers would like
Tools and online learning support	Some are included in monthly fee, others are an additional cost
Many products, so saturation isn't likely	The name brand products (more popular products) are most likely saturated on eBay already.

Dropship Secrets

We are letting the cat out of the bag...We have some dropship secrets that will EXPLODE your business. Secrets other marketers don't want you to know, because well...they work! First of all we want to share with you our picks for great site ideas. These ideas can be easily made into highly profitable niche websites. All you have to do is find a supplier and create your store .

The second dropship secret may come as a shock to you. Afterall, this is a dropshipping website. However, dropshipping and purchasing wholesale go hand in hand, and we will show you how. It would not be difficult for you to create a website/store using both dropshipped products and wholesale products you ship yourself. To start out you might not want to buy first, but after you are up and running, you just might. The advantage to buying first is that you get cheaper prices, and have more control. We will disclose to you a top secret list of China imports that you can use to get sought after items, for pennies on the dollar. So let's begin with our first dropship secret...

Below is a list of 93 niche website ideas:

• Antiques

• Home security

• Obesity help

• Spyware remover

• Retirement planning

• Child sponsorship

• Private Schools

• Flooring

• Tooth whitening

• Sprinkler systems

• Affiliate marketing

• Restaurants

• Gifts • Wheelchairs

• Ringtones

• Psychology

• Athletic training

• Furniture

• Sunscreen

• Model railroads

• Cosmetics

• Dog breeding

• Chiropractors

• Area rugs

• Hair Care

• Financial analysts

• Celebrities

• Jazz music

• Landscaping

• Car rental

• Comic books

• Theme parks

• Soccer

• Fly fishing

• Apartments

• Dancewear

• Distance Learning

• Mutual funds

• Engineering

• Scuba diving

• Senior citizens

• Astronomy

• Wine

• Surfing

• Pottery & ceramics

• Car tires

• Home Schooling

• Paper shredders

• Natural disasters

• Assisted living

• Calligraphy

• Manufactured Homes

• Business Coaching

• Taxes help

• Swimming pools

• Event planning

• Waste removal

• Disability insurance

• Termites

• Luggage

• As Seen On TV

• Christmas

• Diamonds

• Photography

• Depression

• Bicycles

• Horses

• Opera

• Space Tourism

• Cosmetic surgery

• Sales & marketing

• Sports cars

• Watches

• Auto racing

• Daycare

• Luxury resorts

• Catering

• Sewing

• College degrees

• Human Resources

• Civil law

• Scrapbooking

• Fireplaces

• Cabinets

• Graphic Design

• Woodworking

• Computer programming

• Vacuum cleaners

• Quilting

• Digital video recorders

• Timeshares

• Charitable organizations

• Industrial equipment

• Job search

• Handbags

• Batteries

Now let's look at the other dropship secrets we have decided to reveal...wholesale buying from China imports. Although, again it may not be something you are interested in NOW, once your business is up and running, you may decide to switch over and do wholesale as well.

Import List:

cyberimport.com

dhgate.com

aliba.com

chinatoday.com

howtobuyinchina.com

chinaimportsecret.com

chinabrightstar.com

Dropship Websites and Store Providers

Dropship websites require merely a nice looking site, that is clean and both human and spider friendly. There really isn't anything "special" about them as compared with a website that sells and ships the products themselves. Listed below are several really good website/ shopping cart providers. Our favorite provider of both a website and shopping cart is Yahoo. They provide beautiful, easy-to-use websites, that can easily be customized to make it as unique as you are. They are relatively inexpensive and have a great library of learning resources if you are new and do not have much experience with HTML, Java, etc.

• volusion.com

• easystorecreator.com

• dynamicstorefront.com

• onlinestorefronts.com

• smallbusiness.yahoo.com

• storefront.net

• ecommerce.networksolutions.com

• digitalstorefronts.com

• americommerce.com

One Source

One Source (a.k.a. Worldwide Brands) is by far the largest drop shipping directory in the world---and there is NO ONE like them! With their lifetime membership (a one time fee), you get access to over 3,000,000 million wholesale products from more than 9,000 suppliers worldwide! The O.S. team does their homework, spending over $1,000,000 a year on researching their suppliers. One tremendously helpful feature they offer is the market research tool, which will actually analyze the product(s) you are searching for in their directory, and tell you the profitability of that product. They even tell you what the current eBay bids are, the supply vs. demand of the product, how many pages are listed on Google, and Yahoo, etc. This is the only source you'll ever need for:

√ Drop Ship Wholesalers

√ Light Bulk Wholesalers

√ Instant Import Buys

√ Liquidation Wholesalers

√ Large Volume Wholesalers

√ Daily Wholesaler Updates

√ Instant Market Research

The market analysis tool is one of the best tools on the web to help you determine the profitability of the products you are interested in drop shipping or selling wholesale. You will have access to websites and suppliers found in no other directory on the internet.

Compared to Doba and Simplx, One Source is not only more comprehensive, because it gives you more options (new suppliers that aren't already saturated with other marketers promoting them) they also have a lifetime membership. That means you only have to pay a one time fee to join. And that fee is only $299!

Worldwide Brands is the only wholesale supplier publisher that is certified by eBay. This Drop Shipping Source has everything you need to succeed. Giving you all the tools you need to launch your dropship business...and become a Powerseller on eBay.