Posts Tagged e-commerce
Drop shipping helps to boost e-commerce sales during holiday season
Posted by Jason in Uncategorized on December 5th, 2009
I have been asked 1000’s of times how drop shipping , and e-commerce are doing during this recession, and my opinions on this holiday season. I generally don’t like to make predictions , but with this one it was a no brainer. My prediction was that e-commerce would boom this year , and I was correct.
According to the New York Post their was over 900 million dollars worth of merchandise sold online on Cyber Monday alone, and I will personally guarantee you a large portion of that came from drop shipping.
One of the best things we have done as a company is to form relationships with our suppliers. They have been more than helpful to us, and our members so in return we have respect for all of them. I had the opportunity to speak with some of them today, and their sales were up 25% or more depending on the area.
They deserve it, and our members that have worked themselves to death the last few weeks preparing for this season deserves it too. Daily people ask us what type of “work” is involved in e-commerce, as their are still so many untrustworthy places that make this seem so easy. Well here’s a few of the things our members have been doing.
1. Checking stock with their drop shippers—– You can’t sell it if it’s sold out !
2. Price matching/comparing—–Everyone wants the best price !
3. Creating sales—— Well it is the holidays ! I think eBAY has sent me a spam email everyday about some sort of special ha ha.
4.Fine tuning their websites—–Adding new products, holiday images, sales, specials etc.
I could keep going but I think you get the picture !
Now none of this is (physically) hard work. Time consuming? Yes in the beginning it is, and challenging you have to have a real desire to be successful, and tired of searching for the next best thing. I don’t make promises, but I will say that if you really want this to work it will ! Another question I hear quite often is “how many hrs a day does this take” My answer is always been. ” That’s up to you with anything in life you will get back what you put in to this.” It will take a bit longer in the beginning as your getting used to everything, but once you do get used to everything a couple hrs a day should be plenty. Just remember Rome wasn’t built in a day !
So whats the catch ?
Posted by Jason in Uncategorized on August 19th, 2009
I have been asked this several times since we have started the e-commerce website design / drop shipping directory package. So I figured I would answer this question once and for all. Everyone wants to know how we can build these seoe’d websites so cheap when other places are charging three or four thousand dollars for an e-commerce website, and another $1000.00 for seo. The answer is quite simple. In the retail world prices are pretty much set, and their is an expected price. Take for instance you know when you go to the store to buy a laptop that they run anywhere from $300.00 to $1000.00 depending on which model you get.
However online things are different the internet is still pretty new so most people don’t have an expected price range because they just don’t know how much these type of things should cost. It’s the same with drop shipping before we came along people were under the impression they were supposed to pay $50.00 a month and so called drop shipping fees or $350.00 just to access a reputable directory.
The reality is that while building a website is time consuming it is far from the rocket science that people have been lead to believe.
The bad part is talking to someone and listening to all the stories out there from people that have been ripped off by these scam artists. I spoke with a man the other day from Texas, and he had fell victim to one of these type places they promised him this awesome e-commerce coaching package, a website, eBay training, seo and all sorts of other great stuff for $8000.00 and he is a smart guy, BUT he just did’nt know how much this type of stuff really costs. (Although with that place they not only over charged him they also never built his website, and after he paid them they told him he had actually paid to use their website builder program which happened to be a free program anyone can find online.)
So now were in the process of building his coffee website, and you will be able to see it on our newest sites soon. The point is this. It does not have to cost an arm and a leg to have a website built, and the same thing with drop shipping . Their should NEVER be any monthly fees accociated with drop shipping. I don’t care what they tell you. If a company charges you a monthly fee they are middlemen plain and simple. We can give you the exact same products for less, and without any so called fees.
I started as a website designer years ago, and migrated into drop shipping I have built roughly 500 websites in my life time and I can honestly say it should not cost more than 1000.00 for an e-commerce website . Don’t get me wrong their are exceptions to every rule, and their are options, and features that can cost more sure, but the guys that are running around charging outrageous prices for this type stuff are not including those options in their over priced websites and seo.
So to answer the question ‘whats the catch ?” Their is no catch, and were not cheap. If you would rather pay thousands for a website go right ahead. In the meantime we will keep on building websites for our members.
Drop shipping and wholesale suppliers The PowerSellers Union speaks out.
Posted by Jason in Uncategorized on May 24th, 2009
We decided to create this blog for a couple of reasons one being we wanted a place to vent frustrations we have toward other companies and two we wanted to set the record straight on drop shipping. Their are so many lies, and scam involving e-commerce that we felt it was time to set the record straight. It is not fair to the people who don’t know any better. Almost every person I have ever spoke with has the exact same story. They just want to earn some money online either because they were laid off, lost their job, or they want, and need to be home with their children. They came across some make money on Ebay info commercial or read about drop shipping some where on the internet and thought it was a great idea.
Usually when we get a new member at The PowerSellers Union they have already signed up for one or two of these so called drop shipping companies. The same thing happens every time they make absolutely no sales on Ebay and they end up losing hundreds and some thousands of dollars and it is not fair.
I have taken a personal interest in this as I am a father, a husband, and a son. I meet these people, I talk for hours to these people on the phone, and it is always the same thing they either lost their money to some get rich quick plan or spent 1000s and got ripped off by some e-commerce website company . I fully intend on changing this if I can at least for the members of The PowerSellers Union . The main focus of The PowerSellers Union is to provide drop shipping companies that are legitimate. That’s the easy part I have spent the better part of 10 yrs compiling drop shippers.
As the company grew I found it a necessity to add more and more services due to the fact that my members were losing money left and right to each and every place they came across. For example e-commerce website design. Let me be very clear when I say this It should not cost 1000s of dollars to have a website built for you ! It should not cost another 1000 dollars to have your website properly seo’d . If you have spent this much for a simple e-commerce website you have unfortunately spent way too much money.
They make it sound so simple you get a pre loaded e-commerce website, their drop shipping products and you’ll be in the riches in no time. The thing about it they forget to tell you for one is those preloaded e-commerce websites can not be se0′d so basically the only traffic you will ever get is ppc traffic. A ppc campaign will roughly cost you .75c a click . That is $1.50 for every 2 people who comes to your website and the general average is 1 sale for every 100 visits which means your going to spend $75.00 to get a sale. The profit from most drop shipping companies is usually $10-25.00 a sale.
Congratulations you just lost $65.00. Oh I almost forgot you have to pay them a monthly fee, a drop shipping fee and a hosting fee. You just lost $75.00. You have to have a real website if you try to cut corners you will fail every time when it comes to starting an online business especially these days.
”They prey on peoples misfortune with schemes centered around the economy like lets beat the recession together”-Raenell Accetta, Marketing Director BELLISSIMO! GlASS.
So how do you make money selling products online ?
Their are 2 necessities to starting any type of e-commerce website or Ebay business .
- Profitable products.
- Traffic
We can help you to get the products and if you are selling on Ebay the traffic is already there. The biggest issue people have with Ebay is not fully understanding what Ebay is and how to truly make money on Ebay. Everyone thinks that Ebay is a retail website like Best Buy they are not. Ebay is a wholesale site in order to make money on Ebay you will have to have wholesale suppliers who will drop ship for you. I wrote out a full chart similar to this on The Power Sellers Union so I will vaguely touch on it here.
1. Manufacturer.— You can buy from them however you are going to need a business license and a ton of cash. We actually have 2 that will drop ship.
2. Wholesale Suppliers.—– They get the products from the manufacturer and break them down into wholesale orders and they will also drop ship for you.
3. Drop shipping Companies.—- They buy from the wholesalers in bulk and drop ship products for you.
4. Broker / Dealer—(They are all scammers ! The internet is filled with them).
A Broker / Dealer is a company who basically pretends to be a drop shipper. They get the products from the real wholesale suppliers and charge you a ton of fees. This is the reason you can find the same products for cheaper than you can get them.
5. Your website.
6. Customer.
Here is where everything gets so messed up. The reason being most people can not tell the difference between the wholesale suppliers and the Broker/Dealer. The broker dealer uses several methods to trick you into signing up with them. The biggest method is affiliates. They pay their affiliates big bucks to write fake testimonials, and deceive you. They also use the free trial method. You sign up for their free trial and decide to end your trial expecting to not be charged a dime and by the time you get your credit card or bank statement you have been charged two or three times, and it is nearly impossible to get your money back from pay pal or the credit card company because it is your word against theirs. Unfortunately their is nothing you can do but chalk it up as a loss.
Getting traffic to your website is the other step. We rolled out our website package on Friday, but we had already built one website for one of our members you can see it here http://www.homedecorativeitems.com
This was the first we built and had it online on Wednesday of last week. The owner has been a member of the PSU for almost a year now her main keyword is home decorative items. That keyword gets 20,000 hits a week . We actually had better luck than expected she is now number 3 for that keyword and already making sales. She is using our home decor drop shippers and will probably be so busy within the next few weeks that she won’t know what to do with herself.
It is all about numbers and seo (search engine optimization). Statistically you will make 1 sale for every 100 visits. Lets use that site above as an example 1 sale for every 100 visits by 20,000 = 200 sales a week. Lets say she makes only 5.00 a sale you have roughly $2000.00 a week. Can you do the same ? Yes absolutely as long as you do it the correct way using a real website, wholesale suppliers who will drop ship products for you and seo. If you would like to learn more visit us at
The PowerSellers Union and we will help you to get started.