Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Dropship Items - Must-Know Info to Know Before You Dropship Items

By Sarah Gold




You have decided to dropship items. You've seen other people making good money being a dropshipper and you want to have your slice of the pie. That's a good idea. Make sure to read this article before ygou dropship items though; it will save you a ton of headaches.

One of the main advantages of dropshippin is that you don't need to have much capital before you make a sale. You pay the wholesaler only after you got the money from the customer. You also don't have the expense of warehousing the products. Basically, the only thing that you will be responsible for will be serving the customer. If you have an e-bay auction site or even if you have a regular site, customer service is usually minimal. That is if the quality of the dropship items that you sell are good and also if the wholesaler is legitimate. If your supplier won't have the item in stock and a customer has placed an order you will be the one that will have to take care of it. Continue reading to find out the risks involved with dropship items and also how to solve the one major problem regarding dropshipping.

Selling dropship items does entail some risks. If a certain product is not in stock your wholesaler has to let you know because you can't sell an item that the wholesaler won't be able to ship. If a product is backordered or it's not delivered timely to the end customer, you might get a negative rating in e-bay. Negative feedback needs to be avoided of course... we all know that.

Being a dropshipper entails the risk of not inspecting the quality of the dropship items being sold. What if the quality is really poor and there are lots of returns? What if some customers are not happy and they leave negative feedback.... Your whole business can get ruined this way.

So what can you do about this?

Here's the solution.

The fact is that a lot of dropshippers are very successful... so what's their secret? They found reputable wholesalers that give them good quality dropship items. How do you know when a seller is honest? We all know that prior to finishing a deal all sellers look honest but once you have placed your order and they're dishonest, the problem is on your shoulders. Finding good wholesalers requires time and effort and trial and error. There's a learning curve involved: in the beginning you place your orders and from good & bad experience you learn which wholesalers are honest and which sellers are just fly by the night kinds of scammers - here today, gone tomorrow.

Imagine there's a way that you can find out beforehand if a supplier is legitimate. Usually the successful dropshippers don't let others know where they buy their dropship items. That's understandable. After all, it's their hard-earned business secret and also they don't want you to sell the same things as they do.

Here comes the good news: There are wholesale dropship directories. These are directories that have lists of wholesale dropshippers that are honest. They check and verify the wholesalers and present to you the legitimate ones. There are thousands reliable, legitimate wholesalers with excellent prices that sell thousands of dropship items.

Knowing these dropship directories before you start selling dropship items online will save you countless hours and tons of money and time. It's definitely a win-win situation.

Been there, done that. Trust me, it really pays to become a member of a wholesale directory. Find out the where and what of dropship directories [http://www.squidoo.com/dropshipdirectories] here. Knowing which wholesale supplier is legit before doing any business with them is the key to a thriving dropshipping business. Grab some free dropship tips [http://www.squidoo.com/dropshipdirectories] and create your own dropship success story today!

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Discover How to Earn $100 Weekly Online Even If You Don't Have a Product of Your Own

What if I could show you how to earn $100 weekly from an affiliate program. Just sit back and read on. You might want to know what an affiliate program is. It is simply picking someone's product and promoting it and at the end of the day, you get some commission on every single product you promote. You can also get paid when a customer just fills in a form to get a sample product. This is called pay per lead.

How would you know which product to promote?

Visit Clickbank.com and click on marketplace you will find different product by category. You will find your niche that is if your target market is health. You will find a product that is selling. How would you know which product is selling? You will check a product that has a high gravity.

You will create an hoplink and you will be given code that you will paste on your blog.

Create a blog by visiting blogger. Com. You know have a product to promote and make some cool money. Your success on affiliate program depends on your effort. You can also set up a website to promote your affiliate product. I mean a squeeze page. This will be filled with your sales letter. This will make you to gain more features. You will need to set up an autoresponder to capture your visitors. This will make you to build a relationship with your visitors. Remember the money is in the list. You can build a good relationship with your visitors by offering them free eBook you have created. Do not make the mistake of selling your product to your list first.

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Freelance Proofreading Jobs Online

by: Jeffrey Frasco



Internet companies with websites are struggling to compete against the thousands of similar websites for the top spot in the search engines. The time it takes to create fresh content can be astounding. There is nothing worse than having the content they paid so much for be placed on the site with grammatical errors, fragmented sentence structure, or even misspelled words.

Freelance proofreading jobs have become very popular in the freelance job opportunities. If you have a degree in English or are simply a great editor you can make money online proofreading content for websites.

The jobs usually pay per page and can turn you a nice profit. You have to be detailed and have a strong understanding of the English language for the job. It will be your responsibility to ensure the quality of the content that will be placed on the website.

Freelance proofreading jobs can be found at many internet freelance classified sites. Once you get your first job and prove to do well you will have no trouble getting future work. A good proofreader is hard to find and once a company finds one they usually keep them and pay them very well.

To find out what the expected rate should be for freelance proofreading you can browse through the classified ads and see what is being offered. The jobs will vary from price to price but it should give you a good idea of what to expect to earn.

You should always know what to charge before applying for a freelance proofreading job in case you are asked to make an offer for more work or the project needs to be altered. There is nothing more unprofessional than someone who does not know what their worth. If you are unable to supply a client with an accurate quote for your freelance proofreading services you might just lose the chance for that job.

How Do You Work at Getting a Job?

By Richard Baum

If working at getting a job is your job right now, then you need to know what to do in order to begin. Otherwise you will spin your wheels and get nowhere. Since the idea is to get a job, let's put some traction to work and speed it up. Here are the top six ways to find a job - networking, direct targeted inquiries, news event, recruiters, ads and job boards.

You will be concentrating on two types of job markets - published and unpublished. Published job markets are less likely to be successful sources for two reasons. First, because they are published there is greater access and therefore higher volumes of response, and greater odds against getting the job. Second, because employers with 50 or more employees are required to post jobs in order to assure and "open" selection process, many jobs are posted to satisfy regulations.

Unpublished markets are your best bet because people buy from people they "know, like and trust." That includes "buying" employee services from someone who has a connection to the company that gives them the "know, like, trust" factor. We will spend more time working the unpublished market because of the likelihood of success.

Unpublished Job Market

Networking

Networking is the broadest, and most effective, element of the job search. Between 80% and 90% of all new positions are located through networking. People buy from people the "know, like and trust" and an employer is buying your services. It makes sense to hire someone who has connections to the company through another employee or previous work relationship.

Mark Granovetter of Johns Hopkins University (now at Stanford) spent thirty years researching social networks. He found that eighty percent of "weak ties" in social networks. He discovered that eighty percent of the time, people who found jobs through networking found them through weak connections. These weak links tended to be a "friend-of-a-friend" rather than close friends. This allows the job seeker to access resources that are not available among closer, "strong links." Include your associations (church, social groups, service clubs, etc.), alumni groups (high school, college), influential's (clergy, medical, financial advisors) and friends and associates in your job networking.

Let people know you are looking for work. Avoid asking them if they know anyone who could hire you. Instead, ask if they know someone who you could talk to about working in a specific industry or for a particular company. That takes them off the hook for finding you a job and makes them more likely to pass your name along.

If you don't have a contact card, get some made. They are inexpensive and absolutely essential. You can approach anyone to give them your card and they will almost always respond with their card. That gives you the ability to continue the contact later. Just the other day someone approached me with a business card in a coffee shop after overhearing part of a conversation. He did not get my card (mine were sitting in the car) and he lost his connection to me. That means I have the choice of following up or not. You don't want to give the other person that choice.

Direct targeted inquiries

Contacting a company directly to see if they have an opening that fits you is another tactic. Naturally if you have some connection to the company it can help, but it is not mandatory. Sometimes a company is unaware of a need they have. You can "create" a job for yourself by uncovering that need and proposing a solution - you. Write a proposal showing how you can solve a problem and save them money or otherwise add to the bottom line.

These targeted inquiries can be a result of an informational interview. As you learn about the company and they learn about you, they may reveal clues to needs that are not being addressed. By following up with the person you interviewed and presenting them your proposal, you offer them an opportunity to be a hero in their own company by finding he solution.

News events

Reading the newspaper or listening to the news on television or the radio can be a source of leads for jobs. Announcements about businesses receiving contracts or relocating to your area are signals of possible hiring. Reading online newspapers and checking other websites with business and consumer news can provide additional information about hiring trends.

For example, a news story in the New York Times about a new government program to require retrofitting existing commercial airplanes could mean jobs if a company performing that type of work is located in your area. It also opens the possibility of relocating to obtain a job. There are many factors in deciding whether or not to move to the job, but being flexible increases your options. Every day events occur that change the business and employment picture. Staying informed helps you prepare and take advantage of the right opportunities. With the Internet you can surf the business sections of newspapers in a dozen major markets in minutes to see where to turn your attention.

Published Job Market

Recruiters

If you are in a management of executive level position recruiters can "shop you around" to their client companies. Recruiters often have specific openings to fill but also may be privy to behind the scenes information about other jobs that may also fill the bill. Career professions, i.e. coaches or career counselors, often come from the recruiting ranks and maintain network relationships with fellow recruiters. This can be helpful but mainly because it establishes a link with the company.

Ads

Job ads in the classified section of the newspaper or on online resources like Craig's List are a good place to get information about jobs but not such a good place to actually get a job. Reading ads can give you an idea of the types of jobs available, which companies are hiring and about how much the jobs are paying. However, they are used primarily as a way to meet compliance requirements. As a job seeker you can use them in your research and contact the companies to conduct informational interviews. Informational interviews are a fantastic way to get information about an industry or company and increase your network. You will generally leave with several other names and, ideally, introductions to continue your networking efforts.

Ads are also useful for getting a feel for what employers really want. What pains are they trying to address? How can you provide a solution to their problem? The more you know about the job market and the employer's needs the better prepared you will be in an interview.

Job Boards

Job boards are touted as the cutting edge way to find work. They are a wonderful way to gather facts, figures and contact information. As a job source they are useful in only a narrow spectrum of employment, primarily technical.

Think about it. If thousands of people can read a newspaper ad and respond, how many people might read an ad on a major job board? It could be a hundred thousand or more. That makes your chances of getting the job pretty slim. You would have to be a) very, very quick in responding to make it before the cutoff, and b) you would have to be absolutely perfect for the job to stand out among the competition. Very narrow, specialized areas of technology and computing are the only markets where you might have success. Even those openings are more likely to go to someone who has been referred by a current employee or related industry connection. The numbers are overwhelmingly against you.

Job boards are a fount of information and a great place to research jobs. You can search geographically, by industry, by company, by job title, etc. Salary information is often posted and the job requirements will help you prepare yourself to enter or advance in a given field. You can take your findings, broadcast them to your network and pave the way for those weak links that are most likely to result in employment.

Monday, April 13, 2009

Internet Jobs Working From Home

Working from home provides many options for different fields and pathways to go down. It can even open up opportunities for a new career. There are many jobs from home that you can find and work easily and comfortably from your own computer.

The following is a list of jobs from home, as well as a brief description of each of them.

1. Data Entry

This is a great job for anyone who has a little extra time. All you need is a computer, and some simple Microsoft Office skills. Involved in this job are only some small organizational skills and knowledge of Microsoft Access. You will be making and keeping records, organizing and creating databases, and performing other small clerical-type duties.

2. Surveys

This is a great opportunity for stay-at-home moms, high-school and college students, or just anyone who needs a little extra money. Many online employers are looking for people to take surveys online and will pay quite well for the simple work. Most online survey takers are paid about fifty cents to two dollars per survey and each only takes about fifteen minutes to complete. Some survey sites will ask you to take a small survey before each paid survey to see which surveys you qualify for. This is because some surveys will ask questions about family income, appliances, or even video games.

3. Writing

There are lots of great Internet opportunities for writers. Normally, the job will include a good knowledge of Microsoft Word and writing aptitude. The writer will be given an assignment via e-mail along with a deadline. Once the assignment is completed, he or she will submit it to the employer, also via e-mail. Each article, blog, etc. is usually worth about three dollars. This type of work is not difficult, but you should pay attention to detail, editing, proofreading, etc.

4. Clerical Work

This type of job is usually a little bit harder to find than other types of Internet jobs and is similar to data entry. The reason these jobs are hard to find is because more businesses are looking for secretaries and such to work in the office. But, there are still clerical-type jobs available over the Internet. Needed for this job is good all-around knowledge of Microsoft Office, as well as telecommunication skills and organization; if you are employed in this type of field, you will be filing, keeping records, answering calls, and making appointments.

5. Website Design

This job is good for the creative person. You will also need good knowledge of the Internet and some sort of artistic ability. You will need to be proficient in Microsoft Office. If you are employed doing this type of work, you will be designing and creating websites, writing text and advertisements, making the website interesting, etc.

Internet jobs are not the best source of income, but if you are looking for a second job, do not have the time to get a full-time job, or are just looking for a little extra cash, then an Internet job is right for you.

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