Start Your Own Business

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Author: Chris Malta

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Are you an Ecommerce business owner, or do you just seem to be one? There is a difference, and that difference will hurt your business.
When you sell products on the Internet, just like anyplace else, you need to be buying those products from a direct wholesale source. Either the factory itself, or a factory authorized distributor. If youíre not, youíre paying middleman markups that chip away at your profits until youíre barely making enough to pay your hosting fees. Sometimes I think that there are more middlemen on the Internet than there are ECommerce sites, and theyíre all targeting YOU!
Hereís a scenario:
John Doe wants to open an Internet store, and make lots of money. He canít believe all the news items about new Internet millionaires. Heís seen pictures of these people in the news and on the ëNet, and lots of them look like theyíre one beer short of a six-pack.
ìIf they can do it, so can I!î he thinks, and starts to search around the ëNet for information on starting a business. He finds boatloads of hosting companies willing to put his site out there for just a few dollars a month. He finds that many of them offer free shopping carts, so that he can take his customersí orders. He finds services that let him accept credit card payments without even applying for a merchant account.
Only one thing leftÖwhat to sell?
John looks around the Internet for product distributors. He comes across a wholesaler of name brand products that he knows are very popular. He contacts them, and they say, ìCertainly! We will ìdrop shipî products directly to your customer for you, one at a time, at whole....[MORE]