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Free Website Offer, Just for Learning About Dropshipping, Need Help and Support?

Admin — Fri, 07 May 2010 10:08:19 +0000

This article titled Free Website Offer, Just for Learning About Dropshipping, Need Help and Support? was first published on this website for home business owners.

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If you wish you learn about our fine industry of Dropshipping. Willing to show enthusiasm and join in with helping others, then you have the chance to win a free dropship website, with free dropship supplier account, and free website hosting for a full 12 months.

In business, you will always have some participants more experienced than others, and the whole basis of this offer, is to get people involved in this fascinating industry.

One website per week will be given away totally free…

The offer is being offered by the sponsors of the longest established dropshipping forum on the internet: http://www.dropshippingforum.co.uk

The dropship forum is offering the following on their website:

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Announcing a Fantastic Special Offer from our Website Sponsors: UKDropshipgroup.com

FREE WEBSITE OFFER – INCLUDING FREE HOSTING – FREE DROPSHIP SUPPLIERS – FOR 12 MONTHS

Our website sponsors have very kindly offered to give a FREE WEBSITE AND HOSTING PACKAGE away EVERY WEEK to our forum members. This includes a totally free website, free domain, free hosting, and free dropship suppliers of your choice.

This will be offered every single week to members of DropshippingForum.co.uk

Rules: The only stipulation or entry rules are that active members must have made at least 5 – yes, just 5 participating postings on the forum.

Spammers will obviously be excluded from this offer, as will members who have just made postings in an attempt to place spamming links.

Everybody else? Get posting, participating and joining in with this fantastic forum – and you will be entered into the weekly prizedraw for this fantastic free gift.

Fill yer boots

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If you are interested in owning your very own website business, then all you have to do, is get yourself over to http://www.dropshippingforum.co.uk, participate, and help new forum members, and you will be entered into their weekly prize draw. Remember, one free website a week will be given away, which we feel is a fantastic offer, just for being involved in the industry forum.

Give the forum a visit today – Offers like this do not last long:

http://www.dropshippingforum.co.uk

JPMorgan Internet Report 2009 – Where Is Online Business Going?

Admin — Tue, 05 May 2009 17:43:57 +0000

This article titled JPMorgan Internet Report 2009 – Where Is Online Business Going? was first published on this website for home business owners.

Here is a brilliant report I stumbled across last week. It is titled Nothing But Net – 2009 Internet Investment Guide, it is by JPMorgan. Regardless of how you currently make money online I think it is very important to keep yourself alert as to where the internet market as a whole is moving. This allows you to take advantage of current opportunites, the current growth rate of the internet is not going to last forever! Read the report below:

JPMorgan Internet Report 2009 JPMorgan Internet Report 2009 2020systems JPMorgan’s Internet analyst Imran Khan and his team released a major study called “Nothing But Net: Investment Outlook for Global Internet Stocks in 2009″. The research notes that performance-based advertising has steadily gained share of total U.S. online advertising dollars over the past five years. This year, search is set to increase by 10% to nearly $16 billion, while graphical ads, both performance-based and branded, will increase by just 6.3% to $8.4 billion.

The Dropship Industry in 2009? My Hopes & Predictions

Admin — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:43:21 +0000

This article titled The Dropship Industry in 2009? My Hopes & Predictions was first published on this website for home business owners.

What Does 2009 Hold?

I’ve been in the UK dropship industry since 2004, it has changed quite a bit during the last 5 years. There are some really good dropship companies around at the moment so now is a much better time to be dropshipping than in 2004. The number of dropship companies may be small but the quality is high, excluding a few companies of course!

The End of 2008
Things did feel like they had gone a bit cold towards the end of 2008. Despite online sales still rising which I would expect to encourage sellers. The general activity from sellers does seem to have slowed – on this website, DropshipHelp.co.uk, other forums and from what I hear from dropship companies.

Hopefully the Christmas 2008 period was a good one for you and other sellers. This should help the dropship industry keep growing. Remember to reinvest your Christmas profits!

Dropshipping in 2009?
I hope existing strong dropship companies continue to grow and bring in more products. I also hope the companies providing poor services falter and disappear! Whether these will happen relies on sellers continuing to sell and avoiding the poor companies.

Number Of Sellers
To be honest I’m not overly bothered about the volume of sellers in the dropship industry, it is the quality that matters. There IS a problem with those people who just come in and sell products for literally a few pennies profit on eBay. They forever undercut other sellers and never even build themselves up a business in the process. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!

Long-term I want to see people setting up genuine businesses selling from their own ecommerce website. With a real customer base and operating properly. This will make the dropship industry stronger as a whole encouraging dropship companies to grow themselves, benefitting all of us!

Credit Crunch
No doubt the global economic situation will effect the dropship industry. Significantly more people are wary of setting up their own business at the moment. And even those already established will probably see growth slower than they would like.

My Predictions For 2009
I believe that a lot of the types of sellers I mentioned above (constantly undercutting, not running a real business) will go away because they will give up and realise what they were doing was just pathetic and pointless in the first place. I also think those established will start moving onto their own ecommerce websites and building them up. These are both very positive points.

However, I don’t see many new dropship companies opening up (we will get a few, but not many), and I can’t see any existing ones going for explosive growth.

I hope my thoughts in this blog post haven’t put you off dropshipping in 2009. It is still a great way to run a business – and remember if you can survive and build up a business in a recession, then it will flourish when we go back into an economic boom!

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How Are Your Xmas Sales? Interesting eCommerce Stats

Admin — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:42:45 +0000

This article titled How Are Your Xmas Sales? Interesting eCommerce Stats was first published on this website for home business owners.

Are Your Order Spreadsheets Filling Up?

Yesterday (Monday 8th Dec) was reportedly the busiest day for online shopping. So was your laptop going “bing, bing, bing” with the sound of the emails arriving reporting your paypal transactions, or was it a nice quite day at the office?

Interesting Stats
Deloitte estimates online Christmas sales will increase by 10% this festive period. They put a total online spend for 2008 at £4.7bn, also a 10 percent rise year on year.

However the growth of web sales is beginning to slow. A ‘Capgemini IMRG e-Retail Sales Index Report’ showed that online sales grew by 54% in the last quarter of 2007, compared with just 15% in the corresponding 2008 quarter.

The slowing down of growth has got to be in some part due to the credit crunch. But now is still a great time to set-up an online ecommerce business!

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Stat Sources: zdnet

How Big Can You Build Your One Man Business?

Admin — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:31:32 +0000

This article titled How Big Can You Build Your One Man Business? was first published on this website for home business owners.

Big Money!

I have often thought about how big I could build my business up on my own, and I expect you have wondered the same thing. So how big can you build up your online business by yourself?

How does $14.9million sound? (£8.5 million in the UK)

This is what one man has just sold his blog for. Bankaholic.com provides info on deposits, savings accounts, and money market accounts – and it is owned and completely run by just one man, John Wu.

He set the blog up in July 2007, 15 months later it has sold for $14.9million. That is incredible and a great inspiration for anyone running an online business. No matter how you generate revenue – dropshipping, advertising, subscriptions or selling your skills – it shows what is possible.

Ecommerce Study: Investing In Ecommerce Despite The Times

Admin — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:01:48 +0000

This article titled Ecommerce Study: Investing In Ecommerce Despite The Times was first published on this website for home business owners.

Research Study

An ecommerce study called “No Retreat! Investing in Ecommerce Despite The Times” has recently been published with some interesting results, the study is by Acquity Group, a Chicago based consulting firm.

We all know the current economic climate is gloomy in the US and UK. Despite this the report has found companies are continuing to invest in ecommerce, asked, “On a scale of 1-10 how aggressive will you be in your eCommerce investment?” the average response was 7, indicating companies will continue to invest in their eCommerce strategy.

Other Interesting Information From The Study:

First quarter 2008 sales results show online sales are up 13.6% reaching $33.79 billion
Ecommerce outpaced growth in total retail sales which were up just under 3% in 2007
Average conversion rates remain at 2-3%
11% of companies have conversion rates below 1%, up from 7% of companies last year
82% of merchants expect to add skus (stock keeping unit)

The report has a few more stats, it is 40 pages in total, if you want to read more and have the time you can download the report for free: http://www.acquitygroup.com/publish/en/index/No_Retreat_Whitepaper.html

Stock Markets Fall – Start Of Recession?

Admin — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:00:10 +0000

This article titled Stock Markets Fall – Start Of Recession? was first published on this website for home business owners.

At lunch today the top story on BBC news was the dramatic drops of global stock markets throughout the morning. All major banks have taken a battering. The FTSE has lost about 3.5% today as I write this, the US markets open shortly and are expected to open deep in to the red.

Is this the start of a recession?

The credit crunch now seems to be really taking its hold, and it may well get worse. Todays further market falls have largely involved the banks, getting mortgages will be harder and borrowing any money from the banks will be harder.

No doubt this will affect how much consumers have to spend, but how much?

From a retailers point of view a recession would be terrible (unless you sell goods people need, not want). The majority of dropshippers sell luxuries, and some of us running a young business won’t have the capital to make it through a recession.

I really hope this isn’t the beginning of a recession for the UK or any other country for that matter. Now is the time for us all to hold our breath and hope, the thought of a recession – no thanks!