The Doba wholesale supply and dropshipping company provides a top class dropshipping and wholesale service for those involved in internet retail marketing. Many people make their money by retailing products online, especially using online auction sites such as eBay, and companies such as Doba are a godsend to them.

#1 Dropshipper for Two years

There are many reasons for this and only those that have used other dropshipping providers will understand the difference between Doba and others. Most dropshippers provide similar services, but Doba go that one step farther which is why they have been the #1 dropshipper for the past two years.

Sourcing the products to sell is the number one problem for online retail entrepreneurs, and Doba solves that problem at a stroke. Whether you sell electrical goods, kitchen accessories, beauty products or fashion, Doba can provide it for you at very competitive prices that allow you to compete realistically on eBay. Many other companies offer prices that are too close to the average selling price on eBay, but not Doba. Using them, you can make realistic profits without having to sell thousands of pieces weekly.

Doba Offers Many Advantages

When you register as a Doba customer, you have online access to the catalogues of over 150 companies offering goods at very low prices, they will accept your orders and dropship them to your customers thus removing one of the other major problems of online retailers: the packing and distribution. In fact, it is the distribution of larger goods that deters many from selling more than just the smallest items on online auction sites.

Just consider the advantages of dropshipping as offered by Doba:

* No stock to hold

* Wholesale prices for individual items offered on eBay

* New products continually added for you to choose from

* No need to seek out your own suppliers for all your product ranges

* Only one Doba account to set up: not one with every supplier

* All suppliers checked out for reliability

* Products listed in easy to view categories

* Only one easy ordering process for all suppliers

* No storage and warehousing needed

* You have no packing to do

* You have no carriers to organize and pay

You can add to that the fact that you get a free dropshipping trial, and can choose items to sell on eBay or the sales platform of your choice. Once you have decided to go with them, your account is very easy to set up, and you will have quality products for sale on eBay, at very good prices the same day.

You will not find better prices, which is a very important factor if you are selling through online auctions, with the very low prices that go with them. So, why should you choose Doba over any other online dropshipper?

Christmas Shopping and Wizards!

The first, and major, reason is that Doba is an eBay certified provider and also a Certified Developer, and that does not come easily. eBay does not easily put its name to any company, and this is a definite plus. You can also purchase products at dropship prices for your own use, so your Christmas shopping has just become a great deal cheaper.

The price you see is the price you pay, with no extras and no charges based upon your final selling price. Your profit is all yours. If you are involved in selling retail online, you will understand the importance of all of these positive aspects of Doba as a dropshipping company, and once you use there service, you will never have a reason to change.

Doba’s ‘Push to eBay Wizard’ has been approved by eBay, and allows you to transfer any product to eBay with only a few clicks. The benefits of this are enormous, and you no longer have to worry about the title, description and the image. The image in particular provides many eBay sellers with problems, and you have none of this with Doba.

In a nutshell, Doba is the recognized #1, and you would have to try very hard to fail with them.

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Do you know why most people fail at marketing anything on the Internet?  Even though the products or services they are trying to sell are awesome?

Regardless of your present level of success, pause for a minute and try to find out the #1 reason for failure so you can avoid making the same marketing mistake most people make over and over.  Found it?  It is fairly simple: once they have caught someone’s attention, most people will start touting about how great their products or services are: “nothing that you will have ever seen…”

Generally, when you own a “brick-and-mortar” business, you get to meet face-to-face with your potential customers at least once.  That’s how people get acquainted and how business relationships are established and eventually develop into long-lasting and mutually beneficial rapports.

It’s a fact, people are usually more enticed to do business with someone they feel they can trust.  Believe me my friend, establishing trust on the Internet is the most difficult and challenging thing to accomplish. Why is that?

Here is the main reason:  people don’t get to see each other, to feel each other, to see each other’s expressions and body language which helps to gauge the person that is in front of us and immediately determine whether we want to do business with that person or not. Don’t we say we have 15 seconds to make a good or bad impression?

If you want to be successful online, your #1 goal is to establish a trustworthy relationship with your potential customers. Instead of touting about your products or services right off the bat, you would be better off trying to know people’s needs first!

That’s were proactive networking comes into play.  Proactive networking has become a necessity in today’s business world.  Pro-active networking is the systematic process of establishing relationships with new people and build mutually beneficial relationships.

Once a relationship is established, it will be easier to offer your products or services to people that are in your network and trust you!

Happy pro-active networking!

All the best,

Christophe

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What Is Drop Shipping?

The Perfect Solution
by Palyn Peterson

Drop shipping one of the greatest business innovations since products. Seriously, don’t laugh! I’m not joking!  With what other service can you use another company’s products, their warehouse, their shipping department, and have them provide you with all the information you need? Do you see what I mean now?

Every entrepreneur who is looking for the most efficient way to sell products over the internet should be very enthusiastic about drop shipping. It finally allows you to sell nearly anything you want, be it computer equipment, toasters, billiard tables, even planter pots, all without having any inventory. And do you know what zero inventory means? It means less risk! The only time you ever buy any products from the wholesaler is when you have already sold it to a customer! And the best thing is (or should I say, another best thing), the wholesaler packages it up and ships it out to the customer for you, and usually your business name is on the box! As far as the customer knows, you have a warehouse full of products.

When you sign up with a wholesaler, they will most likely ask you for your tax license number, or a faxed/emailed copy of it to prove you are a legitimate business. If they don’t ask you for this, they are either a very small wholesale company with a specific niche of products and just want to make the process easy for their clients, or they are not a real wholesaler at all.

If you ever come across a “wholesale” company that carries tons of items, ranging from Barbie’s to hair dryers, and they say that you don’t need to have a tax license to deal with them, then be very skeptical, because 99 to 1, they aren’t a wholesale company at all.

That sort of company will just take your order only to turn around and order it from the real wholesale company at a much lower cost than you paid for it (and they did have to get a tax license to do this). It doesn’t stop there either. Since you bought it at a higher price, you will need to pass this on to your customers by marking it up higher than you need to. And if you ever needed or wanted to, you would have less margin when lowering your prices to match or beat your competitors. And your competitors would probably have a tax license, so they would be dealing with legitimate wholesalers.

Seriously, be very careful about this, there are many wolves in sheep’s clothing out there. So skip the middleman, get your tax license, get legitimate and you will save yourself a lot of grief and money.

Once you make an account with a wholesaler, some will mail you a wholesale catalog and price list in the mail with a CD full of product images to use on your website. The smaller companies will just allow you to copy the pictures and descriptions off their website. With this product information, you can post the products to your online store and wait for orders. It’s as simple as that!

Then, when a customer places an order, you either call, email or fax your contact at the wholesaler and give them the customers name, address, and the items they want,  including any other miscellaneous information the wholesaler may want. The wholesaler then charges you for the cost and shipping of the order at wholesale price, then packages it up and sends it off to the customer. All you have left to do is turn back around and charge the customers credit card for the items with your profit margin markup.

The reason this is growing in popularity amongst wholesalers is because they get to have many other companies market and sell their products, thus reaching more people and selling greater volumes. The wholesale company is still able to sell their products for the price they want, and you get to keep the profit margin as a reseller. It’s a win/win situation.

Drop shipping is enabling the average person to be able to run a successful, full service online retail store from the comfort of their home. Zero inventory, no shipping department, only buy when you have already sold — this is the perfect affiliate program.

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Following last year’s cut of trans-Atlantic visibility and a year of tweaking and twiddling restoration for specified categories, then cutting it again on UK promotion days, which all came after the much called-for Location Abuse Policy came into force, eBay has apparently handed it’s most prized territories back to the sellers that were most complained about - the Asians.

Starting from 20th February 2008, PowerSellers in Australia, India, Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines will receive the same PowerSeller Incentives (Invoice Discounts) as sellers in Germany, the UK, and the USA, who list on those three as their home sites.  This concession might also apply to China, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Thailand but I’ve not yet been able to get translations from their announcements pages.  The wider eligibility has been hinted at in some announcements and comments on the South East Asian markets mentioned first, but I must stress I’ve had no firm confirmation of it yet.

Spain has also made the same announcement, and I expect other smaller European sites to follow suit over the weekend.  Keep watching our main eBay Forum for all the international announcements as they arrive from each eBay site around the world.

As European and North American buyers and sellers pause for breath in the heated forum exchanges regarding the feedback, business registration/address visibility changes etc. how many have looked beyond their own borders for further implications?

On eBay India’s International Selling Forum,  there’s no new threads or comments about the changes, despite prominent links to announcements about them.  The “Selling on eBay” board also has neither threads nor comments about the changes.  In fact, I couldn’t find any discussion anywhere on the sub-continent’s site, either for or against the changes.

In Malaysia, the International Trading Board the most recent thread is actually complaining there’s no benefit to being a PowerSeller, and that being one is no fun.   In the General Discussion board, there’s one thread of discussion with the OP (posted by a western expatriate) having links to the early announcements on dot com.  Most of the posters also seem to be UK & US expats.

Strangely, Singapore’s International Trading Board has neither comment nor posts about the new cross border discounts for Powersellers.  Normally it’s a very lively board (and a great initial source of info for new on-eBay scams from China) .  There’s not even any mention of the topic in the General Discussion Board.  In fact, there’s no discussion at all on any of the Singapore boards.

In the Philippines, the same OP as in Malaysia has contributed to a thread in the Filipino International Trading board but in the context of getting a PayPal account verified, there’s no discussion of the new changes.  In the very active General Discussion board (well over 100 threads started since the announcements)  there is one thread about the changes by the same OP as above (he gets around doesn’t he?), it even has a “pink” posting in it, but it has under 30 posts in total - most of them echoing concerns aired by sellers in the UK & US.

The Australian International Trading Board also has nothing about the changes, nor does the PayPal forum.  In the Member to Member board, the feedback restrictions get their own (currently 3-page) thread and a “pink” response, plus a shorter thread.  The lack of fee changes for Oz has a thread as well, but no replies, from the pinks or anyone else.

So does this lack of on-eBay discussion throughout the Asian region mean that Asians are not that bothered by the changes, or does it mean they’re too busy loading up Turbo Lister ready for February 20th?

In the last quarter of 2007, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and the Philippines were added to the range of countries supported by Turbo Lister.  India and Singapore were added in 2006, and Australia the year before that.  China and Taiwan are in there too, but not in English.  With the wider Asian region already having more Powersellers amongst the expatriate community than most individual European countries have at home, has it been fair to penalise these westerners-gone-east in the way that eBay has done over the last 3-4 years?  They were certainly the core user-base that enabled eBay’s expansion in the Orient to progress as far as it has done.  The anouncements of cross-border PowerSeller Incentives may just be the boost they needed to staunch the haemmorhaging towards other channels that has occurred in the last 18 months.

Should Germany, the UK and the US be concerned about a second tsunami of Asian listings in their eBay markets?  I predict they should. 

The first wave were mainly from the expats and from China/HongKong.  Today, nearly two years after that tide ebbed, the far greater number of users stretched from Karachi to Kamchatka, and from Mongolia to Melbourne are locals, and they have grown dramatically from two years ago.  They’re also far web-smarter than the early adopters, and have access to more payment channels having learnt from earlier lessons. 

Many are the new generation entrepreneurs operating from regular business premises, with bank-provided credit card and merchant services facilities, in addition to online services such as MoneyBookers & PayPal.  In northern hemisphere Asia, an incredible number of them undertook post-graduate education in Europe or the States and have bank accounts there with verified postal addresses - overall, the genuine ones will be far easier to trade with than previously, and will be able to offer far more attractive pricing on many products, than could home-based westerners.

The scammers will resurface too, smarter, sharper, and more experienced of what does and does not work - whether it be outright scams, counterfeits, or simply fake goods. 

With the new feedback policy that buyers can only receive positives, and opening the big three markets to PowerSeller discounts for (all?) Asian sellers, the opportunity is going to be just too attractive to the Orient, whether the seller be genuine or fraudulent.  There will be no way eBay could police it all, despite the assurances from Mssrs Cobb and Donahoe et al.

I think it’s time the West began selling to the East, and listing on those lovely eBay sites with zero or near-zero insertion and final value fees.  Our goods will probably have more visibility that way round (and cost a darn sight less to sell at the same time).

Ed.

Ever noticed how despite our best intentions, we tend to drift towards using locations or services where we can find all we need in one place?

That’s the basis behind the development of everything built by humans over millennia, whether it’s rural markets on a wednesday afternoon, high street shopping zones, shopping malls, or the out of town superstores.  It applies to practically everything we do and was the root cause behind some towns being industrial centres, and others being holiday resorts.  It’s also, ultimately, one of the aims of BuildaSkill.com with regard to serving home and micro businesses, whether you’re a freelance consultant, or a self-producing ceramics artist in your garden shed.

Recently I came across a neat snippet in the blog at MediaWhiz.  I’ve used MediaWhiz before but hadn’t realised it.  They’re the owners of AuctionAds (now merged into ShoppingAds.com since the turn of the year), but I hadn’t realised they also owned a load of other similar services. 

Now, because of an escalating list of RSS and XML feeds, they’ve created a “new home of the one central blog for all of MediaWhiz’s properties:

Text Link Ads - Static Text Ads
ReviewMe - Buzz and Social Marketing
AuctionAds - CPA Product Ads *
ShoppingAds - CPC Product Ads **
Filinet - Affiliate Marketing
AdNet - Display Advertising
Coregistrations - Custom Lead Generation
MonetizeIt - Customer Acquisition
WhiteDelivery - Email Marketing
MediaWhiz Search - Search Marketing”

• * CPA = Cost Per Action - pays the advert hosting publisher when the viewer completes an action - usually buying a product or paying a membership fee, etc.
• ** CPC = Cost Per Click - pays the advert hosting publisher when the viewer clicks on the advert - these are rarer to find, and harder to join up to, to add to your website and newsletters, simply because they can be more lucrative for you.

Now that I’ve discovered that little list above, it’s going to help me fill in some of the blanks in my marketing and website monetising plans    and I thought it would be a good idea to share it with you all….. no, it’s OK, you don’t have to all thank me at the same time.

There’s more news about some of the above programs in our forums here at BuildaSkill - why not pop across and join in the discussions?

Ed

The organisers of the London 2012 Olympics have launched a website specifically for Small Businesses wanting to get involved in the official supply chain for the games.

They estimate there will be around 75,000 supply chain opportunities and are providing a host of information and event details for small businesses wanting to either directly supply, or to be sub-contracted by larger organisations.

The site also provides document downloads for the full range of opportunities and contracts, including tender proposals and a list of major companies looking for sub-contractors.

You can link through to the official site from the announcement that appeared in the BuildaSkill Forums today (don’t forget to register as a forum member).

Ed