Drop-shippers located in Europe
Hi,
I am an active ebay seller for about 2 years now. Originally I am from Belgium but I live currently in the US. I have bank accounts here in USA and an account in Belgium.
I am currently looking for good drop-ship companies located in Europe because shipping goods to my European clients from USA can be expensive.
Any good suggestions as where to find good/reliable European drop-shippers?
Thanks.
More good free information!
Hello all,
I want to start by saying how greatful I am of all the great information I've found here. I want to start my own wedding favors ecommerce site and was looking for dropshipping information. Thanks to all for what you have said so far. I have a few questions and a few tips and ideas for you all.
I am a computer programmer and SEO specialist (search engine optimization, which is making a website show at the top of the google, msn, yahoo results when someone searches for your products or services) I do web design, PPC management, and have my own ecommerce software. Please forgive me if this is starting to sould like an ad, which is not, just a background. Now, I think that is a good advantage for me to start selling wedding favors online, my knowledge will help me, but I have not idea of dropshipping, how to set it up, and how much money I need to invest, I will keep reading this forum to learn that part I guess.
Here are my tips.
What you need to be succesful on the internet
-get a good domain name with your product keywords on it, ex. www.wedding-favors-test.com
- get a good web hosting company
- get a reliable and efficient ecommerce site, does not have to be expensive but easy to use and reliable.
- Start small and grow your business as you can afford it, cash flow is important, so start with paypal and then add more ways of payment to your site, same applies for ecommerce site.
- get a good dropshipper ( I need more information on this area)
- get good products that people are looking for and likely would by over the internet.
- Create a good looking and professional web site, do not go cheap here!! also you a professional email address, not @yahoo.com or @hotmail.com something with your company name on it such as [email protected] or something like that.
- Marketting your site, find a reliable, honest and knowledgable SEO expert to help you rank your site as high as possible on google, msn and yahoo. Here are things to be careful with, No one, who is honest, will promise you a top 10 ranking in google, that is impossible, it can happend but it is very hard to be sure. Do not get into 1 year contracts, that is not necessary. SEO is very important to your business, let me explain, what is the point of having a business or web site online if not one will ever find it? do a search for any topic on google, chances are you will find millions of pages, if you are #100 and up, not one will find you! have you ever look at the web site that is at # 1,575,500 ??? no, you have to try to get to top 20, top 10 is best. People who achieve high ranking get the most traffic and the most clients = $$$
Look for an SEO expert on google (trying not to promote my SEO business here)
- Get fast traffic as soon as possible, you can do that by using google's PPC (pay per click) you will only pay when a potential client visits your site.
- Write a few articles about your business and send them to the internet (there are many companies that can help you with that)
- Visit forums and get to know people, tell them about your business, tell your friends, tell your friends to tell their friends, etc.
- Join your local chamber of commers and meet more people and learn from them.
- do not be afraid to ask questions and learn from other.
I forgot a few that I had in mind, sorry for that. If I remember or if you email me I can help you with my SEO and internet marketing experience, do not feel I will try to sell you on my services, I get enough clients through referals and my site, I am truly trying to help, perphaps you will help me with dropshipping and other information I need for my business ;)
That is it for now, I hope it help you all.
By the way, I will be posting free information from what I learn from this forum and other forums on my site, as well as articles about ecommerce, web design, SEO, PPC marketing, etc on my site, http://www.mdz.ca I am in the process of changing my site, so you may see the old version and not all the information yet, but please check later.
If anyone has a good article on dropshipping and would like to share it, I can post it on my site too, please let me know if I can help the forum or anyone.
Thanks
Manuel Zarate
[email protected]
owner and CEO of www.mdz.ca