As I have mentioned before, there are numerous wholesale dropshipping companies in the market today. It is quite mind boggling and perplexing to choose the one which is best suited to your home business needs. Different dropshipper have different ways of operating as well as different sets of terms and conditions, so it is important to research thoroughly before making your final decision.

I suggest for home business moms to create an Excel sheet comparison chart or even just creating a simple table using Word or other software, such as the one I created below, in order to select the best wholesale dropshipping companies for your needs:

This is just a simple table to give you a rough idea on how to do it. I suggest you include more information for each dropshipper so that at the end of the day, it will be easier for you to use as a reference and also to decide on which wholesale dropshipper to go with. Another dropshipping company which you might want to have a look at is AliBaba.

Wholesale dropshipping has opened up a whole new world of opportunities to work at home mums. Previously, it was much more harder and complicated to start an ecommerce store but now, it is all possible. These companies provide a huge range of dropshipping products to home business moms, ranging from beauty to electronics. You just need to pick and choose.

To all work at home mums out there, good luck and happy hunting for your wholesale dropshipping companies!

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Over the past week, I have been running ideas through my head regarding which product I should sell on my online store. Product sourcing for home business is proving to be quite hard when there are so many possibilities out there. I am still in the midst of making up my mind but I do have a few options available. I will need to really think it through before making a final decision on this. If you have any suggestions for me, then please send me an email or leave me a comment.

Home business moms should make this one of their first priorities when starting a home business. Without a good solid product idea, chances are your business will fail. Here are some of the product sourcing for home business ideas I have currently, as well as their pros and cons:

Fashion Accessories

This is a no-brainer for me because I am quite interested in fashion and I like to accessorize all my outfits, be it for work or just a casual Sunday afternoon. I can sell a variety of accessories such as necklaces, bracelets, earrings, pendants, head-scarves and so on. These products can also be made from a variety of materials such as silver, gold, gemstones, wooden beads, white gold, or even a combination of these materials. Accessories are worn by people everywhere in the world and they are not only for women. A lot of men these days are into accessories as well as it is considered a fashion statement. This means I should have a lot of potential customers from everywhere in the world. However, a lot of retailers are already selling accessories so home business moms will have plenty of competitors as well. I think online stores selling accessories are a dime a dozen on the Internet. A lot of them are already established brandnames so it will be very difficult to attract the same crowd. Furthermore, accessories are fashionable items so each style or design is only popular for a short time period. Then once the trend dies off, that particular design will no longer be high on the must-have list. Plus, accessories which are made of silver or gold-plated will lose their sheen after a while so I will need to sell off all my stock as soon as possible each time or else I will be left with a bunch of unattractive and dull accessories.

Niche health products

I think home based business health products are good selling products. In general, people nowadays are more health conscious compared to in the past. I think about 6 out of every ten of my friends/colleagues goes to the gym twice a week or some even more. A lot of people jog a few times a week or play at least one type of sports. They are also eating healthier foods and salad bars as well as high-fiber cakes are becoming more and more popular. I feel that this behaviour will continue on as more and more people realize that exercising and eating healthy are very important in order to balance out today’s high-stress lifestyles. With that in mind, a work at home mum can sell a variety of products such as health supplements, exercise equipments, exercise DVDs for yoga, lower back exercise, pilates and so on. It is wiser to target a niche market such as for lower back exercise DVDs, instead of selling products which already have a high number of retailers.

Jigsaw puzzles

This would be an example of a niche Internet products. I have rarely seen shops specializing in only jigsaw puzzles at my local shopping malls. Normally, jigsaw puzzles can be found at a small section in the toys and crafts section, but that’s about it. The selection is usually very limited, therefore if I have an online store selling all kinds of jigsaw puzzles, I am sure I will be able to make a handsome sum of cash. Furthermore, for such a product, each visit to my online store is almost a guaranteed sale because someone would only purposely  go to an online store selling jigsaw puzzles when they are already looking to buy the product.

I have a few more funny product ideas recommended by Jake, one of them being anime comic books but I am sure it is going to be more difficult to find suppliers for that. What do you think?

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I am sure if you have been on the Internet, researching about work at home opportunities, you would have also come across the term wholesale dropshipper. So what is that actually? By definition, wholesale dropshipping is a supply chain management method, where the product is shipped from a supplier directly to a retailer’s customer. The product does not go through the retailer at all. This means that the retailer does not keep any stock, instead every time a customer places and pays for an order, then the supplier will pack and send the product directly to the customer.

Home business moms may wonder how does the retailer make a profit then? Well, the profit made by the retailer is the difference between the wholesale price and the retail price. Basically, the retailer pays a wholesale price to the wholesale dropshipper. Then it is up to the discretion of the retailer to decide on the retail price of the product.

Why should a work at home mum choose to sell dropshipping products? The benefits are aplenty!

• Don’t need to purchase any upfront inventory. This means that you do not need a big start-up capital.
• Don’t need to worry about inventory storage. No upfront inventory means no need to find a place to store any inventory.
• Don’t need to queue at the post office to send out customers’ orders. Once an order is made and paid for, the wholesale dropshipper will send it directly to your customer so you don’t need to waste your time doing it.
• Don’t need to search for suppliers and negotiate pricing. All the products are at one place, which is normally the wholesale dropshipping companies’ website so work at home mums do not need to waste energy and time looking for suppliers or negotiating on price.
  

• Easily add products to your store. You just need to select and click to add the dropshipping products to your online store and start selling immediately.
• Don’t need to worry about packaging the orders. Imagine if you have 50 orders a day. That means you need to spend a majority of your day packing orders for your customers or you might even need to hire extra help. Your time is precious, especially when you, as a work at home mum have a family to take care of. So it is wise to devote your working time to more important tasks such as marketing your store.
  
• Positive cash flow cycle. This occurs because the retailer does not need to purchase inventory upfront. The retailer is paid when an order is made by a customer. The retailer will have the customer’s money for a certain period of time because usually the retailer pays the wholesale dropshipper using credit card or credit terms.
• Diversify your products. You can sell a variety of products from beauty and fashion to hardware tools because they are all available at your dropshipper’s website. So you have the freedom to sell many different products without the hassle of finding different suppliers for each unique product.

Enjoy beautiful sunsets with your family and let your dropshipper worry about the orders

• You get to start a business with very little risk. Since there is no huge amounts of money invested that means you do not have to mortgage your home or get a loan just to start a business.Therefore, there is not much risk but the returns might be aplenty!

There are numerous wholesale dropshipping companies these days but for home business moms, make sure you research on each of them to see which fits you best. For instance, some dropshippers only sell in bulk, while others do not have a minimum order. It is all in the details so make sure you open your eyes and look through each website carefully before deciding on it.

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I mentioned a few posts back that I have decided on starting my own Ecommerce store as my home business. I did not just simply stumble onto this decision. I knew that the Internet presents possibilities and opportunities especially for home business moms. There are affiliate programs, online stores and also dropshipping services, a topic which I will elaborate on a bit further next time. Online stores have become more common these days because it is very easy for work at home mothers to purchase an ecommerce software solution.

So the big question is WHY an Ecommerce store?

Well, firstly, I am always in front of a computer, when I am at the office or when I come home from work. I actually don’t mind staring at a PC the whole day. I am also quite computer savvy. Keyword is “quite”.

Also, I want to do something I have a passion for and with an online store, I can choose anything to sell. It is all up to me. Furthermore, I want it to be easy when it comes to suppliers. These days there are dropshipping companies (Alibaba and Doba) and affiliate programs (Amazon) widely available online. So I do not need to hunt for suppliers or send out orders to customers. Furthermore, I can easily purchase a ecommerce web site software from companies such as InstanteStore, Volusion or Yahoo. With their ecommerce software solution, I can set up a professional looking store which works without any programming or web designing knowledge! Home business moms should definitely look into setting up an online store since such an ecommerce software solution is readily and widely available nowadays.

Apart from that, I am beginning to read up and research on SEO, Search Engine Optimization in order to make my store more successful. Hopefully it all works out the way I hope it to!

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