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A: You can approach this two ways. First, the original seller of the product (who you get it from) can drop ship it on your behalf.
Or, you can purchase an inventory of products - have your customers fill out orders and either have those orders populate a database or have them emailed to you. Once you receive them, you can package up the product and ship it out. Just put on your site that it will take 5 business days to process before shipping. Thus, you have time to do all of this.
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A: Salma I appreciate you taking steps to start an online sales business while working full time. I would have to ask you what your product or market niche is?
Affiliate marketing is another way to 'sell products' online. You would advertise through online marketing, visitors would visit a squeeze page or sales page, visitor would have option to purchase the product, then the owner of the product would ship directly to your customer.
You could also become a drop shipper. I have had great success going through Worldwide Brands. They are a well known and established online drop shipping platform that offers awesome support and training.
But first things first, and that is, make sure you have a plan. Then focus and never give up! Best to you and your success.
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A: This may seem a little simple, but the cheapest way is to either hire an intern to do it for you or start working an hour after your "8 hour day" to do your fulfillment. Your products are not going to walk to the UPS office by themselves.
If you are not able to do this with physical products, you might consider getting into intellectual property that your customers can download.
The other answer is the Amazon model: take orders FOR OTHER PROVIDERS. Bill your customers with PayPal and forward your orders to other service providers for fulfillment.
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A: The answers to this question Salma lie in what exactly your planning to do with this online sales business of yours. As the earlier answers pointed out, the specific niche and type of online sales biz (whether dropship or physical goods) will decide your options for you. Personally, I have a full time Day job and have an online sales business that is growing every month--almost to the point where I'm willing to say goodbye to the day job. I would recommend you using a dropship delivery system where you would host a site or online store where customers could place orders, pay you immediately, and then your only job would be to place orders through your distributor and have them dropship product direct. You make your profit from the difference in cost ofcourse. I'm not here to sell you on anything, but if you look up a site called Niche Blueprint--you can find them on any search engine--you'll find them an excellent source of knowledge and tools to make this happen in a successful manner. I have 3 of these blueprint online stores and think they are a great source of income. Good luck..
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A: I appreciate that it is difficult operating a fulltime job and start a business, but running your own business requires sacrifices and hard work. If you have product that you must physically dispatch then there are two posible solutions. The first is to enlist the help of a friend or family member to take the product for shipping. The alternative is to use the lunch hour to get the shipping completed. This may make your work day a long one, but long hours and a snatched sandwich is the norm for most small business owners starting up even if they dont have a full time job as well.
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