Hi readers, hopefully you all had a great weekend. Today I want to tell you the easiest way to make money online. Too many times we get emails asking us what the best way to make money online is these days. Most of the time, a niche is not even thought of yet. They just want to know what the best way to make money is, so they can start doing it.

Finding a niche is probably the hardest thing you will ever run in to when starting your business. With this method I am about to tell you, it doesn’t matter what your niche is; you will still make money easily. Best of all, you won’t even have to deal with customers each time you make a sale.

Affiliate marketing is by far the easiest way to make money with any website. As long as you follow the niche with your affiliate programs, you will be sure to succeed. For example, if your niche is automotive parts, the affiliate programs you sign up for should be somehow related to the automotive industry.

Just post the affiliate program link on your website. When anyone visits your website and clicks on the affiliate link, they will be brought to the affiliates website. Then, if that person buys a product or program from the affiliates website, you get a commission for the sale.

Commissions range anywhere from one dollar to thousands of dollars for each sale. As you can see, affiliate marketing can make you lots of money very easily. And without even having contact with any of the customers.

The affiliate programs will keep track of each person that is sent to their website from your website. They keep track by putting “Cookies” on to each visitors computer. This is enough to let the affiliate program know you sent them to their website. Some affiliate programs even pay you each time a person visits their website. You don’t even have to make a sale to get paid. This is called PPC(pay-per-click).

Some of the best affiliate programs are found at www.cj.com and www.clickbank.com. These two affiliate programs are very reliable to pay you for each lead your website creates. Hpg Inc members have been using both these affiliate programs for years now and recommend them to everyone interested in joining a reliable affiliate program.

Cj.com is also known as Commission Junction. CJ.com offers thousands of products you can help sell, from Norton anti virus to real estate. They will pay you for PPC and each sale your website helps to make. They are responsible for paying out millions of dollars to their affiliates each year. All you have to do, is register and post links on your website to become an affiliate through them.

Clickbank is probably the best affiliate program you can sign up for to promote digital products. Clickbank is not only a great place to be an affiliate, but they will let you sell your own digital products there as well. Affiliates can sell your products for a commission also. In fact, HPG Inc uses clickbank to sell their e-books. You can choose which digital products you want to promote on clickbank also. Clickbank is responsible for paying out over 1 billion dollars to their affiliates.

Affiliate programs are by far the easiest way to make money online. Each time you sign up for an affiliate program, you will get an affiliate link to promote. This affiliate link can be an html link or a banner link. Most affiliate programs will let you post your affiliate links in emails, forums, social network websites, your own websites, and tons more places.

You don’t even need a website to make money with affiliate marketing. All you need to do is post your affiliate link somewhere. When someone clicks on that link and buys something you get paid. It’s as easy as that. Information is one of the best sellers online today. Informational booklets and e-books are some of the best affiliate programs you can sign up for.

Smart business people have been making money online the easy way with affiliate programs for years now. On top of selling your own products or services on your website, why not add some affiliate links. You can find affiliate links on all kind of major websites, from Yahoo to Aol. Why not join the big guys who make easy money with affiliate marketing?

Start signing up with affiliate programs and get promoting the products you know will make you money. One of the best ways to make money with affiliate marketing is to promote products you know about. Products you know and trust will make you the most money because they are not a scam.

Scams will steer people away from buying products or services. If you promote products that turn out to be scams, you will lose your sense of expertise with people that used to trust you. That’s why it is smart to only promote products you know and trust. You could even lose regular visitors to your website if you promote bogus items.

If you have any questions about getting started with affiliate programs just email us at LP@thehomedropshipguide.com

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Thank you for stopping by readers, I hope your week is going great. Everyone knows customer service is hard to come by in today’s world of automated customer service. Customer service is the most important part of bringing in customers and keeping them coming back.

Who hasn’t called to complain about a service or product to get an automated, push button system? This can be as frustrating as the defective product or service. If you want to improve your sales, you need to improve your customer service.

Tons of businesses online don’t have any customer service, let alone great customer service. The other businesses online are your competition. Out-do the competition by having great customer service. Make your customer service a major part of your business and your customers will always come back.

Answer every email or phone call with the most courteous and speedy reply possible. Don’t forget to say thank you. Even if the person just asks a question. Don’t overlook the importance of having great customer service.

Always be appreciative and most of all; Thank The customer as well as potential customers. Say thank you, when a customer purchases something. Send an email after every purchase that tells the customer that you want to thank them for their business. After all, the customers are the people that will keep you in business.

You need repeat customers in your business. Repeat customers provide as steady income, as well as word of mouth customers. There is nothing better than a happy repeat customer. They will tell all their friends about your business.

Think of all the time you will save in advertising with your repeat customers. All the time you spent to get that one customer will make up for it self in the end. It takes ten times as much advertising to get one new customer as it does to keep a repeat customer.

Great customer service will keep your repeat customers rolling in as time goes by. Make sure your products have a well written description as well as a very detailed FAQ (frequently asked questions) page. Great customer service starts with a good description of your products and a better description of the questions asked.

If you are not sure what to make your FAQ page consist of, just look around at similar web pages. Or record all the questions that come in and put those questions and answers in to your FAQ page. This will save you and your customers time spent on emails or phone calls.

Remember, there are literally thousands of other websites just like yours. Your job is to make your business stand out and above the rest. There are tons of things you can do to accomplish this, but great customer service is where it all starts.

When a customer buys a product or service from you, offer a free gift. Free gifts and make or break the sale you are about to make. Anything from a free coupon to free shipping on their next order. If you have a surplus of cheap items that you don’t want hanging around, give them away instead of letting them take up space or throwing it away.

Free gifts are a major part of why you can bring customers back for a return sale. Especially if the free gift has to do with the next sale they make on your website. Who wouldn’t want to take advantage of 20% off the next purchase or free shipping?

Here is another big mistake other businesses online tend to make; If they make a mistake, they don’t make it up to the customer in someway. What if you or your drop shipper ship the wrong item by mistake? Would you take the blame and make it up to the customer somehow? Or would you just act like it didn’t happen?

Do you really think your customer will ever come back if you make a mistake on the very first item they purchase without making up to them somehow? Of coarse not.

I would never return to a website that shipped the wrong item or damaged item and didn’t offer to fix the problem. But if they offered to fix the problem and give me a free gift for their mistake, I would definitely return for another purchase.

Everyone makes mistakes. If you are sincere and offer to resolve the situation, plus something for their trouble, it is always appreciated. Big businesses do this, so why can’t you do this? A mistake doesn’t happen very often. When you put the numbers together, it doesn’t take much to please your customers.

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Hello everyone, I hope you all had a great weekend. Today I will be telling you about how to avoid fake drop shippers and middle men. Yes, there are actually companies who pose as a drop shipper, but they really aren’t; they are just a middle man.

They say they sell at wholesale prices, but they don’t. Not only that, but most of these types of companies take your money and give you no product.

As you can see in this diagram, the drop ship order should go, from you (the retailer/reseller), to the wholesale distributor/drop shipper, directly to your customer.

Believe it or not, there are fake drop shippers who will pay a real drop shipper/retailer to do the work for them. They will take an order, pass it on to real the retailer/drop shipper, then the drop shipper/retailer will pass the order on to their wholesale distributor/drop shipper, then the customer.

First let’s explain what a retailer/drop shipper really is;
In order to buy wholesale, you need a business license and tax id numbers. This makes you a retailer/reseller/drop shipper. You have a license to buy wholesale and you are considered a real retailer/drop shipper.

But the fake drop shipper does not have any of these business credentials. They are merely a middle man that makes you pay more for the product. Their customer pays for the item, then they go to a real drop shipper to purchase it. The real drop shipper/retailer then goes to a wholesale distributor, who then drop ships the item to the customer.

The customer could go directly to a real retailer/drop shipper to buy this item much cheaper. But instead, the customer will pay more for this item because they didn’t do any background research on the fake drop shipper.

Retailers online are much different than retailers in a physical, brick and mortar, storefront. Retailers online generally charge much less for an item a brick and mortar retailer would charge.

The reason for this is, the online retailer/drop shipper has almost no overhead. They can charge much lower prices because they don’t have any back costs.

But the retailer in a brick and mortar store has to pay employees, high rent fees, pricey insurance, and much more. The retailer in a brick and mortar store front has to charge MSRP (manufacturers suggested retail price) for everything in their store.

The retailer in a brick and mortar store probably doesn’t even drop ship any items. This is why most people shop online. They know they can get a much better deal online, than if they bought something in a store.

There are always sure-fire methods to finding out if a company is a scam or not what they say. Just do a Google search for that companies name or website address. Follow it up with the word “scam”. You will surely find out really fast if that company is honest and reliable, let alone, a real company at all.

Notice if there are any contact details. Do they have a physical address? Do they have a real phone number? What about an email address? Most fake drop ship websites will not offer this kind of information. If they have contact information, ask them a question and see how long it takes them to respond. If they even respond at all.

High membership or set up fees are another sign this company is out to rip you off. No drop ship company should ever charge you membership fees to buy something from them. A real drop shipper would give you their services for free.

Spelling errors and grammar are another way to tell if a company is legit. Most fake drop shippers are foreign and do not know English well.

Stay away from companies that offer high demand items really cheap. I-pods, video game systems, and cell phones, being drop shipped is a number one sign that this company is not legit. This is another sure way to spot a fake drop shipper.

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Hello readers, I hope you are having a great week! One of the best ways for a home business to make money online is by selling products. The best way to sell products and still make money is buying them from REAL wholesalers and reselling them online.

Most wholesalers now-a-days will even drop ship the products to your customers. The wholesalers will put your name on the return address, so your customer will never even know the product was drop shipped to them from another company. This makes the transaction much more professional and your company will prosper in the end.

Real wholesale distributors are very easy to find these days. But fake wholesale distributors, claiming to be real wholesale distributors are even easier to find. You have to be really careful and do your homework in order to find REAL wholesale distributors.

Here are 2 sure fire ways to find real wholesale distributors. Taking in to account, that you have tax ids and a business license to buy from a real wholesale distributor.

The 1st sure fire way to find a REAL wholesale distributor is ;

• Call the manufacturer of the product/s you want to sell. You can find the sales phone number for the manufacturer by doing a quick Google search.
• You then ask to speak to a sales representative.
• Present yourself to the sales rep by addressing yourself by name and business name.
• Tell them you wish to buy their products to resell for your online/home business.
• Here is the tricky part, some manufacturers will sell to you direct or have a wholesale distributor that will sell to you. So, you then ask for a list of their wholesale distributors and contact phone numbers.
  If they do not have wholesale distributors, they will let you know and will be happy to work with you directly. Don’t worry, the sales rep will be happy to give you this information, as it means they will create sales and it is their job to create more sales for the manufacturer they work represent.
• Note: Some popular products are not available for home business to purchase from a wholesale distributor or manufacturer. These products include:

• Cell Phones(Sprint, Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, etc.)
• Video Game Systems
• Video Games
• I-Pods
• Most Sporting Equipment Name Brands
• Most Musical Instrument Name Brands
• Most Designer Clothing Name Brands
• Most Shoe and Sneaker Name Brands
• New release DVD’s

If you see anyone claiming to sell these products to you for wholesale prices, they are either lying to you or breaking a licensing agreement which can get them big fines or jail time.

Most fake wholesalers will claim they can sell you these products at wholesale prices, but don’t listen to the hype. They are not REAL wholesalers and are probably just offering these types of products at a discounted price. This discounted price is usually not good enough to make a profit or compete with the competition.

You may be asking the question; How are sellers on ebay and other similar places, able to charge close to wholesale prices for such items? The answer – These individuals have a brick and mortar storefront (physical store that you walk in to buy such items). These storefronts, then turn around and resell items online. They are also breaking the law, here is why;

In order to buy such items, you need to have a brick and mortar storefront. Then you have to agree with a very strict licensing agreement between the manufacturer of these items and your storefront. The licensing agreement is said to prevent copyright infringement or counterfeiting, but that is another story.

This licensing agreement promises that you will be a distributor and will only sell at retail (or MSRP) prices and only to the public. If you break said licensing agreement, your business will face being shut down, high fines, and possibly jail time.

Usually the product will go from the manufacturer – to the distributor – to you (the home business owner with a license to buy wholesale) – to your customers.

But in a license agreement you promise the product will go from the manufacturer – to the distributor with a brick and mortar storefront – to the public. There are strict rules that you promise not to sell to anyone but the public and not a penny under the retail price. This means all the home business owners get screwed out of buying some of the most popular products around.

Not to worry, because there is a bright side to these strict licensing agreements and rules; home businesses can sell accessories for said products. And accessories for such items sell fantastic. In some cases accessories sell better than the products themselves.

The 2nd sure fire way to find a REAL wholesale distributor is;

• Sign up for an information company like World Wide Brands.
• Companies like World Wide Brands do not sell any products.
• Instead, they do constant research to find REAL wholesale distributors and drop shippers that will work with home businesses.
• They have a huge inventory of Real wholesale distributors and drop shippers for any product that is available to home businesses.
• Just do a search in World Wide Brands search engine for the product/s you want to sell and you will find all the wholesale distributors or drop shippers that sell those products.
• Now call each wholesale distributor or drop shipper and sign up to start buying products from them.
• Note; This method will save you hundreds of hours in research time calling manufacturers.

Member’s of the HPG Inc home business consultation team have been using World Wide Brands to find REAL wholesale distributors and drop shippers for years now. We recommend them if you are having a hard time finding real wholesale distributors for the products you want to sell.

If you would like to let us teach you how to make money at home, our e-books come with 3 months of free tutoring from us.
You can purchase any one of our e-books ( The Home Drop Ship Guide, The Auction Power Guide, The Clickbank Power Guide) to receive 3 months of tutoring for free. Three months is more than enough time to make good money at home. Most people catch on and start making good money inside of one month. If you have any questions, just email us;
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Hello readers, I hope your week went great! It’s finally Friday and time for some fun. Speaking of fun, gift baskets are fun to make and bring in high profits. Gift baskets are very easy to make and are good for any occasion.

We tested this method recently for Easter and these sold like pancakes in a breakfast diner. Look around and you will find gift baskets sell even when times are bad. Mother’s day is coming and gift baskets are the perfect gift for not only Mother’s day, but any holiday.

Gift baskets are great for beginners to make as well as an expert gift basket maker. When a gift basket is done the results can be stunning. Suitable for any occasion, unique gift baskets are the solution when you can’t decide what to buy that special person in your life. Especially if that person seems to already have everything. Gift baskets come in all different shapes and sizes.

Depending on the holiday, choose the size basket and the items you want to put inside. Cut some cellophane, lay it on the table and place the basket on top. Cellophane comes in colored, clear, print or holiday style. Get some decorative paper to place on the bottom of the basket. Place the items you want to put in to the basket on top of the decorative paper.

Now place all the items in the basket. If you have breakable items, make sure to place them in the basket first and in the middle. Try to place the small items on the outside and the large items near the middle of the basket to give it a staggered look and feel. After that, surround the items with candy, cheese, or pepperoni (depending on what holiday) to fill in the blank spots.

Pull up the cellophane around the basket and use a decorative twisty-tie to secure it shut. If you have bows they make a nice touch. Ribbon also works great. If you have ribbon style rope, you can use some scissors to slide up each rope and curl it in to a bow or curly shape. If you are a good gift wrapper, I am sure you can use some techniques that will surpass an amateur gift basket. This adds to a great look!

Trim any excess cellophane with scissors and tape up any loose ends with clear scotch tape. Get some gift tags and place one on the basket. If you can get some gift tags with a small hole, that would be ideal. This way you can be apply the gift tag with some small rope and tie it near the top of the basket for a professional look.

That’s it, you are done. Gift baskets sell great on websites and even better on auction marketplaces like ebay. Here is tip; take a picture of the gift basket without the cellophane to help you sell it better. Then take another picture of the gift basket in the final stage. These two pictures should be enough to sell your gift basket to anyone. You will give potential customers a better idea of what the gift basket consists of. Believe it or not, some people don’t even read what is in the gift basket, they just look at the pictures.

Another way to help you sell the basket is to place some roses or other flowers behind the basket when you take the picture of it. Flowers, especially red ones will bring out the basket more in the picture.

Let us know if you have any questions making your gift baskets.
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