How I started selling online
My online experience started with selling odds and ends on eBay. It seemed like a good way to make some extra money, and so many people were doing it. After a while I started to look at what my actual costs were including time to package, mail, and list items. Was it worth the cost? So I decided there had to be a better way, and I came across a friend who asked if I had tried using a Drop shipper. ( For those unfamiliar with this, it is where a company houses and then ships the goods to your customers. Your customer makes a purchase through you. You then turnaround and place the order with the Drop shipper, and they ship out on your behalf)WOW! To have no inventory cost, someone else to package the clothing and send the goods with your name on it, what could be better?As I found out there were hundreds of drop shippers, and they all had different policies, so I narrowed the list down. If you would like a copy of who I use, just drop me a note at
Now that I had these drop shippers with literally thousands of products, I now had access to wholesale clothing like the big guys and could start defining my niche. So I set out to find different channels in which to sell and market our items other than eBay and found similar sites, with good traffic, that did not charge a listing fee, but charged on the actual sale.
In the next post, I will explore, how this all lead me to where I am today in my online adventures.Do you have a similar story? Let us know.
Best wishes,
Jeff Rogers
