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It is definitely possible to start a successful drop shipping business with $800 as capital but only if you do the right things.There are various steps involved in starting a drop shipping business.Selecting a product to sell:A lot of research has to go into this, you need to find a niche product which can be branded. It's important to select a niche because you cannot compete with popular brands in terms of price if you are starting small.Just take care of the following points before selecting a product1. Pick something that is relatively simple (don't go for complex electronics as the failure rates per product can go high)2. Pick something that is very light weight because shipping can really eat into your profits3. Pick something that people will use throughout the year4. You can also do this research using existing sites like AlibabaFinding a supplier for your product:This is the tricky part, once you nail down a product you have to find someone to supply the product to you in wholesale. This needs extensive searching in portals like Alibaba. You can also go for paid directories like World Wide Brands which has an extensive list of wholesalers and drop shippers from across the world. If you are searching for wholesalers on Alibaba, make sure you follow the below guidelines.1. Make sure you buy from Gold members2. Give preference to companies that are on site inspected by AlibabaSetting up your store:Here are different ways to setup an Ecommerce store of your own.1. Hire a developer on Freelancer.com and build your own custom Ecommerce store in Wordpress or Magento or Opencart2. Setup your own Ecommerce without the help of a developer by using Shopify3. Sell without your own Ecommerce site on AmazonMarketing your store:If you manage to do all the above steps properly, now it's time for you to market your site. This involves various things but will outline a few things that has worked for me.1. Contribute to forums like Quora where there are questions relevant to your products2. Generate blog content which is rich in the keywords that you want to target (This will bring in traffic through search engines)3. Ask other bloggers to review your product in return for the product itself4. Have an affiliate program in your site where bloggers get paid for every sale made through them5. Run advertisements on Facebook6. Run Google advertisements

Yeah, there are various channels through which you can source products than Alibaba.Globalsources.com It is a Hong-Kong based company for B2B market place for buyers from all over the world. Global sources has more than 30 offices in China and over 4 million Chinese online users and subscribers.Made-in-china.com It is a relatively old B2B platform, has been operating since 1996. You can find the latest products of China. It won China’s B2B Impact Award for leading the B2B portal. It is known for its easy interface and connecting to suppliers easily.DHGate.com It is a wholesale B2B ecommerce site based in China and they prefer bulk orders, but the MOQ’s (minimum order quantities) are usually low. DHGate is popular and one feature that makes it stand out is its system of payments handling. They only pass payments to sellers when buyers confirms receipt of goods making transactions extremely safe.Tradekey.com Based in Riyadh Saudi Arabia and founded in 2006, Tradekey is a large international Electronic Marketplace that connects buyers, wholesalers, manufacturers, more than 9 million consumers and distributors in over 240 countries. Tradekey Portal can be read in several different languages including English, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Russian, Spanish.AsianProducts.com. Asian Products was launched in 1996 and has since become one of the leading B2B platforms. AsianProducts focuses on providing e-Sourcing Solutions to Small and Medium Enterprises (SME’s) a segment that received a tremendous boost from the Internet. Focusing on suppliers from Taiwan and China, Asian Products is an old-fashioned but with useful list of companies.Alza.co.uk. Alza was established more than two decades ago and first started trading as Alzasoft back in 1994. It became a market leader in 2008 and has received several prestigious awards over the years in recognition of the quality service it offers to millions of customers. It is now a purely Czech joint stock company.Gearbest.com. Suppliers on Gearbest are managed through a professional rating system to select top suppliers and optimize the procurement of quality goods, while at the same time, maintain the comprehensiveness of product categories.WholesaleCentral.com. It is the leading B2B directory of wholesale suppliers and products. They offer powerful sourcing tools to help resellers find thousands of prescreened wholesalers, importers, distributors, dropshippers, and manufacturers.DIYTrade.com. It is a Chinese B2B global trading platform that features over 5 Million products.OFweek.com. This platform focuses on Electronics, tech and other high tech goods. OFweek has a nice design that is easier to navigate than most Chinese websites. Almost all goods sold on this website are finished goods, however, you may be able to get in direct touch with the manufacturer to make some basic customization of your products.MakePolo.com. It is a large Chinese directory that claims to have a more advanced search engine to find factories. Their revenue model is a pay per click business model in which the factory pays them every time you click on a link.ECPlaza.net. It started as a B2B business site in 1996, EC Plaza has grown to No.1 Trade Leader providing online and off line service to over 1,000,000 members. Based on export marketing, we are operating not only B2B website, EDI service and trade consulting but also offline trade-related services for SMEs.GongChang.com. Gong Chang specializes in heavy machinery and industrial equipment. If you are looking at setting up your own manufacturing then this is a good resource to use to get equipment. The only problem that you will face is that it is in Chinese language.TradeGood.com. It was formerly known as iSupplier Intelligence (ISI) and is a B2B global sourcing community. It specializes in matching business counterparts in sourcing and aims to bridge the gap between buyers and suppliers.Here are mentioned huge lists of best places to buy products than Alibaba. Please checkout the full article here: Amazon FBA Product Sourcing | Options Other Than Alibaba - Blog | AMZ One Step: Amazon FBA Consultants

A day in the life of a grad-student6:30 Wakeup and lie awake in Bed6:31 Realize you spent $18 on last night's dinner, means no eating out for the next 6 weeks6:32 Hit snooze button. Go back to sleep.7:00 Wake up suddenly with heart in mouth when you realize you didn't hit the snooze button--you turned it off.7:01 fall asleep again.7:44 Wake up with heart in mouth again.7:45 Ready to go to school, will shave tommorrow, will eat early brunch at(Denny's/Penny's/Lenny's/Dinko's whatever cafeteria).8:03 Arrive at schoolRealize your foreign officemate arrived earliertoday must have got more work done8:04 Pass by Advisor's office, chat with Secretary to find out if he is coming in today. He is, darn.Need to start work on the draft due this afternoon.8:15 Read electronic mail8:20 Delete mail from students taking CMPSC201 regarding questions about the class.Hate your TA job.Depression: too much work to do today9:00 For jumpstart: go to Pepsi machine.9:05 Kick Pepsi machine; promise yourself to call up the company and ask for your money back.Wonder why they would beleive you.9:33 Start printing out loads of stuff that may be vaguely related to your work.9:41 Early morning stupefaction.Mutter racist comments to yourself about your officemate.9:43 Curse your officemate in a low tone he would not comprehend.Feel good about him not grasping English well.9:58 Finger everyone in the department and most people half way around the world (using the "finger" command, of course)10:19 Feel sleepy, should not have stayed late playing tetris last night.10:31 momentary panic attack!!!!!!!!!!!!10:43 edit .plan file. write a shell program to edit .plan more easily10:59 Drop in at advisor's office and borrow something you dont need & and kinda make him aware you are working hard on your project.11:05 perverted daydreams11:11 read electronic newsmid-morning yawn time11:34 Start typing junk at a very high key-in rate to pretend you are working hard as your advisor passes by from outside.11:35 Press the BackSpace key for one and a half minute until all the garbage you typed in is erased.Realize that you can type more than 256 characters per half minute11:41 Flirt with the new girl in the department11:45 Print out some slides for afternoon's draft + presentation11:47 Print them again, you forgot to change the date from last presentation11:49 Print another copy in case this one gets lost11:51 Completely forget about sueing the coffee-machine company12:15 Hunger pangs:12:20 BigMac/Fries timeDrink a not-so-cold generic can of cola from your desk. Ch-Ching, you just saved 35 cents by buying bulk cola.1:00 Group Meeting with advisor1:14 sudden awareness of one's shallownessresentment towards foriegn officemate for sucking up to your advisorGet reminded by your advisor that you need to do some more work for your literature survey.1:51 Advisor hands you the reddened copy of your draft for corrections1:51:02 The 49 second urge to murder advisor begins!!1:51:52 Realize that he controls your assistantship/grade/graduation possibility/graduation date/all job opportunities/and the rest of your life.1:52:53 Thank him1:52:54 Thank yourself for not saying something stupid to your advisor.1:53:00 splitting headache #11:59 Check electronic mail, don't reply though, you are too busy to do that2:06 More generic cola2:17 Oh No, it is my turn to cook tonight: -(2:30 Sit through the class you were told to sit through2:39 Look outside the window make unrealistic plans to quit this degree program and take up a job.Wonder why blonde girls are so pretty.2:48 More perverted day-dreams.Close the office door and open a few .gif files.sharpen pencil3:06 worry about never graduatingtime to write a letter--NOT! no time for that.rearrange deskcall up bank; see if you have any moneyfear of losing aid next FallRead latex manuals to figure out how to put &$%&% in %$^% format3:43 watch the clockmake plans to do a all-nighter toniteVow to watch only 2 TV programs4:58 Notice Advisor leave4:58:01 Sudden sense of freedomGo home for quick, short dinner break.9:00pm Come into the office9:01pm The hard working grad student you are, you have to come to the office late at night to "get the work done"9:03 Check electronic mailDecide it would be a good time to attack those ftp sites since network wont be loadedRun into "since network wont be loaded" traffic and get the pictures into your machine.Compress all unwanted research/class directories to make space.Back up all your pictures10:11 Admire picturesBegin work; Realize you need referencesRealize its too late today to go to the librarySudden feeling of having wasted the day10:49 Sudden feeling of possibly having to waste the nightDecide to turn in early and come back very early tomorrow morningDecide to play a Tetris on the system to put yourself in a good mood.11:15 Play game after game after game to improve your score and get on the scoreboard.Realize that your officemate is still at number 6, two notches above you on the scoreboard.12:20 Play until you beat your officemate into the 7th place. A sense of achievement!! Yes, today was not wasted!!Return home to find your roommate watching David Letterman reruns on NBC. Tell him about the "hard working grad student day you had"Discuss philosophy with roommate1:09 Think about becoming a philosopher and dining with 4 others (The Dining Philosophers problem, hee hee :-) (Comp Sci joke)Argue with him about politics, why people prefer Japanese cars and whether it is better to set the heat to "hot" or "cold" to defrost the windshields faster.1:49 Realize neither of you have bought milk todayGet reminded of the "too much milk problem"2:04 Forget about getting up early. Turn the phone ringer off and go to sleep.