Drop-shipping is the coolest internet concept you’ve never heard of. With drop-shipping, you have no inventory, no warehouse, and no stock cluttering up your home. Simply sell the products through your website, process the orders, and have the wholesaler ship it directly to your customer. It’s like having free products to sell online!
Contrast that with another technique, affiliate marketing. When you recommend products to your customers, you send them an e-mail that contains an affiliate link – one that takes them directly to a website where they can purchase the product. You get a commission from each sale.
In affiliate marketing, a lot can go wrong. Maybe your customer doesn’t go to the website. And if the site is poorly designed or contains inaccurate information, you can’t make any changes. Perhaps the biggest problem is that you have to trust someone else with your money – and hope they’re honest.
