When you’re just starting out in ecommerce or online marketing, you hear about dropping, wholesaling, but also about affiliate programs, and you’re wondering what each is, and which is the best to start into.

Dropshipping is basically selling items through Ebay or your store, items that once the buyer purchases from you, they will go out from your supplier’s warehouse. You don’t have to worry about inventory, about shipping, only about making sure you have a really good and trusted supplier that can deliver on time, and of course, worry about getting mney from your customer.

Affiliate, on the other hand, is an entirely different ball game. With affiliate marketing you are doing even less actual work, because with dropshipping, you really have to be sort of like a middle-man (to take the order from your customer, to place the order to your supplier). With affiliate marketing, you can even walk away, and the money is still rolling in, as long as you did your proper SEO and advertising promotions on your site.

There is, however, a great advantage on being a dropshipper: you get your own customers, you can build your customer base list. When they say that ‘the money is in the list’, they are right. Once you have your list in place (and growing), you can always contact them later on again and again with new and related products that you know they might be interested in, since they did buy already something similar from you.

Affiliate marketing is mostly for making money, but dropshipping is more for making money and building a strong business in the process (which doesn’t mean that you can’t build a business with affiliate marketing, but it is a very different process). And one thing the internet has notice recently, is that more and more those that originally started out in affiliate marketing, are moving to dropshipping. The phenomena appeared already in the UK and in the US as well

Did you know that there is a fast way to find dropshippers in your own niche in Google without having to do tons of research first? This tip is very useful particularly if you know what type of products you want to focus on importing in the future. Hopefully you will find it useful, do some research, use this quick method and find yourself a good dropshipping source.

Basically you need to use the trusted old Google search for it. What you do is this:

1. Go to Google.com (or your local version of Google)
2. Type any of the following in double-quotes (“): “drop shipper login”, “dropshipper login”, “dropship login”,”wholesale login” following +yourkeyword
   So let’s say if I’m searching for a dropshipper for watches, I’m going to type in:
   “”drop shipper login” + watches. If it didn’t find anything useful, then I’m going with my second option: “dropshipper login”+watches
3. Try these with and without quotes, different results might come up in Google depending on what you used

For example, you might want to sell perfumes. All you’d need to type in Google is “wholesale login” + perfume . Now have a look at the Search Results, quite a lot to chose from, right?

Instead of dropshipping, you can also use “distributor login”, “wholesale login”, “liquidation login”, “liquidations login”

So before you start your next Yahoo, Ebay or Amazon store, and you need some dropshippers, you know what to start your research with.