Updating your products can be a pain, and a very time consuming one. Constantly having to check if your products are in stock, what new products there are, price changes etc. The administration for making sure your shop products are up to date can be a nightmare, especially if you have hundreds or thousands of [...]
25Jul09
Auto Update Your Products
We are currently looking for volunteer moderators for our ready to launch Dropship Chat Forums.
The Dropship Chat forums will bring together dropshipping companies and people wanting to use their services. There will be forums for: looking for and using dropshipping companies, marketplace to sell your services, webmaster section, SEO section etc.
To apply, please contact the admin [...]
22Jul09
Shopping Site SEO
If your dropshipping items, typically you will be using a free open source shopping system like zencart, cubecart, magento or oscommerce. Lots of other systems out there but I would say those are the most popular.
To enable you to get ‘free sales’ you need to ensure your pages are indexed on google and other search [...]
So Sweet Emporium are the biggest dropshipper of Retro Sweets, Novelty Sweets, Gourmet Sweets and Chocolates in the UK. They dropship the most delicious range of Retro Sweets, Novelty Sweets, Gourmet Sweets and Chocolates that no customer will ever be able to resist!
They have a large range of types of sweets, for more information visit their site [...]
7Jul09
How to start in Dropshipping
Dropshipping is an ideal way to sell products online without holding any stock. But where do you start?
I suggest taking things slowly, identify several dropshippers preferably ones that do not need a sign up fee. Then test out their products on ebay.co.uk or ebid.co.uk to see how much potential there is.
Once you are happy that you [...]
2Jul09
Zencart Security Fix
There has been a security issue identified in the software zencart, which you may be using to run your online shop.
The files to download (v1.3.8 only) are here:
http://www.iwebshop.co.uk/security_patch_v138_20090619.zip
Complete instructions are in the download.
iwebshop also offer a free service to have the patch installed for you: http://www.iwebshop.co.uk/apply-admin-security-patch-june-2009-p-60.html
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When selling items online, whether by using a dropshipping company or a normal trade account with a supplier then you need to comply with the DSR (distance selling regulations).
Info taken from the office of fair trading website.
If you sell goods or services to consumers by:
the internet
digital television
mail order, including catalogue shopping
phone
fax
then you need to know [...]
