Starting your own Small Business
Simple Steps to help you Succeed
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Taking care of the Money part of your Business:
First of all. either open another personal checking account or better yet a business checking account with your local bank.
Ask your bank for either a Visa or Master Card Debit Card against that account. You will use this Card to pay for the products from the dropshippers
Point your existing or apply for a new PayPal account and point it to this New Checking Account
Apply for your FREE Merchant Account to accept Visa, MC, Disc and AMEX From US and have the money transfered to your New Checking Account.
Now you have Money coming in and Money going out from the same account. This system makes it real easy to keep track of Income and Expenses.
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How to determine which type of products should be sold in your Business:
Your first question to yourself should be; Am I trying to make a small business or start an on line hobby? Most entrepreneurs want to make money, so if this is you then you want to sell products that sell easily with the greatest potential to make a profit. Your hobby may not fit this example, but if it does then start in that direction first.
Make SURE the company you decide to start your Small Business with will allow you to change prices and products at that moment.You will also need to be CERTAIN that if the products do not sell that you have the ability to replace the products with any type of products you want to sell.
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How to tell if a company is really a dropshipper or not:

True Dropshippers MUST:
- Have there own warehouse
- NOT sell to the general public
- NOT hide their warehouse information from you
- NOT Allow you to join without an agreement
- NOT Charge you a membership fee
- NOT Sell to you without a State Sales Tax Certificate
- NOT hide their Domain Registration from the public
Make SURE the company you decide to start your Small Business with follows the 7 Rules above, if they do not then you are not dealing with a real dropshipper but rather with a middleman. If you decide that this is just a hobby and you really do not care of making any real profits, then using a middleman may be your best choice, but to make your business grow and profitable the only solution is to make your business is professional looking and you use only professional services.
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Making eBay work for You!
Get a web with us so you have more than 50,000 products that you can sell.
Use a domain name that you can also use as an eBay user name - register a name like ArtForEveryOne.com and make your ebay user name ArtForEveryone(dot)com - You need to do it this way, because eBay won't let you use your domain name
Add items into eBay from your new ecommerce store and link them back to each other, from ebay and then to eBay as well
Now you can sell products on line with our dropship web site and cut copy and paste our product information into your EBay ad. This is as quick as 1, 2 3 and you can point those visitors back to your site for more selections of products that you can offer.
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Setting up my home business to take care of returns!
Returns are very simple to do.
- When your customer contacts you, get their information and the item SKU # description etc of the product.
- Ask why are they wishing to return it. If you agree with them, and its within your return policies, tell them you will get back with them with in a few hours.
- Call the Dropshipper and explain to them that you have a return, they will give you an RMA Number “Return Merchandise Authorization Number” –
Call your customer and give them the warehouse address and the RMA Number to ship the item back directly to your warehouse.
Once the Dropshipper receives the item, the RMA # will tell the dropshipper the necessary information about YOU to place the credit under YOUR account. You will do the same with your customer.
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Getting the proper Permits and Licenses?
The City, County and or State that you reside in determines what permit and Licenses you may be required to have You will need to contact them directly.
Our Drop Shippers only require that you have a Sales Tax Certificate – this way they do not have to charge you Sales Tax and it insures the Drop Shipper that you are a legitimate company.
To get us to build your website, we do not require any of these Permits, you can order your site today and start the necessary filing tomorrow
Getting the proper permits is really quite easy, normally a call to your State IRS you can get the Sales Tax Collection form via Internet. Call us if you need more assistance, that is why we are here!
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