Dropshipwholesale.netDropshipwholesale.net is your portal site for dropship, wholesale and eBay news, information, products and services.Business Lessons Learned At The Mall- February 23, 2005 No offense to my mall merchant brothers and sisters, but a trip into the deepest jungle is more appealing to me than a trip to the mall. I get no joy out of trudging from store to store, attempting to communicate with salespeople from other planets, browsing discount racks of last season's dollar merchandise and peering into windows at mannequins that seem to be in some sort of inanimate pain (why can't they make a happy mannequin).http://www.dropshipwholesale.net/columns/readarticle.php?aid=24 Building A Great Website Isn't Enough, You Have To Market It- February 23, 2005 When it comes to attracting customers, opening an online business (or an online branch of an existing business) is no different from opening a traditional brick and mortar shop. Without a little fanfare and a well-devised marketing plan, chances are your website will become just another spot of roadkill on the Information Superhighway.http://www.dropshipwholesale.net/columns/readarticle.php?aid=39 Protect Your Ideas With Copyrights and Patents- February 23, 2005 A patent is a form of protection granted to an inventor that protects his invention in the United States for up to 20 years from the date of application. Patent law states that, "whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, composition of matter, or any new and useful improvements thereof may obtain a patent." 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Natural talent, ambition, drive, determination, and good old dumb luck have fueled many success entrepreneurs, myself included. I don't have a degree (I drove past a college once. It looked hard, so I kept going). Would a degree have helped make my business trek easier Perhaps.http://www.dropshipwholesale.net/columns/readarticle.php?aid=2 You Can't Avoid Spam, So Learn To Deal With It- February 22, 2005 It is no exaggeration to say that I receive thousands of email messages a day. Out of those thousands of messages about 1% are from people I know, 1% are from people I need to know, and the rest are from people that I would like to track down and field dress with a very dull knife. Spammers, they are called, the scourge of the Internet, the digital kin of the lowly telemarketer and dreaded junk mailer.http://www.dropshipwholesale.net/columns/readarticle.php?aid=34 What Does Your Website Say About Your Business- February 14, 2005 In 1998, which was decades ago in Internet years, the future of electronic commerce or "ecommerce" as it's come to be known, was anybody's guess, but even the most negative futurists agreed that all the signs indicated that a large portion of future business revenues would be derived from online transactions, or from offline transactions that were the result of online marketing efforts.http://www.dropshipwholesale.net/columns/readarticle.php?aid=41 SWOT Analysis Is No Magic 8 Ball- February 9, 2005 Q: A key investor in my business has suggested that I hire a consultant to do a SWOT Analysis to help plan for the future. I try not to argue with my investors, but I'm not so sure I need to have this done. What do you think-- Laurie B.A: Laurie, before you call in the SWOT team to deal with this investor (sorry, couldn't resist that one), let me tell you exactly what a SWOT Analysis is and how it can not only help you plan forhttp://www.dropshipwholesale.net/columns/readarticle.php?aid=36 The Business Failed, But Did You- February 9, 2005 Q: After years of dreaming about starting my own business, I finally took the plunge a little over a year ago. To say the least, my dream quickly became a nightmare. The business didn't do nearly as well as I had hoped. I ran out of money within six months and had to take out a second mortgage on my house just to keep things going. I have now closed the business and am left with a pile of bills that will probably put me in personal bankruhttp://www.dropshipwholesale.net/columns/readarticle.php?aid=6 |