A review on Starting a Drop Shipping Business, Part 5
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This is part 5 and also the last part of the series on Starting a Drop Shipping Business. You can read the previous article of this Series below:
- Part 1 : What is drop shipping and the advantages of drop shipping.
- Part 2 : The Disadvantages of drop shipping business and should you start it?
- Part 3 : The Basic Steps to get started with drop shipping.
Since the day one I started this series, I already discussed what is drop shipping, its advantages and disadvantages, how to get started and select the right drop shipper as your business partner. If you never read the tips and information that I brought to you in last few series, you can click on the link above and read it.
Before this I also want to start a drop shipping business, however when I came across blogging, I changed my mind and start making money from blogging. So today I would like to show you the reasons why I choose blogging by comparing this 2 money making opportunities together.
2 Ways to make money online : Drop shipping and Blogging
For me, both of them are good ways to start making money online. Each of them has some proven successful stories that how people make a living or even become rich through them. There is no doubt that you can make money from either one of them if you work hard enough and do the right thing.
In last 2 years, I was searching what kind of opportunities that available in the internet which can help me to make money online. I came across drop shipping business. After doing some research and read some successful stories, I found that this is a good business to start. So I decided to join Ebay and wish one day I can start making money from it using the drop shipping business model.
After a few weeks, I was brought to problogger.net. Yes, this is a blog from Darren Rowse, a problogger that make a living from internet through blogging. At that time I really impressed with his story about how he bought a house using the money from blogging. He made this money through 6 months of serious and full time blogging. I really impressed and I start doing some research on blogging. So I compare 2 kind of business carefully and finally made my decision.
Drop Shipping VS Blogging
Today, in this article, let me compare 2 of them for you:
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Drop Shipping |
Blogging |
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Key activities |
Be the middleman and help drop shipper to sell products and earn commission |
Be an expert, tell what you know, talk about your passionate topics, provide value to readers and make money |
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The Flexibilities of making money |
Sell products |
Selling ads |
Now you know what are the differences between drop shipping business and blogging.
I choose blogging because:
- I write and touch the topics that I like. At that time I can’t find any products that I’m really expert in for my drop shipping business. I don’t like shopping and maybe because of this I can’t find any passionate products for drop shipping. However, blogging is different, I just start a blog around the topic that I like to share and I can keep doing what I like to do and make money. The life will be easier….
- Multiple ways of income. In drop shipping, I found that the only way to make money is selling products. However, in blogging, you can leverage on your blog and make money from multiple of income sources. This means that I have multiple choices to plan my money making strategy.
- Blogging is easier. For me, blogging is easier. Although both of them need some technical knowhow and information to succeed, but in my mind, I feel that blogging is much easier. I’m running a computer service business in day time and I know that in business, if you want to sell something to the market, you must understand it very well. Then only you can market your products out and make money. However, since I don’t really like shopping, this is hard for me to identify a market for drop shipping. So I choose blogging rather than drop shipping.
The Choice is on your hands
I wrote this part not because I want to influence you to make money from blogging. All I want is just show you my ideas on blogging. The choice is still on your hands. Of course, if you want to read more about blogging, then please read my 2 famous articles on blogging, How to make money from blogging and achieve financial freedom and How to make a living with part time business.
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You’ve got some basic yet good advice on dropshipping — though I’m not convinced its comparable to blogging. A better comparison would be something like selling products using affiliate links like amazon or commission junction. In these cases you aren’t actually dealing with the products as much as you are marketing them, though one of the things I’ve discovered is VISITOR INTENT. If you visitor’s go to some place to buy something that is what they’ll most likely do. If they are there trying to learn something or get updates — then theyre likely not to be buying things from your sponsors.
In the event that they do, the traffic generated to a blog or a site that market products is not likely to have as high EPC as a store would. Hence drop shipping has more sales conversion per visitor.
Hi millionster, thanks for your comments.
Actually above is just what I think about drop shipping and blogging. Yes I agree with you that drop shipping will has more conversion than a blog. Like what you said, a drop shipping site is targeting on people who ready to buy but a blog is different, targeting on people who looks for information. So a sales site will definitely have higher conversion.