For example, there are online resources presented at Merchant Goldmine that can provide both products you can sell and the technology as well as financial resources and credit card processing to create your own web store.  As an alternative to merchant accounts, many startups use e-commerce alternatives, such as PayPal, to handle credit card transactions on eBay and other auction portals.  The products will be drop-shipped by the wholesale source to your customer.  If you are a distributor of products for drop-shipping you can request a link to your web site using the Link Request form.

This is an excellent way for a home business or small business to get started!  You pay the wholesale price and keep the difference between the wholesale price and your retail price.  Diversify your existing product line without a heavy investment in inventory.  An investment of your energy and time can level the playing field against competitors with fatter wallets.  If you need help with the tools to develop a web site to sell your drop-shipped products, be sure to visit our technical solutions web page once your finished here.  Merchant Goldmine also lists a representative selection of merchant account providers that you may need when your sales exceed $3,000 - $4,000 a month.

No need to pay for a directory of drop-ship wholesalers, especially if your business is an online business.  Some of the major e-commerce drop-shipping and non-drop-shipping wholesalers are listed here in addition to a few drop ship directories, some for sale and others free. 

One of the larger directory services that you can purchase for $69.96 per 6 month period is the Drop Ship Source Directory from WorldWide Brands.  WorldWide Brands also provides a free Learning Center to show you the ins and outs of ecommerce using drop ship wholesalers.  Another popular product from WorldWide Brands is the Light Bulk Wholesale Directory.  This includes wholesalers that sell for orders under $500 and still give you great discount prices.  The Market Research Wizard is a new software product introduced by by WorldWide Brands.  If you are just starting out and are trying to decide on what products to sell, you need to consider the amount of competition for specific products, the amount of demand and the amount of advertising cost spent by competitors.  The Market Research Wizard lets you enter the key words that describe the product and instantly see all the information you need to make a wise decision.  This is a very popular service (used by many of your competitors).  If you have a web site of your own, why not sign up as an affiliate to earn back the money you spent on the service (and more)?  We talk about more affiliate marketing opportunities below.

Desire to be an eBay power seller?  eBay Sources EXPOSED! reveals the wholesale sources used by many of the most successful eBay entrepreneurs.  Although drop shipping is not offered, the wholesale products are terrific deals and the directory source is online, continuously updated, and guaranteed.

Great American Products.com provides individual product links for over 40 popular health items that can each earn you substantial revenue.  As an affiliate through LinkShare, you don't have to worry about fulfillment or payment processing, substantially reducing your costs.  Weight control, energy enhancers, vitamins and many other items can be listed on your website through Great American Products.com.   Be sure to join the LinkShare Affiliates Team so that you can offer  Great American Products.com  items to your customers! 

You can expand your health products line by signing up as an affiliate of Physician's Choice. Through LinkShare you can offer as many as 10 individual Physician's Choice health products including aids for prostrate problems, energy, libido, carbo-blocking, anti-oxidants and more.  Be sure to join the LinkShare Affiliates Team so that you can offer  Physician's Choice items to your customers! 

As an affiliate of PetCareRx.com, through LinkShare, you can offer over 60 pet care products individually on your website.  Pets in America today are demanding a huge market of needed products and indulgence products because we love our pets!  Cats, dogs, birds and many other pets can be cared for by products including prescribed and non-prescribed medications, accessories, vitamins, anti-flea remedies, ear mite solution, dog-collars, special Frisbee disks, tennis balls for dogs, identification tags, travel aids and many other great pet care products.  You can create your own pet care marketing business specializing in all of these products from PetCareRx.com alone.  Be sure to join the LinkShare Affiliates Team so that you can offer PetCareRx.com  items to your customers!

Now you can offer dozens of individual digital magazines on your website through Zinio, as offered through the LinkShare affiliates marketing program.  These are digital magazines that are downloaded directly to your customers when you link through the LinkShare.  Through Zinio you can offer your customers the most popular magazines including Sync, BusinessWeek, Macworld, PC Magazine, Pocket PC Magazine, Trucks, Gaming magazines, MIT's Technology Review, eWeek, PC World and many more.  Be sure to join the LinkShare Affiliates Team so that you can offer Zinio items to your customers!  

Movielink(TM) provides an inventory of hundreds of movies that your customers can download with just a few clicks.  Affiliated through LinkShare, Movielink(TM) is an ideal resource to attract both the younger crowd and consumers of all ages!   Through the popular convenience of broadband connections, your customers can have the evening's entertainment in their home in just minutes.  Great discounted promotions are offered as well.   Be sure to join the LinkShare Affiliates Team so that you can offer Movielink(TM) items to your customers!  

Siena Julia is setting the new standard in imported gifts, home decor, office accents, stylish designer jewelry, and unique collectibles. Imported from France, Italy, England, Russia, the Czech Republic, Colombia and elsewhere - products include: jewelry boxes and handcrafted decorative boxes; tableware and home decor pieces; fine crystal and glass art; hand-painted porcelain collectibles; gifts for all occasions, designer jewelry, and more. With most sales ranging from $50 to $100, and many items priced at several hundred dollars, your commissions as an affiliate through Commission Junction will certainly be generous! Sign up with Siena Julia to present hundreds of individual European home decor, office accents, designer jewelry and unique gifts on your website and earn a nice 12% commission! As an affiliate, you list individual items on your website and the store handles the order and the shipping.  No drop-shipping required!  

Motorbooks.com is the premier source of books for enthusiasts. Books are consistently rated as one of the most popular items purchased online today. By participating in the Motorbooks.com Affiliate Program, your customers will have access to the largest inventory of enthusiast books, manuals, videos, and calendars on the Internet and you will earn a 6% commission for selling books you list but never touch!  They carry over 8,000 titles on subjects such as modern and classic cars, auto racing, motorcycles, trucks, tractors, trains, boats, aviation, military history, bicycles, Americana, and collectibles.  Motorbooks.com has the largest selection of books, calendars and videos for enthusiasts!  

WickedCoolStuff.com is an outstanding revenue opportunity for your website! The broad selection of merchandise represents major Blockbuster Movies, Hit TV Series, Hot Topics, Nostalgic Memorabilia and Pop Culture Trends something for all your customers! Their depth of cross-referenced licensed product from movies, cartoons, tv and comic books helps expand customers shopping carts and raise your affiliate commission (10%) - they come for a Superman t-shirt and leave with that PLUS a Ghostbusters Bobblehead and a Snoopy Key chain! The product mix at WickedCoolStuff.com includes everything from low price novelty items like key chains and stickers, to sought after items like popular t-shirts and lunchboxes, to high end Limited Edition Collectibles -all designed to increase sales and increase your commissions!  Great pop-culture toys, t-shirts, gifts and collectibles now in stock at WickedCoolStuff.com!  

MailOrderComics.com has been the premier online comic book subscription service since 1996. If you have a comic book related site, why not have it pay for itself? Sign up for their affiliate program and started earning 7% for each sale you drive our way! What a great and easy way to make money!  They offer a wide range of banners and textual links for you to use. Sign up now and start earning money!!  Up to 75% off on your new comics at MailOrderComics.com.   

These are going to sell fast!  Through SullivanBoutique.com you earn 7% commission on the net sale of every completed transaction from your site of products from the producers of the award winning shows, Anne of Green Gables, Road to Avonlea and Wind at My Back. The wide array of videos, CDs, books, posters, collectibles and one of a kind items all have very special appeal around the world. Truly one of the easiest ways to earn money on the net: SullivanBoutique.com.    

Sell shoes on your website with the ShoeMall Superstore! Save money on name brand footwear. Sizes 4 to 18, Widths AAAAA to EEEEEE. You can link up with this vendor as an affiliate and sell thousands of individual products from your website with no drop-shipping required!

Additional auction sources are listed on the E-Commerce Alternatives page of Merchant Goldmine. 

Affiliate Marketing

If you have a web site, you can also make a substantial income by signing up as an affiliate or associate to your choice of hundreds of resellers.  The best part of affiliate marketing is that all the work and product fulfillment is done at the other end of the link.  This is very similar to drop-ship marketing, but even easier for you because you don't handle any transactions.  All you do is collect your referral fees in the mail each month.  Many of the links you see on Merchant Goldmine are links to affiliates who pay Merchant Goldmine a referral fee based on sales.  Affiliate marketing is becoming a major segment of the overall online advertising industry.  Once you have a visitor on your page, why not invite him or her to explore other related products or information?

Most of the affiliate sources provide free access to an affiliation.  Some require an inspection of your web site, and a few also require a minimum amount of traffic before they will do business with an affiliate.  There are several third party affiliate tracking systems who serve to protect your interests by giving you full reports of the traffic and sales you generate.  In most cases, affiliates pay you every month, and sometimes after a minimum commission of between $25 to $100 is accumulated.  

When exploring various affiliate opportunities (there are many), keep an eye out for those that offer second tier or even third tier income.  For example, if you sign up as an affiliate marketer of the Drop Ship Source Directory, you can also make income from new affiliates that sign up from your link.  In this way, your downline may produce more income for you than your direct sales.  You're going to have a lot of competition for hot items like the Drop Ship Source Directory anyway, so why not get a piece of the action from your competitors?  At Merchant Goldmine, for example, we have several downline competitors that outsell us every week -- and we love it!  (Thank you!)   As a special incentive, we will place a link to your web site on Merchant Goldmine if you become an affiliate under our affiliate link, as long as there are at least two tiers, like the Drop Ship Source Directory.  As you probably know, having more links to your web site helps to improve your ranking with most search engines. 

When you sign up as a new affiliate from our website please send us an e-mail at b2bexec[at]merchantgoldmine.com and let us know the URL of your website.  If you don't have a website, ask us about a special deal for hosting for our affiliates.

You get to select the resellers that you believe are compatible with your web site and offer the best deals.  Some affiliate resellers may offer a lower commission percentage but may have more marketable products and thereby be more beneficial to you.

The best approach to affiliate marketing is to focus on products that are closely related to the main theme of each of your web pages.  A bunch of banners with no text will usually not invoke much visitor interest.  In fact, studies have shown that more text, or text without banners, will produce more hits than banners alone.  It is also ineffective to place banners and links to products that are probably of little interest to your visitors.  By cluttering up your web site with unrelated banners, you will probably turn off your visitors very quickly and permanently.

One of the major third party affiliate tracking systems with hundreds of resellers is ClickBank.  For resellers, ClickBank also provides an alternative to a merchant account to accept credit cards.  You can sign up either as a reseller or as an affiliate (or both) to help promote the products of other resellers, such as eBay Sources EXPOSED!, and many others.

One of the largest affiliation networks is LinkShare. Here you can partner with hundreds of merchants with products that you can sell on your website.  Product categories include Auto, Business & Career, Clothing & Accessories, Computer & Electronics, Department Store, Entertainment, Family, Financial Services, Food & Drink, Games & Toys, Gift & Flowers, Health & Beauty, Hobbies & Collectibles, Home & Living, Internet & Online, Mature/Adult, Miscellaneous, Office, Sports & Fitness, Telecommunications and Travel.    Partner for free with 500 of the Internet's top online merchants through LinkShare!

Another profitable affiliate tracking and sign-up resource is iCommissions.com.  Affiliations for several credit card banks, lending institutions, financial services, and other resellers are available through iCommissions.com.  iCommissions.com will create a customized web page for you and promote your web page in order to maximize traffic.

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