Dropship /Affiliate Marketing For Those Who Have Done Both What Is Best?

[reapr]

Title says is all.

If you have done both what is best and do you have any advice? If you are a person who has over a few hundred posts it would be nice to hear what drop ship sources you use.

[Zeus66]

I've done both. It depends on your level of comfort dealing with customer service. A lot of dropship agreements force you to deal with those you take the money from on things like complaints and refunds, etc. For some of the niches I've been in where I had these dealer/dropship agreements set up, it was worth it because the profit margins were high enough vs. affiliate percentages. I think that's the key. If you can get a wholesale deal from the supplier and have room for a nice mark up, it's probably worth it. I would never do it for low priced items though. Not worth the headaches.

Honestly, I've never been satisfied with most affiliate deals. I mean, who gets excited about 10% (sometimes less) in commissions? I know there are better options (clickbank), but that's pretty saturated. In IM, you can do well as an affiliate if you build a nice email list, but that's the only way I'd do it.

John

[BobBarato]

I'm a noob to both of these business channels. Am I correct in understanding that with Affiliate Marketing you can be shaved <cough cheated> because you have no way of telling if your click through actually bought something. But with Dropshipping you capture the customer sales info/order and then pass that on to the your distributor?

[rawservices]

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Get a full-fillment company to take your stock and ship it automatically for you.

Test your market with PPC ( low click bids )

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Hope this helps everyone, ask me for more details if you need em :-)

-Ryan

[reapr]

Did you find the dropshiper yourself or use a service to locate such as Doba or WWB?

What would you consider a percentage working for with dropship or how much profit would a product have to bring to make it worth it?

Originally Posted by Zeus66

I've done both. It depends on your level of comfort dealing with customer service. A lot of dropship agreements force you to deal with those you take the money from on things like complaints and refunds, etc. For some of the niches I've been in where I had these dealer/dropship agreements set up, it was worth it because the profit margins were high enough vs. affiliate percentages. I think that's the key. If you can get a wholesale deal from the supplier and have room for a nice mark up, it's probably worth it. I would never do it for low priced items though. Not worth the headaches.

Honestly, I've never been satisfied with most affiliate deals. I mean, who gets excited about 10% (sometimes less) in commissions? I know there are better options (clickbank), but that's pretty saturated. In IM, you can do well as an affiliate if you build a nice email list, but that's the only way I'd do it.

John