Finding the Mobile Kiosk

Using Doba Drop-shipper and Facebook Pages to Market Your Products

Stan Joseph Carter
Perhaps you are still on your quest to find the perfect mix of online e-biz systems, apps or methods that would become your digital Nirvana and ticket to cash-flowing financial freedom. You strive to eventually have your online business become your full-time income source one day. You read about how others are earning $300, $500, $1,000 and $5,000 per day or per week, and you wonder when your day of online financial breakthrough will come; how to jumpstart your online business to begin earning the income that is out there?

You are not alone. Anyone that has seen any of the hundreds'"even thousands'"of ads, e-mails and commercials from someone offering to help you build your online business understands the allure of some of those offers. It is easy to get confused or even become discouraged if your online business is not flourishing as you expected it would.

You've already accepted the fact that building your online business would take some work, some time and dedication in the beginning stages. What may have been missing in your initial assessment in starting your online business is whether or not you were going to sell information or actual products? Were you going to become yet another online seller of information about selling information, or did you have a product or service that you were passionate about, and you wanted to find customers in cyberspace that were also passionate about your product or service enough to pay you for delivering it to them? The question of sourcing information or products to sell can be answered in many ways. Here are a few examples that may be helpful.

Drop-shippers are a great resource for your online business if you want to be able to sell products without having the hassle of carrying inventory and shipping products. This is not a revelation to you if you've already been looking at various options for building an online business. What may be helpful to know is that there are some well-known drop-shippers with great reputations and recommendations. Many offer online tools for building your business and streamlining the process of integrating your ability to sell the products in their catalogs through well-known outlets such as eBay, Amazon, and Facebook.

Selling on Amazon is outlined in detail on their "Sell on Amazon.com" page which provides a great deal of information about the fees for getting started, including an offer for one month of selling for free. The monthly fee for selling on Amazon is $39.99 per month for selling an unlimited number of items. The question remains, where do the products come from? Mobile Kiosk on Facebook is an example of a page created with the Facebook "Pages" app that enables you to create a page on Facebook to feature products using Facebook as your platform for promoting your products. First you create your "Facebook Pages" page. The Pages page for Mobile Kiosk is "Mobile Phone and Tablet Accessories". The page is a place where community begins to grow through discussions and postings about products and interests related to the page topic and related products. By clicking the "My Deals" button on your Page, you can set up your products to upload from your drop-shipper's site.

One of the drop-shippers that make this really simple is Doba.com. Once you sign up with Doba.com, you will be able to push products to three different selling platforms: eBay, eBay Stores, and Facebook. Doba is a one of only thirty eBay Certified Providers. They make it really simple to upload products from their catalog to eBay and eBay Stores. The difference between pushing product to eBay and Facebook is that Facebook doesn't charge a listing fee. It's also a great way to promote your products by simply letting your friends on Facebook and Twitter know that you have great products on your Page and provide them with a link to check it out.

Another drop-shipper source that can help you launch your online product page is Worldwide Brands. Worldwide Brands is an online drop-shipper directory service. They are an aggregator of qualified drop-shipper supplier sources, providing instant access to 8,000 certified drop-shippers. They screen and qualify suppliers, they guarantee that the wholesale suppliers in their database are scam-free, and they provide online product research to streamline your product selection for your e-business. Don't be discouraged if your e-biz is not rockin' and rollin' the way you anticipated. If you like the idea of promoting and selling products, something tangible, then check out using drop-shippers as your product suppliers, create a free My Deals page with Facebook Pages, and promote your deals through Facebook and Twitter and blogs with links to your product page or website. E-biz is a journey not a destination. Tips along the way can help make it more fun.

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User of Doba dropshipper service.

Published by Stan Joseph Carter

Stan is a former management consultant turned screenwriter and new media producer. As a freelancer, he also writes lifestyle, personal development, and business pieces on topics including entrepreneurship,...  View profile

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