Question about Drop Shippers

[Mike Duhacek]

Do you use drop shippers for your bonus products? Who do you use? I'm Canadian, so is there someone in Canada I should use, or the U.S.? Are there better ways than drop shipping?

Any and all help would be appreciated.

Mike.

[Jeff Czyzewski]

Mike,

In my experience, most products are downloadable so there is not need for a dropshipper. What you will need is to partner with someone who has some complimentary products to what you are selling.

Now, if you are looking at using physical products, you really need to research a reputable source because it will be your reputation on the line, not the dropshippers.

What type opf bonuses are you looking for and what type of product will you be selling?

Jeff

[Mike Duhacek]

Hi Jeff, Thanks for your reply.

I saw some affiliates offering physical products when someone orders through them. I spoke with Craig Beckta already and he told me whom he dealt with, but I just wanted a general consensus from others who offer a physical product.

Mike

[alandrews]

Hi Mike,

Choosing the right fulfillment center to use depends on what type of product you are trying to have shipped.

I deal with a lot of audio and video products and have found a very good co. that specializes in these type of products.

The name of the company is Disk Mojo and you can find them here


http://www.directresponders.com/ar2/x.cgi?id=18&tid=7

Hope this helps.

Al Andrews

[JayDeiboldt]

Hi Mike, I was at Frank Kern's Paid For Life seminar not too long ago, and they recommended Speaker Fulfillment Services.

The contact info that is in the manual that they gave out is:

Bret Ridgeway
Bret@SESMail.com
128 N 2nd St
Terre Haute, IN 47807
(812) 235-8050

[Mike Duhacek]

Thanks guys. You gave me some great leads.

[bearded]

A couple other resources:

If you need to ship a printed book/report along with a CD/DVD, this is the only service I've found that will do both on a one-at-a-time basis:
http://lulu.com

For just CD/DVDs, Kunaki is great and cost effective:
http://kunaki.com

Joe

[Debbie D]

Another awesome place is:
www.WorldwideBrands.com

Great bunch - and they physically call and update their database on an ongoing basis.
I've used them a couple of times and I'm in Canada.

cheers
Debbie

[ExMachina]

I was researching this myself the other day and found that Amazon offer fullfillment services. You ship your products to them and they then distribute them. Nothing like having a big name to inspire confidence.

You can either add your product to amazon and they'll do everything or you can send them the details daily.

[Scott Boyd]

For pure Print on Demand (no CDs/DVDs) the big player is Lightning Source (www.lightningsource.com). They only work with publishers so you need to have a company to use their services and you will need to purchase an ISBN (www.isbn.org). They are owned by the same company as Ingram Book Group, which is the biggest book wholesaler in the US.

The big book sellers have access to the Lightning electronic catalog so your book automatically shows as available. For example, your book will automatically be available on Amazon (either in their warehouse or as POD from Lightning). Benefits to small publishers are listed here http://lightningsource.com/benefits_small.aspx. The disadvantage with Lightning is that they expect you to know what you are doing and will not hold your hand through the process. Book Surge may be a good option for the first book and then with the additional experience give Lightning a try. With Lightning you pay the actual cost to produce and ship the product and you receive what is left over, usually about 50% of the list price.

Book Surge (www.booksurge.com) is similar except that it is owned by Amazon, smaller distribution reach, they are the publisher and own the ISBN they provide to your book, and they pay you a 35% royalty based on the list price. Book Surge also offers services to prepare your book for printing including editing, cover graphics, formatting, etc.

For fulfillment of various physical products we use Fulfilled By Amazon (FBA) (http://www.amazon.com/gp/seller/fba/...by-amazon.html). Their FBA system was a little buggy at first, but it is much more stable now. It is pretty hard to beat their systems for delivering products around the globe quickly. Customers also seem more comfortable and provide higher feedback when they buy through FBA. Shelf space cost seems reasonable and the process of shipping your inventory to their warehouse is quite simple… once they walk you through it once. Their support is great, just click on help, then contact me, and a rep will call you at the phone number you have on file within a minute or two. Costs depend on the size of your product (cost of shelf space per cubic foot), cost of shipping (lighter and media products are better of course), a percent of sales, and also a single $1 charge (depending on pricing option you select). This generally works out to about 25% - 35% for us, which is worth it if it saves several hours and a trip to the post office each day.