I was curious about some drop ship info too, so thanks for those links. I was wondering though if it's feasible to bootstrap a site like this with almost $0, or if the money to start it up typically costs a couple grand or so.
Starting with $0 would be difficult. I think having at least $1,000 or $2,000 would be helpful for web hosting, some basic design / logo work, and a small advertising budget.
I started with $1,500 (for my first site, not this one. This one I invested a LOT in early on - not all of it prudently!) so you don't need a ton to begin, especially if you're willing to invest a lot of sweat equity.
Oh alright, thanks. Yeah I figured if I were to do something like this I could do most the website work by myself. I was just hoping that the deals to be made for supply didn't typically come with an upfront cost.
Downloaded your ebook to hopefully get a better look at what it takes, thanks again!
I was also in the dropshipping realm, it's possible to start with very little money (probably not $0 though).
I think bare minimum you need to register a company which costs $10 or so, dropshippers you want to do business with expect you to have that paperwork. That's enough to get you started dropshipping on eBay or something similar. You'd definitely be smart to spend a little more setting up a site with a logo, but it's not hard to get Opencart running and you could create a simple logo with open source editing software.
If you really did a lot of the work yourself I'd say you could get an eCommerce site up an running for $20-30 depending on the domain name and hosting options (many of the lower cost hosts expect you to pay a year subscription up front for the lower cost hosting options, so it would make more sense to pay more in the beginning to get the lower rate).
Yeah that doesn't sound bad at all. Still pretty difficult to think of a niche market or where to find a drop ship friendly supplier. But it's nice to know that if I stumble on that combo it wouldn't take much initial capital.
