The Internet presents the business opportunity of a lifetime, but few it seems, have the ability to get started making money online. If you simply look at online commerce the same way as any other type of business, you can see that it is really not that complicated; no more so than running a traditional brick and mortar store in a physical location.

Selling dropship merchandise started way back before the Internet. The old companies that used this method in the catalog mail-order business are still around. This is a testament to the effectiveness of this technique. It works like this: you sell a product, but don’t really have it on hand in your warehouse. Your supplier warehouses and ships the items for you. You only pay for items when they sell. You won’t get stuck with a bunch of items that do not sell.

One easy way to get started is to acquire a dropship list from a respected product sourcing service. What is this, you ask? It’s simply a service that puts you in contact with vendors and distributors who agree to drop-ship their merchandise.

Beware of companies that offer to sell you a ‘huge’ variety of products for drop shipping. These types of operations are middlemen that don’t give you very good pricing. You’ll find you won’t be price competitive with other stores, and there will be hundreds of others selling the same items.

A good dropship website list directory can point you to reputable ‘real’ drop ship companies that actually make and distribute their products. Many vendors these days will dropship - and the directory sites can put you in contact with these firms. If you don’t get direct phone contacts and addresses, you are likely dealing with a middleman, and not a true drop ship provider.

To sell dropship products on the Internet, just get a hold of one of the many fine product sourcing lists that are available. Make sure your list provides you with names and addresses of many firms; you want to deal direct, not with a middle-man. Sign up with your vendor and then start promoting products, either on your own web site, eBay or free web sites like Squidoo. Once you see how easy and effective this method is, you’ll wonder why you waited so long to get started.