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Retailers need every advantage they can get when it comes to the online marketplace. We give you the upper hand.

Once upon a time (and not quite long, long ago), internet retailers had one choice of free shopping cart technology: osCommerce. Today, more than 10 popular open source (free) shopping cart platforms exist. In our view, OpenCart beats them all hands down.
WHY OPENCART?
If you're relatively new to selling online, you may notice that retailing has become increasingly specialized. There are fewer and fewer general broad-based brands like Buy.com, and mountains of niche-market ones like Zappos and Newegg. In fact, if you're still in the planning/expansion stages of e-tailing, the consumer electronics "niche" presence of Newegg can be quite intimidating. That's why OpenCart has such an attractive appeal because it makes excellent use of multi-store, multi-domain technology. Instead of hoping that Google generously positions your website at the top of your organic keywords like consumer electronics, you'll have an easier time if your entire site is devoted to a specifically narrow set of products. For example, promoting your XYZelectronics brand of merchandise while competing with 1.5 BILLION (yes, billion) Google results for the keyword electronics is going to require an amazingly aggressive SEO campaign. Compare this marketing strategy to developing a brand called XYZcameralenses while competing with 20 million Google search results for the keywords camera lenses.
OpenCart blows away every other free shopping cart when it comes down to multi-store retailer campaigns. Although Magento Commerce does a decent job of incorporating multiple storefront domains in one account, it's not quite practical for e-tailers wanting an arsenal of 10+ website brands. OpenCart also does a better job of handling a large database of product SKUs compared to other platforms.
HOW TO GET STARTED
DSDI will soon offer unlimited web hosting space for just $10 bucks in the next few weeks. You'll need to find a good web host provider if you don't already have one, but in the meantime, now is as good a time as any to begin researching the OpenCart technology. Admittedly, our own DropshipDirect.com Wholesale Warehouse system is powered by good ol' osCommerce, but we'd never recommend using osC for a completely new retail campaign when you have solutions like OpenCart, PrestaShop, and Magento Commerce today.
Maximize your kitchen space and showcase your tastes with Premia appliances.
Whether a kitchen is large or small, most homes suffer from a lack of space for that next desired appliance. A little-known secret is that brands like Premia are manufacturing countertop compact dishwashers. Yes...countertop.
DSDI™ offers the complete line of Premia products, including dual zone stainless steel wine coolers. This inventory has an excellent chance at boosting your 4th quarter retail sales.
Only true football sports fans place insanely large inflatable mascots on their front lawns.
Sometimes, it's just not enough to put a logo decal of that favorite college or NFL football team in your rear windshield. For those fans who don't shy away from shining their team's colors, we introduce you to one of DSDI's newest wholesale inventory lines: Inflatable Images.
Inflatable Images are manufactured with the highest quality fit-n-finish available. The result is an NFL touchdown celebration (Tiny) and 3 point stance (Bubba) character shape that simply rocks the house! Every Inflatable Image comes complete with adjustable tie downs, ground anchors, foot stakes and an internal inflation fan that stays out of sight, all packaged in an eye catching team specific box.
Along with a solid selection of NFL licensed product, we offer NCAA licensed collegiate brands, including: top-ranked Univerity of Oregon Ducks, Auburn Tigers, and many others.
What's more impressive than biometric wall safes that effortlessly identify you through fingerprint recognition technology?
What's better than never having to look for those lost keys again? Or, what if you have a tendency to forget the combination to a vault of valuables?
As cool as ETL biometric wall vaults are, we have something even better: Free Shipping on all ETL Wall Safes.
This is a truly big deal: when was the last time you shipped something as heavy as a wall vault across the country? Retailers can take advantage of major savings and feature our ETL wall safes for the entire remainder of 2010 (through December 31st, 2010).

It's official: The DropshipDirect.com Wholesale Community is now up and running.
The internet has reached a new age of online interaction: social networking. With Facebook boasting more than 500 million users and Twitter the 9th most popular website in the world (source: Alexa), businesses must participate or risk becoming obsolete. However, many of the most popular social networking websites aren't targeted at business-to-business relationships. That's why DSDI™ has created Wholesale Community: the first ever wholesale business-to-business social network.
As a member of the free Wholesale Community, users can develop and maintain new business friendships, create or join business groups (including retail, wholesale, etc), create public business profiles, and even keep in touch via the Wholesale Community Walls application.
Learn more and join today for free at Wholesale Community: http://dropshipdirect.com/community
Yep. It's the big, blue bird appearing all over the internet these days.
You may have noticed that we just recently created a new profile at Twitter. It seems that social networking is here to stay, so we don't want to miss the boat. In fact, we feel that Twitter can be a pretty helpful tool when it comes to staying informed about the latest and greatest wholesale dropship activity at Dropship Direct™.
That's why we've come up with a special gift for our customers: follow our Twitter profile and you'll get 5% off your next wholesale order. Just let us know your Twitter username (for verification), and you'll get a discount and the latest DSDI™ wholesale activity tweets.
With so many products competing for retail space within the online marketplace, it's difficult to know which inventory sells best. Very few websites provide insight for product selling seasons.
Your retail operation needs every advantage it can get to pin down targeted promotions and maximized online sales. That being said, your friends at DropshipDirect.com are happy to give you that edge. We're breaking down what to sell and when to sell it for the final (4th) quarter of 2010:
Niche, Niche, and more Niche
Good luck competing to sell that iPod. According to a recent Google search, typing in the phrase "iPod for sale" yielded more than 57 million results. To better express that number, let's extend all those zeros: 57,000,000. Yes, that's a pretty big number no matter how you look at it. Now, try to imagine getting your piece of the iPod sales volume simply through organic search engine results alone.
Why? For starters, there's alot more profit to be made in the world of camouflage ghillie suits. Ghillie suit sales typically boast more than 50-100% profit margins. Secondly, there is a long-term, reliable consumer demographic for ghillie suits. Although we won't pretend to compare camo gear popularity to the ferocious global demand for Apple iPods, there are four very stable markets always looking for ghillie suits: hunters, law enforcement, military, and paintball.
Finally, let's perform a Google search for the phrase "ghillie suits" just for kicks. What do we get? Just over 121,000 results. Those zeros don't look quite so intimidating to your sales, do they?
DropshipDirect.com will be featuring more fast moving 4th quarter merchandise soon. Stay tuned!
We've created a new Flickr profile at the following address: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dropship_direct
You may want to keep this link handy as we will be periodically updating our Flickr profile with corporate logos, our manufacturer line logos, and other artwork.
Looking to sell the hottest NCAA and NFL team fan gear? Check out our #1 ranked Alabama Crimson Tide, the #2 ranked Ohio State, and the impressive Baltimore Ravens inventories! If you need inventory and/or system updates, it's a good idea to visit this link.
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