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Sourcing Products to Sell Online: The Main Routes Explained
Compare the main ways to get products for an online store: making them, buying wholesale, dropshipping and private label, and which kind of seller each suits.
Products and Fulfillment
Sourcing and Inventory
Finding products to sell and keeping stock under control.
Choosing a Niche Without Guesswork
A practical way to narrow what you sell by weighing your interest, demand signals, competition and margins, so the choice rests on evidence rather than hunches.
Dealing With Overstock and Dead Inventory
Options for slow-moving stock, from bundling and markdowns to bulk clearance and donation, plus habits that help you avoid ending up with unsold goods again.
Evaluating Suppliers Before You Commit
A practical checklist for judging a supplier's reliability, communication, product quality and terms before you place a first order and build your store around them.
How Dropshipping Works and Where It Struggles
Follow a dropshipping order from checkout to delivery, and see the typical trade-offs in margins, control over quality and delivery times before you choose it.
Inventory Basics: Tracking Stock Across Your Sales
Learn why stock counts drift out of date and which simple habits, records and regular counts keep your inventory numbers accurate across every place you sell.
Making Your Own Products: Handmade and Private Label
What changes in cost and risk when you sell goods you make yourself or have made to your specification, from handmade items to private label products.
Reorder Points and Safety Stock Explained
Learn how to decide when to restock using supplier lead time, sales pace and a safety buffer, with a worked example that is plainly hypothetical.
Wholesale Buying for Small Stores
How minimum orders, trade terms and buying in bulk work for a small retailer, and how to weigh a bulk discount against the cash and stock risk it brings.
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