Author: Joe Warnimont

The Zuckerberg beast is at it again; it wants to consume your eyeballs by way of Oculus, absorb your innermost thoughts through Facebook data collection, and now, it craves more. With plans to hire 10,000 workers for the job, the Zuckerberg wants to build a metaverse. And the shift has just begun with Facebook's new name: Meta.

If you're wondering, the term “metaverse” was created by science fiction author Neal Stephenson in his 1992 novel “Snow Crash.” The story takes place in a virtual, dystopian world that's run entirely by a dictatorship corporation. Oh yeah, the citizens are mainly broke and manipulated by the previously mentioned corporation. In short, Zuckerberg is a fool for using the term. It's not meant to evoke images of community but separation, not individuality but depersonalization, not equality but servitude.

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It may sound surprising, but dropshipping has been a profitable form of business model for fulfillment, even before the internet was around. Mail order catalog companies like CompuCard partnered with larger retailers like JCPenney and Sears to sell their products at a markup, so a brand like Sears would store, package, and ship items to the CompuCard customers, but only when a purchase came through (just like on-demand dropshipping).

So when we look at the question, “Is dropshipping worth it in 2022?” it becomes very clear that it has been worth it for quite some time, and it continues to offer valuable cashflow options for a wide range of retailers. The bigger question is how to actually make dropshipping worth it when factoring in changing trends, oversaturated markets, and the fact that much of the product comes from places like China.

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It's the age-old question of selling online: from where should you source products? You have options like dropshipping, wholesale buying, and inventing a product to have it built by a manufacturer. And of course, there's the tried-and-true sourcing option of printing on demand. The print on demand (POD) process involves placing designs on merchandise such as t-shirts, bags, and stickers, then using a POD provider to accept purchases from your ecommerce shop to print them on the items, package them up, and ship them out to customers. It's sort of a hybrid between designing your product and dropshipping since there's no need for you to carry inventory or pay for warehouses. In this article, we'll cover how to start a print on demand store with Printful and WooCommerce, one of which is a POD provider while the other is an ecommerce platform, respectively.

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