Hi, I'm working on a small business plan for an online shop. I hear that shipping is where profits can be made. I haven't researched the shipping portion yet of my business idea.

1. How do you sign up for discount shipping programs with shippers? Can small business benefit from shipping programs?
2. How do you set up the shipping cost structure so that the business owner is able to make money off of the shipping component of the business?
2. How is that possible?

It may look good on someone's bottom line – and I am sure some exec somewhere is getting rewarded – but it is compeltely unfounded. Outsourcing only diminishes the quality of not only customer service but the product itself. Outsourcing in all forms should not be rewarded.
Outsourcing is crap plain and simple. The process of repeating myself indefinitely in plain english is not appealing and is highly unproductive. In terms of utilizing experienced professionals online or otherwise from other countries is in no way related to outsourcing. Outsourcing is the process of hiring people from another country simply to exploit a workforce at a lower wage in order to somehow raise the profits of your company. This is not a generalization. This is a fact plain and simple. It is a very stupid thing to do. Lower wages = lower quality – plain and simple.