Drop-shipping and e-commerce both are the same things but the difference is when you drop ship you don’t own any product and inventory. When you got a sale you just order the product on sites like Alibaba or Aliexpress, then their suppliers ship the product to your customer. Drop-shipping is easy to start, If you do drop shipping you can make quite a money but you have to do marketing. You can make a niche-based dropshipping store with like 1 or 2 products also you start with hundreds of products. You can start dropshipping with Shopify, Shopify is mainly built for e-commerce and drop shipping.
How to start dropshipping
Choose a dropshipping business idea
- Decide what product you want to sell
- Use Google Trends. Google Trends can help you determine if a product is trendy or not
- Use DSers. In DSers, you can search for products based on order volume. So you can determine the potential of your business idea.
Do competitive research
- Browse social media
- Use research tools like SEMRush. You can do competitor research, keyword research, and online ranking data, search volume, and cost per click.
Choose a dropshipping supplier
- Use Alibaba
- Use Aliexpress
Build your eCommerce store
- Build your dropshipping store with Shopify
Shopify makes it easy to build and launch your eCommerce or dropshipping website, from finding a domain name to adding marketing and sales. You can simply design your store with Shopify store builder and themes.
Market your dropshipping store
- Use Paid ads (Facebook and Google)
- Instagram Influencer marketing
- Content marketing