[METHOD] 6-Step Guide to dropshipping ecommerce business with less than $200

How are you dealing with returns, since you are fulfilling the orders yourself? ( Hopefully not many, but there will be some difficult customers.)
Thanks for sharing!

Hey, very nice business you got there, wanted to ask, did you make a logo for your site? and also, do you have about us, contact us or TOS? Can you also tell me how many categories do you have? Thanks!

Nice method. Just saved this thread as my bookmark

Thanks OP

sorry didn't realise this thread had been bumped.

lobo13 said:

Is there any way i can get the info for your freelancer??? please...

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Yes, PM me

tnhomestead said:

Been doing this for a while, I do use osCommerce instead, easier to theme for me and uses less resources. For payments Moneybookers, now called Skrill is easy and cheap, and I always take paypal as well. Make sure to tag pictures, it helps get sales! Opencart is a good choice as well has a nice admin area, but most of the addons cost money. I have customers running it without any issues.

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Sure, moneybookers and paypal are both great, paypal is nothing to worry about as long as you sell quality stuff and ship in timeframes. I've never used anything else than magento, I guess its all a question about which interface are you most comfortable in, as i'm sure they all do the same thing

djmonster said:

very good method .... but are you living in the US GiorgioB ? I'm wondering if you collecting sale tax from customer

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nope, don't live in the US.. I don't pay any tax on anything at the moment, registered company in a tax haven but this is somehting i will sort out in the future when I decide on what country I want to live in.

hassanjamil20 said:

m doing the same thing but i was stuck in getting traffic.

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Plenty of blackhat ways to get traffic fast, but safe and quality traffic is more whitehat and more long term... keep grinding, it will come!

mike33 said:

How are you dealing with returns, since you are fulfilling the orders yourself? ( Hopefully not many, but there will be some difficult customers.)
Thanks for sharing!

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I get returns, I receive them, keep them as stock.. send again if the quality wasn't the problem. if the quality is the problem, i don't send to the customer in the first place, i return straight to the seller.

jackydaniels14 said:

Hey, very nice business you got there, wanted to ask, did you make a logo for your site? and also, do you have about us, contact us or TOS? Can you also tell me how many categories do you have? Thanks!

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Of course I have a logo, a about us, contact us, TOS, privacy policy, FAQ, etc.. its a real professional online shop, nothing shady! I have about 4-5 categories split into about 50-60 sub categories.

great thread thank you for sharing this.

Great!
I am doing the same job, but I invested on Fiverr for my step 4 + a video in order to promote my website. I have a question, is that good if I am selling like dropshiping and aff program in the same time?

Thanks for the reply. One more question, do you recommend drop shipping internationally or only local? like making an ecommerce store shipping only in UK, or only in Germany, or Germany and Austria, what if you want to do it everywhere?

interesting read and informative! bookmarked for future reference.

jackydaniels14 said:

Thanks for the reply. One more question, do you recommend drop shipping internationally or only local? like making an ecommerce store shipping only in UK, or only in Germany, or Germany and Austria, what if you want to do it everywhere?

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to be honest.. that's your twist, that is where you have so much freedom to go global or to focus on a niche, it all depends on the opportunities around you and your strengths.

I am into this myself. The wrong part I did is that I build the web first, and now there is no product to upload yet!

do a lot of price research

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We surely need to do this. If I am to do dropship from alibaba, how would you suggest me to do price research? The sellers at alibaba have many different ranges of prices that will surely give me different margins. There are some with okay prices, and even some with nonsense prices.

The thing is, how to do the price research instead of just choosing any products to upload into my magento and marking up everything with my wanted margins; so that my store will be full? My price will be ridiculous if I really do that, I guess.

Thanks.

Really nice guide. Thank you OP

Awesome thread! Thank you for your clear advice Giorgio. Could you PM me your freelancer who charges $30 to bulk upload products to magento? Thank you so much!

ah too bad i ddint read that before

I'm starting my learning path with dropshipping and this guide will help me a lot for sure. Great job.