Don't know how to go about drop shipping, we'll teach you.

How to Drop ship

Have you ever sat and wondered how you could become an entrepreneur, well I have good news for you. In my first article about drop shipping I only talked about the business and the ups and downs of it, but in this article I will be teaching you how to start your own drop shipping business.

The four steps to follow before starting a drop shipping business

Step 1: Choosing what to sell

If you want to start drop shipping, you must know the kind of products to sell. Trying to start a drop shipping business without knowing what to sell is like embarking on a journey without having a destination in mind. A lot of people will advice you to sell what you are passionate about but I will tell you the whole truth. Choosing a product to sell has to do with profit and passion, the best products to sell are the ones that will bring in profit. When the products you sell are bringing in profit, it will make you more passionate about maintaining your business.

Step 2: Building your drop shipping store.

Domain name:  To start a drop shipping store you will need a domain name, a domain name with .com is always the best. Your domain name should correlate with the kind of products you are selling. If you do not have any idea on which domain name to use, you could use business name generators.

Sign up for shopify: Shopify is the most comprehensive drop shipping platform on the market, new features, tools and resources are always added regularly. Shopify offers a 14 day free trial and you could easily drop the platform if you don't like it. If you have any problems with shopify in the future, you could refer back to our blog because we would post about that soon.

Use shopify themes: When you build your shopify store, make sure to use shopify themes. You could try out free themes before making money and then use paid themes after you start making money.

Install Oberlo: Oberlo makes it easy to find products and add them to your store. If you want a really good store, I would advice you to use oberlo.

Step 3: Promoting your store

There are many ways you can promote your store and I would list a whole lot of them below.

(i) Use facebook advertising: Facebook has a whole lot of users and using facebook ads is one of the best ways to promote your store.

(ii) Influencer Marketing: Influencers are famous and they have a lot of followers, paying them to promote your product will do your store a whole lot of good.

(iii) Using email marketing: Adding apps like mail chimp to your drop shipping store would help advertise more products to your customers and drive more traffic to your store.

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