meetme01:
How do you get customers to your site?

Will the site be affliated to the Chinese company?
If NO, how do you bring down the products?

The site, would it be. Com or. Com. Ng?

What range of prices should be targeted?

What is the lowest cost implication for a newbie?

After understanding the concepts, what should be the 1st...2nd and 3rd steps for a newbie?

Will the site be affliated to the Chinese company? If NO, how do you bring down the products?

The site, would it be. Com or. Com. Ng?

What range of prices should be targeted?

How do you get customers to your site?

Now you'll ask, how can you get customers for your online shop? That's where Facebook marketing comes in... we will cover that in its section of this training. Now that we understand what Shopify is, now we can proceed

What is the lowest cost implication for a newbie?

techiGenius:
Dropshipping is not about just going to the Chinese website and picking any random product to sell. There are criteria for picking and selling items and products to customers. Oh Yes, I can read someone's mind right now saying; it has to be a product in demand! That one too is wrong.
First thing you must consider before you decide on dropshipping a product is making sure that the product isn't sold in your everyday mall-like ShopRite or even our local stores. You won't expect a customer to sit and wait 3-6 weeks for an item they could just walk into a store and buy in 30mins. That'll be like setting yourself up to fail.
You need to consider dropshipping like you are trying to help your customers all the time. If you are trying to set up an online store, put it in mind you are trying to help buyers solve problems with your products.
pls ask questions, this stuff is coming off my brain like directly so I mite not touch a pressing issue from the topic DROPSHIPPING that you are interested in. pls let your questions remain within the frame of the topic

Dangrace01:
Shopify requires monthly payment but there is a way they bypass it. I think it's registering as an affiliate please can you talk about this?

techiGenius:


Pls boss, you don't bypass it, anything, I don't subscribe to anything you do that is not legally bound by the company. Moreover, I already mentioned that Shopify has made it easy for online e-commerce website creation instead shedding our loads of money to web developers, why would anyone bypass something that has a free 90day usage before you pay a dime!

I am begging you as a friend and as a nairaland teacher, don't subscribe to such bypass unless you want to lose your account in the future. Don't forget you are Nigerian and our IPs already got red flags world over

Dangrace01:


Ok thanks a lot

Can you guarantee that if one follows your tutorial diligently that one would make a sale before 90 days?

techiGenius:


he said a sale, 90 days? Don't be ridiculous boss, you'll make enough to pay for your store, apps, and Facebook ads recurring fees. I think these questions are a bit too early, I haven't even started yet. Wait, with time you'll understand yourself

techiGenius:
What is Shopify

I was just brainstorming and decided that it will be ideally straight forward to start with knowing what Shopify is. I wanted to start this training with the order on the table of the content above but this will help build up your mind about the whole concept of online business and how to channel your thinking precisely.
Shopify is a complete commerce platform that lets you start, grow, and manage a business. Create and customize an online store. Sell in multiple places, including web, mobile, social media, online marketplaces, brick-and-mortar locations, and pop-up shops. Manage products, inventory, payments, and shipping. (According to shopify.com)
In my simple terms, Shopify is an online platform mainly for the purpose of selling your product and business to clients and customers. It's fairly different from your regular website, at least to a large extent because everything about it is centered on sales and marketing. it provides you with a whole lot of tools to help you better your business in several different ways.
Its an open platform that lets you basically connect your business to people on a larger audience mainly via social media like facebook, Instagram, YouTube, etc. Whatever kind of business you plan on venturing into, Shopify is like a step to greater height.
What makes dropshipping so attractive and almost a first choice to people on Shopify? Simple, it has an array for tools that seamlessly connects the Shopify platform to sellers in china. Need I mention how stress-free it is to just find a product and Shopify does everything else? All you have to do is decide on a product you wish to sell and put it up on your store and that's it, once a buyer clicks on the product to buy, contacting the seller, paying the seller, shipping and every other thing is done by Shopify, you won't even have to click a button. Now you'll ask, how can you get customers for your online shop? That's where Facebook marketing comes in... we will cover that in its section of this training. Now that we understand what Shopify is, now we can proceed
I hear people compare Shopify with Wix and WordPress websites. The difference between these two is quite clear, while Shopify is user friendly, WordPress and it's like are not friendly to the novice in web design at all, not to mention eCommerce websites. Web design Guys charge hundreds of thousands to design an average eCommerce website for a client, not something even close to Jumia standard at all. But with Shopify, you're a few apps away from having your own online store.

WHAT IS DROPSHIPPING

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Not everybody reading this content now have heard about drop shipping, and there are those of us who have heard but have absolutely no idea what the subject is and then some of us who know a whole lot but just can't manage to get things going for them properly.
We are all going to pretend like we are all newbies so here is what is dropshipping(it's a single word NOT drop shipping)?
The simple definition is taking goods from one seller and helping to sell it to a buyer at a profit. Simple eh?
Yes, that's just what it is about. But here let's break it down in detail and business terms.
You find a product which some persons are interested in buying, you go to aliexpress.com(a Chinese website where loads of people all over the world buy goods from for very cheap prices and good quality) to find a seller of that product for a reasonable amount, then you show the buyer(your customer) this product on your website when the person buys the product from your website, you, in turn, go to your Chinese seller from Aliexpress and order the product but this time, you will enter the exact details of your customer so that the product will be sent to your customer directly you are basically doing nothing at all but you keep the profit. Let's say you put a price tag of N10,000 on the product on your website but the Chinese supplier or seller is selling at N3,500 with shipping expenses included, the N6,500 difference becomes your profit. The maths you just saw is literally how you're going to make your profit, like nothing more, nothing less. This is not sugar coating, it's the exact laid out pure fact which some persons here are very well familiar with
Now, why can't the buyer just go directly to the Chinese seller? This is the question everyone asks. The answer is simple, there are many variables that could play a part to make these customers or buyers buy from you instead of going to let's say Jumia or aliexpress or Amazon. If I go to any one of the listed sites, am actually going to search for something that I WANT to buy for instance want a hair clipper, I'll simply go to any one of these websites and search for it specifically, meaning am going there on a mission of finding a hair clipper to buy. But in the case of drop shipping, you bring the product and advertise it to the customer. You brought the awareness to this customer, they may not necessarily need this product but you made them realize that this product could solve a problem for them, then they are most definitely buying your product and again, you must have created a channel to enable the customer reach you and find out more info about this product you are selling to them. So in the long run, you are have established a relationship with these customers, something the above-listed website won't do.
Also, these websites are actually huge markets for basically everything(every Niche) but your own isn't a market but a store because you into one particular Niche for instance fitness, all you do is sell fitness products like skipping ropes, dumbbells, yoga mats, etc. So you are targeting a particular audience which will, in turn, build trust but also long term commitment. You can even target a particular gender, for instance, women when you are into beauty Niche...
The above reason is why many people fail in this business, they try to sell any product that looks good to them in their Shopify store, from makeup kit to football jersey to phone accessories... Wow. wait, does it sound reasonable at all?
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