Dropshipping Shopify: A Beginner’s Guide to Making Passive Income Online – Set up Your Shopify Store, Sell Unique Products and Promote Your Brand With Top E-Commerce Marketing Strategies

By Samuel Smith

If You’ve Always Dreamed about owning a Charming Store and Selling Unique Items, but Lack the Funds and Space to Do So, Keep Reading and Take the First Step Toward Making this Dream Come True!

Dropshipping is a go-to method for anyone who wants to upgrade his or her budget without investing a crazy amount of money to start a business.

This incredible platform provides you with an opportunity to own a store, without worrying about the logistics of it such as storage space, stock, or inventory. Sounds simple enough, right?

Don’t be misled by the seemingly simple conduction of this venture, for it is the reason why many such businesses have failed. Instead, use this book to dive deep beneath the surface of the most successful online businesses, discover their success secrets, strategies, and models and implement them in your own project!

Here’s what you’ll be able to do:

• Navigate the Shopify platform like a professional
• Design your online store and choose the right product niche
• Brand and promote your business to become a stable presence on the market
• Crush your competition with proven selling and marketing strategies
• Use marketing tools to attract a vast amount of customers to your store
• Avoid the 3 biggest mistakes you can make in dropshipping
• Recognize the right suppliers, and sell products of the highest quality
• Raise your profits with strategic marketing

And much more!
Even if you’ve never heard of Shopify before, with this guide you can build a business that will ensure your financial stability.

The Internet has given us countless opportunities for making money while enjoying ourselves and having fun, so why not use it?

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Samuel Smith
• Release date: Aug 12, 2021
• ISBN: 9791220835145

Samuel Smith

Samuel Smith has been in sales for most of his adult life and has built up a wealth of experience in the field. Hailing from Detroit, he has had to work hard to get to where he is and knows that without his marketing wisdom and the clever use of the internet he wouldn’t have found the success he has.It was thanks to his approach that he achieved financial freedom and is now able to work wherever he chooses. His books also reflect the way Samuel has lives and worked for the past two decades and he hopes that the advice he provides within them will allow many more people to follow the path that they are most suited to.In his spare time, Samuel enjoys simple pleasures like having a beer with some of his friends while watching a baseball game, going for dinner with his wife or vacationing in his favorite Caribbean resort. He also reads lots, mainly about new ideas in business and sales but also in the science fiction genre when he wants to completely unwind.Samuel lives with his wife and two sons just outside Detroit and has no plans to move away from what he calls home any time soon.

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Introduction

Despite its simple yet effective functionality, Shopify is slowly becoming a popular platform for developing your e-store. This helps you to build an online shop, control your goods, market them, and monitor your earnings. Shopify offers four main features that take care of your business from the very start. It provides a robust e-commerce approach that lets you have anything you want.

Storefront: Besides the appealing layout, there are many essential features the storefront has to run successfully in a competitive market. The best Shopify themes crafted by experts attract people to your store. You can easily change any template to bring a unique look to your shop. Customize your shop and incorporate an important function that will offer you an enormous advantage.

Their e-commerce prototype is mobile-friendly, so you can sell your products on any smartphone. This will also boost the perception of your company and your network of customers. Shopify gives you the best functionality for creating a great storefront. By supplying you with a full blogging platform, it means you are publishing quality information about your company and keeping your user involved with business ideas.

An HTML and CSS connection enables you to configure the shop whenever you wish. This choice is really useful if various parts of your shop need to be changed.

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2. Shopping Cart: There are big features you need to remember when it comes to the shopping cart. Security comes first on the list, as many customers have reservations regarding making a purchase online. Every e-store on Shopify is secured by the 256-bit SSL certificate, the type of authentication that banks use.

Transaction gateways are another important aspect and must meet sellers' criteria for a seamless transaction to be provided. Shopify has built approximately 100 gateways of payment to allow complete independence in selecting their chosen ones.

If you are working with a global business, languages can be a hurdle that reduces your profits. With Shopify, converting your store themes into multiple languages will help you avoid this issue.

Shopify gives you an alternative to reclaim discarded carts. This helps you to submit discount emails to individual consumers who abandoned the cart with no transactions. It is an excellent innovation that can boost revenue by attracting current customers.

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3. Customer management: Shopify's shop management is a simple task, as you'll get absolute information on the customers and their interests. If you have useful info, you won't consider it challenging to organize things.

To increase your income, a growth function is added. You'll get an opportunity to build consumer profiles that promote the sale of your items. Having knowledge regarding your network of customers lets you offer quality support. Depending on your purchasing experience, place, and more, you'll get a list of customers.

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4. Marketing and SEO: One should never underestimate the value of marketing and SEO when it comes to online purchases. Shopify guarantees the shop with its content and SEO tactics get a better profile and traffic. Employ Shopify developers who better understand specific features than others, and use the right features for your market.

You will improve the popularity of your shop by utilizing Search Engine Optimization (SEO) so that customers will quickly figure you out. You should rely on only a few essential SEO considerations such as tag H1, description, and meta tags.

This creates the shop sitemap.xml. The sitemap has a few tasks to perform to earn a decent place on the search engine result list. It makes goods, web pages, and blog posts understood through a search engine.

When you look from a marketing perspective, you need to find offers for your company and promo coupons. Deliver a bargain by offering faithful customer discounts. It strengthens the principles of the company.

Everything is feasible without a social network. Social networking is no longer a venue for a social gathering; instead, it is an increasing business sector. To increase sales of your items, Shopify connects your store with Facebook, Twitter, Connected, and other titles. It's the location where you can communicate directly with the customers.

For creating an online marketplace, Shopify has been receiving more publicity than others. The amount of functions it provides is immense. You can handle your shop, test your SEO plan, and move your marketing strategy forward. You’ll be able to make your concept appealing to the customers and arrange the way buyers want your goods.

Shopify has drawn the interest of multiple companies as well as tiny business businesses. Shopify holds a company contest every year, where anyone can sign up to build a shop on the website. The prize pool, with priceless mentoring by top investors and entrepreneurs, is well over $500,000. Some of the more prominent donors include Tim Ferris, Daymon John, and Mark Cuban, among several more. As a person, you can earn as much as $50,000 with a fully paid trip to their New York City headquarters. Previous winners include Joulies Coffee, Case Dodo, and many more.

How Do I Join a Company Contest at Shopify?

The contest has four easy steps to join:

Think of something to sell. It can be anything: t-shirts, arts & crafts, gadgets, or even the best cupcakes in the world. Your creativity is the only restriction. Also, shopping helps with virtual goods. There was a previous winner, a player of the popular game Mafia Wars that sold purely interactive gaming products.

Create your Shopify store. Shopify allows online sales easily: select a template, attach your items, and launch your store. You will get your first order approved in minutes. You don't have to be either a top-notch coder or a model. Shopify comes preloaded with templates and allows the shop setup phase to be quick and simple.

Grow your company. You'll get a free dot CO domain for 12 months and $100 in extra ads from Google AdWords just for joining the Build-A-Business competition. In the early stages, this reduces expenses for a number of promotional expenditures, enabling you to bring more resources towards production and other expenses. $100 is a decent place to start as you continue building up fans on Facebook. Make sure you put the marketing promotions in position wisely.

Watch the leaderboard. Your mentors will give you the requisite feedback and advice to succeed. You will find your spot on the Leaderboard of the competition every week.

That is it! Four basic measures together with an application to sign up and you’re ready to go. If you already have a Shopify account, there is a segment at the bottom that lets you pick an existing shop. That is a perfect way to expand your startup this week!

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Introduction to Dropshipping

Dropshipping is basically where you act as a retailer, but instead of having the trouble to store stock on your own premises, the order you take is passed on to a wholesaler instead.

Of course, another advantage is the idea that you will make a profit on the commodity because you can buy the item at a discounted rate and market it at a marked up level. The wholesaler must then send the order to the client directly.

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As stated above, the apparent advantage of this is the fact that you never even have to interact with the things yourself, because essentially, you are working as a middleman. Most people who search for information on how to make money online at one point or another come across the opportunity of dropshipping, but then struggle to understand just what it is.

Dropshipping is useful for small companies who really cannot afford to purchase in bulk or provide storage where they can hold the goods so they can pass them on. While small retail shops and others utilizing mailing catalogs will profit from dropshipping, there is no question that those with internet-based stores are the biggest consumers of dropshipping.

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Since dropshipping users don't have to think about an inventory for their product, this also ensures they're unlikely to need any other employees but themselves, which is another way you'll save expenses.

Manufacturers are gradually utilizing dropshipping because they see it as a profitable investment and a means of reducing costs.

Sending products in bulk is costly to suppliers because of the transportation prices, whether they have their own trucks or the expense of having a haulage service to transport for them. For fewer items to transport, they may utilize simpler strategies for shipping supplies, such as couriers and UPS.

Another bonus for the producer is that they receive an additional ‘salesperson’, but with the added value of not needing to give them a paycheck.

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It would be dumb of me to say, of course, that there are no pitfalls that come with dropshipping, because there are, most definitely. That said, with good knowledge at your fingertips, it's certainly one of the best ways you can make money online.

All right now, you've passed through our little introduction. This is all right. We should get on to the good stuff now... Okay, unfortunately, we're going to have to go through some of the not-so-fun things first, but hang around because there are some real surprises to get on the horizon.

Let's take a moment to get serious. It's awesome you want to start a company online. It’s really very cool. The online market provides immense potential for anyone with a successful, saleable product and committed to ensuring the quality of their online product sales. But yeah, let's do a short fact test and ensure you're fully on track with what we're thinking about.

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If you believe you should start a business focused on dropshipping, set up a website for e-commerce, and then raise millions of dollars in a short space of time, I'm not sure how to explain this, but... Quit publishing right now. Yes, that's right, now stop reading. Start your company now and let the cruel universe show you a profoundly hard lesson.

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I know you have the image of showing the middle finger to your manager, relaxing in your underwear, and making money without doing anything, and getting all the stuff you've ever wanted — stuff you or your family could never manage. Yes, certain ideas will become true, however... The job still comes first (sorry to burst your bubble). Keep with me, though... I hope you'll be worth the wait.

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We are nervous. I just feel impatient. We want to create something which will give us more money than Queen of Sheba today, not tomorrow. But then come on, that's not true. Only think of getting comfortable. What if you are absolutely overweight and can scarcely lean over to get to the remote control? Will you drop the weight in a day? No. Can you do this in one year? Well, it is likely, based on the starting place.

The same goes for a dropshipping business. Concentrate on the long haul. The short-haul is for the losers who complain it isn't functioning. Get ready to start your company before or after work in the evening or morning. Spend the time working through the resources we will be learning about for product research. Get your bid correct. Create an impressive client list and website. Using kick-butt copywriting strategies to sell the products attractively. Then... You could be making some money. Don't give into talking about the five-minute abs.

So What Is Dropshipping and When Are We Expected to Do It? What Does This Imply in English, Then?

One: You create a price on your own e-commerce platform or on an online marketplace.

Two: Buyers are taken to the marketplace or platform where you have developed the price, utilizing a range of strategies (which we'll explore later).

Three: The customer looks at the price, likes what they see, then buys the item and pays for it in full.

Four: The shipment must come to you, and you can then transfer the delivery information of the consumer to the dropship service.

Five: The dropship company will charge you the price of the object in its catalog. You're charged right in.

Six: The dropship business (hereafter known as the supplier) conducts or delivers the request to the client.

Seven: The consumer gets it.

Eight: Work is done. Let's have one more payment.

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Pretty quick huh? It's just a simple method, but it's not convenient. That seems like a weird sentence, but it makes perfect sense if you think about it. It is not easy to find profitable items that have enough margin in them. What is the margin, I hear you say? Well, this one is simple... A profit is what exists after all the costs are charged until the object is delivered. It's what you charge less than it costs for the object.

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A lot of people say that dropshipping is impossible due to the margins involved. I would like to reassure you now that the majority of people are right ... But don't let that intimidate you, let that not be a sign. If you keep reading on, I'll show you how to find things with enough margin to guarantee success for your product. However, if you don't take my suggestions, you'll only have to queue up and keep scratching your head, wondering why your company hasn't worked as you should have liked it.

With your dropship company, learning about topics like website design, business plans, and drop-ship services will lead to confusion, anger, and even surrender for many people new to the online business environment. It's very natural to get distracted by the vast quantities of knowledge and various gurus and items that are vying for your attention. However, if you plow through and remain proactive-instead of stuck in frustration — you'll quickly start making sense of it all.

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Learning from the errors of others is a smart way to make sure you continue on the correct trajectory rather than later to achieve your targets. Think of it this way--thousands upon thousands of want-to-be online shop owners were right where you are now, and it makes sense for you to take advantage of the chance and benefit from their insights