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The Ultimate Guide to Dropshipping

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Re: The Ultimate Guide to Dropshipping

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Post by prawn »

whatshisface wrote: post #25
spiredigital wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good feedback - we'll have to incorporate this into our 1st round of revisions. Drop shipping is a fulfillment model where a merchant doesn't carry any inventory. Instead, they only purchase an item from a wholesaler when they receive an order from a customer. Then, they have that item shipped directly from the wholesale warehouse to the customer. It allows a merchant to start a store without having to invest up-fron…

So, now we have merchants with no store, no warehouse and no inventory... what exactly is left for the merchant to do?

Marketing, making the sales happen, etc. They wouldn't exist if they didn't do something useful.

It's like asking why affiliate marketing exists. It does and it's huge.

Re: The Ultimate Guide to Dropshipping

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Post by swib »

timtamboy63 wrote: post #27

Very awesome. Might be worth adding ecommhub.com in there somewhere - makes life a hell of a lot easier for a drop-shipper :)

Thanks for the mention :) I'm Kurt, founder of eCommHub. I think it was an editorial mistake, so hopefully we'll get included in the guide soon.

Just to give others some background, we started as a Shopify app a few years ago, so our whole platform is built around dropshipping (with Shopify). eCommHub helps with automating the inventory management and order processing, which can otherwise be quite manual and tedious. Some of our clients are automating as many as 5,000+ orders per DAY through Shopify using eCommHub.

Anyway, this truly is the ultimate guide on drop shipping, so congrats to Mark and Andrew for putting together such a great resource!

Here's our app listing if you're interested in checking out more: http://apps.shopify.com/ecommhub or http://ecommhub.com

Re: The Ultimate Guide to Dropshipping

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Post by hef19898 »

spiredigital wrote: post #14
kitcar wrote: post #2

Out of curiosity, if drop shipping enabled you to quit your job in finance a few years back ( http://ecommerce.shopify.com/guides/dropshipping/about-the-a... ) , why are you now 'giving away your secret sauce' by running a website dedicated to teach people how to setup "copycat" businesses? Is it that the drop shipping business has gotten so competitive that there is more money in teaching people about it than the bu…

Co-author here, and a totally valid question! I started my blog about eCommerce / drop shipping for a number of reasons: 1) To expand my professional network and opportunities I just finished co-writing a book with Shopify on drop shipping, which is something I never would have had the opportunity to do without the blog. It's allowed me to build credibility and expand my network. Additionally, the blog allows me to r…

Great guide! Just one question, have you ever thought of setting something like a drop-shipping B2B service? There are a lot of services that are going into that direction (right at the core, that's why wholesellers make living with companies) and collaboration plattforms out there, but I think combining that with some dropshipping services would offer a great opportunity.
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