Dropshipping Simplified

beginners guide to making money in dropshipping

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• Editorial: Bibliomundi
• Año: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781526025708
• Edición: 1
• Categoría: Negocios y empresa
• Categoría: Comercio

If you're looking for a way to make money without a huge upfront investment, and without a lot of hassles or work, drop shipping with an e-commerce platform is exactly what you've been looking for.It's simple, inexpensive to get started, and your business can be run in your spare time or turned into a full-time business, if you wish to branch out.With drop shipping, you don't have to worry about having money to invest in inventory, or about dealing with finding warehouse space or shipping out packagesThis is beginners guide to making money in dropshipping.

Getting Traffic

Now that you have chosen your niche and set up your shop platform, you can set up your shop and get it ready for traffic. Consult with your chosen platform’s documentation for advice on setting up your store.

Once it’s up and running, it’s time to concentrate on getting traffic. There are many ways to do that, both paid and unpaid. We are going to take a look at both, but you can pick and choose the methods you believe will work best for your situation.

We’re going to concentrate on social media, because that is the easiest way to generate traffic, and it won’t cost much, if anything, in the beginning.

Facebook

Facebook has both paid and free methods of promotion. I highly recommend using paid promotions if you have the capital available, because you can reach a lot more people.

But you can also reach people without spending money if you’re short on capital. Join some groups related to your niche and start posting regularly. Then, with permission from the group’s owner, ask if you can drop a link to your shop.

You might even run contests for group members and give away store credit to get more attention.

Pinterest

Pinterest is one of the best ways to generate traffic to a shop, because it’s been proven to be the single best platform for selling. While other platforms might bring in more volume, Pinterest will usually convert better.

It’s a good idea to start a separate Pinterest account for each niche or store you create, because people often won’t follow accounts that are random and unorganized. If you want people to follow you, then you need to have a tight niche, with several boards that have interesting pins.

To grow your following on Pinterest, start out by following a number of accounts in your niche, but make sure you’ve already set up your profile thoroughly and created a few boards. This will get more people to follow you back.

Here are a few more tips for Pinterest:

• Use keywords in your name (Example: Recipe Girl | Cooking & Food)
• Use keywords in the description of your pins
• Set your best images to the cover of each board
• Use keywords as your board names, don...