Dropshipping
what it is ?
buying merchandise anywhere in the world figuring out shipping costs and handling time, packaging and any other buying term that
can impact the consumer nel cost .
then reaching out to those consumers and placing a worth well offer on their table.
lets analyze the steps to achieve the above :
– Buying murchendise
first thing first, we need a supplier/s :
the supplier, be him may he be, has already made the product and is now selling it at these exact moments to others. by addressing
him, from one hand you offer him an opportunity of expanding his business , on the other hand you offer a huge waste of the supplier
time which in his case already means money.
suppliers worldwide are very aware of this and there for as part of the sales department of the company(factory) they are prepared for
accepting new distributors normly with a pre-edited process that is simple and easy to apply.
how to stand out :
1.Show the supplier you are productive
2.Make your offer clear and simple
3.Go over the supplier and his cometitors website and read their offer
4.Compose the deal you offer in a way that is showing a long lassting intended realationship.
Supplier Discounts
The supplier is one of your main sources for profit, finding a product that is promoted expensive online and being able to get a much
better price from the manufacturer or one of his main suppliers
wholesale has a major role in your business profits. discounts are know for many reasons but there is always room for more creativity.
here are just sevrel ideas you should have already tried :
Wholesale – Explain that you are grouping orders for your supplier , send him an email or message asking what will be the price buying
only small lots insthead of singal items.Also, mantion that you are addressing a whole new targeted audiance that already has trust in
you and shown interest in the product. a wholesaler reaching a new area of clients is expensive taking care of that will save the supplier
time and the risk involved.
Contact a shipping company – taking care of your own shipping could lower costs and fasten efficiency for both shipping time and the
supplier. if you are registered as a company somewhere in the world , contact one of the worldwide shipping companies and open an
account for yourself. you will get deals and discounts offered and much more support for your parcel tracking ,with these kind of accounts
you should also expect some free shipments and gifts around the holidays .
Direct contact – if you found your supplier on any niche suppliers platform, try contacting him directly for a better deal , you are saving
him the fees from the platform and he should reflect that in a new offer.
Landing page – make a landing page that links to your supplier for wholesale purchasees , as long as you are not yet experienced with the
actual supply and do not intend to provide these services yourself there is no reason why not start-up a wholesalers business on your
website just by linking to the supplier and sending him better screened traffic.
Affiliate – with anyone along the process , come up with an offer and build a landing page explaining what the expected profits for both
sides are. dont try to screen your homepage traffic by sending them to these pages. simply create new sources of trafic for each landing
page address(Link) by running an image ad “banner” on one of the social networks. (if you are using the TanagiTeam guide for sourcing
clients check the How-To and notice the benefits when you ad for affiliates)
Shipping Your Orders
most suppliers provide it as a bundle with buying their products, think of shipping as its own service, you could out source it on your
own , even get a local on the classeffieds next to your manufacturer and hire him to do pick up and delivery then do the same at the
parcel destination .
main thing to remember is that final cost is going to be the sum (+) of several factors depending on each decision you make you could
effect the price.
standard Air china
ePacket
Delivery companies (DHL, USPS,UPS,FEDEX,ece’)
all are the same from a dropshiper prespective, those are service providers. you could address each of the companies yourself and also
find local companies to do the handling.
figure a way for your specific size and whight of shipments to arrive all the way from the supplier to your customer. safe, fast, cost
should be your keywords for that.
this should be time size and cost based ,so its best if you make a list of steps/levels/stages as your business develops.
here are some facts :
As a business profits should be calculated on a monthly/quarterly/yearly base which will add to your leverage , then to look for a day to
day based profit.
Every country has its “taxeble goods minimum amount” – importing below that amount (in dollars) per address will be custom tax free.
Custom Tax is calculated according to your product type (niche – importing categories that are pre-set at customs ) and will not be
added until your shipment arrives at destination , find your category and read the combining rules for it. consider ways to lower your
tax then import the products yourself by using a shipping company account.
Packages cost money – you could contact a packaging company as well. its as easy as an email and maybe some reading online.
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Making a Sell
Think creative, make a sale ,emphasize a quality , identify a need and make the offer !!!
create an easy run-down , check list, for you to follow so you have a template for making an offer, it will include:
Email with the offer you like to get from your supplier (example: discount for quantity)
negotiated shipping terms (example: 30% off total shipping cost for shipping $x in one month)
presentation of the opportunity you have negotiated to your targeted audience (example: Banner or ad)
After accomplishing all tasks in your “store offer template “
here are some ideas you could follow or get inspired by to bring trafic in :
Setting a section in your store for the football audience ,so if the local football team wins a game you are the first to come on google
search for the stadium name or address and offer your products with the winning team logo or even an entire themed landing page.
(who sold them those scarfs and hats last year ?! and why was it not you ?! )
Setting a section in your store for the fashion audience of your niche, fashion items are low cost at wholesale .do the math needed and
add a section of fashion items that will have a huge markup per every sell. sunglasses, hats and shirts for example could be sold much
higher then the original wholesale cost and one sold item usually will cover for the lot. have the lot shipped to you and send your client
his parcel yourself .
find a community with an obvious need for a certain product and see what the current supplier is missing or how you can out-rank him
with better service or price using tools as the “supplier discounts” section or “Shipping your order”
you might be interested in something a little more complex that can guarantee you with it’s outcome :
Targeting a very specific audience type and geographic within a specific platform at a specific day will lower your costs on the advertising platform
you use (google/facebook…) but you can take it a step further by making that same targeted audience ready before your online
pricey campaign banners even begin. create a very small area buzz about your brand or offer ,then run your ads with the same targeted
audience . commenting on the city hall website or page , reviewing the local businesses on google maps , sending an email to local
business to engage them to action on your website, join local community forums and events , contact a local business owner and offer
him an exchange for placing your ad, send local mail campaign or ad in a local business newspaper and websites.
how about for when the target audiance is spread on a large area (for example if you are addressing tennis fans or soccer fans one team
fans might be to small target but more then one team fans almost always will mean a wide state spread or even countries wide) :
1. associate your product with an existing related service or product contact the product local distributor and offer to send him a catalog
of your store with the intent he can offer it in his store and get a cut of your profits.
2. make a landing page showing a connection between your promoted product and a keyword that you can see a relation to , collecting
traffic related to your subject, rank your landing page first for that word and offer that traffic a more suitable content for them
regarding that keyword.
3. graphic design vouchers and coupons ( web&print ) offer your product and affiliate with online or online platforms like malls,markets,shopping
centers , events, newspapers , magazines, forums, and blogs offering a unique price for that community.
HOW TO RANK FIRST ON GOOGLE
google ranks a page regarding its relativity from several different factors , try to effect the main ones and understand that this is a building
process . here are some of those main factors :
– Keywords , the amount of times a word show on a page could be “injected” by just adding the same word over and over again which
will rank you as spam on many robots. please do not spam the internet .
offer a good resource of information covering all different aspects of your product keywords by :
add more product variations
open a niche offering different colors and sizes
see the first current result on google and import the same item to your store,
make a “line” (niche/category)of the item with different versions (it’s ok to import products just for seo purpose, not having to expect to
sell each item you offer in the store ).
make a wholesale offer for the product , even if for a high price that will never sell , make the offer so you get to add the keywords to
your pages and site.
– Backlinks ,can be created in many ways : banners, posts, images,signatures and more, to get a good backlink you could :
search for indexing websites just like the yellowpages / whitepages (business , shopping , maps , category , locals )
reply online questions regarding your product category on forum websites, social media and comments on every webpage you read
create a group/page/website/form/questioner/post , these are known in engaging people and moving them to action and will provide
you with a nice spot to add your product link
tell your personal story on a fulfillment website and add a link to show your success
a backlink shows your website credibility with the “show me who your friends are and i’ll tell you about yourself” term . so the more that
the websites you associate with are reliable so are you. it means going on large platforms like facebook instagram or snapchat is good
connection but everyone are going to have it . so try finding a quality website with a unique connection to your product and contribute
something valuable to that community.
here is an open offer for one more backlink to your website,lets see how many of you reading this really are going to act about your
business , this is an easy task , send an email to TanagiTeam@G1li.com with minimum 400 words article about your dream in life ,add
any website link on the bottom and i will make a banner for you and post it on my website for 3 month minimum.
– Coverage , offer a good product coverage by :
posting a Questions&Answers section
create a table compering all competition items
create a list of “best 5” in category
create an “over-time” product story (the history of the product).
RANK FIRST ON A SEARCH ENGINES (Google, Bing , Yahoo and others)
After you have customized your website/ store for clients to walk in and like what they see (homepage and products) now you want more clients (traffic) to actually present what you have ready for them.
social networks could be one place to look for traffic and another very known source are search engines . it’s time to let them know you are here and get those search engines to show your website for as many people as possible so they click your link , browse to your page and shop in your store .
To stay focused on all of that to happen you are going to want to choose a very specific audience type, in this case of search engines you should target the audience more based on interest fields and going by keywords from there .
Lets analyze this a little farther :
a search engine is a software and it allows you access to its data either by searching it or inputting new data as in register new information.
you can register new information in to google or any other search engine , if you are using “google search console” then :
1. see the way a robot is reading your website by going in to the “Crawl” tab. also, use it to “crawl as google” to inform it with your new favorite data pages and links .
2. reach cards, are those beautiful product images that you can find right on the search page without having to click anything ,just after the user search for a keyword and right up there on the first result he see. make your own by clicking the reach card tab and insert your product information.
3. search analytics – see when your page was showing on someone search result , so if a user searched for a keyword to try and get somewhere on the web and he was presented with your page in the results it will count as an impressions if he actually clicked your link out of all the rest it will count as a click as well .
to use this information in order to improve your website performance ,make sure to follow that report and help the search engine to better refine the audience that is seeing your page(impressions) from the audience that it is actually relevant to what you promote (clicks). one way for doing this will be to present more options and variants for the same product on that page another way will be covering more aspects of that product for example :
– posting a Questions&Answers section
– create a table compering all competition items
– create a list of “ best 5-10 ” in that category
– create an “over-time” product story (the history of the product)
4.links to your site – also known as Backlinks ,can be created in many ways : banners, posts, images,signatures and more, to get a good backlink you could :
– search for index websites just like the yellowpages / whitepages you oculd index for many reasons, just need something in comman. find your indexing reason : business , shopping , maps , niche, category , local area.
– reply online questions regarding your product category on forum websites, social media and comments on every webpage you read
– create a group/page/website/form/questioner/post , these are known in engaging people and moving them to action and will provide you with a nice spot to add your product link.
– tell your personal story on a fulfillment website and add a link to show your success
remember : a backlink shows your website credibility with the “show me who your friends are and i’ll tell you about yourself” term . so the more that the websites you associate with are reliable so are you. it means going on large platforms like facebook instagram or snapchat is good connection but everyone are going to have it . so try finding a quality website with a unique connection to your product and contribute something valuble to that community.
here is an open offer for one more backlink to your website, lets see how many of you reading this really are going to act about your business affiliation program , this is an easy task , send an email to TanagiTeam@G1li.com with minimum 400 words artical about your dream in life ,add any website link on the bottom and i will make a banner linking to your store and post it on my website for 3 month minimum. so you could see it as a backlink in the list linking to your site about after 72 hours (which is the time google takes to update a report).
