How to setup your own dropping web site
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This document discusses the steps needed to create a dropshipping business using an e-commerce platform like Shopify. It outlines requirements like the platform, suppliers, design, customization for stock, reviews and more. Costs for initial site build can range from £500-£1200 with ongoing monthly platform and supplier fees of £70. Marketing is a key ongoing task to drive sales. In summary, it provides an overview of what is required to launch and run a dropshipping business through an e-commerce site.
How to setup your own dropping web site
- 1. Creating your own dropshipping business (got a free £5k free?) Road to millions (one day!) Chee Ho Wan #seobarcamp
- 2. What do I need? • E-commerce platform • Dropshipper suppliers • Design • Content customisation • E-commerce platform customisation – Stock management – Reviews • Marketing • Costs
- 3. E-commerce platform 3rd party solutions Customised e-commerce platforms – Advantages – Advantages • Easy to use • Fully customisable • Cheap to start up (year • Availability of apps suite 1 - £500) – Disadvantages – Disadvantages • High start up costs • Lack of filtering options • More difficult to • SEO poor out of the box manage • All Shopify sites on • Can require own single IP (not a big issue) hardware
- 4. Dropshipper suppliers – where to find? Caution: There are lots of dodgy dropshippers out there. Be wary!
- 5. Design • None of the standard themes in Shopify we found met our requirements Subsequent designs are cheaper to produce. Design 1 + branding = £1200. Design 2 + branding = £300
- 6. Content customisation Onsite product descriptions Affiliate feeds Important to have different feed content to the content onsite
- 7. e-commerce platform customisation • Stock management – Product commonly change stock quickly • Ability add new stock • Ability to remove out of stock items • Reviews – Google compliant review system (there were none on Shopify) • Microformats
- 8. Marketing Community building!
- 9. Costs Tasks Site build 1 Site build 2 Site build £1200 £300 Content – £1000 £1000 product descriptions Marketing and How much How much link building you got! you got! Shopify and £70 per £70 per month credit card month supplier costs