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Dropship on Amazon advices

How to choose good products to dropship on Amazon? Here are a few advices and a recommendation to let a pro to the market research. While a dropshipping business is easy to startup and great for new entrepreneurs, it’s still a business. You’re going to experience challenges and obstacles that’ll require you to find a way to overcome adversity. You’ll be required to pivot several times as you grow your store. A new trend might pop up within your niche that you need to add to your store immediately to capitalize on sales. A product you really like might not be liked by your customers requiring its removal from your store. An ad might perform really well and require you to scale quickly resulting in you negotiating with your bank for a business loan.

After you run your store for a while, you’ll learn the most common questions your customers have. If you get a few questions a week about similar topics, just know that there are 100 or so people that didn’t ask that same question and just left. Sometimes, people will chat or call for answers. However, most people will be lazy and just leave. With a Frequently Answered Questions Section (FAQ for short), you can give them the answer and get them to buy no matter what time it is.

Aside from the usual dropshipping platforms, consider using alternative ones as well. I recommend trying AliExpress. It has the same vendors who also have eBay accounts in US locations. They are usually faster, as they do not want to get penalized by eBay. They normally have US partners and warehouses and they provide a USPS tracking number. This can be provided to your customer, and makes for better customer satisfaction than providing them with a Chinese international tracking number. Additional tips: When dropshipping from AliExpress, always make sure to select ePacket shipping, and ensure that it is sent via ePacket and not China Post. This is because ePacket can easily be tracked, and China Post is a much difficult platform to navigate as it is mainly in Chinese.

How to find the best products ? A few words about dropshipping market research. Another great way to generate ideas of dropshipping products to sell in your online store is by looking at social shopping platforms. Social shopping sites are ecommerce enabled websites where the shopping experience is shared with a social network of people. Sharing can include liking, commenting, recommending or sharing products with others. The main premise for sellers on these sites is using others recommendations and influence to gain more sales. Look around these websites and discover how people use them. Notice how each store’s customer reviews are prominent and feedback is important to the UI. This makes it easy for you to research potential dropshipping products to sell in your store as you can quickly identify products that people love and are raving about. Or you can let an expert to do the product market research for you while you focus on marketing or improving your website. See extra info on Best selling on Amazon.