Below is a complete shopify guide in 2 parts
Part 1: Basic Guide
Part 2: Advanced Guide
Part 1: Basic Guide
Easy money with little effort
Overview
Earn money with a little investment. In simple terms, in drop-shipping we will be buying items from bulk suppliers, then selling it on Shopify and sending it to our customers. We never receive the product at all.
Requirements
- $100 USD, anything more than that will be used to grow with advertising
- Spare time to start, once it’s rolling you need maybe an hour each weekend.
Steps
- Get original and setup the basic store
Don’t sell generic products, think of something that you want or that you’ve bought online and sell that. Try to find an audience that spends lots of money online. (Eg: selling makeup to female teens)
- Search AliExpress for your product/niche
- Find a name, register it on an email provider (gmail is best)
- Maybe make a logo if you have time, this can be done later
- Setup your site
“But i don’t have any coding knowledge at all!!!!” You don’t need any. There’s two sites you’ll be using to make this
- Namecheap (But you can use any domain seller you prefer)
- Shopify, click here to setup your store.
- Oberlo for Shopify (This does half the work)
- Add products / Edit your site
Edit your theme look up a Shopify guide for all that stuff. Tip: Look for ePacket products with high ratings between 97% to 99%
- Add products from AliExpress to your Oberlo import list
- Edit the products / price in Oberlo (Optional: The photos too)
- Add collections /product pages in your Shopify Store
- Go Live
Create a Social Media pages for your business
- Buy Advertisements and promote. Ads are very cheap these days.
- Learn the niche of each platform. Example: Twitter seems to have the best return for tech and gaming items.
Conclusion (Already?!)
Yes. Honestly it’s super easy, Shopify babysits you through this process. I have earned a lot myself and can honestly say it was the best $100 and 6 hours I ever spent. I now spend half an hour each weekend on orders and rake in a decent amount of cash each week.
Part 2: Advanced Guide
OVERVIEW:
This mainly details what your thought process should be when setting up a campaign and offers some suggestions based on the experience and knowledge I have gained over the last few years. Like with anything, there are always going to be other people that do things slightly differently or have different opinions.
This guide is going to talk a lot about internet marketing. You obviously can’t dropship products if you do not have anyone to dropship them to – so you need to find a way to convince people to buy your product. For the purposes of this guide, we are going to be using Facebook. Facebook is definitely not the apex of traffic sources – but it’s pretty damn good and is probably the best option for beginners.
Internet marketing is remarkably simple but it requires a sixth sense that can only be developed through trial and error. The barrier to entry is also quite high since most people either don’t have the time to learn or simply can’t afford to lose money while trying to launch their first few campaigns. With that said, let’s get started.
The most common platforms dropshippers are currently using to drive traffic and sales is Shopify and Facebook. You create a landing page in Shopify and then drive traffic from Facebook. Obviously, you can use any cart software you want or drive traffic from a myriad of other sources – but this is the easiest way to get started and to actually start making sales.
REQUIREMENTS:
- You need enough money for a Shopify account. The most basic plan is around $15/mo. You should also have some spare change to play around with Facebook Ads but don’t worry about this for now.
- Computer literacy. You will have a much easier time if you have a basic understanding of PHP/HTML/Cookies/General web development.
- Facebook & Instagram
BACKGROUND:
Virtually no one in this industry comes up with their own ideas. You simply copy or steal it from others. You copy the advertisements that you see. You copy the landing pages that you see. You copy as much as you are legally allowed to. You do this because you know what they are doing is working. Companies typically do not spend money running an advertisement that isn’t generating them profit. If you see an advertisement in the wild, it would be wise to take a look at their website and product.
Do not drive yourself crazy trying to reinvent the wheel by finding the next big thing on Alibaba or AliExpress on your own – because you probably wont. Look at existing campaigns you see on the web and use them as your foundation for inspiration or ideas.