Paso 2. Selling your product throughénumber of sales channels
In this point, you are going to have to make a decisionón about your inventory. If it were me, investía 200 dólares in buying 5-10 pieces of my product to start. Of course you can buy one to start the úunique to beá a start mábe slow.
I guess now is a good time to mention that I haven't found any Dropshipping sellers nor do I recommend them for someone just starting out with a new supplier. The úThe only times I have had successful dropshipping relationships with suppliers is afterés of a long and prórough story. if it starts like thisí at first you will end up with dissatisfied customers and blocked accounts.
Anyway, all you need is a few pieces of inventory and start selling them.
i knowóI suggest using two of these three sales channels; Amazon, eBay, Craigslist
A thingúAt one point I said spam your friends on Facebook and all the forums since that's a lotón work and produceá very little result for you.
It is relatively fáeasy to set up shop in all págassed (It is enough for me to see what the best sellers of their products areán doing and then try to improve on this aspect).
one or two díundress themés to receive your product, you should start making sales, hereí That's when things start to get really exciting.. Empiece a envíar your products from the post office más close and wait to see whaté happens.
Assegúmake sure you sent itíto as soon as I can and to pack everything well, obviously, but I'm assuming that you know cómo send things, así I'm not going to go into much detail. Assegúmake sure you sent itíto immediately. Spaghettién suggestíto send a thank you note with your website.
After a month you should know if you need to find a new product or if you need to scale up your current product.
If you cannot make a profit with your product in the sales channels, so I don't think it's worth putting más effort into that specific productífico, better look for another product to sell.
Paso 3. SCALE!
afterés that having my airsoft guns on eBay and Amazon, lo úthe only one you haveíto do was keep track of inventory and shippingíO. Selling 15 weapons to the díI was very excited at this moment.
Little by little I startedé to add más products to eBay and Amazon, empecé to send promotional material with my envíos, i starté to advertise my products, and I startedé a mark behindáit's about my business. My order average was 20 y ráask step to 30, 40, 50 sales per dayía.
Please note that NONE of this will beíto possible if I had not found an incredible supplieríble. if you areá reading carefully I knowá realize that I haveía 15 años, and what did he wear 2 añyou of many errors and ésuccesses before reaching this point. Hopefully afterés to read this artíass, you can skip the majoría of these mistakes and make it right for the ésuccess.
I really don't knowíto what I was doing and I was kind of throwing money at things and trying what worked. It was an awesome experience learning for meí, and I learnedí a mountainón about what works and what doesn't work in marketingón and growing internet sales.
What made my sales increase was:
- Advertising on Amazon and eBay. Especially with Amazon.
- Añadirme a mí same in other sales channels. I finally made an ecommerce storeóunique so that my products could be sold throughés of Google shopping primitive versions, Bing Shopping, and any other shopping places I could find in it.ínea. Put what artíasses and sell themí a travéI know of them. And each new channel gave me a little moreás growth for free.
- brand yourself. You have to find a good brand name that resonates with people.
- Point of recurring income. Empecé to see growthólido of the inclusionóNo coupons and promotional materialsón and cada envíO. Over time, I have created an emailóunique and subscription SMSón that sends you offers and news of airsoft elements.
And the things that didn't work
- PPC Advertising. Outdoor advertising where I was selling never worked.ó for mí very good, however me tooéI was very young and did not knowímuch about the executionófield no.ñthose of PPC. If you are already good with PPC, test it.
- Communication mediaón Social. It just won't work for import.ón. Maybe you can find a way to do this if you are a very good social media marketer., but 99% of people are not going to get any social media sales from this.
- Almost anything I don't mentionó previously. If I don't mention ité previously, I did not earn enough money with él like to remember it.
Please note that the úonly money he was using was simply reinvesting the profits. Of course you can spend out of pocket to grow más ráI ask, but my goal in this post is to keep the risks low, while still growing.
If you follow this tutorial, it is very probable that it will arrive where I was (doing 50 orders to the dayía).
- Negotiate better téterms with your provider. Once my supplier knows that I am a valuable contact they will convertá and sólido, fácyl money díafter día, I'm your golden boy. Now you can start negotiating prices and shipping conditions.íO. Si la fábrica can send my customers to meí and to handle returns, my business isá next door automated.
- Start outsourcingóNo of processes. If you can't get your fábrica sends its customers to you, you are going to want to get rid of that aspect of your business somehow. you willá enough money to hire someone to do the shippingíor for you locally. try to get someoneúNo friend or family member to start, since it is a lotás fácil, mábe safe and máIt's cheap to manage a friend who an employee.
If you get go más far from this point, it's really up to you where you want to take it. Yo preferíto keep it at this level (automated cash flow), but you can certainly grow to where you want. there is no líreal limit of the amount of money that an import businessócan't do, and you have built a foundation sólida.
At approxíyes of mi Empire
In this point, very few things podístill go wrong. The lack of somethingúan unforeseen and horrible event that takes place, yo teníto a constant stream of automated income.
I don't remember the exact circumstances, but chinese ports suddenly stopped shipping airsoft guns. Durante más de 3 months, i couldn't get any airsoft gun from china.
Sé what was más de 3 months, since that is when I was forced to throw in the towel. Busqué a replacement provider from anywhere I could, but prices have beenístill fired. Ademái know about that, kill a mountainón of orders that could notíto arrive and the customers were pissed off …
With many new projects sprouting, and having sólo 16 añat that moment I followedí forward … accumulate enough money to invest elsewhere. I have learned myás in this business than I did in my entire school career.
The úthe only thing you have to do now, if you haven't done anything in all this time, es ¡ACTÚAR ! If this strategy intrigues you, sal ahí out and at least try to put all this in práctic. ¡make it happen!
