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Drop shipping with your own site |
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While eBay constitutes the most popular platform for drop shipping, it is surely not the only way to offer your products to customers.
Another option should result in an own website on which you can add your products and sell them. With your own website you have the full control of your business. You can decide how the products are illustrated, where and how advertisement can be carried out, and build up the consumer's loyalty not exactly by delivering of high-class products, but also by providing additional services for the customer. In case, you sell bicycles. Thus you can add additional informations about the subject “bicycle” on your own homepage. Because of your useful tips, as well as informations about routes etc...it gives an additional stimulation to revisit your site and hopefully to buy your products. Another advantage is, that if your site is visited, the customer is only on your website, and thus he only sees your products. eBay is moreover exactly the opposite, because there the customer notices everywhere competitors with different and sometimes cheaper products.
To have an own website, also gives the possibility to automate your business. Orders can be automatically transferred to the drop shippers. For that reason you do not waste a lot of time for the logistics and therefore are able to concentrate on marketing of the products and your website. However, there are also disadvantages: Sales one Bay gives you the access to the visitors and installations of the provider. Dropshipping on your own website, nevertheless, means that you must win your own visitors and develop your own platform & design. Your website must be safe, optimised for search engines and have a professional design, so that visitors do not turn away. The development dispatches time and money, but at the end your visitors will profit by more stability than eBay can ever achieve. |
