$80k-$150k Per Month Thanks To Drop
Shipping: Africa ROCKS The Business!
by Yaroslav Nevsky
One of our active forum contributors,
Daniel from Uganda, tells a fantastic success story and shares his experience
in drop shipping.
Hi, please introduce yourself
I am Daniel Mickoh, an Internet Marketer focused on mainly on
Facebook. I live in Kampala, Uganda. I have been involved in the internet
marketing space 7 years now.
Before you started drop shipping with
AliExpress, did you have any previous experience in e-commerce, or in trade, or
in online sphere generally?
I was running e-commerce on Amazon as an affiliate, I have done
niche sites, which I still do till today and now I started drop shipping with AliExpress (I was
already hiring a lady who was doing this for me). So I already have a number of
stores.
Why did you choose the drop shipping
business model, after all? How did it all begin?
I choose the drop shipping business mainly because I found it
easy to start without inventory and because of my skills in Facebook marketing which offered a huge
market.
How many stores do you have now? What
is their performance?
I have 12 stores, they gross between $80k-$150k per month on average.
How did you choose the niches?
I came to choose these niches, especially for 5 of stores from a
niche business I was running by selling digital products. The other stores were
mainly product research for trending products. But I also spy a lot on competitors.
I spend usually the biggest part of my time checking competitor ads, best
sellers and new markets.
How did you choose products and
suppliers for your store? Do you have any strategy of adding new products from
time to time? How do you set the prices?
I mainly use 3 criteria to choose products namely; the number of
active users on Facebook interested in the product, the number of product
reviews and orders from a given supplier and the trends for the product in
the last 12 months.
When choosing a supplier, I usually consider the buyer ratings
on the store, how many units he has sold, and how fast the supplier responds
when contacted.
I usually set prices to cover mainly my ad costs and store plans
and still make at least 50% if possible in profits.
Do you remember the first sale made
from your store? What have you done to achieve it? How soon did it happen?
The first sale came after testing with Facebook ads for 4 hours.
Then we made 4 sales in 24 hours.
How do you promote your stores? How
did you understand who’s your target audience? Which channels are the most
efficient for you? Did you have to give up some channels? On average, how
much does it cost you to promote your stores? (per month)
I promote my store mainly on Facebook and Instagram and SEO by growing huge fan communities,
I create engaging content for
the fans and use messenger to engage with our audiences and remarket to them
later.
I also use a few ninja tactics, most of which I have learned
from following the guy who started 10beasts and Brian Deans SEO that works.
Do you use any automated solutions to
manage the webstores? How exactly do they help you run the business?
We use automated solutions including emails and messenger
automations.
How much time does it take you every
day to manage your stores? Which task(s) demand more time than others? What are
the most difficult challenges? How do you deal with them?
I have a team of virtual assistants who help to manage these
stores, fulfilling orders and responding to customer queries.
How do you deal with difficult
customers (if you have any)? Do you have any funny/sad stories?
There will always be good and bad customers, but the worst cases
have mainly been fraudsters. For the
dissatisfied customers we usually offer refunds on their purchases.
Did you register your business
officially? What are the legal requirements in your country (if you know them)?
Our business is legally registered in the United
States, that’s my fashion label, but initially, I was using friends
to help me out in other countries. But of recent, I have chosen to register
another LLC for the dropshipping and online business. The other is an offline
business, and didn’t want any issues that can crop up with dropshipping to
jeopardize the other business.
What are your plans for future?
To create major brands for 3 of our stores and also start
selling digital products along with physical products.
What can you advise our readers –
those who already run their stores and those who didn’t start the business yet?
My Advice lies in three works. Start, Keep Standing, Keep
Working it.
Start your store now, look for winning products from competitors
and lower prices and sell those in countries they are not targeting, test 10
different products at a time and when you find a winning one, scale that up and
get more in that line.
- By Yaroslav Nevsky Yaroslav is a founder of AliDropship Community helping people worldwide to start and run a successful dropshipping business. Sources : https://alidropship.com/drop-shipping-africa/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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