How To Start A Dropshipping Business

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June 26, 2023

by a searcher from University of Texas at Austin in Houston, TX, USA

Dropshipping is a business system that allows a company to sell products without ever maintaining an inventory of the products. The customer places an order, and then the company notifies the manufacturer or distributor of the product that an order has been placed and it should be dropped into a shipment for the consumer. The manufacturer or distributor sends the product directly to the consumer on behalf of the dropshipping company.

The order is simple: the consumer pays the dropshipper. The dropshipper pays the manufacturer or distributor. The manufacturer or distributor sends the product to the customer. Essentially, the dropshipper is a marketer.
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/how-to-start-a-dropshipping-business/

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from Duke University in Alpharetta, GA, USA
The challenge with most drop-shipping businesses is there are very limited barriers to new entrants and copycats - and many tools available to spot and clone successful offers as you scale up the advertising campaigns. The affiliate marketing community has elevated these techniques to a high art. If you're going to play in this space, think long & hard about value creation beyond access to product / providing a path to market... Potential answers may include bundling, enhanced sourcing searches, solution engineering, retention / rebuy..
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