With that in mind, the question of ‘how to manage a dropshipping business’ indeed has many answers.
Ultimately, the exact processes you use are up to you and this is what makes every dropshipping operation unique.
In essence though, every dropshipper needs to do three things:
- Advertise your products and attract customers
- Process orders so that customers receive their products on-time
- Take payment from customers, and pay your suppliers
Remember, those are just the basics.
To be a very good (or at least very successful) dropshipper, you’ll need to build your own brand.
You’ll also need to deliver customer service and great experiences that keep customers coming back. If you can do both, you’ll become the organisation your customers come to first when they need the type of products you sell.
Once you achieve that kind of success, you’ll be ready to expand the business. Alternatively, you might turn it over to a manager and use it as a passive income to tackle your next entrepreneurship challenge.
You see, once you get your dropshipping business going, it practically manages itself.
Most dropshipping businesses are not particularly demanding once set up correctly. It’s that flexibility and resilience that make them so attractive to entrepreneurs and those considering career changes.
What’s a dropshipper to do?
Most dropshippers are set up as retail websites. This primary site will become the face of your brand and will be responsible for giving your customers the user experience they demand – especially early on.
This is an advantage, though. Websites are particularly suited to automation, as we’ll discuss later. The point is that a well formed website can double as several different employees. It can take orders from your customers, order products from your suppliers and ensure that everything goes where it is supposed to – most of the time.
Managing a dropshipping business may not be a full-time job, but there is plenty to do, and odds are you are the only one who can do it.
When something does go wrong, you’ll need a skilled, detail-oriented human to step in. In the early days of your business, that will almost always be you.
So, what are your key day-to-day tasks as a dropshipper? You need to choose which of your supplier’s products you will sell and which you are going to feature. You’ve got to ‘market’ them as well, which is where many dropshippers begin to fail.
If you don’t have a solid understanding of who your customers are, what they want from your products and how you can give them the shopping experience they demand, they absolutely will seek out other suppliers. Many will even pay more for the same product if they can get a better shopping experience elsewhere.
But how will you be able to focus on that while attending to every other aspect of the business? Well, remember how we hinted at automation above? This is where it comes in.
Awesome automation
So, what will you have to do, and how can you automate the ‘right’ tasks?
Well, a shrewd reader will have noticed that this article is published by us, Armaan Resales and suspect the answer is one of our services… and you’d be right.
Armaan Resales’ Standard Model is exactly what you need to jump ahead of the queue and put truly mature automation solutions to work for your dropshipping business from the very beginning.
Armaan has already invested hundreds of thousands of pounds creating dropshipping business solutions that can work for absolutely anyone. These solutions can be implemented easily and be rebranded entirely so that your customers never know the wonderful shopping experience they are having didn’t all originate with you.
A few of the most important benefits of using Armaan to manage your dropshipping business are…
A dedicated account manager
You’ll have a single point of contact who knows everything about your operation and its relationship to Armaan Resales. They will offer advice and support and can often spot tricky problems before you do.
90% automated systems
Anything the computers can do reliably; they will be doing. You only need to pay attention in the relatively few cases where actual human judgement is necessary.
Millions of high-quality products
We’ve already assembled a list of top selling products that are ready to fly off your virtual shelves. All you have to do is choose the ones your customers will love the most.
Engaging product titles and compelling descriptions
Likewise, most of your website or mobile app content is already written. Just copy and paste!
Listing optimisation
SEO has been the downfall of many poorly-run retail websites. However, you can use our pre-optimised listings, which Google loves just as much as the people using it to find your products.
Lifetime support and training
You are not just some interchangeable part. Our long-term success depends on your long-term success. That’s why we offer support and training opportunities on an ongoing basis. Life’s one big lesson after all!
Quarterly growth reviews
The right reports will not just make it easier to manage your dropshipping business. They will make it easier to demonstrate that success to investors and potential partners.
Processing and management
Our solutions optimise and automate the entire process. Most of the time, you’ll never have to lift a finger, even to accept the payments.
Fulfilment, shipment and delivery
Likewise, we make sure the sold products reach your customers on time and in perfect condition.
A global network
Armaan Resales maintains an extensive network of suppliers worldwide and carefully vets them to make sure each is among the best in their field. We then give you access to all of them.
We’ve already done all the legwork and as you can see, there’s a lot to manage but when approached carefully and with an amazing partner with glowing recommendations, managing a dropshipping business becomes much easier.
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