Simple Method To Launch Your Online Store Faster and Cheaper

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I visited my hair stylist one weekend. Before she started styling my hair, I told her that I will take a 15 minutes break to deliver a product to my customer whose address was very close to her shop. She accepted. Her curiosity kicked in and she wanted to know what I sold and how I got my customers. I told her I had an online store where I sold laptop backpacks and that I get my customers by advertising on Facebook and Google. I get customers from different parts of the world. I only delivered products to customers whose address was close to me and my supplier delivers to customers in all other locations without me touching or seeing the merchandise.

I promised to show her how to start her online store and other ways she could sell most of the hair products she had piling up in her store which she was finding difficult to sell. So, this article is a simple step by step guide on how to start selling your own products online.

If you have physical products you make such as clothes, pieces of jewelry, customized footwear, hair products like wigs and extensions, customized home decors or any product you personally design, then creating an online store is a great way to get your products to a larger customer base.

Even if you don’t have your own products, you can source for products from wholesalers who are ready to sell one piece at a time. You don’t need to buy in bulk or stock up products to sell. Use the method called “drop shipping” where you only buy products from your suppliers whenever a customer pays you for a product you displayed in your Shopify store. I started with this method. It is the cheapest way to start an online business where you don’t have to have your money tied up in a stock of merchandise.

Method 1: Create Your SHOPIFY STORE And Start Selling Today 

For you to sell your product online, you need a store or a website where your customers will visit and order your product. Shopify is by far the best platform to use for selling your products online. I started using Shopify to sell different products since 2014. I signed up and got a free 14 days trial account and after the 14 days, I continued because of the potentials I saw in the online business idea.

1) First, you need to create your account. Sign up here and get a 14 days free trial with my link.

2. At this point, you should have chosen the type of product you want to sell. If you haven’t found a product yet, click here to use OBERLO to find trending products that people are buying in large quantities and also find verifiable suppliers for any kind of product you want to sell. Add OBERLO to your store as a plugin to see different retail prices for the same product from various suppliers and also allows you to see the potential profit you could make when you sell those products. Once you have an order, Oberlo fulfills the order for you. It is seamlessly synchronized with your store. With Oberlo, you don’t have to worry about how to get the product images and description to your store, it automatically copies that over. All you need to do is to make a few corrections and select the categories or product type you want to sell.

It is advisable to go for products with higher prices so that the profit margin will be worth the effort. Selling products that can only make you $2 to $5 profit isn’t worth the effort because you have to sell a lot of these cheap products in order to break even.

Selling products with profits not less than $70 is an ideal product to succeed in your online store business.

If you make your own product, then you will not have a problem because you set your own prices and won’t have to battle with price changes by your suppliers.

3. If you have not still created your store at this point, sign up here and start for free. You’ve selected your product to sell. Now get amazing and clear photos of your products and start building your store. Follow the steps provided in the Shopify resources for new business owners.

Resources To Help You Complete The Creation Of Your Store And Succeed In Your Online Business Idea

Read this free resource provided by Shopify gurus and partners to help you complete every step you need to build a branded online store that will convert. There are amazing success stories in these free resources to show you how many people like you are building genuine and profitable online businesses.

Click here to Learn How To Completely Build Your Online Store From Scratch after signing up for your 14 days free trial here.

In this resource, you will learn How To:

1. Choose a business name and get a domain name (website name for your store) and create a brand with free tools.
2. Sell your products to anyone, anywhere (through social media, google shopping and offline) using your online store.
3. Capture payments for your products from your customers no matter where in the world you live.
4. Manage everything related to your business even if you have not run an online store before.
   

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Benefits of Selling Your Products On Shopify Online Store

1. Shopify has helped many everyday people start, grow and scale up their business in an easy and well-structured format.
2. You start off with a professional store with many free themes and templates that will fit your kind of business no matter what you sell.
3. You don’t need to know how to code or have a technical skill to create your store and run your business.
4. You keep all your profits from your sale unlike what happens when you sell on Amazon or Ebay where you share your profit with these giants.
5. Shopify customer support is world class. They have many gurus to attend to your need and walk you through any step you may find confusing.
6. There are thousands of helpful tutorials and online communities to help you solve any problem you may encounter when running your online Shopify business.

METHOD 2: Sell Your Product on Amazon | eBay | Etsy

I will explain briefly how you can also sell your products on Amazon, eBay and Etsy.

How To Start Selling On Amazon

Read this article “How Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) Works” to learn how to sign up and start selling your products on Amazon Amazon has explained the steps you need to start your business on their FBA (Fulfillment by Amazon) platform.

Note: Amazon will make more profit from your business than you will. If your profit on a product you sell on Amazon is $10, they would have made $15 before you. Selling on Amazon is a good method but you have to be ready to share your profit with them which is why I prefer to use Shopify.
You can also link your Shopify store to Amazon. You create a store on Amazon when customers place an order on your Amazon store, you fulfill the order through your Shopify store. Neat!. The good part of selling on Amazon is that you have access to millions of buyers worldwide to grow your business.

Sell On eBay an Etsy

To sell your products on eBay, go through their Selling Centre here.
Follow this guide to learn how to sell on Etsy.

I hope this article helps you move your online business idea from being a dream to becoming a successful business.
Ask me anything in the comment section below. Let the conversation begin.

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