How did I start my Dropshipping Business?

Sagar Bhatia
Jul 28, 2017 · 3 min read

I started my website Home • 7 Dollar Store 2 months ago. Initially I was doing everything on my own which was causing me a great deal of trouble. I was not able to manage all the aspects like managing products on my website, SEO and marketing. Then I joined some groups on facebook and asked for help. The suggestions I have got from these groups has proven tremendous:.

  • Now, I am able to get rid of most of the work using tools like alidropship. And, I can leverage most of my time with my family which was the main reason of starting my dropshipping business. The tools which have proved quite useful for me are:
  • Yoast seo for website SEO. It helps you a lot in improving your website presence. Even the free version is sufficient for starters. Still, use paid version if you want to stay for long in the business. It just costs $69 for lifetime for a website. The tool proves worthy of its cost as it manages most of things on its own also provides free videos and lessons to improve your SEO and things to keep in mind while working on the webite.
  • Videos have a great impact on your social presence. I used several product related images and converted those into videos using ‘image to video converters’. These tools are fast to use and give desired output.
  • For me, SEO has been a great tool to receive traffic, improve website search and credibility for my website.
  • Social rabbit is another great tool. Not only it automates your social pages also it engages in comments on the top page in effective way. It saves at least 10–15 hours of your time on social media. But, to get even better results you need to put some manual comments and posts also.
  • Also, working with freelancers has proved worthy of time and cost. They speed your work up, provide support in out of the box manner, also quite cost-effective to work with.
  • There comes a trick that I used while working with freelancers. I posted a job on Fiverr — Freelance Services Marketplace for The Lean Entrepreneur. In no time I got proposals explaining what each person could do. Now, I could easily check which of the tasks I can do on my own, For some of the tasks like website submission on search engines, I could find freely available tools. For website speed optimization I found great plugins like fastest cache. Thus, I got my work done without much time and effort.

Some useful links:

13 Must-Have Marketing Tools for Engaging Facebook Images [Infographic]

6 Tools to Help You Syndicate Your Content

awesome wordpress plugins to boost your website

6 Video Tools to Ignite Your Social Marketing

14 Tools to Create Infographics & Images for Social Media

ps: I’m not attached to any of the tools mentioned in the posts. Its just these came handy while doing dropshipping for the first time. There may be many other good tools.

7 Dollar Store (www.7dollarstore.com): Everything at just $7
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