How to select profitable products to dropship on Shopify? Here are a few advices and a recommendation to let a pro to the market research. When I built my first online store four years ago, I made the mistake of importing 600 products to my store in one day. I know it can be exciting to add a ton of great products to your store since it can be done in just only a couple of clicks. Here’s the problem though: When you add too many products to your store, you need to rewrite product descriptions and maybe remove the logo from a few images. Writing copy for even 100 products can be time-consuming and exhausting, especially if you’re a student or hold a 9 to 5 job. Stick to 25 at the start. You can write quality product descriptions for 25 items in only a few hours.

After you run your store for a while, you’ll learn the most common questions your customers have. If you get a few questions a week about similar topics, just know that there are 100 or so people that didn’t ask that same question and just left. Sometimes, people will chat or call for answers. However, most people will be lazy and just leave. With a Frequently Answered Questions Section (FAQ for short), you can give them the answer and get them to buy no matter what time it is.

Aside from the usual dropshipping platforms, consider using alternative ones as well. I recommend trying AliExpress. It has the same vendors who also have eBay accounts in US locations. They are usually faster, as they do not want to get penalized by eBay. They normally have US partners and warehouses and they provide a USPS tracking number. This can be provided to your customer, and makes for better customer satisfaction than providing them with a Chinese international tracking number. Additional tips: When dropshipping from AliExpress, always make sure to select ePacket shipping, and ensure that it is sent via ePacket and not China Post. This is because ePacket can easily be tracked, and China Post is a much difficult platform to navigate as it is mainly in Chinese.

How to find the perfect products ? A few words about dropshipping market research. Another great way to generate ideas of dropshipping products to sell in your online store is by looking at social shopping platforms. Social shopping sites are ecommerce enabled websites where the shopping experience is shared with a social network of people. Sharing can include liking, commenting, recommending or sharing products with others. The main premise for sellers on these sites is using others recommendations and influence to gain more sales. Look around these websites and discover how people use them. Notice how each store’s customer reviews are prominent and feedback is important to the UI. This makes it easy for you to research potential dropshipping products to sell in your store as you can quickly identify products that people love and are raving about. Or you can let an expert to do the product market research for you while you focus on marketing or improving your website. Read extra info on Dropship on Shopify.