How do you manage large drop shipping demands?
Hello All, this is my first post here.
I was curious what the standard methods for managing large drop-shipping operations are.
I have close to a $0 budget for affiliate marketing, so my plan for getting started is to:
1) Automate Facebook (Done)
2) Automate Twitter (Done)
3) Automate Tumblr (Done)
4) Automate Pinterest (Done)
5) Automate Instagram (Done)
6) Build an eCommerce site to utilize my automated social media accounts
7) Link a blog/authority site to my eCommerce site to help drive free, organic, search traffic
8) repeat steps 1-6 and maybe 7 as many times as possible
So far I've automated all my social media for free with my programming abilities, and I'd argue that my methods are better than those that you pay for. So now I'm getting to the eCommerce side. Meanwhile, I've been keeping scale in mind since that's really important to success in the affiliate marketing business, so not only have I automated all my social media accounts, but I've also set up the automation so that after I buy some proxies I can basically run a limitless # of social media accounts. After I get my first site down and learn the process, I plan to add sites over time so long as everything goes well.
So my original plan was to start one main eCommerce site with a drop shipping model, which is easily maintained with just one site, especially a new site. When I get an order, I make the order on aliexpress with their address/information, and that's it. With one site that's manageable, and my plan was to do something like using the woocommerce amazon affiliate plugin/theme to make amazon affiliate stores for the rest since they don't require me to make every single order. However, I've seen people talking about making $10k+/month from drop shipping, and it's just hard to imagine putting in all those orders individually myself, so there must be a better way.
So here are my questions:
1. How do you manage large drop-shipping loads? Do you outsource it? Seems like that'd be complicated in dealing with payment info. Do you automate it somehow? I might be able to write a program for that, but I'm not sure yet.
2. For the free-traffic model of a site (social media mostly, maybe some organic search traffic too), what's the best way to montize the traffic? Drop shipping? Affiliate Stores such as my Amazon example? Some other methods?
Any advice is appreciated!
I was curious what the standard methods for managing large drop-shipping operations are.
I have close to a $0 budget for affiliate marketing, so my plan for getting started is to:
1) Automate Facebook (Done)
2) Automate Twitter (Done)
3) Automate Tumblr (Done)
4) Automate Pinterest (Done)
5) Automate Instagram (Done)
6) Build an eCommerce site to utilize my automated social media accounts
7) Link a blog/authority site to my eCommerce site to help drive free, organic, search traffic
8) repeat steps 1-6 and maybe 7 as many times as possible
So far I've automated all my social media for free with my programming abilities, and I'd argue that my methods are better than those that you pay for. So now I'm getting to the eCommerce side. Meanwhile, I've been keeping scale in mind since that's really important to success in the affiliate marketing business, so not only have I automated all my social media accounts, but I've also set up the automation so that after I buy some proxies I can basically run a limitless # of social media accounts. After I get my first site down and learn the process, I plan to add sites over time so long as everything goes well.
So my original plan was to start one main eCommerce site with a drop shipping model, which is easily maintained with just one site, especially a new site. When I get an order, I make the order on aliexpress with their address/information, and that's it. With one site that's manageable, and my plan was to do something like using the woocommerce amazon affiliate plugin/theme to make amazon affiliate stores for the rest since they don't require me to make every single order. However, I've seen people talking about making $10k+/month from drop shipping, and it's just hard to imagine putting in all those orders individually myself, so there must be a better way.
So here are my questions:
1. How do you manage large drop-shipping loads? Do you outsource it? Seems like that'd be complicated in dealing with payment info. Do you automate it somehow? I might be able to write a program for that, but I'm not sure yet.
2. For the free-traffic model of a site (social media mostly, maybe some organic search traffic too), what's the best way to montize the traffic? Drop shipping? Affiliate Stores such as my Amazon example? Some other methods?
Any advice is appreciated!
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