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Using Dropshipping on my community site

by execpriv
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I'm creating a site that I'm marketing towards a specific niche and my main goal is to create a community around this niche. Email marketing is my main focus on monetizing the site with ad revenue being an after thought.

What I would like to know is two things: Would having a dropshipping shop on the site be a good idea maybe a month after official launch? I noticed that some of the sites that I'm modeling mine on have shops for like branded apparel and the like, but I want to sell electronics and other items relevant to the niche.

Bad idea?

And the second thing, I'm interested in is if shopify can work with amazon dropshipping/affiliate marketing?

I have little experience in ecommerce and only limited success in a similar project to my community site in the past. My main focus is building the community, I'm just doing research now on ecommerce in preparation for when the site takes off and I get into a maintenance cycle for it and ready to expand.
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  • Profile picture of the author dave_hermansen
    Kind of vague but I don't see why not from what little I know.

    You seem to be torn between models, however. Pulling off a combo dropship/affiliate site is not the easiest thing. The problem is, if someone clicks on an affiliate link you may never see them again, which is especially bad if they put something you were going to dropship in their cart on your site.

    There is no such thing as Amazon dropshipping, although a whole lot of people here have been scammed into thinking it's a real thing. Dropshipping is when you have products shipped from real manufacturers or their distributors. It is NOT shipping from another retail store and relying on customers to be too stupid to realize they are being ripped off. A business model that is based upon the assumption that the majority of people are morons that won't realize there are better prices practically everywhere else is a business model doomed for failure. Do you really want to try to base a business based upon the dumbest people on the planet? Do you want to deal with the repercussions when they receive a package from Amazon and not your store? Do you think they will order from you again (or refer others) or go straight to Amazon next time?

    You'd be far better off building an affiliate site if you are going to ship from Amazon and you don't need an eCommerce platform to do that. You can simply build a site on WordPress.
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    • Profile picture of the author execpriv
      Thank you for clarifying that, because I keep finding a ton of conflicting information on what dropshipping actually is. I hear a lot of people talking about getting products from aliexpress and selling stuff through shopify.

      What I really want to do is a fulfillment by amazon shop as a separate section of my site, but I don't currently have the start up funds to do that just yet. Certainly not to keep it niche relevant anyway.
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