How To Use Printrove To Build A Successful Online Drop Shipping Business

The very first question we tend to be asked by a curious eCommerce entrepreneur is “How can I use your services to build a business?”. Well, we are writing this to answer that very question with a detailed explanation for every step and how Printrove helps you with its various services to help you fulfill your drop shipping entrepreneurial dream.

This blog is split into the following:

  1. Where do I sell?
  2. What do I sell?
  3. How do I sell?

Where do I sell?

This is the most important question of all. Figuring out where to sell is probably the most important part of starting up a new business.

The FREE Solution

In today’s crazy social media world, there are so many platforms which can be used to market and sell your products for FREE. From creating Instagram accounts to running a business using WhatsApp, there are a plethora of options available to you as a modern retailer. You can have direct interactions with your customers and answer their queries almost instantaneously.

The only downside to this option would be scalability. You can start generating sales by talking to your customers one by one and collecting orders. But, obviously, there is a limit to the number of people you can talk to in a given day. This limits your option to scale your business and increase your revenue.

To get something, you either have to spend your money or your time and sometimes both.

To make your products reach a larger audience, you can list your products on Amazon, eBay, Facebook, Instagram, and your own eCommerce website. You can sell for free by spending a lot of time on social media for spreading the word. But, before jumping on to any channel, you must also evaluate these sales channels to find the one that suits your eCommerce business. If you wish to speed up the process, then there are paid methods for marketing that you’ll learn later in this Guide.

What do I do to Build a Scalable Brand in Drop Shipping Industry?

The most effective way is by creating your very own eCommerce store. In this era of YouTube and Udemy, learning how to build a website is as easy as learning the alphabets. But one solution stands out from the rest in building eCommerce websites i.e Shopify.

Shopify is a brilliant option to quickly and easily build eCommerce websites with absolutely no coding required. It provides everything from hosting, SSL certificates, file storage, inventory management, bulk importing catalogs, excellent apps and a complete dashboard to manage your orders and customers.

Get a free Shopify Store from Printrove

Printrove has an awesome option of getting you a fully built, elegant looking and ready-to-use, beautiful Shopify store free of cost.

All you have to do is buy the Shopify package from Printrove. You get a fully built Shopify store similar to this one here, complete with cataloging and support.

The entire amount that you pay to Printrove is added to your Merchant account as credits which can be used to place orders. Plus, you do not pay anything to Shopify till you get your 50th order which is more than enough time to validate your business.

All you have to do is think of a good brand name and purchase a domain. Your own personalized eCommerce store will be set up in no time with Printrove.

What do I sell?

Now that we have a website ready for you, the next question you may ask Printrove is WHAT do I sell on my website?

Printrove is a print-on-demand drop shipping company which means that it provides printed merchandises of various products like phone cases, t-shirts for men and women, crop tops for women, mugs, coasters, notebooks, posters and button badges.

Printrove gives you an option to sell all these products printed with your own designs on platforms that you prefer. Mockups are available for all the Printrove’s products which you can use to create a catalog for your very own merchandise store.

How do I source designs?

Alright, you must be thinking, everything sounds really nice but where do I find the designs to sell on my store? Well, this is where your hustling skills are tested!

If you are a designer or a graphic artist, you can just create your very own designs. You create an identity for your store which reflects you and your brand. The most awesome thing about this is only you have the design files and no one other than you can sell the products that are available on your store as you are the only one with the actual design files.

If you are not lucky enough to be a designer, you can always search for amazing royalty-free and non-licensed graphic designs and arts on the Internet. Use your Googling skills, you can create a complete design library for yourself. Apart from this, you can use websites like Etsy to buy digital designs or Upwork/Freelancer to hire designers to make designs for you. The sky’s the limit.

Read in detail about how you can source fresh designs for your online drop shipping store.

My Designs are set. How do I upload products to my store?

Once you have created a library of your own designs, the next step would be to create mockups and upload the products to your store.

A mockup is a digital image file which you can use to create product images for your store. For example, you take a blank t-shirt mock-up of a particular color and place your design on it. Printrove provides blank mock-up files of all its products. Apart from this, you can even purchase mockups from sites like Envato to create product images. Printrove also provides a free mockup generation tool on the merchant panel which can be used to create mockups without using Photoshop.

Bulk Mock-up Generation and Cataloguing Services by Printrove

Printrove currently offers 260+ phone models, 20+ variations of t-shirts, 8 different types of colored mugs and more. So a single design will have to be placed in 350+ mock-ups. This means that with a small design library of just 10 designs, you can create a catalog of more than 3500+ products.

You must be wondering, “How can I create so many mock-ups and then upload all these products one-by-one to my store?”. This is where Printrove’s bulk mockup generation and cataloging services come in the picture. Basically, what Printrove does is that it takes all the designs from you, generate the mockups, upload the images to its servers and gives you an Excel file which can be used to bulk upload these products to your store – Shopify, Woocommerce or any other. Printrove will even help you upload these products to your store.

How do I sell?

Alright! You have your store set up, your products are uploaded, a payment gateway is connected and you’re ready to make your first sale.

It’s time to generate some traffic and drive people to your store. This is where Facebook Ads comes into the picture.

Facebook Ads

The best way to generate traffic and market your website is by using Facebook ads and targeting your preferred audience. This is definitely the trickiest part of the whole business, but once you master it, there is no looking back.

There are tons of tutorials and gurus out there on the Internet that will help you master the art of selling through Facebook ads. You can run Ads for as low as Rs. 100 per day which can push interested people to your website. All you need is a good creative, neat title and a trustworthy looking website. Then you run ads, learn from it, strategize and pivot your targeting and grow. This is the best part of running your own business. You are in complete control of it. The harder you work, the better the results.

We here, at Printrove, will be coming up with super awesome blog posts with tips and tricks on how to market your products. There are a million other things to drive sales and so, you should never stop learning.

Alright, I have my first order. What now?

Yay! You have received your very first order. Congratulations!

The first step is to sync your products with Printrove. You will have to add all the products from your store to the Printrove SKU library which is a one time process. This way every product in your store is linked to a product in ours. Whenever you get an order, Printrove knows what to ship.

The best news is you don’t have to do a thing after this. Using the Printrove Shopify app, your orders are automatically pulled to the merchant panel and processed at a click of a button.

The product details, address and other details are pulled to the merchant panel automatically. Once we process the order, you receive the tracking number. You can enter this tracking number in the Shopify backend and mark the order as completed. The package is shipped to your customer under your brand name along with your own invoice.

After this, it is a matter of design, market, and repeat, and you have a fully functioning business.

Any More Questions?

We understand that drop shipping is a fairly new concept in the industry of eCommerce. With this latest advent, we have seen a lot of ambitious newcomers rolling out their eCommerce stores. But, they’re falling away because of just one reason – Lack of knowledge.

More than a definition, drop shipping has a lot of nitty-gritty details that you must understand before getting started.

Considering all the interactions we’ve ever had with our clients, i.e. the Printrove Merchants, we have put together this guide. Hoping to clarify all the questions that you had, we’re closing this write-up. But, wait, we’re also opening up to a lot more questions from you.

Ask your questions and share your views in the comments, and our team will be answering all of them one-by-one.

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PRICING CALCULATION

The final price of the product is calculated by adding the product price, taxes and shipping.

The displayed product price includes the cost of the blank product and the printing charges. There are no additional printing charges applied for this product. 

Goods and Services Tax is charged on the product price.

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