hey, Mike here.
Introduction:
If you're here looking for some insights on the whole E-Comm drop shipping world, I have a few nuggets of my mistakes you don't have to make, The best kinda mistake, is one you don't have to make.
As an entrepreneur of 40 years in the Tattoo industry, creation has been my life. So I chose to stick with my strengths, creating unique art products.
Something to make people's spaces make them smile and just feel good. That's what I still love about tattooing, the realization of how you've touched someone's world, for the better.
And as in this life journey I've had in the world of Tattooing, I've always spread the wealth of my knowledge from experience. Or my view of it at least.
In another Blog of mine I talked about Printful and Printify, and how you can begin your o line journey there for absolutely zero dollars. And how your investment will be time and effort.
And now Shopify, Not a free platform, but because it has some amazing business building tools built into the platform, one big one, being an email system you can use to create an email marketing campaign and an email capture system as well.
Shopify has tools and built in assets that could cost as much as 200.00 a month on other marketing platforms, and then you still have to build everything from scratch. and that's not including the cost of an email delivery system, another 79.00 was the cheapest I found for basic plans.
Pick a theme and go Shopify storefront websites are prebuilt accept for adding product and editing settings to get up and running, Shopify, Printful and Printify have as they call them Training Academy's.
You can learn about their platforms and how to get started using them to build your business.
They don't stop there though, they give you ideas and how to's for most everything. From product ideas to advertising strategies for your social media, and other marketing.
For what Shopify provides in tools for me it was a steal, because my other marketing platform is costing me 1600.00 a year.
And it's a do it yourself gig... Shopify's email marketing system is pretty close to equal for beginning online.
Shopify cost me like 358.00 one time charge for one year, domain was 15.00 dollars again through Shopify.
And one app I paid for to display shipping cost before the final checkout, it was 53.00 for a year.
About two weeks worth of groceries for my house.
Domain Name: Buy it from Shopify, moving a Domain is a Pain. and can take as much as 30 days. and 15 dollars is not bad.
You'll need it Online for Email Credibility with Google and Yahoo when you create your email marketing. And it's needed to give credibility to your business as well.
Create your accounts with Shopify, Printful, and or Printify, or who ever your chosen providers are, Create them Separately. And then connect them,
I had a few issues that ended up not being a big deal, but still an unwanted issue.
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