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How to Effectively Increase the Value of Your Dropshipping Site

This post is a contribution from Vincent Wong, part of the Empire Flippers content team. Today, he’s going explain why dropshipping is still a viable internet business in today’s day and age and share all about how to increase the value of your store. Let’s get into it!

“Dropshipping is dead.”

This phrase has become an increasingly popular sentiment recently, implying that dropshipping isn’t a worthwhile business to build.

We beg to differ.

Entrepreneurs continue to find success with dropshipping due to it’s low-risk and low barrier to entry thanks to minimal overhead costs. This business model also has more potential to scale compared to simple retail arbitrage. While you can make a quick buck buying retail items cheaply and selling them on other marketplaces, it’s not a sustainable model since it’s less of a real business to start with.

The caveat with dropshipping is that it does typically have relatively thin profit margins so success is dependent on the volume of sales. Generating more sales is always nice and we have some strategies for that, however it’s not the only way to increase the profit margin and resale value of your store.

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Shopify vs Bigcommerce: Comparing More Than Just Features

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Two shopping cart providers that many people decide to choose between are Shopify and Bigcommerce. These services are similar but also very different. I have experience with both.

In attempting to make a comparison between these two companies, many other people have offered a Bigcommerce vs Shopify style discussion whereby they compare surface level features of each service: one has 24 free templates while the other has 7, one can connect to over 70 payment gateways while the other only 30, and so on.

There’s a problem with this sort of simple comparison, however.

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Here’s Why You Should Own a Seasonal Online Business

Common advice when deciding on a niche to sell in is to avoid entering a highly seasonal market with a very short selling period. Think: Christmas related products or Halloween costumes. I know it’s one of the 4 niche criteria in the Store Coach course – don’t pick a seasonal product – and it’s good advice (read my Store Coach review). Why go to all the effort of building a niche store around a product range that only sells for 1 or 2 months of the year, when you can sell something that has more steady demand year round?

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4 Things I Hate About Shopify

If you’re looking to build an online store, you’ve no doubt come across Shopify. They’ve got a pretty good reputation, some high profile endorsements and a slick marketing campaign.

I use Shopify but also Bigcommerce for my stores. There are things I like and dislike about both.

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The Best “Click to Reveal” Coupon Plugin for WordPress

UPDATED for 2019: Please note that I can simply no longer recommend the original coupon plugin reviewed in this post: Coupon Reveal. As was mentioned in the original post below, while the plugin itself was pretty good, the customer support was bad right from the start.

Well, now you can amend that to completely non-existent. And while you’d hope not to need to contact support anyway when purchasing a product, in the case of Coupon Reveal, now you won’t actually receive your product at all. The download area after making your purchase will be empty… and there’s no one to rectify the issue.

IT’S A JOKE.

It’s clear the project has been abandoned but I’m giving you this warning, as the website is still live and will still happily take your payment.

The GOOD news is that I’ve found an alternative plugin that is similar in functionality but overall better anyway!

That alternative is CouponPlugin.io with their Coupon Plugin Pro. Click here to learn more about that.

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