5 minutes to know how to start an independent Shop
What is independent website, what is Shopify, what is wordpress?
Independent station is an emerging and fast-growing B2B, B2C cross-border e-commerce business model, can be understood as you have a website with its own domain name to sell their products, if the platform is compared to the house, then the independent station is your own house, and Amazon, alibaba, Wish… and other third-party platforms are like the house we rent. Third-party platform commodities homogenization is serious, the price war, so that merchants can only be tired to deal with the price and no energy to pay attention to the quality, not to mention the creation of their own brand, if you have an independent station, then you can pay more attention to the creation of the brand, the quality of goods control.
shopify is an independent website software, it can help you quickly build a professional cross-border e-commerce independent website, login and register, and then complete the basic settings, upload products, sales, so you have an independent station of their own! Shopify more will favor retail, but his SEO effect is very weak, must be with other social media and advertising to promote, otherwise it is like you build a house on an island, no one asked.
WordPress general small and medium-sized wholesale companies, or product promotion company will be more inclined to it. It has powerful plug-ins, combined with some of the plug-ins can also achieve the function of online shopping, and wordpress built website is more conducive to SEO optimization. Of course, with social media promotion and advertising will be more effective.
Who is suitable to do independent station personal business?
Shopify has low cost, low threshold and relatively high return rate. Baby moms, company employees, students and even retired uncles and aunts can do, spend 1-2 hours a day to select products, shipping, adjusting the promotion post (can be shipped from the shipment can also be sent on behalf of a piece), do not need a warehouse.
WordPress, as mentioned above, is more suitable for small and medium-sized companies.
If you are doing retail recommended Shopify!
How much to invest upfront?
(1) registered individual business (this cost depends on your local agency charges, but generally not very high)
(2) Shopify monthly rent – 19 US dollars / month
(3) Promotion platform fees: here recommended TK, INS, FB (promotion costs can be tested by yourself, first invest a little to familiarize yourself with the advertising process, and then increase investment in the late effectiveness of the post)
(3) buy express billing machine + bags
If you do not know how to buy or do not want to invest too much in this equipment, you can contact our team to help you purchase: doris@prilagodite.com
(4) product cost
If you do independent station is not very recommended that you choose some universal products, because every visitor traffic is spent to attract, if you store are some of the products that can be seen everywhere or nothing special, then how to persuade customers to choose you?
Here we strongly recommend that you choose to customize some of your own style or only belong to your products, such as custom sweatshirts, with exclusive patterns and designs; customized home textiles finished products such as pillowcases, bedding are very hot in recent years categories. If you want to do electronic products, then you need to have brand awareness!
Do I need a lot of customized products?
Prilagodite has specially launched a small batch customization service to address this issue. Sweatshirts can be customized in one piece, and there are more products that can be printed with your logo and pattern in one piece. For more information, please contact: doris@prilagodite.com
- Do I need to ship my own products every day?
Prilagodite has launched a one-piece delivery service, after the customer places an order and you contact them for purchasing, they will be responsible for the product production, shipment and transportation.
