the right way to dropship on eBay in 2021
Hello Zikers! Aren’t you tired of watching so many “how to dropship” videos? There are so many of them out there but you can hardly find a real dropshipper giving all the steps based on their own experience. That’s why I made this video. I used all my dropshipping experience to guide you, step by step, on the right way to dropship on eBay in 2021!
Table Of Contents
Step 1. Know your platform
Step 2. Don’t search for fast success
Step 3. Choose the right strategy
Step 4. Do eBay Market Research the right way!
Step 5. Choose the right suppliers
Step 6. Maintain high service metrics
Step 7. Learn how to scale your eBay store correctly
I’ll cut to the chase. I’ll give 7 steps.
Step #1 Know your Platform
Understanding the platform and the business model is extremely important. In matter of fact, it's the most important thing here. Understanding how the platform works, in this case eBay.
Know your way around eBay, know how to navigate properly and get where you need to go.
After that, you want to know if all your settings are correct, your shipping and return policies as you wish and the store is ready to work. Once you have all the settings, the real work begins.
The business model you want to choose as a new seller, is the model with which you will have the easiest to start, in this case your business model is dropshipping!
You want to start with this form of trading because it is the easiest to start with and does not require any financial investment from you.
Step # 2 Don’t search for fast success
You cannot log in to eBay in one day, and upload hundreds or thousands of products without any kind of restriction or control.
This is because the system wants you to grow at its own pace, and its pace does not always satisfy you which can make you feel a little stuck.
The reason you don't want to move too fast, at the beginning, when you are new to the platform, is because you need to prove to the system that you are selling, that you are reliable and that you actually deliver the goods. Basically, you need to prove to the eBay system that you are not a scammer.
At this point you are building your trust in eBay by generating sales and accumulating feedback and thus improving your service metrics on the platform and the amount of feedback from your customers help you by gaining increased exposure to your products.
Step # 3 Choose the right strategy
The best strategy to start drop shipping on eBay in 2021 is to maintain a slow and steady work flow. To have accurate and creative market research even when it comes to Sniping sellers. Once you learn your way around the platform you can evolve into other working methods.
Step #4. eBay Market Research
I’ll show you how to do market research, the right way.
Step # 5 Choose the right suppliers!
As new seller it is important for you to know how to choose the first supplier for the job. The criteria’s I examine before I start working with any Supplier are:
Shipping speed,
return policy,
means of payment,
delivery time,
relevant products
Product warranty
Step #6 Maintain high service metrics.
This is basically eBay's way of checking your level of service using pre-defined criteria, such as compliance with a shipping policy, adequate level of customer service, and quality products.
Your goal is to maintain the highest level that you can with customer service at the highest level possible, handling every sale with the proper attention and responding to all customers as soon as possible.
On this subject there are no shortcuts, no detours. When comes to service metrics, you must always be at your 100% and know how to give the best to your customers.
Step # 7 How to scale correctly
When it comes to scaling your business properly, you must abide by the rules of the platform, and increase the amount of your products very gradually, and while examining the store and understanding whether you want or whether you can increase more or less.
For beginners, if you started with 3 products a day, you will move after a week to 5 products 7 products etc
It is very important to pay attention to what is happening in your store, the amount of sales, product exposure, etc., in order to continue to grow and know that you are doing it the right way.
The basic idea is control, once you know you are in control of the current situation, only then you can continue to grow, once you lose control it is a slippery slope and you do not want to get there...
Basically… too fast growth, will result in immediate closure of the store with no future option to return to selling on ebay.
-Conclusion-
That’s it! My 7 steps to start dropshipping on eBay in 2021! Please let me know what you thought of my steps, if you think differently or have suggestions! Take care!