You’re the Boss! Dropshipping Responsibilities
Lynnie explains dropshipping responsibilities: why you need your own website, and why you’re the seller in charge, even if you never touch the product.
Lynnie explains dropshipping responsibilities: why you need your own website, and why you’re the seller in charge, even if you never touch the product.
In dropshipping, you never touch the product, yet you carry the full responsibility for the sale. That surprises many beginners. In this article, we explain why your own website is the only key profile for dropshipping, and what your dropshipping responsibilities are as the seller of record. Out of Lynnaider’s three profile types, dropshipping has only one key option: your own website.
Lynnie explains how dropshipping works, done well: a new job for a product, a customer buys, the helper gets the order, ships it, and you help the customer.
In Lynnaider’s teaching, we capture each online income technique in a simple process flow. The figure you see here shows how dropshipping works when it is done well. In this article, we walk through the five steps one by one. The cycle starts with you and ends with you.
Lynnie explains the dropshipping business model: you give the helper company a service, and the shopper a real product. That’s what your margin pays for.
Every online income technique starts with an offering: what you actually sell. In the dropshipping business model, the answer is less obvious than it seems. In this article, we explain why your offering is both a digital service to the supplier and a physical product to the shopper. Bear with us here, because this dual role explains where your margin comes from.
Lynnie explains value-added dropshipping: give an ordinary product a surprising new job, test it really well, and that’s what earns your margin.
What turns dropshipping into a fair business? In our view, it is the value you add. In this article, we explain value-added dropshipping: how to give an existing product a new function, how to test it, and why that justifies your margin. If you are new to the technique, our article on ethical dropshipping explains the basics and the criticism first.
Lynnie explains ethical dropshipping: what dropshipping is, why some people don’t like it, and how Lynnaider teaches a fair way that adds real value.
Dropshipping is probably the most debated of all online income techniques. Some see it as an easy way to earn, others as a way to mislead customers. In this article, we explain how dropshipping works, why its simplest form is criticized, and why we teach ethical dropshipping instead. Dropshipping means redefining and marketing products from a supplier for a margin, without holding stock.
Lynnie shows five dropshipping examples done well: made-up shop owners who give ordinary products a new job, test them, or make handy sets.
Dropshipping is the sixth of Lynnaider’s ten online income techniques, and the one with the most complicated reputation. That is why we teach it in a specific way: dropshipping done well. In this article, we introduce five fictional store owners who show what that looks like. These dropshipping examples are based on patterns we see in real stores.