Sounds awesome, Tia! You are a very busy person, indeed!

Jeff

Congratulations on your move and opening a new store, and best of luck on both journeys. Really inspiring!

With dropshipping, always read the small print and follow up on the terms and conditions of your suppliers. It would be helpful if you were cautious when you sign up with merchants so they cannot use your customers for their marketing campaigns. You need to include a clause in your contract not for them to retain your customers. You want to ask them to deliver packages without their corporate identity on the boxes.

I would be very wary and do my due diligence.

You need to pay upfront for them to dropship. Some may require prior banking | or credit card approval before conducting business.

You may use PayPal and Stripe gateways to process transactions; however, if you expect a large cash intake, I would sign up for the latter as PayPal would freeze newly opened accounts.

Profit margins won't be as high because you are not making the goods; it requires dropshipping. Therefore, there's an extra cost associated.

And you still have to deal with customer services and respond to their inquiries, providing succinct transparency.

And the most essential of all businesses is marketing; you still have to find a way to market your dropshipping business. One way is via Facebook Ads. However, that can be costly if you do not know what you are doing.

The other way is to incorporate a blog and have it SEO-optimized. You regularly update it with relevant content about your niche to drive organic traffic to your dropshipping store.

The latter is no different from affiliate marketing, except you would be diverting traffic to merchants' stores pending your visitor making an informed decision to go ahead, click your links, and purchase the item/s you proposed to solve their issue.

However, you don't have to deal with your visitor, as this is the merchant's responsibility, or drop shipping goods, lateness, etc.

I hope this helps.