The Top 2 Reasons Stopping People From Starting Dropshipping
Starting a dropshipping business can be the key to freedom. For people that are feeling unfulfilled in a conventional 9-5 job, dropshipping offers you the chance to gain control over your time and income.
Unfortunately, to get started it takes courage to leave your comfort zone. Like most things in life, anything worth having requires you to leave your safe, comfort blanket and start doing things you have never done before.
First we need to consider why starting a dropshipping business is worth getting out of your comfort zone.
Benefits of dropshipping
As well as some of the benefits mentioned above, there are lots more reasons why dropshipping is such a popular ecommerce business model.
1. Easy to get started
When you employ the dropshipping business model, there are lots of areas of business that you no longer need to deal with which would usually be concerns for traditional retail businesses.
These worries include tracking inventory conditions and managing stock levels, arranging deliveries and paying for storage space.
Without these traditional concerns, dropshipping business owners can focus more of their time, energy and investment into marketing and driving sales.
2. Lower initial investment required
Arguably the biggest benefit to dropshipping is that it is possible to launch your business without investing thousands of pounds in stock and storage space. If you were launching as a retailer with physical premises, you would need considerable start up capital to get your doors open on day one.
3. Easier to scale
As you increase the number of orders that your dropshipping business receives, the bulk of the additional work to fulfil orders will be completed by your suppliers. This means less growing pains for your business as you grow.
Growing sales numbers will always increase the amount of work you have to do as a business including customer service and order fulfilment however, when you compare this to a traditional retail business with stock levels to manage, the increase in work is much easier to manage.
4. Reduced overhead costs
Another benefit of not holding stock or operating out of a retail premises, you don’t have all the costs associated with keeping the lights on. You can forget about the usual retailer costs of fulfilment centres and inventory purchasing, leaving your monthly overhead costs especially low.
Lots of dropshippers (including me) are able to operate with little more than a laptop and a few monthly costs to operate their online business.
5. Flexible location
As long as you have an internet connection, you can successfully run your dropshipping business. You just need to ensure you can meet customer expectations, ensure orders are fulfilled promptly and contact suppliers, you can manage your business essentially from anywhere in the world.
The Top 2 Reasons Why People Never Start
1. “It’s not the right time”
This is something I hear often when people are hesitating to get out of their comfort zone.
It’s also the feeling I had when I didn’t know whether to start an online business. At the time I was working 9-5 in a corporate, shirt and tie style job. I was tired every day when I got home and I had to leave most morning before the sun had risen.
Then I heard a quote that really resonated with me.
“THERE IS NO RIGHT TIME… THERE IS JUST TIME AND WHAT YOU CHOOSE TO DO WITH IT”
With this in mind, how do you want to spend the next few years of your life?
Continue with your current lifestyle?
OR do you want to build an income stream that is not reliant on your time and you can run it from anywhere in the world?
I decided to join a dedicated program that helps hundreds of people to create their own dropshipping business in the UK everyday. I look back at it now as one of the best decisions I have ever made.
This decision is available to you as well and I want you to achieve the same results! Remember, if you wait for the perfect moment, you may end up waiting for a while. Instead, take the moment and START.
2. “I’m scared of the investment”
When I signed up to a dedicated dropshipping training program and decided to invest in my future, I felt a resistance in my stomach. I knew how much I wanted to run my own online business and I wanted to make the right decision that would get me to my goals.
This feeling I had was my signal to act. Whenever we are leaving our comfort zone, our minds and bodies try and tell us to return to safety. Unfortunately, this ancient human flaw holds us back from achieving our goals and desires. Ironically, if we always stay in our comfort zone, we find ourselves deeply uncomfortable in the long-term.
So we should use this worry as a signal that we are heading towards personal growth and achieving our goals.
“DON’T LET FEAR MAKE YOUR DECISIONS FOR YOU”
Also, I learnt from my early mistakes that if you don’t invest in high quality training, you will end up spending A LOT more money in wasted ad spend!
Being around people who are the same journey as you and people that have ‘been there, done that’, is priceless.
How do you get started?
There is a program in the UK that is teaching hundreds of people how to build their own dropshipping business. The program covers everything from registering your limited company all the way through to running ads and hiring a VA to outsource all your repeatable tasks.
It is the program that I followed which has enabled me to leave my 9-5 job and now my business generates £60k worth of sales every month. I can personally vouch for the value it provides which has helped many people in the UK to run profitable 6-figure businesses.
To find out more about the program, register for the training using the button below.
