Entrepreneurship Leadership Network contributor Steve Tan has published an article titled ‘5 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting a Dropshipping Business’.

In his article, Tan talks about the importance of product quality, supply chain, great customer service, identifying traffic sources, and aiming at the global market.

He says, “With the clarity of 20/20 hindsight, here are five things I wish I knew before starting a dropshipping business:

1. Put emphasis on product quality

If I could go back to the time when I first started dropshipping, I would have told my younger self to put product quality above everything else.

I wish I knew I shouldn’t trust product quality without seeing the product itself.

A lot of dropshippers source their products from AliExpress and Alibaba, which are great platforms. However, don’t do what I did, which was choosing the supplier with the cheapest prices.

That was a big mistake, because suppliers would compromise product quality and the quality of packaging in order to offer the most competitive prices. We didn’t check the samples, because we were dropshipping. As a result, we got a lot of customer complaints that the products did not match the ones used in the advertisements”.

5 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting a Dropshipping Business

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