To know how to dropship in South Africa we first need a clear understanding of what drop shipping is. The process of dropshipping is to sell inventory, which is owned by your supplier, and to have the supplier deliver directly to your customer.
Graphic: Dropship Business Model [Oberlo]
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An Abandoned Cart is when a customer adds something to their shopping cart and goes through the check out process but doesn’t complete the purchase.
It’s natural for your website to have a certain portion of abandoned carts but what can you do to get more people to convert to...
After Warrick received a question from one of our students asking if it is prohibited to sell CBD oil online in South Africa he set off to find out exactly what can and can’t be sold online in SA. The list of prohibited products includes a lot of the obvious ones but there’s also a...
We get asked a lot about how funnels can be used in eCommerce to grow sales. Can you use sales funnels with landing pages and opt-ins or is it better to use a marketing funnel to help bring traffic to your site and then increase your sales?
Well now you can watch this 12 minute video below which...
Last week Standard Bank accounced their new eCommerce platform called SimplyBlu. As this announcement caught the attention of the eCommerce community we set off on a mission to find out more about it.
In this article, we review our pros and cons of the platform, the fee structure and give you...
With 6 weeks left before the Connect eCommerce Summit, our followers have been offered a 17% discount off ticket prices if you buy your tickets before midnight this Friday (June 7th).
The Connect eCommerce Summit is happening on July 16th in Johannesburg and July 18th in Cape Town. This...
In this super valuable free training session, Warrick points out a pricing mistake that so many South African eCommerce sellers are making.
He goes on to explain what your pricing strategy should be depending on if you’re in a competitive market or the exclusive seller in SA.
He...
We hear this far too often so today Warrick shot a video on how much it really costs to start an online business (it’s not as much as you thought!)and he goes through his top tips on how to get your eCommerce business up and running without spending much at all!
Watch the video below for...
There are so many people that we speak to who would love to start their own online business but they’re not sure if they would have enough time to build it and then run the business. But how much time does it take? Can you set up an eCommerce site and run it while working full time?...
The international website for Entrepreneur Magazine recently interviewed the Founder and CEO of the Insaka eCommerce Academy and published a great profile on him and his thoughts on the eCommerce market.
Read the article by following this link below.
International trends can often take a few months to show up in the South African market and it seems to be the same with Click and Collect. If you walk any high street in Europe or the malls of the US you’ll see almost every shop window advertising that they offer Click and Collect.
Amazon...
DHL has announced their partnership with MallForAfrica as they launch the DHL Africa eShop app. This app connects the biggest retailers in the US and UK with consumers in South Africa and other big African eCom countries.
But what does this mean for South African business owners? We now...