Listen to this articleYaroslav Nevsky, CEO, and Ilya Dolgikh, COO, talk about the technical solutions the AliDropship company offers to eCommerce newcomers across the globe.
Q: Could you provide our readers with a brief introduction to AliDropship?
A: AliDropship’s story began in 2015: at that point, we have discovered a huge gap in the eCommerce market. We were running self-owned dropshipping stores when we understood there doesn’t really exist a solution that would simplify the technical side of this business. So, we began creating one!
Understanding how this business works and having a first-hand experience in it, we got a rare opportunity to come up with a practical, convenient, user-friendly tool that brings value to the entrepreneurs. Third-party feedback was also taken into account: we’ve connected with hundreds of eCommerce market players who took part in beta testing and shared their priceless suggestions and recommendations.
That’s how we developed AliDropship plugin – an affordable dropshipping tool that is available and understandable to any person in any point on the globe. Since the plugin’s creation, over 45,000 people from 182 countries have bought it to build their dropshipping stores, and more than 15,000 newcomers have ordered a ready-made store from our team.
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Q: Can you tell us more about these solutions and services?
A: Simply speaking, AliDropship plugin is a tool that can turn any WordPress or WooCommerce website into a full-scale dropshipping store. An entrepreneur buys the plugin for $89, installs it on their website (it can even be an ordinary WordPress blog), and, basically, gets ready to launch a profitable dropshipping business.
The plugin allows the store owner to import AliExpress products on the website, set the desired prices, accept buyers’ payments, transfer the incoming orders to AliExpress suppliers, track the packages, and many more. So, for this one-time payment, the user gets an all-in-one solution that performs a range of semi-automatic business management functions and leaves the entrepreneur free to focus on the store promotion and customer service improvement.
If, for some reason, an entrepreneur can’t or doesn’t want to install the plugin and assemble the store through their own effort, we can offer them the service of a custom store creation. The client shares their requirements for the store thematic, design, products range, etc., and our team makes an individually customized website that meets these criteria. These stores, obviously, are also powered with AliDropship plugin, which is why, with the due promotional efforts, even a newly made website can start accepting orders and generating profits from day 1.
Q: What’s the most important thing to know about dropshipping?
A: Dropshipping, in fact, is a revolutionary business model that prevents a person’s education, startup finances, geographic location and political environment from defining their potential business success. It eliminates the differences between the citizens of the First World countries and the people from developing regions.
More specifically, with dropshipping, you can run a store with no need to manufacture products, maintain stock and arrange delivery. This fact significantly reduces the required startup investments and opens up life-changing opportunities to the people looking for the accessible ways to make money from online business.
These dropshipping benefits are highly valued by the global community. It was estimated by Socialnomics that nearly 33% of online stores worldwide are using dropshipping as their core fulfillment model. Surely, there is a good reason for it.
According to Statista estimates, in 2019, the total global eCommerce market revenue will amount to US$2,012,096m while showing a 12,7% year-on-year growth. The Statista researches also expect the market to grow at an annual rate of 8.0% in the 2019-2023 period, and the market volume is forecasted to reach the mark of US$2,734,414m by 2023. In other words, the industry shows an outstanding performance and can readily accept countless new market players.
Q: What are your customers saying about you? Are they happy with the results?
A: In fact, our team does much more than just deliver the technical business part. Our goal is to make it possible even for non-professionals to launch and run their own eCommerce stores. That’s why we share countless business secrets and marketing tips through our blog materials, educating videos, dedicated forum entries, and emails (by the way, we have over 500,000 email subscribers at the moment).
One of the most valuable pieces of content we distribute is the real-life success stories posted in our blog: there, our clients share their business journeys and reflect on the positive changes that this business has brought into their lives. These people have differing professional background, countries of living, and family circumstances, but the thing that unifies them is the financial security and emotional satisfaction they get from running their stores.
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Q: How are you different from your competitors?
A: Probably, the main thing that makes us different from other semi-automated dropshipping solutions is the payment terms. AliDropship never asks for any recurring fees or other regular payments: after you’ve purchased our product or service, you have a lifetime access to it – and to our customer support.
The other platforms and plugin providers, however, don’t stay satisfied with one-time payments, and charge their users for a prolonged use of their product, or for a specific number of imported products and completed transactions, etc. Our team never puts any limits on the customers’ activity and works to its best to make dropshipping accessible to the widest range of entrepreneurs.
Q: What are your plans for the future?
A: We will continue upgrading our offers and introducing additional helpful resources aimed on dropshipping business owners – both seasoned entrepreneurs and newcomers.
In the foreseeable future, we are going to make our products compatible with a wider range of eCommerce platforms. Our goal is to keep exploring the whole eCommerce industry and find more areas apart from dropshipping that can be enhanced to the extent of the face of online entrepreneurship across the globe.
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