Dropshipping
has been, recently, a big trend within small, medium and big entrepreneurs in
the eCommerce scene. With tools like Shopify and Oberlo, to mention a few,
dropshipping has established itself as a powerful, tangible way to quickly
deliver results. With such a busy marketplace, and with dozens of different
approaches to the matter, is dropshipping still a sustainable way to approach
eCommerce in 2020? Let’s analyse it thoroughly.
Suppliers:
The Rise And Fall Of Aliexpress
Aliexpress
has been the go-to Chinese supplier for dropshippers since 2015, the year when
the combination of Shopify and Oberlo
was opened to the mainstream. Times have changed since then, with plenty of
dropshippers moving towards far smaller platforms like Taobao, DHgate and such.
Aliexpress, if you’re looking into dropshipping, is definitely still a reliable
supplier, do to its size and given the fact that it has been operating in this
sector for years. With this being said, you may want to consider the other two
above-mentioned ones in order to save a bit of money within the supply part of
your business plan.
Mobile:
An (Under)estimated Part Of The eCommerce Business
It has
been recently pointed out by some app developers
in the UK how the vast majority of eCommerce entrepreneur don’t pay attention
to their site’s mobile version. Not only their appearance, but also their user
experience on mobile, sometimes, is painfully set up. Dropshippers in 2020
should heavily rely on having a perfectly working, mobile-friendly portal,
since the vast majority of the sessions which are coming for eCommerce and
dropshipping-related stores are mobile-based.
Having
an optimised mobile architecture is mandatory in 2020 and will definitely
become even more important in the future.
The
Current State Of Dropshipping
Dropshipping
is the most popular eCommerce development strategy in the world. There are
thousands of small Shopify stores being opened every day, with dozens and
dozens of different products being listed. With this being said, it’s quite
safe to say that dropshipping will still keep on surviving in 2020. It’s very
important to keep in mind, also, that GDPR has heavily changed the terms and
conditions in regards to products descriptions and their disclosure, so keep
that in mind as well.
