E-Commerce Business

Any villager doing an e-commerce business like drop shipping? I know it’s a very complicated business especially when you’re a beginner. What are the challenges?

I’ve also noticed most e-commerce websites like Jumia and OLX that try to sell in Kenya slow down and eventually cut their losses. Is it that hard to penetrate the Kenyan market?

wait what is “drop shipping” ? … alafu someone come answer this ??

@digi @Kimakia @Motokubwa @papabingy @Mimi Huwa Namwaga Ndanii @Micymas

Summary- customer anakuja kwa website yako anasema anataka tv kwa bei nafuu. Wewe hauna hiyo tv so unaiingia aliexpress unanua hiyo tv na m pesa alafu unamtumia. Lakini ukinunua bidhaa huko kwingine lazima customer atume doh kwanza ndio upate pesa ya kununua na bado ibake kidogo ya ‘ka-profit’.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we1eCDUt8sU

you take advice from DIGI?

drop shipping ni kuwa broker on the internet. In simple kikuyu terms

e-comm is huge with lots of challenges, be specific on what you’d like to know

Drop shipping to be specific.

there are many template driven e-commerce website builders suitable for drop shipping …but be prepared to dig deeper into your pocket for hosting and adverts

Dropshipping in a layman’s language is all about;

  1. Identifying products you’d like to sell in specific niches in a given market i.e Kenya or any other country in the world.

  2. Open a webstore and create listings for the products using either shopify , woocommerce , hire a web developer or create one by yourself in wix, weebly or squarespace.

  3. Create a means of receiving payments and paying suppliers using Mpesa (local market), e-checking , stripe and paypal for international markets.

  4. Look for suppliers from China on Aliexpress.com, Alibaba.com, DHgate.com , Taobao and make a contract for them to fulfill your customers orders directly when an order is placed from your webstore.

  5. Drive traffic to your webstore using FB Ads, AdSense e.t.c (MOST important of all).

So lenkeer.com is kinda going to disrupt LinkedIn.com kiasi… #JustSaying