How does the Coronavirus
can affect your dropshipping business
and what should you do to avoid negative effects
for your dropshipping business, negative feedbacks,
and problematic situations?
Hello everybody!
In this video, I will talk with you about something
which is really important to everyone,
who do dropshipping from China and this the Coronavirus,
Chinese's virus,
how can it affect your dropshipping business,
dropshipping store and what should you do
to avoid problematic situations?
So first for all, what is it for those of you who don't know
this is a virus in China which affects
a lot of people, people don't go to their work
in many different cities in China and this affects
some of the manufacturers, some of the companies,
the shipping companies and everyone
who you can get in touch for your dropshipping business.
It affects actually everything, shipping times,
delays and contact with suppliers,
everything that you can think about.
So what should you do to avoid problematic situations,
and keep your store in a good position
and still keep going forward and increase your profits
and work in the safe method.
So the first thing that I would do instead of you,
is to increase the handling time
of all of your products right now.
For those of you who still didn't decrease
the handling time after
the Chinese New Year, it's good, keep it like this.
And now, something that is really important
to say here, I wouldn't increase it only now
I would also keep it long after you hear
that the virus finished.
The reason for this is because
even after it finished, still there will be a huge overload
over Chinese's shipping companies,
manufacturers and sellers.
So even after you hear that the virus finished,
don't run and decrease the handling time too fast.
Make it step by step because again there will be overloads,
and delays.
The second thing here is the Communication.
If you are using the messages, the automatic messages
to your customers on eBay, on AutoDS using AutoDS
or even if you do it manually, it doesn't matter,
but after you sell a product, it is really important to send
to your customer a message
which says: Listen we have delays with the shipping
because of the situation in China.
Everyone knows about it and
everyone will understand it.
So it's not a problem at all, be open with your clients,
It's really important for the long term.
Even if the client will ask you to cancel the package,
to cancel the shipping, the order,
it still not a problem and it still better than a heavy delay
and get negative feedback from your clients
and make them unhappy.
Remember, customer experience
is the most important thing
for eBay and for any other actually
eCommerce business and same for us.
We should listen to our customers, but
we should also tell them what happens and
tell them the truth so if the shipping time
is longer just notify your clients about this.
The third thing that you can do is using templates
in your templates, on eBay, you can
write there will be delays
this is something which is good
I wouldn't do it if I work with Non-API
because then you cannot do bulk changing,
change your template back.
And another small tip,
this is the time to try some United States,
UK or Germany suppliers depends on your country
and where you sell.
Now it's a good time, because anyway
you cannot sell a lot from China,
so now it's a great time.
About suppliers that have both
warehouses in China and the United States
for example, usually most of the United States
warehouses will still have stocks, but these
stocks will be also decreased because
they cannot get more products from China.
So ask your supplier about their situation
not all the suppliers are in the same situation.
I would send an email to your supplier
and ask them what to do,
when they expect to come back to work
and if they have any problems and delays.
I hope that this video helps you,
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dropshipping business to succeed more
and make more profits.
I wish you a lot of sales, I hope that this situation
will be finished fast and for now,
as I said, try new things and increase
your dropshipping business.
Bye-bye