So is it WooCommerce or Shopify? Keep watching to hear my honest opinion on
which platform you should start using to begin selling products online
I could legitimately talk about the differences between we commerce and shop
five for a full hour but I'm not gonna do that because I'm not gonna waste your
time I'm gonna keep this video short and simple and go over the points that's
most going to affect you in your decision I believe the right choice
depends on your scenario but making the right choice is extremely important in
creating your first passive income stream if you watched my previous two
videos and you would already know that within six months on a wheeeeel commerce
I made almost seventy five thousand dollars in gross sales so WooCommerce is
definitely not a platform to rule that when it comes to your decision there are
definitely pros and cons with both WooCommerce and Shopify that you really
need to nuts out and really consider carefully in order to make the right
decision to maximize your chance of succeeding with dropshipping to give you
some context on how I sub dropshipping in which platform that I initially used
I started off with WooCommerce simply because I already had a wordpress
website and WooCommerce is a very simple plugin it's completely free that you can
tack on to your WordPress website and that's how I started with e-commerce I
believe roughly two years ago now I started Shopify drop shipping in 2017
and although my first couple of stores were a flop in failure by the end of
2017 I had opened the store and within a week I made five digits in gross revenue
it was pretty insane if you're interested in that video and how I did
it check out my first ever video on this channel I'm gonna link it somewhere here
so you can check it out if you're interested because that was a pretty
awesome period where I made five digits with my Shopify dropshipping store now
that you understand a bit of my context and how I've experienced both platforms
you understand that I have a particular bias to one of the
platforms or either other platforms really because I basically build passive
income streams on both platforms so I like them both for different reasons so
here is my honest opinion on both these platforms that I have seen success
through if you want to start drop shipping on your laptop through the
comfort of your home but if you're interested in drop shipping today then
be sure to check out the free trial links in the description box below where
you get started with either WooCommerce or Shopify and start selling your
products to the world so without further ado let's start off with shop fire shall
fight is a beast of an e-commerce platform Shopify currently holds 600
thousand active merchants on the platform and of that lots they've made
fifty five billion dollars in gross revenue all together now that is a huge
huge chunk of the pie that you could take a piece from you don't even need to
make a billion dollars you didn't even need to make a million dollars a hundred
thousand dollars I know for myself I'd be very very happy with when I first
moved over to shop fire back in 2017 like I said I was just surprised at how
intuitive the platform was and how quick and responsive the entire user interface
was like I mentioned in my first video on this channel I was able to set that
shop I saw live within a week simply because it was so easy to use and on top
of that Shopify gives you all the tools that you need especially as a beginner
to get everything live really quickly now another big incentive to use Shopify
is it's awesome partner application Oh below which is essentially a order
fulfillment application that allows you to import automatically products from
Aliexpress and fills those orders send me automatically
of course via WooCommerce and WordPress there are applications that are similar
to or below but at the time of this video I believe in my opinion that Oh
blow is by far the best automation application that you can use with a drop
shipping reason being the user interface again is so simple with Oh blow it's so
cleaner Abell from my experience in comparison
to a lead dropship for example it is a great tool it's just simple to use you
can get it up and running within a few clicks and it just works
speaking of reliability and support shop fire support team is one of the best if
not the best support team ever period I'm not talking about within the
e-commerce space I am talking about as a company their support team is second to
none most of the time they go above and beyond to solve your issue even if that
means it's a cost to the company for example my personal case a while ago I
bought a professional theme off Shopify and I had a few issues with that theme
where it required liquid coding okay so I reached out to the support support
team and said hey I've got this issue I can't fix it what can you guys do for me
I need a bit of support what they did instead of palming me off because you
know they could have done that if they really wanted to instead of doing that
they sent a specific dev a developer to this store and fix that issue for me by
coding you themselves now that's a cluster the company and that is what I
call service but it is not all rainbows and candy with Shopify okay with
simplicity does come restraints it's just not as customizable as WooCommerce
it's plain and simple because unless you know how to code out via the liquid
platform on Shopify you know how to customize and code out the website then
your Shopify store is going to look like a Shopify store if you know what I mean
you don't want your Shopify store to look like any other Shopify store out
there you don't want it to look like a drop shipping store because that goes
against your goals of branding that store the reason why we commerce is not
as popular as shop fighters is quite simple it is much more advanced and
complicated than Shopify shop flag gives you a very neat packaged experience for
beginners and it is very simple to use Shopify and it is also very effective
WooCommerce however is not a stand-alone solution you need to understand that it
is a word press add-on okay so what I mean by this is you're
basically creating a wordpress website and tacking on WooCommerce on top of
that so that is a pro in itself and also kind the pro is that's you can make that
still look like anything you want you can make it look like any website on the
net and that is how customizable your commerce is but the con is it's very
complicated it can be very technical very finicky very advanced if that's
confusing look at it like this Shopify is essentially using someone else's
platform whereas WooCommerce you're building it from the ground up so in
other words it's like WooCommerce is where you basically get a flat land and
you build your store up front whereas Shopify you're using or renting someone
else's space in a shopping mall so with WooCommerce you are able to deck
it out from the ground up you're able to design your store however the way you
want it to look like with Shopify it's sort of like you know this restraints
there's rules you need to adhere by so what commerce sounds really great
doesn't it but hang on it is really great if you know what you're doing you
need a wordpress website you need hosting you need a CMS you need to be
quite technical in order to build out your website right so if you don't have
the technical know-how then you won't be able to customize your store so if you
do have the technical know-how and you do have the time to invest because time
is very important as well if you've got a WooCommerce store you do need the time
setup everything it is you could argue that is infinitely more time consuming
than a Shopify store but with that comes reward because if you do have the time
if you do have the knowledge if you do have the money then you know go ahead
and use WooCommerce now if you're interested in creating that WooCommerce
store and that website in general I've got off completely free tutorial on this
channel where you can follow on step by step on how to create your own website
and your own work on the store I'll put a link somewhere here on the other hand
though if you want to get up and running ASAP and I mean really really quickly
but still want an effective store then go ahead and use Shopify now let's
quickly talk about pricing I've seen some videos out there that say
WooCommerce is completely free but really in real
it is not completely free I believe pricing models will be changing in the
future so let's start with Shopify shop fire is a very basic simple to read
business model okay it's $29 reoccurring month-to-month for the basic package and
really if you're just staying out that's all you need again I've made a video on
this pricing model so if you're interested check out this other video if
you've already established a brand or you seen a lot of orders come through
for your Shopify store then you definitely want to consider the other
plans the more expensive plans with WooCommerce yes it is a completely free
plugin that you can download for your WordPress website however in order to
get that wordpress website there are fees involved for example getting your
web host getting that plug-in to start wordpress for example with these costs
are all gonna add up together so in reality you can actually expect to spend
roughly 20 to 30 dollars every month anyway so the cost are sort of similar
and I would personally say that the cost of mitigator ball and you know you don't
really need to consider costs because they're quite similar if anything if you
know what you're doing with WordPress it is going to be more expensive because
there's more options and tools that you can use and purchase on wordpress
whereas Shopify keys are very simple the basic plan will give you anything that
you need but of course there's apps on the app store on Shopify as well which
will bump up the cost every month the playground is at WordPress WordPress
gives you an infinite amount of plugins that you can download for almost
anything that you need the great thing about this is that there's a lot of
third-party integration and support for WordPress and most of it is free
although again there are a lot of paid plugins that you might want to purchase
which will bump up the monthly cost the simplicity of shopper apps does
counteract the technicality of WordPress plugins because more often than not
installing WordPress plug-in is a lot harder than clicking a button to install
a Shopify app so on that note and in that sense you are limited with shop
fire as an e-commerce platform what I mean by that is if you want to branch
out and create a blog website for example or if you want to create a
website is outside of just purely ecommerce you
sort of limited with Shopify right with WordPress you literally have a blank
canvas you've got a website that you can create anything you want and you can add
ecommerce abilities onto that website where a shop flier
that's just an e-commerce platform and that's not a bad thing though so without
rambling on too much I am going to give you the bottom line depends who you are
right so if you're someone who is new to the world of e-commerce you're new to
the world of website making then I highly recommend Shopify is literally
all you need to start selling online and you can start selling quite quickly now
there still is a learning curve to search shop fire but that learning curve
is infinitely easier than WordPress and WooCommerce if you know what you're
doing and this isn't your first ecommerce store this isn't the first
website that you're making I do recommend WooCommerce simply
because it is more customizable and you can create a killer website and a killer
store that looks nothing like a Shopify store especially if you already have a
brand that you created WooCommerce can take your e-commerce game to the next
level a lot of you guys a lot of you shop by
drop shipping our users are sleeping on WooCommerce WooCommerce has the ability
to take your drop shipping game to the next level but only if you know what
you're doing and if you have the time and that's not to say that you can't
scale your Shopify store you definitely can't scale your Shopify store but at
that point if you're bringing in five digits of months through your Shopify
drop shipping store which is very realistic you need to start looking at
different alternatives you need to bring in a developer and start customizing
your store you don't want it to look like a drop shipping store forever as
with costs I would disregard costs because at the end of the day it is very
similar in terms of pricing shock like $29 plan you're gonna get basically
everything you need with WooCommerce you probably be spending anyway 30 to 40
dollars roughly around that range to get started with WooCommerce to start at
running at an optimal pace okay so like pricing sort of mitigates itself until
you get to the upper echelon of drop shipping and that Elite drop shipping
game where you'll be spending 100 if not thousands of dollars maintaining
your website there we have it guys that is the summary in essence if you're
absolutely beginner go with Shopify if you're an intermediate to advanced user
of dropshipping then go with WooCommerce that's how you're gonna step up your
game to the next level if you're just starting out you want to get up a store
quite quickly go with Shopify drop shipping their support team is amazing
their interface is amazing the WooCommerce however gives you the
advanced functionalities to basically take your game to the next level as
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