Tag Archive Shopify

Ok, so things have now moved on somewhat..

We have a name, and a logo to go with it.

Lucytwobags.com sounds like a girl who is into shopping.. In reality, she’s my dog, and you can guess what’s in the bags.

The logo cost me £12 on fiverr

I learned a !eason : don’t waste time setting things up until you have the domain name, or you will have to do it all again..

Lesson two: Paypal is being an arse with “premier” accounts like mine: they have hidden the seller tools, including the Api settings.  I got around this using the url of the business account settings,they are the same.

Now, what to sell? I took a look at Oberlo’s “black friday” videos and noted down all their suggestions..

Now, how to find suppliers? I don’t believe in re-inventing the wheel, so I used dropship.me, which is like Oberlo but for alidropship. You get 50 products to start with (you pick).. Not all Oberlo’s suggestions were available, but I still got 6 products for zero research!

Dropship.me is another WordPress plugin, you get an activation code with the download, which gives you the free 50 products. Later on, you can buy more, as packages. For a newbie like me, this is ideal. No supplier research!

I have to admit that setting pages and categories was a grind.. Menus are a pain..

So, we now have a site, with payments set up, products, categories, and I used the default pricing rules.

Next up we will be looking at marketing..

So we have a (new) hosting account with AliDropship, and we have bought the plugin.

What we don’t have (still) is a name..  This is turning into a nightmare.

We’ve tried all sorts of “name generators” and domain name tools.. still stuck..

impossibility.org

www.domainhole.com/generator

We’ll let you know when we sort this out..

Note: this is NOT procrastination. More like “writer’s block’..

AliDropship pulled a master-stroke last weekend: they offered us FREE HOSTING for a year! (Try joining their mailing list and watch out for the offers)

That was enough for us to get off the fence and buy-in.

So, for the usual price of $89.95 (£72), we got the plugin and free hosting.. Result! (we could have save 15% if we didn’t take the hosting, by using code: STARTER15)

So we now have a hosting account for this project that doesn’t rely on our usual “unlimited” hosting (slow).
AliDropship have also agreed to set this up for us. For free.

All we need now is a name for the shop.. which will also be the domain name.

And that’s trickier than you think. Most of the ones we thought of are already taken..

Oberlo have videos and tutorials on this subject, so we’ll take another look at those (I think Wholesale Ted may have something as well.)

So, we’ll get back to you when we have a domain name.

Then, it’s just a case of setting the site up, picking a niche, and some products..

And then comes the real work: Marketing…