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Shopify Dropshipping Course: Build, Launch, Scale

Starweaver via Coursera

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Dropshipping offers an accessible way to start an ecommerce business without holding inventory, managing a warehouse, or making a large upfront investment. But building a Shopify dropshipping store that attracts customers and generates sales takes more than listing products online. This Shopify dropshipping course gives aspiring entrepreneurs, side-hustlers, and ecommerce sellers a practical, step-by-step path to building, launching, and growing a dropshipping business on Shopify. Starting from the fundamentals, you will learn how to set up and design a branded store, conduct market research to choose a profitable niche, identify the best dropshipping products, work with reliable dropshipping suppliers, configure shipping and customer service, improve store performance, and prepare your business for its first sale. From there, you'll apply what you learn directly in your own Shopify store through hands-on labs, scenario-based assessments, roleplay activities, and a course-end project. You'll explore dropshipping sales strategies for attracting targeted traffic through free, affordable, and paid channels, setting up analytics and email marketing, processing and fulfilling orders, recovering abandoned carts, using upsells and discounts, and expanding into international markets. Alongside that, you'll build the operational foundations growth requires, including bookkeeping, team building, backups, and competitor and product research. By the end, you'll have a live Shopify store and a practical 6-month scaling plan for growing your dropshipping business.

Syllabus

  • Foundations: Set Up Your Shopify Store
    • Go from zero to a live, branded Shopify store with products and a custom domain.
  • Optimizing Your Store for Your First Sale
    • Add the trust, speed, supplier, and service layers that make a store ready for traffic.
  • Driving Traffic & Making Sales
    • Attract the right visitors, convert them, and process sales end-to-end.
  • Scaling Beyond $10K/month
    • Lift order value, expand internationally, and run a real business.

Taught by

Starweaver and Tanmoy Das

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