It means helping someone sell a product, and helping buyers to find it. Not a scam, but you can still be scammed if you work with the wrong seller, advertise in the wrong place, or worse, you buy a terrible dropshipping course.
It can be scaled, but not through hard work. The idea is that the 'hard work' of manufacturing, storing and shipping the product is outsourced. Your job is to sell. It takes hard work to find products, build online stores, create ads, test them... but from there you have to make smart decisions.
If you were less short-sighted, you would prefer to have control over the product quality and its delivery, but you cannot with dropshipping. It is questionable how you can make it work long-term or scale beyond what the supplier will manage.
If you actually want to do it, figure out what will be your advantage. If I saw your website, products, ads, customers, suppliers-- what would prevent me from competing with you? The barrier of entry is so low that most can try it, so get one or more unfair advantages, or it will not work out for you.
It can be scaled, but not through hard work. The idea is that the 'hard work' of manufacturing, storing and shipping the product is outsourced. Your job is to sell. It takes hard work to find products, build online stores, create ads, test them... but from there you have to make smart decisions.
If you were less short-sighted, you would prefer to have control over the product quality and its delivery, but you cannot with dropshipping. It is questionable how you can make it work long-term or scale beyond what the supplier will manage.
If you actually want to do it, figure out what will be your advantage. If I saw your website, products, ads, customers, suppliers-- what would prevent me from competing with you? The barrier of entry is so low that most can try it, so get one or more unfair advantages, or it will not work out for you.
