Why Is Selling Digital Products Better Than Drop Shipping?

2. No inventory to manage, unlike dropshipping

With digital products, you’ll never run out of stock whereas dropshipping stock does. Can you imagine if your third party has missed updating the inventory? It could be a real problem when it comes to the order that you have already taken payment for! This will never happen with digital products. You will have invite copies of each ebook to sell.

3. There isn’t any manual delivery or fulfilment needed with selling digital products

Digital products don’t need any delivery fulfilment as the buyer simply downloads through a link that you provide for them. This is done automatically with all Startup Streams stores and it means it is a hassle free form of delivery, without cost, and makes for a satisfied buyer as they are not having to wait a long time for the products to arrive - it is all automatic and instant.

4. No time consuming refunds for damaged products to manage with selling digital products

The worst thing to happen with drop shipping is when a customer's product is damaged during the delivery process. Another common complaint is the lack of quality control from the third party manufacturer and the customer will complain and merit a refund (doubly so if they have had to wait 30 days to receive it from China in the first place). Digital products don’t get damaged, nor take any time to arrive. Easy.

5. There isn’t any product tracking or related customer service issues, saving time and therefore money.

With digital products, there are no hassles coming from the customer asking “Why hasn’t my product arrived yet?”. You don’t need to track ay shipment across the world nor deal with international borders or taxes. Digital products are instantly sent to anyone with an internet connection anywhere in the world with the click of a button.
 

6. No generic Ali-Express copy and paste product photos and product descriptions 

Let’s put ourselves in the shoes of a customer: How would you feel if you see a poorly written product description which has been copied and pasted from Ali-Express? You would think that the seller isn’t enthusiastic about what they are selling, probably doesn’t even know what they are selling and you’d probably think it is a scam, right? With our stores, we put effort into constructing websites around stories and flow to encourage the customer to read on. We provide product descriptions to aid your buyers with relevant information, whilst building rapport at the same time. Product descriptions sell!
 

7. Selling digital products online isn’t a saturated market vs popular drop shipping products 

The competition for selling products on Startup Streams stores is far less than the competition of those selling popular products from a third party dropshipping supplier such as on Ali-Express. We find that entrepreneurs who buy our Startup Streams stores do so with specific digital marketing skills in mind. This means that there are rarely two Startup Streams stores using the exact digital marketing strategies. You may find that because of the competition of selling popular dropshipping products that there would be many other digital marketers using the same tactics for the same products, increasing the competition to sell the same items.
 

8. Higher average profit margins: Up to 100% profit per sale

Startup Streams’s digital product stores allow you to put in a one-time investment into a website with a product(s) to sell, and you can sell said product hundreds, if not thousands of times. Each time you do, you can keep all profits from the sale. This is far better than with drop shipping as you’d need to spend the majority of your revenue on paying for stock. With digital products, you have all 100% of the product’s revenue to dive into with your marketing costs in order to make a profitable sale. This makes selling digital products more flexible in marketing and more versatile vs dropshipping products, which can have between 50% - 2% profit margins depending on a product's competitiveness. 

9. Perfect for the serial entrepreneur

Being an entrepreneur is tough. Being a serial entrepreneur is tougher. The amount of sales, customer queries, emails to answer, returns, marketing campaigns and all other matters increase exponentially with each additional business added to your portfolio. With digital stores, the only real time addition to your busy seclude would be marketing. However, if you have an existing campaign in place, relating to our niches provided, it would be very easy to plug any Startup Streams store into your current ecosystem as we have greatly decreased the amount of customer relations your would need to manage. 

Summary: Sell digital products has more benefits than drop shipping items

Borderless commerce, daily paydays, zero stock, 100% automatic fulfilment and negligible customer contact - the many benefits of selling digital products online.

All Startup Streams stores come with digital products

As we’ve explored, drop shipping isn’t a perfect stress-free way to build a successful online business. We know that hard work is always required to start any business but we believe that our Startup Streams stores are more efficient to manage than a drop shipping store giving you an advantage to increase your success in online ecommerce…

See all available Startup Streams businesses for sale here