Do you make deliveries when dropshipping?

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hey everyone my name is David and it's question time just like each week we're taking a closer look at the questions that you all dropped into the comments of videos on our YouTube channel if you have questions of your own don't be shy alright so today we have a couple of great questions from Mireille Davis and sorry if I'm butchering your name Marais she wants to know how you can get customers to wait a month for their order especially when Amazon is out there delivering products in 24 hours this is an awesome question one that just about every drop shipper will ask at some point first things first make sure your customers know exactly how long shipping takes setting realistic expectations now will save you headaches later it might even be a good idea to have a shipping details page on your website so you can link to that from your checkout or from the footer the more transparent the better another idea offer free shipping and be sure to let your shoppers know about it go ahead and charge a little bit extra for the product itself and then tell the world that your shipping is free being loud about your free shipping will immediately impact expectations customers will anticipate and accept a slower delivery time and they'll love you for giving them something for nothing you can also do some detective work by ordering a few products from different suppliers and seeing how long shipping takes not all of them will be a month if you have one or two suppliers who take their sweet time with deliveries maybe save yourself the trouble and drop them from your store one more thing target countries with the best shipping options advertising platforms like Facebook and Instagram let you use location targeting so instead of blasting out ads to everyone use what you know about shipping times to different countries to inform your marketing campaigns summer-rae hope that helps you guys have your own questions great shoot we're scanning the comments every day and we're love to use your question in our next video we'll be cranking out these videos every week so if you're into drop shipping to subscribe for more until next time happy drop shipping