Co-Founder Shopify Plus and Optimizely Certified eCommerce agency, leading eCommerce efforts for brands like Red Bull, Procter & Gamble, Whirlpool, Stash Tea, MVMT Watches and many more
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Really depends on the type of product and the standard within that industry. As an example, furniture items can take months to deliver. On the other hand, if you're drop shipping, and customers can get the product cheaper and faster from somewhere like Amazon you may have some challenges. The key in dropshipping is to distinguish yourself from an authoritative, content or other standpoint so that customers are willing to sacrifice cost or delivery efficiency for the security your "brand" represents.
This would really depend on the vertical of your company and the CMS you use. IE are you E-Commerce? Are you using a platform like Magento or Shopify, and if not E-Commerce, something like Wordpress?
This is important both from an feature set integration and economic standpoint. You'll want to find the provider that best integrates with your CMS to maximize its use cases and minimize costly custom development.
A few leading providers are:
Klaviyo, Bronto, Listrak
Step one is to set up a multivariate landing page with Unbounce.com - create several versions and test to see which yields the highest conversion rate to make sure that you're maximizing your ROI on ad dollars. From there use Perfect Audience (they have a 50 dollar free trial credit) to setup a retargeting campaign in order to keep top of mind for those that don't convert on the first visit. After these are setup, I'd do a combination of paid search and Facebook advertising. For Facebook advertising you can target by device - make the ads relevant - IE target IPhone users with ads such as "IPhone screen cracked? Call the top IPhone repair company in Ottawa - Free estimate - 100 percent guarantee."
I'd recommend finding a qualified operational advisor and offering some SMALL level of equity to keep all interests aligned, as well as bring further credibility to the business!
Bottom line - NO. Absolutely not. To hire qualified people to represent your company through comments, the cost would not justify the result. Hiring low paid workers to do this will only result in a bad reputation.
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I worked with Dylan to re-finance my home through Zillow's mortgage marketplace. Though Meg Whitman was the actual broker, Dylan was our only contact and walked us through the entire process. I was extremely impressed by his thoroughness and follow-through. Dylan helped us work through an incorrect collections on our credit report that affected the mortgage rates we could qualify for and essentially hand-held us through the entire process which took several months. I don't think many others in the mortgage industry would have have the patience and customer service to work with us through all of this. In addition, during this entire time Dylan was always in touch and easily accessible via email and phone at nearly anytime during the day or week. While it seems like he's no longer in the mortgage industry, I would highly recommend working with Dylan for any new venture!
