The Best Platforms to Start Low-Cost Business

Dropshipping, print-on-demand, and affiliate marketing are three low-cost business models. You can even start these businesses without investing any money if you follow the right strategies. You cannot start all of these businesses at once, right? So, if you have to choose one of these businesses, which do you think is the best business model?

I have run a dropshipping business, a print-on-demand business, as well as affiliate marketing. I have made money through all of these businesses, and here I am going to share tips based on my own experience. Before I share my opinion, I will have to put a disclaimer: Before you try any business models, build skills, knowledge, and expertise, have patience, and work hard.

Each of these business models requires different skills, for example, you require graphic design skills and SEO skills for the Print-On-Demand business model and digital marketing skills for Dropshipping and Affiliate Marketing. You also need to be a social media influencer to generate sales from all of these businesses.

Of all three methods, Print-On-Demand is my personal favorite. That’s because you can build your own brand without sourcing or manufacturing products. It can be started regardless of your level of experience. A print-on-demand business can be very profitable as you have multiple options to choose from.

Which is the Best platform for print-on-Demand: Etsy, Shopify, or Woocommerce

Etsy: Etsy is a very popular ecommerce marketplace for selling hand-crafted items. It has millions of registered buyers. It has billions of referral traffic, organic traffic, and internal traffic. Selling is somewhat easier provided you have done proper SEO and marketed your products well.

Shopify: Shopify is a very popular ecommerce platform. The system is so robust that you can build any kind of website. However, the software is very expensive. You need to spend a lot of money to rank your store on Google search and spend a lot of money on ads to generate sales. it can take a long time before you can build traffic.

Woocommerce: Woocommerce is a free platform for ecommerce store. However, you might have to spend money on SEO and marketing to build traffic to your store.

When you build your own store by using wooocommerce or shopify, you need to build the brand name for your online store so that people start buying. However, Etsy already has registered buyers and organic traffic, so there is no need to spend money on ads. You will have to spend money to list the product and pay transaction fees and sales commissions.

Building your store with shopify or woocommerce cost more money than selling on Etsy, however, when you sell from your store, you make more profits.

The Best Print-On-Demand Platform Redbubble or Amazon Merch

Printify and Printful are two common print-on-demand platforms, however, in order to use these platforms you need to connect your account with other stores such as Etsy, eBay, woocommerce, shopify, etc. Interestingly Redbubble and Amazon Merch are two such platforms that are not only print providers but also marketplace as well. In other words, you can design products as well as sell products from Redbubble and Amazon Merch.

Amazon Merch and Redbubble are print-on-demand services as well as print-on-demand marketplace. Between these two, which one is the best? Or let me put another away around, between Amazon Merch and Redbubbe, which is the best place to make money through a Print-On-Demand business?

Redbubble and Amazon Merch both allow you to sell an infinite number of items for no upfront costs; you pay when a sale is made. However, Amazon is a better known marketplace, Amazon has more buyers, has better reach, so you might be sell more on Amazon and make more money.

Interestingly, Amazon being one of the top 10 websites in the world, has more competition, thus, can be very challenging to generate sales.

Redbubble, on the other hand, is smaller than Amazon, so there are fewer customers. Interestingly, this gives an advantage because the market is less competitive, and selling is easier.