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Re: Drop Shipping In Nigeria- Experience, Advice And How To by dd2017: 2:47am On Jan 11, 2017
mchenzy:


Is never all about an eCommerce store, is about that extra feature such a platform has. Plugins and easy on tools in these big eCommerce stores are the reasons why people and I prefer them plus many things backing them. You don't want to open business and you wake up one morning you are offline..etc

Even shopify and other big eCommerce websites started one day. If people have this same mindset, I think nobody will patronize them. Moreover all these top eCommerce software were not developed for Nigeria market. I once registered on shopify. I must tell you so many features you are paying for are not useful here in Nigeria. For example Nigerian will prefer to pay on delivery or transfer to your bank account. All these features are not available on shopify. You can give us a trial with Just N2,500 (with free subdomain). If you are satisfy then you can upgrade later.
Re: Drop Shipping In Nigeria- Experience, Advice And How To by mchenzy: 8:42am On Jan 11, 2017
dd2017:


Even shopify and other big eCommerce websites started one day. If people have this same mindset, I think nobody will patronize them. Moreover all these top eCommerce software were not developed for Nigeria market. I once registered on shopify. I must tell you so many features you are paying for are not useful here in Nigeria. For example Nigerian will prefer to pay on delivery or transfer to your bank account. All these features are not available on shopify. You can give us a trial with Just N2,500 (with free subdomain). If you are satisfy then you can upgrade later.


Okay. Couldn't open your main site in Chrome or Firefox mobile, only the shops. If someone can't manage his store via mobile, how good does that sound? Please, resolve.

What's your store price range, meant you store plans also features, cos I can't seem to read it because is not opening.

Re: Drop Shipping In Nigeria- Experience, Advice And How To by dd2017: 9:32am On Jan 11, 2017
mchenzy:



Okay. Couldn't open your main site in Chrome or Firefox mobile, only the shops. If someone can't manage his store via mobile, how good does that sound? Please, resolve.

What's your store price range, meant you store plans also features, cos I can't seem to read it because is not opening.
May be you didn't type the address well or your phone network is bad. Check our website on any mobile browser this is what u will see

Re: Drop Shipping In Nigeria- Experience, Advice And How To by mchenzy: 10:20am On Jan 11, 2017
dd2017:

May be you didn't type the address well or your phone network is bad. Check our website on any mobile browser this is what u will see


www.zcnox.com and www.zcnox.com/ecommerce are not the same. I entered the previous and you entered the later. Check my first screenshots I didn't misspell nor was there bad network.

Your main page is not opening on mobile others and subdomains are. Entered www.zcnox.com/ecommerce and it opened.

Meanwhile, you didn't answer my questions. What are features and plan ranges for your store.

Re: Drop Shipping In Nigeria- Experience, Advice And How To by dd2017: 10:41am On Jan 11, 2017
mchenzy:



www.zcnox.com and www.zcnox.com/ecommerce are not the same. I entered the previous and you entered the later. Check my first screenshots I didn't misspell nor was there bad network.

Your main page is not opening on mobile others and subdomains are. Entered www.zcnox.com/ecommerce and it opened.

Meanwhile, you didn't answer my questions. What are features and plan ranges for your store.

http://zcnox.com/ecommerce is the same as http://zcnox.com (if you type www.zcnox.com it will still direct you http://zcnox.com/ecommerce). I'm very sorry for not answering your question. You can check our pricing here http://zcnox.com/ecommerce/pricing.php

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Re: Drop Shipping In Nigeria- Experience, Advice And How To by Rhiya: 4:29pm On Jan 17, 2017
mchenzy:


eCom, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Shopify....all have the same problem as Nigerian. My point is this 88% of this pdf and video we read and watch is never tailored for the Nigerian man. People (Nigerian Info Marketers) study them and digest to feed Nigerians in a manner that will ease their trouble. So, to give information of such, you must make it edible for a Nigerian.

I opened my shop last week or so but have made few sales without FB but with Pinterest and Quora help. Why am I not using FB? Simple, my niche sells low doing Christmas but after that. Is simple strategy to build up now in targetted traffic and bank enough backlink before venturing into FB as to help having good serp in Google when I need it. This I did figure out not on my own but from combination of different ideas.
please can you guide me on how to set up a shop too
Re: Drop Shipping In Nigeria- Experience, Advice And How To by mchenzy: 11:19pm On Jan 17, 2017
Rhiya:
please can you guide me on how to set up a shop too

You are a funny person, you sent me a mail, I replied and you are yet to respond to my reply for 4 days now, who is to blame?...smh
Re: Drop Shipping In Nigeria- Experience, Advice And How To by Nobody: 9:35am On Jan 18, 2017
mchenzy:


You are a funny person, you sent me a mail, I replied and you are yet to respond to my reply for 4 days now, who is to blame?...smh
sir i saw this complaint on facebook. please what those this person mean?


"If you are a beginner & want to start a ecom
business with few bucks, why people suggest
starting with " Shopify" ? People say it has 14
day free trail but reality is that those free 14
days are of no use ,because even if you set up
your website in 3 or 5 days or whatever... your
customers can't check out unless you take a
shopify plan starting from $29 USD at the
middle of the month shopify charges you that
$29 USD. Why
There are more safer ways for beginners to
test their selling skills. Why Shopify "
Re: Drop Shipping In Nigeria- Experience, Advice And How To by Rhiya: 11:07am On Jan 18, 2017
mchenzy:


You are a funny person, you sent me a mail, I replied and you are yet to respond to my reply for 4 days now, who is to blame?...smh
oh no I actually did reply but with another email address....because the email attached to nairaland acct is quite old and not really functional...sorry for the mix up
Re: Drop Shipping In Nigeria- Experience, Advice And How To by dd2017: 2:42pm On Jan 18, 2017
supergata:
sir i saw this complaint on facebook. please what those this person mean?


"If you are a beginner & want to start a ecom
business with few bucks, why people suggest
starting with " Shopify" ? People say it has 14
day free trail but reality is that those free 14
days are of no use ,because even if you set up
your website in 3 or 5 days or whatever... your
customers can't check out unless you take a
shopify plan starting from $29 USD at the
middle of the month shopify charges you that
$29 USD. Why
There are more safer ways for beginners to
test their selling skills. Why Shopify "

I think its high time you people stopped wasting money when you have good alternative. Zcnox eCommerce a new online ecommerce software. A lot of people are already diverting their stores to zcnox. You can try it free for 5days. Our price starts from N3000 with a lot of features that you cannot get from shopify.

You can check our website log on to www.zcnox.com.
Re: Drop Shipping In Nigeria- Experience, Advice And How To by Nobody: 2:53pm On Jan 18, 2017
dd2017:


I think its high time you people stopped wasting money when you have good alternative. Zcnox eCommerce a new online ecommerce software. A lot of people are already diverting their stores to zcnox. You can try it free for 5days. Our price starts from N3000 with a lot of features that you cannot get from shopify.

You can check our website log on to www.zcnox.com.

"a LOT of people are DIVERTING their stores to zcnox" was this really necessary?

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Re: Drop Shipping In Nigeria- Experience, Advice And How To by mchenzy: 7:11pm On Jan 18, 2017
supergata:
sir i saw this complaint on facebook. please what those this person mean?


"If you are a beginner & want to start a ecom
business with few bucks, why people suggest
starting with " Shopify" ? People say it has 14
day free trail but reality is that those free 14
days are of no use ,because even if you set up
your website in 3 or 5 days or whatever... your
customers can't check out unless you take a
shopify plan starting from $29 USD at the
middle of the month shopify charges you that
$29 USD. Why
There are more safer ways for beginners to
test their selling skills. Why Shopify "

He's right and wrong...for 2checkout payment processing approval takes time and your customers can't checkout. Payoneer through stripe your customers can.

14days trial is useless for any beginner and an intermediate, you need much money 4 adverts to cover, and I never used it but used 65days which is still on and I have made profits to even pay for 3 years shopify sub. Shopify is very easy to create things with, added with many plugins to aid any seller which is beginner friendly.

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Re: Drop Shipping In Nigeria- Experience, Advice And How To by mchenzy: 7:14pm On Jan 18, 2017
Rhiya:
oh no I actually did reply but with another email address....because the email attached to nairaland acct is quite old and not really functional...sorry for the mix up

Okay. You saw my reply then, cos I have replied to all mails.
Re: Drop Shipping In Nigeria- Experience, Advice And How To by Rhiya: 10:42pm On Jan 18, 2017
mchenzy:


Okay. You saw my reply then, cos I have replied to all mails.
I jus checked my mail to confirm but didn't see any message...here's my email address : gloria.bebes16@gmail. com
Re: Drop Shipping In Nigeria- Experience, Advice And How To by Nobody: 11:02pm On Jan 18, 2017
mchenzy:


He's right and wrong...for 2checkout payment processing approval takes time and your customers can't checkout. Payoneer through stripe your customers can.

14days trial is useless for any beginner and an intermediate, you need much money 4 adverts to cover, and I never used it but used 65days which is still on and I have made profits to even pay for 3 years shopify sub. Shopify is very easy to create things with, added with many plugins to aid any seller which is beginner friendly.
thanks a lot sir

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Re: Drop Shipping In Nigeria- Experience, Advice And How To by mchenzy: 11:19pm On Jan 18, 2017
Rhiya:
I jus checked my mail to confirm but didn't see any message...here's my email address : gloria.bebes16@gmail. com

Okay sent PM again. Check inbox

Subject:

McHenzy NairaLand (Dropshipping)
Re: Drop Shipping In Nigeria- Experience, Advice And How To by CosmicJames(m): 10:07am On Jan 21, 2017
mchenzy:


Okay sent PM again. Check inbox

Subject:

McHenzy NairaLand (Dropshipping)
Has Amazon responded - merch?
I did more research on it and decided to apply last week. I'm now waiting for approval

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Re: Drop Shipping In Nigeria- Experience, Advice And How To by mchenzy: 10:55am On Jan 21, 2017
CosmicJames:
Has Amazon responded - merch?
I did more research on it and decided to apply last week. I'm now waiting for approval

No, not yet. I have to apply for UK merch, seems US merch takes time, even when I tried applying for amazon associate program through US site, I had problems with SMS confirmation but for UK, they even called me on phone for questions what I even enjoyed was the lady's british english, nearly asked for her private number...lol. I will apply for UK merch by Monday as am not with my PC here
Re: Drop Shipping In Nigeria- Experience, Advice And How To by CosmicJames(m): 11:00am On Jan 21, 2017
mchenzy:


No, not yet. I have to apply for UK merch, seems US merch takes time, even when I tried applying for amazon associate program through US site, I had problems with SMS confirmation but for UK, they even called me on phone for questions what I even enjoyed was the lady's british english, nearly asked for her private number...lol. I will apply for UK merch by Monday as am not with my PC here
Good idea. Just the US has the largest market. I ll also follow suite while waiting for the US application approval.

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Re: Drop Shipping In Nigeria- Experience, Advice And How To by mchenzy: 1:27pm On Jan 22, 2017
CosmicJames:
Good idea. Just the US has the largest market. I ll also follow suite while waiting for the US application approval.

Yea...is a good idea bro. As I get home I will do same.
Re: Drop Shipping In Nigeria- Experience, Advice And How To by mchenzy: 11:54am On Jan 23, 2017
CosmicJames:
Good idea. Just the US has the largest market. I ll also follow suite while waiting for the US application approval.

Just found out that I don't need merch approval to sell tees, mugs, flags etc. I can do that with my shopify store. Am really excited, time for my designers to get to work, is been long their hands were itching.
Re: Drop Shipping In Nigeria- Experience, Advice And How To by CosmicJames(m): 12:23pm On Jan 23, 2017
mchenzy:


Just found out that I don't need merch approval to sell tees, mugs, flags etc. I can do that with my shopify store. Am really excited, time for my designers to get to work, is been long their hands were itching.
I knew that long ago bro. But I don't want to pay that shopify fees when there is an option to do what you just said free. Yes, there is a platform that is free to use and sell tees, mugs, phone cases, face cap, pillow cases etc. However, there is a challenge on the platform - one need Amazon seller account and getting an Amazon seller account is challenging as they (Amazon) don't allow Nigerians to sell on there platform. I'm already working on ways to get Amazon seller account. While I'm working on that, I applied for merch and waiting for approval. I'm actually tacling these white people bro. If Amazon approval my merch account, fine. I will use it to sell tees. If they don't approve the merch account, still fine. I will get their (Amazon) seller account and still sell on Amazon useng a third party platform free.

This is a happening year for me bro, I don't want to take chances. Even the devil knows that he can't hinder me this year.

You remember that my membership site I told you about? I have grown the FB group that I intend to use to launch the site by next month to over 800 members within 1month!
Re: Drop Shipping In Nigeria- Experience, Advice And How To by mchenzy: 3:11pm On Jan 23, 2017
CosmicJames:
I knew that long ago bro. But I don't want to pay that shopify fees when there is an option to do what you just said free. Yes, there is a platform that is free to use and sell tees, mugs, phone cases, face cap, pillow cases etc. However, there is a challenge on the platform - one need Amazon seller account and getting an Amazon seller account is challenging as they (Amazon) don't allow Nigerians to sell on there platform. I'm already working on ways to get Amazon seller account. While I'm working on that, I applied for merch and waiting for approval. I'm actually tacling these white people bro. If Amazon approval my merch account, fine. I will use it to sell tees. If they don't approve the merch account, still fine. I will get their (Amazon) seller account and still sell on Amazon useng a third party platform free.

This is a happening year for me bro, I don't want to take chances. Even the devil knows that he can't hinder me this year.

You remember that my membership site I told you about? I have grown the FB group that I intend to use to launch the site by next month to over 800 members within 1month!

I just got amazon seller acct. Paying for shopify fee is great cos of its apps and is really cheap or u use 65days trial which you can cover when your trial ends.

I saw your group, is really growing well. Am just developing myself these 3 months before I take people onto myself. I have 2 standard business now, once I complete this 3rd one, I end. This year is my time.
Re: Drop Shipping In Nigeria- Experience, Advice And How To by CosmicJames(m): 4:07pm On Jan 23, 2017
mchenzy:


I just got amazon seller acct. Paying for shopify fee is great cos of its apps and is really cheap or u use 65days trial which you can cover when your trial ends.

I saw your group, is really growing well. Am just developing myself these 3 months before I take people onto myself. I have 2 standard business now, once I complete this 3rd one, I end. This year is my time.
That my group is actually growing more than I expected and is now a major challenge as its take over 90% of my time which is not what I plan. I don't even have time to attend to my other projects. I'm now trying really hard to figure out how ways to handle the group and be able to do other stuffs that are important to me. Maybe I appoint group Admins?

Which Amazon seller account did you get. US or UK?
Re: Drop Shipping In Nigeria- Experience, Advice And How To by mchenzy: 6:57pm On Jan 23, 2017
CosmicJames:
That my group is actually growing more than I expected and is now a major challenge as its take over 90% of my time which is not what I plan. I don't even have time to attend to my other projects. I'm now trying really hard to figure out how ways to handle the group and be able to do other stuffs that are important to me. Maybe I appoint group Admins?

Which Amazon seller account did you get. US or UK?

US Amazon seller account blackhat. I told you membership things rakes out time.
Re: Drop Shipping In Nigeria- Experience, Advice And How To by ismart: 7:20pm On Jan 23, 2017
I love what you guys are doing, cosmicjames and mchenzy, keep the fire burning.

Dropping shipping or importation like someone else are same but one is tweaked like it's not importation.

I don't know why but I chose to focus on Nigeria for a reason.

One advise I would give you guys is try to master the art of using videos to sell. But from the look of things, y'all are depending on free traffic method via SEO.
Re: Drop Shipping In Nigeria- Experience, Advice And How To by Nobody: 8:11pm On Jan 23, 2017
ismart:
I love what you guys are doing, cosmicjames and mchenzy, keep the fire burning.

Dropping shipping or importation like someone else are same but one is tweaked like it's not importation.

I don't know why but I chose to focus on Nigeria for a reason.

One advise I would give you guys is try to master the art of using videos to sell. But from the look of things, y'all are depending on free traffic method via SEO.

please expatiate more on using videos to sell.
Re: Drop Shipping In Nigeria- Experience, Advice And How To by ShakaZullu(m): 9:08pm On Jan 23, 2017
mchenzy:


I just got amazon seller acct. Paying for shopify fee is great cos of its apps and is really cheap or u use 65days trial which you can cover when your trial ends.

I saw your group, is really growing well. Am just developing myself these 3 months before I take people onto myself. I have 2 standard business now, once I complete this 3rd one, I end. This year is my time.
which card did you used for verification on shopify?
they keep rejecting my uba africard
Re: Drop Shipping In Nigeria- Experience, Advice And How To by CosmicJames(m): 9:58pm On Jan 23, 2017
mchenzy:


US Amazon seller account blackhat. I told you membership things rakes out time.
Yea, blackhat. Since we can't get it the whitehat way, we have to go blackhat. Was it a DIY, or DFY method?
Re: Drop Shipping In Nigeria- Experience, Advice And How To by mchenzy: 12:36am On Jan 24, 2017
ShakaZullu:

which card did you used for verification on shopify?
they keep rejecting my uba africard

Get USD Prepaid card from GtBank, Zenith, UBA or FirstBank. Maybe a VCC on your name but not all vcc are accepted on shopify platform, use a wrong one, your machine id is banned not even IP.
Re: Drop Shipping In Nigeria- Experience, Advice And How To by mchenzy: 12:39am On Jan 24, 2017
CosmicJames:
Yea, blackhat. Since we can't get it the whitehat way, we have to go blackhat. Was it a DIY, or DFY method?
Every blackhat twist to suit Nigeria is DFY
Re: Drop Shipping In Nigeria- Experience, Advice And How To by CosmicJames(m): 5:28am On Jan 24, 2017
mchenzy:
Every blackhat twist to suit Nigeria is DFY
You are right and is costly. I'm actually working to get a DIY solution for Nigerians bro. If I'm successful, I ll let you know. I beg wish me goodluck...lol

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