How do I start a mug business? The answer— dropship mugs. You can sell personalized coffee mugs without making your own ceramic mugs. You don’t need equipment or workers to start your business. You don’t even need a physical location to launch it. Here’s what you need to do:
- Create an online website
- Build a social media presence (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.)
- Dropshipping service to order personalized photo mugs for your customers
Dropshipping: What is It?
Wholesalers like us offer coffee mug businesses a dropshipping service, which allows them to order custom coffee mugs in bulk at an affordable price. We can send you custom coffee mugs, which you can display in your online store or we can ship them mugs directly to your customers.
With the latter option, you don’t have to stock or ship products, as we’ll do that on your behalf. You can give your customers a choice of choosing a design to place on there. Just let us know, so we can do that and ship it to either them or you on time.
If you choose the first option, you can partner with a shipping company to handle delivery for you. Both options allow you to ship mugs across the country. Perhaps, later, once established, you can start to sell your coffee mugs to people around the world.
If you collaborate with us, you can introduce a wide variety of customized options to your customers. We sell a variety of products, including color-changing mugs, glow-in-the-dark mugs, travel mugs, journals, coasters, shot glasses, and more.
Dropshipping: The Benefits
If you choose a dropship mugs service, you’ll receive the following benefits:
1. More Customers
You can sell your custom coffee cups and travel mugs to other online businesses that buy products from other businesses to display in their online store. They can market your coffee mugs to your target audience directly. They’ll keep a portion of the revenue earned from the sale and give you the rest. You can approach more than one business to display your coffee mugs. Apart from establishing your own website to sell your coffee mugs, you can also make money by giving to other online businesses, thus increasing your chance of making money.
We vouch for dropshipping because we see the number of advantages you receive if you go with it. The main ones include lower capital, reduced risk, a wide selection of products, an online store, and scalability.
2. Save Time, Money, and Effort
If you’re selling your coffee mugs to other online stores, you don’t have to worry too much about marketing and promoting them to your target audience. The online businesses would already have an established audience, thus saving you time, money, and effort.
If you want to start your own business with your own store selling personalized ceramic coffee mugs, you’ll need to invest time, money, and effort into it. Whichever option you choose, the costs will still be less. Since you’re not spending time manufacturing the products you sell, you’ll have enough time to promote them to the right audience.
3. No Need to Buy a Warehouse
You can order products based on the number of orders you have or you can customize the mugs with photos and messages and then sell them to your customers. You don’t have to give them a customized option if you don’t want to, Rather, you can sell mugs with unique images and text.
For instance, if there’s a meme trending, you can customize the coffee mug or travel mug with it. You’ll always want a coffee mug that’s up to date with the latest trends. It won’t take you long to get them out there either, as we can do it for you easily. We have the necessary equipment, experience, and resources needed to send them to you fast.
4. Sell from Your Home
You can sell personalized mugs from the comfort of your own home. You can even be sitting at a coffee shop closing a sale with a customer. You can run your coffee mug business from anywhere. You don’t need to buy a physical location to sell your coffee mugs, and this is where you save a lot of money.
5. Establish Long-lasting Relationships
You’ll establish long-lasting relationships with both your supplier and the businesses you’re giving your coffee mugs to display in their store. Once you have found these key players, you can start your coffee mug business.
We can be your dropshipping partner. We can supply custom coffee mugs to help you start your business or even ship them to your requested customer. Contact us to learn more.