124: Expand Your Product Catalog, Grow Sales, And Operate More Efficiently Through Automated Order Fulfillment
Summary: <h2>Your Business Is A Journey. Invest In Yourself Today.</h2><p>Being an entrepreneur is a life of learning, implementing, and iterating. All it would take is <u>a new idea</u>, <u>a strategy</u>, <u>a Shopify app</u>, or <u>a marketing platform</u> to be the next thing you need to improve efficiencies, drive more revenue, and build lifetime customer loyalty for your Shopify brand.</p><p>My guest in today’s episode is Sina Djafari the Founder of Duoplane. They are an order management platform that helps Shopify merchants automate their fulfillment through dropship suppliers and 3PL warehouses. It’s automation that makes it easier for you to grow and manage your ecommerce business by expanding your product mix without the capital outlay.</p><p>You can now send orders to your suppliers with zero effort. Duoplane connects to your Shopify store and automatically parses each sales order into vendor purchase orders or warehouse picklists and routes them to the correct supplier. Tracking information flows back to Shopify and then onto your customer.</p><h2>What You Will Learn Today</h2><ul> <li>Why operating a distributed fulfillment model is the future of customer experience and long-term growth.</li> <li>Having less money tied up in inventory and warehouse real estate.</li> <li>How greater product selection using drop shipping, can offer a wider range of products without the inventory risk.</li> <li>How to be successful with dropshipping and using a 3PL?</li> <li>How to manage the full order cycle, including changes, shipments, returns, and order exceptions.</li> </ul><h2>Links And Resources Mentioned</h2><ul> <li><a href="https://duoplane.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Duoplane</a></li> <li><a href="https://apps.shopify.com/duoplane" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Duoplane Shopify App</a></li> <li><a href="https://ecommercefastlane.com/duoplane" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Free Operational Audit</a></li> </ul><h2>Thank You For Listening</h2><p>I really appreciate you choosing to listen to the show and for supporting the podcast and it’s sponsors. 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