In this session of Questions & Answers we’re trying to give you maximum coverage for the proposed new venture. You want to open a new storefront with us – first, learn, what to do to make it work for you. Now, take a few minutes of your time and read.
Growing a company always easier in partnerships. And we chose to seek partners in Italian fashion industry.
If you reading this, you ARE interested in presenting your designs to the Americans. But without the public being aware of your existence who will come and buy from you if you are not presented in US? As a Step One we create awareness about you and also about ourselves! It will cost you nothing to sign up but for us cooperation is not free. Creating a catalog for you, a dedicated landing page will take a lot of work. We need to maintain our website, keep it updated and fully operational. To promote our businesses in America we use our dedicated highly qualified professionals. It is a win-win situation where creating awareness of you helps our own business grow.
Invented in America, drop shipping with us are the same as everywhere in the world. We advertise Supplier’s products on The Elegant You and, when order comes, our system automatically dispatches it to the Supplier along with the full payment for shipping and product; The Supplier also receives Customer’s home address for shipping directly. Done!
We’re doing a lot of work to accommodate you. On The Elegant You we present your brand to the Americans in the best possible way. Again: we build you a fully functional store at The Elegant You, market your products – at no cost to you. Just hover your mouse over menu DESIGNERS. See the sub-menu with listed brands? Click either and you’ll see what type of a Landing page we’re talking about. Each of them is a store front for the brand. You can have it, too. Read on!
As a legitimate US company we ask you for the wholesale price on all your products. We have to be able to use Multiplying Factor 2,5 on your price and arrive to the retail price on our website. The retail prices on your own website and this one must be close and not create disadvantage to either operation. We can also add to our price some estimated shipping cost when we advertise a” free shipping”.
First, you and us are signing a Drop Shipping agreement that summarize our responsibilities. Then, according to the clause about the Supplier’s role, you provide us with all the information regarding your products:
Photos of the products
Price list
Full product descriptions
Company profile, its history and founders’ biographies (optional).
Next, we are creating a Landing page for your company which will be shown at the Main Menu section DESIGNERS: hover your mouse over it and a dropdown submenu will show a list of brands already signed with us. Click on the brand name takes you to their Landing page.
Then we create a catalog of your products at our platform and your storefront with us all set. After your approval of the Landing page, it gets published and your products become visible at our website and ready for sale.
Note: during the design period we expect your cooperation in providing best available data – text, photos and marketing materials. Remember, we’ll be creating your online presentation and it’s in your best interest to have it done right.
What we need from you is to keep us constantly updated with your inventory. Since you have your own website as well, you already set to work with us. The key to success with us is to keep our catalog showing the same information as yours.
If you update your own website information and we don’t update ours we’ll be showing products that you have sold out, or cancelled or re-designed or changed price.
The person who does updates on your website has all the information ready and after your own catalog update this information must be emailed to us as well. We’ll enter it into our website and our catalogs will be fully synchronized.
To keep sales going on our end we need to have all your updates.
Being our Supplier isn’t adding just one more outlet for your product. In fact, your products get marketed on several other outlets we own:
theelegantyou.blog
trueluxuryshop.com
itatous.com
Facebook
Instagram and other social media
All our websites interconnected by internal links and appear for the search engine like Google as a small network or a web cluster. The search engine has a much better chance to catch our network that a single website address with your products. In other words, by showing your product at our web platform you are seriously increasing chances for your products to be found during the online search. That’s how successful sales happen – all major brands have their products present on multiple websites! Same applies here: the more domains carry your products the higher your chances to sell them.
Based on our experience, monthly to quarterly updates would suffice. If your own website is technically advanced, all can be discussed and arranged individually, including creating a fully automated system linking both sites.
Our system is based on a deeply modified WordPress Content Management System (like Amazon, PayPal) and is totally independent. We can automatically accept data in every usable format in business, whether it csv or Excel files, or it requires a manual entry. Exact file sizes and other parameters can be found here
In no way we’re encouraging our customers to practice returns as a routine exercise in online shopping. Returns of the products only can be accepted after thorough inspection of the product. The customer first, sends to our office photos of the defective product and, based on what we see, we can accept it to our office in New York for further inspection. In case of obvious manufacturer defect, our office in New York returns product to the Supplier for refund or replacement. Real returns happen very very rarely. Because of the possibility of the double shipping, our return policy is set for thirty (30) days from the date of purchase.
No custom-made products will be accepted. To minimize costly mistakes customers provided with extensive help in setting up custom order.
When order is placed Supplier sends us invoice and we transfer payment based on invoiced amount, which can be either based on estimated shipping cost or on the exact number. After transaction is over and product is actually shipped, we balancing transaction with Supplier either by sending some missing amount or on the contrary, Supplier sends us back what we overpaid for shipping. Usually the amount to compensate shortage/overpay is small enough and it never poses a problem.
Is it possible? Yes, if you don’t have an official trade representative in United States. Selling on your behalf works under entirely different set of rules, first of which is to grant us exclusive rights to sell. We cannot market your product online if there’s a competitor offering the same your product. Marketing online often more expensive that regular marketing. You can see product we offer here: www.itatous.com
At this page you can see a table where we show our platform The Elegant You vs major players in online retail. Our web platform is feature-rich, independent and easy to navigate. This is a good time to get onboard. Use this chance and join others who already with us and are enjoying increased exposure to the Americans!
Showing your products on multiple online platform alone won’t increase your sales at once. Although one can see immediate sales on our websites but this very well may be a lucky moment. Bringing a new brand to the United States market is a process. You can get some sense in watching this video
Tamara Melon is famous American entrepreneur who helped bring a Jimmy Choo brand to America. It took her 11 years and countless millions of dollars in markering effort.
First, always comes AWARENESS. That’s what you’ve done by partnering with us.
To make public aware of your brand is a multi-prong effort. There are thousands of websites selling fashion products. We do our best showing off your products online. But regardless of the sales, check yourself. Did you do everything in your power to present your products in the best possible way?
IMAGE SELLS THE PRODUCT ONLINE
Check quality of your images. Is your product perfectly visible and every aspect of it is properly shown? Are there enough photos taken of the item? Does your model do a good job showing your product to public? Does she/he look elegant or vulgar? Is your model a professional or just a person you could afford to shoot with your product? Did you use a good camera and a good lighting, is your product image crisp and in right focus? We emphatically ask you to pay utmost attention to the product images!
DESCRIPTION TURN-ON/OFF
Too short a description may be viewed as if a company wants to hide some unfortunate aspects of the product design. Certain elements emphasized in description may show your product in a more favorable light, so make sure you used enough words describing your product and showing how perfectly it serves its purpose.
DELIVERY TIME IS IMPORTANT
Some customization to the standard product will inevitably take more time for delivery but the shorter the time the easier for the visitor to buy.
PUT THE RIGHT PRICE ON YOUR PRODUCT
Product’s price of the less-known brand cannot match such of the well-known brand. When a visitor has a dilemma between buyng a product made by the established brand and a less-known brand’s product priced equally, the latter is in for a bad news.
Tamara Melon is famous American entrepreneur who helped bring a Jimmy Choo brand to America. It took her 11 years and countless millions of dollars in markering effort.
First, always comes AWARENESS. That’s what you’ve done by partnering with us.
To make public aware of your brand is a multi-prong effort. There are thousands of websites selling fashion products. We do our best showing off your products online. But regardless of the sales, check yourself. Did you do everything in your power to present your products in the best possible way?
IMAGE SELLS THE PRODUCT ONLINE
Check quality of your images. Is your product perfectly visible and every aspect of it is properly shown? Are there enough photos taken of the item? Does your model do a good job showing your product to public? Does she/he look elegant or vulgar? Is your model a professional or just a person you could afford to shoot with your product? Did you use a good camera and a good lighting, is your product image crisp and in right focus? We emphatically ask you to pay utmost attention to the product images!
DESCRIPTION TURN-ON/OFF
Too short a description may be viewed as if a company wants to hide some unfortunate aspects of the product design. Certain elements emphasized in description may show your product in a more favorable light, so make sure you used enough words describing your product and showing how perfectly it serves its purpose.
DELIVERY TIME IS IMPORTANT
Some customization to the standard product will inevitably take more time for delivery but the shorter the time the easier for the visitor to buy.
PUT THE RIGHT PRICE ON YOUR PRODUCT
Product’s price of the less-known brand cannot match such of the well-known brand. When a visitor has a dilemma between buyng a product made by the established brand and a less-known brand’s product priced equally, the latter is in for a bad news.