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Being the leading online business-to-business (B2B) luxury fashion marketplace we are always working on improving our offering. Our team has the task to efficiently connect wholesale vendors, retail buyers, and dropshippers from around the world. Our system is set up in a way where our website relies heavily on the information and data of our customers. Therefore it is necessary to make sure that the server level communication (hosting) during this information exchange runs flawlessly and our clients’ websites are operational around the clock. Over the past years, we’ve experienced that many of our dropshippers pick up hosting companies that might not have the expertise or resources to support so many synchronization calls that BrandsGateway requires. For example, during the initial synchronization, there could be around 6,000 products that you are importing in the store. That can result in tens of thousands of API calls being sent to your WooCommerce hosting. Many companies simply fail to support this as they are not optimized for this type of load. This is why we felt there is a need to help our dropshippers to make better decisions when choosing the hosting provider. And we did not wish to offer more confusion as during these times there are so many options available - and to really tell what is the difference between them, it takes time and effort. But we have made it simple for you - we don't want to overwhelm you with this information, so we have chosen the partner that we know well and that knows how to cater to our needs.

BrandsGateway's goal is to help people start or expand their entrepreneurial journey by providing great products and services at even better prices. Our reward for the efforts we are taking is the positive feedback we receive from our customers. It is always amazing to hear that BrandsGateway is helping individuals and companies from all over the world build great businesses and change their lives. We are more than happy to present the beginning of the case studies series where we talk with successful entrepreneurs who use BrandsGateway as their dropshipping supplier. Hopefully, we can inspire people into taking that step and just start. It’s not an easy task to build and run a business but with a great partner, the job becomes much easier.  This is the story of a dropshipper from Australia who is one of our biggest success stories. His name is Sam and he runs the website Azurarunway.com. Sam has an entrepreneurial background and like thousands of other successful entrepreneurs, his previous business efforts were not a big success but he decided that he is not giving up so he stumbled upon BrandsGateway. That is when everything changed. Sam has been a dropshipper on BrandsGateway for two years and is in the top 5 dropshippers by sales. His story is not an overnight success - his amazing results are a product of hard work and dedication. Together with BrandsGateway as his business partner, his entrepreneurial efforts paid off.  1. Could you tell us a bit more about your business? Sam: My name is Sam and I am the founder and CEO of Azura Consulting which is the parent company of Azura Runway, the company which does dropshipping through BrandsGateway. What we do as a company is basically dropship branded and luxury fashion around the world.  We plug into a platform called ChannelAdviser, which then imports our products to various marketplaces around the world. We currently sell in 10 different marketplaces” In Australia, with the aim to get to a hundred by the end of this year.  2. Is this your first dropshipping business or you have had previous experience with dropshipping and e-commerce? Sam: This is our second dropshipping business. We had another business in Australia which was more wholesale, where you have to buy the goods upfront. The category was different, we were working with general appliances and groceries. The business didn’t do as well as we hoped. Luckily that’s when we stumbled upon BrandsGateway and got into the higher fashion business and dropshipping.

Dropshipping is currently the hottest business model for entrepreneurs looking to break into the eCommerce industry. The essential pluses that make the method so attractive to the newbies are undoubtedly the fast and easy set-up and management of an online store even without having extensive knowledge in the area. That's why, according to statistics, up to 33% of online stores have chosen dropshipping as their business method. However, as a beginner on this market, you probably wonder how do dropshippers get their stores live. The answer is: eCommerce platforms. One such platform is the well reputable company Shopify. The platform has grown to be so popular among business owners that in 2022 has generated nearly $US 47 billion. To get a taste of the success Shopify can bring to your dropshipping store, we’ve put together a complete guide on Shopify dropshipping to help you learn all the details and allow you to run your Shopify business effortlessly.