Our Blog

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.

Just like every other business model, dropshipping, as well, has its challenges, pros, and cons. If you’re a newcomer, we’ve already covered the basics of dropshipping - where you can learn more about the advantages and disadvantages of the business model. However, it’s safe to assume that, if you’re reading this, you’ve already done your research and learned about the core principles of the dropshipping model. So, we’ll continue with the scenario in which you have already explored and learned the fundamentals of the chain ‘customer-your store-supplier’. What comes next? In general, starting and growing a dropshipping business is not difficult, however, there are a few elements that can make or break your success in this industry. Speaking of, finding legitimate dropshipping suppliers is one of those crucial factors for expanding your business in the right direction and securing both general online store traffic and peak eCommerce traffic.