I have a print on demand store with t-shirts, mugs, canvas, etc. It's called adorablebuddies.com. My dropshipping partner is Printful, because they got warehouses around the world and they specialize in the kind of products I'm promoting. I'm thinking about CJDropshipping for other physical products in the future once I start making some sales. I will be doing Facebook ads next week (it's a necessary evil) and see how it goes.

The point is, when it comes to operating a store, you want to have your own domain hosted, because if it's a store on amazon, ebay, etsy, etc., you are not the owner and they can shut it down for whatever reason they want. You got this right off the start.

Now you need to find a way to source and ship products without touching inventory from someone who actually cares about his/her partners. Big online platforms like amazon don't care one bit about anyone. I don't know why. They will die by a thousand cuts as the saying goes.

Fair enough, then, I'll look into it as a possibility.

What is your new venture called and where is its website?

'Cjdropshipping' (it's a brand look them up) is an American based company and there are more like them popping up within U.S soil.

Are you sure about them not being Chinese? I looked up their website and not only is the English hilariously bad – it's like they hired an H-1B graduate from China to write it all up for them – but their About page makes it very clear that they originated in Yiwu City, Zhejiang Province. (Slightly related – that's where the Wuhan Bioresearch Lab team found several different bat coronaviruses that bear a significant resemblance to the Kung Flu.)

There are also many U.S based print on demand shops as well and they do it at low cost, higher and more consistent quality than the Chinese and more importantly, faster shipping.

I have no doubt about that. The Chinese are rapidly getting locked out of multiple markets. It's going to get bad for them pretty quickly.

Chinese dropshipping will be dead with or without Trump negotiations with China and the corona virus on top of it. 'Cjdropshipping' (it's a brand look them up) is an American based company and there are more like them popping up within U.S soil.

There are also many U.S based print on demand shops as well and they do it at low cost, higher and more consistent quality than the Chinese and more importantly, faster shipping.

Aliexpress is not going to do very well with American and European businesses, especially with the moves that the CCP is pulling off on the sister company Alibaba.

I started my own print on demand store and I'm doing zero collaboration with Chinese people, not even digital services.

Dropshipping is a possibility, but my big problem with it is that the major players in that game are all Chinese. And I am NOT a fan of the Chinese way of doing things.

That said, if that site gets significant traffic, I'll consider it.

I'm using SEO techniques to build out that new site as it is. The real source of revenue and leads, though, is likely to be from email marketing – which I've never done and will need to start doing in the future once Didactic Mind gets fully up and running.