Beginners Complete Guide To AI Dropshipping In 2026 — Transcript

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1. 0:00Most people that teach drop shipping on
2. 0:02YouTube aren't even running their own
3. 0:03stores anymore. But, this is mine. Last
4. 0:0630 days, I'll give you a quick refresh
5. 0:08here, so you know that's legit. And over
6. 0:10the next 30 minutes, I'm going to walk
7. 0:12you through the entire AI drop shipping
8. 0:14process from zero. So, that includes the
9. 0:17product, the store, the AI automations,
10. 0:19the AI influencers, the ads, literally
11. 0:22every single step. And by the end of
12. 0:24today's video, your store will be built,
13. 0:27branded, and ready to go. Now, real
14. 0:29quick, if you're new, drop shipping just
15. 0:31means we're selling a product online and
16. 0:33typically shipping that overseas from
17. 0:36China. So, you don't need any inventory
18. 0:38and you don't need thousands of dollars
19. 0:40in cash flow immediately up front.
20. 0:42[music] That's literally the whole
21. 0:43business model in a nutshell. What's
22. 0:45changed though is AI can now do all of
23. 0:48the heavy lifting for us, and that's
24. 0:50what I'm going to prove to you in
25. 0:51today's video. Now, before we build out
26. 0:54the store, we first need a product to
27. 0:56sell. And one of my mentors once taught
28. 0:58me, you can't polish a turd. AKA, you
29. 1:02can have the best website and branding
30. 1:04in the world, but if nobody actually
31. 1:06wants what you're selling, then you're
32. 1:08not going to get any sales. So, I'm
33. 1:10going to walk you through my five-step
34. 1:12checklist to validate any product for
35. 1:15yourself. So, check number one is to
36. 1:17check in the right places. So, you all
37. 1:20know, oh, go to TikTok, look at what
38. 1:22products are selling here. But, to make
39. 1:24your life easier, I want you to come
40. 1:26straight to the TikTok Shop tab. Now,
41. 1:29every product here is already a
42. 1:31validated winner. You can literally see
43. 1:33how many units have been sold. 800K,
44. 1:35150K, 300K. And again, these are units
45. 1:39sold, not even total revenue. So, the
46. 1:42data is right in front of your face, but
47. 1:45you need to figure out, okay, of all of
48. 1:47these products here, what is the best
49. 1:50one that I can actually get some profits
50. 1:52with for myself? And instead of
51. 1:54scrolling through TikTok manually like a
52. 1:57like a barbarian. There are some spy
53. 1:59tools out there that use AI to
54. 2:01automatically sort the top products for
55. 2:04us. Where every product here, again, we
56. 2:06can see how many units have been sold,
57. 2:08how much revenue has been generated. The
58. 2:11hard work is already done for us. So,
59. 2:14check number two then is to only sell
60. 2:17products that have a very clear end
61. 2:19outcome. So, when I look at this
62. 2:21product, it just looks like a pair of
63. 2:23men's shorts or boxers. Not really that
64. 2:25clear. Next product. This is from
65. 2:27MediCube. It's a proper brand, not
66. 2:29something I would try to compete
67. 2:30against. From there, there is a
68. 2:33magnesium supplement. If you're selling
69. 2:35a consumable from China, you don't
70. 2:37necessarily know what's in it. [music]
71. 2:38So, you just want to look for a product
72. 2:40that is safe to sell and that is very
73. 2:43obvious what it does right when you
74. 2:45first glance at it. Okay, I think we
75. 2:47have one product right here. So, this is
76. 2:49a men's hair growth serum. Essentially,
77. 2:52you put this on your receding hairline.
78. 2:54It helps baby hairs come up. You don't
79. 2:56got to go to Turkey. Don't need to go
80. 2:57get a hair transplant. It's convenient,
81. 3:00affordable, and it's a newer product to
82. 3:03a problem people have always had, which
83. 3:05is balding. And the perk of finding
84. 3:07products already crushing on Tik Tok
85. 3:09Shop is check number three, they're
86. 3:12already validated for you. So, last
87. 3:14seven days here, this product is cleared
88. 3:16over 100k. Last 30 days, the product is
89. 3:19pushing a million dollars. But then, we
90. 3:21can even look at the top videos from the
91. 3:23past seven and 30 days. And this product
92. 3:26should still be Yeah, it's getting
93. 3:28millions of views, which is crazy. And
94. 3:31these videos are already proven. So, we
95. 3:33can watch them to figure out their
96. 3:35messaging, how they're speaking to the
97. 3:36customer, the pain points. And a little
98. 3:39foreshadowing here, we can even download
99. 3:42these videos and repurpose them for our
100. 3:44initial testing campaign. So, check
101. 3:46number four then is to validate we can
102. 3:49actually source this product from China.
103. 3:51You know, it's one thing to find a cool
104. 3:52product, but how do we know we can
105. 3:54actually sell this? So, I would
106. 3:56recommend you first save an image of the
107. 3:58product and then head on over to
108. 4:00AliExpress and we can upload the picture
109. 4:03that we just saved. And one disclaimer,
110. 4:05we will not be using AliExpress to
111. 4:07fulfill orders. I just like to at least
112. 4:10search it ahead of time to validate the
113. 4:12product exist out there. And don't
114. 4:14stress the competitor's name like
115. 4:16Bodywise here. I'll show you how to get
116. 4:18a non-branded version of the product.
117. 4:20So, in just a moment, we are going to
118. 4:22build our Shopify store. Three AI
119. 4:25prompts is all it'll take to actually
120. 4:27brand it out. I'll have the editor flash
121. 4:30a little foreshadow of what we're going
122. 4:32to build, but the final check before we
123. 4:34proceed forward to the store is just
124. 4:37making sure the product you're selling
125. 4:39isn't violating any copyright, patents,
126. 4:41trademarks, IP, etc. So, with all of
127. 4:44that there, we can proceed forward and
128. 4:46let the magic begin. Now, if you don't
129. 4:48already have a store yet, recommend my
130. 4:50free AI store builder. You just click
131. 4:53build my free store, enter your contact
132. 4:55info, there's a few prompts, and it'll
133. 4:57give you a custom Shopify store on the
134. 5:00same exact theme I'm using. But, the
135. 5:02perks is it comes with your essential
136. 5:04pages like your track order page,
137. 5:06contact us page. It has your policies
138. 5:08already there, so your legal policies,
139. 5:10terms of service. And it even partners
140. 5:13you with the supplier where we can just
141. 5:14add that product onto our shop and start
142. 5:17to brand it out. So, with your store
143. 5:19officially live, we can then import that
144. 5:21product from AliExpress onto our shop.
145. 5:24So, return back to any of these listings
146. 5:26here. So, all you need to do is copy the
147. 5:28AliExpress link. And on your store, open
148. 5:30up the AutoDS app. And once this loads,
149. 5:33you can come to the plus here, add
150. 5:35product, single product. You drop in
151. 5:37that AliExpress link, click publish to
152. 5:39store. So, now just give this 10 to 30
153. 5:41seconds and the product will officially
154. 5:43be on our shop and we you brand it out.
155. 5:46So, the product's officially added, and
156. 5:48if we click the sell item ID, it'll pull
157. 5:50open the product page, but this looks
158. 5:52like a a hot steaming pile of garbage.
159. 5:55And this is really where AI drop
160. 5:56shipping comes into play, because in the
161. 5:58past, you would have to do all the
162. 6:00copywriting, manually do your graphic
163. 6:02design, the photos, the branding. You
164. 6:04would have to do all the work from
165. 6:05scratch. It was a big pain in the ass,
166. 6:07but now we just have some AI prompts.
167. 6:09Beep beep boop. Rest takes care of
168. 6:11itself. So, from there, we are going to
169. 6:13copy prompt number one, and we're going
170. 6:15to paste this directly into Claude. And
171. 6:18this prompt will prepare all of the
172. 6:20text, the fonts, and the colors for our
173. 6:22theme. So, on top [clears throat] of
174. 6:23that, I'm going to upload a picture of
175. 6:25my product and say the hair growth
176. 6:28serum. And we can run this with Claude.
177. 6:30And it's worth noting all of the prompts
178. 6:33and automations you see me use today,
179. 6:35from the AI store builder to Auto DS to
180. 6:38the prompts I'm plugging in right now,
181. 6:39these can all be found in the
182. 6:41description and the pinned comment down
183. 6:43below. So, follow along with what you're
184. 6:46learning. Take action, and that's going
185. 6:47to be the best way that you can actually
186. 6:49move forward and start to hit some
187. 6:51results. And just like that, prompt
188. 6:53number one is completed. So, in the
189. 6:55past, we used to copy each section one
190. 6:58at a time and drop it on our Shopify
191. 7:00store, but that is where prompt number
192. 7:01two comes in. So, we're going to copy
193. 7:03that, paste it directly into Claude, and
194. 7:05we can just submit this. So again, both
195. 7:08those prompts are attached down below.
196. 7:10So, while Claude is preparing the code
197. 7:12for our store to copy all of that text
198. 7:14over in one click, I'm conveniently
199. 7:16going to run my product image generator
200. 7:18in the background. So, this is my hair
201. 7:20growth serum. So, this gives us the
202. 7:22exact color scheme we need for our
203. 7:24store, but then it's also going to start
204. 7:26generating all of our product photos in
205. 7:28the background. So, while we are loading
206. 7:30for these images to generate, I'm going
207. 7:32to head back to Claude, and this full
208. 7:35code should be done here. Okay, Claude
209. 7:37has completed the task. So, we just want
210. 7:39to copy all of this text at once here,
211. 7:41and don't worry about the code. I don't
212. 7:43know what the code means either, but I
213. 7:45can show you how to get this on our
214. 7:47website. So, come to online store, come
215. 7:49to our theme, click these dots, click
216. 7:52edit code. And once this loads, come to
217. 7:54templates here, and we want to click
218. 7:57this little new file icon, and call this
219. 8:00product.yourname,
220. 8:02so product. We'll call it hair serum,
221. 8:05and it must end in .json, .json. From
222. 8:08here, delete all of the text that's
223. 8:10there by default, paste in the new text,
224. 8:13and just click save, and it should save
225. 8:15without any issues. Now, return to the
226. 8:17products tab on your store, click your
227. 8:19product you imported, and very
228. 8:21important, you need to come to theme
229. 8:23template, and you should see the new
230. 8:25template that you just created, and we
231. 8:26can save.
232. 8:28At this point, too, I'm going to clear
233. 8:29out the description, and then go
234. 8:31download the new photos that we just got
235. 8:33from our image generator. So, these
236. 8:35should be done in just a moment. Okay,
237. 8:37so all of our photos are just about
238. 8:39generated here, so we can save these.
239. 8:41So, check this out. We're going to
240. 8:42remove the existing photos that were
241. 8:44already there, and then we're just going
242. 8:46to take our new photos that AI
243. 8:48generated. Easy. For the variants, then
244. 8:51we only need the one piece. I will set
245. 8:53up bundles, but we're going to do that
246. 8:55via an app. So, one of these through
247. 8:57AutoDS was $1.12, but then there's also
248. 9:01$6.99 shipping there, so it'll hit the
249. 9:03USA in 10-11 days. So, just $8 to
250. 9:07fulfill one order is not much money. So,
251. 9:09one of these is $8, and for the price,
252. 9:11we'll sell this for $29.95.
253. 9:14We'll have it be 40% off, that should be
254. 9:16fine, and then I'll show you how to set
255. 9:18up bundles, where we're going to charge
256. 9:20them shipping on one, and only give them
257. 9:22free shipping if they buy two or more.
258. 9:24So, heading to online store, we're going
259. 9:26to edit the theme, and this is where the
260. 9:28magic's going to happen. So, for the
261. 9:29home page, we're going to delete
262. 9:31everything here, and just add a featured
263. 9:33collection. And now, here's our product,
264. 9:35so we can click into here, and reminder,
265. 9:37all of the text is already pasted onto
266. 9:40our store where we just need to tweak
267. 9:42the colors ever so slightly, add some
268. 9:44images, and the rest will will take care
269. 9:46of itself. And reminder, we have the
270. 9:48exact colors we need from AI. So, I'm
271. 9:51going to go update the colors on my
272. 9:53store. From there, I'm going to upload
273. 9:55the fonts on my store. From there, we're
274. 9:57going to do some small tweaks like to
275. 9:59our announcement bar. We're going to
276. 10:01>> [music]
277. 10:01>> add some photos to the description a
278. 10:03bit. And just like that, like
279. 10:07the whole theme itself is pretty much
280. 10:09customized. It wasn't too much work.
281. 10:11Okay, so this is it for the store.
282. 10:14It took us maybe 20-30 minutes in total
283. 10:17to go through the AI store builder,
284. 10:19import the product, fully customize it
285. 10:21to this point right here. And it's
286. 10:23important you check from the mobile view
287. 10:25since most customers will be coming from
288. 10:27their phone. They're on TikTok. But,
289. 10:29this is the same quality stores I'm
290. 10:31launching with, the same type of stores
291. 10:33my students are are running. And if a
292. 10:35section's ever invisible from you, you
293. 10:37may just need to refresh it real quick.
294. 10:39Now, we could do some more small tweaks
295. 10:41like add some more social proof images
296. 10:43here like actual photos for the reviews.
297. 10:45We could add a little icons above this.
298. 10:48But, for a store that we put very
299. 10:50minimal effort into, like this is
300. 10:53unbelievable. And I've also went ahead
301. 10:55and set up some bundles on the store.
302. 10:57So, I'm charging shipping if they buy
303. 10:58one, but if they buy two, they get free
304. 11:00shipping, save 10, and if they buy
305. 11:02three, they get free shipping and save
306. 11:0420% off. So, super small incentive, but
307. 11:07would highly recommend you implement
308. 11:08that. So, realistically, your store
309. 11:11isn't as important as you may think
310. 11:13considering AI automates everything on
311. 11:15the back end.
312. 11:16>> [music]
313. 11:16>> And when you're looking at members in
314. 11:18the eCom Mafia community, you know, the
315. 11:20one smashing a thousand dollars in a
316. 11:22single day, you know, more 1K days back
317. 11:25to back, it's not that these people have
318. 11:28a better store than you. More often than
319. 11:31not, they've been in the game longer, so
320. 11:33they've had more failures, but also they
321. 11:35apply to work one-on-one, and they maybe
322. 11:37have some better systems that you don't
323. 11:39have access to. So, if you would like to
324. 11:42work with me to build and scale your own
325. 11:44e-commerce business, that way you don't
326. 11:46have to find a product on your own,
327. 11:47build the store on your own, or run the
328. 11:49ads all by yourself, you can apply to
329. 11:52work one-on-one and get daily guidance,
330. 11:54just like all of the wins you're seeing
331. 11:56in the Discord. So, that link is in the
332. 11:58pinned comment and description down
333. 11:59below. So, at this point, you have the
334. 12:02product, you have the store, the final
335. 12:04piece to your puzzle is cracking paid
336. 12:07ads. Now, I'm going to show you two
337. 12:09different methods to find winning ad
338. 12:11creatives, but before that, I first need
339. 12:14to walk you through the winning ad
340. 12:16criteria. [music] So, every winning ad
341. 12:18I've ever had follows the same five
342. 12:21principles every single [music] time.
343. 12:23So, first 2 seconds is the hook of our
344. 12:25ad, it's what reels them in, and we want
345. 12:27to introduce the viewer to a problem.
346. 12:31From there, we want to introduce our
347. 12:33product as the solution to whatever
348. 12:35problem we just created. After that,
349. 12:38we'll hit the benefits of our product,
350. 12:40we'll sprinkle in some social proof,
351. 12:42other people using it, give them some
352. 12:44pressure, limited units left in stock,
353. 12:46and then at the very end, we're going to
354. 12:48do a CTA, a call to action, that reminds
355. 12:52them to click the button below so they
356. 12:53can go purchase the product. And
357. 12:55thankfully, AI can create AI influencers
358. 12:58for our ads, but I'm going to be honest,
359. 13:01if you are a beginner and you're
360. 13:02figuring out product research,
361. 13:04copywriting, branding, you're figuring
362. 13:07out how to run ads in the first place,
363. 13:09you should start with method two for ad
364. 13:11creatives, because method one, custom
365. 13:13ads, is difficult. You need to script
366. 13:15the ad out, you then need to create the
367. 13:17AI influencers, and then you need to go
368. 13:20figure out how the F to use CapCut, so
369. 13:22you can actually make a high-converting
370. 13:24ad. And with all of the other skills you
371. 13:27got going on, that may just not make the
372. 13:29most logistical sense given me be your
373. 13:31time available and just how you need to
374. 13:33execute. So, method number two is to
375. 13:36just search your product up over on
376. 13:38TikTok and to repurpose the non-branded
377. 13:41videos for our ads. So, you can look at
378. 13:43how many likes these posts have, and you
379. 13:46can also look at when the the videos
380. 13:48were last posted here. So, I recommend
381. 13:50you look for newer videos, ideally past
382. 13:537 to 30 days, and the more likes / views
383. 13:56something has, typically uh the more
384. 13:58proven that video is. And you can
385. 14:00download any TikTok by just copying the
386. 14:03link, going over to any TikTok video
387. 14:05downloader, and just pasting the link
388. 14:07directly in there. Now, this is a bit of
389. 14:10a gray area, so my main rule of thumb is
390. 14:13number one, don't infringe on any
391. 14:15brands' copyright, IP, trademarks. And
392. 14:18then number two, once you are
393. 14:19profitable, you can always go back and
394. 14:21get custom ads after the fact. But
395. 14:24imagine you spent hours trying to make
396. 14:26custom ads and they got zero sales. At
397. 14:28least you can test with non-branded
398. 14:30videos and then invest that time once
399. 14:32you have some sort of validation. And
400. 14:34for this ad strategy to work, you will
401. 14:36need three videos in total. So, go get
402. 14:39any three videos that meet the criteria
403. 14:41like you just learned and then proceed
404. 14:43forward. So, now to launch our ads,
405. 14:45we're going to go to ads.tiktok.com
406. 14:47and we're going to create a new
407. 14:48campaign. And you want to make sure you
408. 14:50run your ads for sales to your website.
409. 14:53And we're going to call this the hair
410. 14:55growth test. [music] And with TikTok
411. 14:57ads, the absolute minimum budget I would
412. 14:59do per day is $50. So, [music] get 50
413. 15:02bucks, continue. And it's important that
414. 15:04you always run your ads for purchases.
415. 15:07Some people accidentally run their ads
416. 15:09for ad to carts or view content, and
417. 15:11they get confused why they have no
418. 15:12sales. And as a general best practice, I
419. 15:15would always schedule your ads to go
420. 15:17live for midnight of the following day.
421. 15:19That way they have a full 24 hours. And
422. 15:22for this last step, you want to choose
423. 15:24manual ads there, and this is where we
424. 15:26can upload our three videos into TikTok
425. 15:28[music] directly. So, now that we have
426. 15:30all three of our videos uploaded, we can
427. 15:33get this campaign published and
428. 15:35scheduled to go live. So, here is our
429. 15:37campaign. Reminder, we have a $50
430. 15:39budget. And then inside of here, we have
431. 15:42our three ads that we just uploaded. And
432. 15:44these should begin spending at midnight
433. 15:46tomorrow. Now, here's what you guys need
434. 15:48to understand. Not every product you
435. 15:51launch is going to be profitable. And
436. 15:53for all the wins, even my students, it
437. 15:56takes us around four to eight products,
438. 15:58around 30 to 90 days, just to get to the
439. 16:01point where we have something profitable
440. 16:03that we can start to scale up. And
441. 16:05watching YouTube videos, it's exciting.
442. 16:07It gets your foot in the door. So,
443. 16:10understand drop shipping works. You
444. 16:12wouldn't say the gym is a scam if you
445. 16:14didn't get a six-pack after 30 days. So,
446. 16:16if you're looking to build a successful
447. 16:19e-commerce business, this is something
448. 16:21you need to commit to for the long haul.
449. 16:23So, on the screen now, I have a free
450. 16:252-hour course taking you step by step
451. 16:28behind the scenes in a whole lot more
452. 16:29detail. [music] Check that out. And then
453. 16:32reminder, for those of you that want to
454. 16:33get one-on-one help to build and scale
455. 16:35your store, that link is in the
456. 16:37description and pinned comment down
457. 16:38below. That's it for today. Peace out,
458. 16:41guys. See you in the next one.