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0:00I locked myself in a room with just $50
0:02and claude until I made $1,000. This was
0:05it an hour after launching. 5 hours
0:07later, I had already made over $150. 12
0:10hours in, over $300. And this right here
0:13is when we hit our first $1,000. About
0:1680% of that is pure profit. And it was
0:18all documented live because listen, I've
0:20been doing this for almost 10 years. I
0:22built multiple businesses past seven
0:24figures. And I know exactly what people
0:26say. Yeah. Yeah. But you got lucky. So,
0:29to prove it's not luck, I started
0:30completely over. Brand new business,
0:32brand new product on a beginner-friendly
0:34budget. And I use Claude for damn near
0:36everything. And I'm going to be going
0:38through literally every single step
0:39right from the beginning for you guys.
0:41And by the end of this, you tell me if
0:43it was luck. So, starting off from
0:44scratch, I remember exactly where my
0:46head was at. If I'm chasing $1,000, I
0:49cannot be picking a product I just think
0:51is cool. I needed proven demand,
0:52something that strangers were already
0:54pulling their credit cards out for. So,
0:56my first move wasn't building anything.
0:57It was making a brand new Tik Tok
0:59account completely fresh because if I
1:01scroll on my personal page, the
1:02algorithm just feeds me my own
1:04interests. And my interests are probably
1:06not what's going crazy in the market
1:08right now. Instead, I needed an
1:09algorithm with no idea who I am. Just
1:11showing me what the world is buying
1:13right now. And real quick, if you're new
1:14here, the business model I was running
1:16was drop shipping. You sell a product
1:18online without ever touching it.
1:19Somebody orders from your store, your
1:21supplier ships it straight to them, and
1:22you keep the difference. That's it. So,
1:24I'm scrolling. I'm scrolling and two
1:26products just kept jumping out. a
1:27waterproof eyeliner and this knee brace
1:29right here that had over 130,000 likes
1:31on the ad itself [clears throat] with
1:32people tagging their friends saying
1:33things like, "I'm buying you this." And
1:35that's clear demand that you could see.
1:37But when I was doing this, I knew that I
1:38wanted to find at least three options
1:40minimum. So, I just kept digging and
1:41thank God that I did because that's when
1:44I found it, an electric grill brush. And
1:46I knew the second I saw it a,000% that
1:48this was my winner. And it was for one
1:50major reason that Claude actually
1:52pointed out this product had crazy
1:53demand. But that's not even it. All that
1:55demand had nowhere to go. When I traced
1:58where the traffic was flowing, every bit
1:59of it was going to Tik Tok shop. Not one
2:01single Shopify store was in the lane
2:03where I saw thousands of people wanting
2:05the product and there was no real store
2:06to really buy it from. So, I saw the gap
2:08in the market where all I had to do now
2:10was just be literally the first one to
2:11show up and open that door. And here's a
2:13part that took all the pressure off
2:15before I spent a single dollar. The
2:16store itself was completely free to
2:19launch. Shopify was running a deal where
2:20you get your first 3 days completely
2:22free. then it's only a dollar a month
2:24for your first 3 months. So, you know,
2:26I'm thinking in the back of my mind like
2:28there ain't no way I'm about to be
2:29taking more than 3 days to get my first
2:31$1,000. So, while I was locked in this
2:34room chasing it, it was literally
2:35costing me nothing. And by the way,
2:37Shopify, they're still running that same
2:39deal, which is crazy, but I know it's
2:40not going to last forever. So, I'm going
2:42to go and leave it in the description
2:43for y'all because who knows how much
2:44longer they're going to be running this
2:45for. But listen, before I could
2:46officially lock this product in, I knew
2:48that there was something that I needed
2:49to unlock first. Because here's a rule
2:51that nobody's going to teach beginners.
2:53And that's how you don't make money when
2:54you sell. You make it in the gap. What
2:56the product cost you versus what it
2:58sells for. Now, my minimum with this is
3:00always going to be 2.5x. Which means, in
3:02simple words, if I can't sell it for at
3:03least 2 and 1/2 times my cost, I simply
3:05just walk away. So, I went to my
3:07supplier, I took the product image, I
3:09dropped it into the search, and there it
3:10was, the exact product for $10.15.
3:14Then, I scanned the market. I saw
3:15competitors were selling this thing for
3:16around $39.99,
3:18which is nearly four times my cost. And
3:20again, my rule was 2.5. And again, now
3:23I'm seeing that there's a margin for at
3:24least 4x. So that was the exact green
3:26light I was looking for to lock
3:28everything in and finally build my store
3:30and get it ready to launch. And this is
3:32where Claude came in clutch for me
3:34because I didn't design the store at
3:35all. I just briefed Claude. I told it
3:38act like an elite e-commerce growth
3:39strategist. And then I just fed it the
3:41raw product link. You want to know the
3:42first thing that it did? a full
3:44competitor deep dive. It pulled up the
3:46actual live ads on Meta and Tik Tok and
3:47it showed me exactly what I was up
3:49against and where their funnels were
3:50weak. Then it went even crazier. Okay,
3:52it gave me the selling points, the
3:54customer, all the information that I
3:56needed to know of how to enter the
3:57market with this. It said that it's
3:59clean, it's premium, it's for weekend
4:01barbecue dads, and our number one
4:02selling point is the cleaning speed
4:04where minutes later it actually handed
4:06me a whole playbook, headlines, mission
4:08statement, product page copy that
4:10genuinely converts. So, I just plugged
4:12everything into Shopify. I threw a
4:13Father's Day bundle on top because that
4:15holiday was trending at the moment. And
4:17just like that, the store was officially
4:19standing. Now, was it the prettiest
4:21store on the internet? No, by far no.
4:24But it didn't need to be. All I needed
4:26it to do was to convert. The main focus
4:28was that every section answered a real
4:30question cuz I remember seeing people in
4:32the ad comments saying, "Is this thing
4:33even safe to use or how does it work?"
4:36So, Claude made sure that my page
4:37answered that before they could even
4:39think about asking it. Okay, so the
4:41store is live, but exactly zero
4:43customers knew it existed. And I had to
4:44fix that ASAP cuz man, I'm telling
4:46y'all, you could have the best product
4:48on earth, the best store on earth. But
4:50none of it matters if nobody sees it.
4:53Traffic is the whole game. And the old
4:55way of getting ads made, hunting down
4:56UGC craters, hundreds of dollars a
4:58video, praying that it comes back
5:00usable. That is a week in this room
5:02before one single ad exists. I didn't
5:04have the time to do that. So, here's
5:05what I did instead. I use Ecom Boss.
5:07It's an AI marketing tool that builds
5:09your ad creators for you. UGC style
5:11modeled after what is already winning.
5:12But here's the move that made this crazy
5:14fast. All I did was I just connected
5:15Ecom Boss directly into the same cloud
5:17project that I've already been working
5:19in all day, which meant that the brain
5:20building my ads already knew everything.
5:22It knew my customer, my competitor, my
5:24store, my product, where I never had to
5:26explain a single thing twice. I had
5:28Claude write the prompt. Then I had Ecom
5:30Boss rewrite it for the best output,
5:32dropped in my product image, and minutes
5:34later, the ad started landing. Right
5:36away, in a couple seconds, I had a photo
5:37ad with my exact offer built right into
5:39it. a UGC style video of the product
5:41doing its thing on a dirty grill where
5:43what used to take days and hundreds per
5:45creator took me only a couple minutes to
5:47be able to do. And because it was able
5:48to do all this so fast and efficient, I
5:50just ran it back until I had 15 ads
5:52ready to go back to back that I could go
5:54ahead and launch the same day. And
5:55listen, if you want to run Ecom Boss on
5:56your own store, don't worry. You know, I
5:58got y'all with the link in the
5:59description. But just make sure you go
6:00and use the code Alex at checkout to get
6:0225% off from here. After I got all the
6:04ads done, everything went into a $50 ad
6:06campaign inside of my Meta Ads Manager.
6:08Now, I went ahead and had this thing
6:09launch at midnight that night, which
6:11meant at that point there was really
6:12nothing left to do but sleep. But I'll
6:14be real with y'all. I could not sleep.
6:15Okay? I was sitting there checking my
6:17phone, scrolling, looking for that
6:18Shopify notification, and nothing came
6:20in. Then I'm like dozing off, right? And
6:22I remember randomly getting up around
6:246:00 a.m. before my alarm even went off,
6:26used the restroom, and before I could
6:28get back into bed, I took a quick peek
6:29one more time, and there it was, my
6:31first three sales. All three actually
6:33happened inside the same hour, like back
6:35toback. I have one at 4:09 a.m. 412 a.m.
6:38445 a.m. totaling out to $180 [music]
6:41before the sun even rised and I'm
6:43already sitting there profitable. But
6:45let me be real with y'all. $180 is not
6:47even close to $1,000. And $1,000 was the
6:50only way I was letting myself take a
6:51break from this. And I would love to sit
6:52here and tell you that the momentum just
6:54kept rolling. But the day had other
6:56plans. Afternoon hit and we were still
6:58sitting at the same exact numbers that
7:00we had at 6:00 a.m. completely frozen.
7:02And with no deadline on this thing, at
7:03this rate, this was something that could
7:05take up to six days now just to hit that
7:07$1,000. And I'm telling y'all, this is
7:09really the exact moment that kills more
7:11stores than any bad product ever will
7:13because everything in you says force it.
7:15Dump more budget in. Start editing the
7:17campaign. Make something happen. But
7:19touching a campaign that's still
7:20learning, still trying to figure out who
7:22your customer is, still trying to gather
7:23data, you reset everything that it's
7:25trying to figure out where you end up
7:27killing a winner before it ever even
7:28becomes one just to feel like you did
7:31something. Now, I've already done this
7:32mistake many times before, and it cost
7:34me way more than one slow afternoon.
7:36Plus, I was doing this just to prove it
7:38can be done on a budget, so I didn't
7:39want to really touch anything. So,
7:40instead, I left the paid ads alone, and
7:42I went ahead and pushed the organic
7:44approach. Meaning, I spun up fresh Tik
7:46Tok and Instagram accounts. I took my
7:47whole library of creatives that I just
7:49made, and I just flooded them out to the
7:51market. free traffic, zero risk to my
7:53active campaign, just seeing if I could
7:55get the ball rolling in some type of way
7:57where later that evening, I actually
7:58checked my numbers and things were
8:00finally starting to move. But it's funny
8:01cuz it was actually not even from that
8:03organic play at all. It was from our
8:05active campaign that we were still
8:07running on Meta, leaving me with around
8:09$314 in sales at that moment. And the
8:11numbers underneath it were even crazier.
8:13I was converting at 7.86%,
8:15which a typical store only does around 2
8:17to 3%. So, the signs were starting to
8:19sign up. Okay, 80 cents a click, a 6.81
8:22click-through rate against a benchmark
8:24of like 2.5. But this was my favorite
8:26part. When I actually filtered the
8:27campaign by return on ad spin, one image
8:30ad had eaten damn near the entire
8:32budget. And when I looked at the image,
8:34it was bringing close to a $4.67 return
8:36on my ad spin, meaning that every time I
8:38spent a dollar, I was making about $4
8:40back. And every single purchase was
8:42coming from this one ad. And you want to
8:44know what it was? You want to know what
8:45that creative was? It was that first
8:47still image that we created on Ecom
8:49Boss. It was the first picture that we
8:50ever generated. And I looked into this.
8:52It wasn't even going that crazy. I had
8:53like two comments, five likes, but I'm
8:55telling you, it was quietly printing
8:56money the whole time. So, I want you to
8:58see what happened here. I didn't pick
8:59the winner. I didn't choose what I
9:01thought was going to work. I built a
9:02system that finds the winner. That's why
9:04inside of this meta campaign, I ran it
9:06as a CBO. And that's what a CBO does.
9:07Facebook feeds the budget to whatever's
9:09performing where my only job was just to
9:11give it 18 options and to get out of the
9:13way. So, at the same time, I'm actually
9:14starting to see orders coming in, right?
9:16which meant something else and that's
9:17that my supplier needed to get paid or
9:20nothing is going to ship out at all. And
9:21here's the annoying part about this
9:22business. Overseas suppliers like the
9:24ones I was using, I mean, they don't
9:26take credit cards. So, the old way I had
9:28to wire out the money, but your cash is
9:29gone instantly. You eat the fees and you
9:31earn absolutely nothing on some of the
9:33biggest spend in your business. I've
9:35been using Melio to get around all of
9:36that where Melio lets you pay any vendor
9:38by card, even when they don't accept
9:40cards. You charge your credit card and
9:42Melo pays them the way that you actually
9:43want. AC wire or even check. Your
9:46supplier doesn't have to sign up for
9:47anything. It doesn't change anything.
9:49They just get paid. Well, all you have
9:50to do is just drop in the invoice. You
9:51pick your card. You hit pay and it's
9:53done right from this desk. And what that
9:55did for me is actually two different
9:56things. One, my cash stayed in my
9:58account for up to 45 days instead of
10:00leaving the second that I hit send. And
10:01two, I earned rewards on a payment I was
10:03making anyway. Now, there is a small
10:05processing fee, but when you factor in
10:06card rewards, cash back, and up to 45
10:09days of float, it often works out in
10:10your favor on large purchases, which is
10:12exactly what helped me in this moment
10:14when I had to get my supplier paid right
10:16away. So, listen, try it for yourself
10:18for free. You can go to the link in my
10:19description where you can schedule your
10:21first payment today. So, at this point,
10:22the suppliers paid, orders are shipping,
10:24and I'm thinking the machine's just
10:25going to run now. Then, boom, 8:00 p.m.,
10:27another order, 11:00 p.m., another
10:29order. 11:20 p.m. another one. I mean,
10:32the numbers were just climbing up. And
10:34then midnight hits. I checked the
10:35dashboard and I'm sitting at $547
10:38in sales. So, I already had a full day
10:40locked in, but I was only sitting at the
10:41halfway mark. And I'm going to be honest
10:43with y'all, that did kind of mess with
10:44me a little bit because only being
10:45halfway through this means one thing. At
10:47least another 24 hours of trying to
10:49reach this [music] goal. And here's the
10:50part that was really messing with me.
10:52I'm sitting there, I'm digging through
10:53this dashboard, and I see 23 people
10:55added this thing to their cart. 16 of
10:57them made it all the way to checkout.
10:58You want to know how many actually
10:59bought? Nine. So that's money literally
11:01standing in the doorway and then walking
11:03away where every single instinct I had
11:04in that moment was to fix it, change the
11:06page, touch a campaign, do something. So
11:08I'm looking at the data. It said that
11:10the machine was healthy. People
11:11obviously wanted this product. The
11:12buyers just hadn't all shown up yet. So
11:14I didn't just want to make any drastic
11:15changes. And it was already late that
11:17night. So I just let it continue to keep
11:18running. And thank God that I did
11:20because the next day the machine paid
11:21[music] me back for every hour of
11:23patience. Sale after sale after sale,
11:26700, 850, 900. And then it officially
11:30happened. $1,029
11:3317 [music] orders and still converting
11:35at 5%. 2 days. That's what it took a
11:38brand new business built from absolute
11:39scratch to cross $1,000. Now, for those
11:42of you guys that are still watching,
11:44tell me, is this what luck looks like to
11:46you? The product was validated before I
11:47touched it. The store was brief to
11:49convert. The ads came from a brain that
11:51knew my customer better than even I did.
11:53So, that first $1,000 was never a matter
11:55of if it was even possible. It was a
11:57matter of when. And listen, if you guys
11:58watch this through the whole entire
12:00thing and you're thinking to yourself,
12:01"I could do drop shipping. I can make
12:02over $1,000, but you don't want to spend
12:04the countless hours of product research
12:06trying to find a winning product that
12:07has the same proven demand as the one
12:08that I ran in this video." Well, I got
12:10you. Listen, I got you with a completely
12:12free top 10 product cheat sheet in the
12:14description down below, where my team
12:15and I put together a list of the most
12:17profitable products that you could be
12:18selling this month. And we're going to
12:20break it all down for you. We're going
12:21to give you the direct product links,
12:22the supplier links, the competitors ads,
12:24the exact margins for each product,
12:26everything. and I'm giving it to y'all
12:27just for sticking through this whole
12:29thing. So, as always, thank you guys so
12:31much for watching. Make sure you grab
12:32that product list and take it to this
12:34video that you're seeing on the screen
12:35right now. I'll see you there. This is
12:36AC with Supreme Ecom and I'm

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