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0:00If you're looking for a complete
0:02step-by-step drop shipping tutorial,
0:04you're in the right place because today
0:05I'm going to be showing you the exact
0:07process for building a drop shipping
0:09store from scratch [music] using the
0:11latest AI and automation tools. This is
0:13going to be an all-in-one comprehensive
0:16guide. By the end of this video, you'll
0:17have a clear understanding of what drop
0:20shipping is, how to discover high demand
0:23products, how to market those products.
0:25We'll cover the exact tools that you
0:27need for drop shipping. will look at an
0:29AI tool that will help you to generate
0:31your store's layout and populate it with
0:33products that have a high demand. But
0:36even more important than that is I'm
0:38going to teach you the skill of finding
0:41these types of products for yourself and
0:44then different marketing strategies to
0:46actually start getting your first
0:47visitors. Now, with that being said,
0:50make no mistake about it, okay? Drop
0:52shipping is not a get-richquick scheme.
0:54It is going to require a significant
0:57amount of work. But this is true with
0:59basically everything in life that's
1:02worthwhile. [music]
1:02And I'm saying that because I don't want
1:04you to start drop shipping with this
1:06idea in your head that you're going to
1:08get rich overnight with this, right? No
1:11one wants to tell you that because they
1:12want you to stick around and watch their
1:14video. But I just want to be completely
1:16transparent with you. Now, with that
1:18being said, though, if you're willing to
1:20show up, put in the work, and make the
1:23sacrifices, and like actually do this,
1:26then you're already ahead of most people
1:28who start this business with the wrong
1:31mindset. So, there are really just four
1:34simple steps that you need to start drop
1:36shipping on Shopify. But before we get
1:38into those four steps, I want to take a
1:41step back and talk about step zero,
1:44which I don't really ever hear anybody
1:46talk about when it comes to drop
1:48shipping. And honestly, this information
1:49alone could be the single thing that
1:52causes you to win with drop shipping or
1:55not. So, uh there are basically two main
1:58types of drop shipping stores that you
2:00can create. Okay? You've got general
2:02stores and then you've got niche stores.
2:05And then technically there is a third
2:07option called one product stores. But in
2:10my opinion these are basically just
2:12niche stores. Also a general store
2:14though is a type of drop shipping store
2:16that really sells just about anything,
2:19right? It can sell electronics, home
2:21decor, beauty items, and pet supplies
2:25all under the same store. Okay. A niche
2:28drop shipping store though focuses on
2:30just one single product or a small niche
2:34of items that all kind of go together.
2:36And so this could be things like outdoor
2:38accessories or like a gaming console
2:41like this product right here in
2:43particular got really popular over the
2:452025 holiday season. Everybody and their
2:49mom and their brother was trying to
2:51start a drop shipping store for this
2:53specific product. Okay. Um and we'll
2:55talk about that a little bit later. Now,
2:57you'll hear a lot of people say that
2:58beginners should start a general store,
3:01okay? And the reason they say this is
3:02because it allows you to attract a wider
3:05audience and test multiple different
3:08products to see what might work.
3:10However, you'll then hear those same
3:12people say that once you've got
3:14experience, once you understand how to
3:17use the tools and all that stuff, then
3:19you should go and create a niche drop
3:22shipping store because that is where the
3:24real money is made. Okay. And [music]
3:27I've always disagreed with that advice,
3:30right? I believe that you should start a
3:32niche store at the very beginning and
3:34just jump straight into the thing that
3:37makes you the most money, right? Because
3:38you're still going to have to learn all
3:40the tools and learn all the tricks of
3:42the trade along the way. But at least
3:43you'll be doing it with the thing that
3:45you're going to be making the most money
3:47with. Does that make sense? So, let's go
3:49ahead and jump into step number one.
3:50Now, the first thing that you'll need
3:52obviously is an online store. Now, if
3:56you're watching this video, you probably
3:58already know what drop shipping is. Uh,
4:00for those of you who might need like a
4:02quick refresh, it's basically when you
4:04sell products that you never touch or
4:06even own yourself. All you're doing is
4:09building an online store and then
4:11anytime somebody buys a product on your
4:13store, your supplier will fulfill and
4:16ship that product directly to your
4:19customer for you without you having to
4:21do anything else. And so, yeah, the
4:23first thing we need is a store to
4:25actually, you know, send customers to so
4:27that they can buy things that you can
4:29drop ship. So, the first thing you're
4:30going to do is click on the link down
4:32below in the description of this video,
4:34uh, which is buildyourstore,
4:36uh.ai/joshuao,
4:39but I'll also have that linked down
4:40below as well, uh, in the pinned comment
4:42and in the description. Now, when you
4:44click that link, it's going to take you
4:46to this landing page right here. So,
4:49from this page, we're just going to
4:50click right here on build my free store,
4:53and it'll open up this right here. Enter
4:55your uh full name, your email, or your
4:57password. You can also just sign up with
4:59Google if you want, which is what I'll
5:01do. After that, uh you can just click on
5:03skip for now. We'll skip that question.
5:05And so, from this page, uh this is where
5:07you pick a niche for your store. So, you
5:09got fashion and apparel, pets,
5:11electronics, and gadgets, etc. If you're
5:13not sure about what niche you want to
5:15start your store in yet, you can click
5:17right here on I'm not sure. For this
5:18example, I'm just going to click on
5:20electronics and gadgets and then click
5:22done. And then from here, you'll choose
5:24uh banners for your homepage. So, just
5:26click on a couple of images that stand
5:28out to you and then choose done. The
5:30next step is to access Shopify. So, we
5:33have to create your Shopify account.
5:34Shopify is where the entire business
5:37exists. And so, click right here on
5:39access Shopify. Then you're going to go
5:42ahead and sign up for your free trial.
5:44Now, the good thing about signing up
5:46this way is that first you get a
5:48three-day free trial and then you get
5:50Shopify for just $1 per month for 3
5:54months. Okay? So, it's a really really
5:56good deal. So, I'm just going to enter
5:57my email in there and go ahead and uh
5:59choose a password and then click on
6:01create account. Once that's done, it's
6:03going to uh ask you to enter in your
6:05payment details. This is just so that
6:07after the 3-day trial, uh, it'll
6:09automatically start your $1 per month
6:12trial for you. And so, just go ahead and
6:13enter your credit card details here and
6:15then click subscribe for $1. And then,
6:18of course, that that $1 subscription
6:20will start after your 3-day free trial.
6:23The next step, it'll ask you to choose
6:25your plan. You don't overthink this.
6:27Just go with the basic plan. Mostly,
6:30pretty much everybody who's watching
6:31this video is they don't need anything
6:33more than the basic plan. Uh once you
6:35begin scaling, making more money, making
6:37more sales, things like that, you can
6:39scale up to a bigger plan. At the
6:41beginning, though, the basic plan is
6:42more than enough. It's going to ask you
6:44to share your business address. You can
6:46uh feel free to add this later or add it
6:48now. For the sake of this video, I'll
6:50just add this later. So, click add
6:52later. And then we're also going to
6:53click on uh skip customize setup. You
6:56can feel free to go through all those if
6:57you want. I don't think it's necessary.
6:58It's not going to change anything. And
7:00then once you're done doing that, let's
7:02go ahead and click back over to the
7:04build your store uh AI tool. That should
7:07still be open in another tab on your
7:09browser. And then we're just going to
7:10click right here on done to go to the
7:12next step. Next, it's going to ask us to
7:14link your Shopify store to this AI.
7:17Okay? So, click right here on access
7:19Shopify. Uh if you already created your
7:21Shopify account, it should just bring
7:23you back to this page here. Then, you're
7:26just going to copy this link right up
7:28here within your browser. Okay? Copy
7:30that link and then head back over to
7:32build your store and then just paste
7:33that link in there. Click on save
7:37and then click on done. Next, it's time
7:39to grab your Shopify discount. Okay, so
7:41click right here on access Shopify
7:43again. It's going to bring us over here
7:45to this page. Uh just click right here
7:47on subscribe. That's all you need to do.
7:49And once that's done, we'll just head
7:51back into build your store and then
7:53click right here on done. The next step
7:55after that is we want to install uh the
7:58build your store app onto your Shopify
8:00store. This is going to be a very
8:02important step. So, click right there on
8:04install and then we'll just install this
8:06app right here. Uh after that, it should
8:08automatically bring you back to build
8:09your store. And then you can either
8:11choose to go with the free beginner
8:14store, which costs no money to you, or
8:16you can pay $97 to go with one of the
8:19professional one product stores. It's
8:22completely up to you. For the sake of
8:23this video, we're just going to start
8:24with the free beginner store. This will
8:27give us the free Shopify theme plus 10
8:29preloaded products. But if you have the
8:31money to spend and you want like a a
8:33more customized solution built
8:35specifically for a one product or like a
8:37niche store like we talked about
8:39earlier, then it could be worth it to go
8:41with this $97 um option right here. For
8:44this video, we'll just stick with the
8:45free beginner store and then click right
8:47here on continue with the basic store
8:49and then click yes, skip, I'll do all
8:51the work myself. After that, you might
8:53get this offer pop up right here, which
8:55is instead of $97, you only have to pay
8:57$47. In that situation, I'm not trying
9:00to force you guys to spend any money uh
9:02unnecessarily, but it could be worth it
9:05to pay, you know, $47 to have a little
9:08bit more of a custom uh store built for
9:10you. And so, in this situation, I am
9:13going to actually click right here on
9:14yes, upgrade my store for $47 and then
9:18go ahead and enter my credit card
9:19details. But again, I can't emphasize
9:21this enough. You don't have to go with a
9:24paid theme if you don't want to. It's
9:26just that this is going to give us a
9:28more premium customized setup, which I
9:30think is worth it at that $47 price
9:33range. So, click right here on create my
9:36custom store, and it's going to begin
9:37customizing your Shopify store for you.
9:40So, we'll just wait for it to finish.
9:42Once that's done, it'll uh say add top
9:44selling products. And so, we have to
9:46actually begin registering with AutoDS.
9:49AutoDS is the drop shipping uh
9:51fulfillment platform that we'll be using
9:53to kind of automate and help us with
9:55fulfillment of the drop shipping
9:57products. So, click right here on
9:59register to AutoDS. Once you uh sign up,
10:01it's going to ask you to select your
10:03selling channel. For this, we'll click
10:05on Shopify and then we're going to
10:07choose a plan uh to continue with. So,
10:09basically, there's three different
10:10plans. Again, kind of similar with the
10:12Shopify plan. I would recommend you just
10:14start with the lowest plan, which is the
10:16import 200. It's only $20 per month if
10:20you pay annually and $27 per month if
10:23you pay monthtomonth. So, it's not
10:25really that expensive. You'll get your
10:26first month for only 99 though, so you
10:29can give it a try to see if you like it.
10:31Uh, so we'll stick with the monthly. And
10:33so, under the import 200, just click on
10:35start now for 99. And again, enter your
10:38credit card details and then sign up.
10:40Now, you might be thinking to yourself
10:41right now, Joshua, it seems like we're
10:42signing up for a ton of different
10:44subscriptions and softwares and things
10:46like that. That this is the cost of
10:48doing business with drop shipping. You
10:50have to have these tools because these
10:53tools are what make it even possible in
10:55the first place for you to do this
10:57business. Okay? It's a very very small
10:59price to pay all of these tools and
11:01there's not even a lot. We have Shopify
11:03and AutoDS, right? Those are the only
11:05two tools that we that we've paid for so
11:07far. Between those two tools and we
11:08upgraded to a more premium theme with
11:11Build Your Store, it's not a lot of
11:13money to spend for something that has
11:15the potential to scale to a massive
11:18level. Okay. Uh so the monthly expenses
11:20are not going to be that crazy. Plus,
11:22we've got the free months, the free
11:23trials, all that stuff so that we can
11:25test the waters. So once that's all
11:27done, I'm going to click X-ray here to
11:29exit out. And you should land on the uh
11:32the AutoDS dashboard. once this is
11:34finished loading. So after that, you'll
11:35land on this page right here. It says,
11:37"Hi Joshua Mayo, connect your Shopify
11:38store to AutoDS." It'll give you three
11:40options. Um we're going to click right
11:42here on the first option. I have a
11:43Shopify store connected to AutoDS
11:46because the build your store AI has
11:48already created the Shopify store for
11:50us, right? So we technically do have a
11:53store ready. So we'll just click on that
11:55and then continue. And then it should
11:57take you to this page right here that
11:58says install. So, we'll install the
12:01AutoDS plugin and then click install
12:04again. And this is going to connect the
12:06drop shipping software AutoDS to our
12:09Shopify store to make it possible to
12:12even drop ship in the first place. Once
12:13you do that, you'll land on the AutoDS
12:16dashboard. Okay? And you can feel free
12:17to kind of go through this platform by
12:19yourself and learn how where everything
12:22is and learn how things work and stuff.
12:24Really the key places you'll want to be
12:25looking though are the marketplace which
12:27will show you all of the different drop
12:29shipping products that AutoDS has ready
12:31to import into your store and start
12:33selling immediately. Um and then we'll
12:35talk about the sourcing request which is
12:37another very important um part of the
12:40platform. Once you're done signing up,
12:41head back over to build your store and
12:43click right here on done. And then from
12:45here we can click right here on access
12:48my store and it'll take us to our new
12:51store. Now, I think that it is it was
12:54worth it to pay for this premium upgrade
12:56because this store looks incredible. You
12:59can see that the focus, ironically, is
13:01on this um this this uh portable vacuum,
13:05which is a very popular product. We saw
13:07this all over Tik Tok and even Amazon.
13:09And you can see it sets up this really
13:11really cool like bundle and save feature
13:13here where if you buy more of these
13:15vacuums, you'll save more. This
13:16obviously encourages, you know,
13:18upselling and like getting more units
13:20sold per customer. Um, but if we scroll
13:22down, you can see all these other
13:24details and we can obviously edit all of
13:26this. We can add sections and stuff.
13:28We'll talk about that in a little bit.
13:30But I think that it was worth it to pay
13:31$47 to have a more custom store compared
13:35to one that is just going to give us 10
13:37different products and we have to kind
13:38of um navigate those products and choose
13:40which ones we want to sell versus having
13:42just one product selected for us. I
13:45think that's a game changer. Um, and so
13:47anyways, we'll head back over to build
13:49your store. Click on done. And a really
13:52cool feature here that they just
13:54recently added was you can now create
13:56these viral videos using like UGC AI
14:01avatars. I mean, it's it's incredible
14:03how this works. So, I'm going to click
14:05right here on generate my first video
14:07because I want to show you how cool this
14:09technology actually is. It's going to
14:10bring us over here to this create UGC
14:13page. And this what I'm going to show
14:15you here will make a lot more sense
14:17later on when we talk about how to
14:20actually market your drop shipping
14:22store. You'll be able to see how you can
14:24use this platform right here for your
14:27marketing purposes. But anyways, yeah,
14:29there you have it. There's your store
14:31right there. We can click right here on
14:33buy now and you can see that it's built
14:34us this impressive uh one product aka
14:38niche store. And I think this looks very
14:41very good. Every single successful drop
14:43shipping store that I've seen over the
14:45past like 2 years uses this exact setup
14:48where they've got these this bundle
14:50option right here. They've got details
14:52and high-quality images of the photo.
14:55They've got all this different
14:56information and customer reviews and all
14:58that stuff. And you know, like I said,
15:00of course, we can go through and
15:01customize any of this stuff using the
15:03built-in Shopify editor, which I'll show
15:05you how to do soon. But there it is.
15:07There's your store. And it was all built
15:09for us in just a few minutes. But yeah,
15:11we'll go through this platform in a
15:13little bit more detail once we actually
15:15find or begin searching for the drop
15:18shipping product that we want to sell.
15:20All right. Now, the next step, step
15:21number two, is we actually have to
15:23decide on a product uh to sell in your
15:26store, right? And to be honest with you,
15:28this really is the hardest part of the
15:30entire drop shipping business in my
15:32[music] opinion, right? But I don't want
15:33you to overthink this process because
15:35after I break all of this down, I
15:37promise you, you'll completely
15:39understand how this works. Now, you
15:41might be wondering, Joshua, why are we
15:44going to find a new product if our AI
15:47built store already has preloaded
15:49winning products in it? Like, shouldn't
15:52I just sell those ones? Well, you
15:53certainly can choose, you know, one of
15:56those pre-loaded products to sell.
15:57That's totally fine. But regardless, you
16:00still need to learn how to like the art
16:02of actually finding and validating new
16:05product ideas as well. Okay? It's kind
16:08of the same idea of give a man a fish,
16:09he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to
16:12fish, he'll eat the rest of his life,
16:14right? Uh so it's it's that same
16:16philosophy. We have to teach you how to
16:18actually research and validate products
16:20so that you can do this again and again
16:23for yourself in the future. And so this
16:26step is probably going to be the most
16:27important in this video. So I would pay
16:29very close attention. Now the most
16:31common question that I get when it comes
16:32to drop shipping is Joshua, I want to
16:36start drop shipping, but I don't know
16:38what niche or product to choose. And my
16:41answer to that question is always the
16:43exact same. First of all, don't
16:45overthink it. Okay? Uh, second of all, I
16:48want you to remember that just because a
16:50product is hot or trending right now
16:53does not mean it will make you money.
16:55People have this tendency when they
16:57start drop shipping to look at products
16:59that are like really trendy or like just
17:02really hot right now and they'll start
17:03trying to drop ship those products. A
17:06perfect example of this, I'll refer back
17:08to this, was this really cool gaming
17:11console right here. This thing's got
17:12over 21,000 games on it. It's got GTA,
17:17all of the old PlayStation games, pretty
17:19much every popular console. Um, all the
17:23games are on this device right here,
17:24right? And this product was extremely
17:27hot during the 2025 holiday season.
17:29However, because it was so trendy,
17:32everybody was trying to drop ship it and
17:34therefore there was not a lot of money
17:36to be made because the market just got
17:38way too saturated. So, with that being
17:40said, how do you find a winning product
17:43to begin selling for your drop shipping
17:46store? Well, any niche or product you
17:48choose needs to make sense in three
17:50different ways. You can kind of treat
17:51these three things as your criteria. The
17:54first criteria is that the product needs
17:56to be in demand. People already need to
17:59be buying this type of product. We're
18:01not trying to convince the market that
18:03something should exist. We are just
18:06tapping into demand that's already
18:09there. Second, it needs to make money.
18:11That might be obvious, but if the
18:12margins don't work, nothing else
18:15matters. As a general rule that you can
18:17follow, you want to make sure to price
18:19the product that you're going to sell at
18:21least two and a half times or like
18:23between two and three times the cost uh
18:26of the product so that you have room for
18:28profit and marketing if you're doing
18:31paid ads. And the third criteria is I
18:34personally like products that have some
18:36longevity to them. These are called
18:38evergreen products. And so things that
18:40solve a real problem or fulfill an
18:43ongoing desire, not just something that
18:46spikes for a few weeks during Christmas
18:49and then, you know, disappears after the
18:52holiday season is over. Now, don't get
18:53me wrong, okay? selling trendy products
18:56absolutely can work and you can make a
18:58lot of money doing it. But the thing is
19:00is that you have to time them absolutely
19:03perfectly right before everybody else
19:06starts jumping on the bandwagon and
19:08trying to run ads for it and trying to
19:10build their own landing page for it and
19:11trying to drop ship this one product
19:13before the market gets too saturated.
19:15And so you have to time it absolutely
19:17perfectly. And honestly, sometimes that
19:20just means being lucky. I hate to say
19:22it, but it's it's true. But the good
19:24news is that you don't have to be lucky
19:26to win with drop shipping. And this is
19:28why I like evergreen products so much
19:31because they've got the longevity. They
19:32end up working out for you better long
19:34term because people always need those
19:37products year round. And so with those
19:40three uh things in mind, that three
19:42criteria, now it's time to actually
19:44begin doing some product research. Now
19:47the goal of product research is very
19:49simple. The goal is to first find a
19:52product. and I'll show you how to do
19:54that. But then we need to validate that
19:56product. And I'll show you how to do
19:58that as well. And the good thing is that
20:00you don't need any fancy tools to do
20:02this. Basically, we're just going to
20:04look around using some free tools to see
20:06what other people are having success
20:08selling. And this will help to kind of
20:10give us an idea for what we can sell.
20:12And the first place that I would check
20:14personally is the Tik Tok creative
20:17center. So this right here is the Tik
20:18Tok creative center. And if you just go
20:20to Google and type in Tik Tok Creative
20:22Center, this will pop up right here with
20:24the first link. So basically with this,
20:26it's pretty cool. You don't even have to
20:27sign into an account to use this. But um
20:30it just basically shows you all of the
20:32top like trending ads and like products
20:35that are working on Tik Tok shop. Now,
20:37the reason we're referring to Tik Tok
20:40shop is because um oftent times drop
20:42shippers will first of all they'll drop
20:44ship using Tik Tok shop, but also
20:46they'll just use it to find inspiration
20:48because if people are buying things on
20:50Tik Tok shop, then chances are those are
20:53going to be good products to drop ship
20:55as well. And so from here, the first
20:57place that I would look is right here
20:58under inspiration and then click on top
21:01ads. And so there's a few ways you can
21:02go about this. The first way is you can
21:04search uh using the top ads dashboard.
21:07And so you can like filter through these
21:08different options. You can filter by the
21:10country by the industry. You got like
21:13you know apparel and accessories,
21:14appliances, baby, kids and maternity,
21:17you know, education, games, all these
21:20different um industries or categories.
21:22You can filter by objective. And when
21:24you filter, it'll show you different ads
21:27uh based on those filters, right? Uh the
21:30other way that you can search is just
21:31looking at the top ad spotlight. And so
21:34like for example, if we scroll down
21:35here, we can see that this it looks like
21:37some kind of projector. Um has performed
21:40extremely well. So yeah, it's it's
21:42basically just a projector that you can
21:44like lay on your bed and it'll project
21:46onto your onto your um ceiling for you
21:48to watch shows, which is pretty cool, or
21:51play games. And so this is getting a ton
21:54of likes and a ton of engagement on Tik
21:57Tok. And so you could look at that and
21:59say, you know what, that could be a
22:00product that we could end up drop
22:02shipping, right? If we click on see
22:03analytics, it'll show us even more
22:05details. It'll also show us like
22:07different ads that people have ran that
22:09are similar to this projector ad right
22:12here. So that's one way to use the Tik
22:13Tok creative center. Another way is to
22:16go back to inspiration and then click on
22:18top product. And then from here, same
22:20thing. You can filter by the country,
22:21you can filter by the product. And so
22:23let's just say that we wanted to filter
22:25by, I don't know, maybe household
22:28appliances. And then we'll do last seven
22:31days. Let's change this to last 30 days
22:33just to give us a little bit broader of
22:35a horizon. So you can see right here,
22:36air purifiers, uh, vacuum cleaners,
22:39juicers, and blenders. All these things
22:41are are popular household products that
22:43are selling really well on Tik Tok shop
22:45right now. If we were to click, for
22:47example, on air purifiers, or maybe
22:49we'll do vacuum cleaners and sweepers,
22:51we'll click on details right here. It's
22:53going to show us some more details about
22:55it, but also if you scroll down, you'll
22:57see related videos that people have have
22:59posted about different vacuum cleaners
23:01that they're drop shipping on Tik Tok
23:04shop, right? And so, like, if we click
23:06on this one, for example, that's for a
23:08mop. It's like a duster mop. But in any
23:10any case, any case, I'm not going to
23:11watch the video. The point though is
23:13that you can look at these videos. You
23:15can get ideas first of all for, you
23:17know, making your own organic ads on Tik
23:19Tok, but you can also just see what
23:21products they're selling and you can see
23:23if they're selling a lot of that
23:24product. If there's getting if the
23:26videos are getting a lot of engagement,
23:28that can be an indication to you that
23:30that's going to be a product that you
23:31could try drop shipping yourself. And so
23:34this is a very very powerful and free
23:36tool that you can use to get ideas and
23:38insight for you know products that you
23:40can drop ship on your own store. Now
23:42something else you can do is sign up for
23:44the Tik Tok creator affiliate program.
23:47And I'll explain why you should do this
23:48in a second. Uh but signing up for this
23:50program literally takes 10 seconds. I've
23:53got an entire video on my channel that
23:55walks you through this entire process.
23:56I'll leave that down in the uh
23:58description below if you want to watch
23:59it. But once you join the affiliate
24:01program, you'll get access to this kind
24:03of dashboard area here that gives you a
24:05ton of valuable information that you can
24:07use to figure out what you might want to
24:09drop ship yourself. And so we can just
24:11scroll through this dashboard of
24:12products here and just get a ton of like
24:15really useful information. Like we can
24:16see how many times the product has sold,
24:18kind of what the average price it's
24:20selling for. Uh look at this right here.
24:22This is the gaming device that I have
24:24right here. And you can see right here
24:26it's being sold on Tik Tok shop. It's
24:28sold over 80,000 times, you know,
24:30through different Tik Tok shop affiliate
24:32sellers. But in any case, one product in
24:35particular that I keep seeing pop up
24:37that is getting a ton of sales are these
24:40little mini like leaf blower things,
24:43right? You can see this one right here
24:44has sold almost 200,000
24:48times. That [music] is a really big
24:50deal. And so that is something that we
24:52could potentially start trying to drop
24:54ship ourself. And so we can click on
24:56this product right here just to kind of
24:57get some more info on it. We can see the
24:59price range for what wear typically
25:01sells at. We can scroll down some more.
25:03We can see videos that people have
25:05posted of them like using the product
25:07and like promoting the product for
25:08themselves to to sell. So once again,
25:10this can give you an idea for the type
25:13of video that you could make the like
25:15the organic ad that you can post on Tik
25:17Tok to bring sales to your drop shipping
25:20store. This is a perfect example and
25:22there's tons of videos like this being
25:24posted. Okay. And so yeah, uh for my
25:26drop shipping store that I'm starting in
25:28this video, I'm just going to drop ship
25:29a product that is similar to this one or
25:32this exact one if I can find it. And so
25:34you can see Tik Tok shop affiliates
25:36dashboard is a really good resource to
25:38use to find products that you can sell,
25:41but also then to research those same
25:44products. So that's another place. Um
25:46another really great place that you
25:47should be checking is Google Trends.
25:49Whenever I have like one or two products
25:52that I'm considering drop shipping, I'll
25:54head over to Google Trends and then
25:57search for that product within Google
25:59Trends. Now, the goal of Google Trends
26:01is to see if that product or if the the
26:05category of products that that product
26:07exist in is trending up or trending down
26:10or maybe just going sideways. And so for
26:12this, I'll type in mini leaf blower
26:15because that's kind of the general
26:16category of the product that is being
26:18sold. And I'm going to go maybe to the
26:21last month to see how this is uh
26:24trending. And so you can see right here
26:27starting at the top of this year, it had
26:29a huge spike in interest, [music] which
26:32is a really good sign. Now, I want to go
26:33back a little bit further, like the past
26:35year, to see if it's overall trending up
26:38or going kind of sideways. So you can
26:40see over the past year it's got very
26:43consistent like interest which is a good
26:45sign. That's what we want because that's
26:47what you want out of an evergreen
26:49product is just kind of like almost a
26:51flat line of consistent interest year
26:53round. Now if it spikes up like this
26:56occasionally that's totally fine. That's
26:58that's good. That means you know that
27:00you can make extra money during that
27:01season. But overall we can see that this
27:04product right here is not going up on
27:06average. It's not going down over time.
27:09it's just kind of staying straight. And
27:11we can even zoom out to see over the
27:13past 5 years if it's doing the same
27:15thing. And that kind of remains true.
27:17Like over time it is going up a little
27:19bit I would say, but for the most part
27:22it's a pretty flat line which is
27:24absolutely perfect for um evergreen
27:27products. And so Google Trends kind of
27:29helps to validate our product idea
27:31because we can see with real live data
27:34pulled directly from Google that this
27:35product does have interest over time.
27:38Okay. Now, the final place that I would
27:40check even after all of that, even after
27:42you validate it with Google Trends, I
27:44would also check amazon.com. So, I would
27:46go into Amazon and then just type in the
27:49name of the product that you are
27:50interested in drop shipping. And so, in
27:53this case, we'll go into Amazon and type
27:55in mini uh leaf blower. And really, the
27:57goal here is to see once again, is this
28:00product actually selling? Because, you
28:02know, we got Tik Tok shop. We can see
28:03that people are buying this product on
28:05Tik Tok shop. What about Amazon? because
28:07Amazon is another massive e-commerce
28:09platform that people are constantly
28:11shopping on. And so if people are buying
28:13this product on Amazon.com as well, it
28:16just kind of helps to validate to us
28:17that this is broadly speaking a popular
28:21product that people are constantly
28:22looking for. And so we can see right
28:24here the first one on the list of 5,000
28:26plus people bought this mini leaf blower
28:29last month. Right? We can keep scrolling
28:31down here. We got one right here that's
28:334,000 plus people. Um, even 300 plus
28:36people is still good. So, we can keep
28:38scrolling down here. You can see all
28:39these different leaf blowers. Some have
28:41more sales than others. This one right
28:43here, gosh, has 40,000 plus people
28:46bought this one in the past month.
28:48That's that's insane. Okay. And so, I
28:52think that that pretty much validates it
28:54that this is a product that we could
28:56absolutely sell on our drop shipping
28:58store. And so, we were able to discover
29:01this product using Tik Tok shop. and you
29:03know the Tik Tok creative platform and
29:06then we were able to validate it also
29:09using Tik Tok shop affiliates platform
29:11uh Google trends and then now Amazon
29:14right and so I think it's safe to say
29:15that this is a product that we could
29:17absolutely have success drop shipping
29:19now I want to say something really quick
29:21as clearly as I possibly can so that you
29:24don't get stuck with you know analysis
29:26paralysis trying to find like the
29:27perfect product or something drop
29:29shipping is not about trying to find the
29:31perfect product Some products won't work
29:35and that's fine. That's normal. Even
29:37after your research, right? Even after
29:40validating the idea with data and stuff
29:42like that, you might start drop shipping
29:44it and it might not work. And that's
29:46normal. That's okay. You only need to
29:49find one or two winners to build
29:51something real, to make a lot of money,
29:54and to build something that is going to
29:55last, right? And so I wouldn't get stuck
29:58in analysis paralysis trying to find the
30:00most perfect product that has ever
30:02existed because you're probably not
30:04going to find it. Pick something that
30:06just makes sense that you would say to
30:08yourself like, "Yeah, sure. I would buy
30:10that." Make sure that there's demand for
30:12it and that there's actually margin to
30:14make money with it, right? Make sure it
30:15follows the three criteria that we
30:17talked about earlier. And then if it
30:19does and you've done the research and
30:21you validated the idea and it looks
30:23good, just move forward with it. And
30:26that actually brings us to step number
30:27three. And step number three is all
30:29about product fulfillment. We have to
30:31make sure that the product you are
30:33selling actually gets delivered to the
30:36customer uh once they start buying it
30:38from your store. And this is where
30:40AutoDS comes in because remember as a
30:42drop shipper you the drop shipper are
30:45not handling the product at all. Right?
30:48Because your only responsibility is
30:50finding good products to sell in the
30:53first place and then getting those
30:55products in front of people with videos,
30:58organic content on social media or paid
31:01ads or whatever. Getting those products
31:03in front of people and convincing them
31:05to buy the product. And then when they
31:08buy the product from your store, AutoDS
31:10will fulfill that product for you. And
31:12so this means they'll contact the
31:14supplier, have the supplier prepare the
31:17order, ship the order to your customer
31:19in a timely manner, and really just take
31:21care of all of the back-end stuff for
31:24you. And so we're back in this dashboard
31:26now, and let me just really quickly run
31:28through this tool so that you can see
31:29how amazing it is. This right here is
31:32the marketplace. This is where you can
31:34browse for new products to sell, kind of
31:37discover new ideas, and things like
31:39that. AutoDS has an insane amount of
31:42products that you can import into your
31:44store right now and start selling. Now,
31:47with these products, I would pay
31:48attention to the price of the product
31:50and also the shipping time. Usually, if
31:53the product has a very long shipping
31:55time, it's simply not worth your time to
31:58try and sell it. Now, you could always
32:01try and find a supplier with a better
32:02shipping time, and we'll talk about how
32:04to do that in a second. But overall, you
32:06definitely don't want the shipping time
32:07to be like over a week on any product
32:10that you're selling. That would just
32:11take way too long to get to the buyer,
32:13and you'll end up getting a ton of
32:14complaints. But anyways, you can also
32:16filter the product by different
32:18categories if you want, and you can sort
32:19by things like best sellers or fast
32:22shipping, or you can just search for a
32:24specific product if you already have a
32:26product in mind that you want to start
32:28selling. And so let's just say for
32:29example that we wanted to start selling
32:31the mini leaf blower, right? I could
32:33come in here and I could search for mini
32:36uh leaf blower and see what options pop
32:38up here. Now if I didn't see the exact
32:41leaf blower that I wanted to start drop
32:43shipping on my store or whatever product
32:45you were trying to sell, if you didn't
32:47see it in the marketplace here, you can
32:49come over here to the side and click on
32:52sourcing request. This is a very, very
32:55powerful feature that basically lets you
32:58tell AutoDS what product you're looking
33:00for and their team goes out and finds a
33:04supplier for you, usually with better
33:06pricing and faster shipping. And so,
33:09yeah, you can use this feature if you
33:11want AutoDS to source a specific product
33:13for you. And so, yeah, so let's just say
33:15for the sake of this example, I wanted
33:17to start drop shipping these mini uh
33:19leaf blowers. I'm basically just looking
33:21for one within the marketplace here that
33:23is decently priced and has a shorter
33:26shipping time, right? And just overall,
33:29it looks like a good mini leaf blower.
33:31And so I like the way this one looks
33:33right here. The pricing looks good. It
33:35looks like the margins will work and the
33:37shipping time is relatively short. And
33:39you can see right here that AutoDS shows
33:41us the item cost as well as the shipping
33:43price and the shipping and processing
33:46time, which is very low, which is good.
33:49That's what we want. We've also got some
33:50good product photos right here that we
33:52can use for our drop shipping store, a
33:55detailed product description, and
33:57everything here is pretty much already
33:59done for us. The only thing we have to
34:01do now is import this product into our
34:04store. Plus, this brand is the same one
34:06that we saw being sold on Tik Tok, the C
34:09ceay or however you pronounce that. So,
34:12we're just going to click right here on
34:13import uh draft. And then it's going to
34:16say that items added to drafts. And then
34:18we'll just click here to track the
34:20progress. So you can see it's uh
34:22currently creating the draft. And so
34:23we'll just wait for this to finish. And
34:25then once it's done, we'll come back.
34:27Once that's done, all you have to do is
34:28click right here on import. And it'll
34:30begin importing this product into your
34:33Shopify store. So um once it's done,
34:36it'll say products have been imported
34:38and then click on view. You can see that
34:41we got these two products now in our
34:42store. The vacuum cleaner and the uh
34:46leaf the mini leaf blower. Okay. So,
34:47obviously the vacuum cleaner was the
34:49product that Builder Store chose for us
34:51and added into our store. Like I said
34:54earlier, you can feel free to use that
34:56product if you want. It's a product that
34:58they chose based on their internal
35:00research and their internal data. And
35:03so, they know that this is probably a
35:04good product that it's a winning product
35:06that you can sell. But, we're just going
35:08to go ahead and switch over our store to
35:10begin selling this mini leaf blower
35:13instead. And so now we're going to
35:15transition into the part where I show
35:16you how to actually edit your Shopify
35:18store. So I'm going to head back into
35:20Shopify really quick. Click right here
35:22on products. So you can see that we now
35:24have this new product that was added
35:26from AutoDS. And yeah, but let's talk
35:28about how to actually edit your store
35:30though. So to edit your store from the
35:32main Shopify uh homepage, you'll click
35:35right here where it says online store
35:37and then you should land on themes. And
35:39if you click right here on edit theme,
35:41it's going to bring you into the Shopify
35:44editor. So the Shopify editor is a drag
35:47and drop page builder. That means that
35:50anything that you hover on, if you click
35:52on it, you'll have access to edit that
35:54information on that page. So let's just
35:56say for example, we wanted to change the
35:58info within this top banner up here. All
36:00we have to do is hover over the top
36:03banner, click anywhere in the top
36:04banner, and then right here in this left
36:06sidebar, you can see that we can change
36:08the heading text to be anything that we
36:12want with terrible spelling. We can
36:14change the subheading text, the uh
36:16button text, the button link. We can
36:18change the background image right here.
36:20So, if we click on change, we can either
36:22select our own custom image or we can
36:25explore free images that come with
36:28Shopify. So, you can either just scroll
36:29through the different categories here,
36:31or if you had a specific stock image
36:33that you had in mind, like let's just
36:35say, for example, we typed in living
36:37room. You can see all these different
36:39living room images pop up. Perhaps I
36:41want to add this one into my banner. And
36:44so, it adds that image right there, just
36:45like that. And then we'll click right
36:47here on select to confirm our selection.
36:49And yeah, so anything that you want to
36:51make changes to, you just click into it
36:53and then you adjust it in this left
36:54sidebar over here. Once you're done with
36:56the edits, you'll click up here on save.
36:59Okay. If you want to go to a different
37:02page, all you have to do is come up here
37:03to this top dropdown right here. And
37:06right now, we're on the homepage. But
37:07let's just say, for example, we wanted
37:09to edit the default product page. We'll
37:11just click into products, select default
37:14product, and it's going to take us to
37:16our product page right here. And there
37:18is the um mini leaf blower that we just
37:21imported from AutoDS. So, kind of the
37:24same theory here, right? Anything you
37:25want to update, just click on it and the
37:28options for that section will be will
37:30appear over here in this left sidebar.
37:33So you want to change uh info for the
37:35title right here. Click on it, settings
37:38in the left. You want to change info for
37:39the quantity selector, you click it and
37:42the info will be available in the left.
37:44Let's just say you wanted to add a new
37:47section. Perhaps you wanted a section
37:48underneath the main section right here
37:51that shows perhaps more images of
37:54somebody using the the leaf blower or
37:56like a video or something. All you have
37:58to do is when you hover in between two
38:00sections, there's going to be this
38:02option here that says add section. If
38:04you click on that, it's going to open up
38:06a list of different sections that you
38:08can add. And the cool thing about this
38:10is that these are all pre-built
38:12sections. And so let's just say for
38:14example, like I mentioned, we wanted to
38:16add a video. I'll click on video. Just
38:19going to drop that section in there. And
38:21all we have to do from this point is
38:23click on that section. We can add our
38:25video. And just like that, the video
38:27will be added onto our page. And once
38:29you're done with your changes, you'll
38:30click right here on save. Okay. And all
38:33of these once you save it, all the
38:35changes will now be live on your
38:37website. And so yeah, that's basically
38:39how you edit Shopify. It's very, very
38:41straightforward. Let's go back to the
38:43main Shopify dashboard really quick and
38:45just talk about a couple of small
38:46things, a couple of small details here.
38:48Okay, so I want to really quickly point
38:50out that when you are ready to launch
38:52your Shopify store, like you've
38:54customized it, you've got your product
38:56selected, you've done all the things you
38:57want to do to it, you want to make sure
38:59that you first make your store live.
39:01Okay. So, the way you do this is on your
39:04main dashboard, you'll see this option,
39:06this this notice right here that says
39:08password protected. To remove the
39:10password, add a store address. So, the
39:13first thing you have to do is click
39:14right here on add the store address. And
39:16if you have not already done this, you
39:18have to add your business address. Okay?
39:20Um, your business address is typically
39:23going to be your home address, unless
39:25you have a real business address
39:27somewhere else. So, I'll just go ahead
39:29and enter my home address here. and then
39:31click on save business details. And then
39:34once that's done, we can now remove the
39:37password because if I were to go to the
39:39website right now, um well, we're logged
39:42in, so it's not going to show. If
39:44somebody else were to go to the website,
39:45they would not see the website. They
39:47would see like a password screen. So, we
39:49have to remove that. And you can do that
39:51just by clicking right here on remove
39:53password. And now your online store is
39:56open to everyone. So, that is a very
39:58important step that you have to take
40:00before you can officially launch your
40:02Shopify store. Now, once you've got your
40:05product imported into your store, your
40:07store is built, everything looks good,
40:08it's time to actually start getting
40:10traffic to your store so that you can
40:13get sales and actually start making
40:15money with this. And this brings us to
40:17the final step of this process, which is
40:20marketing. Now, when you hear the word
40:23marketing, it might sound intimidating,
40:26right? But honestly, don't even
40:27overthink it. Marketing is simply about
40:30distribution, right? Your job is not to
40:33be some insanely creative marketer who
40:37can come up with clever ads. Your job is
40:40to simply put your product in front of
40:42the right people. Even if it's with a 30
40:46secondond video that you filmed on your
40:48phone that you're, you know, filming of
40:50your product and then you have a voice
40:52over uh talking about the product over
40:54the video that you're filming. It could
40:56be something stupid simple like that. It
40:57doesn't have to be anything fancy. It
40:59just has to make it in front of the
41:01right people. That's it. That's all
41:03marketing really is. If you have a
41:06decent product and the right people
41:08actually see it, sales will happen. It's
41:12literally that simple. Most people don't
41:14fail at drop shipping because their
41:15product is terrible. They fail because
41:18nobody ever sees the product, right? No
41:21views means no traffic and no traffic
41:24means no sales. Everything we're about
41:27to talk about in this step is simply
41:28about getting eyeballs on your product.
41:31Now, there are really only three ways
41:34that people will ever find your drop
41:36shipping store. Three types of like
41:38marketing, if you will. Uh there's
41:40organic content, paid ads, and
41:44influencer or creator marketing. Let's
41:47start with organic marketing first,
41:49which is my personal favorite. So,
41:51organic marketing is when you post
41:53content on platforms like Tik Tok,
41:55Instagram reels, uh YouTube shorts, even
41:58Pinterest nowadays. Um, and the content
42:01that you're posting is just organic to
42:03that platform, right? Like you're not
42:05paying for views. You're not paying to
42:08be boosted. You're simply relying on the
42:11algorithm to serve your content to the
42:14correct viewer. With this marketing
42:16type, you're basically trading your time
42:18and effort for attention. But the
42:21benefit of this is that the cost is
42:23usually zero minus whatever money you
42:26spend to create the videos themselves,
42:28which really shouldn't be that much. But
42:30anyways, uh, next are paid ads. This is
42:32when you pay platforms like Tik Tok,
42:35Facebook, Instagram, or YouTube to show
42:37your product to people. you simply
42:39create an ad and then you pay to have
42:42that ad boosted or pushed to a specific
42:45audience. And so instead of waiting
42:47around for the algorithm to push your
42:50content, which takes time sometimes,
42:52you're simply boosting it or pushing it
42:54to the right people by just throwing
42:56money at it. And third is influencer or
42:59creator marketing. This is basically
43:01when you leverage someone else's
43:03audience. And so instead of building an
43:04audience yourself, you pay or you
43:07partner with somebody who already has an
43:09audience. They've already got the
43:10attention and they promote your product
43:13for you to their audience. Now, this can
43:16work extremely well, but it requires
43:18outreach. It requires negotiation and
43:21testing different creators to see who
43:24actually converts. Now, here's the key
43:25with all of this that I want you to
43:27remember, okay? You do not and should
43:30not master all three of these,
43:32especially not at the beginning, right?
43:33You only need one traffic source to get
43:36started. That's it. And of these three
43:39types of marketing, you should always
43:41start with organic short form content,
43:43especially if you're brand new to drop
43:45shipping. And so what you should do is
43:47post organic content to Tik Tok and then
43:50repurpose that same video over to
43:53Instagram reels, YouTube shorts, and a
43:56lot of people don't know this, but you
43:57can even post short form content on
43:59Pinterest nowadays, right? And so make
44:01the content and just post it everywhere.
44:04Now, you might be wondering why why,
44:06Joshua, should I start with organic
44:08content instead of just paying for ads
44:11and reaching people immediately, right?
44:13I want to make money right now. I don't
44:15want to have to wait for some algorithm.
44:17Like, why can't I just jump straight
44:19into paid ads? Well, the issue with
44:21running ads immediately is that first of
44:24all, you don't even know if the product
44:26will work, right? People think that paid
44:29ads are like magic. That the moment you
44:31turn ads on, the moment you start
44:33throwing money at this platform, but
44:36that's simply not how ads work. Ads um
44:39are more like gasoline, right? The
44:42organic content that you make on these
44:44platforms are the fire. So imagine that
44:47you post a short video on Tik Tok that
44:50starts gaining traction. It starts
44:52getting really good views, good
44:54engagement. A small fire is starting to
44:57form. You then take your gasoline, aka
45:02paid ads, and you pour some of that
45:04gasoline into the fire to create an even
45:07bigger fire. Right? You get my analogy
45:09there. The issue here is that too many
45:12beginners are just dousing the ground
45:14with gasoline and nothing ever happens
45:17because there was never a fire in the
45:20first place. Are you tracking with me?
45:21And so definitely start with organic
45:23content first and then you can apply the
45:26paid ad strategy after a certain video
45:29starts gaining traction. simply boost
45:31that video, run that video as an ad
45:34because now you have proof that people
45:36are actually interested in this product
45:38because it's doing well organically.
45:40Now, let's actually talk about the type
45:43of organic content that actually drives
45:45sales because this is where a lot of
45:47people get stuck. The first thing I want
45:49you to know though about organic uh
45:51marketing, organic content, is that you
45:53don't need to do anything fancy, right?
45:55No fancy editing. You don't need a
45:58studio. You don't even need to show your
46:00face to make organic content. In fact,
46:03raw content usually performs better than
46:06polished content, especially when it
46:08comes to short form videos. And so, I
46:11want to really quickly go down a list of
46:12the types of videos that consistently
46:15work for drop shipping product, right?
46:18Like these videos are proven to convert
46:21time and time again and drive traffic
46:24for drop shipping stores. So, the first
46:27type of video is problem to solution
46:30videos. This is where you show the
46:33problem first before you ever even show
46:36the product. For example, maybe it's a
46:38video of a messy car. The car is dirty.
46:41It's got trash, like crumbs everywhere,
46:43and then you take this mini vacuum
46:44cleaner and you start cleaning the car,
46:46and then like before you know it, it's
46:48it's clean, right? You're advertising
46:50that vacuum cleaner. Or maybe it's a
46:52video of you showing a bunch of tangled
46:54cords, uh, but then you show this other
46:58product that helps you to organize your
47:00cords. And then at the latter half the
47:01video, you show all of the the cords
47:03organized inside of this little thing.
47:05Or maybe it's like pet hair everywhere.
47:07And the same idea, you take this vacuum,
47:09you start vacuuming up the pet hair, and
47:11it it looks easy. It looks seamless. It
47:13looks like it works, right? You start
47:15the video off by showing that
47:17frustration and then you introduce the
47:19product as the solution to that
47:22frustration because remember people
47:24don't buy products, they buy solutions
47:26to problems that they already have. The
47:29second type of video though is before
47:31and after videos. This one is super
47:34simple. You start by showing what
47:36something looks like before the product
47:38is used and then you show what it looks
47:41like after the product is used. It's
47:43very similar to the first style of video
47:45to be honest with you. And so think
47:47dirty versus clean or disorganized
47:50versus organized or broken versus fixed.
47:53With these types of videos, there really
47:55is no talking required because the
47:57visuals do all of the work for you. The
47:59third video is demonstration videos.
48:02This is really when you just show the
48:04product being used. There's not really
48:06any talking. There's no explanation,
48:08nothing. For example, let's say that
48:10you're selling a portable uh mini
48:13blender. A demonstration video could
48:15literally be just a 15-second clip of
48:18you dropping some fruit into the
48:20blender, pressing the button, and
48:22watching it blend, and then you pouring
48:24that blended drink into a cup and start
48:27drinking it. And that is the entire
48:29video. You're simply letting the viewer
48:31figure it out themselves, which actually
48:34helps to build more trust because if
48:35somebody can understand what the product
48:37does by themselves just by watching it
48:40being used, that's a win. The fourth
48:42type of video though are curiositybased
48:45videos. And so, for example, let's say
48:47that you're selling a portable sticker
48:50printer. A curiositybased video could
48:53start with something like this. I didn't
48:55think that this would actually work. and
48:58the video immediately cuts to the
49:00sticker printer printing stickers in
49:02real time, right? Or maybe uh the first
49:05clip is you holding the product saying,
49:07"This little thing has completely
49:09changed my life." And then you show the
49:12product being used. You're not
49:14explaining anything upfront. You're
49:16simply starting with this really big
49:17statement. And by doing this, you are
49:20creating a small question in the
49:22viewer's mind because in the viewer's
49:23mind, they're wondering, "What is that
49:25thing? And why does it matter?" That
49:27curiosity is what makes people stop
49:29scrolling through the different videos
49:31and they keep watching your video and
49:33then hopefully if you did a good job of
49:35convincing and explaining then maybe
49:37they'll buy the product. And so yeah,
49:39those are really the highest converting
49:41videos that you can make on short form
49:43platforms like Tik Tok or Instagram
49:45reels or YouTube shorts. And just
49:47remember, okay, the most important thing
49:49with all of this is that you don't need
49:51to create perfect videos. I cannot even
49:54begin to stress that enough. What you
49:56need to do is create fast, post fast so
50:00that you can start getting feedback from
50:01the market fast and then you just
50:03reiterate, try again, reiterate, try
50:07again, and just keep testing, testing,
50:09and testing. And if you do this enough
50:11time, it's literally impossible to not
50:14start getting feedback that you can use
50:16to start driving traffic to your drop
50:18shipping store. And then like I said uh
50:21earlier, when you inevitably have a
50:24video that starts going semiviral or
50:26maybe even mega viral, that is when you
50:29start running paid ads with it because
50:32that is when sales really begin to take
50:35off. The last thing that I want to do in
50:37this video is answer some of the most
50:39common drop shipping questions that I
50:41get. These are kind of the most common
50:43questions that stop people from getting
50:45started with drop shipping or just being
50:47successful with it. And honestly,
50:49they're questions that you probably
50:51already have as you've been watching
50:52this video. So, the first question that
50:54I always get is, if drop shipping works
50:58so well, as you say, Joshua, why do most
51:01people fail at it? Well, it's very
51:04simple. Most people fail at drop
51:06shipping for a very simple reason. They
51:08quit too early, right? They expect
51:11results way faster than reality. They'll
51:14post a few videos or maybe run a couple
51:17of paid ads. They don't see any sales
51:19come in immediately and then they just
51:22assume that the business doesn't work.
51:24But in reality, they just didn't give
51:26the market enough chances to respond to
51:30whatever they were trying to sell and
51:32promote. And even more importantly, they
51:34didn't persevere long enough for
51:36themselves. Another huge reason people
51:38fail, though, is because they spend way
51:40too much time preparing and not enough
51:43time testing. They obsess over things
51:46like their logo or their Shopify theme
51:49or their product descriptions or all
51:51these different things that sure might
51:54make you feel productive, but they never
51:56actually put products in front of real
51:59people. I mean, you saw for yourself in
52:01this video how little time we spent on
52:04the actual drop shipping store, right? I
52:07mean, we literally had AI build it for
52:09us and then that's about it. There were
52:11very minor changes that were made
52:13because that's not what is most
52:15important. Your logo and your brand
52:17colors have almost zero impact on your
52:20ability to generate sales. Most
52:22beginners also underestimate how much
52:25testing it takes, right? Not every
52:27product will work. I cannot stress that
52:30enough. Not every single video that you
52:32post on Tik Tok is going to work, is
52:35going to go viral. In fact, most won't.
52:38And that's normal. And also for the
52:40record, not only is that normal with
52:42dropshipping, it's also normal with
52:45really any business, right? The people
52:47who succeed are the ones who keep
52:49testing and trying long enough to find
52:52something that actually clicks, right?
52:54They don't take failure personally. They
52:57treat it like data. And once you can
53:00begin approaching drop shipping or
53:02really any business, that way your
53:04chances of success go way up. But
53:07anyways, another question that I get all
53:08the time is what are some of the biggest
53:10mistakes that beginners make? So, the
53:13biggest mistake that I see beginners
53:15making is they're trying to copy someone
53:18else. Exactly. Right. I used this
53:20example so many times in this video
53:22because I saw it happening so much just
53:24a few months ago. They'll see a product
53:26that worked really well for somebody
53:28else on TikTok and they'll try to
53:30recreate that same product step by step.
53:33And so the same video style, the same
53:36drop shipping store, the same everything
53:39without actually understanding why that
53:42product worked in the first place. What
53:45works for one person on one account at
53:48one moment in time during one season
53:52might not work for you the same way.
53:54That's why the goal of this isn't to
53:56copy a winning product. The goal is to
53:59learn how to test ideas quickly until
54:02you find something that works for you
54:05because typically by the time you spot a
54:07trending product in the first place
54:09that's working, usually that means it's
54:12the end of its life cycle. Like you're
54:14already too late to the party, right?
54:16The product is already kind of trending
54:18down. And this is why just copying
54:20people never works and why you have to
54:22learn how to test products and do the
54:24research for yourself. But anyways, the
54:26next question, and this might be one of
54:28the most common questions I get, is how
54:31long does it usually take to get my
54:33first sale? Like, when when will I see
54:35my first sale come in, Joshua? And the
54:38answer is really, it depends. It will
54:40probably take a lot longer than you
54:42want, but it'll be a lot shorter uh than
54:46you think. So, some people make their
54:48first sale like in the first few days.
54:50others takes a few weeks and for some it
54:54might take a couple of months and that's
54:56all completely normal. What most
54:58beginners get wrong is they assume
55:01there's some weird like specific
55:03timeline for getting their first sale.
55:05Like if I don't make my first sale in
55:07the first week, then something must be
55:09broken. Maybe I'm not like good at this.
55:11I should just go ahead and quit, right?
55:13That's not how this works. Okay? You
55:14can't just go and set these weird
55:16arbitrary timelines for yourself to try
55:19and meet because inevitably you'll
55:21probably end up not meeting those goals,
55:24not meeting those timelines, and that's
55:25just going to discourage you and make
55:27you want to quit. Your first sale
55:28usually comes uh after enough people
55:31have seen your product, not after a
55:33certain number of days. And so if you're
55:35posting content consistently, testing
55:38hooks, and actually driving traffic to
55:40your website, sales tend to show up
55:43faster than you expect. But if you're
55:45just sitting there tweaking your Shopify
55:48store and waiting for sales to magically
55:50appear and posting like one video per
55:52week, then you're probably going to be
55:54waiting for a sale forever. So don't
55:57obsess over specific arbitrary deadlines
56:00for getting your first sale. obsess over
56:03volume uh testing and getting eyeballs
56:06on the product because that is what
56:08actually speeds things up. Another
56:10question that I get is how do I price my
56:13products? So, pricing is way simpler
56:15than most people make it. Here's kind of
56:17the basic rule of thumb. You want to
56:19price your product at least 2.5 to 3x
56:24your total product cost. And when I say
56:27product cost, I mean the cost of the
56:29item itself plus shipping plus any
56:33additional fees, right? All of this
56:35needs to be built into the price of the
56:37product. And that margin gives you room
56:39to actually make a profit and eventually
56:42even run paid ads if you want to scale
56:44faster. But for example, if your product
56:47cost you $10 and you're selling it for
56:50$15,
56:52I mean, that's a losing game, right?
56:54that's not enough margin to actually be
56:57profitable or make a lot of money long
56:59term. If your product clearly solves a
57:01problem, it looks good and is marketed
57:04well, people will pay you a lot more
57:06money than you think for it. So, these
57:08are some of the most common questions
57:10that I get. Uh, if you have a different
57:12question that you want answered that I
57:14didn't answer in this video, leave it in
57:15the comment section down below and I'll
57:17do my best to answer um all the
57:19questions that you guys have as best as
57:21possible. Listen guys, if you made it
57:24this far into the video, I just want to
57:26say that I genuinely respect you because
57:29most people do not stick around long
57:31enough to actually learn how this works.
57:33What I wanted this video to be was a
57:36clear uh realistic overview of what it
57:39actually takes to get started with drop
57:42shipping without over complicating it
57:44and without turning it into some
57:46overwhelming 5-hour long video. There
57:49are definitely videos out there that go
57:51way deeper into each individual piece of
57:54this business and those definitely will
57:57be helpful. They might be helpful later
57:59on, but from my personal experience,
58:02when you're just getting started, too
58:03much detail too early on actually stops
58:07people from taking action because it
58:09creates uh analysis paralysis. And
58:12that's why this video exists. My advice
58:15to you is simple. Watch this video,
58:18follow along, take action, and then just
58:22learn as you go. You don't need to have
58:24everything figured out on day one.
58:27You'll actually end up learning faster
58:28by just doing the business than watching
58:3110 more tutorials like this one, okay?
58:34All of the tools that we talked about
58:36are linked down below in the
58:37description. And honestly, that's all
58:39you need to get started. And hey, if you
58:41know somebody personally who's been
58:43talking about starting drop shipping or
58:45starting some type of uh e-commerce or
58:47like online business, send them this
58:49video. It's free and it can save them a
58:51ton of confusion. And also, if you got
58:54value out of this video, do me a huge
58:55favor and drop a like down below for the
58:58video so that it can reach more people.
59:00Drop a comment and let me know where
59:02you're starting at, like which step
59:04you're starting at with drop shipping or
59:05if you have any questions. And also
59:07subscribe to the channel if you want
59:09more content. just like this. How to
59:11build online businesses, investing, and
59:14making money in realistic ways. Hey,
59:17thank you so much for watching. I
59:18appreciate every single one of you being
59:20here and watching until the end. It
59:22means the world. And as always, I will
59:24see you again very soon. Take care.

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