so you heard about Drop Shipping and now you're thinking about starting but you don't know where to start and who to listen to then you've come to the right place because in this video I'm going to show you guys a beginner friendly step-by-step process of how you can start Drop Shipping now you may be asking why listen to me well here's the thing I've generated over $4.5 million in sales since 2020 with my one branded Niche Drop Shipping Store and you can do the same too I won't be diving into all the details because I'll
be here forever but I will be going through a rough guideline on how you can find your Niche find your products build your store on Shopify and start running paid ads to generate your first sale so by the end of this video you'll know the full Drop Shipping process to get started but before I start hit that like button subscribe for more content and get your pen and paper out so I actually started Drop Shipping in 2020 because I hated working for my boss I launched my store in a niche that I had an interest
in I managed to scale my store to a million dollars in my first year with Facebook ads I also managed to quit my job during covid after six months of running my Drop Shipping Store and I still can't believe that I'm able to make money during my sleep and have the freedom to do whatever I like so first things first is Drop Shipping is a cash flow heavy business model due to the payment holds that PayPal and Shopify implemented and this is why I recommend you guys start with One debit card with an initial cash
injection of $11,000 and if you can a bit more ideally you should also have a regular income stream to fund this business venture and only apply for a credit card once you are profitable but make sure you are working on these four areas when Drop Shipping that's marketing digital design accounting and customer service don't buy expensive courses and stay away from YouTubers who offer expensive courses and don't pay for expensive mentors you can learn everything online for free so they actually three types of drop shipping stores that you can set up and the first one
is a general Drop Shipping Store this is like a Walmart or Amazon or any store that sells a wide range products products are not closely connected to one another and I advise you not to set one of these up because once a visitor lands on your general Drop Shipping Store they'll soon realize oh it's just another Amazon just go to Amazon themselves where they can find products at half the price next one is one product stores now a lot of YouTubers have advocated this and told a lot of beginners to start these one product stores
and basically it's an entire store that is focused around one product only they tend to have a high success rate compared to General Stores but I do not advise my subscribers to start a one product store only because a lot of beginners choose a saturated product or product that isn't really great or scaling they're also a very unsustainable store and business model in the long run they're usually built for trending products but the success can be shortlived if the trend doesn't last or the product becomes saturated last but not least is a branded Niche store
which is what I've built so this type of store sells products that connect with one another you appeal to an audience that has an interest in your Niche and is usually more sustainable in the long run so I've run my branded Niche store for the past 4 years and it's still Ono and this is the sort of business that you want to build in the long run so the Drop Shipping process if you don't know already is you have an eShop which is on Shopify and you add products from Drop Shipping suppliers like AliExpress onto
your Shopify store customer will then visit your store and order a product the customer pays on your store for the products and you for the order to your supplier on AliExpress via DS's and this is a Shopify app and the supplier will then process your order and ship your pass out it will then assign a tracking number onto AliExpress which then get pulled through to DS dsers will pick this up and then notify Shopify to send an email out to your customers that their orders on their way and then you can use another Shop app
to send your customer a review request the very first thing you guys need to do is research and select a niche this is probably the most important part of this process because if you choose the wrong Niche you spend time building a store you spend time on creating ads and running ads you find out you chose the wrong Niche then you wasted all that time so you want to identify a specific Niche or Market you're interested in or passionate about do not choose a niche that you have no interest in this is because we want
to avoid buying out early on we also want to build a sustainable long-term business you want to research to competitors within the chosen n whether that's drop shippers and also bigger brands do your market research and identify who your customers are so moving on to product selection so once you found your Niche it's time to find your product on AliExpress I know there are a lot of YouTubers out there who tell you to use Zen drop or autod DS or CJ Drop Shipping but I have a strong feeling that these guys are affiliated with them
and that's why they don't recommend AliExpress but AliExpress and DS's is perfectly fine and I've been using them for the past 3 years so the first thing you want to do is find 10 plus products within your Niche on AliExpress the more the better find unta products within your niche and find trending products within your Niche you're going to go through my latest video to filter out your products and choose which one to drop Shi you're going to have to find multiple supplies for products you want to sell but if you can't it's not end
of the world make sure to have supplies that have a store rating of 90% or above now AliExpress have implemented this new thing which is called a choice store and some stores don't even have a store rating so when that's the case I wouldn't even use these stores because when you try to message them it actually goes go through to the AliExpress customer service team so make sure the products you found can be marked up by 2X or more so you're going to add the product cost worth of shipping plus taxes and times it by
two if you think that price point is unrealistic and people won't pay for it then you probably shouldn't drop ship it do not choose product you have no interest in so next we're going to contact suppliers on AliExpress so these are the questions you can ask your suppliers do you offer Drop Shipping how long is your processing time what is your average delivery time do you offer custom packaging can you print business cards in the future and what happens if a parcel is lost what happens if an item arrives damaged what would they do and
if you have any other questions for your suppliers you can also ask that too sample products once you have confirmed your suppliers and products once you've chosen your Niche and your products it's time to build your store use Shopify to build your store be inspired by competitors and big brands let's just say you're setting up pet store then look at tu.com and see how they built their store if you're setting up Sports Store look at gym Shar you get the gist design your logo and choose neutral brand colors when designing your store you want to
focus on the mobile design the reason for this is because 90% of your users will be coming from Paid ads like Instagram Tik Tok and Facebook next you're going to install these apps clavio SMS bump DS's after ship judge me SEO and SEO image Optimizer import products via DS's learn uxui to design a branded professional store learn how to write copy. sales and watch my video on the perfect Drop Shipping product page to help build your product pages also watch my other video the perfect Drop Shipping homepage to build out your homepage you want to
add all your policy pages and I also have a video about this and you want to import product reviews to the majority of your products set up your admitted affiliate link for cash back on AliExpress purchases but this can be done later down the line the next thing is set up your payment Gateway so I use Shopify payments and PayPal and it should be fairly easy to set these two up you also want to set up a manual two- Factor authentication with my trick and this basically helps you verify customers whether they're a scammer or
not next to send of your shipping and your markets so you want to offer free shipping to the majority of customers around the world like to the US UK Australia Germany Etc check which countries your supplies shipped to and disa shipping certain countries like India some islands around the world South America South Africa Etc once you build out your store now you then want to set up your socials you want to create a Tik Tok account Instagram account Pinterest Facebook and your email you then want to start posting organically every day with multiple posts so
do not pay for fake followers and you can simply ask your friends and family to follow you to kick things off be smart with your content and see what's trending on Tik Tok and Instagram rules and see how you can copy those videos and apply it to your business so the next point is shooting content once your products arrives start filming content you want to check out videos on Tik Tok made me buy it and also check out videos on Instagram rules and you want to see what content your competitors are creating learn about Hooks
and different content types you can make content on the unique standing points of your products you can also mention the pain points of your customers and how your product can solve it so once you finish all of this work it's time to launch your store so finalize your homepage finalize your product pages check your product pricing confirm your checkout Works compare your store to other brands like notebook therapy plushy mington the Udi TR snow dose of roses Hy Walmart and a whole bunch of other stores and see how your store compares to them now once
your store is launched it's time to run paid marketing ads you only really do this if you have the budget to do so if you don't have the budget to run paid ads then I suggest going down the organic route and trying to get viral the sign up for meta ads manager sign up for Tik Tok business depending on which ads you want to run so I've run my ads for past 4 years on meta and I have over a million in spend on ads and the reason why I haven't launched many ads on Tik
Tok is because I'm in the UK and the majority of my customers are in the US and when you run ads it only runs in your country I don't really want to set up a VPN and all this stuff so I'm just going to stick with meta different products work better with different formats so what works best for my Niche is carousels and images and not necessarily video videos and this is why it's important for you to find out which format works for your Niche and double down on it the point of running ads is
so that you can create and test your creatives and copy you want to aim to keep your cost per click below $1 and analyze your ads every 2 days you don't want to be sitting on your PC looking at your ads all day it's not going to change a thing just let Facebook or Tik Tok do its thing for 2 days and then you want to analyze your ads from there and then optimize turn off any ads that have a Coster click higher than $1 you also want to make sure that you're optimizing for purchase
conversion only anyone telling you to run traffic campaign or awareness campaigns stop listening to them and run ads for purchase only the next point I want to make is making sales for your ads is down to your ad creative and copy it does not matter what strategy you use to run your ads so next up we want to optimize and make adjustments to your ads and your web website so for your ad metrics you want to check your ad quality and any CPM above $15 means you're on a competitive industry or your ad creative is
bad if your cost per click is above $1 then you need to improve your ad creative your hook or your copy if your clickthrough rate is below 2.5% then you need to improve your ad creative hook or copy again so for your Shopify metrics if your ad to C percentage is below 4% then you need to improve your product page if your initiate checkout percentage is below 2% then you need to improve your car page and if your purchase percentage is below 1% then you're either selling saturated products or there's unexpected cost at checkout or
your product is simply too expensive and people are finding it cheaper elsewhere so next up you want to set up your Google Sheets you want to track your income which is your sales you want to track your outgoings ad spend pugs expenses any sampling Etc then you want to track your cash flow so here's an example below of a table you can set up yourself on Google Sheets so you have the columns month your order ID your country that the sale came from the date of the sale time of the sale Revenue the fee cogs
and markup if you don't keep track of your sales and your cogs and expenses on a daily basis then you won't know if your business is profitable or on or loss so now I'm going to show you the ordering process a customer will place an order on your Shopify site the order will appear on your shop fight admin panel and it will also appear on DS's you're going to place your order on DS's and this will pull up AliExpress and your customer's order will be on AliExpress your supplier will process your order and assign the
order with a tracking number DS's will pick this up and send an email to your customer so daily tasks you're going to have to reply to emails from customers you have to reply to comments on social platforms build and maintain your store fill any orders on DS's check your ads twice a day you're going to find new products for your store you're going to upload new products to your store and for me I upload two a day plan or shoot new content schedule post on social study study and study there's a lot to learn and
if you're not studying and you're procrastinating or you have bad habits then I recommend you guys read the book Atomic habits and this brings me on to my next point is reading self-help books like Tuesdays with Mori millionaire Bast Lane and the great leads there are plenty of valuable books out there so pick one up and get reading so going forward once you've achieved consecutive profitable weeks and broke five figures a month then it's time to transition to a company apply for a credit card when you're profitable and my first credit card with the business
was an American Express gold card you also need to look for an accountant in your area that understands the Drop Shipping model and e-commerce and this is a process in itself you also want to speak to your suppliers about branding ask if they can offer you branded packaging than you cards stickers tags Etc you also want to collaborate with influencers once your following has grown the last but not least is your finances guys this is a business that you're running and Drop Shipping is just a model you want to learn about your taxes learn about
bookkeeping keeping all your business receipts separate personal spending with business spending you also want to keep all business activity on one card when you first start you also want to keep track of profit and loss daily and learn about balance sheet learn about statement of financial position learn about what can and can't being expense under your company and that is everything you need guys to start your Drop Shipping Store I hoped it helped thank you for watching and staying through to the end if you like this video smash that like button and subscribe for more
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