Hey, it's Rafael Cintron here with another coronavirus update for people that are selling on e-commerce Shopify and drop shippers this time
Us locked down and how it's going to affect shipping to the US and within the US as well
We're gonna talk about all the different things that you should be doing
Depending on the stage where you are in your business
If you're already
Scaling what to do to keep scaling if you're getting some sales here and there what should you do if you're not getting any sales?
How to prepare for the lockdown and what exactly is in the horizon what's gonna happen to shipping?
Inside the US and the companies are shipped within the US and everything that you need to know about this lockdown
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We'll help you through the process and how to actually stay profitable within this time. All right corner barriers explain the u.s
Lockdown and how exactly it's going to affect your business if you are selling or if you want to sell online
In e-commerce current situation more and more cases in the u.s
We're already past a hundred and twenty five thousand, which is insane just a month ago
We had about 15 and now one hundred and five thousand twenty five thousand cities and states enforcing quarantine
So there states that have made it illegal at this point specially states like, New Mexico
It's illegal to socialize outside of your house
so if you go out and you start socializing with friends that is now a crime so it's being enforced very strongly and
Stricter lock downs are going to come the governor of New York is thinking of a full lockdown of New York City and Manhattan
What that basically means is nobody goes in or out of the city to any state surrounding into any county surrounding it
That's still in talks is not actually processed yet, but it highly depends on current public actions
so what people actually do do they follow the rules or not is going to determine if they lock down the whole city and most
Passenger airlines are now shut down. They've just parked their airplanes because nobody flying and there's some country that don't even allow flying but
Cargo lines are actually increasing and I'm gonna explain this in just a little bit in the next slide
so
You know that people are still sending out cargo to and from the United States and within the United States with passenger earth Airlines
Very interesting process right there. So will the u.s
Actually fully lock down like Iran and China or nothing goes in or out no cargo goes in around just like Italy right now
Italy is in a full full lockdown in France as well
you can't really send that many packages only letters and
Specific products and they stay in customs for a while until they get cleared and then pass will this happen in the US?
well
sort of not at the level where you see in China or in Italy or France or everything is gonna lock down that would literally
Just destroy the economy all over the United States and it would be just a complete shutdown
Will not happen from what I've researched from what I seen the USPS is still working at a hundred percent capacity
Just like here a US Mail contractor who is also my drop shipping student
He said but as you mentioned in your video today
The USPS is going at full steam czar still working at a hundred percent
Their workers are showing up. You're still processing
products and they're still processing orders that are going into the United States and within the United States and
We have to keep working be well, and I'm going a few weeks to start my POV store
So he's thinking of actually starting another store now even during this current time
He knows what's happening within the mailers and within the people shipping within the US
So he says that it's all going to be okay
Stopping the USPS and stopping these shipping services would actually be just complete chaos
That would just destroy the economy and a lot we'll never seen before now something very interesting that I mentioned before airlines are still flying
Just empty aircraft full of cargo if you're a travel freak
Like I am you probably know about flight radar 24
Comm which basically shows you all the airplanes that are currently flying all over the world
So this is basically a map of the world
I'm over here in Thailand
and this is the United States and you can still see a bunch of
Airlines and a bunch of airplanes flying you might think. Well aren't all these countries locked up. You can't really travel in Europe
You can't travel from Europe to the US like why are there still a bunch of airlines and a bunch of airplanes flying?
Well, most of these are actually empty
Airplanes, they're all empty this one. For example, let's just take a random Miami to Denver. It might have some people inside of it
What's most likely is that it has a bunch of cargo inside of it?
So some companies and the United States government have actually contracted Airlines to ship cargo
Over since their airplanes are non functioning. They're not taking anybody
So if you see any planes for example that are coming from Europe into the United States, they're very unlikely to be passenger airplanes
They're just likely to be cargo airplanes just like this one right here from Paris to Memphis. It's a FedEx plane, right?
So most of these are actually cargo airplanes they are still shipping
Products from Europe to the US from China to the US from China to Europe
into all these different countries so you don't have to actually worry that airlines are not shipping because they're using
Passenger airline airplanes to actually ship cargo and products that you yourself are shipping out now
Let's go into three different scenarios that you might be right now
You might be selling more than 20 orders a day absolutely scaling crushing of being profitable
How do you stay that way and what you should actually do to be there?
Second one is you're just getting a sale here
And there what you actually do to scale how to maintain your profit and how to actually run your store profitably during this
Situation and third maybe you're not making any sales here. Just starting. What should you actually do?
So first of all, if you have a current winning product and you're making 20 and 30 orders a day
you are profitable what I highly suggest you to do is buy bulk orders from China a bulk order is always set US priority and
It will be shipped faster and better and more higher quality and more priority than anything that is shipped one by one
So if you're selling let's say 100 orders a week 200 orders a week highly recommend you get a bulk order
And then send it to ship Bob shit
Bob is a company that I've talked about a lot and I can pop it up in the I icon right here a video
Fully about ship pop and what it actually is and how to use it
But essentially a picking packing and shipping company and a warehousing company in the United States
You can send a bulk order to them and they ship
within the United States to your people highly recommend you do it and one of the students who is doing
About forty thousand dollars per month here Johnny. He is using ship Bob
He is getting bulk orders to the United States with ship up and then shipping them within the United States
So something that my own students are using I've used for years and you can definitely use as well
You can definitely keep scaling just like Johnny is he wants to hit a hundred thousand a month because his product is available
He's selling a lot of it
He's ordering bulk orders getting them to ship up shipping them within the United States, but don't go over a hundred orders per day
I recommend that's the absolute limit
I told Johnny don't pass four thousand five thousand dollars a day because you will maybe have some problems
100 orders day is seven hundred orders a week almost a thousand orders a week and that is almost a volume that a lot of
Suppliers can do right now per product or even products in general
So don't go over 100 orders a day just for your own sake and for the safety of your business and hire strong
customer support staff you want to have a team you want to have the yeas that are making sure that these people
Understand that the product is gonna delay a little bit. It's gonna last a little bit more
Maybe it costs a little bit more the shipping they want to understand this
So make sure you have a strong customer support staff don't lack on this don't hire people that are mediocre hire a really good customer
service staff make sure your customers are well taken care of and
beware of your ad account getting been it has some students who just get their ad account back for absolutely no reason and the reason
For this is because less people are working at Facebook Instagram Google than they ever worked before
Because of the lockdown because people can't actually go to the office
So since the moderation team is less they might be just ban your ad account straight away
So make sure to keep your ad account safe
Multiple ads accounts multiple business managers if possible
And if your ad account gets banned appeal it might take a few days to appeal if it gets
Disapproved get a whole new business manager and then start advertising from that one now
Let's say you are making some sales but not actually many you're getting to three sales a day
But I highly recommend you use is a drop shipping agent or an Aliexpress alternative
Do not ship products from Aliexpress straight from the supplier because the shipping times are just absolutely insane right now
Do not use a packet use services like a prologue for example is a great one you drop a hyper SKU
There's other ones that I recommend and I'm gonna pop it up right here
A lot of people ask for that on the last video
What are some Aliexpress alternatives how to find an agent all that is in this video?
so they'll click it if you want to learn about that and do a bulk weekly order what that essentially means is if you get
Three orders a day do them one by one per week
So three orders a day would be twenty one orders a week do that bulk order per week
So it gets higher priority than just doing one by one by one and do it better with a CSV or an excel file
Send it over and have process it like that focus on increasing your profits before you scale
If you're just getting a sell here and there you want to focus on getting it as profitable as possible
It is must as much cash as possible and cutting your losses
If somebody in your team or that you hired is kind of mediocre
They're not really doing their job properly fire them cut your cost as much as possible increase the profits as much as you can
Upselling email marketing. This is the time to put more passion and more strength into the business
so you can actually increase your profits and
Then scale the revenue don't think about 100k months when you're losing money in the beginning
Just getting a few sales and keep learning strategies. Keep testing marketing angles keep learning about Facebook ad creatives
Watch the channel here book a strategy call with us
So you can learn different strategies and everything
That you need to do to get your store more profitable and actually scale it up and up
Slowly during this time if you're just starting and you're not making any sales or you're thinking of actually starting a Shopify store
This is the best time to ever
Start Shopify is giving away a 90 day
Shopify free trial where you can set up a new store and get 90 days for free you can focus on product research finding the
Best products possible analyzing different product strategies watching the videos here and studying great ad strategies to learn how to make ad copy
learn how to make videos get your videos done for example from bans of ads and use
Aliexpress
only
For research then go to a trusted
service to get your quote on budget cause how much it's going to ship and to actually get the product so you can start getting
Sales and be confident that it's going to be profit processed
You can use you drop be hyper security Pro low do not use
Aliexpress or a packet to process it?
If you are a beginner, please don't if you work now when the pandemic is over
You'll be years ahead of others who have just been slacking watching Netflix
If other people are just slacking off spending time watching Netflix on Instagram
they're just wasting their time when you are actually making money getting your business stronger and killing them in the long run and absolutely just
Crushing your competition when it comes to the six month twelve month period that comes from now if you have absolutely any
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