a lot of you and I mean a lot of you
have asked us how Co bid 19 is affecting
drop shipping times the truth of the
situation is things are changing on a
week-by-week basis and things are
changing on a country-by-country basis
here's what we know a lot of suppliers
in China are coming back online they're
able to ship things out theoretically at
the same time a lot of different
countries around the world have
responded to the Cova 19 epidemic at
different times and with different
measures this means that even if your
supplier in China can ship something to
the US because of things happening in
the US it may not get there as quickly
as it used to this introduces a lot of
complexity into dropshipping but one of
the saving graces of drop shipping is
that you sitting on your laptop wherever
you are in the world can ship to
customers in other countries you can
choose to target customers that aren't
in your own backyard and that becomes a
real advantage with this business model
today April 27th 2020 I'm going to tell
you what the average shipping times are
to ten popular e-commerce markets I'll
explain what I mean when I say average
shipping times and we'll go through
those countries one by one and look at
the trend line in other words we'll look
at how the average shipping time is
changing so you can decide whether to
target those countries now or not before
the video is done I'll also give you an
Aliexpress hack so you can determine
what shipping method you might want to
use if you're targeting that country and
if you're not watching this anywhere
near at April 27th 2020 no problem I'll
show you how to get access to all of
this data updated to its most recent
form we have some data to dig through so
let's start cracking the Arrested
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if your drop shipping right now you're
wondering should I be selling to
customers in the US the US is one of the
biggest e-commerce markets that
dropshippers can target which makes it
great except that right now it's one of
the hardest hit countries by the
coronavirus epidemic I've got an answer
to you for that question but before we
get to it let me just explain the data
that I'm working with the data that I'm
working with captures the average time
that it takes Aliexpress suppliers who
are processing orders through over low
to ship to these various destination
countries now this data is really
valuable it does change on a
week-by-week basis and I have trendlines
to go over with you so you can determine
how you want to act on this data a lot
of you are asking about e packet
shipping right now from my conversations
with other drop shippers I'm hearing
that a lot of drop shippers are avoiding
a packet shipping instead those drop
shippers are looking at other shipping
options and luckily if you go on out and
Express you'll see that a lot of
suppliers have added numerous shipping
options and these are the most effective
shipping options that are available
right now for the data set I'm working
with now it doesn't differentiate
between a packet shipping or Alys
standard Express this data simply deals
with orders process through overload
agnostic of shipping method ok that's
enough wonky talk about the data you're
like show me the numbers ok let's get to
the numbers let's start with the big one
the US should you be selling to
customers in the US and if you do what's
the average time that they may have to
wait for those products I hate to start
with bad news but let's rip the band-aid
off as you can see I'm in this data
report and I'm going to leave a link to
this data report for you to check out
below this video so that you can access
all of this as well here you can see I'm
looking at delivery information by
country United States and this is
year-to-date so it goes all the way up
to yesterday which is fantastic and this
is the average time in days that it
takes a Aliexpress supplier to process
and deliver an order to a customer when
that order is placed through overload as
you can see things were humming along
and even in
mid-february these average delivery days
were fine it took on average 12 days for
a product to be fulfilled in China and
to make it to customers in the US but
this upward trend is wearing right now
last week we saw an average delivery
period of about 26 days for suppliers in
China to get products to customers in
the US this upward line doesn't give me
a whole lot of confidence that those
delivery times are going to get faster
anytime soon wait before you decide to
plug all the ads and stop targeting the
US I just want to mention something
customers in the US and all over the
world right now aren't expecting next
day shipping but can't even expect that
from your quote unquote competitors at
Amazon so if you still think it's right
to target the US based on your niche and
your product do so just be really
transparent about shipping times use the
long shipping time as an opportunity to
send emails to your customer to warm
them up for future purchases and really
build that brand relationship the data
you're seeing now will change you can be
smart and creative with any of the data
that I'm showing you the important thing
is that you see this data now that we
have a picture for the United States
let's talk about another
english-speaking ecommerce market that I
was really surprised to see has lower
average delivery days during this period
I'm gonna change now to the United
Kingdom this data really surprised me
because this has been largely stable and
you can see that just last week the
average delivery days was 11 days to the
UK that means if you want to run those
ads in English target the UK just make
sure that your time zones are correct
right if you think that your customers
are browsing during their lunch hour
well that lunch hour is different in the
UK than the US this is such a good
reminder that the US isn't not the only
ecommerce market out there far from it
take a look at this data consider
opening your assets to the UK and seeing
how they perform there the UK is not it
right we've got other english-speaking
e-commerce markets to check on I was
particularly intrigued here by Canada if
I thought things in the US were looking
bleak well things in Canada are also
looking kind of challenging now in terms
of the average number of days it takes
her in order to reach a customer listen
it's taking on average over a month for
products to reach their customers that's
tough
however I want to remind you if you're
watching this video two three weeks from
the time that we filmed it here in late
April 20 20 clicks a link below and see
the updated data this will get better
and when it does that's an opportunity
that you need to be prepared for we're
gonna update this data set every Monday
so make sure you bookmark that link and
keep coming back to it to see what is
changing another english-speaking
e-commerce market and then we're gonna
get into more interesting stuff is
Ireland not to say that Ireland's not
interesting Ireland's great you know
what I mean like the UK I was pleasantly
surprised to learn that products are
shipping on time to Ireland now Ireland
is a much smaller e-commerce market than
the UK but if you're going to be
targeting the UK might as well target
Ireland too last week the average
delivery time to Ireland was just above
2-week and that's not a bad delivery
time no matter when you're talking about
drop shipping before we talk about
Europe because Europe is really
interesting right now let's talk about
our below the equator buddies Australia
and new
right now the average delivery time to
Australia is about 24 days that's not
bad but as you can see just like in the
US we have a trend line that's going up
keep your eye on this data it could
plateau at any moment or it could go
down Australia is a big market I've
gotten some of my first sales actually I
didn't
Australia is a big market so you don't
want to give up just because you see a
little positive inclination in the line
graph here you just want to keep your
eye on it I know it's hard as a drop
shipper to keep monitoring the situation
day-in day-out but just remember when
things get hard your competition quits
I'm here for you the whole team of us
here at over lo are here for you so if
you're having questions leave them in
the comments we're gonna try to help you
build your business through this period
but we still have more countries to talk
about let's now go to another neighbor
of Australia's and that's New Zealand
New Zealand's interesting because last
week the average delivery period was 15
days which is really respectable just
the week before it was 37 days and the
weeks before that it was like somewhere
in between this data is pretty volatile
I think you're seeing those spikes here
because New Zealand is a small market so
it doesn't take a whole lot of
variations from week to week for that
line graph to look really wonky I got
some of my first customers out of New
Zealand so I'll always have a soft spot
for this e-commerce market you don't
need to spend a lot to reach this
audience because it's not a very big
audience to reach so if you have some
budget to target New Zealand it looks
like you could be in a good place to get
customers their products on time now
we're halfway through our list of
shipping times to different ecommerce
countries around the world let's go to
Europe next there are some real winners
in Europe and there are some challenging
cases I'm gonna start with some
non-obvious challenging cases just to
show you the data that we're seeing
let's start with Spain this is a really
hard time to be trying to dropship in
Spain as you can see here last week it
took products an average of 43 days from
when they were shipped to the supplier
to get to the customer it's a long time
for customers to wait it's a long time
for you to keep up marketing in
integral if you're targeting the Spanish
market first of all that's great because
honestly there is usually a lot of
opportunity here however right now is
probably the time to hold back on ads
and keep building your organic social
media presence your blog posts and
whatever else you can do to beef up your
store so that you can get back to
targeting this market once the situation
is better I also want to talk about
Italy you would expect perhaps that
Italy would have a similar graph to
Spain but it does not according to our
data in the last couple weeks it's taken
around 20 days for products to get from
China to customers in Italy that's not
bad considering that we've been hearing
a lot of news out of Italy about how the
government has responded to the
coronavirus epidemic so what do you do
with a case like Italy well you proceed
with caution what do you do if you don't
speak Italian well you hire a Fiverr
freelancer to help you out I am tired of
hearing about people not getting sales
and then hearing that they haven't tried
to target these international markets
heck even if you can't get your ads
translated try going ahead and running
them in English you can do that too and
some of those will convert the world is
a big place a lot of Italians speak
English it's worth testing and it's not
just worth testing in Italy I live in
Germany and I'm really lucky because the
coronavirus epidemic has not hit Germany
so hard here nonetheless I'm home bound
and a lot of my neighbors are too but
what I'm seeing on this graph is that
we're getting packages delivered in a
reasonable amount of time even when
they're being shipped from suppliers in
China the average delivery period last
week was 14 days and you can see that
that's been pretty consistent over the
past couple of weeks I can tell you from
experience that a lot of Germans speak
English I don't speak German and I'm in
getting by just fine so if you have ads
and you want to test them in different
markets but you want to be confident
that you can deliver products to
customers try targeting Germany nothing
else I'll see your ad and I can comment
on whether I would suggest any
improvements or not I'm just kidding you
can't get that good with targeting or
can you and if you're such a pro that
you get your ads translated into German
well don't just focus on your
we go after Austria - Austrians speak
German they have like a kind of a
purring little accent no it's not like
that they have kind of like a purring
version of German it's real cute as you
can see on this chart
last week the average delivery period
from Chinese suppliers to customers in
Austria was about 18 days that's super
respectable it's under three weeks and
that trend has held pretty consistent
over the past couple weeks Austria is a
smaller market but that's why you pair
it with Germany when you pair those
countries together you're targeting an
e-commerce market that has the income to
be spending online right now and that is
a good thing the last country we need to
talk about when we're talking about
shipping times during the corona virus
epidemic is France I say that weird
France France the last country that we
need to talk about when we're talking
about shooting times during the corona
virus epidemic is France that was better
because France is doing really well
right now actually when I look at these
shipping times I'm pleased as punch I'm
gonna dig out my French textbook and
start targeting my ads in French last
week the average delivery period was 16
days that's amazing and if you look at
this beautifully flat graph you can see
that France is holding steady
the French e-commerce market is really
strong right now
so target it find a translator go the
extra mile because your competition
isn't they're quitting because they
can't ship to the US but you're not
you're starting to target
internationally because with drop
shipping you can ship all over the world
so take advantage of it shift to
customers all over the world right now I
told you I would give you a little tip
before we go this is an Aliexpress hack
to find out what shipping method you
should use for a given product let's
head to Aliexpress and I'll show you
what I'm talking about why did I wait
let's head to Aliexpress and I'll show
you what I'm talking about I'm in
Aliexpress and I'm going to search for a
product that I know is selling really
well and those are cleaning gloves this
is exactly what I want so I'm going to
click this and here's what you do
you click on reviews you sort by latest
here you can see Aliexpress standard
shipping you can see the shipping
methods that these customers used to buy
their product and you can know in the
review how long it took them to get
their product just be careful because
for example this first review says it's
a customer from the US then it says to
see Petersburg about one month you gotta
take this with a grain of salt and do
some research nonetheless you can scroll
around and find good information on how
long it's taking for gloves to reach
customers in this case four examples
here I'm seeing Aliexpress standard
shipping very fast delivery to a
customer in Poland maybe that's an
indication that Aliexpress standard
shipping is working well for this
product when it's being delivered to
European destinations this tip gives you
a lot of useful information it's not a
hard and fast rule that it'll tell you
exactly what shipping method to use but
every little bit of data helps you to
make informed decisions these days oh my
gosh I gesture so much on camera that it
counts it has Fitbit steps and I reached
my goal while I was gesturing oh geez
and I reached my goal while I was
gesturing to you was there anything else
I wanted to show you oh yeah I did want
to show you one more thing it's great
that we have all this average aggregate
data on shipping times to different
countries however all of this still
varies by supplier so what do you do if
you have a supplier for your chosen
product and you're not sure if they're
shipping at the same rate as other
suppliers to for example Germany we got
a little tip for you you would go back
to this data and then make sure that
you've unchecked any of the product
categories so you're searching all of
the suppliers and then type the name so
drop shipping montessori I get it I
select it and you can see that the
supplier has received between 100 and
500 orders from over low in the past
seven days
and that they've shipped out 92% of
orders on time this is a great
indication that this supplier is sending
things out the door this doesn't
necessarily tell us if 92% of orders are
reaching customers within a given period
of time we don't have that data all in
one place to share
however 92% is a good indication that
things are working pretty well for this
supplier and if you paired this data
with the country shipping times data you
should start to get a picture of what
suppliers you can work with and what
countries you can sell to to run a
viable drop shipping business even now
okay wow that was a lot of data and I
know you've got a lot of questions
remaining about how shipping works right
now during the coronavirus epidemic so
leave them below and I'll do my best to
answer them I'm here for you can't wait
to watch you grow your business and I
will see you next week