What is UP Ninjas today we're going to talk about is Shopify a dead
business model in 2018 is it still possible for a complete beginner to go
from zero to a full-scale business or is it completely oversaturated and I think
you guys are gonna be very shocked some of you for sure that what I'm about to
say because like always guys I'm gonna keep it 100% transparent so don't miss
this one if you're thinking about getting into e-commerce I promise you
watch this video before you do it you might be surprised at what I'm gonna
reveal
what is up guys we are going to answer the age-old question is Shopify still a
viable business model in 2018 or is it now so saturated that as a brand new
beginner you're not able to get started and create a full scale business but
before you do that guys I just want to be completely transparent yes I am a
Shopify a youtuber yes I discuss ecommerce and all types of ways to make
money yes I do have a very successful Shopify course with hundreds of
successful Shopify students so why am I saying that I'm saying that because I
want to be completely transparent about the fact that I do have a Shopify course
exactly how I'm going to be a very transparent as to whether or not Shopify
is still a viable business model this video is going to be simply the truth as
all of my videos are but if you're new here you know welcome to the ninja
family and I just wanted to make it quick you know just little a heads up
that this video is going to be completely honest in every way so you
don't have to worry about me being biased or anything we're just going to
simply present the facts hey guys if you are serious about e-commerce I'm gonna
say some very important things if you're considering getting started if you
already have a store and you're trying to scale it up to become more successful
some of the things that I'm going to talk about during this video are of the
utmost importance for you to be successful with your e-commerce business
so make sure that you actually stay to the end because this is going to be very
helpful for you if you are serious about turning this into a full time income so
what I'm about to say is probably going to discourage some people it's probably
gonna actually you know make people not actually start on Shopify which kills me
but you know what I'm gonna say is the truth what we're gonna present is just
simply the facts how Shopify is now you know how things have changed in 2018 and
how you can you know most importantly how you can actually kind of stay ahead
of the curve and make sure that your Shopify business is successful and you
don't fall into kind of the same trends that are actually causing some people to
fail at Shopify so before I answer whether or not Shopify is a viable
business model in 2018 or have things changed and everything become
oversaturated to the point where you can't be successful with Shopify I want
to talk about a very common and extremely important misconception about
Shopify I think a lot of people nowadays think Shopify is this crazy like
mystical money printing machine where you can just go out there you know find
any cat dog necklace in the world create a
Facebook ad or pay $10 to an Instagram influencer and all of a sudden you're
gonna get $1,000 back that is not what Shopify is at all
Shopify like any online business takes real work and takes actual testing and
actual you know building out multiple types of marketing campaigns teaching
yourself email marketing learning about the Facebook pixel and retargeting your
audience right it actually takes work you have to have customer service right
so I think a big misconception out there is that you can just get started with
Shopify with you know 20 bucks and your mobile phone and yeah next week or next
month you're gonna be retiring on your yacht you know off the Turkish coast and
that's just not how it is Shopify like every business model on the
internet takes actual work and Shopify has changed I mean I'll be the first to
admit that you know if just easily a few years ago you could actually just take
basically any you know adorable pair of cat earrings or cat socks or anything
make a quick facebook ad targeting any type of cat related thing and you'd be
able to get sales and actually create a business Shopify has changed you can no
longer do that in like such a simplistic way people have figured that out and you
know the cat jewelry and you know those basic niches are now completely
saturated with people who have you know unbelievable amounts of pixel data they
have huge email list they have you know niche of 30 websites that are ranking on
Google those are the people who are making money selling you know basic cat
stuff it doesn't work anymore Shopify has changed and if you aren't
willing to and you know able to adapt to that and evolve and change your business
model as you know the maturity landscape of Shopify changes also then you're
going to be left behind and you're not going to be able to make a successful
Shopify business so does that mean that Shopify is not a viable business model
you know and we're going to get to that question in detail but before we do I
want to talk about who Shopify is not for Shopify is not going to work for you
it's just simply and I'm sorry but Shopify won't work for you if you're
going into it thinking that you can spend you know $29 on your Shopify
subscription with $10 to an Instagram one sir and maybe five or $10 on
Facebook ads and you're gonna all of a sudden have a successful business that
is not how it works it actually is a real business model you can't just put
fifty dollars in and expect to make a thousand dollars out that's simply just
not how it works Shopify will do not work for you if you
give up easily and this is again I'm sorry if you know
I'm offending you or or this is gonna be you know the thing that's gonna push you
over the edge to not actually jump in and start Shopify that's not what I'm
saying but I am saying that you should not try Shopify if you give up easily
you're not gonna hit a home run product on the very first product that you
import from Aliexpress you put up creating you know the most beautiful
product page for make a Facebook ad campaign that you think is gonna be
great right it's probably most likely not going to be a home run product if
you test five products you're probably not going to find your home run product
if you test ten products again you're probably not going to find your home run
product guys but if you test five products a day for a week or for two
weeks you probably are going to find your home run product that's simply how
it works but the people who think you know I've already tried two products and
I didn't get they didn't work for me you know I spent $10 on Facebook ads and it
just didn't work Shopify is a totally dead business model it just doesn't work
right if that's the mentality that you're going to have then just take my
advice don't waste your money you don't start Shopify don't do it it's just
going to be a waste of your time and effort right so the people who give up
easily and expect this to work after testing you know one or two products or
spending ten dollars on Facebook ads it's simply not going to work for you so
let me save you the time let me save you the money let me save you the MG Shopify
is not for you if you're going to give up that easily it takes testing you know
five products a day for a week or two weeks or even a month right I've tested
literally hundreds of products before I found the winning products and these
home run products guys they're fantastic because what it means is once you find
that home run product that diamond in the rough product the more you spent
on advertising the more profit you make so if let's say that I'm spending $10 a
day on Facebook and I'm making $50 profit then all of a sudden when I go to
$20 a day on Facebook ad spend then I'm going to $100 profit it's scalable and
the more you spend on ads that are designed correctly the more profit you
make and so when you find your homeroom products it's all worth it but it does
take a lot of time and a lot of testing and a lot of energy to get to the point
where you're actually finding those products that are going to you know make
it all worth it and start generating all of the profit and income that makes
Shopify such a beautiful business model so let's talk about who Shopify will
work for Shopify will work for people who go into it with the expectation that
it takes work right then they go with the expectation they hear you know they
start saying Kevin Kevin saying to test five products a day I'm gonna go out
there and I'm gonna test ten products today I'm gonna import ten products that
I'm doing my due diligence for right they have good metrics they have a lot
of orders right they have perceived value they have you know upsells and
cross-sells all of the things that I talked about you know in the Shopify
ninja master class in my free videos as well if you haven't joined the family
yet and you know you can join the family down below in that little link right
there if you want to but you know I have a ton of free material also that people
out there who can't afford the course yet or you know don't want to join a
course at this time you know look at my free material you can go out there I
have a ton of videos on Don product research you know it's not always the
most advanced stuff I have to say some of the stuff some of my secrets for the
ninja family but I have a ton of free resources on product or research so go
out there find viable products import ten of them to your store right create
ten product listings you can do this all in a day and create ten Facebook ad
campaigns targeting people with appropriate interest right going after
people that might be interested creating you know traffic campaigns getting them
to your store getting people to actually come to your store pixel in those people
and then creating retargeting campaigns so that once you know
sit over there comes to my store and visits my store maybe he didn't buy
right then but you better believe that I'm gonna retarget the absolute hell out
of him until he buys my Shopify product so the people who are going to succeed
with Shopify and who Shopify is a viable business model for in 2018 are people
who understand that it does take work you have the test products you have the
test marketing campaigns you have to you know have a customer service if people
are messaging you and saying hey you know do you have the pink version of
this glow-in-the-dark basketball and you're gonna send them an email back
within an hour saying yes or if they have questions about their order
tracking number right it's a business and people that go into it with the
expectation of actually doing business like things rather than spending forty
dollars and expecting a yacht to arrive at their front door are going to be much
happier and they're going to be more successful so let's get to the main
point is Shopify a viable business model in 2018 can somebody who's a complete
beginner make it work can't somebody who's never had any experience with
Shopify doesn't even know what I'm talking about with a Facebook pixel
doesn't know anything about email marketing doesn't know what I mean by
all the Express or overload can they be successful the answer is coming up in a
second but before I to reveal that answer I just want to talk about one
last thing which is the trend of e-commerce according to the u.s. census
ecommerce had about 450 billion with a B sales in 2017 and what this means guys
is that from 2016 to 2017 that number 450 billion
increased by 16% when regular retail stores like you know Walmart and things
like that only increased by less than 4% so what this means is ecommerce is
actually growing four times faster than normal retail business and that trend
has been absolutely exploding over the last over the last few years and you
know if you don't take my word for it just think about some actual examples in
the news Amazon is completely putting out a business these absolute behemoth
companies like Sears you know like JCPenney like Toys R Us most recently
because people just aren't willing to go and sit through
traffic and lines and things like that when they can just order something off
of the internet so ecommerce hasn't never been bigger than it is right now
in the history and you guys better believe that that trend is going to
continue the world is becoming more digital every single day
people love the luxury and you know the convenience that ecommerce allows you to
what person just think about it from your own perspective you don't really
don't even have to take my word for it would you rather you know go get in your
car sit in traffic you know go to a store get out of your car go inside find
a product on the shelves go wait in line at the cashier buy it go back to your
car sit in traffic again go back to your house you know carry it all the way to
your door or would you rather press one button and have whatever you want work
with you know got from that same exact scenario arrive magically at your door
most likely for the exact same price right most people would rather have at
the one click option where it's completely convenient it's no work for
them and they still get the same exact benefit which is the product arriving at
their door so is Shopify a viable business model can you make a full-time
income from Shopify guys the answer is no if you're not prepared to actually
consider Shopify a real business the answer is no if you give up quickly and
you're not willing to actually put in the work to test multiple products to
test multiple marketing campaigns and you know to learn how to do email
marketing to learn how to use a Facebook pixel to retarget people it takes work
you have to do customer service you have to go into this with the expectation
that Shopify is not some magical fix right you're not going to become a
millionaire tomorrow you're not gonna spend $40 zero and ten dollars on an
Instagram influencer and make a thousand dollars profit that's not how it works
unfortunately if you're looking for that magical option Shopify is not for you
and Shopify will not be a viable business model for you or for anyone
with that with that mentality and I'm sorry I don't mean to offend anybody
I hope this that you know that this doesn't turn you off from Shopify or my
channel that's not my intention but I'm just simply trying to be
transparent then if you have that mentality that this is
going to be some you know magic Beanstalk it's not it takes real work
but it is Shopify a viable business model for people who have the
expectation and understanding that it does take work and that they they do
have to do the proper testing they do have to do due diligence to find awesome
products that convert right using all of the product research techniques that I
teach for free that I teach in my in the Shopify ninja master class with the link
down in the description if you want to check it out we do have a free training
where I show a real product that actually do sell personally that makes
me over thirty thousand dollars a month like clockwork on full automation and so
if you take anything from this video I hope that the one thing that you take
from this video is that the only way you could possibly be successful on Shopify
is to start right the people who understand that you know it's a big
overwhelming process thinking about you know how to create a full ecommerce
empire right it's overwhelming to think about it like that don't think about it
like that the only way that you could possibly be successful there's only one
way that is to start and to have the one singularly focused goal of getting your
very first Shopify sale got to the first sale is the hardest but once you get
that first sale you hear the ching and you see the balance in your Shopify go
up and all of a sudden you're actually making money from this and it's real it
just feels so much easier to get your second sale and your fifth sale and your
200th sale and you're a thousand sale and then all of a sudden you guys you're
literally living on a beach and you never have to go to a nine-to-five job
again you never have to listen to your boss again and that is the beauty and
that's the reason that I create all of these videos completely for free for you
guys because I want to prove to you that this stuff does work does it take work
is it a viable business model yes it takes work yes it's a viable business
model that you go into it with the right mentality is it going to be a magical
solution that you're going to be a millionaire overnight by spending twenty
nine dollars on a subscription and ten dollars on an Instagram influencer
solutely not so I hope you guys like this video that's completely honest
transparent about Shopify in 2018 the fact is it is simply not
oversaturated ecommerce is on an unbelievably explosive upward trend
outpacing normal retail sales by over 4x guys and that is not going anywhere
anytime soon the convenience and luxury ecommerce is only going to get bigger
and bigger and bigger and it's the biggest it's ever been right now which
means that the biggest and best opportunity that ecommerce have ever had
in history of e-commerce is right now so if you guys like this video make sure
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