if I lost everything and started from zero
here's what I do what's going on everybody it's your boy the Beast of Ecom
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back on home soil in the not so sunny UK those who have been following me on my
Instagram know that I've been traveling Greece for a while hence the little bit
of a tan I've got going on but nevertheless still back I don't wanted
to drop another video for you guys so in today's video I wanted to talk about
what I would do if I started from zero if I had to start drop shipping all over
again I lost all of my stores lost one of my econ stores and started from zero
what are some of the things that I would do now of course I've got all of the
experience and you know previously following up to my last video of my
story you know of how I've got to where I am
the feedback for that one was fantastic so I thought this would be a great
follow-up video to tell you guys what I would do if I start it's exactly from
zero right from the start again let's jump straight into the computer and
let's get on with it okay so let's jump into this video on
what I would do if I started drop shipping again from zero like if I
started exactly from zero dollars no money to my name right from the bomb
okay what would I do and what would be my preferred path now I'm gonna run down
this there's about nine different points nine or ten different points on here the
last one is totally invaluable okay it's a lesson which I wish I learned so make
sure you stay to the end I see a lot of people actually talking about this so
make sure you stay to the end to know what this last point actually is but the
first one okay if I've got zero dollars to my name I need to start saving okay I
need to start saving some money to test okay now
to do that of course it's as simple as it is pretty much I need to get a job
okay I need to get a job and start saving you need money to be able to make
money it's as simple as that and although there are some free ways out
there you can generate traffic it's gonna take you absolutely forever okay
so the first thing you need to do is save up some money now I'd recommend
probably around about $1,200 to get up and running with testing things
depending on obviously how good you are actually at marketing but round about
$1,000 to 12,000 to $1,200 sorry to get up and running so I'll be looking to get
a job flip things on eBay such as phones or anything anything any single junk
you've got in your house okay you've got tons of stuff in your house that you can
flip on eBay or sell any services or skills that I had okay some people out
there might be graphic designers you know and have some sort of skills you
can sell those skills on what works people per hour all these different
places okay second point now let's start a general store if you haven't watched
my story of how I started in next door and it bombed when I first got up and
running then make sure you watch that video I will link it at the end of this
video as well so so yeah start a general store okay I start a general store I
stick to a free theme okay cuz remember if I've got zero dollars I don't need to
be spending you know thousands of dollars or all not thousands of dollars
but you know $50 or $100 where it may be on a paid theme I can still generate
sales with a free theme so I'm sticking to a free theme
probably venture is one so adventure or Brooklyn decent ones and it allows you
to test a wider range of products if you've got a general store you know
you're not limited to certain products if you've got a niche store you know say
for example you've got a cat niche store then you're only limited to selling cap
niche products you can't really then start selling baby products because it
doesn't make any sense okay your stores gonna look totally weird so a general
store is what I'd get up and running with it allows me to test a wider range
of products I'm not limited and okay what I do is I spend time making it look
professional okay I wouldn't just knock anything together a high quality site is
how you can beat your competitors instill trust in
the customers on your website you know and be able to improve your conversion
rate so actually spend time making your website look professional get a
professional logo done again they don't cost a bomb and just really focus time
on making it look pristine okay what else would I do so I'd start then find
in products now what I would do is with the products I'll be testing products
that are already working okay know if I'm starting from zero or starting on a
low budget I don't want to try and find that next golden winner because it is
sometimes like finding a needle in a haystack okay so I want to be testing
products that are already working and how can you find these I've got videos
on how you can find these but Facebook browser Facebook Graph search and of
course products I would only be looking to sell products that solve a pain point
or problem at this time okay that will probably be the best thing to do now
there's tons of products that are out there that solve a product that solve a
pain point or a problem they're generally easier to sell okay
or alternatively you can sell something that is cool unique but it is again it
has to be to a passionate audience there are two criterias okay how can I find
them browse Facebook Graph search is one way I can find them or donor that is my
in my mouth or I can browse my my IPS which again I
got under the video on that or use the e-commerce e-commerce inspector chrome
instant extension if you don't know what that is it's just an extension which
allows you to go on any sort of web site any sort of Shopify website click on it
and you can see their products that they've recently launched you know and
use it it's pretty cool to you so check that out so that's what I do with
starting to find my products okay moving on from that I'd set up the backend for
profits and this is something that again a lot of new people don't do okay and
remember the back end is where you can make a lot
a lot of money and so many people neglects it so many new people neglect
it it's quite scary because you can literally make an additional 30% profit
okay just from setting up your backends
correctly so I'll be setting up abandoned carts you can do native
Shopify before because Shopify has got a built in abandoned carts you can just
use that for the time being before getting any sort of paid apps if you are
gonna go down the paid wraps groups paid apps root I'll get there in the end
then use abandon protects a car plus I think it's called I've got a video on
how I use it as well again set up MailChimp MailChimp is free with
automation you can send abandoned cars through MailChimp as well and MailChimp
is free account for a certain amount of number of contacts and emails that you
send so again it's totally free to get a perennial with MailChimp to start
sending those emails out okay so that is what I will be doing with setting up my
backend profits I'd make sure I get that done number five what I'll be doing is
I'll be sticking to Facebook as now a lot of people keep asking me about our G
influences Instagram influencers and stuff like that I have used them in the
past but in terms of your files starting from zero I wouldn't be wasting money on
in Instagram influencers okay people out there are still doing well with
Instagram influencers and I'm not saying it doesn't work because it does but it
just this is just based on my preference and what I would prefer to do they're
not as scalable okay you can't with Facebook it's it's a beast that you can
scale when you got something that works you know you can scale that up to more
people the audiences are larger whereby if you've got an Instagram influencer
and/or page that's working for yourself they can't just keep posting your
products in your product in your product because it's just gonna die out and you
know you selves are just gonna eventually you know go down and down as
it becomes saturated but with Facebook there's a lot more room for scale so I
will be using Facebook and again with Facebook or it's easier to identify your
customers whereas with Instagram influencers
you know if you're paying for a shout-out you don't really know
the demographics of the person the person who's whose purchase did they
purchase from a an Android phone are they using an Apple phone and all that
sort of data that you get from Facebook then Instagram influencers so that is
what I would be doing with sticking to Facebook Ads okay now I'd start testing
products and depending on obviously my budget I'll be looking at a minimum of
three to five products a week ideally one or two products a day again it
depends on the sort of budget that I was starting with that would dictate that
and quality not quantity okay people say okay you know do 10 products do three
products a day okay make sure you do three products a day do three per hours
a day but if you do stick to doing a certain number a day and have it kind of
higher then what will happen is you'll just start picking out random products
make sure they're quality okay now be sticking to five dollar ad sets you know
and using video ads as much as I possibly can
ten dollars per ad set if my budget allowed it okay so that's what I'll be
doing and I'll be targeting mobile more with my budget
if my budget was super tight because remember you know if I'm budget is super
tight nowadays a lot of traffic will come from mobile people purchasing a lot
more through mobile and mobile will get most of the traffic anyway so I'll be
limiting my budget to mobile if my budget was again super small and I've
been testing website conversions and generally optimizing for the purchase
okay straight away moving on you want to be using I'll be using a bellow or drop
a file or one of those apps to fulfill the orders to start with I'll be
processing the orders myself until I could get consistent enough orders to
then outsource okay and then I what I'll be doing as well is outsourcing the
customer service and product fulfillment as soon as I'm making good profits that
would be the first two things that I would outsource straight away make a
product fulfillment and customer service there are two things I want to get off
my plate so then I can then focus on the money-making tasks okay so moving on on
how scale if I found winners of the course
at this point I'm testing I'm testing I'm testing for find things that are
biting I've been under scale in my winners okay and building relationship
building supplier relationships okay so I'll be talking with my supplier to try
and move away from Aliexpress you can still test products on Aliexpress that's
no problem whatsoever but once you've got a winner you ideally want to move
away from Aliexpress why is because you can get a better price and if you can
get a faster shipping okay they can ship faster because remember in Aliexpress
what happens is when you pay for a product there's the process you get 24
hours for the payment to be verified then there's a dispatch protesting time
and then they actually send it so it is fairly long so I'll be looking to
minimize that as much as possible move away from Aliexpress so I can pay my
supplier they can ship within 24 hours and people get their products a lot
faster customers are happy Facebook's happy I'm happy
everyone is happy so that's what I'll be doing now the final one okay this is
something that you need to do okay as soon as possible soon as you pretty much
possibly can I'd move it up the list if I could but
here it is okay set up backup accounts now I see people talking in my
mastermind group you know I ran this advert my accounts being banned what
should I do do I have to set up a new business manager blind blowing blow all
these sorts of things okay and I've learnt a lesson before of losing out
accounts because once your business manager has been flagged for an ad
account you can't create anymore so what I'll be doing is creating insurance
accounts okay I'll be clean I'll be creating as many accounts at accounts as
I possibly can in that business manager cuz if one gets flagged I can just use
another one to run my products okay and of course another thing as well is add
in any different Facebook profiles that have got such as on my mom's parents or
you know if I've got another one or whatever it may be to that business
manager okay as an admin now why because if you do get locked up for some reason
or your profile actually goes and you know for some reason you can't get
access will you forget your password and you just can't get in I've had it before
and you've got adverts running then you can literally just go into another
account and be an admin and still doing your advert still turn off I burst still
turn off stuff okay spread the risk of account bans now this is literally
invaluable so if you haven't done it already it may be a tedious process but
please do set up backup accounts when you can because if I don't want to swear
but if ish does hit the fan then you can save yourself time hassle stress you
know and all those sorts of things so I hope this has helped okay these are the
my sort of nine points and preferred way preferred path that I would take if I
was to start completely from zero so as usual I hope you got some value from
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ascending you guys $20 okay so these are just some of my preferences and the
preferred path that I would take knowing what I know throughout all of the years
of my experience in EECOM if I was to get started exactly from zero and lose
everything a free mastermind group there will be a link down below
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