- Hi guys, Neil Waterhouse.
This week's quick video is part of a series of videos
I'm doing showing how to sell more on eBay.
This week's video is the one in 10 rule.
This strategy is very powerful for increasing margins
especially with drop shipping on eBay.
If anybody new to this channel, my name's Neil Waterhouse,
and I've been selling eBay for 23 years.
I'm the author of "Million Dollar eBay
Business From Home".
So let's launch straight into it.
First of all, the one 10 strategy is an advanced
drop shipping strategy.
If you're a drop shipping beginner,
and you haven't sold at least 100 drop shipping items,
this strategy is not for you,
and I'd highly recommend you first start
with the drop shipping basics.
If you're a beginner, I'll put a link up here
to a previous week's video showing how to get started
with drop shipping on eBay.
Okay, if you've been following me over the years,
you'd know that I'm a big fan
of only selling proven items.
I love proven items, as we can use data
to show exactly what to sell instead of any guessing.
Using data only makes it much easier
to automate the business using low cost overseas
virtual assistance.
A long time ago, I realized that if I give VAs
or virtual assistants the opportunity to guess,
there's a greater than 50% chance they'd screw it up.
This is why I'm a big fan of using data only
to make decisions.
Now once you and or your VAs have mastered the strategy
of only selling proven drop ship items,
and you've sold at least 100 drop ship items,
you can then implement the one in 10 strategy.
The one in 10 strategy is all about listing brand new
to the market items,
items that have just arrived for the first time
to your suppliers' warehouses
and items that other drop ship sellers have not yet listed.
To do this, look for new arrivals from your suppliers.
For example, drop ship zone has a URL
that shows new arrivals.
Many suppliers also have email notification,
and they'll automatically email you
when they've introduced new items to their warehouse.
Each drop ship supplier of course is different.
If you can't easily see your supplier's latest arrivals,
you'll need to contact them by email, phone,
or live chat if they offer live chat.
So it's a bit windy today, so apologies for that.
Anyway, now the first question that comes up
with this strategy is which of the new arrivals
are the best to list?
This is exactly why this strategy is an advanced strategy.
You and or your VAs need
to have enough drop shipping experience
to recognize products that are common
and popular to drop shipping.
This is the reason I don't talk about this strategy
to people who are new to drop shipping,
as they have no way of recognizing
what a common popular drop shipping item looks like.
Once you or your VAs have researched
and sold 100 plus proven drop ship items,
you'll begin to quickly recognize common, you know,
drop shipping items.
For the one in 10 strategy,
we tell our VAs to use any item
that the supplier sells between $50 to $2,000,
and the item looks like a normal popular drop ship item.
We leave it up to our VA's discretion
about what a normal popular drop ship item looks like.
Now, the big advantage of doing this one in 10 strategy
is you very often can get high margins
and high sales due to no competition
or very low competition.
When listing one in 10 items,
make sure that you flip the image to make it harder
for competitors to find your supplier
and also make sure that you fully optimize each listing.
As, you know, when you fully optimize each listing,
it'll stop competitors, as they'll see your listing,
and they'll think that's way too hard
for them to compete with you.
When doing the one in 10 strategy,
you'll normally not have a competitor to compete with.
So for optimization, you need to just use
all the optimization techniques that you'd normally use
for other proven drop ship listings.
I'm not going to go into eBay drop shipping optimization
in this video, as I've done that before,
but if you missed that video,
I'll put a link on the screen down below.
If you have any questions,
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Until next week, stay safe, list more, sell more.
This is Neil Waterhouse.