Hey there, it's Rafael Cintron here with another update on the current coronavirus and dropshipping ecommerce
Situation and what to do about it shipping times from China are absolutely skyrocketing as well as shipping costs
So it's getting more expensive to actually get your products to your customers all over the world and I'm talking about
also
Should you wait until?
this period of the pandemic is over to actually get your store up and running if you're a beginner or to
Continue running your store running adds to your store
If you are already in business
we're gonna go through all that crunch situation what to do about it and how to actually get some results and be able to fulfill
Your products the best way possible
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All right. Korona bars explained shouldn't you wait until the pandemic is over to actually start drop shipping to start on Shopify
And what is the current situation and what should you do about it?
So current situation many many businesses are failing quitting and firing staff
I know personally people that have worked for Shopify stores have worked for e-commerce business and they're getting told that they're gonna have to work
Less hours, they're gonna have to work part-time revenues are going down ad spend is going down. Everything is going down
So this is the real thing that's happening. It's a crisis
it's really a recession almost add costs are lower than ever and
Competition is falling so a thing that happens when people have less money when this is are making less money is that ad costs actually?
Go down because the less people are competing for that ad space
Specifically on Facebook Facebook ad costs right now are the cheapest they've ever been our cost per purchase has gone down
Dramatically and we are getting more sales through Facebook just because there is much less
competition brenton products that don't seem high value or high
priority need to adapt if you were just selling some random product out there or your
a brand that people don't really care about you will need to adapt and change to the current situation if you want to survive the
Next month too and shipping situation from China. It's at its worst
I'm going to show you exactly how to deal with that situation
But anybody telling you that it's all Gucci and you can ship products from China all over with no issues is probably lying to you
with an agenda
So when a positive note here
Why should you start now if you haven't started or what should you start a new store or keep running the store that you have?
If you are thinking should I or should I not so why should you start?
Shopify is offering a 90 day free trial in every single store. If you go to Shopify calm and
Go to Shopify calm Co vid
19 you'll get taken to this particular page
Which I'm going to pull up in just a second and it says we're with you
Business owners like you are the heart of Shopify
We always want to do everything in our power to support you
And if you go down into the bottom, it says gift cards for all plans and customers
so if you're wondering how am I gonna pay off my
Shopify if I'm gonna have to fire people or where I'm making as much money
They are offering some credit gift cards for your payment plans and also the extended 90 day free trial
You can click it here and you can get 90 days
For free to start on Shopify. So if you're wondering when should I start my Shopify store win?
Should I learn Shopify now is absolutely the best time ever coz you have three full
Months for free to actually get your store up and running so that's awesome
The second thing is ability to test products much cheaper on Facebook than before. It doesn't mean that you should scale products
I wouldn't recommend scaling right now past
2000 per day or so in AD spent keep it at that level
Until you have your shipping or sourcing situation sorted
Once that is sorta once you know that the products are coming. They're being fulfilled then even scale as much as you want
But the ability to test products much cheaper
That means that any beginner
Anybody with any budget can go and post a Facebook ad
Test the product and see what results they get now that the ad costs are cheaper
So if you're wondering when should I test products should I test products now?
Should I wait should I wait a couple of weeks test them now because cheaper cost?
Equal faster testing better testing for you to learn Facebook ads and actually get in the rhythm of testing products less products available
But also easier to spot winners
So any telling you oh, there's hundreds of winning products thousands of products that you can sell out there
It's probably lying to you and a lot of these products don't even matter right now because people are stuck at home in
Quarantine during the pandemic. I don't really care about those products
What you want to do is spot winners that are very relevant to
The current situation that's happening with the pandemic if you want to learn what kind of products to sell you can pop the eye icon
right here and click that video where I talk about what products to actually sell during the pandemic and now it's a perfect time to
Learn about marketing angles and how you should position your product precision your offer and your store in a way where the customer is actually
Wanting to buy it not just thinking about a kind of price hopping or window shopping now is the best time
To test your ad copies to test your videos to test your landing page for product page
Whatever it is now is the best time to actually do that and learn the principles of marketing now
Should you still use traditional methods?
you still use Aliexpress a packet directional spy tools and so on Aliexpress, I would only only
Recommend it for product research
Checking order volumes and saying how much products are selling our daily basis and importing products from Aliexpress to your store
should you use it for shipping should you use it to source your products you send products from Aliexpress your customers no e
Packet right now is pretty much dead in the water. It's taking like five to six weeks
It's super expensive to get a product from China to the US with a package
I would not recommend that by any means the best thing to do right now is to get an agent a
Drop shipping agent if you want to learn how to do it
there's a
There's a link in the description on how to get a drop shipping agent on how to find a good agent that you can source
From and they will actually tell you what the best shipping method is as long as they're trustworthy
They'll tell you how much it cost how much it takes or use trusted suppliers
like I talked about it in my channel like you drop ecj drop shipping hyper skew that actually tell you the truth that tell you
How long it's gonna take how much is gonna cost Archie to ship it?
And what's the best shipping method?
Depending on your current situation and your order volume
If you have a brand of products that are not essential or from the pandemic
What do I do do I keep selling the same products do I keep forcing it onto customers if you see that your results are
Dipping really really hard. Like for example, I have one student who sells apparel and sells t-shirts and his sales have actually gone up
It's a very interest because I thought his cells are gonna go down
They actually went up as he's making more money than ever other
People are seeing a massive drop in their product if you see about drop and if you're testing multiple ads or different audiences
And it's just not working. It's time to adapt
it's time to change your products towards a pandemic or
Change your product entirely or change your marketing angle that it fits the current situation that people are going through us shipping
Is it going to get affected? Well, the USPS right now is going through a money crunch
They are losing a lot of money consistently, but the United States would not let the US Postal Service or the u.s
Between US States shipping, they wouldn't let that die because that would literally crush the economy in the United States
so they are getting bailed out by the US government and there's billions of dollars being poured into different companies that make the economy in
The u.s. Run so you'd have to be worried. It won't actually get to affected. Maybe it's a little bit slower
Maybe it's a little bit more expensive, but it's not like it's going to disappear
Anytime soon and things to make sure before you start if you haven't started or if you want to keep running your business do not
Expect regular strategies to work videos that were let's say two
Three years ago and you're watching them and you're thinking that that strategy is going to work
It's not going to work during a pandemic and during a crisis like the one that we're going through right now because it's absolutely not
Relevant to what's happening in the world winning products are really irrelevant right now
There's no such a thing as a winning product or it is new winning product or this spy tool winning product or anything like that
You got to stick to essential products high-priority products or products that you're selling before with a different angle
So if somebody tells you
oh this a winning product and you see it and you only think that it's relevant to somebody that's in a pandemic or somebody that's
Struggling with their health somebody that is high risk
For example, like I was talking in the last video if you're targeting an audience, that is high risk for coronavirus
For example pregnant women and you're selling a pregnant body pillow
Which makes them feel a lot more comfortable if they are pregnant
That is a high priority very relevant product to current situation. If it is not essential essential seeming or high priority
People are not gonna care about sure to contact
Multiple suppliers to make sure that you can source your product or get an agent like I was talking about the agent is the best
Way to do it or you can use Aliexpress standard shipping instead of a packet through Aliexpress
But I would contact multiple suppliers to confirm stock
confirm shipping tons and
From shipping cost because if you just take it out of the Aliexpress page and trust that you're probably gonna get screwed in some way
Or another maybe it takes like two months to ship or maybe it's like $20 to ship it
So you really have to make sure that you get the best deal possible for your particular situation if you're selling 100 orders
They you're obviously going to get a better deal than if you're selling two orders per day things are shutting down a lot of accounts
So don't be too aggressive with your ads. I've had multiple people tell me my business manager got banned
My profile got bad my ads account got banned. So make sure did not be too aggressive in your ads
Do not mention pandemic don't mention coronavirus don't mention virus to mention anything that has to do with the virus. That is not
Directly related to the person's actual situation
So for example something you can do is working from home being at home
Struggling at home something like that that has to directly with being at home or the current situation of the quarantine without mentioning
Quarantine virus coronavirus then it's fine
But if you mention those words or if you go too aggressive in your ads too hard
The default it's gonna be shutting down your account because they also have less staff to manually check accounts
So it's a problem that's happening right now Facebook YouTube all these big ad platforms. They have less people that are working
So have less people that are going to check ads
To make sure that they're compliant make sure to stay as compliant as possible or you will get your account shut down
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