So, at the end of 2018 inside of 2019 I decided to start a new Shopify
dropshipping store and see just how fast I can begin to make sales and how fast I
can scale the store and after four months and making five digits in sales
I'll show you the stats and what I've learned so for the OG subscribers out
there holla at you you already know that I run multiple dropshipping stores that
has and is generating passive income sources most of these stores are set up
and automated to the points where I don't need to spend more than about an
hour per week on each store so it's been a while since I've set up a brand new
store so naturally i decided to set up a new store and see for myself just how
much the dropshipping landscape has changed so i'll show you the stats in
the back end of the store right now as it is and also the takeaways from
setting up this store from scratch and scaling it so you can take the learnings
and apply it to your own store or apply it to an brand new dropshipping store
that you may be starting soon so let's hop onto my laptop as always and I'll
show you right now the bit the back end of this store in the exact stats so as
you can see these are the stats today and but what I'll do just so you know
that I'm not spoofing these statistics I'm going to refresh this page with with
the time frame of the actual store setup so in other words let's go back to the
start of December which is roughly when inside of the store all the way back to
today which is the 8th of April and then I want to hit apply it's going to load
all the statistics and as you can see here it is loading it in real time and I
made $12,000 592 in sales and the average order value was about hundred
almost hundred dollars the conversion rate guys is pretty terrible excuse me
one percent that's pretty bad but as you can imagine this is more a store to set
up that I so I can prove to myself that I guess I can still set up a store I can
see that is still well in the back end and I just really
wanted to challenge myself while I still had some free time on whether or not I
could set up a brand new store from scratch and see if I could create sales
particularly when people think that drop shipping is saturated nowadays it's too
challenging people not making sales and I completely understand where people
coming from it is challenging but I just proved to myself at the 3rd this year
that I can't take a store from zero to five digits relatively quickly
well I still work by the way guys if those who don't know I work full-time in
a digital marketing agency and I also run a multiple drop shipping stores
along with this channel so guys if I'm able to bust out these figures within
four months or so with barely any free time for those who have more free time
there is no reason guys that's that you can bust out more sales so it's give you
an idea of how I push traffic to this store and I won't go into the specific
strategies that is for another another video and if you're interested in those
marketing strategies and the digital marketing strategies let me know down in
the comments below I will make a video about that and how I push these sales
and all the traffic across my various stores but for now just a top-line
overview is predominantly Facebook Ads influencer marketing and but influencer
marketing it worked too well for that for this specific store but so it was
predominately Facebook and Instagram ads and I will get into that in a second I
will tell you what pushed conversions across the line in my opinion so as you
can see here twelve thousand dollars twelve thousand five hundred ninety two
dollars in sales within this period so I'm pretty stoked about that
look it's not it's not mind-blowing but it is very realistic so it goes to show
you guys you know sourcing products from Aliexpress still works a treat still
works in 2019 and beyond so I'm gonna go into this document here and show you
what I learned the five points that I learned from creating this new drop
shipping store in 2019 so the first point I want to share with you guys
let's go ahead and highlight this is drop shipping is not dead and it's not
saturated as you know there's so many videos out there right now
saying drop shipping is dead it is saturated cetera cetera and it's very
click Beatty videos but at the end of the end of the day if you know what
you're doing if you've got the experience and you've got the drive
there is no doubt that you can start a store from scratch sourcing products the
old-fashioned way through our express pushing good old Facebook traffic to you
store qualified Facebook traffic and if you do these steps right you can
generate five digits and sales relatively quickly now this is going to
differ from person a person from store to store from an international course
and that's that's natural but I think at the end of the day what I saw is if you
had the experience if you know if you have the know-how particularly when it
comes to paid ad traffic probably the the most important weapon that you do
have you're gonna make sales you're gonna make sales so in my opinion from
this experiment drop shipping isn't that it's not saturated so moving on to the
next point and let's highlight this again number two products are becoming
increasingly important now this is interesting because if you take a look
at my first video I made a believers at the start of 2018 I said that you could
pick any niche pick any products market it and you'll make sales now at the time
that was completely true but from styling this store from scratch I'm
starting to see the importance of products so in other words I do realize
that if you pick a dud product or you pick a certain niche it's it's being
it's it's really hard nowadays to push those sales you might have a great store
that looks great you might have great qualified traffic coming but if you're
on on a bandwagon that everyone is on in terms of products in a niche it's gonna
be very hard to sell those products because you got to think from the
consumer standpoint these guys are getting hit with ads every single day
every second of the day what is going to differentiate your store when you're in
a very populated niche and get them to buy your product from your store so
something that I learned from this is that products are becoming increasingly
important it is important that you do pick the right niche and the right
product moving on to the next points the next point is one product approach isn't
great I find this one really interesting because there is a trend right now in
2019 I've seen a lot of videos about it pushing that one product approach and
from my experience with this store and from my experience overall anyway the
one product approach isn't great from for multiple reasons I think that very
important points the one product approach isn't great in this store in
this specific case because most my profit came through upsells cross sales
and repeat customers will customers come back as repeat customers if there's only
one product on the store most likely not all slim chances can you upsell
cross-sell would just want product obviously not you could potentially
upsell by offering more of the same product but that's that's your only
limit 8 that's that's your limitation that's the only option that you have
with the one product approach you know you're really limiting your brand to one
product and it's great for hot products but if that product dies out then you're
left with an empty brand you're left with an empty store and that is a not a
good thing whatsoever it's so important to build a brand to build up multiple
products so that's another thing that I learned which you should probably take
into consideration or for those who are really jumping onto this one product
approach I really urge you to rethink that now the next point that I wanted to
make is how I push those sales over the line and this is an interesting one I
did mention it back in a couple of videos so yeah if you haven't seen that
video go check it out but the point is again if I highlight this place it
mock-ups increased conversions what is place that mock-ups if you haven't seen
the video already place it mock-ups is essentially and I'll leave a link down
below if you're interested in what exactly it is but for print-on-demand
and also for general apparel what not pushing pushing your products onto
lifestyle images that's copyright free really increased my conversions
when it comes to ads and also the store itself I won't go into too much detail
about this one specifically if you're interested in the video I'll leave a
link somewhere here and also if you're interested and place it the the software
I'll leave a link down below as well so moving on to the final point and this
final point potentially the most important point and one of the most
important points and it's a very simple point but that point is don't give up
just don't give up I've seen time and time and time again the people that I do
menthol and just general general dropshippers in across the board they
give up too often and I've seen myself do it to where I don't see the results
that I do want or I don't see the results in a certain product and I scrap
that product or I scrap that ad too early and that is the most one of the
most important points because you do not know how close to success you are you
may be around the corner to a store blowing up but just before then if you
decide to give up you could be giving up far too early and too soon to success
that's probably one of the most important points and the scariest point
because you could just be around the corner from success and you've given up
so guys those are the five points that I did learn starting this little
experiment of a store which I do plan to continue to run and but for now I'm
going to continue pushing my other stores and just seeing how this one
performs but hopefully these points have helped you in gaining more perspective
gaining more motivation and just knowing that it's dropshipping isn't dead it's
not saturated if you do it right you will see sales comes through at the end
of the day so again guys I really hope this video helped you out I hope these
five points have helped you out I do hope you take these points in action it
the most important point in action and as always guys if you like this video
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