However difficult it may become, it's easier than having a 9-5 and wasting away your days in an office. It definitely is not a scam. People that say that have no idea how a business is ran. I had an I.T. business. I bought computers and parts cheaper and sold them at a higher price. I bought at wholesale and sold at retail. That's how it work. I was doing dropshipping in the late 80's early 90's. It was called mail order. So this concept isn't new. It's just a lot easier and efficient now.
It's easier and more efficient because aliexpress has a ton of products in one place. You have influencers that will shoutout your ads. Facebook ads are incredibly powerful plus once you have some sales, lookalike audiences will get you more similar people likely to buy. You no longer have to write business letters to businesses and then wait weeks for a reply to find products to sell. Buying from China was almost an impossibility for many. You no longer have to send in your ad to a newspaper or other publication and wait until their next issue the next month for your ad to even be seen by an unknown group of people. Then processing orders one by one manually by mail. Sebastian has a course that can teach you how to do this. There are many free videos you can watch. If you're lost, you need to keep trying and figuring it out. Success doesn't happen overnight. The issue with competition is the same as every store, online or brick and mortar experience. You just have to try to read the data and try to figure out why you're not selling. People don't respond to your ad, maybe your copy isn't right. Maybe you don't have a good call to action, maybe you have a bad picture. Maybe it's not a product that's in demand. Maybe they respond to your ad then get to your shop but don't buy, maybe there's something about your store that's putting people off. Maybe you have everything on sale so there's no perceived value in your offer. You have to try to figure it out. Even if someone lets you copy their successful store word for word, it may not work for you. You have to figure out why YOUR store isn't selling. If you can't or you don't want to take the time, you may need to buy a course or pay for a consultation from someone.
This game isn't for everybody, the grind isn't a choice it's honestly a lifestyle. If you want anything in life you better be prepared to fall straight on your ass
Name another Shopify youtuber explaining how its going to get harder despite selling a shopify course? You won't find one. Im honest with you guys, always have been, always will be. Thats the reason i grew and thats why i will keep growing. Thank you everyone for the amazing comments and i truly do hope this video helped you! I directly answer the question at 6:50
Sebastian Ghiorghiu hey bro.. I love your content. Thank you for being honest. I was wondering if the FB ads will be more complicated in future coz now that the data was leaked and I think Mark Zukerbergh is gonna make lot of changes in fb ads. It will be a lot harder to reach audience this time. Everybody has to spend alot of money again in order to learn the new changed FB ad.
What I enjoy most about your videos is that you're straight forward and honest. Thanks for the content, keep it up, it is highly appreciated by a few of us
Stop watching videos like this and get too work. The biggest regret I have is not starting earlier. Every week, the market is changing and is definitely getting more challenging than it once was. Been in the game for over a year now and have generated multiple 6 figures (in revenue....lol) My advice would be to simply execute. Learn as you go, and expect to face challenges and problems each day. It's part of the game and will soon determine whether your cut our for this, or entrepreneurship in general.
Thank you for these videos, I've learned so much from you and a couple other TH-camrs but I really enjoy this honest video that you've made. I'm 3 weeks into my business and following all the rules that I've learned. I have already generated my first few sales, I have some days when I don't even make any sales from influencers even if I spend a bunch of money but I learn from it and I don't give up. Thank you for being supportive and always pushing your viewers to try their hardest, it's what keeps us going and keep up the amazing work!
This video actually has motivated me so much. I started as the first handful that thought it was an easy cash thingy, but with watching so many videos by many TH-camrs like yourself I made my own conclusion that it needs work and I'm fine with it. I haven't started selling yet, but I have been building my brand before I sell anything, just like Youse said, branding is the future. Hopefully you can make more videos on branding, that will be my focus and that will makes things much easier when you have your own audience.
I feel like the real problem isn't effort. Alot of us will gladly put in 20hours a day. The problem lies in failing and not knowing why you failed. Alot of us are in never ending loops making the same mistakes not knowing why it happened and learning nothing.
Dennis Chen have you ever even scaled a FB ad? There are so my variables that you would never even know until someone told you or you stabled upon it in a article. Did you know increasing budget to quickly resets the algorithm, did you know manually increasing the budget resets the algorithm, did you know posting after midnight wastes money. Unless you already had a winning product out of 22 million of them. Then tested 24 times (24 hours) in a day. You would have never found that out. Then there's the possibility of bad ad copy, bad load speed of site, bad product page, bad copywriter etc etc.
I started my dropshipping store earlier this year and have been doubling my revenue every month. Now I'm at 30k - 40K rev per month and set to scale my ads further and confident to triple my revenue again in the next several months. I'm spending over $300 per adset and just now getting a 30% profit margin when you factor in the cost product and advertisement. And I haven't even begun to dive into IG and Google adwords. Why? because I'm testing variables every single day. Don't want to give out too much, but what's working for me is not finding a "winning product" but creating a brand, email list, and FB followers, and building many products around that. Also, lookalike audience is what's working now. That resetting algorithm is a myth and such misinformation. I have increased manually by 25% vs 100% and my conversion stayed the same. I've edited current ads, adsets, duplicated, and did not seem to make all that much difference. This is from personal experience.
and what do you mean posting after midnight. If you mean making edits to your ads after midnight is best, then I agree. Luckily, midnight in the US is afternoon for me.
Dennis Chen I'm almost certain you're lying because the stuff I said can be found on Facebooks ad policy and blue print pages. You can't just make $10 adsets $50 and it scales properly FB wasn't build that way. Also if you're "branding" then people knowing about you're store doesn't matter. A lion bracelet to you isn't the same bracelet to us. Rolex is not just a watch doesn't matter if everyone knows about it. We don't have your email list either which since your branding is your gold. Unless you're in a weird niche no one has heard about. But I feel like it's probably the pet niche, fashion niche, or fitness niche.
Aye straight up this is real ! 🔥🔥 Everything you said is 100% true. It is getting harder but honestly for lazy people it's saturated ! THIS is exciting and is an easy business platform but you have to put work in to like you said " Can't tell that your store is a dropship store" or else customers can just go to amazon.
I have had my store up for about a week and a half and I have already put in multiple 15 hour workdays... If you're lazy, have a weak mentality, and doing this because of the money not because you enjoy it DON'T DO IT you're going to hate your life. There's SO much to learn and so much work to be done. It's not something everyone is cut out to do.
Tbh I think the best piece of advice I can tell you for starting out (keep in mind I am no expert) Is to be patient, have a strong mentality, and always be hungry for improving whatever business you have. I feel like if you have those three things north Korea is the limit as to what you can do with your brand/business! I wish you well
Ok so I’ve been researching Shopify and “dropshipping” for about a month now, and I wanted to say you are the most transparent/understandable TH-cam I’ve seen by far. Keep it up and maybe when I’m a billion aire, I’ll pull up with a fat stack
Its really interesting watching your videos because I have been looking into drop shipping for literally the past 3 years, and I havent ever heard you push me to your course. You mention it, but you have never hustled me towards it and I really appreciate that. That is definately a first for me. Your content is very transparent, motivating, and just plain great. Today is an amazing day for me. I finally made it possible for myself to invest $100 a week into building my store, and I'm more than confident that my ability to absorb information and Do or die mentality will make this happen for me. I promise myself Im going to take this opportunity and grind til I make it happen. Thanks for being a great source of information and affirmation that I can do this. I'll see you at the top.
This is great. Thank you for the information you provided in this video. I'm actually already in the middle of building my own brand bought a domain and everything. Super excited!
it is def. true. it depends on the person who is doing it and on the mindset. everyone can achieve everything they want, as long as they believe in it and work for it.
I like how real you are, bro. Been following since 10k subs. You're growing fast! (My TH-cam name used to be Tong Yang) Looking forward to that GTR video!
I already started and I’m legit learning every hour what I should of done but tbh to those who just started keep it going don’t stop or give up cause you didn’t make enough sales it takes tears to get what you want Ima apply what I should of done in my next store and I’m sure it will boom
Guys this man speaks the truth. I am not gassing him up or anything but, before I reached ANY type of success I went through 5 different store setups, all 4 before failed. When Sebastian was speaking about BRANDING take that to the heart. It is so important now that you can't nowadays come off as some scammy general store. Brand your store and you will see massive success. Thats how I've been getting unbelievable results I never thought ever I would be getting today, but I applied everything a real branded business would do and the work pays off. Remember, I started with FOUR STORES and ALL FAILED and i still didnt quit. Test and dont give up and the you will see results. And I recommend the book Blue Ocean Strategy to anyone who reads books, it will help you massively.
I don’t like to subscribe to too many channels to avoid flooding but after watching this 2nd video of yours I felt like u were talking to me as I browse my page on Shopify and these videos. But ur spitting str8 knowledge. I’ll get back to u with my success story. Deff. Sub
I don't care how "HARD" it is now i will still start my shopify store make some capital so i can run facebook ads and then start my own "BRAND" and use all the knowledge gained to push my brand forward. People are telling me i'm stupid and it wont work and so many doubters around me its good to know that i can watch your videos and gain inspiration every time. This is so real keep the videos coming they are so helpful and valuable. Thank you!
I said it before man, you're my favourite dropshipping youtuber. Keep being honest bro it's what we want to hear. We've all seen the "how I made 10k today" videos. Keep it honest bro I love it 💕
Nice video. Newbies should be patient. Definitely agree that people who have low persistence and quit easily should maybe look elsewhere, but even then, maybe now is the time to persevere and learn to be patient. I think having a go at dropshipping and learning marketing skills is a priceless education, even if you flop three stores in a row. F it! No regrets! "If you want something...go get it. Period."
over the last 2 weeks i have watched at least 100 shopify videos with about 40 of them being yours. I'm finally ready to commit and start a store thanks for the information bro! 👍👍
You're so right. The brand part. After studying branding for years I can assure that your success depends on it. Shape perceptions, create high quality content, don't focus on the money, focus on your customer satisfaction, have values, a reason, a vision for what you do. Doesn't matter if you sell jewellery or kitchen utensil. Believe in it.
Nice! Sebastian you are damn ryt people thinks that it's a easy shit, to create a brand we need to understand our customers our brand their needs , our website also looks familiar like the amazon and flipkart do there are 2 many things to take in mind while starting a shopify store. I follows u brother keep going!
Mayank Nagpal I make $23k+ a month and would love to take you step by step in my one on one mentoring if your just wanting some tips you can contact me on Instagram at dropship_mentor also subscribe I will be posting soon.
Love this video, especially how you're being so honest! I guess there's always a chance for dropshipping. It might be harder to get in but there is always an opportunity to pursue 🤗
Thank you for being so honest. I am a person that has to start from $0 in the middle of nowhere with just a mobile phone so I really can't afford an expensive course.
Hi Sebastian! I’ve really enjoyed watching your videos and your full of comprehensive information about getting into drop shipping. I’m researching niches. Do you recommend buying several of the products that your selling to take pictures of them? Also what do you think is a good price range to pay for an Instagram influencer when you’re starting out?
what does having a brand mean exactly? is it designing your own product - and having a brand, or making your website look as clean and as real as it gets. any tips sebastian?
Hi... this is going to be a very long comment but everything i am going to say next is heartfelt I am just beginning in drops shipping... yesterday i felt so low that i started doubting myself... and what not... but then I didn’t want to give up i wanted to learn more I literally woke up typing is drop shipping even worth it ? Stumbled across a couple of videos then came across this one... i cant thank you enough because this video has put me in the right direction.... i now exactly know what i need to do... i hope there are more you-tubers like you out there that give real information.... Thank you
Just subscribed to your channel 😉 was a great video thank you! Do you have any videos on how to run the back end side of your shop? Like email subscribers, Facebook ads , affiliation tactics? Sorry just new to all this ecommerce stuff, but I’ve heard that getting a huge audience is very important to be successful. Thanks😉
Zenny Abanales I make $23k+ a month and would love to take you step by step in my one on one mentoring if your just wanting some tips you can contact me on Instagram at dropship_mentor also subscribe I will be posting soon.
Let me help you Jishnu. I can create a Shopify store for you in under 48 hours! Check it out: www.fiverr.com/scottshumorus/create-a-shopify-site-in-under-48-hours
ArizonaSquad I make $23k+ a month and would love to take you step by step in my one on one mentoring if your just wanting some tips you can contact me on Instagram at dropship_mentor also subscribe I will be posting soon.
Hey bro, loving the content I've been having a good deep dive over the past week. I'm new to dropshipping and was wondering about testing products... Should my website be fully set up with a logo, domain name, social pages etc for when i'm testing? Or is that something i would do after i've tested the products? Any help appreciated. Thanks, Dean.
I wished I pulled through with my shopify website 11 months ago. I setup a brand and a professional looking website. I didn’t want to spend the money and had little to no experience in marketing. I just gave up on it. I started a new store 2 months ago because i was willing to take a no for an answer this time. Now im approaching $20k revenue on my store and i cant imagine how much I could’ve made 11 months ago!! But definitely gunna kill it this year with you!
Thanks so much for your content, Sebastian! I have a question: I'm from the Netherlands. With only 17 million people it's a small country. Niches are incredibly small and I find marketing to those niches very difficult because the country is too small to have niche-specific influencer Instagram / Facebook pages. Do you have any advice on how to tackle marketing/sales in a small country or am I in a position where going international from the get-go is my only option?
well if you say thee things are necessary, will this be in your paid courses? Because I'm planning within the next week or 2 to buy your course.So will you be teaching the new things that's required in this business now? I'm also a graphic designer working on getting my bachelor's in this so I can see this design aspect will be HUGE my portfolio
I've heard a few people emphasizing the same "you have to be willing to spend money" point. This is honestly the only thing I feel is discouraging, and it's not that I wouldn't spend money if I had it...I just don't. I've been researching/setting up my store for a day and a half at this point, and I seriously have the drive to do all of it. I just don't have a dollar to my name.
M Mmm it’s not going to work then. Don’t set up your store until you have a few hundred to waste. Because everyone that goes to your store is going to be from paid traffic, fb ads, influencers, etc. that stuff isn’t free. And when you do get a sale, you’re the one buying it with your own money because when people buy from your store- their money isn’t automatically dropped In your account. I don’t know how long it actually takes for the money to transfer from shopify to your bank. maybe a few days, maybe a week. you want to have your money on the side so you can go ahead and buy it and ship it to them so that when you finally do get their money THEN you get “reimbursed” plus extra from profit.
Appreciate your candid approach. Love the reality check. Hey I'm on the fence about the course, not because I don't think that you're awesome, but because I remember you saying in a previous video that you were going to cut the course in favor of the new program that you're coming up with. if I buy the current course, will I get continued support? Obviously I'd rather give you my money than some others on the net. Hoping for a reply.. Thanks
So im working on a project where i take a store to 100k live and upload that as its own course, Some are more interested in that and think they may receive more value there. Thats okay and it should launch in 2 weeks.
So if I sign up to your current course, I'm in for the long haul right? I am totaly committed and am willing to fail to succeed, but I need some guidance and I believe you're the man! Honestly I am totally impressed with your candid and honest approach and your no hold barred attitude. Love it! Your call, should I wait the 2 weeks or get started asap.
Im not going to make that decision, i know my current course is valuable and im very sure the one were working on will be amazing too, so its up to you, i know all the students in the current course will get the second heavily discounted so like i said your decision!
A big reason people think it's a scam is because aliexpress is a public store. Most "proper" distributors don't sell direct to consumers. Ali does. I could end the dropshipping business model tomorrow by creating a browser plugin that looks up products in Ali and warns people they are about to pay a 300% markup, just click this link instead, put in your credit card and address and get it direct, no need for an expensive Shopify middleman run by some teenager somewhere. They're is no added value whatsoever in using a middleman versus buying direct. The only difference is the consumer is simply unaware they can buy direct. This means that a aliexpress Shopify store basically preys in consumer ignorance. A business model that only exists due to keeping people unaware of options tends to feel a bit scammy. Shopify does not add 300% markup worth of value over against just putting your info directly in Ali to buy something. I don't believe dropshipping is a scam, but I do think its days are numbered the more people get used to buying direct. Make hay while the sun shines. The browser plugin is coming.
Hi Sébastien, I always had an instinct that a brand and a polished professional look is the way to go. Not only that but I'm an artist and I love the idea of having my own label and sourcing products that I really love myself that I am happy to promote and offer. I am mostly interested in fashion and want to create a brand around that. Can you tell me if it's possible to source the clothes and then have them labeled with my own brand logo before they are drop shipped to the customer? Thank you for your generous information it's very helpful and your honesty is refreshing. A.
Hey I really liked this video. It was a lot of good advice. I have a question though, does your course apply to dropshippers in Canada? What do you think about dropshipping in Canada?
yes you definitely can, it's a work from anywhere business so yeah. i can build a site for you in under 48 hours! check it out: www.fiverr.com/scottshumorus/create-a-shopify-site-in-under-48-hours
Alexander Lazarov nothing less than $100 I make $23k+ a month and would love to take you step by step in my one on one mentoring if your just wanting some tips you can contact me on Instagram at dropship_mentor also subscribe I will be posting soon.
This summer I will have an internship, part of which I will be helping with the company's social media. Do you think if I have 1-4 hours or so Monday-Thursday then all day Friday-Sunday I will have enough time? Yes I know I will I just like reassurance from people like you.
Hey man I just started my store last week .. I want to make this work! I dont have the capital to afford models to take pictures for my products (hopefully down the road I will) but I was wondering what I should do for the pictures on my store? A lot of them are just the products .. also do you have a video on making ads for Instagram? I've seen a couple, but I want a real good one lol
Hey Sebastian, I have my own LLC for online retail. I am in contact with a manufacturer of a certain product that sells ABSOLUTELY AWESOME on Amazon. They have accepted me as a wholesaler of their products. But naturally they don't want me to sell the product on Amazon as they do that. They did however tell me they would dropship their products. It is a niche market for sure. But a HUGE market. I am willing to learn, and make mistakes, and I don't have to have huge progress at the start, but I do want to see some kind of progress. Should I just go ahead and dive into it, and start my own shopify store (when this company already has their own website they sell their products on), when pretty much the only product I would be selling on my store, is this company's products? Thanks.
Hello Sebastian, I recently came across your TH-cam channel. I find your videos very informative, you seem like you're on the up and up. Many of the so called "Drop shipping Gurus" out there I just don't trust. I've learned more from you in the short time I've been watching than anybody else. Anyway my question is this. I've been considering purchasing your course however I don't see any information about the course. When I go to your course website it takes me directly to the payment information. I don't know if the website isn't loading properly or you just have no information about the course. Can you describe what the course consists of? what form is the course in ebook, online, printed course? what topics are covered in the course? etc etc? Maybe you have a video that describes the course in detail? (if so I haven't seen it) Thanks!
Hey so just click on the home page of my course and if you scroll down you'll find everything that is in the course and also all the content including video titles, i also have a free video in the beginning talking about it! and its in the form of videos and documents.
I have been pushing since July of last year. Stopped and took a course in website design and email marketing. Now, I am back in shopify trying to push for a good store theme. So many to choose from. I want to push a few products one or two and lets see if this will work... Instagram seems to be the place to start. Worked with FB, does not work for me yet. Ran 5.00 ads for a month. nothing happen. If you have no followers, no purchases, no website views. No cart, then FB can not help you very well. You have to have something before you get something. you can't get something until to have something. Some people get lucky sells the first month in the thousands. I have spent time working on this but not enough. I need to push harder.
I opened a store two days ago and was getting started dropshipping then I deleted my Shopify store halfway through only to hear the uplifting words at the end. Oh well
Hey Sebastian , where is the video about the things coming after dropshipping , the second was apps and something like this . Will you put it again ? Thanks.
hey Sebastian, for the last 3 months i did shopify and had a several websites non of which had worked. They all looked decent, no white background and stuff like that, i used good instagram influencers (200k +) and did not get even one sale. I'm not crying i'm just wondering if i'm missing something.Thanks
However difficult it may become, it's easier than having a 9-5 and wasting away your days in an office. It definitely is not a scam. People that say that have no idea how a business is ran. I had an I.T. business. I bought computers and parts cheaper and sold them at a higher price. I bought at wholesale and sold at retail. That's how it work. I was doing dropshipping in the late 80's early 90's. It was called mail order. So this concept isn't new. It's just a lot easier and efficient now.
kRan well said
It's easier and more efficient because aliexpress has a ton of products in one place. You have influencers that will shoutout your ads. Facebook ads are incredibly powerful plus once you have some sales, lookalike audiences will get you more similar people likely to buy. You no longer have to write business letters to businesses and then wait weeks for a reply to find products to sell. Buying from China was almost an impossibility for many. You no longer have to send in your ad to a newspaper or other publication and wait until their next issue the next month for your ad to even be seen by an unknown group of people. Then processing orders one by one manually by mail.
Sebastian has a course that can teach you how to do this. There are many free videos you can watch. If you're lost, you need to keep trying and figuring it out. Success doesn't happen overnight. The issue with competition is the same as every store, online or brick and mortar experience. You just have to try to read the data and try to figure out why you're not selling. People don't respond to your ad, maybe your copy isn't right. Maybe you don't have a good call to action, maybe you have a bad picture. Maybe it's not a product that's in demand. Maybe they respond to your ad then get to your shop but don't buy, maybe there's something about your store that's putting people off. Maybe you have everything on sale so there's no perceived value in your offer. You have to try to figure it out. Even if someone lets you copy their successful store word for word, it may not work for you. You have to figure out why YOUR store isn't selling. If you can't or you don't want to take the time, you may need to buy a course or pay for a consultation from someone.
Richard Hernandez Wow! Thanks man!!
Jon Dough maybe I can help you out, I will upload a video about how I made 60k in sales in my first year of college today/tomorrow
Evan Vance You have no vids?
This game isn't for everybody, the grind isn't a choice it's honestly a lifestyle. If you want anything in life you better be prepared to fall straight on your ass
billy portnall true . I’m currently in that falling on my ass phase.lol
But I’m not giving up 🙏
billy portnall true. I think dropshipping is exciting and worth the work. I love it❤
Hey Billy I can create a Shopify store for you in under 48 hours! Check it out: www.fiverr.com/scottshumorus/create-a-shopify-site-in-under-48-hours
Name another Shopify youtuber explaining how its going to get harder despite selling a shopify course? You won't find one. Im honest with you guys, always have been, always will be. Thats the reason i grew and thats why i will keep growing. Thank you everyone for the amazing comments and i truly do hope this video helped you!
I directly answer the question at 6:50
I talk about it lol. Love your content man! You're one of the good ones.
I like your content, your on top of it man and thank you.
Sebastian Ghiorghiu hey bro.. I love your content. Thank you for being honest. I was wondering if the FB ads will be more complicated in future coz now that the data was leaked and I think Mark Zukerbergh is gonna make lot of changes in fb ads. It will be a lot harder to reach audience this time. Everybody has to spend alot of money again in order to learn the new changed FB ad.
I have a course and i've said shopify will get a lot harder many times. keep it up sebas
keep up this great quality content and YOU WILL hit atleast 100k subs by the end of the year.
What I enjoy most about your videos is that you're straight forward and honest. Thanks for the content, keep it up, it is highly appreciated by a few of us
Thank you!
Stop watching videos like this and get too work. The biggest regret I have is not starting earlier. Every week, the market is changing and is definitely getting more challenging than it once was. Been in the game for over a year now and have generated multiple 6 figures (in revenue....lol) My advice would be to simply execute. Learn as you go, and expect to face challenges and problems each day. It's part of the game and will soon determine whether your cut our for this, or entrepreneurship in general.
Jordan how much have you realistically profited in the past year?
Your not wrong!
please advice as to why I am not making sales but a lot of traffic leggings4her.com/
how much have you profited in a year?
Your site needs a lot of work... Stop wasting your money with marketing.
Thank you for these videos, I've learned so much from you and a couple other TH-camrs but I really enjoy this honest video that you've made. I'm 3 weeks into my business and following all the rules that I've learned. I have already generated my first few sales, I have some days when I don't even make any sales from influencers even if I spend a bunch of money but I learn from it and I don't give up. Thank you for being supportive and always pushing your viewers to try their hardest, it's what keeps us going and keep up the amazing work!
Thank you for the support!
This video actually has motivated me so much. I started as the first handful that thought it was an easy cash thingy, but with watching so many videos by many TH-camrs like yourself I made my own conclusion that it needs work and I'm fine with it. I haven't started selling yet, but I have been building my brand before I sell anything, just like Youse said, branding is the future. Hopefully you can make more videos on branding, that will be my focus and that will makes things much easier when you have your own audience.
This is my first week dropshipping and I already made 1500 dollars. Thank you so much for all the advice you have given. You have helped me so much.
My favorite type of comment :) thank you for supporting me.
Your success inspires me to keep going, William
MrJgeary it feel amazing once you get there!
Andres Ramos ya I just message like 50 people a day and a few respond
William Armstrong I started mine late March and just had my first sale today. I'll get there.
I feel like the real problem isn't effort. Alot of us will gladly put in 20hours a day. The problem lies in failing and not knowing why you failed. Alot of us are in never ending loops making the same mistakes not knowing why it happened and learning nothing.
Easy. If you fail, don't do the same thing you did before. Change your strategy. Rinse and repeat until you are on to something.
Dennis Chen have you ever even scaled a FB ad? There are so my variables that you would never even know until someone told you or you stabled upon it in a article. Did you know increasing budget to quickly resets the algorithm, did you know manually increasing the budget resets the algorithm, did you know posting after midnight wastes money. Unless you already had a winning product out of 22 million of them. Then tested 24 times (24 hours) in a day. You would have never found that out. Then there's the possibility of bad ad copy, bad load speed of site, bad product page, bad copywriter etc etc.
I started my dropshipping store earlier this year and have been doubling my revenue every month. Now I'm at 30k - 40K rev per month and set to scale my ads further and confident to triple my revenue again in the next several months. I'm spending over $300 per adset and just now getting a 30% profit margin when you factor in the cost product and advertisement. And I haven't even begun to dive into IG and Google adwords. Why? because I'm testing variables every single day. Don't want to give out too much, but what's working for me is not finding a "winning product" but creating a brand, email list, and FB followers, and building many products around that. Also, lookalike audience is what's working now. That resetting algorithm is a myth and such misinformation. I have increased manually by 25% vs 100% and my conversion stayed the same. I've edited current ads, adsets, duplicated, and did not seem to make all that much difference. This is from personal experience.
and what do you mean posting after midnight. If you mean making edits to your ads after midnight is best, then I agree. Luckily, midnight in the US is afternoon for me.
Dennis Chen I'm almost certain you're lying because the stuff I said can be found on Facebooks ad policy and blue print pages. You can't just make $10 adsets $50 and it scales properly FB wasn't build that way. Also if you're "branding" then people knowing about you're store doesn't matter. A lion bracelet to you isn't the same bracelet to us. Rolex is not just a watch doesn't matter if everyone knows about it. We don't have your email list either which since your branding is your gold. Unless you're in a weird niche no one has heard about. But I feel like it's probably the pet niche, fashion niche, or fitness niche.
Aye straight up this is real ! 🔥🔥 Everything you said is 100% true. It is getting harder but honestly for lazy people it's saturated ! THIS is exciting and is an easy business platform but you have to put work in to like you said " Can't tell that your store is a dropship store" or else customers can just go to amazon.
I love how you're always straight forward and honest
Hey Dennis I can create a Shopify store for you in under 48 hours! Check it out: www.fiverr.com/scottshumorus/create-a-shopify-site-in-under-48-hours
I have had my store up for about a week and a half and I have already put in multiple 15 hour workdays... If you're lazy, have a weak mentality, and doing this because of the money not because you enjoy it DON'T DO IT you're going to hate your life. There's SO much to learn and so much work to be done. It's not something everyone is cut out to do.
Miguel anaya I'm gonna start my store soon. Are there any tips u can give me
Tbh I think the best piece of advice I can tell you for starting out (keep in mind I am no expert) Is to be patient, have a strong mentality, and always be hungry for improving whatever business you have. I feel like if you have those three things north Korea is the limit as to what you can do with your brand/business! I wish you well
Miguel anaya thank you very much. Good luck on your journey :)
please review my store, advice as to why I am not making sales but a lot of traffic leggings4her.com/
Miguel anaya “North Korea is the limit” 😂
Ok so I’ve been researching Shopify and “dropshipping” for about a month now, and I wanted to say you are the most transparent/understandable TH-cam I’ve seen by far. Keep it up and maybe when I’m a billion aire, I’ll pull up with a fat stack
If you become a billionaire i expect nothing less then a lamborghini :)
Sebastian Ghiorghiu I gotchu
Behizy nah Sebastian is the only one that doesn’t feed the “get rich quick” idea to his audience like everyone else
Behizy Becker does tf
Its really interesting watching your videos because I have been looking into drop shipping for literally the past 3 years, and I havent ever heard you push me to your course. You mention it, but you have never hustled me towards it and I really appreciate that. That is definately a first for me. Your content is very transparent, motivating, and just plain great. Today is an amazing day for me. I finally made it possible for myself to invest $100 a week into building my store, and I'm more than confident that my ability to absorb information and Do or die mentality will make this happen for me. I promise myself Im going to take this opportunity and grind til I make it happen. Thanks for being a great source of information and affirmation that I can do this. I'll see you at the top.
Bro, you are truly an inspiration! I love how you take care of your family; it’s amazing! Also nice GTR btw 😅.
This is great. Thank you for the information you provided in this video. I'm actually already in the middle of building my own brand bought a domain and everything. Super excited!
it is def. true. it depends on the person who is doing it and on the mindset. everyone can achieve everything they want, as long as they believe in it and work for it.
I like how real you are, bro. Been following since 10k subs. You're growing fast! (My TH-cam name used to be Tong Yang)
Looking forward to that GTR video!
I already started and I’m legit learning every hour what I should of done but tbh to those who just started keep it going don’t stop or give up cause you didn’t make enough sales it takes tears to get what you want
Ima apply what I should of done in my next store and I’m sure it will boom
Guys this man speaks the truth. I am not gassing him up or anything but, before I reached ANY type of success I went through 5 different store setups, all 4 before failed. When Sebastian was speaking about BRANDING take that to the heart. It is so important now that you can't nowadays come off as some scammy general store. Brand your store and you will see massive success. Thats how I've been getting unbelievable results I never thought ever I would be getting today, but I applied everything a real branded business would do and the work pays off. Remember, I started with FOUR STORES and ALL FAILED and i still didnt quit. Test and dont give up and the you will see results. And I recommend the book Blue Ocean Strategy to anyone who reads books, it will help you massively.
I don’t like to subscribe to too many channels to avoid flooding but after watching this 2nd video of yours I felt like u were talking to me as I browse my page on Shopify and these videos. But ur spitting str8 knowledge. I’ll get back to u with my success story. Deff. Sub
I don't care how "HARD" it is now i will still start my shopify store make some capital so i can run facebook ads and then start my own "BRAND" and use all the knowledge gained to push my brand forward. People are telling me i'm stupid and it wont work and so many doubters around me its good to know that i can watch your videos and gain inspiration every time. This is so real keep the videos coming they are so helpful and valuable. Thank you!
This motivated me even more cause now I know I don’t have to compete with crappy sites
The business model itself is not what people think is a scam it is those teaching it that most people think is a scam
You are the only Shopify TH-camr I listen to and respect so yeah thanks for your inspiration over the last few months
I said it before man, you're my favourite dropshipping youtuber. Keep being honest bro it's what we want to hear. We've all seen the "how I made 10k today" videos. Keep it honest bro I love it 💕
That's what no one understands... Everyone thinks marking up the price is a scam. No... EVERY store does it.. Great Content!
What a refreshingly real person and cool chanel 👍
I really like u man
U r giving honest opinion to us thank you so much for that 😊
Nice video. Newbies should be patient. Definitely agree that people who have low persistence and quit easily should maybe look elsewhere, but even then, maybe now is the time to persevere and learn to be patient. I think having a go at dropshipping and learning marketing skills is a priceless education, even if you flop three stores in a row. F it! No regrets! "If you want something...go get it. Period."
I like your attitude ;) you'll do well for sure.
over the last 2 weeks i have watched at least 100 shopify videos with about 40 of them being yours. I'm finally ready to commit and start a store thanks for the information bro! 👍👍
Thanks br! Excited to start this journey and never rot away in an office again. Its bad for my creative mind... Good luck to you!
You're so right. The brand part. After studying branding for years I can assure that your success depends on it. Shape perceptions, create high quality content, don't focus on the money, focus on your customer satisfaction, have values, a reason, a vision for what you do. Doesn't matter if you sell jewellery or kitchen utensil.
Believe in it.
Nice! Sebastian you are damn ryt people thinks that it's a easy shit, to create a brand we need to understand our customers our brand their needs , our website also looks familiar like the amazon and flipkart do there are 2 many things to take in mind while starting a shopify store. I follows u brother keep going!
Mayank Nagpal I make $23k+ a month and would love to take you step by step in my one on one mentoring if your just wanting some tips you can contact me on Instagram at dropship_mentor also subscribe I will be posting soon.
Thanks for your honest video Sebastian
Thanks man for your service and honesty!
Love this video, especially how you're being so honest! I guess there's always a chance for dropshipping. It might be harder to get in but there is always an opportunity to pursue 🤗
good job man keep doing you you're on the right path
I like your channel. You are very honest and clear. Thank you!
Appreciate the honesty man !
Thank you for being so honest. I am a person that has to start from $0 in the middle of nowhere with just a mobile phone so I really can't afford an expensive course.
Man, your value is really really high. I hope to meet you in person. See you on top, man! You're a legend
I don’t advertise on Instagam anymore because I hear all my friends complaining about the ads. I switched to Facebook
Yannik Carrouee how it work? I was thinking of using google ads
Max Ryan i only advertise on fb
did you gain a lot of traffic and sales?
Joycelyn Foo made about 500 bucks a day consistently
thats great! what do you sell? oh I have a question regarding the Facebook advertising, do you narrow the number of audiences?
Hi, Sebastian! What should I be focusing on in the beginning: on low-priced or on high-priced products?
Your honesty 💯🔥♥️
Hi Sebastian! I’ve really enjoyed watching your videos and your full of comprehensive information about getting into drop shipping. I’m researching niches. Do you recommend buying several of the products that your selling to take pictures of them? Also what do you think is a good price range to pay for an Instagram influencer when you’re starting out?
Hi, if you want a help hand contact me on Instagram pepa.zdepa.1 and I will help you!
sincere content as expected.
10:50 „Go work a Job“ hahaha love it 😎
what does having a brand mean exactly? is it designing your own product - and having a brand, or making your website look as clean and as real as it gets. any tips sebastian?
Hi... this is going to be a very long comment but everything i am going to say next is heartfelt
I am just beginning in drops shipping... yesterday i felt so low that i started doubting myself... and what not... but then I didn’t want to give up i wanted to learn more I literally woke up typing is drop shipping even worth it ? Stumbled across a couple of videos then came across this one... i cant thank you enough because this video has put me in the right direction.... i now exactly know what i need to do... i hope there are more you-tubers like you out there that give real information.... Thank you
Just subscribed to your channel 😉 was a great video thank you! Do you have any videos on how to run the back end side of your shop? Like email subscribers, Facebook ads , affiliation tactics? Sorry just new to all this ecommerce stuff, but I’ve heard that getting a huge audience is very important to be successful. Thanks😉
Thanks for your perspective. You made my decision a lot easier
YES! Thank you, you did help me decide. I just signed up for Shopify :)
Zenny Abanales I make $23k+ a month and would love to take you step by step in my one on one mentoring if your just wanting some tips you can contact me on Instagram at dropship_mentor also subscribe I will be posting soon.
Good stuff!! You will fail and rise have faith that’s what I’m doing. Always have up to date info
the realest
"I'm honest, buy my course." lmao
Thanks for the advice.. I'm gonna start it ASAP.
Let me help you Jishnu. I can create a Shopify store for you in under 48 hours! Check it out: www.fiverr.com/scottshumorus/create-a-shopify-site-in-under-48-hours
Good video, shined some light on some of my doubts.
Inspiration and motivation.... Thanxxx Sebastian 👍🏾
ArizonaSquad I make $23k+ a month and would love to take you step by step in my one on one mentoring if your just wanting some tips you can contact me on Instagram at dropship_mentor also subscribe I will be posting soon.
Keeping it real bro👊🏼
Love this, great video bro :)
Thanks for the motivation bro!
Show us how to make a brand.... How to make my website look like a brand instead of a shopify store
Do you find that building a brand requires you to stay within a certain niche? Or do you advise people to follow general online stores?
Nice content bro your channel is growing faster 👏👏👏
i can build a site for you in under 48 hours! check it out: www.fiverr.com/scottshumorus/create-a-shopify-site-in-under-48-hours
Hey bro, loving the content I've been having a good deep dive over the past week. I'm new to dropshipping and was wondering about testing products... Should my website be fully set up with a logo, domain name, social pages etc for when i'm testing? Or is that something i would do after i've tested the products? Any help appreciated. Thanks, Dean.
Man please PLEASE answer me. Do you now use Virtual Assistant to automate your store operational ? or hire from people who live around you ? thx man
Sebastian Ghiorghiu What if you have your own products in your own warehouse? What is it that dying slowly, the dropshipping method or Shopify?
I wished I pulled through with my shopify website 11 months ago. I setup a brand and a professional looking website. I didn’t want to spend the money and had little to no experience in marketing. I just gave up on it. I started a new store 2 months ago because i was willing to take a no for an answer this time. Now im approaching $20k revenue on my store and i cant imagine how much I could’ve made 11 months ago!! But definitely gunna kill it this year with you!
Thanks so much for your content, Sebastian! I have a question: I'm from the Netherlands. With only 17 million people it's a small country. Niches are incredibly small and I find marketing to those niches very difficult because the country is too small to have niche-specific influencer Instagram / Facebook pages. Do you have any advice on how to tackle marketing/sales in a small country or am I in a position where going international from the get-go is my only option?
well if you say thee things are necessary, will this be in your paid courses? Because I'm planning within the next week or 2 to buy your course.So will you be teaching the new things that's required in this business now? I'm also a graphic designer working on getting my bachelor's in this so I can see this design aspect will be HUGE my portfolio
How much does it really take to LEARN drop shipping and shortly after learning you start making a profit.
Great info man! Also are you Philionfit twin brother you two look and sound so much alike lol?
love u. after watching this, love u even more
I've heard a few people emphasizing the same "you have to be willing to spend money" point. This is honestly the only thing I feel is discouraging, and it's not that I wouldn't spend money if I had it...I just don't. I've been researching/setting up my store for a day and a half at this point, and I seriously have the drive to do all of it. I just don't have a dollar to my name.
M Mmm it’s not going to work then. Don’t set up your store until you have a few hundred to waste. Because everyone that goes to your store is going to be from paid traffic, fb ads, influencers, etc. that stuff isn’t free. And when you do get a sale, you’re the one buying it with your own money because when people buy from your store- their money isn’t automatically dropped In your account. I don’t know how long it actually takes for the money to transfer from shopify to your bank. maybe a few days, maybe a week. you want to have your money on the side so you can go ahead and buy it and ship it to them so that when you finally do get their money THEN you get “reimbursed” plus extra from profit.
Appreciate your candid approach. Love the reality check. Hey I'm on the fence about the course, not because I don't think that you're awesome, but because I remember you saying in a previous video that you were going to cut the course in favor of the new program that you're coming up with. if I buy the current course, will I get continued support? Obviously I'd rather give you my money than some others on the net. Hoping for a reply.. Thanks
Ik im not Sebastian but I remember him saying that he is gonna keep adding new content but stop adding people.
So im working on a project where i take a store to 100k live and upload that as its own course, Some are more interested in that and think they may receive more value there. Thats okay and it should launch in 2 weeks.
So if I sign up to your current course, I'm in for the long haul right? I am totaly committed and am willing to fail to succeed, but I need some guidance and I believe you're the man! Honestly I am totally impressed with your candid and honest approach and your no hold barred attitude. Love it! Your call, should I wait the 2 weeks or get started asap.
Im not going to make that decision, i know my current course is valuable and im very sure the one were working on will be amazing too, so its up to you, i know all the students in the current course will get the second heavily discounted so like i said your decision!
I took the plunge and started the course, watching the intro videos now..
Honestly, i would say get in as soon as you can. You don't need much money to start. Sebastian started with $150. But anyways good luck!
A big reason people think it's a scam is because aliexpress is a public store. Most "proper" distributors don't sell direct to consumers. Ali does.
I could end the dropshipping business model tomorrow by creating a browser plugin that looks up products in Ali and warns people they are about to pay a 300% markup, just click this link instead, put in your credit card and address and get it direct, no need for an expensive Shopify middleman run by some teenager somewhere.
They're is no added value whatsoever in using a middleman versus buying direct. The only difference is the consumer is simply unaware they can buy direct.
This means that a aliexpress Shopify store basically preys in consumer ignorance. A business model that only exists due to keeping people unaware of options tends to feel a bit scammy.
Shopify does not add 300% markup worth of value over against just putting your info directly in Ali to buy something.
I don't believe dropshipping is a scam, but I do think its days are numbered the more people get used to buying direct.
Make hay while the sun shines. The browser plugin is coming.
Everyone try SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING, I do both by the way!
Hi Sébastien, I always had an instinct that a brand and a polished professional look is the way to go. Not only that but I'm an artist and I love the idea of having my own label and sourcing products that I really love myself that I am happy to promote and offer. I am mostly interested in fashion and want to create a brand around that. Can you tell me if it's possible to source the clothes and then have them labeled with my own brand logo before they are drop shipped to the customer? Thank you for your generous information it's very helpful and your honesty is refreshing. A.
Hi, which platform would u think to do drop shipping? Shopify or Woocommerce ? Thanks
Hey I really liked this video. It was a lot of good advice. I have a question though, does your course apply to dropshippers in Canada? What do you think about dropshipping in Canada?
Anna Nguyen search up for Cameron gray on TH-cam he’s in Canada
Hi, contact me on Instagram pepa.zdepa.1 and I will help you!
Also, dont forget to mention woocommerce. A cheaper alternative to shopify. Same quality. Same funcionalities pretty much. Based on wordpress.
Can we do shopify do shopify part time ? Please answer
Btw thanks for the information and transparency keep it up!
yes you definitely can, it's a work from anywhere business so yeah. i can build a site for you in under 48 hours! check it out: www.fiverr.com/scottshumorus/create-a-shopify-site-in-under-48-hours
Thanks for the great video. How much money to start with do you think New will need?
Alexander Lazarov nothing less than $100
I make $23k+ a month and would love to take you step by step in my one on one mentoring if your just wanting some tips you can contact me on Instagram at dropship_mentor also subscribe I will be posting soon.
My favorite thing about watching Shopify videos on TH-cam is watching people try to convince themselves that dropshipping on ali express isn’t a scam.
This summer I will have an internship, part of which I will be helping with the company's social media. Do you think if I have 1-4 hours or so Monday-Thursday then all day Friday-Sunday I will have enough time? Yes I know I will I just like reassurance from people like you.
Hey man I just started my store last week .. I want to make this work! I dont have the capital to afford models to take pictures for my products (hopefully down the road I will) but I was wondering what I should do for the pictures on my store? A lot of them are just the products .. also do you have a video on making ads for Instagram? I've seen a couple, but I want a real good one lol
Hey bro Good content. I have question about what about waitlist. When will this will be live? I am excited and waiting for that🙏
Couple weeks max
Sebastian Ghiorghiu thats awesome bro. I made my first sale from one product but spent so much on ads lol but i am working on find some new products
EMBRACE THE GRIND BRO
Hey Sebastian, I have my own LLC for online retail.
I am in contact with a manufacturer of a certain product that sells ABSOLUTELY AWESOME on Amazon. They have accepted me as a wholesaler of their products.
But naturally they don't want me to sell the product on Amazon as they do that.
They did however tell me they would dropship their products.
It is a niche market for sure.
But a HUGE market.
I am willing to learn, and make mistakes, and I don't have to have huge progress at the start, but I do want to see some kind of progress.
Should I just go ahead and dive into it, and start my own shopify store (when this company already has their own website they sell their products on), when pretty much the only product I would be selling on my store, is this company's products?
Thanks.
we are used to the happy and optimistic sebastian face nothing wrong with being honest
Hello Sebastian, I recently came across your TH-cam channel. I find your videos very informative, you seem like you're on the up and up. Many of the so called "Drop shipping Gurus" out there I just don't trust. I've learned more from you in the short time I've been watching than anybody else. Anyway my question is this. I've been considering purchasing your course however I don't see any information about the course. When I go to your course website it takes me directly to the payment information. I don't know if the website isn't loading properly or you just have no information about the course. Can you describe what the course consists of? what form is the course in ebook, online, printed course? what topics are covered in the course? etc etc? Maybe you have a video that describes the course in detail? (if so I haven't seen it) Thanks!
Hey so just click on the home page of my course and if you scroll down you'll find everything that is in the course and also all the content including video titles, i also have a free video in the beginning talking about it! and its in the form of videos and documents.
Lol bro..You are handing out the truth in every. Single. Video..your words are going to change the right peoples lives.
Thank you so much man i really appreciate that and im glad you like the content.
I have been pushing since July of last year. Stopped and took a course in website design and email marketing. Now, I am back in shopify trying to push for a good store theme. So many to choose from. I want to push a few products one or two and lets see if this will work... Instagram seems to be the place to start. Worked with FB, does not work for me yet. Ran 5.00 ads for a month. nothing happen. If you have no followers, no purchases, no website views. No cart, then FB can not help you very well. You have to have something before you get something. you can't get something until to have something. Some people get lucky sells the first month in the thousands. I have spent time working on this but not enough. I need to push harder.
Can you tell me ways or sources to educate myself for shopify and better understanding of it....⁉
I opened a store two days ago and was getting started dropshipping then I deleted my Shopify store halfway through only to hear the uplifting words at the end. Oh well
Hey Sebastian , where is the video about the things coming after dropshipping , the second was apps and something like this . Will you put it again ? Thanks.
Would you recommend google ads or even bing ads??
hey Sebastian, for the last 3 months i did shopify and had a several websites non of which had worked. They all looked decent, no white background and stuff like that, i used good instagram influencers (200k +) and did not get even one sale. I'm not crying i'm just wondering if i'm missing something.Thanks