 Hey, what's going on guys? Welcome to a new video. So in this one, I'm gonna show you how to find proven products to sell and dropship in 2020. So when it comes to being successful at dropshipping, the easiest way to give yourself the best chance of success is to dropship a proven product. The reason being then is because if we can find a product on AliExpress that has say a proven sales history of let's say 50 units a day for the past couple of weeks, then essentially we know that product is in demand. Therefore, we can take that very same product, put it on our Shopify store, start running some Facebook ads and find the same success. So that's exactly what I'm gonna show you how to do in this video. The AliExpress dropship and center has recently been kind of like refurb. They've added some pretty cool new features and filters, which I'm gonna show you how to use, which make the whole product research process a whole lot easier. Now, before we jump into the video, I just wanna very quickly say, if you do enjoy it, please do make sure you let me know by hitting that like button. I do read every single comment too. So if there was a question you wanna ask me, make sure you post it down below and I will reply to you. And finally then the last thing I wanna say is that I do upload four videos every single week. So if you want regular content from me, then please do make sure you subscribe to my channel as well. So that being said then, without any further ado, let's jump straight into it. So first things first, you need to head over to the AliExpress dropship and center. You will need an AliExpress account to do this. And if you haven't activated it yet, you will need to do so. But don't worry, it's a fairly straightforward step-by-step process. Only takes a few seconds and then essentially it will take you to this screen here. So this is essentially your dashboard but what we're interested in is this button here which is gonna take us to this screen. And this is where we can now start to look for products just to give you kind of like a quick introduction and then we have these three different tabs at the top. I haven't worked out yet why this is called sponsored products. To me, it just looks like kind of like all the highest rated suppliers that are probably paying to be up here. But what it is useful for then is if you have your heart set on a specific niche but let's say you've found a particular product that you want to find the best supplier for, we can click in this category section here, find the niche you're in. So for example, we could go to probably not home appliances. Let's go for computer and office and then internal storage and it's gonna give us the best supplies for that particular niche. The previous dropship and center did have a similar kind of function but it never works that well to be honest. It seems a lot better. Now where things get interesting for us then is the different kind of filters and options that AliExpress have handily added for us. But number one is the fact that we can choose a ship from and ship to. So me being in the UK, I will always start with the UK. So in fact, that's quite a common question people ask me is where a dropship to. And I'll always start in the UK and if I can do it successfully, i.e. profitably to the UK, then I'll start to scale out into other countries. But what this button now gives us is we can now choose the countries in which the item is located. So for example, then if we choose items that are located in Spain, shipping to the UK, typically they will arrive a lot faster. And sometimes you can even find products that will arrive in less than a week. Just to give you guys a quick example then of how quickly you can actually source some products. Let's try and find one. So let's go for this blackhead remover. It's on the list in like four or five different product listings. So once this loads up, as you can see, we can choose all the different countries we wanna source this from. If we go for Spain, in fact, it can't actually deliver to the UK but there are a couple of other European countries we can go France or Italy, both the same and it's guaranteed deliver. So as you see, as it says, delivered before the 2nd of February or a full refund. So that's two weeks from today and that's worst case scenario as well. So as you can see, you don't actually have to put up with those three to four weeks delivery times. And just to show you the fast scope of products too, there's 250 pages of products that you can source in that timeframe. So another thing you can do as well, which you didn't use to be able to, if we go back to China, we've got this E-Packet checkbox here too. So we can make sure we're only gonna be looking at product listings that offer E-Packet. If you are gonna drop ship from China, then I thoroughly recommend you only stick to E-Packet because it is tracked and typically it is the fastest option too. However, if we go back to the step-by-step process then there's a couple of pieces of criteria I want you guys to stick to when you're looking for products. So number one then is the cost to you is less than $15. The reason being is because the majority of people who watch my channel are from the UK and once you go over that threshold, that includes delivery as well by the way. Once you go above that threshold then you may be liable to some import duties and taxes. And then I want the cost to you, so to us as the drop shipper, to be more than $3, preferably. Purely because the amount of people I see who just fill their stores full of like 50 cents or 50 pieces of plastic rubbish, then it's gonna devalue your brand and it's gonna put a lot of people off. The next point I want you to consider as well is I want you to check the amount of drop shipping orders and make sure it's at 100 plus. Now that is as a guide and the reason being is why I'm gonna show you. Now in the past, AliExpress never used to show you how many drop shipping orders a product had. So this is quite an important piece of information. The reason being is because AliExpress isn't just a drop shipping site, there's a lot of end users that come on to AliExpress and buy products. So just because a product has a ton of orders doesn't necessarily make it a good product to drop ship. But because of now, we can see exactly how many drop shipping orders a product has. If there's people selling and drop shipping this product profitably, then again, there's no reason why we can't. Essentially it makes it a proven drop shipping product. If we go back to the Google document, then there's another number as well that I want you guys to consider when you're choosing products to kind of put on your list and test. So if I just draw your attention to this Google document here, it's called product ideas. The reason I keep it up there is because when I'm just scrolling through Facebook or on AliExpress or Thieve, whatever it is, if I come across a product that I like, I'll put it on this product idea, Google document, and then I'll just kind of like slowly walk my way through testing each individual product. So as I said then, the next number I want you guys to consider is the daily orders and check the analysis of a product to see if this is at 5% plus of the total orders. So what I mean by this then is if we take for example, let's just go for this random product here, it's like this koala bear here. Then the numbers we're interested in then is this total orders here, which is 8,600. The drop shipping orders is 5,000, which is pretty good. It's a high percentage of that amount of orders, which is a great sign by the way. The rating is 4.8, I'm not quite sure what that's based on at this moment. And then the sales performance is marked as good. But what I'm interested in then is once I hit this analyze button, once it loads up then it's gonna take you to this product analysis page here. And this is a great page by the way, any products you look to drop ship, you should always come to this page. Because what it's gonna do is it's gonna give you the daily sales volume for this particular product. And I want this number to be consistently higher than 5% of the total amount of orders. So if I remember correctly, then this was at a total of 8,600 if I do my maths. We're looking at over 400 orders per day for it to match the criteria of this Google document. The reason being is because the higher the number is, then the stronger the current demand for this particular product is. So the higher, the better basically. And as we can see, we're kind of consistently at 600, 500, 400, 2,000. And only for the kind of like past couple of days has it dipped below that. But then we've had another strong day over 2,000 orders. Now the reason for these spikes in sales volume, if I had to guess, is probably because whoever's drop shipping these, then these are the days in which they've placed their orders. So it doesn't really mean much to us as somebody looking for a product. What we're more focused on is these lower, more consistent numbers. And as long as they are above that 5% benchmark that I've set, then you've got the signs of a really great product that has strong demand, that has current proven strong demand and therefore makes it a great product to drop ship. Now, if we go back to the Google document, the next point I wanna say is that you can use this product analysis by the way for any product that's on Aliexpress. So for example, if you're using Thieve and you find a product like this lever, Apple Watch Strap, as long as you can get the Aliexpress product page URL, you can head over to product analysis here on the left, put it your product URL and there click analyze and then you can find the sales history for pretty much any product. Another pretty cool feature you can do as well within this drop shipping center is if we go back to the dashboard, you can see this checkbox here that says video and we can find products that come with videos. So if you are struggling for content to use as your Facebook ads, then even if you haven't found your product on here, you can put in here like dog bed. As long as you keep that check mark, check marked, if that's the right terminology, we'll click search and then we can find all the dog beds that come with videos that then you can chop up to use as your own Facebook ads. So as a quick summary then, if we just quickly head back to the Google document, I've shown you how to use the Aliexpress drop shipping center, I've shown you how to find the previous sales history of a product so you can see if it's proven or not. And there's also another step you can do. I know I talk about it in every single video, but trust me, if you're not using Google trends, just to give you an example then, so the Apple watch strap here, we can clearly see whether the Apple watch strap is currently a popular search term on Google now and that's gonna give us solid insight into whether people are actually buying this product or not. So it's definitely kind of like a failing step or an extra step that you should be doing. So if you find, for example, let's say you wanna go for this dog bed and within the drop shipping center and you're going in the sales history is really good, just to make sure that you come across to Google trends, put in dog bed, you can go for the country. So obviously I only drop shipped to the UK in the beginning as the United Kingdom for the past five years. And what this is currently telling me is that the current popularity is at 73%, which isn't too bad, but what it is also telling me is because the spike has happened here, if history repeats itself, it's gonna continue to go down. So this is a product that's currently falling out of demand. Back to the Google document and there's one final step I want you guys to make sure you do with every single product, sorry, that you're going to test and make sure you find it on Facebook or at least do a couple of different searches for it to see what kind of content and results come back to give you an example of search for dog bed. And what you're looking for is essentially not this. If we look at the one, two, three, four, five, six, eight, that looks the same, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15. There's over 15 people selling this different product. It's the very first thing that comes up. It's the same products everybody's selling. The views are pretty decent as well, 15,000, 1.5 million. These are pretty poor, 50,000, quarter of a million to 50,000, so there's quite a lot of people who have advertised this product quite extensively. And this means one of two things then. Number one is to sell this successfully is going to take a ton of budget because you'll have to create original content and there's going to be a lot of competition for the same product, which brings me onto point number two, which is if you were to advertise this product, the chances are it won't be the first time somebody has seen it. With that being said then to kind of wrap the video off with the last couple of points is, third from last end, depending on the products, use Instagram or Facebook ads to market the product. Facebook works best to target a specific country and audience because obviously you can't really do that to the same degree on Instagram. And then Instagram works best for fitness and fashion and brand heavy products. For example, if you're selling clothing or shoes and trainers, then people tend to buy those products, those items because of the brand on them and to give your brands that instant credibility, then you need an influencer to do that essentially. So that's when influencer marketing comes into play and is far superior to Facebook ads in my opinion. Doesn't just have to be Instagram influencers either. It can be YouTube influencers, Facebook influencers, Snapchat influencers, pretty much anybody as long as they have a significant following and they represent your brand the way you want it represented. Anyway, with that being said then guys, that wraps up the video. If you're still with me, thank you very much. I really do appreciate the support on the channel. If you enjoyed this and learned something new, I really hope you did by the way, please make sure you let me know. Comment below, let me know what you've learned or just simply hit that like button. Please do make sure you subscribe as well for regular content every single week. And finally, thanks again for watching and hopefully see you in the next one.