 Hello and welcome to our free course of how to create your own successful Shopify store. I'm really glad to have you guys with us. And by watching this video, you're already taking your first step into your own success story. So without further ado, let's begin this course. In this lesson, I'm going to be talking about dropshipping. That is the business model that we will be working with, not to be confused with e-commerce, which is your online store. Dropshipping is the business model. For those who don't know, dropshipping means that you're selling products without actually holding their inventory. Your supplier, the one you're sourcing from, is the one with the inventory. And every time you get an order on your store, you're simply buying the product from your supplier, and you're shipping it straight to the customer. Therefore, you're not paying for the inventory. It's all on the supplier. All you have to do is put the product on your store and market it to your customers. This picture over here shows you a little example of how dropshipping works. So the first step is to have a customer buy a product from your store. Once he purchases the product from your store and you received your payment, it is your responsibility as the seller to log into your supplier's site and buy the product from the supplier and ship it directly to the customer. Once that happens, your customer will receive his package in a timely and professional manner. He will be totally happy about it and you will earn another satisfied customer, which is very crucial to the long term survivability and success of your online business. Let me simplify it for you in just five easy steps. Find the winning product to sell, create your online store, market your products, the customer buys from your store, you buy the product directly to the customer. That is the dropshipping business model. But is it still profitable in 2021? The answer is yes. It's been super profitable since year one and each year it's only getting better and bigger. Don't listen to online gurus who are telling you that you can get rich in a day, in a week or in a month. That is not how dropshipping works. You're building your own steady income from zero. It is a real business and therefore it needs to be treated that way. Learning to cope with and overcome obstacles will lead the way to your success. So now that you have a basic understanding of the dropshipping business model and what it means, let's move on to the next lesson and it's an interesting one. How to find the best, most trending and most profitable dropshipping products that will sell. See you in the next lesson.