 how to have an online business in 48 hours. Hey, if you've been wanting to start an online business and you wanna get it going fast, I mean, really fast, you're gonna wanna watch this video because I'm gonna go over the one type of business that you can start online, be up and running in 48 hours or less and be making money. So we're starting right now. And the other thing you wanna start doing is hitting that subscribe button down there. Hit that subscribe button and don't forget to turn on all bell notifications so that you can be notified every single time I do a new video. Now, I remember when I first started online, it was tough and it was tough because the basic business model, and this is going back to 2009 was, you had to buy some inventory, then you had to put it online and then when somebody bought it, you had to box it up, you had to ship it out to them. And you had to hope that you were making some money, of which I didn't, I started with cell phone cases. But that did help me learn how to sell stuff online. Fast forward to today and it's much, much easier. I know a lot of people think, well, I missed the boat. I didn't get in there when I should have. And actually, this is the best time ever because there's so much good information out there now. There's so much good software out there. There's so many integrations that prevent you from doing all the work. Now, in this video, I wanna go over a subject that has probably been beat into the ground as far as a business, but it hasn't been taught right. You need to do this correctly and it's drop shipping. And I'm gonna show you in this video how you can do drop shipping and make a lot of money. And I also wanna give you the reasons that drop shipping works so well. Now, understand I do drop shipping. In other words, I sell other people's products that I don't have and they ship it out for me. But I'm also a drop shipper. I own Survival Cave Food, which is one of the largest survival food companies in the country. You'll find a link somewhere on the screen. You can check it out. But I actually drop ship that food for many sites, thousands of sites over the years that have sold my product. So I'm on both ends of the spectrum. So I can actually tell you what's gonna work and what's not gonna work. Now, first off, I wanna go through exactly what drop shipping is because you gotta understand the business model. Here's how drop shipping works. I, as a manufacturer, I own Survival Cave Food and I have these products. And I wanna sell these products, but obviously I can't get my products in front of every single person on the internet. I just don't have access to it. I don't have the money for the ads. I don't have the list for that. But there are a lot of people out there that do have lists, survival list, camping list, hunting list and people like that who would buy survival food, but I need to get my product in front of them. So what I do is I say to those sites, hey, you can put my product on your website. You can sell my product on your website, but you don't have to buy it from me until you sell some of it. Now that's a big advantage for them because they can actually sell a case of our beef, collect the money from the buyer and then come to me and say, hey, ship out a case of this beef. Here's the wholesale cost for it. Go ahead and ship it out for me. Now, the cool thing they did here was they got money up front. They didn't have to package this up. They didn't have to ship it out. They had no investment in inventory and yet they made a profit. And that's exactly the way drop shipping should work. It doesn't always work that way because people go about it the wrong way. They don't know what they're doing. Now there's many ways of drop shipping. You can find drop shippers that are in the USA. You can find Chinese one on AliExpress. And I think the easiest way for somebody to get started is to use AliExpress and use some of those products because what you can do is you can actually start a Shopify store. And I actually have a course on Shopify below. It's called Ecom Road. So you can check that out if you want. Check out that course. It shows you how to set up a Shopify store. But what you can do is set up a Shopify store, find some products that are selling really well and you can tell on AliExpress because when you go to AliExpress you can see how many sales they've actually had and you can actually integrate those products with your website. You don't have to put them on your website. You use a software called Oberlo. Oberlo actually goes out and grabs those products and enters them on your website. Now you're gonna have to brush up the descriptions and some of the titles and stuff like that. But the cool thing is it pulls over all the images and pictures and all that stuff that you're gonna need and all the specifications about the product. Once you've done that, when somebody comes to your site, your Shopify store, they can actually buy the product. And when they buy the product you can go back in there, look at the product with one click, send that order to AliExpress, have them charge you and then they'll ship it out to the customer. Now this saves you a lot of time, money and hassle. And the cool thing is it allows you to test out products in advance because you don't always know what's gonna sell. But with something like this set up where you're using AliExpress and you're using Oberlo to integrate with AliExpress you could put out 10 products or 20 or 100 products up for sale and test them and figure out which one sell better. Now, here's the cool thing about AliExpress. AliExpress is a site that will ship out a product to a customer for you. We just figured that out. But what if we find a product and that product is selling really well? I mean like really well, we're getting orders every single day. And you decide, well, I wanna make more money. I'd like to just buy inventory and ship it out myself now because I know I'm selling 10 a day or 50 a day or maybe I wanna send it to a warehouse and have them ship it out and buy a larger quantity of that product and get a bigger discount. You can do that. You can do that on AliBaba. Essentially what you do is you go to AliBaba, you find that same product and you buy a larger quantity of it to save money on the overall price. Now, you wanna make sure that you have your shipping set up. Are you gonna do it? Are you gonna have some warehouse do it for you? And I gotta tell you, as a seller online I've done both. I've had a warehouse where I physically went out there to put things in boxes and shipped it out to people. And I've also used warehouses that actually ship out my product. Now we got big enough to where we now need a warehouse to actually ship out all this because if I spent my time putting stuff in boxes, you know, that doesn't pay as well as actually coming up with new products, doing videos for you guys and coming out with new courses. So I pay a warehouse to actually ship out all of our products for us, which works out great. Now at one point I had my own warehouse, quite large warehouse. It was about 13,000 square feet, I believe 12, 13,000. But there was a lot of cost associated to that warehouse because I had to pay employees to be there every day. I had to pay the rent on that warehouse. I had to pay the utilities on that warehouse and insurance on that warehouse. And it went on and on and on. When you get large enough, you know, most people think you need a bigger and bigger warehouse. But actually when you get large enough, the smart thing to do is to ship that out at a different location other than your own. Especially if you are not in the right location. Now what I mean by that is the cheapest way to ship overall is to be centrally located in the middle of the United States. I'm in San Diego, at least for now, we're moving, but I'm in San Diego. So if I was shipping something to the other coast, the East Coast, Virginia, New York, it would be really expensive for me to ship there. But if I'm in the middle of the United States, all the costs are pretty much the same because those warehouses in the middle of the United States are closer to more states than I would be. So it lowers my overall shipping cost. So it's smarter for me to find a service that does that and that way I don't have the high cost of having a warehouse. Now understand if I'm using somebody else's services, I'm gonna pay for them shipping out that product on a one-on-one basis. Now I may have some minimums, I have to pay them every month, but we always go over the minimums so that doesn't matter. But I don't have to pay rent and employees and all these other things that I had to pay every single month when I had my own warehouse. Now some months you're gonna have bigger, some months you're gonna have slower, well those slower months I still had all those expenses. So the cool thing was switching it to somebody else who ships out my products for me, I don't have those expenses. I only pay when they ship stuff out which saves me a tremendous amount of money, time and hassle. And those are the three big ones guys, money, time and hassle will kill you in any business. Now keep in mind, you've got to factor in all those costs. I think a lot of people will start an online business and they're like, wow, I can buy this product for $10 and I can sell it for 20, I'm gonna double my money. Well, that's kind of true and it's kind of not. You've got other expenses that are gonna be involved especially if you're not shipping it out yourself, you're gonna have to pay some type of shipping fee. Now if you go to AliExpress in the manufacturer or distributor is shipping it out to your customers, that's an advantage but the disadvantage is it's gonna take longer, okay? It's gonna come from China so it could be two, three weeks before the customer gets it and you gotta notify them of that. There's also a charge for shipping it out to your customer. I gotta tell you on AliExpress it's pretty darn cheap though so that's not an issue. If I go over to the business model where I actually have a warehouse doing it for me and I'm paying them to do it, they're gonna charge me to pick the product, they're gonna charge me to pack the product, they're gonna charge me for the labels to go on the product, they're gonna charge me for any packing materials, then they're gonna have minimums of what they're gonna charge me every month plus I've got the cost of shipping. So you gotta factor all that in so that product that you were buying for $10, you're selling for $20, you gotta do some volume because if not, you know, just doing a few of those items, it's not cost effective to have a third party shipping do this for you. So you gotta factor all that stuff in. If somebody hasn't been in business before, they don't think about all this stuff. That's not at the forefront of their head and that's why I'm doing this video to explain to you what you do need to do, what you don't need to do. Now, the upside is no inventory. You can work from wherever you want as long as you can access the internet. That's pretty cool and you don't have to do any physical labor to ship stuff out, that's pretty cool but having all these advantages does cut your profit margin but it's okay if you're doing enough volume, it doesn't matter. I mean, I like the idea that I can be in another country. I could be at a coffee shop, I could be at a restaurant and I can still be making money and I don't have to be in an office and I don't have to be confined like that. I can travel as I want. So that's a big advantage of it. Also the big advantage to drop shipping is you don't have to buy inventory. Right now I do sell survival food and unfortunately we do manufacture that too. So I have to have hundreds of thousands of dollars of inventory that are sitting there waiting for somebody to buy it whereas if you're doing a drop ship model and you're selling somebody else's product, they bear the weight of having all that inventory and you don't have to. So I hope that makes sense to you. I mean, drop shipping, everybody's trying to figure out a good way to make money online. Drop shipping is a really good way to make money online but I just want you to know the advantages and disadvantage of it. Now, some of you guys will have questions about this, right? This one little video that's 10, 15 minutes long won't explain everything in the world. So feel free to put comments below, ask me questions below. I've been doing this since 2009 and I've sold millions of dollars of both digital and physical products so we've probably got some knowledge that would help you out and I'll be happy to share that with you. All you have to do is put your comments below. 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