 Ultimate dropshipping tutorial for beginners, step by step. Hey, have you wanted to do a dropshipping business? I mean, you know it's cool, right? I mean, because like you don't even have to own the product. You're selling products that other people will ship out for you. Well, if you've ever wondered how to do that and you wanna make money doing that, you're gonna wanna watch this video to the very end because I'm gonna show you step by step exactly what you need to do to get started and how to make money online with dropshipping. Hey, I'm JR Fisher. Welcome to my channel if you're brand new. Don't forget to hit the subscribe button below and hit the bell, gotta hit the bell. When you hit the bell, you gotta turn on all notifications because if you do that, you become a VIP instantly. You become part of the Fisher family and I can notify you every single time I do a new video. I really appreciate you watching. Hey, I've been selling online since 2009 and I dropship products and I am a dropshipper for products too and I'll get into that in just a second but we've sold millions of dollars of both digital and physical products by using these methods and I wanna share them with you on this channel. I wanna help you start, run and grow your online business. Now if you're interested in e-commerce, I also have an e-commerce course. It's a $97 course which you can get it absolutely free. It's down in the description. I'm gonna put a link down there. You just click on it and learn no credit card required. Don't forget to give me a thumbs up on this video if you like it. Let's jump right into this and let's look at this dropshipping thing. Yeah, dropshipping is a really cool business if you have limited funds because the way it works is you list a product for sale online and that product is actually owned by somebody else. Once you take that order, you pay for the product, you give them the information about the customer who bought the product, they pack it up and they ship it out. So it's really cool because you could actually get into this without the investment. All you have to do is get some traffic going to your website or wherever you've listed the product. If you don't wanna do that, you can do it on Amazon or eBay or any of those places and you can actually drop ship from there. So let's get into each individual step because I want you to fully understand this. The cool thing about this is since you don't have to package up anything and you don't have to ship anything out, it's gonna free up time and money, okay? And time and money are really important. You can always get more money, you can't get more time. So if you've got more time, what you can do with your time is find more products and grow your business. If you're just doing three or four products and you've gotta pack them up and ship them out, you don't have time to look for more products. But with this method here, when somebody else is shipping out all the products for you, all you have to do is keep looking for more products. So if you're ready to start a business but you don't have the money to put in inventory, drop shipping is gonna be perfect for you. I will tell you this, while it does not take a lot of money to start a drop shipping business, it does take a lot of time and effort. So understand that I'm not one of those people that's gonna tell you that you can start a business and you don't have to do any work because you do, you do have to do work. Now the cool thing is once you get it going though, you can hire people to help you and it's gonna free up a lot of your time. You can travel, you can do things. I'm able to do that now. I've been selling online since 2009 and like I said I've sold millions of dollars of both digital and physical products and I've been able to travel and do these things because I do sell online. And you can do the same thing, there's no difference. Now number one is you gotta select a niche, okay? So a niche is really super important and it's gotta be laser focused and it's gotta be laser focused because if it's not, it's really hard to market it. It's hard to find customers for something if it's not laser focused. Now I own a survival food company and in that survival food company we sell survival foods, makes sense. But the thing is we sell survival foods. We don't sell food. If I just marketed food that would be really hard to do because everybody eats food so we don't do that. We market to people who wanna prepare for emergencies and disasters and that type of thing. A couple of things you wanna look for is you wanna get as big of profit margins as you possibly can. That's super important. Now we sell some canned meats and we have a decent profit margin but shipping is really expensive. So we have to factor that in if we're gonna give away free shipping or whatever. But understand that whether you sell a $20 item or whether you sell a $1,500 item you're gonna have to do about the same amount of work. I'll have some of my retailers who sell my products say well gee, I sold $1,000 worth of stuff and I only made 15% and I only made $150. I says yeah, but how much do you make on your $20 items? They're like well I make 50%, I make $10 on those. I said yeah, but you made $150 on mine and you did the same amount of work. So you've gotta take that into consideration. How much are you making for your time? That's what matters. Not how much the sale is or anything like that. How much do you make for your time? So keep that in mind. If you're shipping out items that are inexpensive then you're going to have to also look at shipping costs, okay? A lot of customers don't wanna pay for shipping on some of those cheap items. Can you afford to build that in there? And if you can't afford to build that in there then you won't be profitable. So if you're selling these smaller items that cost less what you wanna do is lightweight items. You wanna do heavy items. You wouldn't wanna sell my pan meats, right? Because those things weigh too much, okay? So you have to charge a lot more money for those. But for cheap items you gotta really watch your shipping costs, they're super important. In the beginning you're gonna be selling cheap items. You're not gonna be selling a $1,500 on. You're gonna be selling a $20 item. So it has to be a product that's gonna appeal to an impulse buy. So it's gotta be kind of a cool product. Something a little edgy, something a little bit different. Something that can't get everywhere. If it's available everywhere there's no point in them buying it online from you. Now what you can do is you can use Google's keyword planner and see what people are searching for. That's really important. If you know what they're searching for and they're already out there looking for it you just fill that hole by putting the product in front of them that they were searching for. The next thing I'll tell you is as you do this you wanna build your own brand. You wanna have your own name, that type of thing. And the reason you wanna do this is that way you can add other products on down the line. Like our company Survival K Food and in those food products we've built that brand name Survival K Food. People know that, they search that now. Number two, very important, perform competition research. See who's out there selling what. This also will give you ideas of what to sell once you start looking at the competitors out there. Big mistake that a lot of people make is they look for a product that nobody else is selling out there and that way they won't have any competition. The problem with that is if there's no competition out there maybe that product doesn't sell. So you wanna start off with stuff that's proven because you're gonna be competing with people like Amazon and eBay and all these other places and if you've got a product that nobody's really searching for it's gonna be really hard to drive traffic to it. So you wanna look at the high selling products that are on some of these other websites. And if it's not selling on some of these other websites it could be because that the shipping cost are high or supply and manufacturing is a pain in the butt. So it could be a lot of reasons why they aren't selling on some of these other sites and you don't wanna run in those same problems. The next thing you gotta do, find a supplier, okay? Find where you can get that product from. I recommend using AliExpress. AliExpress is a great place that you can source products and that they can actually ship it out for you. This is one of the biggest tools I think most people use on Shopify now is AliExpress. They're products in China. Most things are made in China. We've gotta kinda just realize that. You can get low quality, you can get high quality. Everything's made there, everything is. So what you wanna do is source it on something like AliExpress. You can look at the number of sales that it's already had. You can look at the reputation of the manufacturer distributor there and you can make your decisions based on that. I would highly recommend when you're on AliExpress to read some of the reviews on there. See what other people are saying. Make sure that you see some sales into your country whether you're Australia, the United States, Canada or whatever, make sure all that is in place. If you are the least little bit concerned about a manufacturer or supplier, do not buy from them. Don't do it, okay? I also recommend that you actually buy one of those products from them because that way you can actually see the product. You can take your own pictures. You can see how long it's gonna take to get there. You can see if it shows up. You don't wanna sell a thousand of a particular widget and that company never ships them out for you. So you don't want stuff like that to happen because it'll ruin your reputation. Next up, I would say build your page, okay? Now your page can be a website or not. I actually recommend if you're gonna first test out products that you use Cartra. Now I'll put a link to Cartra below. And Cartra is awesome because you can put up a sales page in like 30 minutes and you can have a build out of sales funnel and all that. Now once you've built that in Cartra you can actually sell it out of Cartra but it's not really a website, okay? So if you get a product that's starting to sell and it looks like it's gonna do well and you sold some of them using the Cartra sales pages you can then build out a full website around that product. But why waste all your time building a website before you even know if a product's gonna sell? And number five, next up is create a customer acquisition plan. You've gotta have a way to get customers. How are you gonna get customers? Are you gonna do Facebook ads? Are you gonna do YouTube videos? Are you gonna use Twitter? Are you gonna use social media? You know, what are you gonna do? Are you gonna use Pinterest? Are you gonna use Instagram? You've gotta have a way to get customers to come to your page to actually buy the product. Once you've got your website up and you're selling products you do wanna think long term and that's gonna mean SEO. So you're gonna wanna SEO your pages so that they can be found organically as well as advertising and social posts. After you've done all this you've gone through these first five steps. Number six is you wanna analyze and optimize. And what do I mean by that? You wanna look at how these pages are performing. You wanna look at, you know how many clicks are your ads getting? All these things are so, so important. You know, you wanna test different price points. You wanna test different subject lines, different ad lines. All these things need to be tested and tweaked. Now in cart for that's super easy to do because you can split test. You can duplicate a page and send half your traffic to one page and half to the other page and look at the difference in conversion rates. I will tell you, you don't wanna change but one component on a page at a time. If you change the price and the title and one of them gets more sales than the other you don't know if it was the price or the title that made the difference. So just change one component, run some traffic through it, change it again, change it again and change it again. As you see the difference in these conversion rates. So it's super easy to do in cart for like I said I have a link in the description down there. You can watch a free video on cart for and if you wanna get it you can get a trial subscription for $1. I will tell you a drop shipping business is not a set it and forget it business. It's not like that at all. As a matter of fact, you're gonna have to work on it all the time. You're gonna have to make changes all the time. Products are gonna become hot. They're gonna become cold. You're gonna have to switch them out. Understand also that a single product is not a business. You're gonna need multiple products. You're gonna need a whole lot of different things for people to choose from on down the road and this is gonna increase your income too. So you're gonna be constantly searching for new products. You're gonna be constantly testing new products and it's a lot of work. So if somebody's telling you you can be drop shipping, you don't have to do any work it's not true. It's not true. What I've been doing this since 2009, you do have to do a lot of work. It's always gonna be a lot of work. Please understand that, but it can be a lot of money. It can let you fire your boss. It can let you do what you want, live or you want, drive what you want. You know, all those things that you've wanted to do in life, it can allow you to do it. You just have to put in the effort. And the thing is, once you put in the effort you get some things selling. Some of these are automatic. Yeah, and they're gonna be selling every day and you don't have to put in as much work because you've got it all set up. It's just the initial work in the beginning you have to do. Now, I hope you enjoyed this video. Put your comments below. 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