 No money needed Shopify drop shipping guide for beginners So you want to start a drop shipping business and you don't have a lot of money? Well, then you came to the right place because in this video I'm going to walk you through all the steps you need to take to start a successful Shopify Dropshipping business and we're starting right now JR Fisher if you're new to my channel do me a favor and subscribe There's a big button down there. You want to hit the button next to it. There's a Bell you want to smash that bell as hard as you possibly can and then you want to turn on all notifications What this will do is make you part of my family the Fisher family the VIP group that gets notified every single time I do a new video and the other folks just don't that way. 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I really would appreciate it Don't forget to like this video at the end and let's jump in right now and show you how you could start A successful drop shipping store through Shopify with little or no money Now we've all heard about this drop shipping thing if you've been around for a little bit and we all have these great Views of the amount of money we can make but really how do you go about it? What do you need to do? What are the exact steps? Well, I gotta tell you it's a whole lot easier now than it was years ago to start a drop shipping store And you need a whole lot less money than you did too. So if you don't have a lot of money Don't let that stop you now when you start off your your primary goal is going to be to make money right away Now Shopify normally will give you a 14 day free trial I have a link below you can go to that and get your Shopify store and if you can make money within the first 14 days That's pretty cool because then you could pay for Shopify and it never cost you anything to get started Now it's really pretty simple what you need to do. You just need to find a product You need to create your Shopify store and you need to make your first sale So it's really just three things you need to do now people will generally be on two ends of the spectrum They will either number one start on a whim and you know, they don't do any research Is grab a product start advertising it and try to make money And then the other end of the spectrum is people will spend weeks or even months doing tons of research on products And you know then start their store now I got to tell you either one of those could get you negative results It doesn't necessarily mean you're going to win You know, if you just get started real fast doesn't necessarily mean you're going to win if you do a ton of research You kind of need to be somewhere in between Now the first thing I'm going to tell you is don't try to reinvent the wheel There's a lot of successful Shopify stores out there And you could actually go out there and look at those stores and see what they're doing Your competition's already there. They've already spent money on things. They've already tried things So the thing you want to do is look at your competition first A lot of these stores have tremendous data you can get You know, they may have their best selling list and you can actually look at all the products and see what's selling the best And that's that's a real insight for you in selecting your products A few places you can go is you can go to Oberlo and check that out Oberlo is going to have a list of all these different products that are very very popular You can also look in aliexpress for their most popular products It's a weekly list that comes out. You can check that out. That's a good way to get started eBay also has daily deals. You can take a look at that and see what they're saying Amazon bestsellers, that's another good way to go about it because you know when we all go to amazon You'll see that little box down there. It says bestsellers and light in the box top sellers list You want to check that out and combine all these things together And if you see a product that's showing up and you know two or three or four of these different places It's probably going to be a good product Now when you are looking at these products a couple things you want to do number one is you want to avoid Really broad categories, you know the the thinking of a newbie on this is that you know If I have a product that anybody can buy that I can sell to everybody But the problem with that is if you're not really niched down to a particular Category and type of person then you're basically selling to nobody if it's a product that goes to everybody There's no product that really fits for everybody even though you may think it is you need to really niche down your product And if you do have a product like that like a bar of soap or whatever It's probably not going to sell very well If you're let's say you're doing clothing and you decide clothing is going to be your thing Well, you need to niche down a little bit more. You can do men or women's clothing You say okay, I'm going to do women's clothing and that's great. Okay, so you're going to do women's clothing What kind of clothing are you going to do you can say well, I want to do exercise clothing That's great. Okay, so you got women's exercise clothing and who do you want to sell to and you say well I want to sell to plus size women. So now that's real niche down exercise clothing for plus size women Is going to do a whole lot better than just exercise clothing The next thing you want to do is start off in the low range as far as cost of a product You know an initial product sale, you know should really be under $20 And then your next product sale should be maybe 40 to 60 dollars for maybe an upsell But you need to start low in too many people will pick a hundred or $200 item and going out to a cold audience They're just not going to spend that much money with you. They don't trust you yet They have to test you out with lower cost items. The next thing I want to tell you is trust trends Okay, trends normally tell you something, you know at the time of this recording, uh, the wuhan The corona virus is out there and it's trending up and it's pretty scary Okay, that's a scary thing right now, but we know what the trend is it's going up Now if you want to know what trends are go to google trends type in whatever your subject is and google trends will show you What direction is heading is it flat? Is it going down? Is it going up? And by doing that you'll know if you're getting in at the right time Now some categories that are kind of hot right now are going to be you know women's fitness Okay, women's fitness is a big thing and a lot of them are on apps like instagram You can look on instagram and see what's being published there on instagram These are very hot items right now and the more different they are, you know, like if you just had blue workout pants They're not going to work as well as some other ones and here's some examples right now I'm putting on the screen right now that you can see These are examples of something that's a little bit different. You know, they're pretty cool looking And they're just photographing the pants not the whole person either which is a pretty cool way to do it The next thing I would tell you That is kind of cool right now and they're popular and I don't know why but they're wooden sunglasses now at the time You watch this video make sure you put this into google trends and see if it's still trending up or going down But wooden sunglasses are a big thing up on the screen right now You can see a sample of the wooden sunglasses now This is definitely a seasonal product But you will find them ranked on ali express and you can get them there relatively cheap The next product is magur watches now i'm putting those up on the screen right now But these are a top brand on ali express right now You can find them on youtube you can find them on instagram to prove the quality of it You know make sure they're still there but also check google trends because I don't know when you're watching this video And that trend could be going up more down now to sell these products Don't overthink it don't don't spend you know weeks and months working on logos and color schemes and all this You just need a basic store what you're trying to do is proof of concept You're trying to find some products that are going to convert Then you can spend more time when you're store and buying all the bells and whistles and all that But there's no point in doing all that there's no point in doing all that work If you don't have some products that are going to sell now What I'd like to do is kind of give you a to-do list of things you should do in the right order Okay, so we'll start off with the store name. Okay number one. You got to pick a store name It shouldn't be a huge concern right now I mean I don't know what nike means or adidas means but they're pretty big brands and they don't really tell you anything Now you associate them with sports and you know sportswear But certainly in the beginning you didn't if you are having a hard time coming up with a name Go to businessnamegenerator.com. Now if you're having a hard time coming up with a name You want to go to shopify.com forward slash tools forward slash business dash name dash generator And that will actually help you find a business name right there Then number two once you figured out that name you got to register for a free shop if I can't you can get it for free I would suggest use our link below there. It's our affiliate link. It'll get you over there and get you a free account Number three is choose your store theme. Now most people will overthink this It doesn't matter that much. Most of the themes are just fine You do not need to go with a paid one in the beginning And I know everybody wants to overthink this and they want to be impressive and have the site that's so fancy looking But a lot of times the basic ones convert a whole lot better than ones that are real busy I know we're redoing some of our sites now because years ago You know the sites with a lot of stuff on them worked really well, but they don't work as well now So we're trying to clean all that up and make all of our sites very basic Now you can certainly tweak your themes Here's one I have on the screen right now All you have to do is go to your online store themes and then customize theme And you can actually customize it pretty much any way you want On the on the right hand sidebar You're going to see header and footer and body and you can make all your changes right there And I know I know you want that logo number four is add your logo I don't know how much logos really matter I don't know if anybody ever bought anything because of a logo I know certain logos are branded in your mind now the way they write coca-cola The Nike swoosh things like that You may notice the Bentley from a Bentley car or Rolls-Royce and those are big logos now But in the beginning people aren't going to know you anyhow So it doesn't matter as much as you really think so don't put a lot of time and thought into just a logo Just get one and put it on there and move on Now this is something a lot of people miss because they just want to sell products But number five is have your standard pages done And when I say standard pages you want to have your privacy page You want to have your refund page any in your terms and conditions that you want people to know about Your delivery information and certainly your contact information You want to have all those pages built first because those are things that people look for If they're not there, they're not going to trust your company as much and you're not going to do as well And now probably the most important out of all these pages is the about us page This is where people can actually learn about your company This is one of the links that is clicked more often than not and people don't realize it when they're selling online But people go to that about us page. They want to know about you They don't know what you're about and what your background is and what you're trying to do and what your goals are So put all those things in there so people can get to know you especially if you're selling On aliexpress and you've integrated that with your Shopify store your shipping and delivery information is super important guys And you should put it on your pages, you know, if you've got a 14 to 21 day delivery Make sure you let people know about it But you should also have that on your shipping and delivery tabs so that people can read and they don't expect it to You know come there the next day like amazon because it's not going to happen As long as you give them the information up front, you're going to be okay Now some people will say well, I don't want to tell them it's going to be two or three weeks because then they will buy from me It's better that way because if you have people buy from you and then they get upset and then they post things online about you That's worse than just not selling them at all the contact us page super super important there because they Want to know that if they have an issue they've got somebody they can get in touch with Um, I believe that you should have a street address there If you don't physically have a street address, maybe you can go to the ups store You get a ups box or something like that But without an address people get very nervous and a lot of people will not buy without an address And certainly you'll want a phone number and you can use google voice if you want to use that phone number There's plenty of 800 number services, but you do need to have a phone number Now if a website doesn't have a phone number or street address google also will not rank it very high in the search results Okay, now what you're seeing on screen right now is required policies Now you can quickly do a basic one right here. You just go to settings Check out and then you scroll down to refund privacy And terms of sales statement section to generate each policy sample. Okay, so they actually give you a sample That is actually in here that you can use. Here's the important thing number six is you got to add a payment gateway Okay, so you want to go to Shopify payments and add your gateway now your gateway could be like authorize.net It could be paypal. It could be strike whoever you've set up your account with You now you need to integrate it with your Shopify store now number seven is you're going to want to adjust your shopping settings Now most you know Shopify people who are integrating with aliexpress will have some form of free shipping So I would suggest that you set up a free shipping in there Number eight is you need to set up your billing information before you can go live You're going to need to set up your billing in there because after 14 days Shopify is going to charge you so you want to make sure you have all that set up in that ready to go Now I would suggest when you get into the shipping. I would pick the aliexpress drop shipping It's the best way to go and it's the most standardized and once what most people use and basically it's pretty simple What you do is you integrate the products with aliexpress into your store And then you copy the product over to your store and then after you sell a product All you do is you actually purchase it from aliexpress and then have it shipped directly to your customer So you don't have to handle it now the good thing about this is you can actually control your own margin You're going to set what the markup is 20 percent 30 percent 50 percent whatever you decided to do You can do that in there and set your own price margins Now this is something you can start immediately You don't need to contact anybody at aliexpress drop shipping or anything like that You can just set it up and you're ready to go You don't really even need a business entity to start out though you will need one once you grow So it's a good idea to do it in the beginning once you do this and you are integrated with aliexpress I mean you have access to millions of products So it's really pretty cool and aliexpress products are kind of trendy they go up and down so the chinese People over there actually do the research and they watch these trends are there cons to it? Sure, there's cons to everything and when you're doing drop shipping It's really hard to be super competitive So you need to find kind of a cool product because you're not going to be able to do it much cheaper than anybody else can It's selling the same product the other thing to be on the lookout for is copyright infringements Don't try to sell anything that has any type of brand on it like disney or nike or adidas or anything like that Because if you do that you're going to run into trouble the other part that's a downside and everybody mentions it And it's true is you have really long delivery times It can be two three or four weeks before the customer is going to get the product But that's what the price you have to pay so that you don't have to buy products and store them and put them in a warehouse And ship them out on your own now. Is it worth it? Yes There's thousands of stores out there making millions of dollars using this business model So it's most certainly worth it now on screen here now you can see the aliexpress store And it's really simple to do this all you do is go to aliexpress You look for the products you decided to sell And then once you find a product that fits your search criteria, you just add it to your aliexpress account wish list Okay, so that way you have it right there. You can see right there where it says add to wish list If you plan to sell in the us make sure your products are going to be delivered with e-packet 100 e-packet Okay, that's the only thing I would suggest e-packet delivery takes about 14 days to arrive to the us While other delivery options can take over a month So, you know, if you want to get it quicker to your customer e-packet It's also the safest one Uh in the most trackable don't always just jump on everything that's the cheapest price because price can matter You know, sometimes if it's like the cheapest price on a particular product and a lot of manufacturers are selling it It may be that that person has a lower quality product So you're going to want to check the reviews and you're going to want to check their sales to see what that product is Now personally, I like a 90 to 95 percent feedback on the sellers on aliexpress So if you don't have that there could be a problem Because you should have at least that you know that that that tells you that they're a reputable Vendor and they're going to get the products there and they're going to be decent products In fact, I would say the two most important things when evaluating aliexpress sellers are the feedback score and the positive feedback Rate, okay, those are the two things you're going to want to look at And the next thing you want to look at also is you know, and like on the on the screen I'm showing you right now. You should consider the individual product feedback and the order count Okay, how many of these did they sell it's much safer to buy a product that has been ordered a few thousand times with 90 positive feedback Score than a product that's only been sold a few times You also want to look at the responsiveness of the supplier Like if you have a problem in somebody contacts, you know paypal something along those lines And they want to refund you want to be able to get a hold of that Distributor that manufacturer so that you know you can get that problem resolved and you don't have issues Now products can be manually added to your store if you want. I personally wouldn't want to do that I like to use something like oburlo You can bring in the products add in your stores, but you're still going to have to change a lot of the titles A lot of the descriptions. They're not going to be written correctly. They're not SEO'd correctly But you at least get the product in there and all the values and the prices and all that stuff Now once you've installed the oburlo extension you want to go to ali express Wishlist and import all the products that you've saved before and that way you'll have them in your store Then you need to go back and adjust all of those all of the titles all the descriptions so that they you know They may not be written in proper English and your customers are going to have to need to understand them Okay, if they don't they're not going to trust you as much Now a few other things you can do you you can add the free trust seal apps to your store And when people see that they feel a little bit more secure about buying from your site And number two is you can also display prices and multiple Currencies from around the world because your traffic can be coming from anywhere in the world at this point Make sure number three that you create a frequently asked question page That's going to save you a lot of time and hassle of answering the phone Answering emails if people can go there and they can just ask those questions and get the answers there That's going to save you a lot of time Number four you may want to have an abandoned cart App added to your store. This can win back a lot of sales, you know A lot of times people don't complete the sales because something happened. Maybe their phone went off Maybe their kids came in the room. Maybe there was a knock at the door It wasn't because they didn't want to buy the product. They were already there But somehow they got interrupted and they never got back to it Number five create some product banners, you know instead of just using the images create some banners You can use free tools like canva and go in there and create some really nice banners And make the products look a whole lot better. Now, where can you post some of this stuff? Here's an example right here. You can post it in reddit marketing. Okay Your reddit post will only be successful though if you receive enough upvotes to stay high in the top of the post Think of it as likes. Okay, just like on facebook. So you can do that The next thing you can do is you can start a facebook group It could be around a particular niche. Maybe if you're going to sell barbecue equipment You have a barbecue recipe group that hasn't shares a lot of recipe and then every now and then you can post some of your Products in there and actually sell them in your group Now I will tell you this because it's happened to us Don't publish the same post to multiple groups all at once if you do that It's going to be identified as spam and they may block you from posting in those groups all together The next thing you can do number three is instagram influencers now You know organically you could post stuff and you could sell some products But not as fast as the influencers can actually get it out there So I would identify some influencers in your niche and contact them and find out what they want to charge For actually putting your post up now when you have a store like this and you're trying to promote products You've got to do this pretty frequently. This isn't you know once a week thing This is usually a daily thing and usually several times a day so that people see your stuff Constantly if you don't do that you won't stay in front of these people and you won't be able to sell your products Okay, so it takes work. So if anybody's told you that you know, you can sell products online and make money They're 100 right and if they told you you could post stuff online and make money and not have to work They're 100 wrong because you do have to work. This is necessary guys. You've got to put in the effort Okay, there is no freeway. There is no easy way. There's no way around it But the cool thing is you can do it There is a way to go if you select some good products You have a decent store you follow these guidelines right here and you apply hard work That's what you got to do. You got to apply hard work. Okay, quit trying to avoid that If you try to avoid hard work your whole life, you're never going to accomplish much. 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