 Can general dropship and stores still work if you don't know what a general dropship and store is Basically, it's a store that sells products from lots of different niches for five six years ago when I first got started back in 2016 It used to be the way to go. Everybody recommended general stores However, over the last few years they've kind of lost their appeal and a lot of people will say to stay away from them because they Don't work. However in this video I'm going to prove to you how they do still work because I've got a great example of a store making 70 grand in profit Every single year running a general store selling lots of different products from different niches If you are yet to get your dropship and business off the ground and you are looking for a product to commit to this Q4 make sure you check out my free PDF download of 127 in demand and trend in current products that are working right now 100% free instant download Check out the top link in the description down below that being said, let's jump straight into the store We're going to be looking at today I found this store using my flipper.com prompts if you are not familiar with flipper.com and you have not signed up You have to it's a 100% free service and what they do is they will email you every time a dropship and store comes Onto the market like this one the reason it is so valuable is because the best people to learn from are those people doing Successfully it doesn't matter what level you are currently at I myself Still learn things almost on a weekly basis from notifications of stores that come up for sale just like this one So we have Rickle. It's a two-year-old Google ads dropship in store It's average margin is 27% with an average monthly profit of over $6,000 So more background information and before we jump onto their Shopify store and take a look at the source of products They are selling their key highlights. So it's a well-designed dropship in store website 750 SEO optimized products This is not a small Shopify store average monthly profit of 27% which we've seen a $250 average order value That's interesting because when you hear most people talk about drop shipping They typically refer to products in the sort of 30 to 40 dollar range They have an automated SMS an email campaign set up and they are an approved Google Merchant Center and Google ads user How much money they make on this business then so over the last 12 months it's generated about quarter million dollars divided by 12 It's just over 20 grand a month with a profit for the last 12 months of $6,000 per month Which is pretty decent given the fact that the average wage here in the UK is 30k This is give or take about double that and running the store of this size I can tell you now if you outsource the right tasks will take somewhere between 5 and 10 hours a week to run Don't just take it from me though So how much time do you spend on this business the main job scope? I'm so currently the only spends around two hours every day So that's if you do Monday to Friday 10 hours a week What's interesting as well It's been the first hour adding new products to the store and test using Google shopping ads when they could get Somebody else to do that at least the adding of the products The second hour is to purchase the orders from the previous day and respond to customer emails again They could be outsourcing that sort of thing for as little as five dollars an hour Reducing the time to just one hour per day to run a business that brings in about 70 grand a year What's really important about this store is it's still current and active. So August last month for 2023 revenue 25k profit $7,000 the products the store everything I'm going to show you in this video is current and active and working Right this second. Let's jump on to their Shopify store then as we can see a nice clean setup and layouts using The Empire theme is it? The Empire theme which is one of the old-school themes. It's called Rickle.co which we've seen Some stock photos get ready for autumn. So obviously that kind of hint or theme of Halloween Some different benefits and information about shopping with the stores to ship from USA to 10 business days So by the sounds of it their shipping products said drop shipping products Which are located in the USA so they can do quick shipping what we can see is there's kind of like an emphasis on these elderly type Products that elderly assistance type products But as we move down there's lots and lots of different collections from home garden kids kitchen household sports supplies pet supplies they have some reviews of like Fitness equipment on their home page as well Which is a different strategy at the bottom though lots and lots of different contact Informations as far as live chat, which is something you only see from legitimate businesses Let's use our koala inspector tool then which will handily point out what their best selling products are and we can see it's this seniors adults Side bed safety rail. It's not a cheap product at 125 dollars And if I order it today, it's going to arrive in two to kind of seven or eight days or so Which kind of confirms the fact that they are sourcing from a local drop shipping supplier We've already seen that they use in predominantly Google ads to sell their products Facebook's average user or certainly from my own experience the biggest buyers are always grandparents the people who would have a Requirement for products like this. I definitely think there's an opportunity for these types of products on Facebook itself If we scroll down take a look at their design and everything is very simplistic. It's very basic Very much well suited for the person who would most likely have a requirement or be looking to buy this product Everything is really really textbook related products Straight into a looks reviews looking type app. So we've seen how much money they make in we've seen the setup of the store We've seen their best selling product Let's jump on to aliexpress and do a quick search for elderly bed rail And what we can see is there's kind of numerous very very similar examples So we have this one, which is $18 this one $26 this one $82 which is quite expensive $17 22 23 26 18 75 22 21 so the going rate for products like this certainly one that's very very similar 23 for this one 28 for this one. Let's say we go towards the kind of top end of $30 they're selling this product for 125 dollars So they're making some very healthy profit margins here before we go any further though a quick word on Advertising Google versus Facebook because this is super super important when it comes down to your product selection when you're Advertising a product in order for it to be successful and in order for you to be effective and for it to work You have to consider what frame of mind your consumer is in Somebody who is on Google searching for a product probably has their payment information ready They have that intent and they're in that mindset of if they find the right product They're going to buy it somebody who is on Facebook is not in that very same mindset Unless you're advertising inside the Facebook marketplace people aren't in that buying mindset Which means the type of products you sell You have to sell them in such a way that forces somebody to take time out of their day to stop scrolling through their newsfeed to stop Watching funny cat videos or whatever it may be to look at what your product is And unless your creative does such a good job to get somebody to stop doing that And you might be selling the products which they might not necessarily realize they actually need So you add creative almost has to educate people on the reason and highlight the pain point and highlight How your products can solve that pain point for the person even though they may not necessarily be aware of it So if it was me taking on this business looking to scale it I would probably ramp up the amount of money I was spending on Google But then also couple that we've re-tagged in on Facebook So all of those people who have been looking for this product searching for it I want to buy it and have intent of buying something like this But for whatever reason one or another that they don't whenever they go on Facebook They're hit with an ad for the same product to re-spark their memory and respect their minds into making a purchase And so with that being said guys that covers everything I wanted to show you in this video If you're watching this video now, and you haven't got a business up and running yet for Q4 But you want to and you feel like there's a massive opportunity to be had but you just don't know where to start Get on flipper.com get on product research Services and softwares like Minia or drop a spy And your best starting place is those people that already have that proven validation There is no two ways about it with this store that I've just shown you today the products the strategy the store Everything they are doing is working and if it can work for them then it can work for you If you watch in my YouTube videos, then it's probably because you're based in the UK Well, here's a product that we know for a fact works in the United States So the answer is no do ship internationally the answer is no you only ship within the United States These guys are only selling in the United States There's old people in the US and there's old people in the UK if people are buying this in the US People in the UK will also be searching for it as well So if this product speaks to you and you think you can get it to work Then you've literally got hardly anything to lose one of the beauties of drop shipping One thing that a lot of people do not take advantage of is for a couple of hundred quid You can have a business up and running and spend your first hundred hundred fifty pounds on ads to test the waters and see if It's going to work for you too many people hold off waiting for that Golden products that's going to make them all this money But unless you actually go out there and test and get in the trenches and spend a few hundred quid Finding what works and what doesn't work for you Then you'll never actually come across what actually does work for you So just make sure that after you've finished watching and doing your research for today or tonight whenever you're watching this video They actually do something actionable that gets you closer to that result of having a business There's up and running and making money and without being sitting guys. Thanks for watching video I hope you enjoyed it Don't forget to grab a copy of my free PDF of a hundred and twenty seven in-demand product ideas and I'll see you in the next one Cheers