 Hey, what's up guys? Welcome to a new video. So there's been a ton of new subscribers to the channel recently, which is absolutely awesome. So I thought it'd be a nice time to do a video like this because I don't think I've done a video like this like literally since The first few videos I ever uploaded. So I think it'd be quite a nice time. I'm just going to take you inside the account. My first ever Shopify drop shipping account and just show you what the first six to 12 months looks like for me on Shopify and actually drop shipping in the UK. So I'm going to be showing you absolutely everything in this video. I'm going to be taking you inside my Shopify dashboard here. As you can see showing you the sales volume month by month, showing you the apps I used and my obloh accounts, my AliExpress accounts. You can see all the orders absolutely everything. And just as we go through then just showing you why I sold certain products or why I used certain apps. Just to give you guys an idea then of how I did it because I still say it today. The best way to become successful at anything is to replicate what somebody has done. So I'm going to be showing you the store itself as well. I still pay for the subscription for this plan for this store as well. So it is still live. You can still go out and find it. So I will be showing you the URL. So if you do ever get stuck or you need product ideas or you're not sure how to do a layout or product descriptions, whatever it is, then this site is still live so you can still use it even today as a reference point. So that's the topic of the video anyway. Thanks for tuning in. Before we get into it, I just want to quickly mention as always in every single YouTube video, I give away a free one-to-one consultation call with me. So chat for me and you to speak one-to-one. You can ask me whatever you like, whether it's Facebook ads, you want your store reviewing or help pick in certain products, whatever it is. I can help you out. And if that's something that you want a chance to win then all you simply have to do is dead easy. It's simply like the video and leave a comment down below. If you commented on my previous video then just make sure you stay tuned to the end of this one. Whether winner will be announced. And with that being said, then guys, let's get straight into it. So the first thing I want to show you guys then is the sales numbers, because obviously that's the most interesting thing. And the first month I want to show you then is October because this is the month then in which I started making a significant amount of money. And was the month in which I decided to start writing my resignation letter by the end of October, then I'd handed in my resignation letter to my boss at the time. And we agreed that because at that point I was in quite an important role, I was managing one of the biggest accounts for that company at the time that I agreed to stay on till the end of the year. And my one of my I think my last day was the 22nd or 23rd of December. I'm not quite sure. I can't remember now. So yeah, so this was pretty much within the first few months of start and drop shipping, I was fortunate enough to be making a decent amount of money to the point where I could quit my job. However, that wasn't my first month. Then it would take you all the way back to June 2016. So June was my first month. Then you can see I did a little bit over 30 pounds in sales. Absolutely nothing impressive at all. But at that point, it doesn't really matter. In the beginning, it's all about motivation and it's the little wins that make the difference. So the fact that somebody had actually come on to my store because I'd driven traffic from Facebook ads, it meant a lot. It meant I could see the potential in this business model. And it gave me the motivation to spend even more on ads, which I did in July. So if we take a look at July, I did 357 pounds in revenue. And again, nothing crazy impressive. I think I even made a loss this month. But to me, it didn't really matter. I saw consistent sales coming in every single day by these few days here, as you can see. But to me, it was enough for me to see the potential in the business model and actually think, right, if I can get my head around Facebook ads and become a bit better at marketing, then I can actually turn this into a profitable business. And because I hated my nine to five jobs so much at the time, then I was willing to do whatever it took to make it work. So again, I decided to scale things, invest a bit more money into ads. And then in August is where things started to go pretty decently for me. So in August, then this is when I first started to make a profit. If we just have a look at the Ad Manager account for this store. So August 2016, then I spent five hundred and thirty pound on ads. Twelve hundred in revenue, two point four by Morales. And if I remember rightly, I made about five hundred pounds profit at this point. So again, nothing crazy impressive, but it's enough to motivate me to keep going and spur me on. So keep investing more money, put more time into researching and learning. And like I said, at the beginning, that is all it is all about. You can't expect to spend a week learning a business model and then become a millionaire. It takes time and it takes effort. It takes learning. And the only way in which you keep up with that learning and that effort and that time is if you have the little wins, the motivation to keep you doing that every single day. So an important tip for all the beginners watching this video is find something that motivates you to work on your side business, whether it's dropshipping or whatever it is, it doesn't matter. Find whatever motivates you and then incorporate that into your day. It sounds stupid, but what I used to do is watch videos of super cars on YouTube before I did work or if I wasn't feeling it that particular day because watching a YouTube video of a super car and the people who own them, that was enough to motivate me and build my energy levels to the point where I was motivated enough to work my business. It sounds stupid, but trust me, it will make all the difference. If you can find what motivates you, you'll find it a lot easier. So this was September then. This is where things went from strength to strength. It seemed like at this point, the more money I invested into Facebook ads, then the more money I made in return. And this was actually a really profitable month for me, too. In fact, if we take a look at my Ad Manager account. So first to the 30th. And we can see so I spent sixteen hundred on ads and did a three point two seven row ass. So at this point, things were very profitable for me. In fact, in this month, I think this was the first month in which I made more money than my actual job did. And this was like my third or fourth month job ship. And so you can imagine how excited I was at the time. And again, it just motivated the hell out of me to continue doing more research, continue learning, always be learning, guys, never, ever take your foot off the accelerator. No, as corny as it sounds, it's 100 percent true. The next thing I want to point out as well is the product. So far up to this point, it's always been this product in case you haven't noticed. So you don't need a ton of different products then to make some decent money. You will literally only need that one winning product. And that can be the difference in between the job you're working now and doing dropship in full time. I really can be that much. So things again continue to go well. And in October was kind of like the point in which things started become very real for me. And I started thinking about quitting my job. And like I mentioned earlier, it was actually in October in which I wrote my resignation letter. Again, it was the same product, the same bracelet. It's literally the same bracelet, just different charms. In terms of profitability, if we just take a look at my ad spend for October, I think the rowers went down in this month. It did. So I spent nearly 10 grand on ads. But the product is dirt cheap. You can still go on to AliExpress and find this product now. So 10 grand on ads and 20 grand in revenue. I can't remember how much the product total cost was. But at this point, I was making like four, five, six grand a month clear profit. And after taxes, that was still pretty much triple what my job was making me. So at this point, it seemed like an absolute no brainer to go ahead and just quit my job. But I come to kind of like a dilemma at this point because because the shipping times can be quite unreliable when it comes to drop shipping, shipping from China. Then at this point, I kind of I kind of knew that if I wanted to quit my job and see an income for the next couple of months without risking that at this point, I knew things were going well because people ordering things for Christmas, right? And I knew that if I was drop shipping items still that certain items would be arriving after Christmas, probably from this point onwards. So this was when I decided to start sourcing products in bulk to make sure that I could sell consistently all the way up to the Christmas period and still make a decent income through November and December. So if we now look at the total products, you can see that the LED Liocolor starts to creep in because that's the product I started to test and experiment with. And because again, it was going well and it was a more expensive product. I could sell that product for 10 to 20 pounds, whereas these bracelets here I was selling anywhere from five to 10. So I was making more profit per order and they were selling well. So it just seemed like the ideal product to go ahead sourcing bulk and that was going to be my product moving forward then. So November, I only did half the revenue, but that was purely become down to stock levels and the fact that I didn't want to ship out a ton of orders right before Christmas, just in case they didn't arrive. And then if we have a look at December sales again, continue to be pretty good. I did nearly 10 grand considering I didn't sell from the 22nd of December onwards. And at this point, you can see it's all LED light up colors. In terms of profitability, then let's have a look at my manager account. Now, the reason the revenue was so low is purely because at that point, I didn't have enough money in the bank to order enough product to sell as much as I wanted to do. I had to limit how much I was spending on Facebook purely because I just didn't have the stock levels. So anyway, in October, we missed out November, but let's just have a quick look. I spent 4.6 K 2.0 RS, which was pretty nice. And in December, I think it actually went down. So I spent more to get less in return. Now, that's because December is like the most competitive time in terms of Facebook advertising, just probably because every person in e-commerce is on there to try and sell their products. And the reason it's so low then is purely because of how competitive the space is. And plus, because I wasn't spending that much money to spend five grand over December in one of the most competitive spaces, in my opinion, on Facebook is not a lot of money. And therefore, that's why my price is so low. And that's partly the reason why I don't mind showing you guys the fact and telling people that I actively sell LED light up colors because it is in a competitive space. It's one of the most competitive spaces. And for somebody to come in there and actually make a difference to the market, they're going to have to spend a significant amount of money. So anyway, that was the first six months in terms of job shipping in terms of the apps I use. And I think I've been talking for like 10 minutes already. But these are the apps I use then. I haven't added any, I haven't removed any. You can see I've still got MailChimp, even though the integration no longer works. So all text was for SEO purposes. Crushpix was to make my site load faster so you can have a lot more higher detailed images. And this just compresses them so your page load times decrease, basically. Easy contact form, self-explanatory, email signatures. This was really cool. Basically, what it does is you can create like logos and stuff to put at the bottom of your emails, just so you come across as a more professional company, basically. For a filter, then it was just like an added filter. You can add so all of your orders get rated on top of what the Shopify rating system is. Free shipping bar by Hexdom is, in fact, I can show you if I show you the store. So free shipping bar by Hexdom is this blue bar at the top. I recommend, in fact, doesn't matter what store, what niche you're in. That's something that you have that installed. What else do we have? We've got Kudo Buzz SEO, so that's an SEO app MailChimp. We've got a map. So at the point, I had a premises for this business. So I had, like, a Google map on my store so people could see where we were located. Overloads, overload, plug-in SEO, another SEO app. Product discount was, which was a pretty cool app to be honest. I'm not sure how much it is now. I paid £100 back in the day for it and you get like permanent access to its features. And basically what you can do is you can set discounts for certain products over certain time periods. Next one then was product reviews. Back then, I wasn't using looks. I was just simply using the Shopify standard one. Product upsell is a must have app, not necessarily this app specifically, but definitely an upsell app, SEO image optimizer. Again, another SEO app, size matters. So this was a size chart. So for certain products that required a sizing guide, this was the app I used just because it looked the most professional when I integrated it into my stores. And then finally, I had a social sharing buttons app. So I could share things like my Facebook links, Instagram links, just nice and neatly and tidyly within my store. Next, then let's have a quick look at the analytics, probably because a lot of people say that you have to work on 3% conversion value. But in my opinion, I think that's completely wrong. I think the store average like almost double that if we just take a quick look. Where are we? Let's go all the way back to the beginning. Let's go July 2016 to June 2017. Apply that. And as we can see, so yeah, almost a 6% conversion rate. So in terms of actual working on 3% basis, if you've got decent products and you're running decent ads, then you can actually achieve a lot higher percentage conversion rate. Another thing worth pointing out as well is the fact that the majority of this traffic come from or orders in fact, come from the UK, as you can see there. Online store sessions as well was mainly mobile devices. In fact, there's quite a significant amount by tablet as well, which I didn't realize it's quite interesting. It's all through Facebook, as you can see, a little bit through Instagram, but that's just through my profile. And then we've got more sales data and online store traffic sessions, etc. So the next thing I want to show you then is actually inside my iBlow dashboard, although there's not really a lot to show you. You can see the kind of top five products. Again, I don't mind showing you these. In fact, I'm going to block out one of these because I still sell this actual product today, so I don't want to reveal that one just yet. And then moving on, there's not really a lot more to show you guys there. What I do want to show you though is inside my AliExpress account because this is important. This is how you fulfill your orders. So this is my orders within my AliExpress account. If we scroll to the bottom, you can see this is every single order for this store. And if we go to the bottom, you can see there's 129 different pages of different orders. So what I used to do then is have somebody fulfill all of the orders, but they're not paid for them. So what they would do is they would preload the order into AliExpress. But before they go ahead and click that final button to pay for the order, they would exit the process. They would literally just click off of AliExpress, open up a new one and then process the next order. And what would happen is when you come into your orders screen here, we'll just let this load back up again. Here we go. So once you come to the screen, which was the screen we were just on, then this awaiting payment here would have how many orders, wherever, whichever, how many orders they're actually awaiting payment. And you just simply click on that. And if there's orders in here, then it will give you an option to pay for all orders in one go. So one of the common problems I had when I first started was the fact that I think my bank limited my card to my current member. I think it was 20 or 30 transactions per day. So this was a really good way of avoiding that problem. And this is exactly how I work with my VAs. And a lot of people say that they don't want to give away their card details to people they've never met or people in the Philippines, wherever it is. But you don't have to because you don't have a card on your account. You simply get them to load the orders up and then you go on there, make your final checks, make sure you check two or three random orders just to make sure they correspond in their correct. And then go ahead and place all of your orders all in one go. To finish the video off, then I'm just going to show you the store itself. I'm not going to spend too much time on it. Though to be honest, purely because you guys can go out and check out this same exact website if you so choose. But just to kind of show you the actual website itself. And if we take a look at the actual product page itself, it's very simple and basic. However, it's neat and tidy and it served the purpose. And as you can see, it produced the results as well. In case you're wondering what this is, then these are comments embedded from the actual ad itself. What I found was that people would actually come back and leave a review within the comments and actually post images and pictures of their dogs wearing the products as well, which is just absolute social proof gold. I still do this today on every single store of mine. And actually, when I implemented this implemented these comments, I actually made a big difference to my conversion rate as well. And more and more people started to do it as well. So it's just a win-win or roundtrip. Definitely one of the things I recommend you do in your store and definitely one of the things I'll show you how to do inside my course as well. So with that being said, guys, I think that pretty much just wraps it up. In fact, what I'll do is I'll just show you what it looks like on the mobile as well, because as you just saw, the majority of my business come from mobile because it doesn't really look that good on desktop, but on a mobile device, you can see it's all really clean, neat and tidy and pleasing to the eye. And with that being said, guys, I've been talking way too long. I'm going to wrap the video up there. If you're still watching, thank you very much. I really, really, really appreciate the support on the channel recently. If you enjoyed the video and you got some value from it, all I ask is you simply leave a like. And if you want a chance to win that one-to-one consultation call with me, make sure you leave a comment down below as well. And with that being said, then, let's announce the winner of the previous video. So this is the previous video, why most people tend to fail in 2019. If you haven't watched it yet, please do go and make sure you check it out. People seem to be enjoying it anyway. It's got 90 likes, which is absolutely awesome. So thank you very much for all the support. I really do appreciate it, by the way. So anyway, I'm going to take the video URL, put it into our YouTube random comment picker, click start and see who the winner then of the previous video is. So the winner of the previous video then is this person here. Thank you very much for your comment. Make sure you reach out on Instagram then and we can get that call arranged. And guys, if you just want to get straight down to business and book a call right away, you can do so. Just make sure you check out the links in the video description below. And with that being said, then, thanks again for tuning in. I hope you enjoyed it and I see you in the next one.