 Welcome to selling on eBay, your full beginner's guide for 2023. After helping over 70,000 dropshippers in last year's video, this year, I'm going to leave it all out on the table and teach you updated strategies and tactics on how to start your eBay store the right way and succeed with your online business from dealing with account suspensions, working around flagged accounts to the better side of it, like finding the right products to sell, product research methods and strategies. And I'm also going to share with you some of the best selling products in this video, updated marketing methods, the best dropshipping suppliers to work with, automation, scaling and so much bonus content that I'm going to throw in, like how to create a good eBay storefront and how to even use AI or artificial intelligence to make your store look even better for your online shoppers. So if you want to start your eBay store the right way for 2023, do not go anywhere because this video has it all. Quick intro and let's go. Welcome back to selling on eBay, your full step-by-step tutorial guide for 2023. Now, one second before I get started, I want you guys to know that I created a cheat sheet with all of the links, all of the content that I'm going over in this video. Everything that you'll need will be in a bulleted list so that you'll have access to everything and it'll be easier for you to get started after watching this video. Now, if you want access to this cheat sheet, just leave a comment right below this video asking for the eBay dropshipping cheat sheet and I will send it to you along the way. You can also let me know what you thought about this video and if it helped you create your eBay business the right way. That being said, don't forget to like and subscribe to our YouTube channel so that you'll always learn about the next step in your e-commerce business with so many things that we have going on, including product research strategies, the best products to sell, case studies, success stories, full step-by-step tutorials and so much more. So hit that like button, subscribe to our channel and let's get this show on the road. For those of you who are wondering what is dropshipping, I'm gonna briefly go over this. Dropshipping is an online fulfillment model where you can simply have an online store and sell products without actually holding them in stock. As soon as you make a sale, you're going to order that product from your supplier's website and ship it directly to your shopper. This way, you don't have any physical contact with the product. You don't have to invest in inventory so it is a very low risk business model that can yield high rewards when done the right way. That is a dropshipping business model. It's been working for years and years and it's just growing exponentially every year that passes. Now on the other hand, we have eBay. eBay is a huge online marketplace that started as a place to hold auctions to sell things that you have around the house, host garage sales, auction up your items and sell it to the highest bidder. But ever since then, it transformed into an online marketplace where people are not just selling secondhand items from their home, but they're also selling regular products in closed boxes and not just auctions, but also in fixed prices. Now with almost 900 million visitors per month, this is an intent-based selling platform, meaning as soon as someone opens up eBay on their mobile phone or on their personal desktops, they open up eBay not because they want to learn something and not because they're trying to get help with their homework or getting their online business off the ground. They're coming to eBay because they want to purchase something. This means, in other words, that almost 900 million active users open eBay every day and they search for products that they want to purchase. Your job as the dropshipper is to sell the products that they are looking for and that's exactly what I'm going to show you how to do in this video. So we've got a lot of organic traffic coming from eBay. As soon as we list an item, we don't have to market it in any way. If people are searching for that product, they're going to see that on their front page on eBay. They'll enter your listing and hopefully they will be your next customers. Now, eBay also has different regions like eBay Canada, eBay Australia, eBay UK, eBay USA and more. But in this video, I'm going to focus on eBay USA. Even though the competition there is kind of fierce, the buying power is also very, very fierce. So if we conduct product research the right way, we can of course practice these methods on other marketplaces and in other regions on eBay. So that's just a little something from the potential that we have when dropshipping on eBay. You list a product for sale and eBay is going to get you organic traffic to your listings because that's what their customers are here to do. They're here to buy and as long as you're selling a product that people are looking to buy, they're going to make it to your listing. You won't have to pay a dime for them to see your store, to see your listing and of course proceed with the checkout process. Free organic traffic to your store listings is one of the best things that eBay has going on. It's very easy to start. You have a zero initial investment since as I mentioned, you do not have to purchase any inventory upfront and it doesn't cost any money to create an eBay store and start listing your first items. Today, eBay gives you a couple of hundred free listings for you to start off with so you don't have to pay a dime and you're only going to start paying business expenses like upgrading to store subscription so that you can list more only after you make sales and profit so that you can use that profit to further escalate and upgrade your store. So it's very easy to start with a zero to very low startup investment, which of course is much different than running brick and mortar stores where you have to pay rental and you have to purchase inventory upfront. And if you don't make sales in your first few weeks or first few months, your business is simply going to suck up all of your money and you won't have anything left. So it's easy to start with a dropshipping business model, especially on marketplaces like eBay. The only thing is knowing how to do it the right way because eBay is sensitive today to new seller accounts. They want to get to know you first, but I'm going to walk you through everything in this video. Now some of the harder parts or the more challenging parts on eBay is that there is a lot of high competition, which I mentioned, especially in eBay US. Now to everything, of course, there is a counter. So just like there is a high level of competition on eBay, we can counter that by simply selling more products that cater to our audiences. There are new products are coming out all the time when we're working with the right dropshipping suppliers, so we can beat our competitors to the competition when we have our eyes open and we are more focused than them. And of course, I'm going to go over that also in this video. So you have some competition, but you can easily overcome it with the right dropshipping suppliers and the right product research methods. You have a limited customization options, although eBay recently rolled out a storefront where you can completely optimize a storefront and make your eBay store look good for your online shoppers. And I'm going to show you how you can optimize that of course here too. And it's hard to raise selling limits, especially when you're a dropshipper. And it doesn't matter if you are dropshipping from retail suppliers and wholesale suppliers, more info on that later. It's challenging to raise your selling limits once your account has been flagged. It will be very difficult to raise your selling limits at some point, but I will show you how you can overcome that challenge. But that is another thing to keep in mind. Now in order to start the right way, we need to be familiar with eBay's dropshipping policies. Here's eBay's page on their dropshipping policy and what it states. Dropshipping also known as product sourcing is when you buy stock from a supplier and work with them to send items directly to your buyers without ever handling them yourself. Just as I explained a couple minutes ago, dropshipping where you fulfill orders directly from a wholesale supplier is allowed on eBay. Remember that if you use dropshipping, you're still responsible for the safe delivery of the item within that timeframe stated in your listing and for the buyer's overall satisfaction with their purchase. I'm going to go over that too in this video, especially how to create your business policies so that your buyers will know exactly what to expect and so that you will be able to do this the right way. However, listing an item on eBay and then purchasing the item from another retailer or marketplace that ships directly to your customer is not allowed on eBay. So what exactly does that mean? eBay does not appreciate using other retailers like Amazon to dropship their products on eBay's platform. On the one hand, Amazon is a direct competitor of eBay and eBay simply has enough Amazon products on their platform they're not looking for any more of that. So if you start a new account and you start dropshipping from places like Amazon right away, you are setting yourself up for an account suspension, which you may or may not be able to reinstate, but you don't want to get to that in the first place. So what does this actually mean? This means that eBay is suggesting that we work with wholesale dropshipping suppliers. Now you can find some of them by simply going to Autodesk.com clicking on suppliers on the top right here. And here you've got about 25 dropshipping suppliers that you can use with tens of millions of products that you can resell on your store today, but you do have to get to know them first. So a wholesale supplier, an example of that is CJ dropshipping. They are a dropshipping friendly wholesale supplier that will help you not only sell good and trending products, but they'll also help you with the product sourcing, print on demand and other things. That's just one wholesale supplier. There are more here. But this is just to get to know what the difference is between a wholesale supplier and a retail supplier. Now does that mean that if you work with a retail supplier, eBay will completely ban your account and you won't be able to work on their platform? No, you still can, but they will flag your account, meaning you will be limited on your selling limits. You won't be able to upgrade them anymore. And you will have limited traffic. Actually, it won't really be limited, but you won't make as much traffic as you made before your account got flagged. Now it's not the end of the world to get your account flagged. My eBay stores have also been flagged, but once you have thousands and thousands of listings, it doesn't really matter because you're still going to make sales and profit. The more listings that you have, the better your product research, the more sales and profit you're going to make. So flagged or no flagged, you can still make a lot of profit here. But that is eBay's dropshipping policy and what it states. All right, now let's talk about product research. This part is really important. And that's why I'm starting off this video talking about how to find the right products to sell. And I'm also going to share with you some of the best sellers that you should keep your eye on and start adding them right after watching this video. Okay, so product research. Obviously, if you're not selling the right product, no one is going to buy it. And then everything else that you're doing doesn't really matter. Doesn't matter how beautiful your store is if you're not selling the right products. First sell the right products, then start working on your store. So let's learn how to find these products. And then of course, how to sell them the right way. We're also going to talk about profiting, break even settings and all of that later down in this video. But right now let's leave this section only to finding the best products to sell. So the first thing that I advise you guys to have is the product research dropshipping spreadsheet, as you can see right here. If you want access to this spreadsheet, I'm going to leave that also in the cheat sheet. So leave a comment below this video asking for the eBay dropshipping cheat sheet. And of course, I will send it to you and that will also include the link to this product research spreadsheet. So what you're going to do here is you're going to fill in all of the products that you're finding, including what the product is, the source URL, and then you're going to answer these questions. Are you passionate about this product? Is it hard to find in stores? Is it hard to guess the price? Is it safe to sell? After you answer all of these questions, you're going to narrow down your selection by removing the products where your answers were no and keeping only the ones where all of the answers were yes. This will help you narrow down the products that will have a much higher chance of selling on your stores. So use the product research spreadsheet when you're conducting product research. So what are some of the best product research methods to use today? Now, these methods are free. I'm not going to be talking about paid tools. I want you to start on a budget. I want to show you that you can start a successful store even while on a budget and still make sales. So the first free product research tool that you should use is the AutoDS all-in-one product research tool. This is included in the AutoDS system. You don't have to pay any money to use it. Let's see what it looks like. This is the product research tool. Now you have many smart filter options like you can filter different categories, selling regions, suppliers and so forth. But right now let's just take a quick look at the products themselves. So you have all of these trending products. All of these are bestsellers and if I scroll down you can see that we have different categories like these products are new arrivals. New arrivals are great because not only are they trending but they're also new. So you can actually start your own sales trend by keeping your eye on new arrivals. Now every time you see a product that looks interesting to you just hover over it and click import draft and that will import that product to the draft section of your store so you can optimize it and of course publish it, have it go live on your store and start making those sales. If you want more info on that product just click on it and you'll get more product information including the item specifications, the shipping policies, the customer's product reviews, how many orders this product has and more. And as you can see right here you've got trending dropshipping categories like toys and hobbies, home and garden. So if I click for example on home and garden I'm only going to see products that are relevant to that category. Now the important thing to note here is that maybe by the time you're watching this video it already rolled out but we're going to add private dropshipping suppliers where they'll be able to upload their products to this marketplace and you the Autodesk member will have exclusive access to these products. This way you can easily outshine your competition easily create new eBay accounts and start working with wholesale suppliers with dropshipping contracts right off the bat. And this is simply going to be a breakthrough for eBay sellers. Method number two and it doesn't matter if you're an Autodesk member or not this is absolutely free. Simply go to our blog page and scroll down to the categories and click on product finding and best sellers. In order to get to our blog page just go to Autodesk.com hover over resources and click on dropshipping blog. Now after I clicked on product finding and best sellers here I'm going to see all of the articles that have best selling products inside of them that you can use for your dropshipping stores. Now remember with the dropshipping business model you are going to sell products at a higher price than what you are purchasing them and so when a customer purchases from your store you're going to make the profit between the source price and the selling price. And with these products you have high profit potential. So don't be afraid to make a good profit we're going to talk about profitability soon. But let's see exactly what we have here on the blog page. After clicking on product finding and best sellers I can see these articles for example the top 23 home decor products the top 13 AliExpress niches and products if you're using AliExpress as your supplier the top 10 in demand products to dropship in December 2022. Of course you're watching this video in 2023 so keep your eyes out for the 2023 articles. I'm also recording this video in 2023 but our blog page still has articles from 2022 since 2023 just got started enough talking about 20s and 20s but in any case let's just hop into one of these articles and see what we have inside. I want you to see the amount of value that we offer here and I guarantee you that no other place has this amount of content this amount of value and this amount of product data that is being offered to you completely for free. So check this out first item flower pendant necklace looks like a regular item right but when you see that this product is being sold for 89 dollars and being bought for only three dollars leaving this seller with a potential profit of over 80 dollars for every time he sells it you're going to get a lot of inspiration from these product articles now not only are you getting the stats but you're also getting the data so you can see his facebook ad right here with all of his engagements you have links to the facebook ad to the seller's website and to the supplier's website so that you'll see that all of the information of course is true so here for example is his website selling it for 79 dollars not including shipping and then you'll find that same product right here at the supplier's website for just two to three dollars so that is just one example of how you can learn from successful dropshippers who are marketing their products correctly selling them and making substantial amounts of profits and with these examples you can truly understand that you don't only have to make one to two dollars profit per order but you can actually make 50 70 a hundred dollars per order once you have a lot of product research information resources and of course data let's take a look at one more example this motorcycle half helmet right here being sold for almost 55 dollars being sourced for about half of that about 25 dollars leaving this seller with a potential profit of about 29 dollars per transaction so we have many examples like this and you can see that this seller's facebook ad is viral with over a thousand four hundred engagements 220 comments over 320,000 views and guys this is just a really small example we also have those that got tens of thousands of engagements and views and making even more profit than this seller but i'm just skimming through really quick just so that you can get a small example of the type of information that you're going to get here and here he is just buying it for ten dollars and another $13 shipping so he's buying it for 23 selling it for 55 making his profit and that is once again just another very small example of what you're going to learn right here last example glowing moonstone necklace let's take a look being sold at 44 dollars and being sourced at just one dollar and 27 cents guys this is no joke and they're not only selling these products and making 40 dollars profit per transaction but they're also successful at selling these products here he is right here twinkling tree with that moonstone necklace and right here you can see 71,000 engagements 10,000 likes almost 10,000 comments 10,000 shares a very very popular item with people who actually purchased it and they're writing their own reviews inside this ad post and this gives you a small example of how trending this product is how the seller is selling it for over 40 dollars including shipping on his website and how you can find that same exact product for just one dollar and 24 cents this is crazy and the amount of information that we're passing on on the product finding section of our blog page is going to get you the amount of insights that you would otherwise pay hundreds of dollars for other tools to give you the same amount of information and value tip number three is the auto deus sell these now youtube playlist so go to our youtube channel subscribe like i said go to our playlist section and click on the sell these now playlist here you have many many videos as you can see right here that are simply going to show you the most trending product so we have blog articles about it we have videos about it so if you're the type that likes to read you can go to a blog if you're the type that likes to watch check out the youtube channel and if you're the type that likes both then you are going to enjoy the advantages of both worlds all of these videos have all of the product information inside with the links with everything that you need so go learn from there the next product research method consists of searching ebay for their bestsellers what other dropshippers are able to sell well as well as searching your dropshipping suppliers websites to see their bestsellers and then conduct the research on how those products are selling on ebay for other dropshippers now a good example for this i spoke about it in the last live q&a session that i had last week and i'm going to leave a link to that in the cheat sheet and there you're going to see how i went to a supplier's website i took some bestselling products and then i searched for it on ebay only to find successful dropshippers who are selling it at a high profit margin and who are able to sell it so there you have room to import those products or similar products to your stores and outshine your competition by selling more products relevant to those that are selling for you and for them and starting new product trends yourself so i showed exactly how that works in the video and i'm going to leave a link to that in the cheat sheet that i talked about under the product research section just click on the supplier slash ebay bestsellers link now if all of those free and great product research methods are not enough even though i've been using them with my over five years of dropshipping here's another great tool that you can use once again absolutely free to find bestselling and trending dropshipping products and now i'm talking about the aliexpress dropshipping center again links to video tutorials on how to use the dropshipping center in the best way in our cheat sheet so comment below if you want to see that file but here's what the aliexpress dropshipping center looks like and here you're simply going to get all of the bestsellers all under one screen and when you hover over a product like this baby safety kid anti-loss bracelet you can see it sells history trend as well as the product rating how much it sold and other product details so i can simply continue hovering over these products and see what's trending well especially this moon projection lamp right here which as you can see according to the selling history now is the best time to sell this product of course you can click on it to get even more details and you can search from specific categories price ranges and so forth but the dropshipping center once again is going to get you some great product ideas that otherwise you wouldn't have been able to think of yourself one important thing about product research don't try to sell things off of a hunch if you're trying to think by yourself what products might sell you're not going to get very far with this method use these tools to help get insights and inspiration on what products you need to test out and sell and one of the best things about the dropshipping business model is that you can keep testing products and when you're testing and products don't work you don't have to get them off the shelf because they didn't cost you any money so you can simply remove them and add other products to your store test them and continue testing the market all the time now once you start selling some products your next strategy is to try to multiply your success by adding more products similar to those that are selling for you but don't only do that you need to continue testing the market on the other hand test out new categories new niches and continue looking for new best sellers this way you're always going to be able to scale your store and keep selling more and more as the weeks months and years go by so the aliexpress dropshipping center is another great tool offered to us by aliexpress just so that they can help us make more sales as dropshippers now that is more than enough free product research tools that you should use for your ebay dropshipping stores to find your first best sellers and continue scaling your success from there you can also use paid tools that do have some shortcuts and i'm not going to mention any paid tools in this video but if you have a budget aside for that and you don't have the time for product research which i highly suggest that you do find the time for it you can also use paid tools to help you with that but even if you do that a good combination of paid tools and free tools is going to get you only that much further so do put the time aside and try to do product research manually now enough talking about what products we can sell and what strategies we can use to find products that will sell what about what we cannot sell because we want to stay here for a long time we're here for the long term we don't want our accounts getting suspended we don't want any lawsuits coming our way or anything like that so you we need to learn about what products we cannot sell on our stores and for that we have the ebay vero how to avoid copyright infringement on your drop shipping store this basically explains that you cannot sell products that are trademarked copyrighted patented and so forth but even more than that ebay has a vero page and there they show hundreds of companies that do not allow you to resell their product so you can go to their vero page we have a link to it inside our ebay vero guide which you have a link to again in the cheat sheet for this video but in general you shouldn't have to worry because if you're using a dropshipping tool like autodesk every time you import a product the system has a database of tens of thousands of products that we cannot resell as dropshippers so if we even try to import a product that we're not allowed to sell we will get a warning message that this product is vero for this and that reasons and then we can choose whether we want to continue with the import process or leave that product out of our stores but once again if you want to learn about ebay vero and get to know it the right way just read our help article about it or of course watch the embedded video if you are the type that likes to watch so learn about what you cannot sell and not just what you can sell and don't worry that much because after you figure out what you cannot sell you'll be able to easily spot these products when you are conducting a product research and it's going to be even easier for you to find the products that you can sell because there are more products that you can sell rather than products that you cannot sell but with that extra layer of protection using autodesk's vero program you won't really have that much to worry about and now that you have a list of products that you're ready to sell it's time to create our ebay account and get started in order to do that the first step of course is to head over to ebay.com and register for your free account if you haven't done so yet just click on register and fill in the basic information like your name email password and proceed to creating your free account now once you create your account you'll be able to list your first item but before that ebay is going to want to get to know you first and also connect a payment method the payment method is simply to be able to have payouts on your ebay account and this is being done in one of two ways in the past ebay used to work with paypal but that contract ended and that's not happening anymore so today there are two payout options or two payment options on ebay for you as a seller the first is having your bank account linked directly with ebay and that will happen automatically if you live anywhere in the united states but if you live outside the states ebay is going to let you know that you have to connect with pioneer and pioneer simply a payment solutions provider that sits in the middle between ebay and your bank account so what happens here is when a buyer purchases something from your store then they're going to pay using credit card or paypal or whatever they want but ebay is going to hold on to that money for you and then they're going to send it to you in a payout using pioneer or directly to your bank account once again this depending on where you are but right now i'm talking about pioneer so they're going to send you your payments to pioneer and then you're going to have to log into your pioneer account and withdraw those funds to your bank account at least withdraw the profits to your bank account but you can also use the funds that you have in pioneer to pay your dropshipping suppliers you can opt for a pioneer credit card it's a virtual card that you can use to pay your suppliers so it's just like a regular master card or you can also use it to top up your autods balance now that is if you're using the automatic order solution which i will talk about further down in the video but in general you have full video tutorials on how it works with pioneer including how to connect pioneer to ebay managed payments how to work with ebay's managed payments and pioneer and the autods wallet a new feature to streamline your finances all using pioneer the links to all of that is in the cheat sheet as you can see right here once again requested below this video and you will get it and these are the videos that you will need to watch here so how to work with ebay's managed payments and pioneer how to connect it so first of course you're going to have to connect it then you'll learn how to work with it and then you'll also learn about the autods wallet where you can manage all of your pioneer balance even if you have multiple pioneer accounts all under one page now in order for pioneer to work you're going to have to create an account on pioneer and ebay is going to walk you through the process when you create a new seller account now pioneer will go through a verification process with you and they're going to ask for things including a bank statement a proof that you are who you are for example a driver's license a passport id and proof that you do live where you state that you live now once you pass all of that remember that ebay and pioneer need to have the same information so your ebay account name should be similar to your pioneer account name even if it doesn't ebay is going to use pioneer's information on your ebay account but make sure that the details on your ebay account and pioneer are relatively the same now after you pass the verification with pioneer ebay will be able to start sending you your payouts but even if you're still in the process of getting the verification process done with them you can still get started with your ebay seller account so sign up for a free ebay seller account get started with pioneer create your account there and pass the verification process and list your first item to sell now this part is important and a little tricky so let's talk about how to list our first items the right way and you want to be able to list your first item so that you'll be able to create your business policies and ebay will of course open up your seller hub which pretty much looks like this so you can go over your store overview go over your orders your listings market your store create your storefront check out your store performance go over the payments the payout dates and so forth and other options right here i'm just taking a look at the service metrics so you can just take this as a small example of the things that you're going to see on your seller hub so as you can see right here i've got 899 transactions and only six returns which comes out to 0.67 percent returns which is really really good ebay right now places me right here at 0.67 percent where the average peer or the average seller or drop shipper is usually around the 1% return range so i'm doing a better job than them and you can also of course do the same but anyway that's not what we're talking about now the first thing that you're going to want to do is list an item for sell for that you're going to click on sell right here on the top right and ebay will take you to the create a listing page since i already have listings i need to click on create a listing here then we're going to go with single listing now the first thing ebay is going to ask me is tell me what you're selling so you're going to start off right here let's say it's a dog collar okay you're going to start with that can you be more specific so let's say dog collar for large dogs okay then we're going to click on search now he's asking me is it one of these items right here because if so they're going to add it to a buy box and the cheapest seller from that buy box is mostly going to get the sells but in this case of course you're not going to sell anything from here and the best tip here is to start by selling products that you have at home the reason for that is because if ebay marks you as a drop shipper right at the start when you create a new account where they only give you 10 items to list and only 500 dollars in sales and in listings you're not going to be able to make much sales if they limit you to only 10 products and if they flag you as a drop shipper right from the start you will not be able to upgrade your seller limits this means that you're going to be stuck with only 10 items and you won't be able to make any sales and profit so the first thing that you want to do is upgrade your selling limits as much as possible right off the bat when you do that you'll be able to call ebay tell them to raise your limits and the more you do that the more limits are going to give you and at the end of the day the more you'll be able to sell now once you have enough seller limits then you can start drop shipping and start to make lots of sales and profits so once again before that you're going to listen item manually we have a full guide on how to do that as you can see right here and i'm going to leave a link to that of course in the cheat sheet so look under listing it's called how to listen item on ebay the normal and fast automatic method you're going to go with the normal method first list items that you have from home you don't even have to sell them you can even list one item that you have from home whether it's new or not try to sell new products if you can but if not it's also good and you can also raise the limits so if ebay tells you okay you can only list 10 items then the one item that you list you can raise the quantity to 10 and that way your limits will fill up right away then get them on the phone tell them hey ebay i have so many more products that i need to sell please let me do so by upgrading my selling limits give me as many as you can because i have so many things that i need to sell here and then they're going to ask you some very basic questions like who you are what's your business model let them know that you're just selling products from home you can also tell them that you are dropshipping but if they realize that you're dropshipping from a retailer they're going to limit your account and you don't want that happening and even after you tell them that you're dropshipping from a whole seller they're going to ask for a dropshipping contract and you won't be able to provide one right off the bat so here just let them know that you're selling products from home and really do that so this way what they're going to upgrade your limits every time they do that get them on the phone again and let them know that you want them to raise your limits even some more and the best way to do that is to read our article on ebay selling limits how to check get around and increase seller limits this is what the article looks like and of course you have a video explanation inside so do whatever you want to do read or watch but you have a full explanation here step by step how to get ebay to raise your selling limits all of the best ways to do it but take my word for it do it only on the phone because this way ebay does not keep records of how many times you tried and how many times you called them and you'll also see my examples like this screenshot right here where they automatically increase my limits from 370 to 710 but that was a long time ago because this store has thousands and thousands of limits open now and once again this article is going to give you everything that you need to know but do keep in mind once you start dropshipping whether from retailers or wholesalers your account will get flagged meaning you will not be able to raise your selling limits anymore so take advantage of this in the best way possible before you start dropshipping once you have enough limits the sky is the limit have fun with your sales and profiting okay so that was a lot of info so far and there's still so much more for you to learn so let's take a deep breath while I calmly recap everything that we learned so far and everything that we still have coming up so we know that eBay is an online marketplace that allows you to list items for sell that much is pretty obvious no marketing or a startup budget is required because it doesn't cost any money to create your account on eBay and start selling when you create your account you'll notice that eBay will give you a couple of hundred free listings to list on your store so that doesn't cost you any money and you can keep switching those listings with other products until you find those that start to sell and slowly you'll start to scale your success from there but up until now we understand that it's a marketplace that will give us lots of free organic traffic and as long as we're selling something that someone is willing to buy we are going to make sales organically without having to spend a dime on marketing we know that the drop shipping business model allows us to list items from our suppliers to our eBay stores and sell them for a profit I'm also going to leave a link with a list of recommended dropshipping suppliers to use of course in that eBay cheat sheet so if you haven't done so leave a comment below this video and ask for that cheat sheet and along the way give me some feedback on this video if it helped you with your eBay business next we all know that new eBay accounts are limited to listing slash selling up to 10 items or $500 this is what your starting seller limits should look like so as you see right here you can list 10 items or up to $500 and listing and selling is both the same so you can list or sell up to $500 and 10 items per month so if you list five items and you sold five items five plus five equals 10 and that is your current selling limits for that month but if you are selling products eBay is going to increase your selling limits automatically or manually if you request it now do keep in mind that you're selling limits and your store subscription how much listings you have on your store subscription are two different things when you start a new eBay account you won't have a store subscription you're just going to be a regular seller with no store but you'll still be able to list items for sale and those items for sale will have to comply with up to 10 items or $500 until you start increasing your limits but besides that once you start to scale your store and you want to have more than a couple hundred listings which of course you should have more than that then you're going to have to subscribe to an eBay store now it starts really really cheap let's take a look right here you have the starter store which is what you're starting off with as soon as you create a seller account or as soon as you create an account on eBay and start listing items for sale so you're going to get up to 150 free listings from eBay that means that until you want to pass 250 listings and list more only then will you have to pay for a store subscription or insertion fees if you don't have a store subscription so again this gives you 250 items to test around and you can always remove them and add new ones because with the drop shipping business model it's easy to keep testing and removing and retesting until you start finding best sellers now once that happens you're actually going to have some profit and you're going to use that profit to upgrade your store subscription to a basic store subscription which is what comes next in line which here eBay will allow you to list a thousand items now what happens once you pass 250 items and you're still on the starter store or if you're in the basic store and you passed a thousand items then eBay is going to charge you an insertion fee for each listing and as you can see right here the insertion fee per listing after zero insertion fee meaning after you used up all of your free listings under your store subscription you're going to pay in this case 30 cents if you're on a starter store or 25 cents if you're on a basic store and so forth and you pass your limits that's how much you're going to pay for each listing that passed the limit that you get and that also shouldn't happen because for that we have an eBay insertion fee calculator and of course I left a link to that in our cheat sheet so if you look in the cheat sheet under payments fees and subscriptions you have a link called eBay insertion fee calculator and here you can easily calculate when is the best time to move to the next ebay store without having to spend more money than you need to on extra insertion fees now why do you actually need this because in other words if right now you have a starter store and you want to have 300 listings instead of 250 and you know for each listing you're going to pay another 30 cents so let's make an easier example let's say you want to have 251 listings so that's just one listing above what you get right so that means that for that one listing for the 250 first listing you're going to have to pay a 30 cent insertion fee now many people would think okay once I reach 250 I should upgrade to premium because I want to get a thousand listings but that's not exactly true because if you only spend 30 cents for 251 listings that's better than spending $28 or $22 on an annual plan for the basic store so the starter store costs only $5 or $8 on an annual plan so it's better to pay $5 and 30 cents or $5 and 25 cents for 251 listings than to pay $22 and get a thousand listings which we haven't used up yet so there's always that sweet spot in the middle which is the right time to move to the next eBay store and with our eBay insertion fee calculator you're going to find out exactly when that time comes let me show you a quick example of how that works here's their insertion fee calculator and I'm on eBay US let's say that right now I have a starter store subscription okay and I have managed payments in other words I'm allowing Payoneer to manage my payments or eBay's connected to my bank account for managed payments now with the starter store I want to list 251 items and lo and behold our total cost for this is 30 cents because we get 250 for free and we're only going to have to pay for that extra one so of course 252 will give us 60 cents and so forth so it's not time to move to the basic store yet but once our total costs come up to how much it costs to have a basic store which in this case it's $22 on the annual plan that's when we'll know that now is the time to move to the next store subscription so for example let's say we want to have 500 listings that's going to cost us $75 on a starter plan so that of course is not worth it if we have 400 listings we're going to pay $45 if we have 300 listings we're going to pay about $15 and anywhere above that would probably be a good time so 320 listings you're pretty much paying for the same subscription that will give you 1000 listings so that would be a good time to upgrade your store subscription you have a link to this insertion fee calculator which is 100% free to use on the cheat sheet that I will send to you if you comment below and guys of course don't forget to like and share this video if you appreciate the value all right so let's continue we know that we have our selling limits and we know that we have our store subscription now even if we upgrade to a store subscription like the basic where we have a thousand or the premium where we get 10,000 listings that doesn't mean that we can list that many listings that is because the store subscription is different from the eBay selling limits we first need to make sure that we have enough eBay selling limits to be able to list the amount of products that we can in our store subscription there's no point in paying for 10,000 listings when eBay for example only allows us right now to list a thousand on our seller limits so make sure that you understand the difference between the two and upgrade your selling limits as much as possible so that's regarding new eBay accounts and how to put up with seller limits and store subscriptions now we already talked about product research and I showed you guys the best product research methods that you can use to find trending items to sell on your stores and I also gave you a glimpse into some of the items that you should look into and start selling don't forget to put constant and non-stop hours into product research this is probably one of the most important tasks that you'll have as an e-commerce store owner so always put down hours into product research you'll never come to a point where you'll say okay that's enough product research if you want to be here for the long term you need to sell the right product and that will come with product research okay that being said the next step once we have our eBay stores we upgraded our limits we listed items manually in order to upgrade our limits we have our store subscriptions now we're ready to start scaling now for this to happen we need an automation tool and here of course I'm going to talk about none other than AutoDS that allows you to have price and stock monitoring meaning every time the prices change on my supplier's website it's also going to change on my store automatically and according to the changes on my supplier's website same thing for both price and stock so when those statuses change it will change accordingly on my store and also you can automate all of your orders so as soon as your orders come in they can be automated and fulfilled for you automatically including tracking number updates as soon as they're available from the supplier's website and we're going to talk about order automation soon tracking conversions and all of that and with AutoDS you're also going to get so much more including free ebay templates that I'm going to show you soon a quick product importer where you can import one, tens, hundreds or even thousands of products at once in just the click of a button a price automation tool customer service management support for virtual assistance over 25 dropshipping suppliers and also private suppliers that only you will have exclusive access to which will also help you avoid getting your account flagged on ebay thus having more traffic more sales and more profits but take my word for it all of my ebay stores are flagged and I'm making lots of sales because my product researchers on point I've been doing this for years and you can also do the same that is exactly what I'm trying to pass on to you in these videos now the next thing that I want to talk about is ebay business policies because you need to know how to create your business policies the right way business policies includes your shipping policy your payment policy and your return policy and this simply helps the buyer understand what your policies are regarding those things so how fast are you going to ship when is the item going to get delivered once the customer places the order what are the return options so can I return this product if I don't like it and what are the payment options that's pretty simple it's ebay managed payment so it's really easy to get that set up let me show you how that is done but before we leave the next section here are the limits on one of my ebay seller accounts currently you've listed or sold 1,083 items out of your 4,000 monthly limit you can list or sell notice list or sell because it's both combined up to $53,000 more to reach your $130,000 monthly limit and I'm only at mid month so I still need to fill up my limits here I have more work to do on this store and that is why it's really important to make sure that you have a lot of selling limits so that you can list more items and get more sales now back to the business policies so here are my business policies and right now we're looking at the shipping policies okay so let me give you an example of what my shipping policies look like or you know it even better let's just create a new one so I'm going to click on create policy then I'm going to create a shipping policy okay give your shipping policy a name you can also give it a description nobody's going to see it except for you then you've got your domestic shipping now remember when you're selling on eBay US or any other region for that matter you want to work with drop shipping suppliers that can ship domestically so that your customers will get their products quickly nobody wants to wait two, three, four weeks to get their items we're not living 15 years ago anymore today everyone wants to get their items right now as fast as possible one week should be the longest that a customer should wait to get their package now that means that we need to work with domestic suppliers so if we're targeting the US audience we need to work with US suppliers if we're targeting the UK audience then we need to work with UK suppliers in other words suppliers who hold their stock in the same country of the audience that we are targeting so here for example I'm going to walk you through a quick policy creation for the shipping policy so domestic shipping when I ship to the US for example flat same cost to all buyers now in the services you'll have a lot of options but you don't want to choose something specific like USPS or FedEx because if the tracking doesn't come out from that carrier then you're going to have some trouble with the tracking info and also with your seller metrics on eBay so here for example know how long it takes for your supplier to send the product out let's say you're using a supplier that ships relatively quickly to the US within a week so in this example you can go with standard shipping one to five business days this isn't the handling time which is different than the shipping time the shipping time is how long it will take the product to arrive once tracking information has been provided so if it's going to take five days for that you can use standard shipping one to five business days start with that and make sure that you are within your time frame after that starts to work really well and you start to find suppliers who can ship really quickly to your audience you can go with expedited shipping one to three business days but once again start with standard and don't use any carrier's name so that you won't have any trouble later on okay so in this case I'm going to go with standard shipping one to five business days and zero cost we're going to offer free shipping even if your supplier is going to charge you for shipping on AutoDS you have an option to include the shipping price inside your source price so that means that even if you are paying for shipping AutoDS will offer free shipping to your buyer and include the shipping price inside your source price so whatever it is that you want to profit you're still going to make the same amount of profit only here the buyer will see free shipping which is better then we've got handling time so handling time is how fast it's going to take you to provide a tracking number once the order has been placed so that of course depends on your supplier how fast it takes them or how long it takes them to provide that tracking number start with three business days well first know what your supplier does but don't work but try to not work with suppliers that take longer than that because we want eBay to push us up in the search result so up to three business days is typical start with that and see that you are within your time frame so three business days and one to five business days is great now in this video I'm not going to talk about international shipping because that's a little bit more advanced but let me know in the comments below if you still want to learn about it and of course I will teach you okay but in this case no international shipping and exclude locations we're going to exclude everything so make sure that everything here is checked in because we want to ship only to where we stated which is the United States okay then we're going to click on save and that's it you have your shipping policy now the return policy and payment policies those are a little bit easier and I'm not going to go through it in this video that was just a quick example of how that works but of course I'm not going to leave you empty-handed because you have a link to eBay business policies how to opt in and create policies for both US and China so if you want to drop you from China or if you want to drop you from the US of course you're going to have to have different shipping and return policies and this article will walk you through every step of the way how to create those policies and of course there's also a video explanation embedded inside and once again everything that you need to know step by step is right inside this article provided in the cheat sheet that I will leave you when you comment below so that is regarding eBay business policies now once you create those policies and you import products through AutoDS you can let the system know what is the default shipping payment and return policies to use for your listings so this way you won't have to create policies each time and you'll simply be able to connect your listings with the right policies now I'm going to show you a quick example of how easy it is to import products from AutoDS to your drop shipping store in just a matter of seconds instead of manually doing it like how you've been doing it up until now and then I'm going to show you the cool things like how to edit your store front and use artificial intelligence to do that because this is the year for AI and of course additional bonus value coming right up so let's see how we import our products really quickly head over to autoDS.com and register for your trial account once you're inside the system on the left side you're going to add your first store I already did of course all of that so let me just continue with the import process I'm going to click here on add products now I have a few options single product, multiple products I can use the AutoDS Finder and more multiple products allows you to enter product IDs right here and you can enter as much as you want and simply add them to your store in a click the other way to do it is uploading a CSV file which you can get from the AutoDS extension so go to Google search for the AutoDS Chrome extension download the extension and then you will be able to export CSV files on whole search terms so for example I'm here at Walmart let's search for dog collar and let's say in this example this niche is working really well for me and I simply want to add all of these dog collars that I see on this page I don't want to click one by one and add the product IDs I just want to add them all so I'm going to click on the AutoDS extension right here on the bottom right click on extract now all of the 37 product IDs from this page got extracted into the small extension now I can move on to the next pages and keep adding more to the extract once I'm done I'm going to click on export a CSV and as you see a CSV file was downloaded onto my computer and that is that CSV file that I'm going to drag and drop right here okay then all of those product IDs will get imported to my store in just a second and those are some methods that you can use to import products really quickly to your stores now of course the product is going to get imported with all of the information from the supplier's website including all of the images and the variations if you want them and if you don't want that then you can disable it in the settings but you're going to get all the product descriptions and the titles and everything else let's just go with one product for now this product right here okay so I'm just going to hover over the URL copy it head back to the Autodesk platform and paste the product right here okay it already knows that the supplier here is Walmart the region is the United States so I'm just going to click on edit now quick and now I can completely edit the product and optimize it including the product's title the description I have a rich text editor and so much more and this is simply where I can get really creative with my product create a unique product page and make it different than my competitors so here for example I've got the product's title I've got product tags which of course got added for me automatically which is great because later on I can go to the product section and see all of my products I can use the smart filtering system to see what tags have been selling well analyze all of my product tags and see what's selling well all year long or in certain seasonal months and so forth so this is going to help you analyze your products and it's all being automated for you okay then you've got more options you've got stock monitoring price monitoring automatic orders and the product description which of course you can completely customize you can use the rich text editor right here to simply do everything and anything that you want with the product description including the text format and the sizes and bulleted lists and all of that and you've also got your templates I'm going to go over that right after showing you this okay then you've got your variations so this product only has one variation and that's what we're seeing right here it's in stock and if I click on the variation then I can see more options like the fees that we're paying here how much profit we want to make of course we can change everything the selling price and all of that and more settings that you can see right here like we can round the sense to 0.97 and in the general more settings like the default quantity that you want the weight that I mentioned and so forth next you've got the products images so all of the images that we see right here of course got imported in just a matter of seconds right here now you can change the main image and you've also got the image editor tool so I'm just going to click on edit and as you see I got a rich image editing tool right here and I can pretty much do a lot of things here like crop the image add text and do a whole bunch of things that I'm not going to get into now and of course you've got your item specifications so this is what was automated of course I can add more and once you're done you're going to click on save and import and then it's going to move from the drafts page to the products meaning now it's going to be live on my store and my customers can go and purchase it from that same minute so that is how you import products quickly to your stores and of course you have more information on that more in-depth and into more detail on our website so head over to Autodesk.com and learn about our product importer feature now how about those store templates we all need a good store template in order to stand out with our product pages and simply make our product pages look better the better it looks the higher the chance that the customer is going to proceed with the checkout process of course the item needs to be right but after the item is right if you know that it's in demand if the customer is looking at the right product that he wants to buy the next step is to be better than your competitors and not just simply have a black and white nothing theme so with Autodesk you're going to get free themes that you can use and if you want to be completely unique you can go to services like fiverr.com or upwork.com and buy cheap customized templates that a freelancer will create for you for just five to ten dollars which really it's quite a bargain but if you want to go with the free templates on Autodesk click on settings and you've got your templates right here okay i'm going to click on ebay templates and if you've got all of these like non-stop china black friday halloween sale best quality best prices merry christmas everything for your home improvement in just one place valentines day and so forth so you have all of these templates and you can always change it up using the smart filter system so for example if you got christmas coming up and you've got 5 000 items in your store using one template and you want to change it to the christmas template you can do that using the bulk item editor i'm going to show you some of those bulk options soon but here are those templates and let's see what it looks like when we step inside so let's go inside one of these for example it's going inside this valentines day right here i'm going to click on preview and this is what the template will look like on your store so you're going to have your products title right here you're going to have the product image right here and the price right here and as you scroll down you're going to notice your new template so here you can see a nice hover effect with links to your new arrivals adding your store to their favorites viewing your feedback contacting and again the products title the products description and everything else that was pretty much automated for you you didn't really have to do much and you're going to get this template right here and this is just one example this is just one template you can change of course edit the template customize it make it unique make it your own and once again that is just one example but you want to use these templates because it's free it's included inside your package and it's always great to take every step to give our customers the confidence that they need to proceed to the checkout process when they're in our online stores now the next thing that I want to show you is a free tool we created called the ebay title builder tool and that is pretty self-explanatory that's what this tool is going to do it's going to help you generate the best title that you can for your ebay product listings and why do we need such a good title not just to decorate our products and let our customers know that we know how to create cool titles but because this is what's going to bring the customer to your listing in the first place ebay's search engine optimization or SEO in other words is how good you can write a product title when you write down your title and a customer opens up ebay on an intent of course to buy something he's going to search for what he wants to buy and if you can match what he's searching for with your ebay title there's a much higher chance that you are going to be on first place or maybe even the first search result which significantly increases your chance of making more sales so for that we're going to use the ebay title builder tool and of course I will leave a link to it in the cheat sheet okay so what is this ebay title builder tool how do we use it let me walk you through it really really quickly and the reason that I'm doing everything quickly is because this video is going on really really long and I can continue for days and days and days and you also have video explanations and text explanations in all of the links that I will include in the cheat sheet but of course do stay here in the video because I throw in so much more bonus value okay let's create a quick title for our products let's go for that dog collar that we added from walmart okay so let's go back to the title builder and here you simply need to write what product it is that you're selling what product you want to create a title for just make sure on the left side that you've got the right marketplace selected and if you want to exclude any phrases this is the place to write what phrases you want to exclude from your title but in this case I'm not going to exclude any and I'm simply going to write dog collar okay maybe dog collar and leash because it's kind of like a combo set between them so I'm going to write dog collar and leash then I'm going to create a search now the system is searching for the most search keywords those that have competition less competition and more and how many cells what is the keyword strength for these and how many cells it has and what is the keyword strength and so forth so we already have results let's take a look so the keywords dog collar leash we have about over 100,000 average searches per month the competition is one meaning the lower the competition the more room we have to enter it and how many cells per month so this keyword sells about 1500 times per month now let's take a look at the keywords that are ranking really well here so one is heavy duty k9 so I guess that's for k9 dogs duty k9 military k9 military dog military dog collar so a lot of people are looking for keywords that have to do with military k9 dogs okay but that's not exactly the item that we're selling here so let's continue down the list dog collar and leash of course is included that is what we're selling so what I'm going to do is I'm going to click on every keyword that makes sense I'm going to click on that and then what happens it's going to add it to my title up here this isn't my title on ebay but I'm going to copy it and paste that into my ebay title on auto ds so dog collar leash is what we have so far let's continue collar leash handle so people are also searching for the word handle and we have the handle right here on the leash so let's also add the word handle so dog collar leash handle let's continue so we've got medium large so this is for the dog size let's see if we have the info right here so we can see that the seller is selling it for small medium and large dogs okay so let's add all three of them okay so we've got small medium where was it handle medium large so let's click on that and just change the word handle since we already have it right here change that to small okay so we've got small medium and large so I'm going to write the word for small medium and large dogs and I'll also add an and over here because it's a it's a dog collar and leash okay with the handle but I'm not going to write the word with so dog leash handle for small medium large dogs let's see if we got any other keywords so buckle we don't have a buckle here it's not made of metal and we don't have any more keywords here now in other search terms you're going to have pages and pages of keywords but in this case there isn't much because I guess there's not a lot of people who are selling a dog collar that also has a leash on it so we're just going to finish up the title we still got about 25 more characters to go because we only filled in 55 out of 80 characters so continue adding more words that are relevant for example what attributes does it have we can see that the color here is gray okay linen gray so we can also add that okay we still have about 13 characters to go the dog collar comes with a dog collar and a leash made of PVC fiber for all three sizes medium dog okay so let me just fill in some words that make sense for example we can add the word with which was missing so dog and leash with handle and here we can write more info on what it's made out of so in this case we had PVC fiber we might not have enough room for all of it PVC without fiber we're just missing it by one character so let's remove with and now we have enough okay so this is going to be the title for this I'm going to click on the copy to clipboard then go back to the auto-ts system open up that listing in the draft hover over this and paste our new title and that's how easy it is to create a converting product title for your ebay listings which of course is very very important especially when selling in organic marketplaces like ebay that will simply get our products in front of our buyers when we write a good product title just make sure that everything that you're writing really corresponds to the product that you're selling because the product description and title needs to be 100% accurate to the product that you're selling now for this next part we're going to optimize our ebay storefront and this part is actually very exciting because I finally get to introduce the power of artificial intelligence which is going to take the world by storm in the next several years you don't have to take my word for it but that is my hunch now today a couple of really really good AI services released to the public absolutely for free from a company called OpenAI the first feature is called Dolly and the second one is called ChatGPT and soon I'm going to show you how you can use the services of this artificial intelligence to create a pretty good storefront for our stores now you don't have to do it and of course there are many other ways that you can use and I'm going to talk about some of them here and you can choose whatever is good for you okay so on your ebay seller dashboard hover over store and click on edit store and here this is something relatively new that ebay just added so today you have a storefront which means you don't just have the regular template that we talked about which is inside your product page but now a customer in online shop or on ebay can click to view your whole storefront and then they're actually going to see an online store so it's kind of like having your own website like on Shopify, Woox, WooCommerce where you know you have a homepage and you're linking to like your best seller you're showcasing product categories or featured products and things like that so that is exactly what the storefront here is for so let's dive into this and see what we can do here okay so here I'm on a remote desktop connection to another one of my stores so bear with me on the speed here okay this is the store name right here it's kind of blurred out I'm sure that you guys can understand why but the storefront here is completely blank okay that's why I wanted to show this store here on the remote desktop so here you can completely optimize your storefront you can start by adding a billboard image and ebay says right here that you should add an image that's 1280 by 290 pixels up to 12 megabytes now there are many ways to get a billboard image absolutely for free you can use the freelancer sites that I talked about to get someone to do it for you for anywhere between five to ten dollars but you can also do it for free so you can go to free stock image websites like pexels.com, unsplash.com and others that I can't really think about at the moment but if you run a quick google search for free stock images then you're going to see those websites now what you can do is search for the niche that you're looking for that you want to create or the niche that you're running on right now on ebay search for that and get a good cover image to use but here I want to use the power of artificial intelligence so let's say exactly what we can do here so lo and behold dolly this is one of open ai's features that allows you to create images better yet this program is going to create images according to what we tell it that we want so we're going to write in text exactly what type of image we wanted to create for us for example let's say I'm creating a camping niche store now for those of you who are wondering if you should have a niche store or a general store you should definitely start with a general store okay so just use any general billboard image for like online stores or anything that's that's general that's not narrowing down on a specific niche and once you start to test out different categories and you find one that's selling really well all year long then you can create a store on that niche but if you don't know exactly what your niche is yet just go with something very basic something very general that any online shopper can interact with or you know feel that it is in place okay so here for example let's say let's say we're going for the camping niche so I'm going to tell dolly an image with people camping out in the woods having a good time okay now I'm going to click on generate and let's see what artificial intelligence can create for me okay there we go so we already have some images that we can use we've got four generated images right here and all of these images is completely created by artificial intelligence in other words these people are not real everything that we're seeing is not real it's just computer generated images okay so these people don't actually exist they look kind of scary here so I'm not going to use this image this guy right here looks pretty cool he's happy and he looks kind of real except that one eye is a little bit on top of the other these two in the back also having a good time and these guys here roasting marshmallows behind a tent and I think that this image is probably the most relevant even though the cartoon characters here have weird faces but hey guys this is absolutely for free I didn't have to pay money to use this the only thing is it's not in the cover dimensions it's not in the cover image dimensions so we can use it as a profile picture because we also need to add a profile picture which you can see right here okay so what I'm going to do in this example is let's use this as the profile okay so I'm going to save this one okay so I'm simply going to save it onto my desktop and upload it right here in the profile image section okay I'm not going to do it now but that is exactly how you do it now for the billboard image we are going to use either the stock image websites that I talked about or a freelancer that will do it for you at a very low price so that's your billboard image and your profile image next you also need to tell your story so here you need to add text about your store and this is where you need to get creative but I do want you to try out artificial intelligence to help you create a good profile for your store this is how we're going to do that so in this case we're not using Dolly we're going to use a program a service called ChatGPT which once again is a part of OpenAI this amazing company who's finally helping artificial intelligence go public so here in ChatGPT you can tell it to do pretty much anything I'm not going to get into that now into all of the options it's completely crazy and mind-boggling but let's stay focused we want to tell a good story to our customers so let's say that we're still with a camping store okay so I'm going to tell ChatGPT exactly what I wanted to do so here it's write a write a story background for a camping store and it's just going to take it less than a couple seconds to think once upon a time in a small town nestled in the lush greens in the lush green forest of the specific northwest there was a family-owned camping store called The Outdoor Adventurer which by the way you can also use OpenAI to generate cool names for your store the store was founded by a husband and wife team Tom and Lucy who were avid hikers and campers themselves they had a passion for the great outdoors and wanted to share that passion with others by providing high quality gear and equipment for all types of outdoor activities now guys this is a unique text if you copy and paste it into a plagiarism checker you're going to see that this text is unique it's not just copying and pasting from one website but rather gathering information from millions and millions of sources and writing it into their own words okay so anyway I'm not going to go into this whole thing now but let's just go with the last paragraph today The Outdoor Adventurer is still going strong with Jake at the helm at his own children learning the ropes of the family business it is a place where adventure seekers of all ages can come so what I'm going to do is I'm going to copy this text and of course you can completely revise it you can change anything that you want here I'm just going to paste the text right here and let's say for example you don't want Tom and Lucy you want to change those names and you can also tell chat GPT to make some revisions just take into consideration that this is still relatively new it's actually working quite well but it's still in beta testing and you know some things may not be as accurate so make sure that you simply go over what it's writing and make any revisions that you need okay we can completely trust AI but it can save you so much time and help you with your creativity skills now in this example I'm going to remove it but we exceeded a thousand characters so what you can do for example is tell chat GPT is to keep it at a thousand characters even after he writes it tell him to revise the text and make it only a thousand characters and other things that you want to change but anyway this is something that's really going to help you out along the way you can even think of store names so here I'm going to write generate five store name ideas for my online business in the camping niche camp outfitters the camping collective camping heaven camp life company and wilderness basics okay guys this is just a small example of what you can do today with AI so use that to your advantage and leverage your creativity when creating your store name your store description your images and so forth now more things that you can do here is adding a store video in this example I don't have any AI tool that can generate a video for you but you can use videos from stock video websites that allow you to use that if of course it's relevant with your store and store policies so you don't have to do this but you can add your store policies just to let the buyers know what your store policies are and back to the staging part instead of telling your story so you can add featured categories you can add featured listings I'm not going to do it now but just going over the options you can use a marketing banner to let them know hey there's a big sale going on right now and we're going to dive into marketing right after this part and category preference so what do you want to show do you want to show store categories ebay categories and so forth use the ebay store front and create a really nice looking store for your business with the help of freelancers with the help of free tools and with the help of artificial intelligence another small bonus tip is you can use a tool called Vista Create which is integrated inside ebay and it's very similar to Canva if you've heard about that before so those are two platforms that are practically doing the same thing create catchy designs for your ebay store and here you can simply get those profile images or cover images and also edit them on the fly and make them unique and make them your own this is the easy way to do it and it's also pretty creative but I really love where AI is going and I highly suggest that you guys at least use the chat GPT function to learn about no ways of doing things no ways of explaining things and simply opening up your creative mind okay but this is also a really good place to do it so for example this is pretty much the same as Canva you can also go to canva.com and get more templates that you can work with here for example I'm just going to click on one of them just so that you can see I'm going to click okay close down all these pop-ups okay this is a timeline creator right here let's just go with like let's just go back new design okay and here I want to go for ebay so let's search formats for ebay okay ebay store billboard there we go so this is what we're looking to create now I can just click on anything from here like let's say I'm going to click on this vintage shop right here okay and I can change the words around like let's say it's just an example your camping shop okay so camping we're going to make this a little bit longer so we can add that G there there we go okay so camping shop shop name whatever the name is so you can edit these things you can edit the images you can pretty much get super creative right here then when you're done just download it it's free to use and upload that as your store billboard image okay so that's another way to do it just create a good billboard for your store make your store look good but only do this after you have lots of products in your store so that you'll actually have something to showcase on your store front now let's talk about marketing there are many ways to market your ebay store now I did tell you that you have free organic traffic meaning you're going to get traffic to your store anyway but if you want to get more traffic you're going to have to market your store now marketing doesn't always mean that you have to put a budget aside there are multiple marketing methods to use on ebay like promoted listing standard and promoted listings advance the difference between the two is that promoted listing standard is where you come out and tell ebay hey ebay I'm going to give you 5% from every transaction price if you can promote this product and sell it through that promotion and only after you make a sell only then will I have to owe you something if you promoted my products but none got sales I owe you nothing and that's what ebay is going to do so the higher the percentage you give them the more they're going to promote those products and you can learn all about that of course using the provided links inside the cheat sheet under the marketing section you'll have how to increase ebay sales top strategies and how to run an ebay ppc campaign with advanced promoted listings so what I just mentioned is the marketing strategies under promoted listings so here you're going to learn step by step how to get to it how to run it and how to even create an automation where every time you add new products it's going to get added to that promoted listing right away right away automatically so that you won't have to do it every time from the beginning and that is one way of doing it you're only going to pay ebay that set percentage that you set and just make sure that you have enough profit so if you're going to give them 5% make sure that you have enough profits who cover that 5% and still make your profit on top of that and the next way to do it is to create a coupon so today you can create a coupon on ebay and you can send this coupon to people who bought from your store you can send it to people who are watching your items you can send it to anyone who enters your store you can send it as a store newsletter so it can be public it can be private there are many options with this and once again learn about it in the blog article so this is another way to make more sales then you've got order discounts and volume pricing okay so you're going to learn more about that in the article but order discounts means if you order more than one we're going to give you a discount and same thing for volume pricing if you order more than the quantity of one from an item listing then you're going to get like for example buy 2 get 5% off buy 5 units get 15% off and so forth next you can also create a sell event okay so all of these options are available on ebay and use the link in the cheat sheet to get to this article and learn step by step how to utilize all of these marketing methods but a sell event simply means that you're now running a huge sell on your store like let's say right now we're about to enter Black Friday even though we just ended it but let's say we're about to enter Black Friday and you're going to run a 20% discount on all of your store for specific items or for all your items so what you're going to do is you're going to create a sell event and this simply lets buyers know that there's a huge sale going on in your store and of course ebay is going to help the online shoppers know that your store is running this sells event right now and that of course is going to increase the popularity of your store now notice that all of these marketing methods that I'm talking about has a zero upfront investment you don't have to pay any marketing company or any service to bring you more sales only after you make a sell you're going to pay whatever fee that you owe for example if you're using volume pricing and you're going to tell the buyer buy to get 5% off then your price is that 5% off that you're going to give them and if you're using promoted listings then it's whatever percentage you told ebay that you're going to give them the more you give them the more they'll promote but of course the more it's going to cost you only after you make a sell then you've got best offer and send offers which again doesn't cost you any money to use doesn't cost you any money to run and it will get you more sales so best offer is when you simply include best offer in your listings and sending offers means you can send offers to people who are watching your listings so let me show you how both of those look on one of my stores I'm going to go to the listing section of my store so as you see right here I've got 1280 listings in the store and I've got best offer added to 1211 best offer means that a buyer can see my listing and send me an offer let me show you one example of how that looks like here's the item listing for one of the items that I'm selling on my store and as you can see right here the buyer can buy it now add it to their cart but they can also make an offer and since I have enough profit margin I don't mind if they send me an offer two, three, five dollars below I will accept it or I can send a counter offer a little bit higher and then we'll close the deal but I make many sales using best offer so make sure to utilize this too just go to the listing section of your store and click on best offer eligible so how many listings do you have that are eligible to add best offers highlight all of them click on add best offer and simply click once again on add best offer now all of those listings the 18 listings that I just selected now will have the best offer option inside them too and the second one is sending offers so this as I explained is for people who are watching your listings people who add it to their watching list you can send them a discount so I clicked on send offers I got 15 listings that are eligible right now because I do this almost every day so it takes time for it to refresh then I'm going to click on all of the listings that are eligible and I'm going to click on send offers and let me just send my buyers right now a 5% off shipping you can create a custom message I usually leave it like this allow counter offers and you can also send a coupon for future purchases I'm not going to do that now but just know that that's an option now I'm just going to click on send and now all the buyers who watch those products just got a message from me through ebay that I'm going to offer them a 5% discount if they purchase that product right now okay so those are the free marketing methods that you can use where you don't have to pay upfront in order to market your products and make more sales then you've got promoted listings advanced which is relatively newer than all of the methods all the free methods that I just went over and here I'm not going to go over it but you can run pay per click ads on ebay meaning you're going to run an ad and all of the big companies today use PPC Amazon, Google, YouTube, you name it and now Facebook also supports PPC so this means that you're going to create a pay per click campaign and I have a full video here showing you how I ran it on my store what the conclusions are the sales that I got the keywords that I used and of course the results and everything else so you're going to learn about that using the link in the cheat sheet just comment right below that you want it and I will send it to you and you're going to have all of this information the whole article the whole video the whole step-by-step process just know that PPC is another really good way to learn what customers are searching for what they want to buy and which keywords that you're running are actually working as opposed to the ones that are not working so well the only thing here is that you're actually going to pay ebay for every time someone clicks on your listing even if they don't buy so here if you don't do a good job if you don't learn it the right way and if you don't test it correctly you're going to end up spending more money than you're making which could bring you a few steps back but if you learn it the right way using the content right here that I'm talking about it's going to help you start in a much much better position and you will be able to run successful PPC campaigns as long of course as you're doing it the right way and you are selling products that people are looking to buy at least more or less okay so next we're going to talk about order fulfillment but before that there's one thing that I haven't showed you yet which is the smart product filter system not going to dive into it too much but this is what the products page looks like on autodesk and you have lots of different information like what variations are in stock what's out of stock why it's out of stock if you hover over it the product's price how much variations you have the profit that you're making the suppliers that you're using what stores it's connected to what tags you're running there but here you also have the smart filter system so here I can say okay I only want you to show me the items that have a specific tag like we talked about so show me only products that that have a pet's tag and let's just say that's it okay so I'm going to click on done and well in this case I don't have any because it's a demo account but it will show you what products you have under that tag and and more things like let's say I want to create some bulk changes so I'm going to highlight whatever products I want to create bulk changes to click on bulk edit and here I can change the fees percentage how much they cost the additional profit in percentages the additional profit in dollars and so forth and of course you can bulk delete you can add products in bulk there's only so many things that you can do here now another important topic that I want to talk about before we move on to order automation is the ebay fees calculator this is created so that you'll know exactly how to price your products how much fees you're paying and how much profit you're going to make at the end of the day when pricing your products during the import process okay so here you've got the ebay fees calculator of course the link is provided in the ebay dropshipping cheat sheet and here you're simply going to choose whatever category you're selling under so let's say you're selling a watch you're going to choose the jewelry and watches category payment processor in this case is managed and let's say you have an ebay store subscription like you bought the starter store or the premium store so I have a ebay store subscription let's say I'm not a top rated seller and I am an international seller now I want to sell this product for $19.99 it cost me $9.99 let's say I don't want to charge shipping it doesn't cost me shipping and I'm not running any promotions on this product in this case buying a product for 10 and selling it for 20 on ebay is going to give me a total profit of almost $7 and here is my break even so I usually set my break even between 15 to 20% because we're also paying source tax in some cases when purchasing from our suppliers but this is how much profit you're going to make so this lets you know that you're in the green zone you're fine you're making profit you can sell for this price and everything is fine but if you're buying a product for $10 and you're selling it for $12.99 you're not going to make that much profit and if you promote this product your profit is going to be break even or you might even lose some money so make sure that you don't get super super competitive do not be afraid to make some profit I showed you in the beginning of this video how you can easily make lots of profits using the dropshipping business model without worrying about trying to undercut the whole competition and just being mister super super cheap I'm going to invent the wheel by just being the cheapest store out there and good luck with your store that's probably not going to work out okay now order fulfillment so as soon as an order comes in you're going to see it in the autodesk system okay you're going to see it right here in the order section and here's the order screen so here you're going to see all of the products that you have orders on them and you need to fulfill them so when an order comes in it's going to start in pending and if you're using automatic orders you can have them get sent to automatic orders as soon as they come in now we have two automatic order solution one is called automatic orders and the other is called fulfilled by autodesk the difference between them is that automatic orders uses your buyer accounts to purchase the items from your suppliers websites and send it to the end customer so it's going to use your account on your suppliers website your payment information but everything will be automated the order will get sent out as soon as it comes in tracking information will get uploaded as soon as it's available from your supplier and you can just sit back and relax and watch all of this happen fulfilled by autodesk is pretty much the same only here it's not using your buyer accounts it uses autodesk's buyer accounts for example if you're using home depot and they lock your buyer account after a while you can use fulfilled by autodesk to fulfill your orders using autodesk's buyer accounts and this way you don't have to worry about your accounts getting locked and everything will still be completely automated you just have to top up your balance right up here and that you can easily do using the autodesk wallet that I talked about earlier today so once you top up your balance the system is going to use that balance to purchase the product on your suppliers websites and this works with all of our US suppliers who charge in a US dollar currency now every order whether you're using fulfilled by autodesk or automatic orders is going to cost you one auto order credit you can buy credits by clicking on buy credits just choose the right package that's good for you and that's pretty much it each one is going to set you back about 10 to 20 to maybe 30 cents depending on what package you're purchasing and that's pretty much it have fun don't forget to profit a lot along the way and even while you're traveling even while you're sleeping and even while you're spending time with your friends and family your orders are getting automated tracking information is being automated and you just have to worry about product research and adding more best-selling products to your eBay stores that is the wonderful thing when you combine dropshipping and automation the right way now of course you're going to have the links to both fulfilled by autodesk and automatic orders in the cheat sheet and if you don't want to automate your orders you can still process your orders manually this simply means go to your suppliers website add the product to your card check out and make sure that the supplier will ship to the buyer's address however once you make it to 5, 10, 15, 20, 50 orders per day you're going to spend all day just manually processing your orders and you won't really be able to grow and scale your business on top of that okay so that is where order automation comes in and believe me after you try it for a while I'm sure that you won't want to go back to manually processing them next is customer management we have to be online with our buyers we have to respond to any open cases to any disputes and we have to make sure that we're always answering all of our buyers as soon as we can now if a buyer opens up a case it's completely fine if they open up an item not received case you can simply upload tracking information to show that it did reach the destination and you will win those cases if a buyer opens up an item is defective case then you'll have to provide them with a return label and they'll have to return the product as soon as it returns to your supplier you'll get a refund and of course you can also refund your buyer in some cases you may have to refund the buyer before you get the refund yourself depends on when they send the item out how much time passed since the case has been opened and of course how fast your supplier provides refunds but that is completely fine once you get the money ball rolling with orders and profits and automation but in any case whether it's a case or not when a buyer reaches out you're going to want to answer them I've had many sales come in simply from buyers who are asking very simple questions about a certain product or about my services so what I do here is I answer them as soon as I can now today in the autodia system there's the customer support feature okay it's right down here customer support and here you're going to see all of your customers messages under one screen so even if you have multiple ebay stores and they're all connected to the system then you're going to see all of their messages under that one screen okay it's going to look something like this okay I can show it to you on my account but everything is it's just pretty much going to get blurred but let me click on customer support okay so here's all the messages that I'm sending to my buyers that they're sending to me and I can just click on any one of them and can see the messages content and here this is a message that an automatic message that I send to a buyer so you can send automatic messages when using automatic orders after an order gets sent out when there's tracking information available after the item was delivered and so all of this can be completely customized and automated for you by the system so this is the message one of the messages that I send to my buyers after they purchase something from my store so thank you for purchasing from our store your order is being processed and will be shipped soon yada yada yada and now if this was a message that they sent to me then I can reply here but I can't now because I can't reply to myself and you can also create chat snippets so if you have repetitive answers to repetitive questions then you can just save them and load the snippet every time you want to use that answer okay so this is a really good place to see all of your messages in one place reply to them and connect with your customers and make sure that you leave no one behind the final thing that I want to go over is the virtual assistants platform this means that you can hire a virtual assistant to work on your store so you can delegate access to them create their users give them access to exactly what part you want them to have access to on your store and let them fire away now if you want to look for virtual assistants let me know below this video and I will send you a link where we have a marketplace post on many virtual assistants that are looking for someone to hire them and on the other hand you'll also have a lot of people who are looking to hire virtual assistants I'll connect you to that post if you're looking for it let me know in the comments below but in any case make sure that in your plans and add-ons you have the option to give your team access to AutoDS to streamline your teamwork so in other words this is what's going to enable virtual assistants then you'll go to users and you'll create your first virtual assistant name, email, password and exactly what parts of your store do you want them to have access to whether it's adding products managing your orders managing your drafts importing products to some options to all options it's completely up to you and this is a great way to have closure on dropshipping automation since AutoDS helps automate about 90% of your business the virtual assistant can do the last 5 to 10% if you don't want to interact with your business at all but before hiring virtual assistants make sure that you know exactly how your business runs from A to Z because you can't really teach someone how to manage your business if you don't know how to manage it yourself okay so make sure that you know your business inside and out before hiring virtual assistants once again let me know if you want the link to the marketplace post and I will send it to you and that pretty much wraps up this video tutorial on how to start a successful eBay dropshipping business in 2023 I hope that you found this video informational once again if you want access to the cheat sheet that has the perfect structure with all of the links that I talked about in this video that will help you understand what the next step is where you need to start how you need to finish what you need to do in the middle everything is included inside this cheat sheet that I created especially for you so once again let me know in the comments below if you want it and I will send it to you and don't forget to like and share this video if you appreciated the value join our Facebook community and our discord channel where thousands of dropshippers help each other on a daily basis succeed with their business and this video went on for 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