 Hello, everybody. Today we have a very special and interesting interview with Akim, who is a professional dropshipper in Autodesk. How are you today, Akim? I'm all right. How are you doing today? Are you okay? I'm great. Thanks for coming to our YouTube channel. I'm sure that you will give very inspiration and valuable information for people. Thank you so much for having me on your channel. I'm really proud of it. Thank you. So, first I would like to ask you, how did you start dropshipping? If you can tell us a little bit about yourself, where are you from? How did you hear about it? Yeah, sure, sure. This is absolutely fantastic. My name is Akim. I'm 31 years old, so I'm from Turkey, but living in a couple of different countries and now I'm living in London more than six, seven years. And how I started dropshipping? Be honest, when I started dropshipping, I didn't know I was doing dropshipping because I have a couple store and then I was selling stuff. And I also selling this stuff for eBay and Amazon as well. And I have won the issue because customers are asking me non-stop different model, which I don't have because I need to buy them. So I start to talk with my supplier and then he said, you know, you can lease your product from your eBay store and when you need, we can ship for you. And when I recognize, yeah, this is really great idea because I don't have to buy and then when someone buy from my website, I can ship them because my supplier let me to do this one. So I start with my mistake and then step by step, I start to be focused for this business because when I buy stuff, I need to invest my money and also time and also, you know, it can be sell, it can be sell, you know, it was risky a little bit. And it was quite new business model. So and I saw there is some star like there is golden nugget. So I try to be focused on since like around five, six years, I think I do this business and I'm so happy today where I come and after this pandemic and then this so much grow my business and I'm, yeah, I'm really proud of myself and I don't saw many things about this. Well, yeah, I start like this belongs by mistake. That's pretty cool. Basically, I also started like this, by the way, and I just sold the phone that I saw that is cheaper in another place and just listen to me when you just sold. Yeah, that's great. Pretty cool style and then did you take any course or something or you just continued to learn by yourself? Well, be honest, I do always research about everything that I'm doing. So when I start to be more focused this business model because I also run different business model as well. And when I start to be learn more, I take maybe 1000 courses. Be honest, I watch everyone, I watch everyone's strategy because we're doing same things, but everyone know, everyone know some different way how to be, get more success because sometimes I don't see what people see and sometimes they don't see what I see. So I tried to be match them and then I put my strategy as well how to be useful because when people teach something from the course or other stuff, they show them own way. But sometimes doesn't work this way for me. So I try to figure out and I just try to put my inside my business and try to be useful information. And yeah, well, I'm still learning. I'm still taking course. I'm happy with that. I'm a little bit hungry to learn and yeah, I do. Never stop learning. That's awesome. How many stalls do I have on eBay? Right, right now I have three store and also we have, I believe now seven more store, which we work like profit, profit. So they are not more on my store, but we find items and they just list for them and then when they sell, we do like a 50-50. So around like, I believe like 10 on the moment, three is mine and seven is not mine, but I work for them as well. So total time. And these stalls are niche stores or you list general products, how they work well? I be honest, I try niche stores. It doesn't work for me be honest. I try so many times niche store because which I see on the system, I did some niche store on Shopify store. Yeah, it is working. But when you come to eBay, be honest, you find some niche, which is most like a home, a garden, which because I more focus the UK marketplace and I'm, I'm living in UK. I know what people want and what people buy. So I just research and this item, how I can sell more and lower prices. And then when I find this item, I run all this item from all my store. So because anyway, they are not mine. So I can list and also what I do, I figure out I list some in item, usually for this store. I use mostly a book listing. So for example, when I start to list, I pick up temporary from garden, temp item, let's say from pets and I run all of store. And end of the day, let's say after a couple of weeks, I just watch them how many items sold, which items sold and how many watches they are. And then I focus more, I take it off all others and I'm focused this niche. So I work like this and it's really a good feedback I get for this one. It's work for me. I don't know what someone doesn't work, but for me it's working perfectly. It's amazing. And when you list different products, how do you list bulk one by one? Do you do any title optimization or are you just listing it in bulk? Yeah, this is a great question to be honest. How I do in my strategy, first of all, I list book. I'm just like a kind of phishing. So I just list book niche and then when I find items selling very well, so I'm more focused. I give more energy to this item. So I just type the eBay be honest, my item and then I just check this couple, let's say five item which is coming. So which is the top one is coming. I took this keywords to on my listing. So when I put my listing to this first listing title and I just just last couple keywords like a free shipping, new UK, something like similar. I don't put like a copy paste and then I focus more inside like a which kind of which brand or other things and then be honest, I focus more pricing as well. So when I sell like let's say 10 item and then I start to put repricing little bit and top up, top up, top up, top up. And however ever buying, still buying from our product be honest, we still have like a 5 pound, 10 pound profit but still they keep going to buy our stuff because when people come to eBay, they saw these items exactly they are same. We changed of course the picture as well but they are same item, even same supplier but when people see like let's say one is 30 pound and other is 40 pound but people look and they said they thinking like this, I believe. This is 20 time people buy. I think this is the good supplier. I'm gonna buy, I'm gonna pay 10 pound more but I will buy for this item and then I figure at this one so more profit and same product but I focus the more after sell with not before sell optimizing. So after the sell you optimizing it. Yeah, when I figure out how many people watch or people, this item take people attention I start to focus my item. So I work like this. That's cool. I'm also believe in this that you don't need to spend time on things that are not working. Yeah, exactly. And in average, how many products do you have to store? Yeah, let's say this all different, be honest. I mostly now on the moment working which is not my store. They are starting new around thousand item but in my store like I believe like going to which I figure out beyond now on the moment on my store like thousand between thousand five hundred but what I figure out, I have only one store which is my main store which I work with Walser supplier. I had just a hundred and six item and then I did like a daily between two thousand, let's say between three thousand pound per day sales. So which I figure out be honest doesn't make sense. Of course there is some but even I have one store inside like hundred and fifty item and I earn more than all of them. So need to be honest to focus what you want to sell if you find this correct product and they selling like thousand time even you list one this item selling thousand time but you list thousand item and selling one time. So I focus much more to high volume product. So yeah, this is which my opinion and this you find just by a bulk uploading and then from there you find the right products. Yeah, some yes some nuts because sometimes I can't give my all my time to research the item. There is couple software which you can search because which my strategy what I do I have a list and good seller. I keep them a regular check them what they're selling, how they're selling and then how is going them store and what's product work for them store. So I work like let's say 30% I follow the sellers and 30% which I keep on my book and 30% I research on my store like 30-35% is taking time but like I do like three part one one part for sellers other part book which I figure out after that because I saw people selling well as so many people want to buy I focus this item and other part I focus most like I research on my warehouse or a wholesale supplier. I try to play like a big profit item like high ticket item so I work like three different business all of different store. But you mean different stores you do the different business or you do only one store? No, no all of them for example if they start new I start to focus with follow the sellers because when you put wall size not it can be risky little bit in my opinion because sometimes happening because so on my store I focus more wall size and then other like there is couple new they're quite old so I can figure out you know things so I do for them book so I work like this you know depends how old this eBay store and how I have feedback like history I'll be selling all others so I do like this. Nice and from which suppliers mostly you start sell the wholesale? Well in the whole side in the UK at Marketplace there is thousand, thousand top layer there is a commerce search in a UK Marketplace they do international also they have in UK Marketplace they have warehouse and then I most work for them and also I figure out it's really is quite nice if you're here before like a CJ dropshipping it is really is fantastic because which I work for them I find item in the AliExpress and most people have a problem about like after quarantine or after all things like taking 30 between 50 days so when you find the item from AliExpress selling very well I just sent this link to for CJ dropshipping and I said them can you give me this price which is AliExpress selling 10 pounds but I said them I don't want to pay 10 pound I will pay for example 5 pound this item and I'm gonna buy one and they say yes okay that's absolutely fine and then when I list this item it's selling very well behind us and they send between 8 day not working day 8 day most of the coming to 8 days inside UK so it's quite good I don't know how they do they work them on the delivery method which is they call CJ dropshipping CJ packet and it's quite cheap quite fast and so I figure out like this and there is a couple more in UK market which I work with them there's quite nice the honest so I keep for myself on my store like this supplier and for tracking number which tracking number they provide you well how I figure out this one when people do CJ dropshipping CJ dropshipping they have CJ packet which you can follow track 17 but you can put on eBay system so what you can do some of them not all of them but some of them you can convert with Blue Car Express which is track 17 so people can follow or if however people asking you sometimes what's happening to me and you can put on system so I just text the email to my customer I said you can look this website track 17 and then if I can convert the Blue Car Express because doesn't accept so I said you can follow here and I always sent them secret shot which is how is the position I give them to us and I say look as soon as possible as you will get received and however if you have some question because I work very well for customer service also which you have in the out of this website there is way I believe 42 customer support feedback something like this should I don't know how to go but this is just a main question and answer this is perfect work for my store and when customer ask some question about this niche when I just copy paste 100% 100% 100% it's working very well even more how many times I say to me the story I'm so sorry it's thanks so much for this one you're that's insane and and it doesn't affect your email rating this that you don't provide tracking number that is covered by email yes some yes some of course but which I said which I working on my store I do accept this one and also I work with the Amazon as well which I try to keep how to say for traffic and tracking number and also my eBay store right so how I do I put like a small profit like a high selling item always I just put in the middle like a take traffic quick and also I try to keep like a higher as how much I scan because this product this supplier doesn't always give which mine working this working with Hermes so I'm happy with this Hermes always helped me but couple of them doesn't support which I said to you so I figure I'd like this yes some yes going down but I'm happy for with profits and I'm trying still okay all of them so there is no issue on the moment I hope not going to be so tomorrow nice all your stores are based in UK in the UK yeah all of them in UK we have so many students beyond the state start to be work for United States they do very well behind us but behind us I've worked like a years in the UK market and I knew this is like a secret nugget and also behind us you can a lot to sell even UK and also eBay come as well so when you list the item with global shipping program and if you go to eBay come you can list item from the eBay UK store so even you can sell behind us if you have UK market in the inside account in eBay you can say eBay come as well eBay French eBay I sell like most the global shipping program and it's behind us really working for me very well it's increased my sales like a third or fourth percent it's insane yeah how was the COVID-19 with wow this whole my life I saw like this sale behind us like I do I did really very well but I wasn't think like when this pandemic starting and then when I saw my phone like a nonstop maybe every 10 minutes it's coming to paper paper like notification and my phone like and it's behind us what I done the one store it was going crazy because not all of them but one store I just a couple hours I put the holiday I think something going wrong because people nonstop sending me money from paper and then I figure out people nonstop buying one item which they get bored like it was simple just a puzzle and they buying like a crazy puzzle and it's like a it was perfect margin around like 60 65 percent which is like a huge money for because you know we do like most 30 percent it was like a double even more than double and I'm so happy with it and now starting to be going slowly slowly down but still okay still okay yeah insane yeah how they find initially the products for the bulk upload before you do the first upload how do you use? Do you use any tools or just everything manually? Yeah, that's a great question be honest but what I do before I was still I do I focus mostly I have be honest really good seller so I check them what they're doing so I follow them they want my strategy and after I focus I use Zeke Antik I research and also what I do I'm not sure maybe here or not but I also Amazon seller as well so when I try to sell Amazon item I really focus what people saying because thing like this we trying to sell from Amazon to eBay let's say but I try to find the Amazon behind who is selling so kind of Alibaba or something so I use Hallington and I figure out how many times this product sell on Amazon so when I find this item which is the golden item I said hmm this item selling Amazon per day 50 times so why not in eBay because I find this item 5 pounds selling 10 pounds to Amazon selling 15 pounds to eBay so I have already know the 5 pounds this is mine so I separate them like as last Shopify as well and so I figure out like this be honest because why I need to drop 10 pounds from Amazon which I know I can buy from the 5 pounds from this item and then sell the eBay and I can keep this between profit and I don't need to pay for Amazon this because Amazon seller is we selling same stuff on eBay which I see I figure out like this but some I do specially less profit I keep just for my store keeping healthy for like a tracking number fast delivery and also just for feedback now I'm not focused on money still I earn money small but I focus for keep my old store like a balance is very well you know you need to be provide everything okay everything like good feedback and a good race I hope to celebrate so I just keep for Amazon a couple small supplier for this reason nice so that's how you find thousands of products into your stores yeah mostly I do be honest you have so good extension which I use mostly because if be honest I don't have time to do everything and I have we have like eight VA now so they work as well but I'm more focused the most profitable item so I don't have time to do everything so what I do I use couple software also auto DSS as well so when I go to niche I go under category and then I find just product like there is hundred product they say and there is auto DS extension you just one click and then book upload and couple store I do like this and then others I have in the inside auto DS you have auto finder which find for you which you already done for us so I don't need to spend my time your software do everything be honest so when you go inside the auto DS finder you can choose per month three times sell you can choose per month five times sell or eight times set also with coupon coupon so it's so important for if you use top case break or be fraud you get money money impact and then you can increase your profit then you can still have same profit and then when I this for example let's say find for me this month sell eight times hit the item and then schedule for tomorrow and then tomorrow and then tomorrow when my credit finish and then buy again and then do everything so I run all different store different software and then I try which the best work for me and then today I figure out which auto DS and couple supplier software is working absolutely together in my opinion nice do you work with the more suppliers you know to the S except Amazon of course of course well be honest I in my favorite I can't call favorite but this is really good to bang good bang good is really have good for drop shipping because as you know drop shipping center inside they sport so many things for you and you can get little lower price and also couple more things and then I do bang good as well and also I have couple more I be honest I didn't focus so much China brands I'm still curious about it I check so many times but I I list maybe couple item but I didn't focus I didn't give my time to so much the research about China brands but I do have some couple of Chinese suppliers as well but not for China's brand but I use bang good and Amazon be honest in the auto days that's good very cool if you would start from scratch now you start drop shipping what would you say to a beginner drop ship how to start what to focus on right this is upset the great question because what I can say when I start new even I didn't know what I was doing I couldn't call even drop shipping I did drop shipping I didn't know and then when you start new you're going to have so many problem be honest you will maybe you're going to get suspense you're going to you couldn't find the right strategy and you can't sell product and you're going to get citrus and then so many things around you but when you start the research on even you to you can buy course whatever if you trust people you can follow them and they will show you everything and also there is so many YouTube channel which is like Autodesk that kind of I can't call thousand and just watch them they teach you everything you don't have to just invest your time and believe yourself and end of the day you will get hundred hundred hundred percent result if you believe what you're doing and when you figure out you can sell you want to sell more and then more and then more and then you will figure out when I was doing this business I was working now I'm I can work on my home I can do whatever I want I time is mine if I want to do something I can do I can buy I'm so happy with that so this is give me freedom and then now giving more people the freedom so if I can do or if you can do everyone can do I believe so just need to believe and just go for it you know which I can say this one so I mean if you believe in it and you focus on it finally will succeed after you really learn it and do everything right I can say only one more things about this one you have to follow the right person which I believe I follow out to this like since they open I believe yeah and then you guys doing amazing you guys sharing all even people don't share even them on course with money and you sharing I when you just go to inside the out to this YouTube channel they showing everything A till Z and then you share all your experience all your mistake how to figure out how they have to do and there is couple more which I really recommend people to follow them and get knowledge important to because I when you write in the ebay or YouTube the dropshipping or Shopify you gonna receive thousand thousand YouTube video which some people just try to show how they doing but you basically showing everything like a correct there so they need to follow correct person and the plus believe I can say like this Thank you for and for the feedback and yours the channel is also very impressive like took a look there and it's very good that channels so people can also and follow you I will show the link below this video and anything that you're doing a great job there Thank you so much Yeah What about Shopify do have any stores there that you want to talk about or Yeah sure in Shopify it's my shop is quite I believe like a one years now around something one years but now my Amazon business taking my so much time so what I was doing on Shopify Shopify I was fine item and then when people find this item they can list them on eBay store and then I can provide them to ship this from our warehouse to them customer address so they can provide them our postcard which means they have them for eBay you know when you ship 1000 supplier and then they figure out after one month later they said to them you know what we find you're sending everywhere different locations so you're doing growth shipping so we can give you some suspense so what I try to understand so I figure out if they can buy from my on my store and then same place which I really find like so cheap and high ticket product and they can drop ship this item when someone sold this item they can buy from our Shopify store then we can ship the same address to for them customer address and so this Shopify store work for me like this not like a niche store or I find the are they express the high ticket and give Facebook ads or kind of different things I don't do this one because I already have customers so I don't need to be run ads things but be honest if you understand how Facebook run Facebook ads or Google ads run also you can find famous people if you have enough money like a kind of you can start budget like a hundred pound maybe so they can if you have niche for example for niche or cosmetic niche it's really working very well so just find this item ask them nice and this is important you need to ask them when you they're going to share your item you need to see how many people view them story this is 100% so right because I have an eBay store as well like following like 60,000 people but when I share something like let's say people see like a around 6,000 between 10,000 it is not like they're so organic people like following so if you know people can they see like a 6,000 100,000 people following and they pay for them money but end of the day so they won't receive so many people they need to focus how many people view them story also picture as a photo and they can start like this then when they earn money they can start with Facebook and the Google Ads it's going to be amazing for them my opinion nice say impressive thank you for sharing from knowledge it's really helpful to people I think that you gave a lot of information and inspiration to people and do you want to tell to say something finding to people that want to start or existing dropshippers something that you want to share and then we really finish yeah sure absolutely fantastic and first of all thank you so much for all you're helping for everyone with Autodes I'm really so happy some people work for it and then make it success which is you are and thank you so much for your channel or everything what you done but I really want to say for everyone even old or even new if you believe you will get success just follow correct people and then end of the day if they get success you will get success so only one things I can say them just believe and do it just do it if you want to start eBay dropshipping just after this video open eBay account and open eBay don't wait tomorrow just do it now and then get result tomorrow which I can say and then yeah thank you thank you so much for everything they are I can say only one things just believe and do it thank you very much and it's really explain it inspiration and thank you very much for that and I hope that everyone enjoy this interview don't forget to like this this video share it with other people comment down for for any question that you have to me and I will go and personally answer any of your questions subscribe this YouTube channel and also subscribe Akin's YouTube channel that I will add them in below this video thanks for watching and thank you Akin for being here today yeah bye bye