 What is going on guys welcome to a new video so today then I wanted to talk about and discuss how long it actually takes How many hours actually takes then to build and run a Shopify dropship in store So we've all seen the videos on YouTube then how to create a Shopify store in like nine minutes ten minutes But I thought I'd do a video like this just to kind of give a more realistic approach Because I don't want to I think social media can be guilty sometimes of creating a false representation of what is actually real and What actually truly goes into building and running a business? So the idea of this video then is to kind of give you two approaches number one as a beginner So how long when I first started then nearly dropship in three years ago? How long it actually took me to build my store build my ads find the products etc? Versus what it would take me today. So how much time actually spend today putting into my stores on a daily basis But before we get into the video then as always I am giving away a free one-to-one call in this video All you've got to do then to enter the raffle is simply like the video and leave a comment down below And if you commented on my previous video then make sure you stay tuned to the end of this one Whether win out will be announced and that basically guys without any further ado, let's get straight into it So I've got my phone in front of me then I've got some notes that I'm just gonna be running through Make sure I don't forget anything in the video But before we get into it then I've been having some thoughts about what kind of series or content I want to put in this channel and I thought about doing like a lifestyle series where I Talk about kind of like the day-in day-out processes and tasks and actually what? Physically and mentally goes into running a dropship in business with Shopify. I'm using Facebook ads So if that is the kind of series or content you guys want to see make sure you let me know down below in the comments section So to begin the video then I'm gonna start kind of like from the beginners point of view I feel like that the majority of people that watch this watch this channel probably our beginners So we'll get that one done first and then you can just leave the video or you can carry on watching If you do want to see kind of like how many hours on a daily basis then go into running a store For me at the moment So as a beginner then I'm gonna start with the store creation and when I first started then obviously as a beginner You don't really know what you're doing. You don't really know your way around the Shopify dashboard. So a Kind of an approximate guess would be eight to ten hours now some people might think that's a lot Some people think might think that's not many but I think for somebody who has kind of like average computer skills and Can kind of guess what certain different buttons do and by the time you've worked out kind of like How to select a product variant by clicking the image or how to get rid of the tax included message on the product page? Or how to remove the powered by Shopify in the footer Then you're probably looking at about eight to ten hours to get a pretty decent looking store Get all the required pages like the FAQ the privacy policies and start uploading products Which brings us on to point number two then which is product research So again as a beginner you're probably not going to be very good at picking products And the chances that you're not going to find your winning products It's not gonna be the very first products you pick and choose to advertise. It certainly wasn't for me I've done a video on it. So I'm not going into too much detail But I think it was like five or six products that I spent money on advertising Before I actually found one that sold consistently well So I've put two to four hours down on that just purely because it can range depending on what kind of person you are Like some people are just willing to just dive into it in the very first product They come across stick on their store and start running ads Whereas some people need a bit more time a bit more social proof a bit more kind of affirmation if that's right If that's the right word before they actually commit to a product So two to four products then and that includes kind of like finding the suppliers Finding other products what I call filler products to put on your store Number three then so once you've got your store and you've got your products on your store then obviously you're going to start creating Facebook ads and The first thing you do then is obviously create a Facebook ad and for this I've put three hours Now again, some people might say probably most people think that's quite a lot of time But I'm one of those people then who likes to analyze everything and know exactly what everything does Before I commit to it, especially if I'm going to start spending money on it So me personally then I spent a lot of time Like learning what custom audiences were what custom conversions were how the audience insights tool worked What a pixel was essentially how it worked and how you can track the conversions per week and the different pixel fires And then I wanted to know what a traffic campaign was what a conversion campaign was and essentially Just as much as I could before I started spending money Just so I had kind of like a better understanding before I was committing money up front So I've kind of included that in the ad creation process which I've put down at three hours so once you've created your Facebook ads then and you've Set them into review and they've gone live and they've ran for a day two days However long you want to give it as a beginner by the way, I thoroughly recommend that You download the Facebook ads app and you watch your ads like check up on them just every two three hours if you can and Certainly review them at least every 24 hours to begin with So Facebook ads maintenance wise then I've put one to two hours per day again purely because as a beginner Then it might take you a couple of times before you truly understand what the different kind of Anagrams if that's the right word so like what CPC means and essentially which numbers you need to be watching and Because it can be a lot to get to grips with in terms of the ad manager account There might be a lot back and forth between in and out of ad sets and you might not know the shortcuts or whatever it is So I've basically just put one to two hours maintaining your Facebook ads per day and Then the next step in the process then once you've been running your ads if you've been doing a good job Then you're gonna be seeing orders come in a door and unless you hire a VA right out the back Which I don't recommend you do I thoroughly recommend as a beginner that you pretty much just learn The whole process everything that goes into your business before you store out before you start actually outsourcing things So order full film and wise then back when I used to do it and kind of in that when I was in the process of hiring VA's I did time myself as well so I could make sure that they were performing too just to a decent standard I guess and You're looking at anywhere between 70 and 80 seconds per order So obviously depending on how fast your internet connection is how many products you need to load Whether you've got like the little note Automatically set up so you don't have to type that in every time whether you've got Oblo set to e-pack it as well. So make sure it pre-selects e-pack it So you don't have to select that every time. So anyway, basically it's between 70 and 80 seconds Or if you're getting 20 orders per day, then you're looking at 26 minutes per day Per 20 orders. So if you have 40 orders, you're looking at about 50 minutes And then finally customer service. So once you've started shipping orders You're gonna get people asking where their orders are. It's a drop-shipping business It comes with a territory and again to begin with then I would say you're probably looking at approximately one hour per day Now again, some people might say that's quite high, but me personally even to today I do spend quite a lot of time thinking about what I want to say to a customer because it can make a big difference Like if you don't word things in a specific way then a customer might might read it like Not in the way that you intended it to be read and you don't want to offend one offend anyone or annoy them because you only run the risk of them Opening a dispute on PayPal or just kind of just getting fed up with you and asking for your money back essentially So to summarize then the totals as a complete beginner You're probably looking at about 15 hours to get your store up and running with products and get some ads running as well So if you work a nine-to-five at the moment Then you'll be able to work out depending on what your commitments are what else you do then Based on 15 hours so you can say if you can devote two hours a night to this Then you're looking at approximately a week before you get to that point where you can see some orders coming in the door So 15 hours then approximately as a beginner Just to get your store up and running and advertising and Facebook has running in terms of maintenance Then I've put that approximately three hours per day now again that varies like some people will Not fulfill their orders every single night Some people won't get back to people every single night and they'll let it kind of build up and then just do everything the weekend So whichever however, which way you decide to do it or Have a which way you decide to process things or however long it takes you then you're looking at approximately three hours Now this can be a lot lower. Obviously if you get in zero orders a day then The time each day to maintain your business is going to be a lot less But as a kind of general rule of thumb as a guideline then you're looking at 15 hours to get up and running And then I would say two to three hours maintenance per day Now, let me know what you guys think if you are a beginner and you've been building your store Whatever it is. Let me know if you think I've overestimated this underestimated this It'd be interesting to get your guys's point of view watching the video. So the beginner side then being covered now I'm just gonna go pretty swiftly then through kind of like the more experienced person How long it or a little basically what it would take me then to do this Today just purely because like I said, most people who watch this channel our beginner So they're probably not interested. So there's probably gonna be a lot of people dropping out the video at this point But just in case you're interested then Store creation two to four hours purely because at this point now I know the different kind of bits of code you need to add to your store whether it's to change the add to cat button or Remove certain things from pages or make images smaller or change the layout or whatever it is I just I know how those I have them saved on a Google document. So I can just go straight there I've got all the resources so I can do things a lot quicker basically Product research then takes about an hour again The more you do product research and the more websites the more strategies that you use and come across then you kind of Come up with your own process and your own way of thinking and your own way of doing things essentially So it takes me approximately about an hour to gather a list of maybe half a dozen a dozen products That I've then want to do some further research into Add creation and takes me about an hour When I say that then when I'm creating an add I usually create at max three and I'll usually split test three different ad creatives just because There's always just because basically there's loads of different ways you can advertise a product now Sometimes it will be one video one carousel add and then one single image and I'll split test those three Or if it's like a really active products like a drone or something then it'll just be three different video ads So again, I'm kind of gin relies in here, but I'm looking at about an hour to create Kind of like that ads that I want to run for a product whether I'm testing it or Whether I'm just trying to sell it basically so add main sentence wise then It's about an hour a day now Depending on whether what stages I am at with a certain product it can be more it can be less So if things are going pretty well And I want to let things play out for a while then I'm probably looking at about 30 minutes Maybe an hour just kind of check over things Maybe make a few tweaks if I want to Whereas if I'm in like the testing stages or the scaling strategy or scaling stages Sorry, then I'll be watching my ads a lot more closely and I'll probably spend kind of like 20 minutes at a time maybe three or four times during the day. So I'll check them when I wake up I'll check them kind of around lunchtime and kind of a lot early afternoon Then in the evening and then usually just before I go to bed as well So again, it kind of varies and depends and at what stage and what I'm currently doing or trying to achieve with my ads Moving on to the last two points then just quickly. So order fulfillment takes me 10 minutes per day That's purely because I've got a VA that Low preloads every single order onto aliexpress and then I'll go in at the end of the day And I'll click basically the final button to order all of those orders. So I'll be the one essentially Commit in payment and at that same time then I'll usually pick at random say Maybe three maybe four maybe five different orders just to kind of cross reference Just to make sure there's no mistakes and then customer service wise again I've got a VA that manages facebook messenger does emails and then whenever there's anything that requires Money to be transferred to whether that's a refund or there's more money required from the customer because there is a particular product I sell where that can sometimes happen Then I'm looking at about half an hour per day usually because most things Most emails that you'll get then when it comes to drop shipping is people just asking where their order is and It doesn't take like a skilled response or skilled answer So definitely outsource that part of the business when you have the money to do so And most of the time it's just sending like a tracking link or apologizing and then your order is going to be x amount of length Which again, it's just easy enough just to get somebody else to do it So about 30 minutes then per day customer service So the total is then for a more kind of advanced person who's been doing drop shipping or Shopify for a while You're looking at about five hours approximately then to get a store up and running with products on it versus the 15 hours as a beginner And then you're looking at approximately two so out two hours per day once two hours maintenance per day depending on how involved you want to be How many kind of refunds you have to do that day or whatever it is Again, it's kind of difficult to put a specific number on it But hopefully then I've given you guys kind of like a good general guideline Just so you know what you're getting into because like I mentioned in the intro quickly The social media can be really bad at creating like a forced representation of how easy things are or how Little time certain things need but at the end of the day the way you've got to look at things that If it was really that easy and required that little time Then why isn't everybody doing it and why isn't everybody driving around in a Ferrari making loads of money? The fact of the matter is it's difficult. It requires a lot of time It's going to require probably like a lot of blood sweat and tears if you like There's going to be highs. There's going to be lows and all in all then that's kind of like how many hours you're looking at Per day and kind of like per store creation process if you like So that means the thing guys, that's the end of the video. I've been talking way too long I'm going to try and make the videos just a bit shorter so I can get a bit more to the point But let me know your guys opinion on that Leave a comment down below and of course if you enjoyed the video Then please do leave a like and if you want it to be entered into the raffle Then for the one-to-one call then of course make sure you let me know down below in the comment section And that means so then guys this game to announce in the winner of the previous video Here we are then guys on my previous video. 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