 The best period of the year is here and now it's the time to maximize our profits. In this video I want to show you one very interesting article that I wrote by myself because this was something that was really interesting for me and I want to go with you over the points that I showed on this article and talk with you how we can use these points to maximize our profits during the Q4 and the holiday season. Hello everybody, so this is 10 points that I will go with you and we will see what I can do from these points. So first of all let's see on this amazing graph we can see the huge growth that was in the world during the holiday season from year to year and it even expected to grow much more during the upcoming year something that should be growing now in around 21%. This is something amazing. So let's see the first thing is that when will most of the buyers do their shopping? So from the statistics around 48% of the shipping on the dates of the holidays are between the Thanksgiving and the end of the year. So it means that the biggest sales are starting from the 28th of November and until the end of December. It means that during this period of time we should have the biggest amount of products in our store, we should maximize our profits and we should actually run in the full speed to take the advantage of this amazing period of time. Where most of the buyers will do their shopping? So we can see that it will be the same as in the previous year so it means that if we saw the huge increase of sales previous year on eBay we will see the same on our stores on this year because people are keep going and keep buying from the same places as they did in the previous year. Until when the holiday sales will continue? So actually 61% of the buyers will buy their last gifts during the last week of December until December 25th. It means that until this period, until these dates, we must continue and list more and more product stores. We must continue to have products which are holiday season products, things for Halloween which is actually already past but things for Christmas, Black Friday and all of the upcoming holidays. The next thing here is that do people know what they are buying, what they plan to buy? So this fact is really interesting and I want to spend some time on this point. Most of the people or maybe not most but 49% of the people which is actually almost half of the people are buying their products according to what the stores are selling to them. Actually you have the opportunity to give your buyers something that they even didn't plan to buy and just sell it to them. I usually do it using the automated messages of Autodesk or any other method that you want to do you can go and do this manually but I really recommend you send the message to your buyers which says them hey listen you bought a product for me this product is something is a gift that a lot of buyers are buying right now and I really recommend you to buy it for your friends or family or whatever you want for people you like and then just send them a product that you prepared before and you know that this product will be interesting for most of the people and something that most of the community or most of your buyers and audience will be able to buy and will want to buy. It shouldn't be something too expensive but it should be something that most of the people will like. So this is about this I recommend you to send it in most of the messages at least in the first and the third message that you're sending because the second one is just to notify your buyers about the tracking number update. How do the sales during the holiday season look like? So this is something interesting but over 20% of the annual sales occurring during the holiday season. It means that over 200% of the say of what expected to sell on a regular month will be increased right now. So this is what you should expect from your store. Sometimes it's even more from my experience on eBay at least because this is a generic statistic but on eBay it's a bit different so we should take advantage of this. This is really the best time of the year. When will the mass begin? Okay so 40% of the buyers will start their shopping by 1st November. Actually this is why I recall this video maybe it will be released a few days later but you should know that now it's the time. On the time off the Thanksgiving and the Black Friday it's the maximum of the sales like this is the record sales but right now it's starting and now it's the best 2 month November and December to maximize your sales. In other days we already prepared some templates for you so now it's the time to use these templates. If you're working with API solution you will be able later to take the products back to the previous template if not you should be aware of this that you will not be able to take the listings to other template after you listed the products so just be aware of it. How many of the sales are done online? This is something that we don't have something to do with it except this that we will know that we are on the best niche and on the right place but 55% of the holiday purchases are taking place online this is amazing statistic. What will people buy during the Thanksgiving? This is something that we really can do something with it so we can see here that for example 38% of the people will purchase clothing so what I will do we'll just go to Aliexpress I'll write here clothing or t-shirt or it doesn't matter anything that's related to this I will for sure I will write I will click on the best match you can actually choose the 1111 deals or end the four stars and start search products here so because all of these products are with high amount of stars I will just click extract and I will list all of these products to my store then I will go to the second page and I will do the same if you want you can click on the free return free shipping and everything here just to make it easier for you but it's not must it depends on you so go over these categories if you don't know what to sell this is a good recommendations how much money do people spend during the holiday season so we can see that in average people are spending $420 this is what people of this ages 24 to 35 are spending during this season so it means that it's the best for you also to list products which are for people in these ages because you know that these people are also buying more online so it's great for us so focus on these people but you can also know that average Americans spend $335 during this season how do people make the decision of what to buy so we can see that 66% of the people are making the decisions using their phone it doesn't matter it doesn't mean that they are buying by phone but they are making the decisions it means that you must be aware of your templates a check that your templates are mobile friendly and that it's easy for people to use your templates and your ebay stores or any e-commerce stores from their mobile phones because if not you will lose these people I hope that you like this video now it's the time we already have a live event about the Q3 updates of AutoDS plus the holiday season preparation where I went deeply about what to do during this season we will have some more interesting videos about this don't forget to subscribe for our youtube channel click the like button and leave a comment with any question that you have any video that you want me to do and anything that I can help you with your dropshipping business see you on the next videos bye bye