 Hello everybody! Today we are here with Amy who is a big YouTuber of drugshipping and also a drugshipper by herself. Amy joined the Autodesk some months ago and she will tell you about her story with Autodesk and what she had here and her experience with Autodesk. Hey Amy, how are you? Good, how are you doing? I'm great. So we waited for this interview a lot of time because I think it will be really interesting for people to listen a bit, to hear a bit about your experience. So I prepared some questions which I want to ask you and then we can make like an open conversation. Okay. So first of all, when did you join Autodesk? I joined Autodesk in March so I've been in it maybe a little bit over a month and my experience with it has been great. I've been dropshipping since around 2003-2004 and honestly Autodesk is like somebody handing me a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. I've been around the rainbow trying to search for that pot of gold and it's just so easy compared to how I started. What is that 15 years ago plus? So I was very excited to learn about your software and just delve into it and see the smoothness and the easiness and just like the relief to any kind of person that wants to drop ship and or currently is dropshipping. Cool. Thank you. First of all, I'm very happy to hear about this. How we did with which suppliers do you work in Autodesk right now? Right now I just exclusively have used Amazon. I know here in the United States it's like a huge supplier and with my confidence in Amazon and their shipping I figured that would help my eBay. I just opened a new store on eBay just for Autodesk and I figured to get my feet you know on the ground and get what get started in an eBay store you have to have good ratings. I mean everybody knows everything's reviews and ratings anymore. To do that I knew Amazon would be quick and I knew it would be reliable and if I had returns that they would handle them flawlessly and that has been the case. I've gotten I'm amazed actually because of the automated system that I've gotten so many reviews on eBay compared to my like original store. The amount of reviews that I've gotten through Autodesk and using the whole system has been like so much faster like before it probably would have taken me six months to get the amount of reviews I've gotten in three weeks. So it's been a really good experience. My eBay store has already been five stars and gotten a lot of reviews and I just I'm pleasantly surprised because not everything works as well as this has been working so it's been great. Colin, are there other stores you know selling like physical products? My other store um well it's my original drop shipping store that I started 15 years ago and without the the automated system that Autodesk has especially with the reviews and that sort of thing I have like 800 and some you know stars from customers and with Autodesk I already have 30 so 15 years 800 stars I don't know what the what it comes down to but I have 30 some in less than a month. That's just amazing to me because those numbers are going to just increase you know as time goes on and the more products I get so it just seems brainless actually to to use it and why would you why would I go back to the way I was I would I don't see any good reason to. It's just a lot harder but it works but this is so much easier. So I mean before you walked like manually find products manually and listening in your store? Yes I would do research on products probably for an hour or so and maybe find two or three products and that's I mean I could list probably maybe five or six in that hour because I would have to copy and paste and copy and find images and put four or five images save it to my computer upload it to eBay and and then just take the title and then take um you know all the all the relevant stuff for that product and then make sure it was selling on eBay and make sure it was selling on Amazon it was cheap I mean that that's monotonous and it's a big waste of time especially when you have a software that can just do it for you and a matter of one click and I tell people that and it's just like what really like it's that easy and and sometimes people don't believe it's that easy because we're so used to putting work in for everything we do and get um but you guys have just made it just almost unbelievable because we are so used to the hard work and the labor behind you know finding a product that might sell um it's just been I I mean nothing is perfect but this comes close I have to say. Yeah this is why we called it AutoDS because of the automation and how did you how do I find products for those stuff? For AutoDS I I'm honestly just using the Auto Lister right now I use the credits that I've gotten in and in my store or in my AutoDS account I use those credits and I pick products and I've kind of been doing experiments with the products that are selling one three five eight and the coupons and I have them automatically listing to my e-day account just by you know pulling a little scroll over um just to just to automatically upload basically all I do is pull the the line over the little bar over click okay set the scheduled time and then I go about my day and throughout the day my work with AutoDS checking how many orders I have so it's pretty fun and it's really cool to just check on it and see what orders went through um now I will say it's I don't want to give people the false false idea that that's it but that's primarily it like I do go in and I check my ebay messages just to make sure customers don't have any questions or you know sometimes there's a return which we have to I have to deal with which has been I thought it would be a lot more scarier and but it hasn't Amazon has actually made it like really easy to make a return so that has been working for me too so that's basically it though for my my end of work cool so this is why you like Amazon because of the easy returns yes yes and I'm familiar with Amazon I mean probably a lot of people are um at some point I do want to branch out and see what else um what other services and how they I mean I know how they work I know how the stores work but just see how well they're going to do with this cool okay when you said the auto list I mean the autodesk finder right I mean not okay uh also and maybe you didn't see it because it's a bit new feature we added the recurring uploads did you use it which uploads recurring uploads from the autodesk finder yes yeah the where were you schedule them I yeah I scheduled them for different times of the day um one of them I put at like 11 a.m between 10 and 11 a.m and those people that wake up you know in the morning and get about their day are usually around 10 or 11 they're ready to think and then the other ones I did about 6 p.m 6 to 7 p.m I varied it um for the different ones I'll sometimes stop them and then start a new recurring upload so those people that get home from work they've eaten um and they're ready to settle down and just kind of browse through their their stuff to go shopping or they remember that they needed something but usually I avoid the mid-afternoon time cool so you actually schedule it to two different times in the day so you can catch people in both times of the day yes yes nice yeah those things thought of you because usually people schedule just for one time at 6 p.m and you're putting in both very very nice again I would love to see the metric of what I sold and when I listed it and it's probably not on autodesk and that's like a nerdy thing but it's a very um interesting thing to me what time people buy and and that would help honestly cool I think that you can also put a tag on your products on which time they were uploaded this way it works better for you yes yes uh in order to have some problems with the ration listings so I want to talk also about the not good things so people can and learn from this and when did when did you start to work with variation listings and what did you have with it and honestly I think it was like the day after you announced it or maybe the day of your announcement because the variation gives you a lot more options and I'm the type of person that it says hey let's just try this and see what happens and sometimes I struggle and sometimes I don't um I'm the type of person that turns the key in the ignition and pushes the gas you know puts it in and drive and pushes the gas and then if I wreck then I figure out why I wreck so with the variations um it was awesome because I had a ton of different listings okay but what I was finding not always but what I found in some of the listings the pictures and here the crisscross may have been the problem I was also uploading uh the collage of pictures in the multiple pictures so when somebody was searching they would see maybe let's say a product had three variations so they would see one two and three in the picture and they would go in and just you know let's say they saw brown but really the product was black but they saw brown in the picture they would go in thinking they're buying brown and they would just click add to cart so they weren't thinking like honestly I'm not sure it was the auto DS problem um with the listing but I don't think people were thinking by clicking the scroll down they just kind of clicked add to cart you know how you get you see what you want and you just click let's go I don't have time to think um so I was getting people ordering stuff that they didn't want that was kind of close to what they wanted so what I did was I took off the variations until I could kind of think and figure it out I'm not really sure how to deal with it still um but the other thing I did was took off um the picture collage and just kept it simple so people would have to think and they wouldn't see um all the variations and then just go click add to cart so I don't know what uh you could tell me about that or what your thoughts are on that but that was my one hiccup and you know out of I don't know how many I've sold a few thousand dollars actually are ready um and I've had maybe five issues out of that so it's not huge but there are things that you know I'd like to fix regarding that good so uh this is something which many people had this problem with the variations and because it was something very new to people and we also didn't tell the warning to people now we already write this warning when people are uploading the products with the variations but I want to give here two tips about how to use the variations in the right ways so people can avoid situations like this okay first one this idea actually came from you is really not to put collage when you upload this so for people just don't to don't check the collage option so don't check the collage button okay yeah so this way when someone see that the t-shirt is blue for example and they don't want the blue one so they will choose really the variation of the blue one the second problem is the titans on amazon all of the each variation has its own title and own description and own item specifics while on ebay all of the variations have the same title and the same description which can cause a really big problems because for example if I list t-shirts and one t-shirt is blue and one is yellow but in the title we write blue so it will cause a problem because someone maybe he choose the yellow one and the title is blue so it can be like a product not as described problem and to solve this what people can do they can go to settings blocked keywords and there they can put all of the colors and in this way any product with color in the title will not be uploaded okay probably you could do the same thing for size as well maybe small me enlarge that sort of thing okay that's good to know yeah because the the problem usually comes from sizes and colors so if you exclude both these listings maybe less listings will be uploaded but you will be more covered and more more confident that you're matching up with what they're getting and that's good yeah exactly so it's about the variations what did it tell to the clients when you had the problems so in order to deal with the return that's why I said I like Amazon all I did was go to my Amazon order and I just click to return or there's a choice of like return or refund and I did or exchange and I did the return and what they do is they give you directions and they give you a QR code once you make your selection of how you want to return it and I always had um take it to a UPS store because most people have some sort of UPS store somewhere close not all people I understand that or there's a UPS pickup I would communicate first with the customer I said um you're gonna have to request a return from eBay in eBay there is a link that says it's really hard to find the return you have to go to their PayPal transaction and then refund them through PayPal you don't actually do it through eBay so then I would take let's go back I go to Amazon get their order and I click on return and then I copy the directions on how to do a return I paste that in a message to my eBay customer that wants the return then here's the the most difficult part is there's a QR code that they have to take to Amazon or the UPS store in the Amazon return instruction so I would download the picture of the QR code then I would up I would upload it and attach it into the eBay message so then I tell them look at the attachment take the picture to the UPS store of the QR code and they'll ship it back for you and that was it and honestly I thought I'd have more problems after giving people those instructions and I think I had a 76 year old say I don't know how to do this and I'm like that's it's all good so what I just did for her was send her like a United States Postal Service return address something or other so she could just stick it in the mailbox so that's how I dealt with it and everybody took it back because then they get a message from Amazon saying your returns is done and then you get refunded so it's pretty easy on Amazon's part like they just refund you as soon as they see that processed they don't even wait for the product to get back to them as soon as they take it to the postage store it you see the return process and the clients got it okay I mean without any problems yeah after um after we kind of figured out the confusion and why I like at first I was like what what happened and and it was the variation pictures and the collage and that sort of thing um they just come back I guess people were kind of used to it at this point getting things and shipping them back and just having that so it wasn't like totally formed probably the people that are buying on eBay so so they got it to okay like it's normal yeah they they you know people a couple people were nice about it and they're like yeah we shipped it back and thank you for the refund and that was it um there there was there was one person that wanted an exchange and what I did is I went on to see if what they won it was like a different size like you said they wanted a 12 inch they got a 10 inch and I went back to Amazon to see if there was a bigger because one of the options at Amazon is you can exchange with some people and they didn't have that product so I just told her I'm sorry I'm out of that size and I don't I just can't ship it to you come on it's actually all what you need to do is to be honest with the clients and yes yes I've been totally open and honest with them like I just don't have the the supply of that product and I'm sorry that we shipped you to the wrong thing I'll take care of the ship you know yeah what can you do I mean we make mistakes yeah another thing which I think also possible is that if the easy is the colors so sometimes the client will be will accept to keep the other column and then we can just refund for example 10 percent of the price or something like this yeah some of the people um I did offer depending on the product I did offer like a monetary you know substitution for return it I would say do you want to return it would you rather keep $20 from me keep your product and just go from there and there were a couple people that just took the extra money and then a few other people just wanted to send the whole thing back so you just kind of got to feel out what the customer wants and what they feel like dealing with I mean that's everybody's different so some people kept the money some people just wanted to return it okay nice and you asked me something about the credit before about the credit's calculation yes um I've had people ask me so basically what's the return on investment if I invest a hundred dollars in credits how much money will I make back um I you have like something you could give us a formula or information or guide or what what are your thoughts about that did you check it from your results for now until now yeah my result I actually I'm a little nerdy at times and I like to see the statistics and of course everyone that's gonna invest money wants to know if they're gonna make money back so um what I did was a formula based on the number of credits that I bought an amount that I had spent within I think are made within two weeks of starting and what I figured out after and you're just going to have to trust me I'm not going to give you and bore you with the formula I used in the numbers but it came down to 86 cents per credit that I bought that's how much money I did make at the time that I did this and I think it was about two two weeks after I started so obviously it's going to vary based on what options you pick what amount of money you put in how many you have out there whether you pick coupons or eight credits or five or five sales from or whatever whatever you pick is going to vary and I haven't done it in the last month but I will do it in the like I'll try to get an updated figure so they'll just have to check back in my video or look in the description below maybe I'll put it down there so cool so I will tell you what I saw from my experience it's not really far from yours actually what we saw is that usually when people upload around 10 000 listings from the autodesk finder we have a lot of users who just use only the autodesk finder for big stores they got around one thousand dollars profit after all the fees okay so it's very close to your calculation again it depends on the account and depends on the time because the first month will be less sales from the second month because after the first month you will get more sales history and then you will sell more so it depends on the time but it's around one thousand dollars per ten thousand listings okay so it's a it's a numbers game and this is what I always tell people in dropshipping they often say well how much am I gonna make I'm like well how much are you gonna put into it like it's it's really how many listings do you have and you know if you have 10 listing and what type of listings so I can't really say how much you're gonna make and outside of it's a numbers game like the more you list the bigger the item the better I'll figure to be with making money so that's a good answer 10 000 for a thousand I mean 10 000 credits or I mean listings yeah that's good to know I think this is actually the good thing on eBay these that you just need to understand that when you grow more you can make more profits because people can't wait for this like a lot of people are dropping out from eBay dropshipping when they have around 100 products they even don't get to this point where they really can start making the profits okay yeah I agree people are too timid you gotta treat it like a business like there's no business out there that you're gonna buy for 50 dollars yeah so if you invest 50 dollars in a business well you know what do you expect to get out of it if you invest 500 dollars get better if you invest a thousand you know what you put in is what you're gonna get out like if you're wanting to make money you gotta think like a business owner you can't just dabble with your toe in the water and think you're gonna be Olympic swimmer or something yeah you gotta jump in you know yeah I accept I think that I ask you most of the things that I wanted to ask you would you like to share with people any other things about today about dropshipping tips that you want to give them about your channel anything well I've just I'm if you're part of my channel and you've seen some of my other videos or even if you have and go check them out but I'm very transparent I don't go in and tell you you're gonna make five thousand dollars if you start this like I can give you my experience I give you the real numbers I show you my screen I show you my account show you my products if that's something you're interested in we can walk together I have consultations I can help you set things up I'm looking the description below and I'll give you all the links that you need for my channel as well as you know check out auto DS I'll put a link there too there's you have nothing to lose you don't have to buy into auto DS to get something out of it you can get involved with them and check out their stuff and just sign up and see what they have and go from there and and I'm here to help you there's an awesome auto desk helped us that that auto DS also has in their chat down on the right side of the screen outside of that thanks for watching I mean I hope we helped you and informed you about a new drop shipping software tool yeah by the way the trial is $1 for one month using emis link so you will get also the final credits for free 400 credits to try this and I think that that's all I think that actually one interesting thing about Amy that I saw is that I work with a lot of youtubers and most of the youtubers just taking the software creating the videos even without trying to like really try to work with it and just putting their link and that's all while Amy asked us a lot of questions really don't understand the tool exactly how everything works so I think that this is amazing that you're really trying to open it and you're really transparent and that's all thank you very much Amy well thank you Lior I really try to be authentic and I like to know what I'm doing so and I know I've had a ton of questions that's great I'm really trying to learn it inside and out because I mean 15 years of doing this manually is this is like like I said the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow yeah this is really great because when we see that someone is asking questions of this type actually that you really want to go deep and understand so I know that this guy or this user will be really success and really like want to succeed in the option so it's really fun thank you all right thanks again bye bye