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Right, it's 2024, and there's a million ways to make money online. This guy became a multi-millionaire selling everyday products you see on Amazon by just 21 years old. I've had an eyewear company for a few years; it's my smallest business. It makes around $1.2 to $1.5 million a year. There are people making hundreds of dollars per day just by creating pins on Pinterest.
In the past 5 years, I've tried each and every way there is to make money online, from crypto mining to stock trading. One way to make money online that I've never tried is Drop Shipping. $100,000 in sales in one month! I just made $160,000 in only two weeks. I made a $100,000 Drop Shipping, zero to over $150,000 in just 7 days.
What is Drop Shipping? You may ask. Drop Shipping is a retail method where the online store does not keep the products in stock. Instead, the customer makes an order, the store forwards it with a payment to the Drop Shipping supplier, and the supplier ships the product to the customer. Sounds easy, right? Here's the thing: 90% of drop shippers fail. The videos that we see online are not being truthful.
In the next few minutes, you are going to see me try Drop Shipping as a complete beginner, and at the end of the video, we are going to see how much money I made in my first week. Right, just to keep the record straight, I have never tried Drop Shipping. I think the one time that I nearly did, I never even got around to finishing a website. I was Drop Shipping some white t-shirts from China, and this is like 5 years ago. Everything that you're going to see in this video is purely beginners. [Music]
Yep, to start out the video, I watched a lot of videos about Drop Shipping. And after a couple of hours of just watching videos and taking notes and learning, this is what I came up with my research. Right, so I've just spent some time doing some research and, um, Drop Shipping, and this is what I found. The most important thing is product finding. Well, what you need to find a product: when you're looking for a product, you need to find a product that has a "wow" factor, a product that solves a problem, and a few people seem to suggest a product in the beauty niche. Why? Probably because women are more likely to spend money than men online. So that is that.
And how did you find the product? Well, it was very simple. All I had to do was create a brand new TikTok. I went and searched certain keywords like "TikTok made me buy it," "cool gadgets," and then they start showing me more products from drop shippers. Any product that you think would be a good product, you look at the comment section; if there's interest, then you know that's a good product, and that's how I managed to come up with the products I'm going to show you. The first product I found was this; quite a lot of people are Drop Shipping this at the minute, as you can see. The comments are, "How do I order? How much? Can I get one, please?" So it's kind of like the people in the comment section want to buy the product, so that's how you know that that's a good Drop Shipping product. So this is one, but then because a lot of people are Drop Shipping this right now, I thought, yep, I ended up not going for that. I went for the self-cleaning hairbrush. As you can see, it's £24.2 on AliExpress, but drop shipped inside, so selling it for $98.9, and it's pulling in millions in organic marketing, so I think this is a good product. The second product I went for is this firlus diffuser. I think it's a great product for the first of season, and it's only selling for £7.32 on AliExpress, but they're reselling it for $39.99 on Amazon, and it's pulling in millions in organic marketing.
So in order for us to start making content on the product, I had to order it from Amazon for next-day delivery. Right, so I have got the two products that we ordered yesterday, and I think these are the brushes. [Music] And this is the diffuser. Right, so this is the diffuser I bought; I'm going to take it out in a minute. [Music] But this is basically a diffuser, slh humidity fire, and how it works is very simple: you add water and some essential oils if you have any, and then boom, you got little nice fireplace and fresh air. And then we got the brushes. Right, so that's the brush, you know, and then you do that, you brush your hair, and then boom, it goes up. Right, so I got… right, so I got some explaining to do. Just ignore this for now. See, with this hairbrush, I need to have hair as long as this for me to make content that then I'm going to use to promote the hairbrush. Right, but as you can see, I don't have hair like this, so I came up with a plan. The whole idea is I'm going to record myself brushing this hair, and then I can take that content and run it on social media. It's better than me using my hair. Yep, I did just… thought I spend some time just creating content, making sure I'm getting the angles, showing them how the brush works, and then after I got one of my friends to do the voiceovers for me. "Hey guys, look at this hairbrush. Looks like an ordinary hairbrush, right? But look at when I do this. Did you catch that? This extremely unique hairbrush has retracting bristles for easy cleaning." I've only written that part. Yeah, yeah, yep. My exam was short-lived. Right, so I've just finished shooting the content, and between me and you, it looks bad. I just think it's bad. I just don't think anyone would buy that purely because it's man hands and I'm selling a female product. I'll show you what it looks like. "Hey guys, look at this hairbrush. Looks like an ordinary hairbrush, right? But look at when I do this. Did you catch that? This extremely unique hairbrush is very gentle in the hair and has retracting bristles for very easy cleaning, so you never have to worry about buildup and dirty brushes again. Get yourself one today by clicking the link below." You see that I just don't like it. I just think it's my hands, and it's a man selling a female product. I don't think it would work. So this is the thing: I got a friend; she's going to come over, and she's going to help me redo the whole thing, but then this time it's going to be her hands. Yep, the new video came out a lot better. This is what it looks like. "Hey guys, look at this hairbrush. Looks like an ordinary hairbrush, right? But look at when I do this. Did you catch that? This extremely unique hairbrush is very gentle in the hair and has retracting bristles for very easy cleaning, so you never have to worry about buildup and dirty brushes again. Get yourself one today by clicking the link below." We also shot some diffuser videos, and this is what they look like. [Music] [Music]
I spent some time working on both the websites, the hairbrush and the diffuser, and a couple of hours later, the websites are ready. I'm going to show you how they look like. I've already bought the domains and everything, so the hairbrush one I've called it Lona hair brushes, and it looks like this. All right, so I've added those brushes, and then I priced it at £13. The description, I've used ChatGPT, I'll be honest with you, and then I've added a few GIFs. I've added what's included, and then obviously I've added the reviews. These are not genuine reviews; these are fake reviews, but hey, when it's so show proof… and the diffuser website was basically a copy-paste of the hairbrush website. At this point, I was ready. I posted the organic videos on TikTok, and then I also started running ads. I'm going to promote the diffuser organically, and I'm going to run paid ads for the hairbrush. Right, so it's the next day, and I got an update for you. We'll start with the paid ads. I don't know why nobody told me, if you're from the UK, you cannot target the US market with your TikTok ad campaigns. Anyway, so we've spent £42.60 on ads, and with that, we have 500 people come to the website, and out of the 500 people have come to the website, our total sales are zero. Yep, we've not got a single sale from the 500 people coming to the website. Now, this is not good because I was thinking, oh, maybe it's because there's a problem with the checkout. It's not a problem with the checkout, as you can see. I went and done a test, um, purchase, and it went through perfectly fine. So there's two things I can think about: the website is… is not great, and maybe the product is not as good as I thought. Right, so now this is day two, and I have an update for you. So what I've done is I feel like the website is now getting sales because there's not enough reviews. Right, and also I think I need to add more pictures to it. So what I done last night is I added reviews and I've added more pictures, so we have a total of over 50 reviews on this website and over 15 pictures. Surely that should be enough social proof to give us a chance. Right, so this is the following day, and I got to update: we have not made a single sale, regardless of the changes that we made to the website. As you can see, we have more people coming to the website, but zero sales, and I don't know what the problem is, but I'm not panicking just yet. What I'm going to do is I'm going to change the advert, so I'm going to change the creative; I'm going to use a different video. Right, so I ended up not changing the video. What I done is I cut the price from $12.99 to $9.99, and something magical happened. I'll show you. This morning I woke up to two orders. Yeah, boy! Look, we got two orders. I don't know if you can look and see, we got two orders, but this is the thing: I don't think this is working. So regardless of the fact that we got two orders, I'm going to cancel the ads because I just don't think this is working. So we're losing so much money, and the returns are not worth it. But that's not the end of this video because a few days ago, one of the biggest YouTubers to ever teach us about Drop Shipping dropped a video. "Over the last couple of years, I've made millions of dollars with Drop Shipping, and more importantly, helped hundreds of thousands of people start their first successful store. So today, I'm going to condense my 7 years of experience into an easy-to-follow guide that you can use to start your first successful store this year." And as you can see in that video, he's basically teaching us how to start Drop Shipping in 2025, and guess what? I'm going to take him up on his words. I'm going to follow his advice step by step and see if at the end of it all I can have better success with Drop Shipping. The first thing is that the products that you want to sell need to be trending recently. Right, so what he means with the product needs to be trending recently is one of those products that are everywhere on TikTok, like, you know, those products where you cannot miss it as soon as you open your TikTok app, is right in your face. That's basically what he means, and these products unfortunately does not meet the criteria, like it's not trending, but it got a couple million views on it, and because we're halfway through the challenge, I'm still going to use this product. The second thing is that you need to find products that actually solve a problem in people's lives. Right, so I think this product solves a problem, and the problem is messy hairbrushes. If we got a… a messy hairbrush, and then look, now you just take off your dead hair… you need to pick a product that is not available in all the stores. These people have never heard of your business before, and if they feel like they can just go buy this product at Amazon or Walmart or Target, they're not going to stop and give you their money. I feel like it's very impossible to find a product that is not on Amazon. Like, bro, think about it. What dropshippers are doing is they go to a product that's trending on TikTok, they get it, and then they put it on Amazon, so it's very hard to find a product that is not on Amazon. I… I just… it's hard, you know, with it being in Walmart and normal supermarkets, they… yeah, this product is not in Walmart or normal supermarkets, so I think it meets the criteria. The best type of store this year for testing products is a one-product store. Right, so as you can see, this is a one-product store; there's nothing else on this. Look, it's just one product that we're selling. Just taking one last look at this product page, I want to highlight one last thing, and is that they keep it super clean and simple. Yep, I spent some time just cleaning up the website, checking out things that were not needed, and as he told us, I added a bundle to the website. Right, so I've just gone and cleaned up the website, and… and I've added a bundle to the website that was not there before, so when you're buying one product, two products, or three products, you get a discount. There's a few GIFs; I'll be honest, it's more than one, and then boom, straight to the review. So I think this website misses the whole clean criteria that he's asking us to do, but to really execute on this plan, you need to learn how to run ads. So I want to break down now a simple ad strategy that you can use even if you have a low budget. As I said before, TikTok ads got way harder with the introduction of TikTok Shop, and I really believe that Facebook ads are hotter than ever before because you can take these TikTok Shop and TikTok ads products and bring them over to that platform. And in the past, it used to be really hard to go out and find the footage for these ads, but with TikTok Shop, all these creators are now trying and fighting to get a piece of the pie. There are literally thousands and thousands of videos that you can go out and repurpose and use for your Facebook ads. Right, so what he's basically saying is we are going to go to TikTok, find the most viral videos, and the videos that are very good about the products that we are going to sell, we take those videos from TikTok, and then we take them and run them as Facebook ads. Yep, that's what I did. I went to TikTok and got two of the most popular videos about the hairbrush, and then I brought them to Facebook and used them as my ad. [Music] campaign. Now, how should you set up your actual ad campaigns? I recommend you guys just use one campaign with one ad group with a broad targeting option related to your… your industry, and put all of your creatives, all of your videos inside of that one ad group, and you can start this out with a budget of $20 to $50 a day, depending on how much money you got. Right, I don't know if you look can see, but this is basically what he's saying. Look, that's my campaign. Right, and then when we come here, that's the ad campaign, and then look, I put all my creatives in that one ad campaign, as you can see, there. All right, there too. That's one, that's two, and as you can see, see, they're all active, and look, he says the budget is 20, so I put 20, 20, and 20, so… and hopefully in the next couple of days we're able to print with his advice, so fingers crossed. So it's been a couple of days, and I have an update from following Jordan's advice. The ads have been going for a day and some change, and I'll be honest with you, there's zero sales, but that's not the most surprising thing. I think the most surprising thing is the TikTok ads had a better conversion than, um, Facebook ads. There was more people coming to the website from the TikTok ads, as you can see, we had over 900 people coming to the website just off of TikTok ads, and with Facebook ads, I think 11 sessions, so only 11 people came to this website. So there's two things: either the ad is really bad, or it's just the product is not great. There's two things that I take away from this: while Drop Shipping is a good business model, I just think nowadays it's very, very hard. Like, bro, you're competing with TikTok Shop and Amazon. What are the chances you're going to beat that? Because when a product goes viral, you're seeing it, I'm seeing it, they are seeing it, so as soon as you see the product going viral, all you got to do is go slap it on TikTok Shop or go put it on Amazon, and you start getting money. You see what I'm saying, you know? And also, I feel like it's very, very competitive. Like, bro, when you go on TikTok, you're going to see a bunch of people trying to do organic Drop Shipping. If you want to start Drop Shipping now, it's like you either have to be very patient because this organic thing just… you have to be very patient; like, it's a patient game. Right, and then when it comes to paid ads, you have either have to have big budgets or be very, very early with a product. And also, I feel like a lot of people that were teaching us Drop Shipping and all of these… like a few years ago, are not really doing Drop Shipping as much. What they're doing is they're starting branded e-commerce brands; like, that is the play. Like, I think that's it for this video. If you enjoy this content, don't forget to hit like and subscribe.