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What's good my boys? Maybe girls. Today

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I'm going to be answering your guys'

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questions on drop shipping. Kind of like

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an AMA just with your biggest struggles

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and stuff. I don't know if you guys

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notice, change of scenery, LA Hills.

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We're in SoCal just for Q4, grinding it

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out. If anyone's in SoCal, let me know.

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I'll show you guys some of my brands and

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my Q4 stores that are going absolutely

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crazy. Getting a [ __ ] ton of work done.

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But I thought, [ __ ] it. Might as well

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help you guys out. Throwing a little

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video in the mix. So yeah, I'm just

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going to be pulling questions I've asked

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on Twitter and Instagram. Just a little

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thread I made asking you guys your

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biggest struggles and we'll just be

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going one by one answering all your

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questions. No gatekeeping in this [ __ ]

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>> All right, I have to do this on my

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actual camera cuz my setup doesn't have

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a webcam. But here are just some stores

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from yesterday that we're scaling up for

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Q4. So Q4 is coming. Like it's these

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stores are going to be doing like 100k

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days. Like it's still really [ __ ]

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early. But I had some [ __ ] in my

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comments saying like I uploaded orders

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or something. So I guess I uploaded

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payouts too as well, right? So I don't

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know. these retards be saying anything,

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bro. But yeah, take this as a sign to

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keep grinding. Um, but yeah, peace. Back

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to the video. But yeah, let me know how

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you guys Q4 is going so far. But besides

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that, let's get straight into it. Okay,

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so the first question is from Leon.

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We'll keep it kind of basic with the

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first question, but don't worry, I'll be

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answering a bunch of advanced stuff. He

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asks, "How do you find a winner?" I'm

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just taking straight L's from these

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product tests. I don't want to repeat

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too much of what I said in my videos,

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but I will say this. Drop shipping is

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not instant gratification. It's not it's

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nothing like school for example. I

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talked about this in my last video. It's

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not like a linear progression. Grade

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one, grade two, grade three and you are

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consistently making progress with each

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day. The difference is with ecom right

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you can make progress but it's not

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tangible. You're not getting money every

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single day. You can test 5 10 15

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products but right like at the end of it

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that one product can make you 100k. So

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it's not linear. And I talked a lot

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about this on my last video. So if

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you're struggling with mentality go

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watch that Leon. In terms of the actual

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knowledge side of things um it's all

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feedback loops bro. You need to really

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understand and learn from every product

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test, right? So, look at the product

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you're running and look at the metrics.

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What you will notice is that visual

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products, products with more seasonal

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demand, products that are unique and

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viral. The more they fit these criteria,

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the better the data is going to be, the

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lower the CPC is going to be, the higher

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the CTRs are going to be. So, you're

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going to look at your products and see,

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okay, what is lacking? Is it, you know,

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my product? Is it my offer? So, for

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example, if your cost per clicks are

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really high and your CTR is super low,

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your product is just [ __ ] That's your

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product eye. Another case may be your

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data is really good and you think your

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product's [ __ ] but in reality it's your

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offer. Beyond that, right, actually look

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at the product. I don't want to yab too

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much about this because every [ __ ]

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guru says this [ __ ] and it's just I said

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this so much in my videos, but really

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put your put yourselves in the

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perspective of the customer. Bro, you

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need to really think and understand if

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this product is worth impulse buying,

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virality, visuality, is the explanation

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solid enough? Is it something they can

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just go to the store and buy? You need

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to really understand and it's way easier

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said than done, but that's all I can

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really say. And if you're not 50 IQ, if

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you really put some thought into it, you

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will be able to understand. For example,

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my brand I exited, removable window

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tint, visual. When the [ __ ] have you

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seen that, like you're pulling window

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tint out of a car solves a great

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problem. Summer, heat, privacy, all

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things people really deeply care about.

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Lots of emotion tied to that. They want

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to be uncomfortable. They don't want

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people weird men looking at them through

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the windows. Um, lots of emotionality,

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visual, you literally see it working in

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real time. There's nothing to question.

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These are all spectrums. You need to ask

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every [ __ ] product, even a

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supplement, right? Is there a lot of

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solutions for the problem your

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supplement is solving. Is the copy of

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the video good enough to convince them

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that the small pill you're taking is

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actually going to work? There's a lot to

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consider there. Third thing, is there

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too much competition? Market

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sophistication. Low market

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sophistication means, hey, you know,

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there's not that much competitors, not

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that much selling going on. Any ad you

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can [ __ ] do will work. High market

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sophistication, there's a lot of

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competition, there's a lot of ads. You,

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Leon, are not going to be able to break

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through that, my boy. It's all

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perspective. Put some thought into it.

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Okay, next question. Really good one

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from Flu. Once you find a winning ad for

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your product, how do you approach

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testing more creators to find more

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winners? Let's say you run a call

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product and get a winner from there, but

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the rest of the call ads are kind of mid

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or don't perform as good. What should be

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your next step? You only worry about

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this, especially right now in Q4, when

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you already have at least one calorip

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scaling. This for the advanced people

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that have already done high six figs,

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yeah, you probably don't need this

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question. You already know how to launch

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with a custom funnel. But let's say you

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are in a position where you launch a

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product, it's good, you're profitable,

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you're scaling it, but you're running

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off one creative that's carrying you.

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Not, oh, day one, my metrics are [ __ ]

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How do I make a custom funnel? No. If

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you're [ __ ] noob, you're not going to

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make ads from scratch if your product is

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doing trash. If you are scaling a Cal

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data product and it has one ripped

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creative caring and all the other ads

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are [ __ ] you are going to do deep

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customer research. So, you're going to

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see why is this ad a winning ad compared

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to the rest of the ads? Is it the avatar

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that is targeting? For example, if I'm

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selling a pillow or some [ __ ] and that

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pillow is targeting neck pain and my

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winning avatar is going to be someone

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suffering from neck pain and all the

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other ads are about something else, you

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know, hot sleepers or some [ __ ] It's

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kind sounds kind of basic and that's a

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lot of the cases, right? The avatar that

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the ad is targeting is going to be

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better. So, you need to understand what

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is working and maybe you know all the

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ads are about neck pain and only one of

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them is doing good. Think about the

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messaging. Is that ad very natural? Is

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it very organic? Are the other ads a

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little too adlike? Are they too

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straightforward? There's a lot of

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variables in that. So, what you do from

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there is you take that winning ad and

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make a bunch of variations of it to milk

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it as much as you can. After that, you

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start digging into new avatars. Neck

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pain, hot sleeper, comfort, all that

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stuff. Go into all those avatars and

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start making voiceovers. Once you see

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voiceovers getting some traction,

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especially with Andromeda update, um

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voiceovers doing really good. Once you

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see like, hey, this has proof of

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concept, the soft metrics are good, is

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getting a couple sales, then you go out

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and get UGC. So, that's kind of the

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process I use. But I will say if you're

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running just off one rip creative, um,

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your first step again should just be to

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maximize it, make iterations, send it to

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another thing you can do is you can send

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it to a congruent listicle where you

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make a, you know, five reasons why you

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should buy this preander and it's all

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based off the reasons of that one rip.

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It's just squeezing as much life of it

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as possible. After that, that's when you

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do a lot of avatar testing because if

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you want your brand to last and you

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don't want to just run off one, two

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creatives. If you want a bunch of

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creatives taking spend, you need a

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diversity of avatars, different customer

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profiles taking up your ad account. So

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again, in that pillow, you would need a

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winning ad for neck pain. You would need

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a winning ad for hot sleepers. That's

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your goal after you kind of find that

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one winning avatar and double down on

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it. Speaking of UGC, my boy Pixel asked,

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"How to source video content at scale

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for cheap? Where to get initial video

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content besides ripping? And what do you

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do when you first start scaling and

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testing your concepts? Plays into the

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last question. So when you're first

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starting, especially right now in Q4,

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all you need to be doing is ripping, my

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boy. But if you want to do a custom

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funnel, how we typically do it is

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statics AI UGC. You can use top view.

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It's a really good AI UGC platform. You

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can use VO and stuff for those AI hooks

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and all those AI B-rolls. Really, really

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good. But you pretty much just launch

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with voiceovers and AI UGC

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if you're not ripping at the beginning.

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That is once you start getting a brand

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and you actually want to get video

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content, I recommend just going on

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Incense. Incense is really good. You can

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use Twitter as well, but I recommend

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Incense. You do not need to pay these

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creators, bro. They be smoking crack.

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They be saying, "I need 300 [ __ ]

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dollars. Like, get the [ __ ] out of

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here." I get creators down from like

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$300, $250 all the way down to 100

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bucks. Bro, it's you just tell them,

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"Hey, I'm going to give you 100 bucks."

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You give them a little brief talking

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about what you want in that actual ad

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and you say, "Hey, this is the first

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video we'll be doing together. My goal

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is to kind of get you on a long-term

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cooperation. Let's start with 100.

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Usually, they'll go down. So, you can

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get video content for about 100 bucks on

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Incense. Okay. Next question is from

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Instagram, Subie.gna on Instagram.

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Tommy 11x asks, "Knowing whether to keep

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a product going or not." So, right,

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there's two answers for this. Q4, you

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should be only running a test for like

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one two days at most. In my opinion,

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there are too many products to test in

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Q4 where you should be spending 3 4 days

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on a product unless it's breaking even.

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The metrics are really good. But usually

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there's two cases, three cases. The best

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case is day one, day two, you see profit

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scaled up. Great. Second case, day one

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your [ __ ] CPC is like $3. Your CTR is

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2 3%. You have less than a 5% add to

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cart rate. You got one sale. You're like

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0.5 ROS or under. That's a day one cut.

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You can let it go to day two if you

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want. If you have a little bread,

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they'll let it go to day two if you

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want, but besides that, it's a cut. The

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third case is you're breaking even.

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You're really close to breaking even.

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Day one's break even. Day two is break

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even. Day three is break even. I will

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say you need to train the pixel. The

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pixel is a AI algorithm. It takes time

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to realize who your target customer is.

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A really good product, which is kind of

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like the first case I mentioned,

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especially in Q4 because there's a lot

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of demand. It'll know like it'll know

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off the first day if it's a really good

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product and you don't need to have to

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worry about it. But there are cases

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where you will break even or be slight

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negative, but your metrics will be

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really good. And in those cases, you

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want to let that ride out till day

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three, day four. And in that time, after

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day two, day three, get new creators in

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there. Tweak your offer a bit. If it's

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not as good, make the website better. By

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day five, if you're not in the profit,

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cut it, bro. You guys need to be super

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quick. You guys can't waste times on

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just one product for the entirety of Q4.

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There's so many winners out there. I

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literally have four stores running right

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now that I've literally launched in the

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past couple weeks just scaling it up.

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So, there's so many [ __ ] winners and

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if you waste time trying to make one

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product work, it's not going to be worth

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it. And I'm just telling you this from

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like a friend's perspective, just cuz

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there's a lot of money you can really

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make anything work. It's not about, hey,

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is it possible or not? It's just what is

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cost efficient, what is time efficient.

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And especially in Q4, you don't want to

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do that. So, long story short, one to

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two days, bro, if it's breaking even a

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showing promise, let it run to day

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three, day four. But after that, I'll

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just let it be my boy. Okay, so the next

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question is from Instagram again. Elijah

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asks, "Best place to get your product,

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like what's the best place?" Ali688 in

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depth. Okay, here's kind of the funnel.

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AliExpress at the top for the noobs,

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Alibaba for the intermediates, 1688 for

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the real OGs who know where the products

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actually come from. 1688 supplies to

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Alibaba, and AliExpress is usually just

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from Alibaba and 1688. So 168 is the

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[ __ ] that is the source. That is

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where you need to be getting products.

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But the problem is you need to be

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Chinese to buy from there. So that's why

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we use agents. Um you don't want to be

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using CJ drop shipping and [ __ ] like

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that. Agents are basically kind of the

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communication the middleman where they

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buy from the uh 1688 factories. You get

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prices super cheap. For reference,

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right, you might see something for like

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30 bucks on Alibaba. It's probably like

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15 20 bucks on 1688. Only way to do that

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through an agent. You can find agents on

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Twitter if you look up keywords. I

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personally don't give my agent out just

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because she's a little small and she

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helps. She's way too helping and giving

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it to the public is a little crazy. If

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you want it, you can join my mentorship.

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But you can find them on Twitter. That's

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probably my best bet for you, my boy.

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But make sure when you do get an agent,

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it's not so it's not no CJ drop shipping

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[ __ ] and they're actually getting

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the products from 1688 cuz that's going

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to be the cheapest place where you can

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get all of your products. Okay, this is

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a really good question from Twitter.

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John E asked, "Product research plus par

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paralysis. I'm not new. I've made some

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money in 2019, but product research

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paralysis [ __ ] kill me." But product

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research paralysis is real and I'm

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suffering from it and I'm struggling to

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find a winner. Super common thing.

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Analysis paralysis, whatever that

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whatever you guys want to call it.

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Basically, when you're just stuck on

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analyzing a product for [ __ ] 20 light

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years before you launch it. Guys, we are

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in Q4. You don't have time for this

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[ __ ]

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All I can tell you, bro, is again,

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please watch my last video. If you are

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struggling with product research

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paralysis, analysis paralysis, whatever

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the [ __ ] you guys call it. If you are

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struggling with that, understand that

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you are costing yourself hundreds of

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thousands of dollars in profit.

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Especially right now, I want to

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emphasize how important Q4 is. Every day

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there's bangers coming up on Tik Tok

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shop, the burner method, everything. The

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buying power is at all times high. The

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entire year's profits are made now. and

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you need to just stop being a [ __ ]

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[ __ ] and just launch [ __ ] So, people

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who are usually having this type of

12:05

analysis process are usually not

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confident in themselves. They are scared

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of losing money. And the only way to get

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over this is to just not be a [ __ ]

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Okay? It's really easier said than done,

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but you have to realize that, hey,

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this is not like school. I talked about

12:20

this in the beginning of the video, and

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I made a whole video on this, but this

12:23

is not supposed to be easy. If it was

12:25

easy, no one would be putting fries in

12:26

the bag. And another thing that honestly

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helped me as well is listening to

12:30

podcasts, listening to people who went

12:32

through the same experience of losing it

12:33

all before they made it. It makes it

12:34

relatable. So for me, I would just put

12:37

on ecom podcast and just listen to it

12:38

and work and it would motivate me. And

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that will kind of help you realize like,

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hey, you know, there's nothing to be

12:43

afraid of. On top of that, you have to

12:45

realize that success is inevitable. If

12:47

you're taking everything I say into

12:48

account, you will make money. So just

12:50

make sure you're learning something. You

12:52

are genuinely putting your mind to each

12:54

product. Hey, this calated product, this

12:56

keyword or whatever seems like it'd be

12:58

seasonal. Let me look at it. Oh, Google

12:59

trends are high. It's visual. Let me

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sell it. If just literally make a

13:03

checklist and if it checks it off, don't

13:04

think. Just stop thinking and just go on

13:05

autopilot and launch the store. It's all

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I can say, bro. There's nothing crazy.

13:08

It's all mental. Stopping a [ __ ]

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[ __ ] Run up a bag and I will see you

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on the other side. Okay, another

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question from JT Trades. As of now, I'm

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wondering how to convert more ad to

13:17

carts to buyers. Okay. If you're getting

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a lot of ad to carts, but you're not

13:21

getting sales. Again, it's not that your

13:23

product is [ __ ] A lot of people just

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assume their product is [ __ ] Boils down

13:27

to kind of two slash three things. One,

13:30

website. Look at your product pictures,

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not your [ __ ] image with text at the

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bottom of the [ __ ] website, guys. No

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product pictures. Does it visually

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communicate everything? Is it getting

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all the points of confusion across? If

13:42

I'm selling the vibration plate, is it

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answering how it works? Is it answering

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the science behind it? Is it answering

13:48

what workouts they can do? Is it

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answering what will actually be the end

13:51

result of them using it? Every layer of

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confusion, the image has to answer

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visually. Next offer, if I'm doing a

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vibration plate, if I just have one

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vibration plate, two vibration plate,

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save 20%, three vibration plates, save

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50%. That's not that good. That's not

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that, you know, it's not a no-brainer.

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What can I do? Maybe I can add some free

14:09

gifts to it. Maybe I can include a

14:11

training belt, a guide, right?

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Resistance bands. There you go. Offer.

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Really critical thing. You can't just do

14:19

one, buy one, get one 150, like all that

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stuff. You guys have to be creative with

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offers. Buy two, get one free. Buy one,

14:24

get one free. Buy one, buy two, get free

14:27

gifts, right? All these types of things.

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Three, pricing. Is this product

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something that they really need or is

14:33

this something that, hey, this will be

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cool to have. So, if it's the first that

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they really need, sure, you might be

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able to get away with the premium

14:38

pricing, right? With the vibration play

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example, something they've never seen

14:42

before, they'll probably play they'll

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probably pay a lot more money because

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they think it's some cool new invention.

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Whereas, if I'm selling, I don't know,

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going back to that pillow, it's a

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[ __ ] pillow. There's nothing crazy

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about it. They're not going to pay $60.

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So, hope that kind of answers your

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questions. It's usually one of those

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three things. Promise you, if you really

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think about it and if you tweak the

15:02

offer, tweak the pricing, make your

15:03

website a little bit better, it will get

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better. Another thing as well could just

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be that your product is really new and

15:08

it just needs more time to kind of get

15:10

adjusted to the pixel. For reference,

15:11

add a product test. Day one, one, two

15:13

sales with a lot of add to carts, 20%

15:15

add to cart rate. next day literally all

15:18

those people turn into customers. So

15:20

sometimes it just takes a little bit for

15:21

the meta algorithm to learn. Give it

15:23

more money should perform. Okay, really

15:26

relevant question right now as well from

15:27

Instagram. Big Mino 65 says, "How do we

15:31

adjust to Facebook's new Andromeda

15:32

update? No doing the same thing over and

15:35

over again. Unique concepts. Be unique.

15:38

That's it. Creative diversity. Very

15:41

simple. Just means being intentful with

15:43

your tests. really try and crack down

15:46

all avatars possible in your ad account.

15:48

Don't just keep iterating the same

15:50

[ __ ] angle over and over again. I

15:51

talked about this earlier as well. You

15:52

can do that to milk your profits, but

15:54

the goal right after that if you want a

15:55

brand that succeeds for a long term is

15:58

creative diversity. Angle one or avatar

16:00

one, avatar 2, avatar 3, avatar 4,

16:03

complete separate avatars, creative

16:05

diversity. Okay, another good kind of

16:08

ones like oneoff situation that a lot of

16:09

you guys might face. This guy asked me

16:11

about Demon asked, "What do you do when

16:13

you're getting great CPC, CTR, add to

16:15

cars, but not profitable every day? I

16:16

tried changing the offer a few times,

16:18

which worked one day, but I had the

16:19

biggest loss ever and gave up. So before

16:22

I told you, offer, pricing, product

16:24

pictures. Here's the next part. Now, if

16:26

you've been running it for a while,

16:27

right, this is not this is not like a

16:29

day one, day two, day three thing. If

16:30

it's a product you've been running for a

16:31

while and it's just not seeming to get

16:33

better, pre-sale pages, my boy,

16:36

listicles, advertorials, if you're

16:38

running supplements or old people

16:40

product, these pre-sale pages, again,

16:42

like a bridge page where they land not

16:44

on your product page, but a page that

16:46

educates them and warms them up. If if

16:49

you've done all three of those things

16:50

before, offer, pricing, pictures, a

16:53

pre-sale page will save your life.

16:54

Especially in higher AOV products, guys,

16:57

if you just make a simple five reasons

16:59

why listical and, you know, make it very

17:01

appealing to your customer and really

17:02

dive into their demographic. Again, if

17:04

you're selling the vibration plate, make

17:05

five reasons why it would change their

17:06

life. You know,

17:09

if you do that, it will guaranteed to

17:11

improve your conversion rate. Pre-sale

17:13

pages are all about increasing

17:14

conversion rates. So, that will help

17:16

you, my boy. Okay. I don't even know how

17:17

the [ __ ] to say this guy's name. Majuba

17:20

asked mentality and speed. Okay. So

17:24

again, there's a whole 40 or like 30

17:26

minute video on this, but all I'm going

17:29

to say is you wake up, you go on call,

17:33

find your product to launch, launch that

17:35

product, launch the ads, and go find the

17:37

next five products you want to launch,

17:39

launch a second product. Now you have

17:41

three products in your reserve. And once

17:42

you launch a second product, go find a

17:45

couple more. So you have like 20

17:46

products in reserve. All you need to do,

17:49

speed. When you find one product to

17:51

launch, that's not enough. you need a

17:52

bunch in reserve. So that's my biggest

17:54

tip for you guys. That's what helped me

17:55

honestly. Kind of keeps you on track cuz

17:58

the second you launch a product and it

17:59

flops. You're not like, "Oh, it's over."

18:01

Cuz you already have like 20 more to

18:02

launch. And the excitement of those

18:03

products should keep you going.

18:04

Mentality. Go watch my last video, bro.

18:06

Sabow asks, "I'm super [ __ ] lazy."

18:17

Yo, that's probably the most nerd [ __ ]

18:18

I've done. All right. Okay. Colobby

18:20

asks, "Going past basic drop shipping,

18:22

learning to build pre-landers and

18:23

commute with image ads." Okay, great.

18:25

So, pre-landers, like I mentioned

18:27

before, I personally use Replo to build

18:29

them. Very super easy. I'm not making a

18:30

tutorial on that. You guys can figure it

18:32

out. Um, super easy. Use Replo. They

18:35

have a bunch of templates for aviators,

18:37

pre-sale pages, like listicles and [ __ ]

18:38

It's super easy. Drag and drop. Um, in

18:41

terms of the copy for them, just use

18:42

chat GPT trainer prompt. Do deep

18:44

research. Not going to go into that too

18:45

much, but you can figure it out.

18:48

In terms of image ads, okay, so

18:50

depending on the niche you're running,

18:52

image ads can work as your top ofunnel

18:54

ads. And you typically want to have like

18:57

what's been working for me, me at least,

18:59

is like native image ads where it's

19:00

really it blends into the for you page.

19:02

It's very organic. And you kind of send

19:04

that to another pre-sale page like an

19:06

advertorialistical that works great for

19:08

supplements especially as well. And with

19:11

those top of funnel ads, it would be

19:13

like a headline news article or

19:15

something or like something very very

19:17

generic um that would catch their

19:19

attention. And as well, you can do a lot

19:21

of bottom funnel static ads. So let's

19:23

say and this this applies a lot more if

19:26

you scale up. You're spending thousands

19:27

a day, right? Cuz let's say you're

19:29

spending 10k a day, 5k a day even, and

19:32

out of that 5k a day, right? 2.5k of

19:36

them, 2.5 to 3k of them end up being

19:38

customers, whatever the number is,

19:39

arbitrary. The rest of those 2K, where

19:41

are they going? They're you're not going

19:43

to just throw them into the [ __ ]

19:44

void. You can send them to a static with

19:46

a retargeting static. So, special offer,

19:49

Black Friday, buy one get one, 50% off,

19:52

whatever the [ __ ] your offer is. Throw

19:53

that in there and you can make a lot of

19:55

money. Sure, it may not get 2 million

19:57

spend, but it might spend $100 a day at

19:59

a four or five rorowaz, right? Because

20:00

all those people that didn't get

20:02

captured at the top of the funnel ads,

20:04

they're coming down now to the bottom of

20:05

funnel. And if you have 10 statics,

20:07

spending $50 a day out of five rorowaz,

20:10

what 2500 a day. So really, really good.

20:13

That's the bare minimum you should do.

20:14

You can test top of funnel statics.

20:15

Sometimes they work, sometimes they

20:16

don't. But I will tell you for top of

20:18

funnel statics, those native organic

20:19

statics work really, really good.

20:21

Especially if you send it to a pre-sale

20:22

page. Makoke asked meta ads pixel.

20:27

Profit tracking and reinvesting super

20:30

important. Profit tracking guys, triple

20:32

oil is not enough. If you don't even

20:34

know what that is, this might not be

20:36

relevant to you, but it's really

20:37

important you have like a VA doing your

20:39

profits manually just because for like

20:41

bundles and stuff, it's kind of hard to

20:43

get an accurate margin on it. And

20:45

especially if you can mix and match

20:46

sizes and stuff, it's going to get all

20:47

over the place. So, you want to be sure

20:49

to have a VA or something do your

20:51

spreadsheet manually. As well, make sure

20:54

you're counting refunds, chargebacks,

20:55

processing fees because let's say you

20:57

think your net margin is 20%, right? and

21:00

you go below that 20%. Whether it's

21:02

scaling your ads, whether it's ordering

21:05

stock, whether it's buying a [ __ ]

21:06

Lambo, right? But you end up getting

21:08

chargebacks next month, you end up not

21:10

accounting for profit fees. You never

21:12

processing fees, sorry. You don't

21:14

account for refunds that are going to

21:15

come in next month. You lose that 20%

21:17

next month. And what happens? You can't

21:18

make your payment. So, be very

21:21

meticulate in that sheets that your VA

21:23

is doing your profit tracking. Please

21:25

account for processing fees right away.

21:27

Subtract that. And what I like to do is

21:29

month over month I see my chargeback

21:30

percentage. So for the past six months,

21:32

and this applies more for long-term

21:34

brands, if my chargeback percentage is

21:35

1%, my refund percent is 5%. I'm just

21:38

going to subtract 6% of my sales every

21:39

day because I'm going to assume, hey,

21:41

those are going to eventually become

21:42

refunds and chargebacks looking at my

21:43

brand's history. And based on that,

21:45

that's going to be your free cash flow,

21:47

right? You're going to reinvest with

21:49

whatever budget you want after all those

21:51

costs. If you have a reserve on top of

21:53

that, right, Shopify is holding your

21:54

money. Subtract that from your profit.

21:56

even though it's profit is held. So

21:58

don't count that as profit. That's not

21:59

your free cash flow. Only scale and

22:01

reinvest money that you have now and

22:04

that isn't going to go away randomly and

22:06

that isn't held for 6 months. Kevin lie

22:08

asked hiring process for VAS, creative

22:10

team, etc. So VAS, bro, very simple

22:13

hire. You can get them on Upwork, online

22:15

jobs. You should pay them like 200 a

22:16

month. Respond to your emails. Um very

22:19

simple hire. I recommend the second you

22:21

get a winning product, just hire them.

22:22

They will save you a lot of money on

22:23

refunds and stuff. Imagine someone is

22:26

emailing you for a [ __ ] refund and

22:27

you have no one responding and they

22:29

charge back. You lost it. But hey, you

22:30

can pay someone from the Philippines or

22:32

Pakistan $200 a month and they can end

22:34

up taking that charge back and instead

22:36

letting them keep the product and giving

22:37

them a 30% refund. So, hey, what sounds

22:40

better to you? Um, so second you get

22:42

one, second you get a winning product,

22:44

get a VA. Very simple. You can write

22:45

them a little dock telling them what

22:47

responses to give. I recommend when

22:49

you're starting, when you're just

22:49

getting to know them, give them copy

22:51

paste responses and just monitor a bit.

22:52

And over time, you can kind of train

22:54

them to give custom responses, creative

22:56

team and stuff, creative strategist,

22:57

video editor. I'm not going to talk too

22:59

much about hiring those hires right now

23:01

in this video. It's in my mentorship if

23:02

you guys want to join, but you do when

23:05

you're scaled up. I will recommend

23:07

getting a creative strategist and

23:08

getting video editors as well. Um,

23:10

here's a good question. How to deal with

23:12

inevitable meta ad bans. So Q4 is a time

23:15

where a lot of ads are getting banned.

23:17

It's super [ __ ] A lot of ad accounts

23:18

are getting banned. So if you're running

23:20

on a fresh ad account, be careful.

23:22

you're probably going to be prone to

23:23

getting banned. So, what I'll say is be

23:26

careful with ad rejections. Upload one

23:27

ad at a time. If you see a bunch getting

23:29

rejected, maybe rethink that test. Maybe

23:31

cut the test even. On top of that, be a

23:34

little lenient. If be a little lenient

23:37

if you're getting ad rejections as well,

23:38

what you can do is let's say you have

23:40

50% off or like Black Friday sale in the

23:42

headline or something or you have like a

23:44

primary text that says um never wake up

23:46

in your sleep again or something. That

23:48

word never might seem a little false

23:50

prom. It might seem like a false

23:51

promise. So meta can trigger those

23:54

little kind of scammy words. They're

23:56

very strict right now. So don't do stuff

23:59

like that if you are facing rejections.

24:01

That might help you a lot. I've had

24:02

people come to me saying they're getting

24:03

banned. I literally tell them, "Hey,

24:05

change your headline to just something

24:06

simple like enjoy comfort now or some

24:08

[ __ ] instead of 50% off and the ad gets

24:10

approved." Um, so be kind of lenient

24:13

with your copy in terms of your ads. And

24:16

if you keep on getting rejected, what

24:18

can I say, man? You might have to remake

24:20

your ads. You might have to move on to a

24:21

new product or you might have to pay for

24:22

an ad account ban. It's inevitable. But

24:24

hey, the more you spend, the less

24:26

rejections you have, the better it's

24:28

going to be. What you can also do is

24:29

let's say you get an ad that gets

24:30

rejected, you can upload like a

24:32

compliant photo of like a cat or some

24:34

[ __ ] just so it gets approved. Then you

24:35

turn off the ad and don't delete it.

24:37

There's basically a hidden kind of like

24:39

trust factor score in Meta called the

24:41

Hiva. It's just like an internal trust

24:43

factor and the more ads you get

24:44

rejected, the lower your Hiva score is.

24:46

So, if you get an ad rejected, just

24:47

replace it with a cat and turn it off

24:48

and your highest score all the time will

24:50

go up and that makes you less prone to

24:51

getting banned. Not Turner asked,

24:53

"Staying committed."

24:56

Just go watch my last video, bro. Kanu

24:58

us asked, "Finding creators to watch."

24:59

Bro, everything you have is literally

25:01

right here. You don't need anybody else.

25:02

You can go watch Anthony Eclipse about

25:04

Tik Tok drop shipping if you want. But

25:05

hey, everything's right here, my boy. I

25:07

genuinely wish I had some [ __ ] like this

25:08

when I started, bro. You I promise you

25:10

everything you need to know is in this

25:11

channel. Norbert Nazarian asked,

25:13

"Maintaining consistent ROS every day.

25:15

Not sure if it's our ads or ad account.

25:17

Stop being skitso. It's most likely not

25:18

your ad account. So, it's all coming

25:20

down to creative. Um, [snorts] actually

25:23

there's a lot of things, right? If you

25:24

want temporary rorowass boost, again,

25:26

like I kind of mentioned earlier, you

25:28

can do congruent pre-sale pages to the

25:30

ads you're running. So, again, let's say

25:32

you're running avatar 1, avatar 2, and

25:34

those are your winners. You can make

25:36

listicles only reasons Avatar one would

25:38

care about and send it only to avatar

25:40

one ads. And you can make another

25:41

listical for Avatar 2 and make that

25:44

listical only about everything Avatar 2

25:46

would care about. That would help you a

25:47

little bit. But in terms of long-term

25:48

OS, it's all creative, bro. Get a

25:51

variety of creatives coming in. So if

25:53

you're a bigger brand or you doing at

25:55

least six figures a month,

25:58

excuse me, get a creative strategist and

26:02

start writing briefs yourself. You need

26:03

a variety of creatives. Don't get lazy.

26:05

So when you're doing variety of

26:07

creatives, you need to make sure you're

26:08

intentful. So, make sure every creative,

26:11

especially with Andromeda, is not the

26:12

same thing over and over again. Do deep

26:14

market research. Really understand your

26:16

customer, their deep desires, their

26:18

problems, and really make each copy feel

26:21

like, really make each ad copy feel like

26:23

it's tailored to their exact problem.

26:25

Let's say you're selling a product that

26:27

can have five different avatars. Again,

26:28

going back to the pillow, hot sleeper,

26:31

neck pain, whatever the [ __ ] all these

26:32

different reasons. If you make an ad

26:34

targeting all five in one video, it's

26:36

not going to feel like it's tailored to

26:37

them, right? If I'm selling that pillow

26:40

and I make one ad talking about

26:43

everything someone only with neck pain

26:45

would really relate to, not a hot

26:46

sleeper, they wouldn't give a [ __ ] about

26:48

the ad. But that neck pain person looks

26:49

at it and they're like, "Holy [ __ ] this

26:50

is made for me." That's what you need to

26:53

do. And you need to repeat that with all

26:54

these different avatars. So, you're

26:55

going to go do deep market research and

26:57

make the most perfect ad copy and tailor

27:00

it to each avatar as good as possible.

27:02

And when you have, going back to what I

27:04

said earlier as well, when you have

27:05

multiple people doing that, a creative

27:07

strategist, yourself, whatever it may

27:08

be, you have two heads doing the same

27:10

thing, the odds of you hitting a winner

27:12

are much higher. So, it's all a creative

27:14

team. Make sure you have a feedback loop

27:16

as well. When you're doing these tests,

27:17

look at what's the problem. Is it the

27:19

hook rate? Is it the hold rate? If the

27:21

hook is good, but the hold is [ __ ] the

27:22

ad copy might not be good. It might be

27:23

too adlike. You might be listing too

27:25

many reasons. If the hold rate is good

27:27

and the hook is [ __ ] oh, he probably

27:28

needs a better hook, my boy. So, and if

27:30

the hook and hold rate is [ __ ] maybe

27:31

the way you the avatar might not be that

27:33

good. Maybe the whole messaging is [ __ ]

27:35

There's a lot to learn for every

27:36

creative, bro. So, make sure you're

27:38

learning a lot from every creative.

27:39

You're being intentful. And there's a

27:40

variety of writing styles, whether it's

27:42

from a strategist, whether it's from

27:43

yourself, whether it's from some

27:45

copyriter. I don't know. If you have the

27:46

budgets, do that. But at the bare

27:48

minimum, variety and learn something for

27:50

every test. And if you're a long-term

27:52

brand struggling with rorowass, get a

27:53

variety of creatives coming into your ad

27:55

account from different heads. That's

27:56

what help that's honestly what's helped

27:58

me a lot. Okay, so this is going to be

27:59

like the last question for this video,

28:00

but Joel Abraham John, interesting name.

28:04

He said, "How do you exit a brand? Who

28:06

do you sell to?" So, I'm going to talk a

28:08

little bit about about my experience

28:09

exiting a brand. Um, I will say if

28:13

running if you've been running a brand

28:15

for under three years, it's pretty hard

28:16

to exit. And that is simply because

28:19

these buyers rely on something called

28:20

SBA, which is a business loan that banks

28:23

give. And they usually do it for

28:25

businesses that are about 3 years or so,

28:27

if not older. And the reason they don't

28:29

do it for any businesses younger than

28:31

that is just because it's too much of a

28:32

risk. And no one's buying businesses for

28:35

cash unless it's for [ __ ] pennies or

28:36

not pennies, but like 100 200k. Um, so

28:40

you have to, in my opinion, I would

28:42

build for a long-term exit, two, three

28:44

years. But hey, if you're trying to get

28:45

out earlier like I did, um, you can exit

28:48

at a year or two, but your multiplier

28:50

will be [ __ ] If you're under three

28:51

years, expect a 1x multiplier or under

28:54

on your year-to- date profit. Um, if

28:57

you're running three years or longer,

28:58

you can get two to three times. I got a

29:00

little bit lucky because my product was

29:02

one of one supplier patent, USA

29:05

production, zero competition.

29:08

That kind of gave me an edge and gave me

29:09

a little bit more reason to get more

29:11

money. That's why I was able to get a

29:12

seven figure exit. Mostly did a million

29:14

profit. So, the multiplier wouldn't have

29:17

been bad even if it was a drop shipping

29:18

store. But it's really rare that you'll

29:21

get a huge exit at that small of a brand

29:23

in terms of age. But in the actual

29:25

process, you basically go to a broker. I

29:27

can give you my broker if you want to

29:28

just DM me on Instagram. Um, you go to a

29:31

broker, you list your business, you take

29:32

calls with these guys. They get to know

29:34

you. One of them throws an LOI at you,

29:36

letter of intent, basically detailing,

29:38

hey, everything checks out. I'm going to

29:40

buy this business for X amount. And it's

29:42

going to have all the terms saying, hey,

29:43

you can't run this product for three

29:44

years. you're going to have to help me

29:46

with on calls for a month with like a

29:48

transition period. This amount's going

29:50

to be upfront. I'll give you another

29:52

amount over the span of three years,

29:53

whatever. All the terms are going to be

29:54

there. And after that, bro, you

29:57

basically they do their due diligence,

29:59

look at all your bank statements, all

30:01

that stuff. And after that, money's in

30:02

escrow. You get your money. So, that's

30:04

kind of the process. Um, again, if your

30:07

brand's under a year old, two years old

30:10

even, I really don't recommend it. it's

30:12

going to not be that much unless you

30:14

have like a crazy one of one product

30:15

like I did. Other than that, I would

30:17

just build something to exit longterm.

30:18

If you can exit for after three or four

30:20

years, you can get a lot of money, bro.

30:22

So, that's kind of just a rough, I

30:24

guess, exiting for dummies process. I

30:26

don't know. But besides that, guys, I'm

30:29

tired as [ __ ] I started so much in this

30:31

video, bro. But that's going to be it.

30:34

That's going to wrap it up for the drop

30:36

shipping struggles you guys talked

30:37

about. But besides that, bro, um

30:42

you guys need to lock in. Have a good

30:45

Q4. Print some [ __ ] money, bro. Like,

30:47

this has been the best all my brands

30:49

have been doing, bro. And it's only

30:50

going to get better. You guys aren't

30:51

late. But besides that, bro, I'm going

30:54

to have a good time in LA. If anyone's

30:55

in LA, let me know. Uh if you want one

30:57

of my mentorship down below, link bio.

31:00

But yeah, I will see you guys in the

31:03

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The video is an AMA (Ask Me Anything) session where the speaker addresses common dropshipping struggles, especially relevant for Q4. Key topics covered include identifying winning products by analyzing product attributes and metrics, scaling with a single winning creative by diversifying avatars and messaging, sourcing products from 1688 via agents, overcoming product research paralysis through quick testing and a mental shift, converting more add-to-carts to buyers by optimizing website, offer, and pricing, adapting to Facebook's Andromeda update with creative diversity, handling meta ad bans through careful ad copy and Hiva score management, maintaining consistent ROAS with varied creatives and tailored messaging, crucial profit tracking (manual, accounting for refunds/chargebacks/fees, and reinvesting free cash flow), hiring VAs, and the process of exiting a brand, emphasizing the importance of long-term brand building for better multipliers.

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