I asked 40,000 dropshippers their BIGGEST struggle
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What's good my boys? Maybe girls. Today
I'm going to be answering your guys'
questions on drop shipping. Kind of like
an AMA just with your biggest struggles
and stuff. I don't know if you guys
notice, change of scenery, LA Hills.
We're in SoCal just for Q4, grinding it
out. If anyone's in SoCal, let me know.
I'll show you guys some of my brands and
my Q4 stores that are going absolutely
crazy. Getting a [ __ ] ton of work done.
But I thought, [ __ ] it. Might as well
help you guys out. Throwing a little
video in the mix. So yeah, I'm just
going to be pulling questions I've asked
on Twitter and Instagram. Just a little
thread I made asking you guys your
biggest struggles and we'll just be
going one by one answering all your
questions. No gatekeeping in this [ __ ]
>> All right, I have to do this on my
actual camera cuz my setup doesn't have
a webcam. But here are just some stores
from yesterday that we're scaling up for
Q4. So Q4 is coming. Like it's these
stores are going to be doing like 100k
days. Like it's still really [ __ ]
early. But I had some [ __ ] in my
comments saying like I uploaded orders
or something. So I guess I uploaded
payouts too as well, right? So I don't
know. these retards be saying anything,
bro. But yeah, take this as a sign to
keep grinding. Um, but yeah, peace. Back
to the video. But yeah, let me know how
you guys Q4 is going so far. But besides
that, let's get straight into it. Okay,
so the first question is from Leon.
We'll keep it kind of basic with the
first question, but don't worry, I'll be
answering a bunch of advanced stuff. He
asks, "How do you find a winner?" I'm
just taking straight L's from these
product tests. I don't want to repeat
too much of what I said in my videos,
but I will say this. Drop shipping is
not instant gratification. It's not it's
nothing like school for example. I
talked about this in my last video. It's
not like a linear progression. Grade
one, grade two, grade three and you are
consistently making progress with each
day. The difference is with ecom right
you can make progress but it's not
tangible. You're not getting money every
single day. You can test 5 10 15
products but right like at the end of it
that one product can make you 100k. So
it's not linear. And I talked a lot
about this on my last video. So if
you're struggling with mentality go
watch that Leon. In terms of the actual
knowledge side of things um it's all
feedback loops bro. You need to really
understand and learn from every product
test, right? So, look at the product
you're running and look at the metrics.
What you will notice is that visual
products, products with more seasonal
demand, products that are unique and
viral. The more they fit these criteria,
the better the data is going to be, the
lower the CPC is going to be, the higher
the CTRs are going to be. So, you're
going to look at your products and see,
okay, what is lacking? Is it, you know,
my product? Is it my offer? So, for
example, if your cost per clicks are
really high and your CTR is super low,
your product is just [ __ ] That's your
product eye. Another case may be your
data is really good and you think your
product's [ __ ] but in reality it's your
offer. Beyond that, right, actually look
at the product. I don't want to yab too
much about this because every [ __ ]
guru says this [ __ ] and it's just I said
this so much in my videos, but really
put your put yourselves in the
perspective of the customer. Bro, you
need to really think and understand if
this product is worth impulse buying,
virality, visuality, is the explanation
solid enough? Is it something they can
just go to the store and buy? You need
to really understand and it's way easier
said than done, but that's all I can
really say. And if you're not 50 IQ, if
you really put some thought into it, you
will be able to understand. For example,
my brand I exited, removable window
tint, visual. When the [ __ ] have you
seen that, like you're pulling window
tint out of a car solves a great
problem. Summer, heat, privacy, all
things people really deeply care about.
Lots of emotion tied to that. They want
to be uncomfortable. They don't want
people weird men looking at them through
the windows. Um, lots of emotionality,
visual, you literally see it working in
real time. There's nothing to question.
These are all spectrums. You need to ask
every [ __ ] product, even a
supplement, right? Is there a lot of
solutions for the problem your
supplement is solving. Is the copy of
the video good enough to convince them
that the small pill you're taking is
actually going to work? There's a lot to
consider there. Third thing, is there
too much competition? Market
sophistication. Low market
sophistication means, hey, you know,
there's not that much competitors, not
that much selling going on. Any ad you
can [ __ ] do will work. High market
sophistication, there's a lot of
competition, there's a lot of ads. You,
Leon, are not going to be able to break
through that, my boy. It's all
perspective. Put some thought into it.
Okay, next question. Really good one
from Flu. Once you find a winning ad for
your product, how do you approach
testing more creators to find more
winners? Let's say you run a call
product and get a winner from there, but
the rest of the call ads are kind of mid
or don't perform as good. What should be
your next step? You only worry about
this, especially right now in Q4, when
you already have at least one calorip
scaling. This for the advanced people
that have already done high six figs,
yeah, you probably don't need this
question. You already know how to launch
with a custom funnel. But let's say you
are in a position where you launch a
product, it's good, you're profitable,
you're scaling it, but you're running
off one creative that's carrying you.
Not, oh, day one, my metrics are [ __ ]
How do I make a custom funnel? No. If
you're [ __ ] noob, you're not going to
make ads from scratch if your product is
doing trash. If you are scaling a Cal
data product and it has one ripped
creative caring and all the other ads
are [ __ ] you are going to do deep
customer research. So, you're going to
see why is this ad a winning ad compared
to the rest of the ads? Is it the avatar
that is targeting? For example, if I'm
selling a pillow or some [ __ ] and that
pillow is targeting neck pain and my
winning avatar is going to be someone
suffering from neck pain and all the
other ads are about something else, you
know, hot sleepers or some [ __ ] It's
kind sounds kind of basic and that's a
lot of the cases, right? The avatar that
the ad is targeting is going to be
better. So, you need to understand what
is working and maybe you know all the
ads are about neck pain and only one of
them is doing good. Think about the
messaging. Is that ad very natural? Is
it very organic? Are the other ads a
little too adlike? Are they too
straightforward? There's a lot of
variables in that. So, what you do from
there is you take that winning ad and
make a bunch of variations of it to milk
it as much as you can. After that, you
start digging into new avatars. Neck
pain, hot sleeper, comfort, all that
stuff. Go into all those avatars and
start making voiceovers. Once you see
voiceovers getting some traction,
especially with Andromeda update, um
voiceovers doing really good. Once you
see like, hey, this has proof of
concept, the soft metrics are good, is
getting a couple sales, then you go out
and get UGC. So, that's kind of the
process I use. But I will say if you're
running just off one rip creative, um,
your first step again should just be to
maximize it, make iterations, send it to
another thing you can do is you can send
it to a congruent listicle where you
make a, you know, five reasons why you
should buy this preander and it's all
based off the reasons of that one rip.
It's just squeezing as much life of it
as possible. After that, that's when you
do a lot of avatar testing because if
you want your brand to last and you
don't want to just run off one, two
creatives. If you want a bunch of
creatives taking spend, you need a
diversity of avatars, different customer
profiles taking up your ad account. So
again, in that pillow, you would need a
winning ad for neck pain. You would need
a winning ad for hot sleepers. That's
your goal after you kind of find that
one winning avatar and double down on
it. Speaking of UGC, my boy Pixel asked,
"How to source video content at scale
for cheap? Where to get initial video
content besides ripping? And what do you
do when you first start scaling and
testing your concepts? Plays into the
last question. So when you're first
starting, especially right now in Q4,
all you need to be doing is ripping, my
boy. But if you want to do a custom
funnel, how we typically do it is
statics AI UGC. You can use top view.
It's a really good AI UGC platform. You
can use VO and stuff for those AI hooks
and all those AI B-rolls. Really, really
good. But you pretty much just launch
with voiceovers and AI UGC
if you're not ripping at the beginning.
That is once you start getting a brand
and you actually want to get video
content, I recommend just going on
Incense. Incense is really good. You can
use Twitter as well, but I recommend
Incense. You do not need to pay these
creators, bro. They be smoking crack.
They be saying, "I need 300 [ __ ]
dollars. Like, get the [ __ ] out of
here." I get creators down from like
$300, $250 all the way down to 100
bucks. Bro, it's you just tell them,
"Hey, I'm going to give you 100 bucks."
You give them a little brief talking
about what you want in that actual ad
and you say, "Hey, this is the first
video we'll be doing together. My goal
is to kind of get you on a long-term
cooperation. Let's start with 100.
Usually, they'll go down. So, you can
get video content for about 100 bucks on
Incense. Okay. Next question is from
Instagram, Subie.gna on Instagram.
Tommy 11x asks, "Knowing whether to keep
a product going or not." So, right,
there's two answers for this. Q4, you
should be only running a test for like
one two days at most. In my opinion,
there are too many products to test in
Q4 where you should be spending 3 4 days
on a product unless it's breaking even.
The metrics are really good. But usually
there's two cases, three cases. The best
case is day one, day two, you see profit
scaled up. Great. Second case, day one
your [ __ ] CPC is like $3. Your CTR is
2 3%. You have less than a 5% add to
cart rate. You got one sale. You're like
0.5 ROS or under. That's a day one cut.
You can let it go to day two if you
want. If you have a little bread,
they'll let it go to day two if you
want, but besides that, it's a cut. The
third case is you're breaking even.
You're really close to breaking even.
Day one's break even. Day two is break
even. Day three is break even. I will
say you need to train the pixel. The
pixel is a AI algorithm. It takes time
to realize who your target customer is.
A really good product, which is kind of
like the first case I mentioned,
especially in Q4 because there's a lot
of demand. It'll know like it'll know
off the first day if it's a really good
product and you don't need to have to
worry about it. But there are cases
where you will break even or be slight
negative, but your metrics will be
really good. And in those cases, you
want to let that ride out till day
three, day four. And in that time, after
day two, day three, get new creators in
there. Tweak your offer a bit. If it's
not as good, make the website better. By
day five, if you're not in the profit,
cut it, bro. You guys need to be super
quick. You guys can't waste times on
just one product for the entirety of Q4.
There's so many winners out there. I
literally have four stores running right
now that I've literally launched in the
past couple weeks just scaling it up.
So, there's so many [ __ ] winners and
if you waste time trying to make one
product work, it's not going to be worth
it. And I'm just telling you this from
like a friend's perspective, just cuz
there's a lot of money you can really
make anything work. It's not about, hey,
is it possible or not? It's just what is
cost efficient, what is time efficient.
And especially in Q4, you don't want to
do that. So, long story short, one to
two days, bro, if it's breaking even a
showing promise, let it run to day
three, day four. But after that, I'll
just let it be my boy. Okay, so the next
question is from Instagram again. Elijah
asks, "Best place to get your product,
like what's the best place?" Ali688 in
depth. Okay, here's kind of the funnel.
AliExpress at the top for the noobs,
Alibaba for the intermediates, 1688 for
the real OGs who know where the products
actually come from. 1688 supplies to
Alibaba, and AliExpress is usually just
from Alibaba and 1688. So 168 is the
[ __ ] that is the source. That is
where you need to be getting products.
But the problem is you need to be
Chinese to buy from there. So that's why
we use agents. Um you don't want to be
using CJ drop shipping and [ __ ] like
that. Agents are basically kind of the
communication the middleman where they
buy from the uh 1688 factories. You get
prices super cheap. For reference,
right, you might see something for like
30 bucks on Alibaba. It's probably like
15 20 bucks on 1688. Only way to do that
through an agent. You can find agents on
Twitter if you look up keywords. I
personally don't give my agent out just
because she's a little small and she
helps. She's way too helping and giving
it to the public is a little crazy. If
you want it, you can join my mentorship.
But you can find them on Twitter. That's
probably my best bet for you, my boy.
But make sure when you do get an agent,
it's not so it's not no CJ drop shipping
[ __ ] and they're actually getting
the products from 1688 cuz that's going
to be the cheapest place where you can
get all of your products. Okay, this is
a really good question from Twitter.
John E asked, "Product research plus par
paralysis. I'm not new. I've made some
money in 2019, but product research
paralysis [ __ ] kill me." But product
research paralysis is real and I'm
suffering from it and I'm struggling to
find a winner. Super common thing.
Analysis paralysis, whatever that
whatever you guys want to call it.
Basically, when you're just stuck on
analyzing a product for [ __ ] 20 light
years before you launch it. Guys, we are
in Q4. You don't have time for this
[ __ ]
All I can tell you, bro, is again,
please watch my last video. If you are
struggling with product research
paralysis, analysis paralysis, whatever
the [ __ ] you guys call it. If you are
struggling with that, understand that
you are costing yourself hundreds of
thousands of dollars in profit.
Especially right now, I want to
emphasize how important Q4 is. Every day
there's bangers coming up on Tik Tok
shop, the burner method, everything. The
buying power is at all times high. The
entire year's profits are made now. and
you need to just stop being a [ __ ]
[ __ ] and just launch [ __ ] So, people
who are usually having this type of
analysis process are usually not
confident in themselves. They are scared
of losing money. And the only way to get
over this is to just not be a [ __ ]
Okay? It's really easier said than done,
but you have to realize that, hey,
this is not like school. I talked about
this in the beginning of the video, and
I made a whole video on this, but this
is not supposed to be easy. If it was
easy, no one would be putting fries in
the bag. And another thing that honestly
helped me as well is listening to
podcasts, listening to people who went
through the same experience of losing it
all before they made it. It makes it
relatable. So for me, I would just put
on ecom podcast and just listen to it
and work and it would motivate me. And
that will kind of help you realize like,
hey, you know, there's nothing to be
afraid of. On top of that, you have to
realize that success is inevitable. If
you're taking everything I say into
account, you will make money. So just
make sure you're learning something. You
are genuinely putting your mind to each
product. Hey, this calated product, this
keyword or whatever seems like it'd be
seasonal. Let me look at it. Oh, Google
trends are high. It's visual. Let me
sell it. If just literally make a
checklist and if it checks it off, don't
think. Just stop thinking and just go on
autopilot and launch the store. It's all
I can say, bro. There's nothing crazy.
It's all mental. Stopping a [ __ ]
[ __ ] Run up a bag and I will see you
on the other side. Okay, another
question from JT Trades. As of now, I'm
wondering how to convert more ad to
carts to buyers. Okay. If you're getting
a lot of ad to carts, but you're not
getting sales. Again, it's not that your
product is [ __ ] A lot of people just
assume their product is [ __ ] Boils down
to kind of two slash three things. One,
website. Look at your product pictures,
not your [ __ ] image with text at the
bottom of the [ __ ] website, guys. No
product pictures. Does it visually
communicate everything? Is it getting
all the points of confusion across? If
I'm selling the vibration plate, is it
answering how it works? Is it answering
the science behind it? Is it answering
what workouts they can do? Is it
answering what will actually be the end
result of them using it? Every layer of
confusion, the image has to answer
visually. Next offer, if I'm doing a
vibration plate, if I just have one
vibration plate, two vibration plate,
save 20%, three vibration plates, save
50%. That's not that good. That's not
that, you know, it's not a no-brainer.
What can I do? Maybe I can add some free
gifts to it. Maybe I can include a
training belt, a guide, right?
Resistance bands. There you go. Offer.
Really critical thing. You can't just do
one, buy one, get one 150, like all that
stuff. You guys have to be creative with
offers. Buy two, get one free. Buy one,
get one free. Buy one, buy two, get free
gifts, right? All these types of things.
Three, pricing. Is this product
something that they really need or is
this something that, hey, this will be
cool to have. So, if it's the first that
they really need, sure, you might be
able to get away with the premium
pricing, right? With the vibration play
example, something they've never seen
before, they'll probably play they'll
probably pay a lot more money because
they think it's some cool new invention.
Whereas, if I'm selling, I don't know,
going back to that pillow, it's a
[ __ ] pillow. There's nothing crazy
about it. They're not going to pay $60.
So, hope that kind of answers your
questions. It's usually one of those
three things. Promise you, if you really
think about it and if you tweak the
offer, tweak the pricing, make your
website a little bit better, it will get
better. Another thing as well could just
be that your product is really new and
it just needs more time to kind of get
adjusted to the pixel. For reference,
add a product test. Day one, one, two
sales with a lot of add to carts, 20%
add to cart rate. next day literally all
those people turn into customers. So
sometimes it just takes a little bit for
the meta algorithm to learn. Give it
more money should perform. Okay, really
relevant question right now as well from
Instagram. Big Mino 65 says, "How do we
adjust to Facebook's new Andromeda
update? No doing the same thing over and
over again. Unique concepts. Be unique.
That's it. Creative diversity. Very
simple. Just means being intentful with
your tests. really try and crack down
all avatars possible in your ad account.
Don't just keep iterating the same
[ __ ] angle over and over again. I
talked about this earlier as well. You
can do that to milk your profits, but
the goal right after that if you want a
brand that succeeds for a long term is
creative diversity. Angle one or avatar
one, avatar 2, avatar 3, avatar 4,
complete separate avatars, creative
diversity. Okay, another good kind of
ones like oneoff situation that a lot of
you guys might face. This guy asked me
about Demon asked, "What do you do when
you're getting great CPC, CTR, add to
cars, but not profitable every day? I
tried changing the offer a few times,
which worked one day, but I had the
biggest loss ever and gave up. So before
I told you, offer, pricing, product
pictures. Here's the next part. Now, if
you've been running it for a while,
right, this is not this is not like a
day one, day two, day three thing. If
it's a product you've been running for a
while and it's just not seeming to get
better, pre-sale pages, my boy,
listicles, advertorials, if you're
running supplements or old people
product, these pre-sale pages, again,
like a bridge page where they land not
on your product page, but a page that
educates them and warms them up. If if
you've done all three of those things
before, offer, pricing, pictures, a
pre-sale page will save your life.
Especially in higher AOV products, guys,
if you just make a simple five reasons
why listical and, you know, make it very
appealing to your customer and really
dive into their demographic. Again, if
you're selling the vibration plate, make
five reasons why it would change their
life. You know,
if you do that, it will guaranteed to
improve your conversion rate. Pre-sale
pages are all about increasing
conversion rates. So, that will help
you, my boy. Okay. I don't even know how
the [ __ ] to say this guy's name. Majuba
asked mentality and speed. Okay. So
again, there's a whole 40 or like 30
minute video on this, but all I'm going
to say is you wake up, you go on call,
find your product to launch, launch that
product, launch the ads, and go find the
next five products you want to launch,
launch a second product. Now you have
three products in your reserve. And once
you launch a second product, go find a
couple more. So you have like 20
products in reserve. All you need to do,
speed. When you find one product to
launch, that's not enough. you need a
bunch in reserve. So that's my biggest
tip for you guys. That's what helped me
honestly. Kind of keeps you on track cuz
the second you launch a product and it
flops. You're not like, "Oh, it's over."
Cuz you already have like 20 more to
launch. And the excitement of those
products should keep you going.
Mentality. Go watch my last video, bro.
Sabow asks, "I'm super [ __ ] lazy."
Yo, that's probably the most nerd [ __ ]
I've done. All right. Okay. Colobby
asks, "Going past basic drop shipping,
learning to build pre-landers and
commute with image ads." Okay, great.
So, pre-landers, like I mentioned
before, I personally use Replo to build
them. Very super easy. I'm not making a
tutorial on that. You guys can figure it
out. Um, super easy. Use Replo. They
have a bunch of templates for aviators,
pre-sale pages, like listicles and [ __ ]
It's super easy. Drag and drop. Um, in
terms of the copy for them, just use
chat GPT trainer prompt. Do deep
research. Not going to go into that too
much, but you can figure it out.
In terms of image ads, okay, so
depending on the niche you're running,
image ads can work as your top ofunnel
ads. And you typically want to have like
what's been working for me, me at least,
is like native image ads where it's
really it blends into the for you page.
It's very organic. And you kind of send
that to another pre-sale page like an
advertorialistical that works great for
supplements especially as well. And with
those top of funnel ads, it would be
like a headline news article or
something or like something very very
generic um that would catch their
attention. And as well, you can do a lot
of bottom funnel static ads. So let's
say and this this applies a lot more if
you scale up. You're spending thousands
a day, right? Cuz let's say you're
spending 10k a day, 5k a day even, and
out of that 5k a day, right? 2.5k of
them, 2.5 to 3k of them end up being
customers, whatever the number is,
arbitrary. The rest of those 2K, where
are they going? They're you're not going
to just throw them into the [ __ ]
void. You can send them to a static with
a retargeting static. So, special offer,
Black Friday, buy one get one, 50% off,
whatever the [ __ ] your offer is. Throw
that in there and you can make a lot of
money. Sure, it may not get 2 million
spend, but it might spend $100 a day at
a four or five rorowaz, right? Because
all those people that didn't get
captured at the top of the funnel ads,
they're coming down now to the bottom of
funnel. And if you have 10 statics,
spending $50 a day out of five rorowaz,
what 2500 a day. So really, really good.
That's the bare minimum you should do.
You can test top of funnel statics.
Sometimes they work, sometimes they
don't. But I will tell you for top of
funnel statics, those native organic
statics work really, really good.
Especially if you send it to a pre-sale
page. Makoke asked meta ads pixel.
Profit tracking and reinvesting super
important. Profit tracking guys, triple
oil is not enough. If you don't even
know what that is, this might not be
relevant to you, but it's really
important you have like a VA doing your
profits manually just because for like
bundles and stuff, it's kind of hard to
get an accurate margin on it. And
especially if you can mix and match
sizes and stuff, it's going to get all
over the place. So, you want to be sure
to have a VA or something do your
spreadsheet manually. As well, make sure
you're counting refunds, chargebacks,
processing fees because let's say you
think your net margin is 20%, right? and
you go below that 20%. Whether it's
scaling your ads, whether it's ordering
stock, whether it's buying a [ __ ]
Lambo, right? But you end up getting
chargebacks next month, you end up not
accounting for profit fees. You never
processing fees, sorry. You don't
account for refunds that are going to
come in next month. You lose that 20%
next month. And what happens? You can't
make your payment. So, be very
meticulate in that sheets that your VA
is doing your profit tracking. Please
account for processing fees right away.
Subtract that. And what I like to do is
month over month I see my chargeback
percentage. So for the past six months,
and this applies more for long-term
brands, if my chargeback percentage is
1%, my refund percent is 5%. I'm just
going to subtract 6% of my sales every
day because I'm going to assume, hey,
those are going to eventually become
refunds and chargebacks looking at my
brand's history. And based on that,
that's going to be your free cash flow,
right? You're going to reinvest with
whatever budget you want after all those
costs. If you have a reserve on top of
that, right, Shopify is holding your
money. Subtract that from your profit.
even though it's profit is held. So
don't count that as profit. That's not
your free cash flow. Only scale and
reinvest money that you have now and
that isn't going to go away randomly and
that isn't held for 6 months. Kevin lie
asked hiring process for VAS, creative
team, etc. So VAS, bro, very simple
hire. You can get them on Upwork, online
jobs. You should pay them like 200 a
month. Respond to your emails. Um very
simple hire. I recommend the second you
get a winning product, just hire them.
They will save you a lot of money on
refunds and stuff. Imagine someone is
emailing you for a [ __ ] refund and
you have no one responding and they
charge back. You lost it. But hey, you
can pay someone from the Philippines or
Pakistan $200 a month and they can end
up taking that charge back and instead
letting them keep the product and giving
them a 30% refund. So, hey, what sounds
better to you? Um, so second you get
one, second you get a winning product,
get a VA. Very simple. You can write
them a little dock telling them what
responses to give. I recommend when
you're starting, when you're just
getting to know them, give them copy
paste responses and just monitor a bit.
And over time, you can kind of train
them to give custom responses, creative
team and stuff, creative strategist,
video editor. I'm not going to talk too
much about hiring those hires right now
in this video. It's in my mentorship if
you guys want to join, but you do when
you're scaled up. I will recommend
getting a creative strategist and
getting video editors as well. Um,
here's a good question. How to deal with
inevitable meta ad bans. So Q4 is a time
where a lot of ads are getting banned.
It's super [ __ ] A lot of ad accounts
are getting banned. So if you're running
on a fresh ad account, be careful.
you're probably going to be prone to
getting banned. So, what I'll say is be
careful with ad rejections. Upload one
ad at a time. If you see a bunch getting
rejected, maybe rethink that test. Maybe
cut the test even. On top of that, be a
little lenient. If be a little lenient
if you're getting ad rejections as well,
what you can do is let's say you have
50% off or like Black Friday sale in the
headline or something or you have like a
primary text that says um never wake up
in your sleep again or something. That
word never might seem a little false
prom. It might seem like a false
promise. So meta can trigger those
little kind of scammy words. They're
very strict right now. So don't do stuff
like that if you are facing rejections.
That might help you a lot. I've had
people come to me saying they're getting
banned. I literally tell them, "Hey,
change your headline to just something
simple like enjoy comfort now or some
[ __ ] instead of 50% off and the ad gets
approved." Um, so be kind of lenient
with your copy in terms of your ads. And
if you keep on getting rejected, what
can I say, man? You might have to remake
your ads. You might have to move on to a
new product or you might have to pay for
an ad account ban. It's inevitable. But
hey, the more you spend, the less
rejections you have, the better it's
going to be. What you can also do is
let's say you get an ad that gets
rejected, you can upload like a
compliant photo of like a cat or some
[ __ ] just so it gets approved. Then you
turn off the ad and don't delete it.
There's basically a hidden kind of like
trust factor score in Meta called the
Hiva. It's just like an internal trust
factor and the more ads you get
rejected, the lower your Hiva score is.
So, if you get an ad rejected, just
replace it with a cat and turn it off
and your highest score all the time will
go up and that makes you less prone to
getting banned. Not Turner asked,
"Staying committed."
Just go watch my last video, bro. Kanu
us asked, "Finding creators to watch."
Bro, everything you have is literally
right here. You don't need anybody else.
You can go watch Anthony Eclipse about
Tik Tok drop shipping if you want. But
hey, everything's right here, my boy. I
genuinely wish I had some [ __ ] like this
when I started, bro. You I promise you
everything you need to know is in this
channel. Norbert Nazarian asked,
"Maintaining consistent ROS every day.
Not sure if it's our ads or ad account.
Stop being skitso. It's most likely not
your ad account. So, it's all coming
down to creative. Um, [snorts] actually
there's a lot of things, right? If you
want temporary rorowass boost, again,
like I kind of mentioned earlier, you
can do congruent pre-sale pages to the
ads you're running. So, again, let's say
you're running avatar 1, avatar 2, and
those are your winners. You can make
listicles only reasons Avatar one would
care about and send it only to avatar
one ads. And you can make another
listical for Avatar 2 and make that
listical only about everything Avatar 2
would care about. That would help you a
little bit. But in terms of long-term
OS, it's all creative, bro. Get a
variety of creatives coming in. So if
you're a bigger brand or you doing at
least six figures a month,
excuse me, get a creative strategist and
start writing briefs yourself. You need
a variety of creatives. Don't get lazy.
So when you're doing variety of
creatives, you need to make sure you're
intentful. So, make sure every creative,
especially with Andromeda, is not the
same thing over and over again. Do deep
market research. Really understand your
customer, their deep desires, their
problems, and really make each copy feel
like, really make each ad copy feel like
it's tailored to their exact problem.
Let's say you're selling a product that
can have five different avatars. Again,
going back to the pillow, hot sleeper,
neck pain, whatever the [ __ ] all these
different reasons. If you make an ad
targeting all five in one video, it's
not going to feel like it's tailored to
them, right? If I'm selling that pillow
and I make one ad talking about
everything someone only with neck pain
would really relate to, not a hot
sleeper, they wouldn't give a [ __ ] about
the ad. But that neck pain person looks
at it and they're like, "Holy [ __ ] this
is made for me." That's what you need to
do. And you need to repeat that with all
these different avatars. So, you're
going to go do deep market research and
make the most perfect ad copy and tailor
it to each avatar as good as possible.
And when you have, going back to what I
said earlier as well, when you have
multiple people doing that, a creative
strategist, yourself, whatever it may
be, you have two heads doing the same
thing, the odds of you hitting a winner
are much higher. So, it's all a creative
team. Make sure you have a feedback loop
as well. When you're doing these tests,
look at what's the problem. Is it the
hook rate? Is it the hold rate? If the
hook is good, but the hold is [ __ ] the
ad copy might not be good. It might be
too adlike. You might be listing too
many reasons. If the hold rate is good
and the hook is [ __ ] oh, he probably
needs a better hook, my boy. So, and if
the hook and hold rate is [ __ ] maybe
the way you the avatar might not be that
good. Maybe the whole messaging is [ __ ]
There's a lot to learn for every
creative, bro. So, make sure you're
learning a lot from every creative.
You're being intentful. And there's a
variety of writing styles, whether it's
from a strategist, whether it's from
yourself, whether it's from some
copyriter. I don't know. If you have the
budgets, do that. But at the bare
minimum, variety and learn something for
every test. And if you're a long-term
brand struggling with rorowass, get a
variety of creatives coming into your ad
account from different heads. That's
what help that's honestly what's helped
me a lot. Okay, so this is going to be
like the last question for this video,
but Joel Abraham John, interesting name.
He said, "How do you exit a brand? Who
do you sell to?" So, I'm going to talk a
little bit about about my experience
exiting a brand. Um, I will say if
running if you've been running a brand
for under three years, it's pretty hard
to exit. And that is simply because
these buyers rely on something called
SBA, which is a business loan that banks
give. And they usually do it for
businesses that are about 3 years or so,
if not older. And the reason they don't
do it for any businesses younger than
that is just because it's too much of a
risk. And no one's buying businesses for
cash unless it's for [ __ ] pennies or
not pennies, but like 100 200k. Um, so
you have to, in my opinion, I would
build for a long-term exit, two, three
years. But hey, if you're trying to get
out earlier like I did, um, you can exit
at a year or two, but your multiplier
will be [ __ ] If you're under three
years, expect a 1x multiplier or under
on your year-to- date profit. Um, if
you're running three years or longer,
you can get two to three times. I got a
little bit lucky because my product was
one of one supplier patent, USA
production, zero competition.
That kind of gave me an edge and gave me
a little bit more reason to get more
money. That's why I was able to get a
seven figure exit. Mostly did a million
profit. So, the multiplier wouldn't have
been bad even if it was a drop shipping
store. But it's really rare that you'll
get a huge exit at that small of a brand
in terms of age. But in the actual
process, you basically go to a broker. I
can give you my broker if you want to
just DM me on Instagram. Um, you go to a
broker, you list your business, you take
calls with these guys. They get to know
you. One of them throws an LOI at you,
letter of intent, basically detailing,
hey, everything checks out. I'm going to
buy this business for X amount. And it's
going to have all the terms saying, hey,
you can't run this product for three
years. you're going to have to help me
with on calls for a month with like a
transition period. This amount's going
to be upfront. I'll give you another
amount over the span of three years,
whatever. All the terms are going to be
there. And after that, bro, you
basically they do their due diligence,
look at all your bank statements, all
that stuff. And after that, money's in
escrow. You get your money. So, that's
kind of the process. Um, again, if your
brand's under a year old, two years old
even, I really don't recommend it. it's
going to not be that much unless you
have like a crazy one of one product
like I did. Other than that, I would
just build something to exit longterm.
If you can exit for after three or four
years, you can get a lot of money, bro.
So, that's kind of just a rough, I
guess, exiting for dummies process. I
don't know. But besides that, guys, I'm
tired as [ __ ] I started so much in this
video, bro. But that's going to be it.
That's going to wrap it up for the drop
shipping struggles you guys talked
about. But besides that, bro, um
you guys need to lock in. Have a good
Q4. Print some [ __ ] money, bro. Like,
this has been the best all my brands
have been doing, bro. And it's only
going to get better. You guys aren't
late. But besides that, bro, I'm going
to have a good time in LA. If anyone's
in LA, let me know. Uh if you want one
of my mentorship down below, link bio.
But yeah, I will see you guys in the
next video. Peace.
Ask follow-up questions or revisit key timestamps.
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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