Why You Should Start DropShipping With $0 From Scratch (DONT USE SHOPIFY / DONT PAY FOR ADS!)

what is up you guys my name is isabella i own two six figure ecommerce businesses and i'm going to be telling you guys exactly what these goobers are not telling you i have personal history with drop shipping i used to dropship that's how i started making money online originally when i was 17 years old and i have seen so many misconceptions about drop shipping not only on youtube but on tick tock and just basically everywhere that i go and i see other people teaching drop shipping for me it's just the complete opposite approach of what i would teach you if i were telling you to start drop shipping that is why i made this video specifically to let you guys know what i feel is the best approach to drop shipping and how you can start drop shipping with a great long-term business model drop shipping is an extremely easy topic to teach others about because the business model itself is very simple and very easy to explain for all my beginners that are watching this drop shipping is basically when you set up a website and then you showcase a product that you have found on a wholesaling website then the buyer will buy that product from your website and instead of you having an inventory or shipping it from your house or you having to package and ship it they just take that address and information that the buyer gave them and they plug it into another website and they ship it from the other website straight to the buyer you are essentially the middleman just by plugging this customer to them with your own storefront of a website so the first step that you're going to take if you want to start drop shipping is finding a winning product and trying to figure out what kind of product you want to sell and what kind of niche you want to get into i have a whole video dedicated just to this on my youtube channel that will physically show you step by step how to find the product not just me telling you to go do this and that so if you want to see this step-by-step tutorial i'll have that on my youtube channel throughout that video i tell you guys that you want to make sure that you are using a product to sell or getting into a niche that you can incorporate into your everyday life for example i have seen people get into the dog niche or the pat niche and they don't have pets so how can you possibly market that yourself if you don't have pets we will talk more about marketing in this video coming up another huge thing that i don't see enough gurus talking about is that they are just telling you to drop ship products and they're not even looking at the date of how long it's gonna take for that shop or that wholesaler to ship it to your customer because remember your customers relying on you to deliver their product fast the way that amazon has made it nowadays is not easy to dropship as much as it was five years ago only because amazon has been on such a rise since then and people are expecting their packages quick or at least some type of correspondence to see where their package is or just an email that says their product has been shipped you want to make sure that you're choosing a product that has a fast shipping time which i show you step by step how to find those in that video that i explained earlier number two now that you've found your product now it's time to build a website almost every single guru that i have seen on youtube and tick tock say to use shopify and i entirely disagree with this and here's why they say oh well you can start for free as in you can start your free trial shopify will bill you after a certain amount of time i believe it's one to two months and then you have to start paying for your shop so if you are at the point yet where you're not ready or you're not generating income that time clock is still ticking and they are going to charge you if you don't start selling it doesn't matter if you start selling your products or not that charge is still coming every single month i promise you shopify is not the only option out there and another thing that's really crazy is that a lot of people that use shopify and a lot of these gurus it is so easy to fake the analytics for shopify i will show you guys a video right here of someone i found on tech talk that shows you how easy it is to actually fake the analytics exposing tick tock gurus part four all right as you can see zero dollars in sales right all i have to do is come to orders click on create order now i just choose a product of mine to the order let's do 11 and mark as paid now as you can see it says i have eleven hundred dollars in sales today and even if i refresh it it still comes up again eleven hundred i'm telling you there's so many gurus right now on tick tock doing this exact trick shout out to this user for exposing that and showing people that because that to me just shows you guys too that you cannot believe everything you see so you want to make sure that the website host that you are using is going to be free and you probably say oh well there's no such thing as that there is there's a website host that i use when i was 17 and whenever i'm thinking about starting a new business i always always start with this platform it's called big cartel and i have a step-by-step tutorial on my youtube channel was actually the first video that i ever made on this channel to show you guys that you can create a website for free zero dollars a monthly for up to five products and there's no extra charge like it's not like okay they're gonna charge you more in fees it's exactly the same as shopify fees or because you have to realize every time um a person buys things from you they charge like a payment processing fee usually one or two dollars with shopify it's exactly the same as big cartel so both of these websites are the same fees except shopify you have that taking time bomb that you're going to start being charged very soon where with big cartel if you are just getting your website ready and you know it takes a couple months to really like grow your you know brand and everything you're going to want to use something that you don't have to feel like you have to hurry up and rush and do all these things to make sales but that's another thing that i have seen extremely it's almost like you're if you're scrolling down youtube all you see are these videos of shopify are people using shopify for their dropshipping business and i just don't agree with it so once you have built your website now it is time to market your product so one thing that a lot of these gurus tell you to use is to just take the videos from these um chinese suppliers like sites a lot of them will show you actual like videos from the chinese sites that you can like kind of reuse or they like show you other websites that you can like go and get the video on that other people are using i a thousand percent disagree with this and here's why these videos usually are horizontal because they're technically made for facebook ads which we will 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