Of course - DROPSHIPPING came to the picture. July 2016 when I came across this bright idea.
PROS:
- Almost no initial investment (except for your website domain - optional),
- No inventory needed!
- Still own my time
It was tough, realizing that most of the videos offering "FREE" trainings have actually built their money-making schemes around this concept - Get people to pay monthly member fees or Pay for their training videos. I've joined a bunch of this groups and hundreds of members still struggle to make a profit! Why? Because they really just want your monthly membership fee. 😨
I remember one 'free' webinar I joined gave us some tips and tricks to Facebook ads, then the upsells came. This marketer wants us to join his 'Over-the-shoulder' training for 3 payments of $397. Then he said, everything we know is only 10% of the whole process. We have to join in so we can discover the whole 90% of backend process on how to really run a eCom store!
It makes sense. No one would share complete info without getting paid. And those truly rich people who made real money by dropshipping probably wouldn't even bother creating these 'free videos' which end purpose is to recruit monthly members or one-time pay clients.
When they show screen shots of $8k per day or $900k per month results - we wonder HOW in the world are you making that much money and still hustle to get people for monthly membership fees? Maybe because it's not real? 😰 They always say - You can "duplicate" the process if you buy this program. But all those who do, nobody gets same results! Because perhaps there really are some steps or process that they do not include with the tutorials, even the PAID ones.
Because if you really want to learn HOW they process their eCom pages, you have to get their One-on-One session which can be from $10k to $30k. 👴
Anyway, bitterness aside 😹 , I'll just share some Case Studies I've scoured over the net for these past few months. There are several types of dropshipping stores. Some can be more elaborate than others. I am not selling anything or affiliated with whatever product or site. I'm still struggling to get my 1st buyer in my eCom store (which I'm still tweaking).
I have setup a Shopify account 2x and also cancelled them both because I have no idea how to properly do everything together. 😵 But, thanks to some good samaritan people from Shopify and other Marketers who open their sites and share their experiences, I am trying to map out a structure on how to really make a profitable eCom dropshipping store. With all these free videos and tutorials, I'm sure we can figure out a system to do this, without any paid trainings or memberships. And when I finally get my store making money, I'd be happy to share everything! 😊
Creating this blog is also a way for me to sort the different dropshipping models that would compliment me. I've been reviewing videos after videos, and several training blogs and they all have different approach to eCom. I hope you learn a thing or two with this compilation.
If you're new to dropshipping, we're on the same boat, buddy!
