Dear Dropshippers, Stop Doing This.

Published on: December 1 2022 by Bryan Guerra

Dear Dropshippers, Stop Doing This.

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00:00:00	00:00:04	so in this video i want to cover six
00:00:02	00:00:06	mistakes that new dropshippers make that
00:00:04	00:00:08	kill their business before they ever get
00:00:06	00:00:10	a chance to scale it so
00:00:08	00:00:12	number one first and foremost all these
00:00:10	00:00:14	two are
00:00:12	00:00:15	they pertain to every drop shipping
00:00:14	00:00:17	business model you know not counting
00:00:15	00:00:18	shopify we have to run your ads to it
00:00:17	00:00:19	although
00:00:18	00:00:20	that's a little bit of a different one
00:00:19	00:00:22	so i just kind of want to tok
00:00:20	00:00:24	specifically here in general about like
00:00:22	00:00:26	drop shipping on facebook marketplace
00:00:24	00:00:28	from you know retail sites or wholesale
00:00:26	00:00:30	drop shipping on ebay drop shipping on
00:00:28	00:00:32	amazon drop shipping on rikari
00:00:30	00:00:34	dropshipping on poshmark etsy you name
00:00:32	00:00:35	it stuff like that not the shopify
00:00:34	00:00:36	business model where you have to set
00:00:35	00:00:38	your own store up and then obviously run
00:00:36	00:00:40	advertising okay so we're toking about
00:00:38	00:00:41	drop shipping in the generic sense on
00:00:40	00:00:43	those platforms and
00:00:41	00:00:45	the number one mistake that i see a lot
00:00:43	00:00:47	of people making and it's a mistake that
00:00:45	00:00:50	really everybody faces and they have to
00:00:47	00:00:51	overcome myself included is scaling too
00:00:50	00:00:54	fast and this makes a lot of sense
00:00:51	00:00:56	because in the beginning you you don't
00:00:54	00:00:58	really have a proof of concept yet so
00:00:56	00:01:00	you're starting you know you're you're
00:00:58	00:01:02	kind of going at it a little bit here
00:01:00	00:01:03	and there to try to see if it even works
00:01:02	00:01:05	for you right you've heard about this
00:01:03	00:01:08	drop shipping no matter if it's it's
00:01:05	00:01:09	facebook marketplace or amazon or ebay
00:01:08	00:01:11	or whatever it is and so you put a
00:01:09	00:01:12	little bit of work in but then once you
00:01:11	00:01:14	get proof of concept and you start
00:01:12	00:01:15	getting sales chances are you're
00:01:14	00:01:17	watching more youtube videos or you're
00:01:15	00:01:18	in facebook groups you're on forums and
00:01:17	00:01:21	you're seeing that other people are
00:01:18	00:01:23	having a lot more success than you and
00:01:21	00:01:24	the level of success out there is you
00:01:23	00:01:26	know really there for you and it's there
00:01:24	00:01:27	for the taking right so there's
00:01:26	00:01:29	scalability there
00:01:27	00:01:31	now the next you know kind of gut
00:01:29	00:01:33	reaction there and the next kind of step
00:01:31	00:01:35	in the process is all right well let's
00:01:33	00:01:37	scale this right let's list more because
00:01:35	00:01:38	in a lot of these places unless you're
00:01:37	00:01:40	listening on somewhere like etsy where
00:01:38	00:01:41	they charge you per listing even though
00:01:40	00:01:43	it's you know super minimal i think it's
00:01:41	00:01:45	like 10 cents it might be 25 cents i'm
00:01:43	00:01:47	really not sure um
00:01:45	00:01:49	if it's somewhere free to list like ebay
00:01:47	00:01:50	or amazon or you know facebook
00:01:49	00:01:52	marketplace or anything like that
00:01:50	00:01:54	then all you're really spending is your
00:01:52	00:01:55	time it doesn't cost you anything to
00:01:54	00:01:57	list so you can really scale it to the
00:01:55	00:02:00	max if you're willing to put the effort
00:01:57	00:02:02	in obviously you know over time
00:02:00	00:02:04	and so in a major issue that i see here
00:02:02	00:02:07	is people scale too fast and that kind
00:02:04	00:02:08	of brings its own issues up because you
00:02:07	00:02:10	can run into cash flow issues which
00:02:08	00:02:12	isn't that big of a deal because you can
00:02:10	00:02:13	always obviously stop or like turn your
00:02:12	00:02:15	stores on vacation mode or you know
00:02:13	00:02:17	obviously deactivate some of your
00:02:15	00:02:18	listings or whatever it is but another
00:02:17	00:02:20	thing that comes up is with scalability
00:02:18	00:02:23	issues if you scale too fast and you
00:02:20	00:02:25	don't have systems put in place is you
00:02:23	00:02:26	could run into issues like for example
00:02:25	00:02:28	if you're not tracking your inventory
00:02:26	00:02:30	which i don't even track my inventory um
00:02:28	00:02:31	and it's i don't really recommend that
00:02:30	00:02:34	anybody really tracks their inventory on
00:02:31	00:02:35	facebook marketplace specifically or on
00:02:34	00:02:36	poshmark it's not really worth the price
00:02:35	00:02:39	that you're gonna have to pay into an
00:02:36	00:02:40	inventory software system like that now
00:02:39	00:02:41	on amazon it's a little bit different
00:02:40	00:02:44	because they take metrics a little bit
00:02:41	00:02:45	more seriously ebay you know you
00:02:44	00:02:46	probably want to track your inventory
00:02:45	00:02:48	but facebook marketplace or anything
00:02:46	00:02:49	like that is not really necessary in my
00:02:48	00:02:51	opinion now and i've toked about that
00:02:49	00:02:52	in other videos but the issue with
00:02:51	00:02:54	scaling too fast to that is like if you
00:02:52	00:02:55	scale too fast and this is something
00:02:54	00:02:57	that happened to me on amazon and almost
00:02:55	00:02:59	killed my amazon store it's also
00:02:57	00:03:01	something that just happened to me on
00:02:59	00:03:03	facebook shops and like uh thank god
00:03:01	00:03:05	like i have experience and i've system
00:03:03	00:03:07	and systems in place to know like how to
00:03:05	00:03:08	combat it how to prevent it once it
00:03:07	00:03:10	starts happening but
00:03:08	00:03:12	if you get you know you start to scale
00:03:10	00:03:13	and you're listing a bunch of things and
00:03:12	00:03:15	then one of your listings takes off or
00:03:13	00:03:18	maybe a couple of your listings take off
00:03:15	00:03:20	and you know for example you there's two
00:03:18	00:03:21	main things that i see with this but
00:03:20	00:03:23	like for example like let's say you get
00:03:21	00:03:25	like 10 sales overnight or like 20 sales
00:03:23	00:03:27	overnight and you don't have that that's
00:03:25	00:03:28	for a listing that like isn't in stok
00:03:27	00:03:31	anymore or a listing that was
00:03:28	00:03:32	discontinued on a website well now you
00:03:31	00:03:34	have 20 orders that you don't know what
00:03:32	00:03:35	to do with and you know you're running
00:03:34	00:03:37	into issues with a lot of different
00:03:35	00:03:39	orders there because you didn't
00:03:37	00:03:41	necessarily have the system in place to
00:03:39	00:03:43	combat it you have the sales in place
00:03:41	00:03:44	over time to kind of bury that in your
00:03:43	00:03:45	metrics right whether you're canceling
00:03:44	00:03:46	the orders whether you're shipping out
00:03:45	00:03:48	you know if they tracking numbers or
00:03:46	00:03:50	whatever okay that's an issue that can
00:03:48	00:03:52	arise when you scale too fast so you
00:03:50	00:03:54	don't want to be greedy and you want to
00:03:52	00:03:55	kind of scale slowly make sure that you
00:03:54	00:03:58	have the experience you're seeing all
00:03:55	00:03:59	the problems on a low scale first so
00:03:58	00:04:01	that you know how to handle them so that
00:03:59	00:04:03	when you scale and you're on a bigger
00:04:01	00:04:04	scale you can handle them better at
00:04:03	00:04:06	scale right because you don't want to
00:04:04	00:04:07	run into those issues at scale or it's
00:04:06	00:04:09	going to kill your store if you don't
00:04:07	00:04:10	have the experience okay and trust me
00:04:09	00:04:12	that's firsthand like knowledge i'm not
00:04:10	00:04:13	just saying like that could happen i've
00:04:12	00:04:14	ran into that issue many times myself
00:04:13	00:04:16	okay
00:04:14	00:04:18	another thing that can happen with scale
00:04:16	00:04:20	is very very similar but it's a worse
00:04:18	00:04:22	problem right so for example let's say
00:04:20	00:04:23	and this has happened to me a number of
00:04:22	00:04:24	times as well and it's something that's
00:04:23	00:04:26	like i've had to eat like hundreds of
00:04:24	00:04:28	dollars in return costs sometimes so
00:04:26	00:04:29	like for example let's say you list
00:04:28	00:04:31	something or if you're you know scaled
00:04:29	00:04:33	up to any certain degree you have like a
00:04:31	00:04:34	va listing for you and you have like one
00:04:33	00:04:36	listing for example that takes off and
00:04:34	00:04:38	you get a bunch of sales on it and you
00:04:36	00:04:40	know in this case the the
00:04:38	00:04:41	the actual
00:04:40	00:04:43	listing on the other site where you're
00:04:41	00:04:45	sourcing from is still in stok and you
00:04:43	00:04:48	send all like let's say 20 orders again
00:04:45	00:04:49	to a number of customers and then you
00:04:48	00:04:51	don't realize that once you've processed
00:04:49	00:04:52	those orders that like maybe your
00:04:51	00:04:54	listing is inaccurate or maybe you
00:04:52	00:04:56	shipped out the wrong variation or the
00:04:54	00:04:58	wrong size because of the something like
00:04:56	00:05:00	wrong in the listing right and this has
00:04:58	00:05:01	happened to me many many times both when
00:05:00	00:05:03	i used to do it on amazon with like
00:05:01	00:05:05	variations that's why i kind of try to
00:05:03	00:05:07	stay away from them now it's also
00:05:05	00:05:09	happened to me one time with uh
00:05:07	00:05:10	something on ebay as well it was like a
00:05:09	00:05:11	one thing that i toked about my last
00:05:10	00:05:13	video was like soccer nets and soccer
00:05:11	00:05:15	goals so a lot of people would buy this
00:05:13	00:05:17	one soccer net that wasn't actually the
00:05:15	00:05:19	framed goal it was just the net thinking
00:05:17	00:05:21	that they got a great deal and i sold
00:05:19	00:05:23	like probably like i don't know like 40
00:05:21	00:05:26	or 50 of these and then almost everybody
00:05:23	00:05:28	wanted a refund or a return because
00:05:26	00:05:29	they uh
00:05:28	00:05:30	like they realized when they got it that
00:05:29	00:05:32	it was just the net not the soccer goal
00:05:30	00:05:34	right so like normally that's not a big
00:05:32	00:05:35	deal but if you run into an ebay seller
00:05:34	00:05:38	with an issue that's like giving you a
00:05:35	00:05:41	hard time and like responding slowly yes
00:05:38	00:05:43	you can get obviously all your your your
00:05:41	00:05:44	refunds back or like return all those
00:05:43	00:05:46	items if you you know what to do when
00:05:44	00:05:48	like if you're willing to be patient but
00:05:46	00:05:49	it's a freaking headache to do that with
00:05:48	00:05:51	a number of orders right so that's
00:05:49	00:05:53	another issue that can kind of come up
00:05:51	00:05:54	and those are just two examples of
00:05:53	00:05:56	things that can come up when you scale
00:05:54	00:05:57	too fast right so i kind of that was a
00:05:56	00:05:59	long-winded answer with number one i'll
00:05:57	00:06:01	try to move through the next one's kind
00:05:59	00:06:03	of a little bit faster
00:06:01	00:06:05	but be wary of scaling too fast because
00:06:03	00:06:06	while everybody wants to do it you want
00:06:05	00:06:07	to get from like where you are now to
00:06:06	00:06:09	like you know multiple thousands of
00:06:07	00:06:11	dollars or ten thousand dollar profit
00:06:09	00:06:13	months totally get that makes perfect
00:06:11	00:06:14	sense be wary of scaling too fast
00:06:13	00:06:16	because if you don't have the systems in
00:06:14	00:06:18	place if you don't have this experience
00:06:16	00:06:21	in place to deal with those problems as
00:06:18	00:06:23	they arise on a small scale you're gonna
00:06:21	00:06:24	literally blow up as they hit you in
00:06:23	00:06:26	volume okay
00:06:24	00:06:28	so number two is uh you know using the
00:06:26	00:06:30	address copying software whether you're
00:06:28	00:06:32	using somewhere uh something like uh
00:06:30	00:06:34	spot and paste whether you're using
00:06:32	00:06:36	something built into like an fbm fox or
00:06:34	00:06:37	a uh a z drop where like you have to
00:06:36	00:06:39	actually have the copy address and then
00:06:37	00:06:41	you paste the address in i've ran into
00:06:39	00:06:43	issues many many times like
00:06:41	00:06:44	most of the time it works copy paste but
00:06:43	00:06:47	every once in a while you'll either
00:06:44	00:06:49	forget to paste it in there or on top of
00:06:47	00:06:50	that you'll paste it in and then run
00:06:49	00:06:52	into an issue where like you might have
00:06:50	00:06:54	an apartment number in the other like
00:06:52	00:06:57	little little uh box there and not
00:06:54	00:06:59	realize it or something goes wrong
00:06:57	00:07:01	not a lot of times but every once in a
00:06:59	00:07:04	while with the copy software so i
00:07:01	00:07:06	recommend one one the copy address
00:07:04	00:07:07	software a lot of coffee today that's
00:07:06	00:07:09	why i'm all over the place
00:07:07	00:07:11	so what i recommend is one of two things
00:07:09	00:07:13	right either use the copy address
00:07:11	00:07:14	software which i definitely recommend
00:07:13	00:07:15	because it can save you a lot of time
00:07:14	00:07:17	and then make sure that you're clicking
00:07:15	00:07:19	back and forth and verifying that the
00:07:17	00:07:21	address is correct every single time
00:07:19	00:07:23	don't just jump the gun and assume it
00:07:21	00:07:25	copied right every time or you might run
00:07:23	00:07:27	into an issue where like you have like a
00:07:25	00:07:28	200 order and you ship it to the wrong
00:07:27	00:07:30	address and then you're screwed and
00:07:28	00:07:32	you're out of 200 because
00:07:30	00:07:33	you copied and pasted the wrong address
00:07:32	00:07:35	right i don't want you to run into those
00:07:33	00:07:37	problems so make sure that you're either
00:07:35	00:07:38	doing that and verifying it with the
00:07:37	00:07:39	software and making sure that you have
00:07:38	00:07:41	the right address in there i know it
00:07:39	00:07:42	goes without saying and it's common
00:07:41	00:07:44	sense but a lot of people don't they
00:07:42	00:07:46	just take it for granted the copy
00:07:44	00:07:49	address will paste it in perfectly every
00:07:46	00:07:51	single time and they never forget or do
00:07:49	00:07:52	what i did when i started and what i
00:07:51	00:07:55	recommend to most beginners literally
00:07:52	00:07:56	manually copy it you know yourself if
00:07:55	00:07:59	you're using any of the normal like
00:07:56	00:08:01	beginner methods like amazon ebay home
00:07:59	00:08:03	depot walmart any beginner places that
00:08:01	00:08:06	most people go to because they're easy
00:08:03	00:08:08	and they have a big product catalog all
00:08:06	00:08:09	of those websites will will literally
00:08:08	00:08:10	guess where you're shipping it to
00:08:09	00:08:13	immediately so that means that all you
00:08:10	00:08:14	have to do is really paste in the uh the
00:08:13	00:08:16	person's name paste in their street
00:08:14	00:08:18	address and most of the time it will
00:08:16	00:08:19	come up with the full address and then
00:08:18	00:08:21	you just click okay and then you don't
00:08:19	00:08:22	need to really verify because you know
00:08:21	00:08:24	it's perfect every single time you just
00:08:22	00:08:26	click over once make sure that you have
00:08:24	00:08:27	the the state and the city right and bam
00:08:26	00:08:29	you're good to go okay
00:08:27	00:08:31	so make sure that when you're using the
00:08:29	00:08:32	copy address software it doesn't matter
00:08:31	00:08:34	what software you're using there's a lot
00:08:32	00:08:36	of them out there i recommend z drop
00:08:34	00:08:37	obviously which is the listing software
00:08:36	00:08:39	that comes with that if you're doing
00:08:37	00:08:41	amazon drop shipping i obviously
00:08:39	00:08:44	recommend spot paste or ebay drop
00:08:41	00:08:45	shipping spot paces works great as well
00:08:44	00:08:47	just make sure that you're verifying and
00:08:45	00:08:49	not taking it for granted or you could
00:08:47	00:08:51	run into an issue you know you might not
00:08:49	00:08:52	think it's that big of an issue and it
00:08:51	00:08:54	might not be that big of an issue if
00:08:52	00:08:56	it's like a 5 or ten dollar or twenty
00:08:54	00:08:58	dollar order but i've done multiple
00:08:56	00:08:59	times where like i've shipped out big
00:08:58	00:09:01	orders to the wrong address and then
00:08:59	00:09:02	like there's no way to get that back
00:09:01	00:09:04	because it's delivered to the wrong
00:09:02	00:09:06	address that's the address that you put
00:09:04	00:09:08	in there and your your out of luck
00:09:06	00:09:10	because you're out like 200 300 bucks
00:09:08	00:09:11	whatever it is right so just verify
00:09:10	00:09:14	every time it might slow you down a
00:09:11	00:09:17	little bit but it's well worth it okay
00:09:14	00:09:20	even at scale now number three is not
00:09:17	00:09:21	properly managing uh cash flow and this
00:09:20	00:09:23	is something that i dealt with
00:09:21	00:09:25	specifically on amazon because i scale
00:09:23	00:09:27	too fast it's also something it's not
00:09:25	00:09:28	that big of a deal but it's also
00:09:27	00:09:30	something that you kind of want to focus
00:09:28	00:09:32	on because the reason being is if you're
00:09:30	00:09:34	not managing your cash flow and checking
00:09:32	00:09:35	it every single day the same thing goes
00:09:34	00:09:37	with personal finance like you always
00:09:35	00:09:38	want to check your bank accounts always
00:09:37	00:09:39	check your credit cards if you're not
00:09:38	00:09:41	managing your cash flow you could run
00:09:39	00:09:43	into an issue where like you wake up
00:09:41	00:09:44	with like 30 new orders and you don't
00:09:43	00:09:46	have any money or any credit to actually
00:09:44	00:09:47	pay for those orders and that can kill
00:09:46	00:09:49	your metrics and you have to cancel all
00:09:47	00:09:50	those orders right so this is a little
00:09:49	00:09:52	problem but you definitely want to
00:09:50	00:09:54	manage cash flow also because like you
00:09:52	00:09:56	might need to turn off your store so
00:09:54	00:09:57	that you give yourself time if you're
00:09:56	00:10:00	starting if you don't have the credit
00:09:57	00:10:01	you don't already have some cash flow
00:10:00	00:10:03	so that you can recoup some of that
00:10:01	00:10:05	money so that you can then spend it
00:10:03	00:10:07	going forward in the future okay
00:10:05	00:10:09	now the next one number four is getting
00:10:07	00:10:11	one one that i see a lot and we all face
00:10:09	00:10:13	this myself included like getting too
00:10:11	00:10:15	emotional dealing with customers if they
00:10:13	00:10:16	give you a hard time or they ask for a
00:10:15	00:10:18	refund or like you're even if you're
00:10:16	00:10:19	pretty sure that they're lying to you
00:10:18	00:10:21	and they're saying like it didn't get
00:10:19	00:10:23	delivered i always recommend just
00:10:21	00:10:25	looking at it as a looking at it as like
00:10:23	00:10:27	a this is part this is like par for the
00:10:25	00:10:29	course right like this is part of doing
00:10:27	00:10:31	business as a drop shipper always just
00:10:29	00:10:34	not always but the majority of time
00:10:31	00:10:36	refund those customers be kind to them
00:10:34	00:10:37	don't go off on a long-winded response
00:10:36	00:10:39	and be like unprofessional and get mad
00:10:37	00:10:41	back at them because it's not worth it
00:10:39	00:10:43	and especially on amazon that can really
00:10:41	00:10:44	run you into problems it can a little
00:10:43	00:10:47	bit on facebook marketplace but not
00:10:44	00:10:48	really but i have notiked
00:10:47	00:10:51	again this is a guess a correlation
00:10:48	00:10:52	between like some claims on on facebook
00:10:51	00:10:54	marketplace and then getting my account
00:10:52	00:10:56	suspended thinking that like something's
00:10:54	00:10:58	wrong right now granted i get my account
00:10:56	00:10:59	back like almost immediately within 24
00:10:58	00:11:01	hours every single time it's happened to
00:10:59	00:11:04	me in the past and it's happened like
00:11:01	00:11:06	four or five times now i think um not
00:11:04	00:11:08	not recently but i'm sure another one's
00:11:06	00:11:09	coming eventually let's be real
00:11:08	00:11:12	but there is a correlation there so i
00:11:09	00:11:13	would say like be careful with that
00:11:12	00:11:14	make sure that you're always dealing
00:11:13	00:11:17	with customers and kind of conversing
00:11:14	00:11:19	with them you know on a kind basis being
00:11:17	00:11:23	professional always accept returns for
00:11:19	00:11:24	them and always aid them you know
00:11:23	00:11:26	making sure that they're happy customers
00:11:24	00:11:27	right and that goes for amazon that goes
00:11:26	00:11:29	for ebay that goes for facebook
00:11:27	00:11:31	marketplace or any different uh you know
00:11:29	00:11:32	marketplace i'm telling you it'll pay
00:11:31	00:11:34	off it's annoying to deal with that it's
00:11:32	00:11:35	annoying to kind of swallow your pride
00:11:34	00:11:38	and be like i know that this person's
00:11:35	00:11:39	lying or i have a good chance or a good
00:11:38	00:11:41	you know inclination that this person is
00:11:39	00:11:42	lying and the tracking is literally
00:11:41	00:11:43	showing that it's been delivered to the
00:11:42	00:11:46	right address and they're saying it's
00:11:43	00:11:48	not there it's not worth it in in my
00:11:46	00:11:51	opinion most of the time there are those
00:11:48	00:11:52	rare circumstances but like just refund
00:11:51	00:11:54	them move on to the next customer and
00:11:52	00:11:55	block them as a problem customer in the
00:11:54	00:11:56	future
00:11:55	00:11:58	because the majority of sales that you
00:11:56	00:11:59	get the majority of profit will way
00:11:58	00:12:01	outweigh
00:11:59	00:12:03	the the little amount of refunds and
00:12:01	00:12:04	annoying customers that you have right
00:12:03	00:12:06	you want to you want the privilege of
00:12:04	00:12:08	doing business on the marketplace you
00:12:06	00:12:11	don't want to risk that for one or two
00:12:08	00:12:12	idiot customers okay so take a deep
00:12:11	00:12:14	breath before you respond to somebody
00:12:12	00:12:16	and get mad and then you know deal with
00:12:14	00:12:18	it in a professional manner even if you
00:12:16	00:12:19	think they're lying even if you know
00:12:18	00:12:21	you're right okay
00:12:19	00:12:23	number five there's two more we're gonna
00:12:21	00:12:24	cover six here obviously like i said
00:12:23	00:12:26	number five is not paying attention to
00:12:24	00:12:29	your metrics um this is something that
00:12:26	00:12:31	obviously amazon takes super super
00:12:29	00:12:33	seriously so literally every day if
00:12:31	00:12:35	you're drop shipping on amazon and ebay
00:12:33	00:12:37	as well although ebay does a little bit
00:12:35	00:12:38	better job of like warning you amazon
00:12:37	00:12:40	you have to check like your metrics tab
00:12:38	00:12:42	every single day check it every single
00:12:40	00:12:44	day right same thing with facebook
00:12:42	00:12:46	marketplace go into mobile go into
00:12:44	00:12:48	insights i have not found a way to do it
00:12:46	00:12:49	on desktop yet which is crazy to me
00:12:48	00:12:51	there's so many different things like
00:12:49	00:12:52	they're all over the place with like
00:12:51	00:12:55	what works on desktop versus what works
00:12:52	00:12:56	on mobile but for me it's mobile for you
00:12:55	00:12:58	it might be something different but
00:12:56	00:13:00	check your insights tab and your metrics
00:12:58	00:13:01	on facebook marketplace every single day
00:13:00	00:13:03	it doesn't matter where you're drop
00:13:01	00:13:04	shipping make sure you're on top of your
00:13:03	00:13:06	metrics and staying within those
00:13:04	00:13:08	parameters because
00:13:06	00:13:09	if you're not then you could run into an
00:13:08	00:13:12	issue where it's like the next canceled
00:13:09	00:13:13	order puts you above or below depending
00:13:12	00:13:15	on how they're looking at it
00:13:13	00:13:17	the a critikal metric that ends up
00:13:15	00:13:19	getting your account suspended right so
00:13:17	00:13:20	just stay up stay above the metrics make
00:13:19	00:13:22	sure that you're that you're focused on
00:13:20	00:13:25	them and paying attention to them and
00:13:22	00:13:27	looking at them every single day okay
00:13:25	00:13:28	if you're looking at it every single day
00:13:27	00:13:30	and like it looks great then chances are
00:13:28	00:13:31	obviously you don't need to worry about
00:13:30	00:13:33	and that's fine but you still want to
00:13:31	00:13:34	check it because for example like
00:13:33	00:13:36	another thing on amazon that you'll also
00:13:34	00:13:38	see on facebook marketplace every once
00:13:36	00:13:41	in a while is like if you check it
00:13:38	00:13:43	you'll you'll notike issues faster that
00:13:41	00:13:45	maybe aren't your pro you're like aren't
00:13:43	00:13:46	like an issue that you did right so like
00:13:45	00:13:48	for example if you're looking at your
00:13:46	00:13:50	metrics tab on amazon and you happen to
00:13:48	00:13:51	notike that like somebody made a claim
00:13:50	00:13:52	that
00:13:51	00:13:54	i don't know that something was like an
00:13:52	00:13:56	inaccurate website description or like
00:13:54	00:13:58	you were you were listing a product that
00:13:56	00:14:00	was like inauthentik or something you
00:13:58	00:14:01	can get ahead of that a lot faster
00:14:00	00:14:03	rather than like if you check it once a
00:14:01	00:14:05	week and it happened like a week ago
00:14:03	00:14:06	well now you're now it's been a week
00:14:05	00:14:08	into your metrics and you haven't done
00:14:06	00:14:10	anything about it right so stay on top
00:14:08	00:14:13	of it it's very very easy to just check
00:14:10	00:14:15	your metrics once a day again once a day
00:14:13	00:14:18	it will pay off trust me okay
00:14:15	00:14:21	and finally is not outsourcing or hiring
00:14:18	00:14:23	because you know as a beginner and i
00:14:21	00:14:24	literally this is like i'm i'm speaking
00:14:23	00:14:26	my language here i faced this for the
00:14:24	00:14:28	past four or five years honestly as an
00:14:26	00:14:30	entrepreneur like i didn't hire or
00:14:28	00:14:32	outsource for the longest time i know a
00:14:30	00:14:33	lot of people face this is because like
00:14:32	00:14:35	because like
00:14:33	00:14:37	you you want to keep all the profit you
00:14:35	00:14:38	don't want to give up like 500 a
00:14:37	00:14:40	thousand dollars a couple thousand
00:14:38	00:14:42	dollars depending on your scale to hire
00:14:40	00:14:44	somebody else right but the irony in
00:14:42	00:14:46	that is that if you are willing to put
00:14:44	00:14:47	some money back into the business and
00:14:46	00:14:49	spend it you know hiring or outsourcing
00:14:47	00:14:50	to other people
00:14:49	00:14:52	you're going to be able to scale a lot
00:14:50	00:14:54	faster if you do it correctly which will
00:14:52	00:14:56	then obviously bring more profit into
00:14:54	00:14:58	your business over time you know
00:14:56	00:14:59	consistently for the months to come so
00:14:58	00:15:01	you're not like stuck at like 10k a
00:14:59	00:15:03	month or like 15 a month or or you know
00:15:01	00:15:04	5k a month or 20k a month or whatever it
00:15:03	00:15:06	is for you
00:15:04	00:15:07	you're able to pour more money back into
00:15:06	00:15:09	it and one thing that it took me a long
00:15:07	00:15:11	time to realize even though i knew it
00:15:09	00:15:13	logically is like as two people are
00:15:11	00:15:14	literally working on both computers
00:15:13	00:15:16	right here right now for me as i'm
00:15:14	00:15:18	recording this video is like it doesn't
00:15:16	00:15:20	matter how smart i am and i'm not saying
00:15:18	00:15:22	i'm smart but like let's say like it
00:15:20	00:15:23	doesn't matter how how smart i think i
00:15:22	00:15:25	am at like implementing something it
00:15:23	00:15:27	doesn't matter how hard i'm willing to
00:15:25	00:15:28	work or if i'm willing to work 20 hour
00:15:27	00:15:31	days
00:15:28	00:15:33	i cannot outwork multiple people and so
00:15:31	00:15:34	if you're willing to outsource and hire
00:15:33	00:15:37	you can scale your business so much
00:15:34	00:15:38	faster and honestly you'll be able to
00:15:37	00:15:40	think like big picture things about how
00:15:38	00:15:41	to actually scale your business and do
00:15:40	00:15:43	the other things that other people
00:15:41	00:15:45	aren't able to replicate
00:15:43	00:15:47	and hire for
00:15:45	00:15:48	it's just it's just a better way to do
00:15:47	00:15:50	it right you won't be as burned out we
00:15:48	00:15:51	all as entrepreneurs especially when
00:15:50	00:15:54	you're starting face like that burnout
00:15:51	00:15:56	phase but if you can start scaling your
00:15:54	00:15:58	business by yourself first and then are
00:15:56	00:16:00	willing to outsource and hire you will
00:15:58	00:16:02	avoid burnout you'll scale a lot faster
00:16:00	00:16:04	and then you'll build a team that you
00:16:02	00:16:06	can obviously take with you
00:16:04	00:16:07	if it pivots or if something adjusts in
00:16:06	00:16:09	the future right
00:16:07	00:16:11	so i didn't plan this i kind of rambled
00:16:09	00:16:12	on all these but i really hope that they
00:16:11	00:16:15	help these are literally six mistakes
00:16:12	00:16:16	that i see all new drop shippers make
00:16:15	00:16:19	i'm not saying they all make all six of
00:16:16	00:16:21	these but like they make a combination
00:16:19	00:16:23	at least of one or two of these myself
00:16:21	00:16:25	i've literally faced all these until i
00:16:23	00:16:27	know them and i see people commenting
00:16:25	00:16:29	these things in like facebook groups or
00:16:27	00:16:31	forums i also see beginners that you
00:16:29	00:16:32	know start my course shameless plug link
00:16:31	00:16:33	in the description if you want drop ship
00:16:32	00:16:35	bro
00:16:33	00:16:38	uh they're always kind of facing these
00:16:35	00:16:39	issues so to recap it's scaling too fast
00:16:38	00:16:41	be careful with that make sure you
00:16:39	00:16:43	understand have experience and have
00:16:41	00:16:45	systems in place first number two is
00:16:43	00:16:46	using the address copying software and
00:16:45	00:16:48	taking it for granted that it works
00:16:46	00:16:50	every time and not verifying that you
00:16:48	00:16:52	have the right address in there number
00:16:50	00:16:54	three is not pop properly managing your
00:16:52	00:16:56	cash flow number four is getting too
00:16:54	00:16:58	emotional and getting mad at customers
00:16:56	00:16:59	or not refunding customers because you
00:16:58	00:17:01	think that they're lying to you it's a
00:16:59	00:17:03	big mistake i'm telling you treat it as
00:17:01	00:17:05	a business
00:17:03	00:17:06	just just write them off as like as like
00:17:05	00:17:09	an idiot an expense and then block them
00:17:06	00:17:11	in the future it's it's never worth
00:17:09	00:17:12	fighting over one customer and risking
00:17:11	00:17:14	your account or a bad review or
00:17:12	00:17:16	something like that right
00:17:14	00:17:18	number five is uh not paying attention
00:17:16	00:17:20	to your metrics check them every single
00:17:18	00:17:22	day no matter the platform and number
00:17:20	00:17:24	six finally is not hiring or outsourcing
00:17:22	00:17:26	because you want to keep a good portion
00:17:24	00:17:28	of the profit okay so i really hope that
00:17:26	00:17:29	all those helped uh if you have a
00:17:28	00:17:31	question drop in the comment section
00:17:29	00:17:33	down below i would love to answer i
00:17:31	00:17:34	would love to answer it for you clearly
00:17:33	00:17:36	i can't tok today and i need to end
00:17:34	00:17:38	this video so i'll see you guys the next
00:17:36	00:17:38	one

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