How I Built A $1,000,000 Shopify Dropshipping Store (Step-By-Step)
Published on: December 2 2022 by Sara Finance
How I Built A $1,000,000 Shopify Dropshipping Store (Step-By-Step)
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How I Built A $1,000,000 Shopify Dropshipping Store (Step-By-Step)
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| 00:00:00 | 00:00:04 | in this video I'm going to reveal |
| 00:00:01 | 00:00:05 | exactly how I went from zero to one |
| 00:00:04 | 00:00:07 | million dollars with my Shopify Drop |
| 00:00:05 | 00:00:09 | Shipping Store and I'll literally be |
| 00:00:07 | 00:00:11 | revealing everything like the exact |
| 00:00:09 | 00:00:13 | product I'm selling on this store right |
| 00:00:11 | 00:00:15 | now the exact strategy that I follow and |
| 00:00:13 | 00:00:16 | tips that help me scale to 1 million |
| 00:00:15 | 00:00:18 | dollars that no one really toks about |
| 00:00:16 | 00:00:21 | so let's get right into it and first |
| 00:00:18 | 00:00:22 | things first the main problem I notiked |
| 00:00:21 | 00:00:24 | with most people that start Drop |
| 00:00:22 | 00:00:26 | Shipping is they actually never end up |
| 00:00:24 | 00:00:28 | taking action so my best piece of advice |
| 00:00:26 | 00:00:29 | is honestly just start you're never |
| 00:00:28 | 00:00:32 | gonna have all the answers and so your |
| 00:00:29 | 00:00:33 | best bet is just to learn as you go and |
| 00:00:32 | 00:00:35 | something I think that will help you out |
| 00:00:33 | 00:00:37 | a lot is reading these three books |
| 00:00:35 | 00:00:38 | honestly without these three books I |
| 00:00:37 | 00:00:40 | don't think I'd be here today so |
| 00:00:38 | 00:00:42 | definitely check those out but anyways |
| 00:00:40 | 00:00:44 | let's move on to the juicy part which is |
| 00:00:42 | 00:00:46 | exactly how I took my business from zero |
| 00:00:44 | 00:00:47 | to a million dollars in sales okay so |
| 00:00:46 | 00:00:50 | I've been running this store for about |
| 00:00:47 | 00:00:52 | two years now and when I first started |
| 00:00:50 | 00:00:54 | the first two months weren't profitable |
| 00:00:52 | 00:00:56 | at all I basically made no money but I |
| 00:00:54 | 00:00:57 | was patient and consistent and |
| 00:00:56 | 00:00:58 | eventually I got it to work and when I |
| 00:00:57 | 00:01:01 | first started the dropshipping business |
| 00:00:58 | 00:01:02 | of course the first thing I did was look |
| 00:01:01 | 00:01:04 | for a good product to sell and I will be |
| 00:01:02 | 00:01:06 | revealing the product that I'm selling |
| 00:01:04 | 00:01:08 | on the store which is Pimple patches and |
| 00:01:06 | 00:01:10 | yes I know it does seem like a pretty |
| 00:01:08 | 00:01:12 | basic product that literally everyone |
| 00:01:10 | 00:01:14 | has sold already but you need to realize |
| 00:01:12 | 00:01:16 | that with the right marketing this is an |
| 00:01:14 | 00:01:18 | excellent product to sell this product |
| 00:01:16 | 00:01:20 | is in high demand and it solves a huge |
| 00:01:18 | 00:01:22 | problem for people with acne and the key |
| 00:01:20 | 00:01:24 | thing here I want to highlight is let's |
| 00:01:22 | 00:01:26 | say a customer comes to my store they |
| 00:01:24 | 00:01:28 | purchase the pimple patches and they end |
| 00:01:26 | 00:01:29 | up using them and it works for them well |
| 00:01:28 | 00:01:31 | then they're actually likely to come |
| 00:01:29 | 00:01:33 | back to my store again and purchase the |
| 00:01:31 | 00:01:35 | pimple patches and this here is so |
| 00:01:33 | 00:01:37 | important because now I'm gonna have |
| 00:01:35 | 00:01:39 | repeat customers that come and purchase |
| 00:01:37 | 00:01:41 | my product every single month and that |
| 00:01:39 | 00:01:43 | also means I can make a lot more money |
| 00:01:41 | 00:01:45 | and so what I actually ended up doing on |
| 00:01:43 | 00:01:47 | my store was get customers to purchase a |
| 00:01:45 | 00:01:49 | subscription so basically a customer |
| 00:01:47 | 00:01:51 | would come to my store and subscribe for |
| 00:01:49 | 00:01:53 | let's say 20 a month and so every single |
| 00:01:51 | 00:01:56 | month they would then get a new package |
| 00:01:53 | 00:01:59 | of pimple patches now imagine I had 300 |
| 00:01:56 | 00:02:00 | customers paying me 20 every single |
| 00:01:59 | 00:02:02 | month that would mean I'm making six |
| 00:02:00 | 00:02:04 | thousand dollars every single month |
| 00:02:02 | 00:02:06 | consistently so you can see why selling |
| 00:02:04 | 00:02:08 | a subscription-based product is the way |
| 00:02:06 | 00:02:10 | to go and if you're wondering what a |
| 00:02:08 | 00:02:11 | good subscription-based product is it's |
| 00:02:10 | 00:02:14 | literally just a product that people buy |
| 00:02:11 | 00:02:16 | on a regular basis for example a facial |
| 00:02:14 | 00:02:18 | razor any kind of skin care products |
| 00:02:16 | 00:02:20 | candles even something like coffee would |
| 00:02:18 | 00:02:22 | be a subscription-based product so |
| 00:02:20 | 00:02:23 | there's so many subscription-based |
| 00:02:22 | 00:02:25 | products out there you just have to pick |
| 00:02:23 | 00:02:27 | something you think has a lot of demand |
| 00:02:25 | 00:02:28 | and for anyone wanting to learn my exact |
| 00:02:27 | 00:02:30 | strategy to build dropshipping |
| 00:02:28 | 00:02:32 | businesses just like this one I do have |
| 00:02:30 | 00:02:34 | a Drop Shipping mentorship that you can |
| 00:02:32 | 00:02:36 | join which I'll leave a link for in the |
| 00:02:34 | 00:02:38 | description of this video but anyways |
| 00:02:36 | 00:02:40 | moving on now the next important step is |
| 00:02:38 | 00:02:42 | how you actually find a winning product |
| 00:02:40 | 00:02:44 | so honestly you can use pretty much any |
| 00:02:42 | 00:02:46 | software like Niche scraper Two Fine |
| 00:02:44 | 00:02:48 | winning products and that's what I do |
| 00:02:46 | 00:02:50 | all the time but I honestly believe the |
| 00:02:48 | 00:02:52 | best way to find winning products is |
| 00:02:50 | 00:02:53 | just by using tiktok and there's two |
| 00:02:52 | 00:02:55 | ways I use tiktok to find winning |
| 00:02:53 | 00:02:57 | products so the first thing I do is go |
| 00:02:55 | 00:02:59 | on The tiktok creative Center and I |
| 00:02:57 | 00:03:01 | just scroll down here and where it says |
| 00:02:59 | 00:03:03 | top forming ads I'll just click on view |
| 00:03:01 | 00:03:05 | more and now it's going to show you a |
| 00:03:03 | 00:03:06 | bunch of viral ads running on tiktok |
| 00:03:05 | 00:03:08 | this could be just drop shipping |
| 00:03:06 | 00:03:10 | products or any product and I've |
| 00:03:08 | 00:03:11 | honestly found multiple winning products |
| 00:03:10 | 00:03:13 | looking here and you can even add |
| 00:03:11 | 00:03:15 | filters depending on what you're looking |
| 00:03:13 | 00:03:17 | for but honestly I do think you will |
| 00:03:15 | 00:03:18 | find a bunch of good products here now |
| 00:03:17 | 00:03:20 | another way you can find winning |
| 00:03:18 | 00:03:22 | products using tiktok is just log |
| 00:03:20 | 00:03:24 | into your tiktok account and search |
| 00:03:22 | 00:03:26 | up tiktok made me buy it then go |
| 00:03:24 | 00:03:27 | ahead and filter the results to last |
| 00:03:26 | 00:03:29 | three months and now you're actually |
| 00:03:27 | 00:03:31 | going to see a bunch of relevant videos |
| 00:03:29 | 00:03:33 | with winning products and yes sure it |
| 00:03:31 | 00:03:34 | may take you a few days to find some |
| 00:03:33 | 00:03:36 | good products that you actually want to |
| 00:03:34 | 00:03:38 | sell but you do have to be patient now |
| 00:03:36 | 00:03:40 | moving on once you actually find a good |
| 00:03:38 | 00:03:42 | product the next step is to find a good |
| 00:03:40 | 00:03:44 | supplier this is extremely important if |
| 00:03:42 | 00:03:46 | you're using AliExpress you're probably |
| 00:03:44 | 00:03:48 | going to get 30 to 60 days shipping time |
| 00:03:46 | 00:03:50 | which is not ideal so you definitely |
| 00:03:48 | 00:03:51 | want to avoid AliExpress but instead you |
| 00:03:50 | 00:03:54 | can use something like spocket or |
| 00:03:51 | 00:03:55 | Central I use both these suppliers and |
| 00:03:54 | 00:03:57 | they're great and I'll leave a link for |
| 00:03:55 | 00:03:58 | spocket and send drop in the description |
| 00:03:57 | 00:04:00 | of this video if you want to check them |
| 00:03:58 | 00:04:02 | out okay moving on now now the next |
| 00:04:00 | 00:04:04 | important thing is actually building |
| 00:04:02 | 00:04:05 | your Shopify store and I'll have a link |
| 00:04:04 | 00:04:07 | to shopify's free trial in the |
| 00:04:05 | 00:04:09 | description of this video if you did |
| 00:04:07 | 00:04:11 | want to check out Shopify or build your |
| 00:04:09 | 00:04:12 | own store but anyways the store is so |
| 00:04:11 | 00:04:14 | important because it actually has to |
| 00:04:12 | 00:04:16 | look like a real brand I always like to |
| 00:04:14 | 00:04:18 | go with the clean simple look and it |
| 00:04:16 | 00:04:20 | usually takes me about a week to build |
| 00:04:18 | 00:04:22 | my store and for all my Shopify store I |
| 00:04:20 | 00:04:24 | always do use a few apps to boost my |
| 00:04:22 | 00:04:27 | revenue and for this store in partikular |
| 00:04:24 | 00:04:28 | an app I use that I believe is essential |
| 00:04:27 | 00:04:31 | if you want to build a one million |
| 00:04:28 | 00:04:33 | dollar business is tax card and I've |
| 00:04:31 | 00:04:35 | used this app to recover abandoned cards |
| 00:04:33 | 00:04:37 | with SMS so for example let's say a |
| 00:04:35 | 00:04:38 | customer reaches checkout at my store |
| 00:04:37 | 00:04:40 | but they never actually end up |
| 00:04:38 | 00:04:43 | purchasing the product well then what I |
| 00:04:40 | 00:04:45 | can do is use SMS marketing which means |
| 00:04:43 | 00:04:47 | sending them automated text messages to |
| 00:04:45 | 00:04:49 | hopefully get them to come back to my |
| 00:04:47 | 00:04:51 | store and actually purchase the product |
| 00:04:49 | 00:04:53 | but anyways I do actually want to show |
| 00:04:51 | 00:04:55 | you how I use the Shopify app text card |
| 00:04:53 | 00:04:56 | to boost my Revenue okay so the first |
| 00:04:55 | 00:04:58 | thing you have to do is go to the |
| 00:04:56 | 00:05:00 | Shopify App Store and search for text |
| 00:04:58 | 00:05:02 | card and then once you see it here you |
| 00:05:00 | 00:05:04 | just have to add the app to your store |
| 00:05:02 | 00:05:06 | so once you're in the app you do have to |
| 00:05:04 | 00:05:08 | go through these steps so here I always |
| 00:05:06 | 00:05:10 | select the 20 discount because what this |
| 00:05:08 | 00:05:12 | does is it will tax those customers who |
| 00:05:10 | 00:05:14 | didn't end up purchasing and will give |
| 00:05:12 | 00:05:17 | them a custom code to use to get the 20 |
| 00:05:14 | 00:05:18 | off their entire order so then they're |
| 00:05:17 | 00:05:21 | likely to come back to your store and |
| 00:05:18 | 00:05:22 | actually end up purchasing okay so now I |
| 00:05:21 | 00:05:25 | do want to show you another way I use |
| 00:05:22 | 00:05:27 | this app to boost my Revenue by up to 10 |
| 00:05:25 | 00:05:29 | so aside from abandoned car recovery |
| 00:05:27 | 00:05:31 | here in this section where it says |
| 00:05:29 | 00:05:33 | campaigns you can actually send a text |
| 00:05:31 | 00:05:35 | message to all your subscribers and |
| 00:05:33 | 00:05:36 | advertise whatever you want so if you're |
| 00:05:35 | 00:05:38 | having a huge sale on your store you can |
| 00:05:36 | 00:05:40 | go ahead and let them know so honestly |
| 00:05:38 | 00:05:42 | it's just another way you can advertise |
| 00:05:40 | 00:05:44 | your store and if you do plan to |
| 00:05:42 | 00:05:45 | actually scale and build a long-term |
| 00:05:44 | 00:05:47 | brand that will hit over a million |
| 00:05:45 | 00:05:48 | dollars in sales you definitely should |
| 00:05:47 | 00:05:50 | be using an app like this since you |
| 00:05:48 | 00:05:52 | don't want to miss out on any sales and |
| 00:05:50 | 00:05:54 | I'll have a link to text car in the |
| 00:05:52 | 00:05:56 | description of this video if you want to |
| 00:05:54 | 00:05:57 | add it to your Shopify store and if you |
| 00:05:56 | 00:05:59 | are looking for a full Shopify store |
| 00:05:57 | 00:06:01 | tutorial I do have a video on my channel |
| 00:05:59 | 00:06:03 | channel that you can check out but |
| 00:06:01 | 00:06:04 | anyways moving on now let's say you have |
| 00:06:03 | 00:06:06 | your Shopify store Built Well now the |
| 00:06:04 | 00:06:08 | next step is to actually advertise your |
| 00:06:06 | 00:06:10 | store and for this store that I've been |
| 00:06:08 | 00:06:12 | running for two years I literally never |
| 00:06:10 | 00:06:13 | ran ads except for in August and |
| 00:06:12 | 00:06:15 | September so it's literally just been |
| 00:06:13 | 00:06:17 | two months since I've started running |
| 00:06:15 | 00:06:19 | ads but before that I never really felt |
| 00:06:17 | 00:06:22 | the need to run ads I was literally just |
| 00:06:19 | 00:06:24 | promoting my products for free on tik |
| 00:06:22 | 00:06:26 | tok Instagram and Pinterest and I do |
| 00:06:24 | 00:06:28 | want to share my strategy and what |
| 00:06:26 | 00:06:30 | helped me scale to 1 million dollars so |
| 00:06:28 | 00:06:32 | pretty much what I did was order my |
| 00:06:30 | 00:06:34 | products then I created tons of viral |
| 00:06:32 | 00:06:36 | videos with the products and I used a |
| 00:06:34 | 00:06:39 | lot of apps to help me out like canva |
| 00:06:36 | 00:06:41 | and iMovie and every single day I was |
| 00:06:39 | 00:06:43 | posting at least two pieces of viral |
| 00:06:41 | 00:06:46 | content on all my social media accounts |
| 00:06:43 | 00:06:47 | so tiktok Instagram and Pinterest and |
| 00:06:46 | 00:06:49 | I've always been very consistent till |
| 00:06:47 | 00:06:51 | this day I'm still posting at least two |
| 00:06:49 | 00:06:53 | videos on each account and if you're not |
| 00:06:51 | 00:06:55 | sure what videos to make honestly just |
| 00:06:53 | 00:06:57 | go on tiktok and search for your |
| 00:06:55 | 00:06:58 | product then what I recommend you do is |
| 00:06:57 | 00:07:00 | look at the most viral videos of your |
| 00:06:58 | 00:07:02 | product and just read make those videos |
| 00:07:00 | 00:07:04 | and post them to your account so pretty |
| 00:07:02 | 00:07:06 | much you just want to spy on your |
| 00:07:04 | 00:07:07 | competitors see what videos work well |
| 00:07:06 | 00:07:09 | for them and just remake them because |
| 00:07:07 | 00:07:11 | you already know if a video went viral |
| 00:07:09 | 00:07:13 | on another account it's also likely to |
| 00:07:11 | 00:07:15 | go viral on your account and honestly if |
| 00:07:13 | 00:07:17 | you don't enjoy filming videos of your |
| 00:07:15 | 00:07:19 | product you can always just find a |
| 00:07:17 | 00:07:21 | business partner or hire someone from |
| 00:07:19 | 00:07:23 | Fiverr or upwork to actually make the |
| 00:07:21 | 00:07:25 | videos for you there's a ton of people |
| 00:07:23 | 00:07:27 | on Fiverr and upwork that create video |
| 00:07:25 | 00:07:29 | ads all you have to do is send them your |
| 00:07:27 | 00:07:31 | products and they'll make the videos for |
| 00:07:29 | 00:07:32 | you but honestly in the beginning it's a |
| 00:07:31 | 00:07:33 | lot better if you actually do it |
| 00:07:32 | 00:07:35 | yourself because you can test out what |
| 00:07:33 | 00:07:37 | works and what doesn't and honestly for |
| 00:07:35 | 00:07:40 | my store the first two months as I said |
| 00:07:37 | 00:07:42 | before I made no money but literally all |
| 00:07:40 | 00:07:44 | it took was just one viral tiktok |
| 00:07:42 | 00:07:46 | video and my whole account blew up and I |
| 00:07:44 | 00:07:48 | started getting sales really quickly now |
| 00:07:46 | 00:07:50 | as for running ads I literally just |
| 00:07:48 | 00:07:52 | started recently in August before then I |
| 00:07:50 | 00:07:54 | never actually ran any ads and the |
| 00:07:52 | 00:07:56 | reason for this is because I was making |
| 00:07:54 | 00:07:57 | a lot of money already just by posting |
| 00:07:56 | 00:08:00 | for free so I really didn't feel the |
| 00:07:57 | 00:08:01 | need to run ads so I highly when you |
| 00:08:00 | 00:08:03 | first start off by promoting your |
| 00:08:01 | 00:08:05 | product for free then eventually once |
| 00:08:03 | 00:08:06 | you've hit maybe at least five thousand |
| 00:08:05 | 00:08:08 | dollars in sales then you can actually |
| 00:08:06 | 00:08:10 | consider running ads but again you don't |
| 00:08:08 | 00:08:12 | have to and personally for me I've |
| 00:08:10 | 00:08:14 | written ads on tiktok Pinterest and |
| 00:08:12 | 00:08:17 | Facebook but out of all three I found |
| 00:08:14 | 00:08:18 | that Facebook ads are the most effective |
| 00:08:17 | 00:08:21 | and so for the store I've literally just |
| 00:08:18 | 00:08:22 | tested Facebook ads and so far it's been |
| 00:08:21 | 00:08:24 | pretty good as you can see my Revenue |
| 00:08:22 | 00:08:26 | has gone up quite a bit since August and |
| 00:08:24 | 00:08:28 | if you are interested to learn more |
| 00:08:26 | 00:08:29 | about my strategy with this I do have a |
| 00:08:28 | 00:08:31 | dropshipping mentorship which I'll leave |
| 00:08:29 | 00:08:33 | a link for in the description of this |
| 00:08:31 | 00:08:35 | video but anyways moving on now another |
| 00:08:33 | 00:08:37 | way you can actually advertise your |
| 00:08:35 | 00:08:38 | store is with influencer marketing so |
| 00:08:37 | 00:08:41 | you can actually work directly with |
| 00:08:38 | 00:08:42 | influencers and have them advertise your |
| 00:08:41 | 00:08:44 | products currently for this store I'm |
| 00:08:42 | 00:08:46 | working with over six different |
| 00:08:44 | 00:08:48 | influencers so I've given each |
| 00:08:46 | 00:08:49 | influencer an affiliate link to my store |
| 00:08:48 | 00:08:51 | and you can actually create affiliate |
| 00:08:49 | 00:08:53 | links for your store using this Shopify |
| 00:08:51 | 00:08:55 | app so anytime a customer purchases |
| 00:08:53 | 00:08:57 | through their link they're gonna get a |
| 00:08:55 | 00:08:59 | 30 commission and if you're wondering |
| 00:08:57 | 00:09:01 | what type of influencer you should be |
| 00:08:59 | 00:09:02 | working with here is an example of one |
| 00:09:01 | 00:09:04 | so someone who's not really promoting |
| 00:09:02 | 00:09:06 | anything yet and their Niche would |
| 00:09:04 | 00:09:08 | relate to your products I've honestly |
| 00:09:06 | 00:09:09 | had to email hundreds of influencers to |
| 00:09:08 | 00:09:11 | actually find a few that want to work |
| 00:09:09 | 00:09:13 | with me so you definitely have to be |
| 00:09:11 | 00:09:14 | patient with this and the email I send |
| 00:09:13 | 00:09:16 | is something like this and I just kind |
| 00:09:14 | 00:09:18 | of copy and paste this and send it to |
| 00:09:16 | 00:09:19 | Every influencer Now moving on another |
| 00:09:18 | 00:09:21 | important thing I want to mention that |
| 00:09:19 | 00:09:23 | actually helped me make over forty |
| 00:09:21 | 00:09:25 | thousand dollars in sales is using |
| 00:09:23 | 00:09:27 | post-purchase upsells and for anyone who |
| 00:09:25 | 00:09:29 | doesn't know post purchase upsells are |
| 00:09:27 | 00:09:31 | basically like offering a customer a |
| 00:09:29 | 00:09:33 | product to purchase after they just made |
| 00:09:31 | 00:09:34 | a purchase from your store and if you do |
| 00:09:33 | 00:09:36 | want to add post purchase upsells to |
| 00:09:34 | 00:09:38 | your store you can use the Shopify app |
| 00:09:36 | 00:09:41 | after sell which is what I'm currently |
| 00:09:38 | 00:09:43 | using for my store but anyways moving on |
| 00:09:41 | 00:09:45 | now I do think it's very important that |
| 00:09:43 | 00:09:47 | you think long term and set a goal for |
| 00:09:45 | 00:09:48 | yourself that way you stay motivated it |
| 00:09:47 | 00:09:50 | honestly took me months to get my very |
| 00:09:48 | 00:09:52 | first sale when I first started Drop |
| 00:09:50 | 00:09:53 | Shipping but I was patient and |
| 00:09:52 | 00:09:55 | consistent and eventually I got it to |
| 00:09:53 | 00:09:57 | work but anyways that's all for this |
| 00:09:55 | 00:09:58 | brief Drop Shipping tutorial I hope it |
| 00:09:57 | 00:10:02 | helped you out and I'll see you in my |
| 00:09:58 | 00:10:02 | next video foreign |
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