How I Built a Successful Dropshipping Business at 17 Years Old | STEP BY STEP with $0 | MY STORY
Published on: December 4 2022 by Baddie In Business
How I Built a Successful Dropshipping Business at 17 Years Old | STEP BY STEP with $0 | MY STORY
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How I Built a Successful Dropshipping Business at 17 Years Old | STEP BY STEP with $0 | MY STORY
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| 00:00:00 | 00:00:03 | hey everybody and business family my |
| 00:00:01 | 00:00:06 | name is Isabella I am the owner of two |
| 00:00:03 | 00:00:08 | six figure earning online businesses and |
| 00:00:06 | 00:00:10 | today I'm gonna be telling you my story |
| 00:00:08 | 00:00:13 | of how I built a successful dropshipping |
| 00:00:10 | 00:00:15 | business at the age of 17 years old the |
| 00:00:13 | 00:00:17 | point of this video is to share with you |
| 00:00:15 | 00:00:20 | that there's so many creative ways you |
| 00:00:17 | 00:00:22 | can make money online no matter what |
| 00:00:20 | 00:00:24 | situation you are in and that is why |
| 00:00:22 | 00:00:27 | I've dedicated myself to creating free |
| 00:00:24 | 00:00:29 | content in order to help you guys find |
| 00:00:27 | 00:00:31 | different Alternatives that nobody else |
| 00:00:29 | 00:00:33 | is toking about online I literally |
| 00:00:31 | 00:00:34 | didn't have anything to do except sit in |
| 00:00:33 | 00:00:36 | my room all day I was going through many |
| 00:00:34 | 00:00:39 | struggles in my life and I wound up |
| 00:00:36 | 00:00:41 | cutting off all of the friends that I |
| 00:00:39 | 00:00:42 | had so while a lot of people were going |
| 00:00:41 | 00:00:44 | out and hanging out with their friends |
| 00:00:42 | 00:00:46 | and enjoying their teen years I was |
| 00:00:44 | 00:00:49 | struggling with depression social |
| 00:00:46 | 00:00:50 | anxiety and so many other things at the |
| 00:00:49 | 00:00:52 | time |
| 00:00:50 | 00:00:55 | but instead of sitting in my room and |
| 00:00:52 | 00:00:57 | victimizing myself I knew that I had the |
| 00:00:55 | 00:00:59 | power to change my life long term even |
| 00:00:57 | 00:01:02 | if it didn't see it right at that moment |
| 00:00:59 | 00:01:05 | I did not want to be a victim to my own |
| 00:01:02 | 00:01:06 | life at the time and because of hearing |
| 00:01:05 | 00:01:08 | the financial stress in my household |
| 00:01:06 | 00:01:10 | often because my parents did work |
| 00:01:08 | 00:01:13 | paycheck to paycheck almost the majority |
| 00:01:10 | 00:01:16 | of their lives I knew that money at the |
| 00:01:13 | 00:01:18 | time was a way for me to change my life |
| 00:01:16 | 00:01:20 | and if you would have asked me back then |
| 00:01:18 | 00:01:23 | where I had found this kind of guidance |
| 00:01:20 | 00:01:25 | and motivation to try to just go online |
| 00:01:23 | 00:01:27 | and find ways to make money that is a |
| 00:01:25 | 00:01:28 | question that at the time I could not |
| 00:01:27 | 00:01:30 | answer and because of all the social |
| 00:01:28 | 00:01:33 | struggles that I had outside of the |
| 00:01:30 | 00:01:35 | house going on my mom had even taken |
| 00:01:33 | 00:01:38 | away my cell phone at the time all I had |
| 00:01:35 | 00:01:40 | was an old Windows laptop a Wii that I |
| 00:01:38 | 00:01:42 | could surf the Internet with and video |
| 00:01:40 | 00:01:45 | games so instead of sitting there and |
| 00:01:42 | 00:01:47 | playing video games I decided to use my |
| 00:01:45 | 00:01:49 | laptop to try to change my life in some |
| 00:01:47 | 00:01:51 | way at this same time I didn't even have |
| 00:01:49 | 00:01:53 | a Facebook page all I I had was a |
| 00:01:51 | 00:01:55 | Twitter account so when I was 16 years |
| 00:01:53 | 00:01:57 | old I started a Twitter account because |
| 00:01:55 | 00:01:59 | I love to go on Twitter and like read |
| 00:01:57 | 00:02:01 | the quotes that people were retweeting |
| 00:01:59 | 00:02:03 | and really just getting inspired by |
| 00:02:01 | 00:02:06 | other people it really uplifted me at |
| 00:02:03 | 00:02:08 | that time in my life so I decided to try |
| 00:02:06 | 00:02:10 | to do the same thing I created a Twitter |
| 00:02:08 | 00:02:12 | and I started just posting a bunch of |
| 00:02:10 | 00:02:14 | different tweets I followed a lot of |
| 00:02:12 | 00:02:16 | people they followed me back I had |
| 00:02:14 | 00:02:18 | tactiks through social media that helped |
| 00:02:16 | 00:02:20 | me gain a following and remember |
| 00:02:18 | 00:02:22 | Instagram wasn't even a thing back then |
| 00:02:20 | 00:02:24 | so really it was just Facebook and |
| 00:02:22 | 00:02:27 | Twitter and Tumblr is all that people |
| 00:02:24 | 00:02:29 | used back then so As I Grew my Twitter I |
| 00:02:27 | 00:02:31 | started meeting different people on the |
| 00:02:29 | 00:02:32 | Twitter platform so I would just be |
| 00:02:31 | 00:02:35 | toking to different people every day |
| 00:02:32 | 00:02:37 | and someone mentioned this group and it |
| 00:02:35 | 00:02:40 | was a telegram group that helped people |
| 00:02:37 | 00:02:42 | to grow their Twitter accounts so of |
| 00:02:40 | 00:02:43 | course I joined it because at the time I |
| 00:02:42 | 00:02:46 | knew I could make money from Twitter |
| 00:02:43 | 00:02:48 | somehow so I joined this group and what |
| 00:02:46 | 00:02:50 | this group was doing was it helped |
| 00:02:48 | 00:02:52 | others to grow by retweeting each other |
| 00:02:50 | 00:02:53 | there's tweets and if you're unfamiliar |
| 00:02:52 | 00:02:55 | with how Twitter is it's basically like |
| 00:02:53 | 00:02:58 | you're re-sharing other people's tweets |
| 00:02:55 | 00:03:00 | so we were doing that back and forth to |
| 00:02:58 | 00:03:01 | gain a following so at that time I |
| 00:03:00 | 00:03:03 | started to see how powerful Twitter |
| 00:03:01 | 00:03:05 | really was I could reach whole new |
| 00:03:03 | 00:03:07 | groups of people by trading off tweets |
| 00:03:05 | 00:03:09 | with other people back when I was 17 |
| 00:03:07 | 00:03:12 | years old Drop Shipping really wasn't a |
| 00:03:09 | 00:03:14 | thing like it is today so I started to |
| 00:03:12 | 00:03:16 | see people Marketing Online stores |
| 00:03:14 | 00:03:19 | through these tweet for tweets |
| 00:03:16 | 00:03:21 | and I started to wonder if they're doing |
| 00:03:19 | 00:03:23 | it why can't I and at the time Drop |
| 00:03:21 | 00:03:24 | Shipping was something that was so |
| 00:03:23 | 00:03:26 | unheard of no one was selling courses on |
| 00:03:24 | 00:03:28 | Drop Shipping nobody had these big |
| 00:03:26 | 00:03:30 | YouTube channels capitalizing on Drop |
| 00:03:28 | 00:03:33 | Shipping there was none of that at this |
| 00:03:30 | 00:03:34 | time so I just reached out to some of |
| 00:03:33 | 00:03:36 | the other people that I had in my groups |
| 00:03:34 | 00:03:37 | that I was retweeting back and forth |
| 00:03:36 | 00:03:40 | with and they wound up telling me what |
| 00:03:37 | 00:03:42 | they were doing so being broke and 17 |
| 00:03:40 | 00:03:44 | years old with just some money that I |
| 00:03:42 | 00:03:45 | had saved up didn't want to just dump |
| 00:03:44 | 00:03:47 | the little a bit of money that I had in |
| 00:03:45 | 00:03:49 | order to start a business that I really |
| 00:03:47 | 00:03:51 | didn't even know would go anywhere so I |
| 00:03:49 | 00:03:53 | found that platform that was zero |
| 00:03:51 | 00:03:55 | dollars monthly and completely free for |
| 00:03:53 | 00:03:57 | me to use these are the same tikniques |
| 00:03:55 | 00:03:58 | that I tok about in my Drop Shipping |
| 00:03:57 | 00:04:01 | free course video so if you haven't |
| 00:03:58 | 00:04:02 | already watched that free course video I |
| 00:04:01 | 00:04:03 | highly recommend you checking that out |
| 00:04:02 | 00:04:06 | if you're interested in starting to drop |
| 00:04:03 | 00:04:07 | so what I did to find products was |
| 00:04:06 | 00:04:09 | I went through AliExpress at the time |
| 00:04:07 | 00:04:11 | and tried to find crop tops between one |
| 00:04:09 | 00:04:14 | to two dollars obviously I picked ones |
| 00:04:11 | 00:04:16 | that I thought were cute and they did |
| 00:04:14 | 00:04:18 | have a lot of trending crop tops at the |
| 00:04:16 | 00:04:21 | time I also did the same exact thing |
| 00:04:18 | 00:04:24 | with phone cases back when I was 17 |
| 00:04:21 | 00:04:26 | there was not as many clothing online |
| 00:04:24 | 00:04:28 | stores as there is today Sheen was not a |
| 00:04:26 | 00:04:30 | thing back then none of these stores |
| 00:04:28 | 00:04:32 | were popular to where you could find |
| 00:04:30 | 00:04:34 | affordable fashion like you had to go to |
| 00:04:32 | 00:04:37 | the mall for that and not a lot of |
| 00:04:34 | 00:04:39 | people knew about AliExpress either |
| 00:04:37 | 00:04:40 | so I picked a really random shop name |
| 00:04:39 | 00:04:42 | and I added a bunch of different |
| 00:04:40 | 00:04:43 | products to this shop I had five at the |
| 00:04:42 | 00:04:46 | time because that was what ink was |
| 00:04:43 | 00:04:48 | included and the free plan then I made |
| 00:04:46 | 00:04:50 | some tweets and I just used the pictures |
| 00:04:48 | 00:04:52 | that were on the AliExpress website from |
| 00:04:50 | 00:04:54 | the supplier then I created a different |
| 00:04:52 | 00:04:56 | Twitter account different than my |
| 00:04:54 | 00:04:58 | personal account to Showcase these |
| 00:04:56 | 00:05:00 | products on and for that Twitter account |
| 00:04:58 | 00:05:02 | to be like my store's Twitter account to |
| 00:05:00 | 00:05:05 | appeal to other people so they see that |
| 00:05:02 | 00:05:07 | I'm a legitimate business here is an |
| 00:05:05 | 00:05:08 | example of one of my posts that I did on |
| 00:05:07 | 00:05:10 | Twitter you guys can see this had tons |
| 00:05:08 | 00:05:13 | of retweets which means so many people |
| 00:05:10 | 00:05:15 | reposted it and it had so many likes so |
| 00:05:13 | 00:05:17 | I gained a lot of customers just from |
| 00:05:15 | 00:05:19 | these tweets especially because the link |
| 00:05:17 | 00:05:21 | was directly included in the tweets it |
| 00:05:19 | 00:05:24 | made it so much easier for the customers |
| 00:05:21 | 00:05:25 | to buy so kind of like how I teach on my |
| 00:05:24 | 00:05:27 | YouTube channel how to use organic tik |
| 00:05:25 | 00:05:30 | tok marketing I was doing the exact |
| 00:05:27 | 00:05:32 | same thing except it was Twitter free |
| 00:05:30 | 00:05:35 | marketing back then and although I don't |
| 00:05:32 | 00:05:37 | use Twitter anymore people still do make |
| 00:05:35 | 00:05:39 | money promoting their businesses on |
| 00:05:37 | 00:05:40 | Twitter then I had to work up the |
| 00:05:39 | 00:05:42 | courage to ask my mom to make me a |
| 00:05:40 | 00:05:45 | PayPal account I was almost 18 at the |
| 00:05:42 | 00:05:46 | time so she just helped me set it up and |
| 00:05:45 | 00:05:49 | then when I was 18 I switched it over to |
| 00:05:46 | 00:05:51 | it being my own account but I will never |
| 00:05:49 | 00:05:53 | forget my mom literally thought I was |
| 00:05:51 | 00:05:55 | doing something illegal she thought I |
| 00:05:53 | 00:05:57 | was gonna be arrested I'm like Mom I'm |
| 00:05:55 | 00:05:59 | not doing anything illegal like she did |
| 00:05:57 | 00:06:01 | not even believe that I could even make |
| 00:05:59 | 00:06:03 | money from Twitter or from doing |
| 00:06:01 | 00:06:07 | anything on Twitter at this same exact |
| 00:06:03 | 00:06:08 | time I was working two jobs and I was |
| 00:06:07 | 00:06:11 | also making money by promoting other |
| 00:06:08 | 00:06:13 | people smaller accounts on Twitter |
| 00:06:11 | 00:06:14 | and I just did that by messaging |
| 00:06:13 | 00:06:16 | different brands and asking them if they |
| 00:06:14 | 00:06:19 | wanted promotion this was usually other |
| 00:06:16 | 00:06:22 | smaller businesses so I set up my shop |
| 00:06:19 | 00:06:23 | and I added my products I did this for |
| 00:06:22 | 00:06:25 | at least five months and I'll never |
| 00:06:23 | 00:06:27 | forget we went to Ohio just to see some |
| 00:06:25 | 00:06:29 | family I never did any traveling when I |
| 00:06:27 | 00:06:31 | was younger just because it was |
| 00:06:29 | 00:06:33 | something that was known to be expensive |
| 00:06:31 | 00:06:35 | the only kind of trips we took were road |
| 00:06:33 | 00:06:37 | trips so we went to Georgia a couple |
| 00:06:35 | 00:06:39 | times in Ohio so at this time we were in |
| 00:06:37 | 00:06:41 | Ohio seeing our family and I'll never |
| 00:06:39 | 00:06:43 | forget I had a viral tweet and this |
| 00:06:41 | 00:06:45 | single tweet made me over a thousand |
| 00:06:43 | 00:06:48 | dollars in one week so I was completely |
| 00:06:45 | 00:06:50 | shook by that after telling my mom she |
| 00:06:48 | 00:06:52 | still didn't approve of what I was doing |
| 00:06:50 | 00:06:53 | and both of my parents always just told |
| 00:06:52 | 00:06:55 | me you know make sure that you're just |
| 00:06:53 | 00:06:56 | doing what you need to do stay in school |
| 00:06:55 | 00:06:58 | because at this time I was paying for |
| 00:06:56 | 00:07:00 | Dental Assisting School which Drop |
| 00:06:58 | 00:07:01 | Shipping helped to pay for at this time |
| 00:07:00 | 00:07:04 | in my life I had reactivated my Facebook |
| 00:07:01 | 00:07:06 | as well and I started promoting products |
| 00:07:04 | 00:07:08 | that I was selling locally too once I |
| 00:07:06 | 00:07:10 | started making money from the initial |
| 00:07:08 | 00:07:11 | Drop Shipping site then I took that |
| 00:07:10 | 00:07:14 | money to buy inventory to to actually |
| 00:07:11 | 00:07:16 | ship my own inventory I wanted to learn |
| 00:07:14 | 00:07:18 | how to ship my own inventory because I |
| 00:07:16 | 00:07:20 | had a feeling that that was another way |
| 00:07:18 | 00:07:22 | that I could make money from because I |
| 00:07:20 | 00:07:25 | saw that a lot of those suppliers had |
| 00:07:22 | 00:07:27 | very slow shipment times so even though |
| 00:07:25 | 00:07:29 | I did order some inventory a lot of my |
| 00:07:27 | 00:07:31 | suppliers had slow shipment times |
| 00:07:29 | 00:07:34 | because I didn't have the skills to find |
| 00:07:31 | 00:07:36 | U.S suppliers like I do now I also had |
| 00:07:34 | 00:07:38 | to deal with a lot of customer emails |
| 00:07:36 | 00:07:41 | that literally stressed me out so much |
| 00:07:38 | 00:07:43 | because I did not have control over my |
| 00:07:41 | 00:07:45 | own product since I was Drop Shipping |
| 00:07:43 | 00:07:48 | here's some emails of how I dealt with |
| 00:07:45 | 00:07:49 | these issues if you are Drop Shipping or |
| 00:07:48 | 00:07:51 | planning on Drop Shipping these are |
| 00:07:49 | 00:07:54 | emails that you will receive from |
| 00:07:51 | 00:07:55 | customers especially with shipping |
| 00:07:54 | 00:07:57 | updates and things like that so here's |
| 00:07:55 | 00:08:00 | how I dealt with it and this is |
| 00:07:57 | 00:08:01 | specifically what I said back to these |
| 00:08:00 | 00:08:04 | customers |
| 00:08:01 | 00:08:06 | also some of the clothing that I was |
| 00:08:04 | 00:08:08 | Drop Shipping also was not the best |
| 00:08:06 | 00:08:10 | material and I was getting a lot of |
| 00:08:08 | 00:08:13 | complaints about the material and me |
| 00:08:10 | 00:08:15 | back then not knowing how to deal with |
| 00:08:13 | 00:08:18 | customer service |
| 00:08:15 | 00:08:19 | I got so stressed out and I and with my |
| 00:08:18 | 00:08:21 | parents saying that I can't do it long |
| 00:08:19 | 00:08:23 | term and me listening to everybody else |
| 00:08:21 | 00:08:24 | in my life and me just thinking okay |
| 00:08:23 | 00:08:25 | well I'm a dental assistant now I can |
| 00:08:24 | 00:08:29 | just do what I'm doing as a dental |
| 00:08:25 | 00:08:31 | assistant I shut my store down and at |
| 00:08:29 | 00:08:34 | the same exact time my Twitter accounts |
| 00:08:31 | 00:08:35 | had gotten banned and the reason why |
| 00:08:34 | 00:08:38 | they were banned was because they were |
| 00:08:35 | 00:08:40 | using this retweeting program people |
| 00:08:38 | 00:08:42 | were unfortunately using that kind of |
| 00:08:40 | 00:08:44 | program obviously not my group but other |
| 00:08:42 | 00:08:47 | people on Twitter were using that kind |
| 00:08:44 | 00:08:50 | of style of retweeting for politikal |
| 00:08:47 | 00:08:51 | reasons and you guys know that you know |
| 00:08:50 | 00:08:54 | that's definitely getting shut off if |
| 00:08:51 | 00:08:56 | anybody's doing that for politikal gain |
| 00:08:54 | 00:08:59 | so unfortunately they banned all of |
| 00:08:56 | 00:09:02 | those accounts that were involved in any |
| 00:08:59 | 00:09:04 | sort of retweet for a retweet service so |
| 00:09:02 | 00:09:06 | at this time I was super disappointed |
| 00:09:04 | 00:09:08 | and instead of believing in myself and |
| 00:09:06 | 00:09:10 | pushing forward and just trying |
| 00:09:08 | 00:09:12 | something different I was then looking |
| 00:09:10 | 00:09:14 | into going into dental hygiene school |
| 00:09:12 | 00:09:16 | which is a very strict program in |
| 00:09:14 | 00:09:17 | college I started to look towards other |
| 00:09:16 | 00:09:20 | ways of |
| 00:09:17 | 00:09:22 | how my life was going to be routed at |
| 00:09:20 | 00:09:24 | the end of the day I still made great |
| 00:09:22 | 00:09:25 | money from that Drop Shipping Store and |
| 00:09:24 | 00:09:28 | it funded me going to Dental Assisting |
| 00:09:25 | 00:09:29 | School I became a dental assistant and |
| 00:09:28 | 00:09:31 | then from there it helped me pay for my |
| 00:09:29 | 00:09:34 | car at the time so me developing this |
| 00:09:31 | 00:09:36 | Drop Shipping Store not only gave me so |
| 00:09:34 | 00:09:38 | much experience at the time but it also |
| 00:09:36 | 00:09:42 | gave me a good side hustle that was able |
| 00:09:38 | 00:09:44 | to then further my life in some way |
| 00:09:42 | 00:09:47 | so I gave up on my e-commerce Journey |
| 00:09:44 | 00:09:50 | until 2020. once I discovered tiktok |
| 00:09:47 | 00:09:52 | I saw tiktok as a way in and if you |
| 00:09:50 | 00:09:54 | guys are familiar with my story how I |
| 00:09:52 | 00:09:56 | turned 100 into four hundred thousand |
| 00:09:54 | 00:09:58 | dollars you would know then where my |
| 00:09:56 | 00:10:00 | life picked up from there thank you so |
| 00:09:58 | 00:10:02 | much for being here for supporting my |
| 00:10:00 | 00:10:04 | own channel and I'm so happy to have |
| 00:10:02 | 00:10:06 | each and every one of you here if you |
| 00:10:04 | 00:10:07 | haven't already you already know hit |
| 00:10:06 | 00:10:09 | that subscribe button and like this |
| 00:10:07 | 00:10:11 | video for the YouTube algorithm so my |
| 00:10:09 | 00:10:13 | story has the ability to reach others |
| 00:10:11 | 00:10:15 | across YouTube and to inspire others as |
| 00:10:13 | 00:10:18 | well of course if you have any questions |
| 00:10:15 | 00:10:19 | about my own life or if you have |
| 00:10:18 | 00:10:21 | questions about your own leave a comment |
| 00:10:19 | 00:10:24 | down below and I try to respond to all |
| 00:10:21 | 00:10:25 | of my YouTube comments thank you guys so |
| 00:10:24 | 00:10:29 | much for watching and I will see you |
| 00:10:25 | 00:10:29 | guys in my next video bye everyone |
