Alibaba Dropshipping in 2022: What It Is + How Beginners Can Start

and this is revealing a step-by-step,tutorial for alibaba drop shipping what,it is and how complete beginners earning,100 to 700 a day with no experience more,at that after the intro,hey guys how's it going my name's like,facial welcome to this video before we,actually remind you that several spots,have opened up for this week's free,workshop where it's literally the,fastest and the easiest way to make,money online sign up for it in the link,below we have a 62 year old woman go,from zero to 160 grand profit in 90 days,so sign up for the link below so here's,the thing when i was looking at ways to,make money online i understood one thing,and then that i'm not the smartest,person in the world and i'm not tik,savvy and i also did not have the time,or the money to actually get started so,i needed to choose a business model that,would be like the least riskiest,approach and drop shipping was one of,those ways that i went ahead and tested,and actually is one of the ways that,completely changed my life because you,can see that with one business in the,e-commerce space we went from zero to,sixth grand in the first month and then,went from zero to 1.6 million in the,first year and we document all of this,literally on my blog my website if you,want to go and get the detailed notes in,the links below and it completely,changed my life right when people get,started they're like but what did you do,mike and how do i even get started how,can i go with no experience whatsoever,to get my first hundred dollars a day to,two hundred dollars to seven hundred,dollars a day so i can do things like,for example travel around the world um,not have to work for a boss that,undervalues me and instead just do,things that i love doing with people,that i care about and this is exactly,what i would tell them and that's step,number one before you understand what,alibaba drop shipping is which is like a,new opportunity you need to first,understand what drop shipping is and,it's very simple because you know back,in the day to start a business you would,have to do it kind of like the opposite,of drop shipping you would have to have,a product idea awesome then you would,have to go ahead and find that product,idea awesome then you have to take your,own money or borrow a huge amount of,money from the bank or your family and,you would spend thousands of dollars on,these products and then you would have,all these products and then you're like,whoa i can't sell any of these and you,lost a bunch of money that's literally,the plotline of pursuit of happiness,with will smith like have you ever seen,that movie like what happened is here's,this one guy will smith in the movie he,literally buys all these like medical,trans,like microscope devices right he bought,so many he was like gonna get rich but,he couldn't sell it and because of that,he lost a bunch of money so all drop,shipping is doing the opposite you,literally sell the product and only buy,it after you've made a sale i literally,did this a lot when even i was a broke,college student i remember i was like,selling things like for example this,thing right here you see this like,backyard thing right here look at this,48 have been sold right,the craziest thing about this 48 have,been sold at 614 but you could get the,exact same product at walmart for 499,so this is just one use case of drop,shipping literally like copy and pasting,this image on walmart posting it onto,ebay and wait for a sale you didn't buy,this thing on walmart yet you just wait,for sale when you make a sale look at,this 614 go directly in your bank,account you then take the customer's,shipping information and you buy it from,the supplier at a lower cost for 499,so even though it's like a lot like oh i,don't have 499 dollars you're not,spending your own money you're only,buying this after you've made us already,made a sale and the money has been,influxed,into your bank account does that make,sense and even just that alone that's,like what 50 profit margins he's making,more than that on the back end because,he's combining it with like cashback,sites and whatnot but that alone i mean,50,for 48 units old for just one,product that's the beauty of drop,shipping right in beauty bodies you,could get started for like virtually,very little risk and very little money,in time does that make sense now you're,probably wondering well what is alibaba,drop shipping well all alibaba drop,shipping is is just using sites like for,example alibaba and aliexpress to be,those suppliers so like for example,instead of using walmart you use for,example aliexpress and alibaba and,instead of using ebay you use your own,store like for example on shopify,because you get to go ahead and get the,email addresses which you could sell,them more so right and that's why we,literally pivoted from the ebay method,to the shopify method because this was,hosted on shopify and we were able to,just do more sales with it that way,right with that being said you need to,understand well what the heck is alibaba,what the hell is aliexpress so alibaba,is literally the biggest like e-commerce,platform in china alone and it's more,for b2b like business to business so,when i would sell like for example grill,mats and dog leashes and send them to,amazon to go ahead and make money with,that i would literally go to alibaba and,for example type in grill mats,and i would literally strike a deal with,these people from china to go ahead and,make these grill mats for me that i,would literally buy like a hundred,pieces which is the minimum order,quantity as you can see for like 18 to,20 cents and i would flip it over to,amazon for example for uh like 20 bucks,right so i'll get like a pretty healthy,profit margin but you're probably,wondering well mike that's the old way,isn't it you're buying it first and then,selling it well that includes why you,know when you first get started you can,even use aliexpress which is part of,alibaba but this is more like for b2c,consumers but they still give drop,shipping prices like i can literally go,and drop ship like grill mats directly,from aliexpress it might be a little bit,more expensive right but you're still,only dealing with like three dollars 27,cents 54 cents so it's really not that,big of a difference many of which are,probably the same supplier even from,alibaba right this is just for business,to business this is for business to,consumers but a lot of drop shippers,that run facebook ads use aliexpress and,that's the only difference the next,question people ask is like well are,these websites safe well there's,multiple ways to make sure that you pick,the safe ones because yeah people do,lose money because the supplier has,garbage products or you know the,supplier is um like like you know people,take advantage of new platforms,especially if it's cross-country,international relationships that's why,you want to make sure that you want to,get vetted suppliers so for example if,you drop some directly from alibaba you,want to make sure that they have trade,insurance verified supplier,um,as well as like one hour or less,response time if you just click on all,of that alone you're pretty much good to,go right and then you can go ahead and,communicate with them directly and you,can find out how good they are,communicating with aliexpress it's,really just um letting other people to,figure out the best products for you and,the best supplies for you and just you,leverage them like if i wanted to go and,do grill mats all i could do is just,sort everything by orders,and i mean this one right here 9 000,have already been sold right and and the,fact that 9 000,were already sold that means that people,know if this is a good supplier or not,so we can even see the reviews of the,supplier i mean you can see how good,this is there's 30 there's 3 000 reviews,and the coolest thing about these,reviews is they leave pictures of the,product so you could see what actually,people are getting when you're doing the,drop

How to Dropship from Alibaba to Shopify (2023)

in today's video I'm going to be showing,you how you can start Drop Shipping,using alibaba.com so I'll be showing you,how you can connect your Shopify store,to your alibaba.com account how you can,sync products from alibaba.com to your,Shopify store and how you can manage and,automate the order fulfillment process,now you might be thinking isn't,alibaba.com just for purchasing in bulk,well that's not true anymore with,alibaba.com's Drop Shipping Center now,let me go over a few reasons why you,might want to actually use alibaba.com,to start Drop Shipping now the first,reason is the price so sometimes you,might want to drop ship a product from,AliExpress but you can actually find it,cheaper on alibaba.com so if I show you,this example here we can see that we,have this product this 360 selfie stik,and you can see that the brand is usam's,now you can see with free shipping to,the UK it's 32 pound now the exact same,product so if we click on this you can,see this is usam's again and this is on,alibaba.com and you can see shipping,with shipping to the UK it's 28.80 and,if we just convert that over that's 25,pounds 50. so on alibaba.com it's going,to cost you 25 pounds 50 on AliExpress,it's going to cost you 32 pounds so,that's a massive six pounds 50,difference now if you think about that,over a hundred orders that's 650 pounds,which is a big chunk of profit so that's,the first reason why you might want to,have a look on alibaba.com when it comes,to starting Drop Shipping and looking,for Drop Shipping suppliers the second,reason is product selection if you can't,find a product that you want to drop,ship on AliExpress you might be able to,find it on alibaba.com they have a wide,selection of products that you can drop,ship and if you are Drop Shipping using,a different supplier it means that the,product might be less saturated meaning,you'll have less competition when it,actually comes to drop shipping the,product which makes it easier to,actually make sales and the final reason,is a lot of the general public now know,about AliExpress so if they see a,product they sound they can sometimes,just go over to AliExpress and see if,they can find it cheaper whereas the,general perception of alibaba.com is,that it's still for businesses and that,it is still for buying in bulk so a lot,of people won't actually go and check,over there which once again makes it,easier for you to make sales so let's,actually get started with how you can,use alibaba.com to start Drop Shipping,so the first thing you are going to do,is just head over to,dropshipping.alibur.com I will leave a,link in the description and from here,you are going to create an account so,where it says sign in we are going to,right click on this and I'm just going,to open this in a new tab once you've,clicked on this you are going to click,on join for free and then you are just,going to fill out this information so,your email address your mobile number,company name full name and Company,address once you have entered this,information in you can just click on,agree and register they will then ask,you to verify your email address with,the code that they have sent to you so,just enter in that code and hit submit,once you do that you will be brought by,to the alibaba.com Drop Shipping Center,so it should look a little something,like this now the first thing you are,going to do is connect your Shopify,store to your alibaba.com Drop Shipping,account so up the top here we are going,to click on this menu and we're going to,scroll down and we are going to click on,my store from here we are going to add,our Shopify store so we are going to,click on ADD store and then you can go,and enter in the URL of your store when,you are entering in your store URL just,remember to remove the https and double,slashes because sometimes Alibaba can't,recognize it so it should just be the,name of your Shopify store and then you,can click on ADD store you will then be,asked to log in to your Shopify store,and once you have logged into your,Shopify store it will bring you to a,page like this that says install the,Alibaba app so we are going to install,the Drop Shipping on alibaba.com app so,just click on install app once you have,installed the app you will see your,store under store management so that,means your store is connected now so the,next thing that you can go and do is to,sync a product from alibaba.com to your,Shopify store so in order to do this you,can click on search products from here,you can search for any products that you,want to start dropshipping and importing,to your Shopify store so I'm just going,to go and search for a tracking selfie,stik and click search and I'm going to,go for this first product here so we are,going to click on this product and from,here what you can do is you can click on,add to import list it will then say,import completed so then you can click,on go to import list from the import,list you can edit the product further,before you push it to your Shopify store,so if we scroll down and click on this,pencil icon you can go and edit the,product name add some product tags,choose the product type and also choose,a collection from your Shopify store so,you can see I've called this the pivo,Pod so if we go and copy this I can go,and enter this into the product name you,can also go and choose a collection so,I'm just going to go and choose the home,page you can also go and edit the,description so you can go and make sure,that it matches the description on your,actual store so I'm just going to go and,copy this description and you can go and,edit all of this so I'm just going to,delete all of this because this is,information that comes directly from,Alibaba so it might look a little bit,weird on your Shopify store so I,recommend to rewrite the product,description completely so we're just,going to go for this for now but as I,say you can go and rewrite your product,description then you have the variants,so you can go and choose the variants,and from here you can actually go and,choose the price that you want to sell,it at and it will tell you the profit,now of course I recommend to go and,round your prices to the closest 99 so,you can see on here it's 139.99 so I can,go and enter that in here,139.99 and then it's going to tell me my,profit which is 113 pounds and 60 Pence,so now that you have gone and done that,you can then just go to the images and,you can go and delete any of the images,that you don't want so you can just,untik them if you don't want to use,these images so you can simply untik,them like that so once you have gone and,edited all of that information then you,can simply just click on push to store,and then it will say push succeeded so,once you have gone and done that you can,go to my products and then you should,see that the product has been pushed to,your Shopify store now you can actually,go and view the product in your Shopify,store now so if you click on view,install and from here you can see the,product that has been pushed now from,here you can also go and edit the,product further so again if you want to,go and edit the product description or,any of the images you can go and do this,from your Shopify dashboard as well so,now that I've shown you how you can go,and sync products the next thing I want,to show you is how you can fulfill,orders automatikally using alibaba.com,so once somebody does make an order on,your Shopify store you can go to orders,and you will see all of your orders so,once you see an order here you can then,head over to your alibaba.com,dropshipping Center and then you can,click on my orders from here you will,see all of the orders that have come,through from your Shopify store and you,can go and simply fulfill these orders,so you can click on this to go and click,on batch order if you have multiple,different orders and you can simply,click on batch order and pay for all of,the orders at once or you can go and,order them individually now some might,say shipping info

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Forget AliExpress! Alibaba Dropshipping Is A Much Better Sourcing Model

in this video you'll learn how to get,started in e-commerce with practikally,no money at all by drop shipping through,alibaba now normally i'm not a big fan,of drop shipping but this method will,allow you to test products online to see,if they will sell before you invest a,lot of money on inventory,now alibaba drop shipping is one of the,best ways to sell high quality products,without carrying inventory yet few,sellers know that they can actually,dropship through alibaba for most,starting an e-commerce business on a,budget is challenging but thanks to,alibaba's drop shipping solution finding,products and wholesale suppliers is,simple and easy now this step-by-step,guide will teach you how to get started,with alibaba drop shipping explain its,pros and cons and share tips to help you,start a successful drop shipping,business that you will eventually,convert into a private label store,now does alibaba do drop shipping now,alibaba is the go-to marketplace for,foreign businesses that buy low-cost,products in bulk the labor manufacturing,and electricity costs in china among the,cheapest globally making it beneficial,for sellers and buyers now when most,people think about alibaba they think,about shipping containers of products,from china however alibaba has a drop,shipping solution that makes it easy for,store owners to sell products without,keeping stok on hand however it can be,a bit challenging to find drop shipping,suppliers on alibaba and alibaba sellers,generally avoid fulfilling small orders,however there are suppliers on alibaba,that cater to drop shipping sellers,now why use alibaba for drop shipping,versus aliexpress although aliexpress,drop shipping is the easier way to start,an e-commerce business using alibaba is,the better choice for drop shipping for,the following reasons,there's cheaper product pricing product,pricing is higher in aliexpress as it's,set up for retailers and individuals on,the other hand alibaba has wholesale,pricing where buyers can have margins as,high as 70 percent it also helps that,alibaba charges almost no commission on,sales in contrast aliexpress charges its,suppliers anywhere between five and,eight percent per sale,you also get to directly interact with,manufacturers buyers can deal with,manufacturers directly on alibaba unlike,aliexpress where there are more,retailers and middlemen than,manufacturers now working with factories,enables buyers to build relationships,that can help them get bigger discounts,when buying in bulk,can also customize private labeling,allows buyers to rebrand products under,their own brand name thus they can,develop their brand position and inspire,customer loyalty without investing in,product manufacturing now most suppliers,in aliexpress generally don't allow,customization on the other hand alibaba,suppliers provide buyers with various,customization options such as custom,labels and designs,now alibaba also has a request for,quotation feature where buyers can,request quotes by filling out a form,detailing the products or services,they're interested in and relevant,manufacturers then reach out directly to,you with pricing and delivery terms now,rfq is convenient because it saves time,finding suppliers aliexpress doesn't,have this feature,alright so here's how alibaba drop,shipping works you connect your store to,alibaba you find products to sell you,import these products directly into your,online store and then when an order,comes in the drop shipper fulfills the,order,all right so here's a step-by-step guide,on how to dropship with alibaba to,dropship from alibaba you need to find a,niche and validate the product with your,target audience so start out by checking,out online marketplaces like amazon to,understand the average selling price of,the product you plan on selling and then,once you figure something out it's time,to open an account with alibaba,all right so here's a step-by-step,tutorial on how to get started step one,you've got to search for suppliers so,head over to the search box on alibaba,to find the product use the products,drop down to find products and suppliers,and avoid using the suppliers drop down,as that will limit your filtering,options,narrow down the suppliers by using the,filters available on the left hand side,make sure you check the trade assurance,supplier type even if you don't wish to,use that service suppliers that accept,the buyer protection terms in the trade,assurance program are much more likely,to be authentik,now make sure you check out the ready to,ship and paid samples check boxes to,narrow down the list further,now using these two filters increases,the likelihood of finding suppliers who,dropship skip these two filters if you,want to customize the products as,suppliers offering fast dispatch are,unlikely to offer customization,next type 1 in the minimum order filter,as suppliers in alibaba generally have,higher minimum order quantities or moqs,step two check the product details now,on the product page review the pricing,in moq if you see one piece minimum,order the supplier will probably,dropship for you now the pricing will be,expensive for quantities up to 25 or 50,after which you'll see a considerable,price drop now this pricing does not,include shipping costs unless specified,step 3 make a list of potential,suppliers now not all suppliers will,meet your standards or be willing to,dropship so compile a list of potential,suppliers to give yourself more options,as you negotiate pricing do a background,search on all the suppliers and check if,they meet the following criteria they,partikipate in the trade assurance,program they offer a moq of one they,have reasonable pricing and they have,good reviews and ratings,step four contact your suppliers,contact suppliers by clicking on the,contact supplier button and you'll be,using alibaba's messaging platform that,works just like email you can also ask,for the supplier's wechat id china's top,instant messaging app where you're more,likely to get faster responses now it's,also worth noting that there's a 14 to,16 hour time difference between the us,and china so some suppliers may reply,slower should also be prepared for,communication challenges now to minimize,them use language translation tools such,as google translate now even if the,supplier speaks english it's best to,avoid lengthy sentences with complex,words so stik to short sentences with,simple words now your first message,shouldn't be too long and your goal,should be to find out if they drop ship,their products to the countries you plan,on selling here's an email template that,you can use to inquire about drop,shipping hi my name is steve chu i'm,from xyz company and we're based in,california we're interested in,partnering with you to drop ship this,product,our customers are in the us and the uk,could you please answer the following,questions what is your moq cost per unit,and the shipping time to the u.s and,what are your payment terms for new,customers i would also like to order a,sample please send me the cost for the,sample and shipping to the following,address thank you steve,now keep in mind that you should also,avoid using links to gmail whatsapp,facebook and dropbox in your email as,these services are banned in china also,avoid attaching large files to the email,or message as the internet speed in,china isn't necessarily the best,step 5 decide on the payment method now,alibaba supports multiple payment,channels such as credit cards online,transfers and paypal but here are the,four standard payment methods rated from,safest to least safe,alibaba trade assurance is an escrow,service where the funds are released as,a supplier only when the buyer receives,the goods as per the agreed terms,alibaba's trade assurance provides buyer,protection from faulty products and,fraud it also gives buyers confidence in,knowing if their money is handled,through a third-party escrow service,however trade assurance does cost the,supplier money and delays the rec

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How to Start a BRANDED Dropshipping Business Using AliBaba (2023)

i recently launched my dropshipping,e-commerce brand and managed to generate,over four thousand dollars in a few days,using influencer marketing in today's,video i'm going to be showing you the,exact supplier that i used that will,allow you to set up your own,dropshipping ecommerce brand with your,logo printed on the product with a,minimum order quantity of one or two so,if you've got a kind of tight budget but,you want to start your very own drop,shipping e-commerce brand then this is,going to be the video for you so let's,get straight into it so here is the,exact supplier that i used for my drop,shipping e-commerce brand ringcast which,is a wrinkle removal device so i did,find them on alibaba and it literally,took me days and days of trailing,through supplies to actually come across,them but i'm really happy i have because,like i say they've got some really,amazing products that you can drop ship,with your logo on with a minimum order,quantity of one or two so you don't have,to invest loads up front in purchasing,lots of inventory so if we go and scroll,down i will leave a link in the,description to bji tiknology and we can,go and have a look at some of their,products now they are better if you want,to create a one product store around one,partikular product so like i've done,exactly here with wincast you can see,this is the wrinkle removal device and,you can see that they have it exactly,here so for this product i had to start,with a minimum order quantity of two,pieces but for a lot of their products,they will allow you to start with one,piece so you can see this is my one,product store like i say it they are,best used when you are trying to create,a brand around one single product and if,you're interested in how i actually,created this i did use the sweet funnels,theme which is the best theme for,creating one product stores so if we go,back to the bji supply you can see they,literally have hundreds of products in,loads of different niches mostly well,all of them are in the tiknology nice,niche but they are mostly sort of,related to beauty some are related to,health and things like that so you can,go on here like i said i'll leave a link,in the description you can go and have a,look at all of the different products,that they have now if we scroll up to,the top,we can click on products and we can,click on see all categories now you,don't have to click on drop shipping,because sometimes it does filter out,some of their products so i recommend,just to leave it on all products and,just ignore the products where you need,to order a minimum of 100 pieces let's,say but what you can do is you can go,and filter by new and you will see all,of the new products that bji are,releasing and they release new products,every month so this will help to keep,you ahead of the curve of your,competition because you can come on here,and you can start launching some of,their new products as soon as they,release them with your own logo on and,build a proper brand around the product,like i said exactly how i have done here,and i do have a full case study video on,how i actually launched this brand and,generated over four thousand dollars,with influencer marketing now i also,have a feeling that some massive brands,are using this supplier or at least have,used it when they first started out so,if we have a look at this product here,this ipl hair removal device if we go,over to this store which is hey silky,skin and these are a massive ecommerce,e-commerce shopify brand and they're,generating hundreds of thousands every,month with their brand and you can see,it's the exact same product that we can,see on the bji tiknology supplier so i,reckon now that they probably have now,they're generating so much in revenue,and making so many sales they probably,have purchased a bulk inventory maybe,from a cheaper supplier but when they,first started out they probably just,started using one at a time to make it a,lot cheaper and if we go and have a look,at their instagram they literally have,hundreds of influencers promoting their,product so that is an example of how you,can use this supplier to build a one,product store just like this and build,your very own e-commerce brand around it,now you're probably wondering are there,any setup fees or anything like that,well when i first started my ringcast,e-commerce brand i had to pay a 25 setup,fee this was last year so they create a,mold of your logo and they use that mode,to print it on all of the products so,you do have to pay that 25 setup fee i'm,not exactly sure how much it is now like,i said this was last year it was 25 it,might be a little bit more now but it,shouldn't be anything too expensive and,then for my partikular product i had to,purchase two but let's just say for one,of these cheaper products so let's go,and have a look at one that's only one,so for example this one you can get for,one piece so twenty dollars plus a,twenty five dollar setup fee you're,looking at around fifty dollars to start,your very own e-commerce plan so it's,super cheap to get started with them you,can just click on the product or you can,just click on contact supplier so if we,do click on the partikular product and,then from here you can click on contact,supplier and you can say i want to start,printing my logo on this product you,send them an,adobe illustrator file of your logo and,they will go and print it for you on the,product and then you just have to simply,pay through alibaba and paying through,alibaba is super secure so you're not,going to get ripped off or anything like,that and i've used this supplier quite,extensively so i can verify that they,are a reliable supplier now you're,probably wondering about how do you,actually fulfill orders as well with bji,seeing as it's not like connecting to a,shopify store with oberlo back in the,days or de-esses or something like that,well it's actually very simple to go and,fulfill orders with them all you have to,do from your shopify dashboard you just,go and click on export on your orders,and then you can go and export orders by,date or you can just go and select all,orders for example i'm just going to go,for a plain csv file so this is like an,excel file and then all you need to do,is click on export orders once your,orders have been exported they will be,exported to an excel file that looks,like this now what you're going to want,to then do is just go and get rid of any,columns that aren't necessary for the,supplier so all the suppliers really,going to want to see is the shipping,details so you'll see up the top here we,have the name the email the financial,status when it was paid all of this,stuff you can just go and get rid of,this so what you can do is you can go,and select all of the columns that you,don't need so i'm just going to go and,select all of these columns up until we,see shipping address and shipping name,then you can just click on right click,and you can just click on hide and then,once again you will see the ones after,this so just after notes i'm going to go,and select all of these,and once again once we have selected all,of these columns that aren't necessary,for the supplier to see,then we can right click and we can just,hit hide so once you have done that you,will see all of the shipping details so,we can just double click to make them a,bit bigger so now we have shipping name,shipping street shipping address one,shipping address two so all of these,details have been taken from the shopify,orders that we exported so now let's,just make these a bit bigger and then we,can scroll across and what we can do is,we can add an extra column so i'm just,going to go and add another column so,instead of notes we can just go and put,in this column,tracking number so once you've added,that tracking number column to your,excel sheet of all of your shopify,orders then you can just go over to,alibaba and go to the message center and,then you can go and message your contact,from bji so once you purc

How To Start Dropshipping Using Alibaba.com (Beginners Guide 2022)

in this video what I want to do is go,for the step-by-step understanding that,any beginner needs to know out there if,they want to start a Drop Shipping,business using alibaba.com and if you're,new to this Channel and you've never,seen my face before welcome my name is,Sam and so far on this channel I've made,over 480 different videos helping people,when it comes to making money online but,most importantly I've been using Alibaba,now to build my e-commerce businesses,for the past nine or ten years I've,managed to make millions of dollars quit,my full-time job travel the world whilst,making a passive income from a lot of my,e-commerce Drop Shipping Store so I,definitely know a thing or two that's,going to help you out so make sure if,you like this type of content you press,the like button I'll really appreciate,that thank you so much in advance don't,forget to subscribe hit the Bell,notification let's get right into the,video alright so first things first what,exactly is alibaba.com for anyone out,there that's never heard of it so,Alibaba is simply a website that you can,go into to find various different,suppliers all around the world now the,website is primarily targeted towards,finding suppliers in China but a lot of,people don't realize that you can,actually find suppliers in the UK India,Indonesia various different places all,around the world but the main suppliers,that you are going to find are going to,be based in China another thing that you,guys need to know about the way that,Alibaba works is that it's not really a,website that you go to when it comes to,starting a Drop Shipping business,because they're mainly used when it,comes to finding suppliers that are,going to ship you products in bulk so if,you're looking to build an e-commerce,business and you're looking to buy the,products in bulk and ship them to your,house whether you're based in the US UK,anywhere else outside of China you're,going to be able to go on there find a,supplier they're going to be able to,ship you the goods in bulk however there,are some ways that you can use them if,you are looking to build a Drop Shipping,business where the supplier is going to,ship the products directly to your,customers and that's what I'm going to,show you in this video so when it comes,to navigating through to alibaba.com,website and trying to figure out which,item is worth selling there's a certain,method that I like to use personally now,one of the ways is by starting off on,the home page and then what you're going,to do is scroll down to this section,over here where it says Drop Shipping so,you're just going to click on that and,once you're on this page you're going to,see so many different sections and so,many different categories like for,example there is this one over here that,says local U.S stok and there's this,one over here that says products under,ten dollars in this example today I'm,just going to click on products from,featured suppliers so once you're on,this stage you're going to be able to,scroll through and see all of these,different items that are currently,available and are also being offered by,suppliers on Alibaba that specifically,are going to drop ship it straight to,your customer so what I like to do is to,scroll through this page and see if,there's any item that stands out to me,an item that I'll be happy to list on,either my eBay or my Shopify store,alright so there's this product right,here which looks like a laptop stand by,the looks of it so I'm just going to,click into it so there's a few things,that you need to look out for once,you're on the stage I'm just going to,point out a couple things so one of the,first things that you need to look out,for is the lead time as you can see it,says that it's going to take 15 days for,the supplier to get it ready and get it,shipped out to the customer so you,definitely need to confirm the lead time,with your supplier before you use any,one of them because you can't have the,customer wait in more than 15 days,another important section that you want,to look out for is the shipping section,so what I like to do is click on,changeover here from this point they may,give you some other options when it,comes to different delivery services,that they have as you can see they've,only got one available and If I wanted,to ship it directly to the UK it's going,to get to the customer by November 22nd,which is no good because that's,basically over a month from today so,these are the things that you need to,look out for you're going to need to,kind of scroll through and try and see,if there's any other suppliers that are,going to be able to offer you a quicker,delivery time I do have to let you know,guys that when it comes to drop shipping,on alibaba.com this is definitely,something that you're going to have to,spend time looking for you're going to,have to scroll through all of these,different products all of these,different options and try and see if,you're going to get a faster shipping,time than this another important thing,that you want to double check once you,have found a supplier is how long,they've been on Alibaba before so as you,can see this one has been on Alibaba for,eight years which is really good because,the way that this website works is that,every single supplier needs to pay a,monthly membership fee for them to,remain on the platform and be authorized,to sell products to people all around,the world and if there's been a lot of,complaints or a lot of issues with any,partikular supplier then Alibaba isn't,going to renew their membership so in my,experience I've notiked that the,suppliers that have more years let's say,above three four five years those are,the ones that you're going to have least,issues with and of course this is just,my experience and it's not guaranteed,you may end up using a supplier that's,been there for 10 years and they're,verified as well and still have issues,with them so just bear this in mind okay,guys so I was able to find another,supplier that sell in a similar product,which is the laptop desk or laptop stand,this lead time is only five days which,is a lot better than the 15 days that we,just saw and I was able to get the,guaranteed delivery down to around two,weeks from now which is not the best but,it's a lot better than the month that we,just saw as well in addition to all of,that this supplier has also been on,Alibaba for 13 years so if I was at the,point where I was thinking about selling,this item on either my eBay or my,Shopify store what I'm going to do from,this point is make sure that the item is,actually selling well in terms of people,actually spending money on it because,one mistake that I've seen so many,people do is that they decide to build a,Shopify website or maybe sign up to eBay,and start selling a partikular product,without spending any time doing any,product research the main reason why you,want to do product research is because,you want to find out whether there's a,lot of people spending a lot of money on,the product because that's a strong,indication that if you decide to start,selling the item yourself you're also,going to be able to take a part of the,money that's being spent on that product,on a monthly basis and one of the,product research softwares that I,personally like to use is Zeke analytiks,and as you can see I've just typed in,laptop desk right there and almost 80,000 pounds has been spent on this,product just on eBay UK alone not only,that if we look at the successful,listing rate we can see that it's around,89 which means that 89 of the sellers,that listed a laptop desk on their store,was able to successfully make a sell so,these are some of the things that I like,to look out for when it comes to me,deciding on whether or not it's worth,less than a product on my eBay store or,my Shopify store by using Alibaba so so,far in this video I've explained exactly,what Alibaba is I've also explained how,you can navigate through the website to,find 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How To Do Shopify Dropshipping W/ Alibaba (SAVE MONEY)

hey guys it's Sebastian this has been,probably one of the most highly,requested videos that I should make,which is how to dropship how to do,Shopify drop shipping on Alibaba because,a lot of people are used to using,Aliexpress and Aliexpress is fine there,definitely are reasons to use Aliexpress,but there are also many reasons to use,Alibaba so in this video I'm going to go,through the benefits of using Alibaba,why you should use it what you can do,differently on there how to fulfill,orders on there kind of just everything,because this is something that no one,really covers on YouTube and understand,I didn't watch a YouTube video to find,this out I just thought of it in my head,and I tried it out and it worked well so,just keep that in mind everything that,you guys are learning online like,whether it's Facebook ads or how to find,products they're just methods that,someone had to come up with so when you,ever think like you're helpless or don't,know how to do something understand,someone at one point had to create the,concept and maybe you can create a,concept as well a lot of people have the,mindset where they have to go out and,learn from other people when that is,true but you should also try and create,your own strategies and stuff like I did,with Alibaba drop shipping and then if,you guys want to also follow my,Instagram I post my Shopify stores like,revenue and how I run the ads and all,that stuff on my Instagram so I have a,link in the description for that my,Instagram page is growing a lot so I,appreciate that now that that is out of,the way though let's get into the,benefits so the benefits of using,Alibaba to source your products when,your drop shipping with Shopify you,normally have a way faster response time,with your supplier so in Alibaba you can,message a supplier and within maybe a,few hours if you message them after,around 4 p.m. they are awake 4 p.m.,Pacific they're normally awake 4 to 5,p.m. so you can message them and,normally within an hour - you'll get a,response if you've ever tried to message,an ally Express supplier normally it is,very very difficult to actually get,responses from them because they simply,don't check their message as much they,don't check their inbox I've had,probably two suppliers that I've,actually found on Aliexpress to work,with them long term and have them create,VIP listings and stuff but it's,definitely a lower response rate on,Aliexpress because Alibaba they build,their business by the messages they have,good contact with their customers,another big benefit is you're normally,getting better pricing so when you go on,Aliexpress it's probably someone just,drop shipping from the supplier on,Alibaba to Aliexpress so they're,probably just making like a small,margin on the product and they just,focus on quantity and not really too,much quality and so they mark up the,price of it which is why you can go on,Alibaba and source the product for a,lower cost the next benefit is faster,processing times and more quality,control so one of the big benefits is,you have faster processing times so an,example for this I fulfilled orders last,night with one of my suppliers for one,of my drop shipping stores on Alibaba,and within so it's now the next day it's,in the morning so probably tomorrow,morning I'll get tracking numbers for,all those orders which is amazing,because when you do it on a Li ba or,Aliexpress it's normally like one week,processing times if not longer which is,really bad everyone is used to Amazon,where you literally place an order and,in maybe a few hours your order has been,shipped same thing with eBay if you buy,your product normally within around 24,hours you get your product dispatched,and you have a tracking number so you,want to try and do the same thing and,it's very difficult to do so with,Aliexpress another big benefits is,warranty products so when you buy,products on Aliexpress you normally,don't have many guarantees or warranties,because they they're not even the,manufacturer of the product but when you,go direct to the manufacturer you can,actually get warranties on the products,I've been able to negotiate one year,warranties three year warranties and I,believe that's about it like one year,and three are kind of the most common,but that's amazing in itself because,that's a big sell point if people are,spending a lot of money on a product or,even less than $50 they still want to,know that they can get their money back,or get a replacement if it doesn't work,that peace of mind is very valuable,another big benefit is faster shipping,methods so Alibaba focuses on quantity,and quality obviously but they do have,faster shipping routes faster processing,routes because they have shipping agents,that are able to process these orders,faster now if you're selling a higher,price product I would suggest looking,into an express shipping method like DHL,or UPS just because you're able to get,your product sent out way faster than if,you used a packet or something along,those lines because that is still like,20-day shipping and then some people use,USPS and just like a ton of stuff that,still has like 15 to 20 days shipping,which normally I don't really like doing,that I just want my customers to get,their products as fast as possible,because that is less headaches I will,have to deal with in the future and I,don't want to set myself up for failure,if I have customers who are gonna have,to wait a month to get their product I,would rather just not sell them a,product because,again that's gonna be a lot of customer,support headaches and I just really,don't want to deal with probably the,biggest benefit in my opinion is the,ability to negotiate deals so if you,have a product that you're sourcing on,Aliexpress for $30 shipped and you go on,Alibaba and find it for maybe 15 or $20,shipped that is normally still a high,price for them so what you can do is you,can do a lot of stuff like if you are,fulfilling a lot of orders you can,negotiate pricing or get your logo put,on the product after a certain amount of,orders there's a lot of stuff you can do,I'll get more into that in one of these,slides but those are the benefits a lot,of people are commenting this on my,videos I thought Alibaba is just for,buying in bulk yes it traditionally was,but times have definitely changed so,Alibaba suppliers are already drop,shipping they just have someone on,Aliexpress that's listing the product,and then they are doing the fulfillment,for them it so most Alibaba suppliers,traditionally just do bulk orders and,that's because it's less headaches when,you just ship out a thousand units,rather than one by one but if you can,actually explain to them that you are a,legitimate business and that you're,looking to do business long term and,show them that you can get orders and,make them a lot of money then they will,definitely work with you it's when you,have beginners going and try and contact,them when they are not inclined to,actually working with you just because,you've probably never scaled the store,now if you're a complete beginner I,really don't suggest you get on Alibaba,and try to dropship it it'll be very,foreign to you and the Alibaba suppliers,normally will not treat you well if you,aren't bringing in a lot of orders which,that's fair for them they're used to,doing 100 unit 200 unit a thousand unit,orders so when they have some random,person say yo I'll place it one or like,one quantity orders all day and you only,bring them two orders a day they're not,likely to treat you well because it's,not worth their time to actually manage,it it's not until you get a ton of,orders every single day where they start,taking you serious,and then I mentioned this in the,beginning but there are many different,routes and strategies with drop shipping,I understand that at some point one,person just created the Shopify drop,shipping method and they just started,doing it without even watching a video,so I know you guys are watching YouTube,video