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 stick
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
stick 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
untick them if you don't want to use
these images so you can simply untick
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 automatically 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 incomplete so if we
actually click on this we can click on
fix now and it's going to bring up the
shipping info and the reason it's saying
incomplete is because the customer
hasn't entered in their phone number now
that's fine you can simply just enter in
your own phone number and then you will
receive updates about the order from
alibaba.com to your phone so you can
simply just go and enter in a phone
number in here for example and then you
can click on submit so once you have
entered in that phone number we can now
see that it doesn't say shipping info
incomplete so that's the same for this
one now another thing to bear in mind
when you are fulfilling orders with
alibaba.com is just to go and make sure
that you are choosing the right ship
method so if you click on this you will
see multiple different shipping methods
so you can see for this one it's saying
12 to 17 days but if we just go and pay
two dollars extra we can get it in six
to ten working days so you might want to
go and do that so for example if I go
and choose this we can see it gets a
little bit more expensive but it's going
to get to the customer in a much quicker
time so once you have done that like I
say you can click on batch order and you
can go and order all of these products
at once so you will see that it says
success all orders have been placed and
then from there all you need to do is
just click on pay to actually pay for
the order but again if you do want to
fulfill orders individually you can then
just click on order and it will order
that product as well the same way that I
just done with a batch order now one
last thing to mention is what you'll
want to do is with your alibaba.com Drop
Shipping Center just click on
synchronize every day so that it
synchronizes all of the orders from your
Shopify store so you will see
synchronization succeeded which means
that all of the orders have come through
from your Shopify store so that is how
you can start Drop Shipping using
Alibaba Dot com and if you do want to
learn how to build a beautifully branded
one product Drop Shipping Store then I
recommend that you check out the free
course that I have released here on
YouTube I'll leave the video on screen
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hopefully I'll see you in the next video