in today's video I'm going to go through
everything you need to know when it
comes to starting a Drop Shipping
business and using AliExpress as your
supplier I'm going to be talking about
whether you should even use them
anything you need to know and just
generally how you can get started so you
need to make sure you watch this whole
video from start to finish so that you
don't miss anything and if you're new to
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comes to making money online but most
importantly I was able to start an
e-commerce business quit my full-time
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different locations while still being
able to make a passive source of income
from my e-commerce businesses even on
holidays so I definitely know a thing or
two that's going to help you out so as
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video alright so first things first what
exactly is Aliexpress for anyone that's
never actually heard of it before so
AliExpress is simply a website very
similar to eBay or Amazon in the sense
that normal consumers can go on to it
and buy products very similar to how
they can do to with eBay or Amazon so
it's not only drop shippers that use it
everyday people that are looking to buy
cheap items go on there to buy things
the only difference when it comes to
using eBay or Amazon and AliExpress is
that the delivery time is going to take
a little bit longer because most of the
items that are being shipped from
AliExpress are coming from China but of
course there are some pros and cons that
you need to be aware of and I've broken
them down right here just so that you're
fully aware of what you're getting
yourself into if you are looking to use
AliExpress when it comes to fulfilling
all of your orders so one of the first
cons is that there's various different
vendors with various different qualities
so a lot of beginners tend to make the
mistake of assuming that AliExpress is
one single company with one single
supplier when that's far from the truth
there's thousands of different suppliers
that use AliExpress to list their
products again very similar to eBay or
Amazon the same way that Amazon doesn't
just have one single seller there's
multiple different third-party sellers
that use Amazon that's the exact same
way that AliExpress Works another con is
that there's not many options in regards
to using local warehouses so there's a
few other options out there when it
comes to finding a Drop Shipping
supplier and a lot of them actually have
low warehouses within the UK and the US
however when it comes to using a lot of
the vendors on AliExpress most of the
time the orders are going to be shipped
from China and this isn't necessarily a
completely bad thing but you just need
to be aware of it because the shipping
time is going to be a little bit longer
which means that when it comes to
scaling whatever business you're trying
to build it might be a little bit
difficult so again you need to bear this
in mind and the third coin is that
there's no option for customization and
what I mean by this is that you're not
going to be able to customize the
packaging in some cases you're not going
to be able to customize the invoice and
the receipt and things like this you are
going to be able to request that the
vendor doesn't put any of their
information inside the packaging but as
you start to scale your business you're
not going to be able to have customized
packaging and customize branding when it
comes to the packaging of the actual
item and things like that however there
are some pros that you need to be aware
of for example there's a lot of products
available to Dropship so if you do come
across a winning product on eBay Amazon
even a Shopify dropshipper store 95 of
the time you're going to be able to find
that exact same product on AliExpress
the second Pro is that it's very easy to
use with a Drop Shipping software so so
one of the good things about using
AliExpress is that you're going to be
able to integrate it with so many
different e-commerce dropshipping
softwares so it just makes the whole
process a lot more easier when it comes
to you using it to fulfill all of your
orders and the third and final Pro that
I'm going to go through is that there's
High stock quantities available so not
only do they have 95 of the products on
the Internet available on AliExpress but
they've also got high stock quantity
levels as well which means that if you
do come across a good vendor at a good
price with good quality you're going to
be able to scale that Drop Shipping
business and not necessarily have to
worry about that particular AliExpress
supplier running out of stock anytime
soon but now that you're aware of all of
that if you are still at the point where
you want to use AliExpress the next
thing you now need to figure out is how
you're going to find a winning product
and there's so many different ways that
you can do it but one of the ways that
I've been using recently is by using
Zeke analytics and if you don't know
what Zeke analytics is it's a product
research tool that helps you with so
many different things it's mainly used
when it comes to finding the best type
of items to drop ship on eBay and you
can also use it when it comes to finding
winning products that are selling well
on AliExpress so I'm going to quickly
show you how you can use it first things
first what you need to do is sign up for
an account and you can do that by
signing up for a seven day trial by
clicking the link in my description down
below and once you've done that you're
going to log in click on the product
research tab over here and then from
this stage you can now type in any
keyword for any item that you're
thinking about selling so let's say for
example I was thinking about building
out A Drop Shipping Store focused on
selling dog products what I'm going to
initially type in into this section over
here is dog just like that and then I'm
going to click on search it's then going
to show me the top performing items that
are being purchased on AliExpress right
now from the best to the least so
straight away we can see that the
adjustable dog car safety belt is the
number one performing item when it comes
to dog products in the last six months
with over 14 000 cells so what I
personally do from this point is click
on this option over here where it says
scan seller because it's going to now
take me into the actual AliExpress
seller store and then from there I can
now see all of the other items that
they're selling and some other things
that's going to help me know if I should
use this particular vendor okay so
straight away we can see that this
particular supplier on AliExpress was
able to bring in over 1.2 million
dollars they sold over 17 000 units
they've got over 72 active listings and
if we scroll down over here it's going
to be able to show me all of the top
performing items in this particular
store and I'm now going to be able to
get an even better idea of which items I
may want to drop ship from the store so
of course I may want to drop ship this
one if I am looking to build a dog store
I may also want to add this second one
over here because I can see that a lot
of people are buying it and it's got
really good reviews a second way that
you can find winning products on
AliExpress using Z kinetics is by going
back over to the home page and then
clicking on Ali graph scanner over here
and I'm just going to take you to a page
where you're going to be able to see all
of the trending products on AliExpress
at the moment and right here we can see
that there's these Bluetooth sports
watches by the looks of it and we can
also see that it's got a 4.6 rating
which is really good I like to look for
minimum 4.5 4.6 ideally 4.7 or 4.8 but
4.6 is still okay so once you've gone to
the point where you found a winning
product that you're happy to start Drop
Shipping and you want to add it to your
store whether you're you're looking to
drop ship on eBay or Shopify whatever
the case is you now need to figure out
exactly how you're going to start adding
products to the back end of your store
for customers to buy it from you and
there's two main ways that you can do it
you can do it manually or you can do
things automated but bear in mind that
if you are going to go down the manual
route every single time that you make a
sell you're going to now have to copy
and paste your buyer's name and address
then go over to AliExpress buy the
product from there so they can ship it
to your customer however if you do it
using the automated method using a
software called Auto DS not only are you
going to be able to speed up the process
when it comes to adding products to your
store but you're also going to be able
to speed up the process when it comes to
fulfilling all of your orders because
you're going to be able to automate it
so that you don't have to sit there and
copy and paste all the information and
using Auto DS is actually quite simple
all you need to do is sign up for a
30-day trial by clicking the link in my
description down below that trial is
going to allow you to go through all of
the different features that they have so
you can test it out play with it and see
if it's something that you want to
continue using but once you've signed up
for an account this is the page that
you're going to see one of the first
things that you need to do is click on
this option over here and this is going
to allow you to add whatever store that
you have so if you've got an ebay store
Shopify store whatever store that you
have you're going to be able to select
whichever one right here then you need
to go through the whole process of
integrating your account to Auto DS
which takes maybe 30 seconds for you to
do once you've done that your account is
going to be integrated which means that
when you now start adding products onto
Autodesk it's going to be automatically
added onto the back end of your store
and let me just show you exactly how
that works so what you need to do is
obviously find the product that you're
looking to sell so let's say in this
case I was looking to drop ship this
Bluetooth SmartWatch what I'm going to
do is click on the link just like this
it's then going to take me to the actual
product page what I'm going to do from
that point is copy the URL just like
that then what you want to do is go back
over to Auto DS click on add products
click on single products paste the URL
in there just like that make sure that
you select whichever e-commerce platform
that you're working with so because in
this case I want to load it onto the
back end of my Shopify store for me to
drop ship it I'm just going to select my
Shopify test account just like that and
then click on next then I'm going to
click on publish the store and right
there as you guys can see the product
has now been imported successfully and
if I was to go to the back end of my
actual Shopify account I've just typed
in Smartwatch and the product has also
been loaded onto the back end of my
Shopify store as well so let me just
click into it so just so that you're
fully aware of exactly how Auto DS works
is essentially pulling all of the
information from the product page in
terms of the title in terms of the
description all of this information was
pulled from this page right here so it's
very important that you make sure that
you go through this information because
this is what the customer is going to
see when it comes to them making a
decision on if they should buy the
product and all the information that's
coming from AliExpress may not be how
you want it to be presented to the
customer so if I was thinking about Drop
Shipping this item I'll definitely go
through all of this information clean it
up make sure that I remove any
unnecessary information that I don't
want my customers to see and they'll
also remove any of the images that
Autodesk also pulled from the product
page as well but I'm sure throughout the
whole process that I just showed you now
you can see how easy it is when it comes
to linking a product from Auto DS on the
back end of your Shopify Drop Shipping
Store because you don't necessarily have
to download any pictures copy and paste
any information and everything is
integrated as it is from the product
page and then you can now just make
simple changes and when it comes to all
of the different orders that you're
going to start getting again you're
going to be able to use Auto DS because
they've got a feature called Auto
fulfillment which is when an order comes
in it's going to automatically know the
customer's name and address and they're
going to be able to automatically ship
the order out without you having to go
onto AliExpress and buy the product one
by one now of course there's so much
more that goes into starting a Drop
Shipping business I simply give you the
basics of how you can use AliExpress but
if you want to sign up to a completely
free webinar where I explain my story of
how I was able to get to one thousand
dollars per day in profit with a Shopify
store then make sure you click the first
link in the description down below to
watch that free webinar or if you rather
watch another YouTube video that I made
last week when I broke down the five
basic steps that you need to be aware of
when it comes to starting a Drop
Shipping website moving into 2023 and
Beyond then make sure you click the link
right there check that video out
straight after this one because it's
already helped out so many people and
I'm sure that it's going to help you out
too Alright guys I'll see on the next
one make sure you stay safe out there
peace
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