I tried Shopify Dropshipping with NO MONEY.. and this happened

for the next five days i'm gonna be attempting shopify drop shipping with a zero dollar budget absolutely no money and this time if i don't get at least three sales in five days i'm going to be giving away 100 and the main point of me making this video is not to show you how amazing i am at drop shipping instead is to give a realistic expectation if somebody like me a complete beginner to drop shipping can logistically run a drop shipping store and make money from it with a zero dollar budget but now you really know what's going on let's actually get into this challenge so right the first thing we need to do is think of a product and first of all i need to make a product in the makeup niche okay so this may be considered cheating a little bit but it's my challenge i'd do whatever i want but basically about a month ago i went up and grew this instagram makeup theme page to around about 1 2 000 followers and because we need all the help we can possibly get i'm going to be using that to promote this product how to find drop shipping products boom i'm going to watch a few of these videos and yeah we will move from there [Music] that was a really good video wow there are a few things that he suggested first of all was to go to the site called drop point dot site in short drop point dot sight was a place where drop shipping ads were displayed and the reason i was looking here for products was because people are only going to be running ads if it's making the money back so i spent around 30 minutes looking around the site seeing what i could find and i ended up settling up on two products an eyebrow trimmer and a blackhead remover now look the main things i was looking for in a product were the following firstly could i resell this for over three times what it cost to make secondly is this product only found on your store so for example you couldn't go on amazon and find a similar product and thirdly is the shipping time under 30 days and if the answer was yes to all three of those questions i'd note the product down so i'm not gonna lie the rest of day one can't kind of just turn to nothing and i was procrastinating doing nothing playing games until around about 11 p.m that day firstly i finally settled upon the eyebrow trimmer to be the main product in our one product store and next on the list was to find the domain name i'd literally search for hours surprisingly this is a lot harder than i originally thought it was gonna be but after spending nearly half an hour looking up synonyms to different words related to my niche i finally settled upon the domain of whitecallerbeauty.com and finally to end the day i found the shopify dropshipping website creation tutorial that i was going to be using the following day and at that point i called it an eye so to start off day 2 i woke up and decided to activate my 14-day shopify free trial and i spent three to four hours following this tutorial it was crazy man i was doing my nighting by the end but finally we got to the end of it i did actually mention this earlier on in this video but i was actually going to be creating a one product drop shipping store another main reason for this is because if you're doing a multi store where you've got a ton of products you're going to be competing with the big dogs such as amazon ebay and big sellers who just sell a load of stuff but if you create a one product store what you're essentially doing is you're telling the buyer that you're specialized in that one field and although amazon may sell it for cheaper with better shipping experience your product is going to be more specialized and it's going to be better fit for the user so i knew the only way to go forward was going to be to create a one product drop shipping store for the logo i went to canva.com i knew some of their presets my thought process of the logo is that i wanted it to look clean and professional but i also wanted to have a little bit of personality i'm going to slightly touch on the really gritty side of the creation of the drop shipping store but in short i found my products on aliexpress i then imported them through the apollo app you can find on shopify and then from there i was able to alter the price for the reviews you later see in the dropshipping store i use judge.me and then basically just follow the tutorial that they gave and both of these apps were completely free so my budget at this point is still intact for the pricing i decided to go with a price of 24.99 and i decided to charge nothing for shipping the cost of producing the product was 750 for the actual product itself and then 150 for the shipping so for every sale i make i'm going to be making 14 back but of all things considered the creation was pretty smooth sailing i didn't run into any major roadblocks until we ran into the domain issue now on day one when i was originally looking for a domain this was a slight concern of mine but i just assumed that there was probably a workaround but after doing some further research i realized that you can't really do that and then there was also the possibility of just going with the classic on my shopify dot url which again was free but i to be honest i think that would just kill all branding would be an instant turn off to anybody clicking on the link i think that would absolutely kill our conversion rate i wasn't really left with an option but to unfortunately end the challenge there that was until uh i introduced debt i okay i know you're thinking that that's cheating it doesn't count anymore but trust me we're gonna be paying off this debt anyway so it counts it counts but this domain ended up setting us back nine dollars for a whole year which wasn't too bad i could probably pay that off of one sale so this leads me onto the closing hours of day two where i finish off the shopify website without a shirt on sorry ladies all right so here's how it looks this is gonna be the home page full details it'll bring them to the product page this is what it looks like i did a pretty good job we've got some reviews here three pages in fact and i'm pretty happy with this store but now this is where the challenge really starts to get hard because we now have to figure out a way of promoting this product to thousands of thousands of people with a zero dollar budget i was starting to doubt whether or not this was even possible so i had two separate ideas firstly i could reach out to people who run makeup related instagram theme pages and from there i could reach out to the creator regarding a possible collaboration where they post my ads and i offer them a split of profits and although our profits have been decreased we've got free advertising and secondly this is one of the most obvious ones but i could just post the ads on my own instagram theme page as i've already mentioned it's got a couple thousand followers you know average is a couple hundred likes a post free promotion but regardless of which option i decide to go with we still need an ad i went on aliexpress youtube facebook and free stock video websites screen recorded tons of footage that is probably copyright you got to do what you got to do but funnily enough whilst editing i realized a huge mistake in my branding and that was that the product name i'm sorry was absolutely crap painless eyebrow trimmer what the [ __ ] is that so i decided to remarket the products to the brow trimmer 2.0 now looking back on it it is super cheesy and i distinctly remember trying to make the ad look like it was something out of apple with the cinematic swirling shots and like introducing this new tech and while we're at i'll show you some segments of the actual ad i decided to use and yeah with this ad we were ready for distribution and finally that's when we move on to day three oh but just before we do that we need to re-edit the whole thing because i decided to make it in the wrong dimensions sick just realize a couple of dimensions oh [Music] it's not amazing so although the impressions were lower than expected funnily enough the conversion rate wasn't too bad which at a very needed time added a spark of hope back into this challenge 5 p.m next day uh we're gonna need to change some things up so about 12 hours ago i posted this ad on the theme page it heavily underperformed and i don't think that's due to the ad particularly i think that's mainly just due to not posting and what like about over 20 days so that sucks and it kind of just affirms that this uh theme page is dead yeah right now what we're gonna do is we're gonna contact instagram theme pages and for the next 20 minutes i mocked up a dm template that i'll be sending a ton of instagram theme pages trying to convince them to go along with the collaboration with a 50 50 split in profit and as somebody that has personally ran theme pages in the past and knew i was gonna have to write down something special because i was getting people reaching out to me with similar offers and i would reject them all the time you're always worried that either they're just not gonna pay you or they're gonna show you some fake statistics so i decided the best way to go about doing something like this was to just be as authentic and upfront as i possibly could and for the next hour i sent literally hundreds of dms to various instagram makeup theme pages i waited a few hours but the responses we were getting back were mainly negative people just saying they don't take collaborations and they weren't interested so i kept trying dm'd more people but it just generally seemed like people weren't interested and we were kind of at a sticking point i've been dming a few people about the 50 50 split but a lot of them do not take commission and are just completely not interested so that then let me down to post my instagram story or my personal page just saying look hey if anybody owns any makeup beauty pages and is willing to put a sponsorship up in exchange for work then i could do so and i had two people reach out to me in particular the first person reached out to me offering a promotion for free and i remember sitting there like wait for real i also do if he was sure several times and he was like yeah i just just want to help you i like your videos and it's just i mean that that in itself shocked me i'm like oh my god and the second person that reached out to me was chris now i understand a lot of you aren't going to be familiar of who this guy is but on my following youtube ad video he basically reached out to me saying that he would offer me money to edit videos so i've already established a good working relationship with this guy and he reached out to me basically saying i'll buy you shout outs in exchange for video editing after some negotiation we finally agreed on 40 for a video and being the nice guy he is he decided to offer a payment up front i accepted and just like that we have cleared our debt first of all and we now have 30 dollars in order to promote our page he then proceeded to tell me that he'd be sending the footage tomorrow for me to edit i agreed and said i could also get the edit done for tomorrow and i can't lie at the end of day three things were looking up day two i wasn't even sure if this challenge was gonna be possible and at the end of day three we were sitting pretty we've got forty dollars to spend in ads i was almost convinced we were gonna be getting a sale relatively soon hey what's up to me off naked again now we still got no sales and for thousands of views on the ads we had under 100 sessions so i then made the decision to alter the price down of the pen now that i decrease it by maybe two and a half dollars maybe five so you know it'd just be twenty dollars no i decided to go down a full ten dollars before ten dollars and that comes all out of my profit so now we have a four dollar per sale budget which hands down is probably the worst decision i made in this whole challenge and i think if a product is at a low enough price people kind of look at it and just don't trust it they're just like why is why is that so low then for the remainder of day four i decided to get my marketing and my promotion in check so i redmed a ton of instagram theme pages just asking them what their normal rates were and if i could post in the next 24 hours but i found somebody who was originally offering 25 for a feed and story promotion but i said hey look could you do 18 for just a feed post they agreed i got the money sent to them and they said the post was scheduled for tomorrow the second influence we reached out to was offering originally 20 per post but i negotiated him down to a price of 12. after hours of waiting uh they finally agreed and again that was also scheduled for tomorrow now you may be wondering my fault protest for picking these exact influences and in short it was just because their engagement was good but just as a point of reference both of these guys were averaging around about five to ten k likes per post and that's where we draw day four to a close and move on to the final day of this whole challenge day five so the ads were both scheduled to drop at midday and i was nervous i was booking it because i knew these are gonna be the defining factor whether or not i was gonna be failing or completing this challenge because just to remind you we've still got no sales and we need free sales to complete this challenge two hours later and it's now midday i'm sitting there on my phone i'm literally booking it really nervous and i remember i went on my shove off my live view so i could see the real time people clicking onto my page and 10 minutes after the post one person 20 minutes after nobody and at first i was just like oh it's probably just a glitch it's probably delayed yada yada the ads are performing fine i come back a few hours later and i see that both of the ads on the pages were performing as expected you know they were getting a high amount of views they were getting a high amount of impressions but people just weren't coming to my site i still only had like 50 to 100 people actually click on my site in the last few hours i'm feeling slightly disappointed i decided to just go okay this is driving my nut in i'm just gonna get off my phone gonna get off my computer i'll come back later tonight at 8 pm and see what the results are like and i come back to nothing a few hundred sessions and no conversions no sales like a moment of clarity like a moment of realization i knew at that exact moment that i was gonna be getting no sales and look there's something i haven't been telling you throughout this whole experience i was having major doubts about the product as soon as i found it on amazon i was having suspicions that possibly this product was too popular too many people had it maybe this product really isn't obscure after all and most people have a product like this or they can just get it at a store in person and in a sense i think this is where a five-day challenge like this falls short there's just simply not enough time i think to get an actual profitable experience you need to put money into it you need to put time into it and you need to test products out bullet i can cart with all these excuses but at the end of the day i failed i didn't complete the challenge and you know i stayed true to my word and i ended up giving away the 100 to the exact guy who offered the promotions for free i felt like it was only right to give back to that specific guy because he lent me a handout so i gotta do him a favor back but i honestly hope you enjoyed this video i've probably spent around about 30 40 hours at this point just putting time into this video so look i'd appreciate if you go down below and leave a like it really helps up with the youtube algorithm it helps my videos get seen by loads of people and it helps me support making videos like these and if you're also new to the channel please do consider 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Channel: Jared West

Views: 349,729

Rating: 4.932786 out of 5

Keywords: jared west, dropshipping challenge, shopify dropshipping, $0 dropshipping challenge, dropshipping with no money, business, entrepreneur

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Length: 15min 3sec (903 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 02 2020