How to Quickly Start a Profitable

Dropshipping Store
Corey Ferreira
Get you from…
to…
to…
…all without worrying about inventory
or shipping.
Agenda
• What is dropshipping?
• Create your store
• What to sell
• How to succeed
• Getting your first sale
Hello!
I’m Corey Ferreira
:)
What is
dropshipping?
Why dropshipping?
• You can start immediately
• It doesn’t require any investments
• You can start it and run it from anywhere
• If you fail, you can try a new idea immediately
Why is this
important?
Dropshipping saves you
time and money.
Success stories

oberlo.com/success
To-do list
• Quickly launch a basic store
• Quickly find products to sell
• Focus 100% on getting sales
How to quickly launch
your store
To-do list
• Quickly launch a basic store
• Quickly find products to sell
• Focus 100% on getting sales
How to find suppliers and products
Finding/importing products

• Download Oberlo app and extension

• Look through categories and products
• Add products to your store
The more specific the
target audience, the better.
Dog bow ties for dog lovers
iPhone cases for iPhone owners
Camping gear for campers
Exercise equipment for fitness
enthusiasts
Music themed jewelry for music
lovers
Walkthrough
To-do list
• Quickly launch a basic store
• Quickly find products to sell
• Focus 100% on getting sales
What does it take to
succeed?
Smart goals
• Specific
• Measurable
• Achievable
• Realistic
• Time-bound
$10,000 in sales
within 60 days.
That’s 222 orders at $45 each…
…or 4 orders per day, for 60 days
If your conversion rate is 2%, you need
200 visitors a day to achieve that
What can you do to get
200 visitors per day?
Not-to-do list
• Perfecting your website won’t get you 200 visitors per day
• Optimizing your website won’t get you 200 visitors per day
• Spending days thinking up a logo or branding won’t get you 200
visitors per day
How to get 200 visitors per day
• Focus on easy-to-try marketing channels that provide immediate
results
• Play with free, work with paid methods of getting traffic
• Focus on one marketing channel
• Learn a lot
Getting your
first sale.
Getting your first sale
• Determining your value proposition
• Determining your product-market fit
• Determining your primary acquisition strategy
Value proposition.
Why should customers buy your product?

• Price • Solution
• Quality • Monopoly/patent
• Features • Service
• Benefits • Convenience
• Feeling • Unique/novelty
Why should customers buy your product?

• Price • Solution
• Quality • Monopoly/patent
• Features • Service
• Benefits • Convenience
• Feeling • Unique/novelty
 Feeling
Quality

Features

Service Quality

Convenience

Feeling
Product/market fit.
Who is your product for?
• What specific niche or market are you serving?
• What are their interests? Where do they congregate?
• What’s their gender? Age? Location? Marital status? Etc.
• Specific niche/market:
Makeup, cosmetics
• Interests: Kylie Jenner,
specific women’s
magazine brands,
competing makeup
brands, fashion, style,
reality tv
• Congregate: Snapchat,
Instagram
• Demo: Young women, USA
Customer acquisition.
Where will you get traffic?
• Paid advertising (Facebook, Google, Instagram, Pinterest,
YouTube)
• Influencer (Instagram, YouTube, Blog)
• Affiliate marketing (ShareaSale, your own platform)
• Content marketing (Your own: blog, YouTube channel, podcast)
• Communities (Reddit, Facebook groups, forums)
Guides
• 50 Ways to Make Your First Sale: bit.ly/50-ways-to-sell
• The Beginner’s Guide to Facebook Advertising: bit.ly/Guide2FBAds
• The Beginner’s Guide to Instagram Ads: bit.ly/Guide2InstagramAds
First sale… what now?
Most common mistakes
• Failure to focus on the things that bring traffic and sales
• Expecting customers to stumble across your online store
• Investing in long-term marketing and expecting quick results
• Setting margins too low
To-do list
• Quickly launch a basic store
• Quickly find products to sell
• Focus 100% on getting sales

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Further reading:
bit.ly/dropshipping-shopify
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