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complete beginners are making thousands from starting their own ecommerce

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businesses and there is no better time to start than now but

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i know how daunting starting your own business can be there are thousands of tutorials

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and guides online telling you the best and literally the worst

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ways to run an ecommerce business that's why i want to cut through all the noise and

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condense all that info into this free video course and

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using my own experience as an ecommerce business owner who's been able to use it as a vehicle to live life on my own terms i'm going to teach you step by step how to start your own ecommerce business let's start off with getting some of of the jargon out of the way.

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E-commerce is any business where you buy and sell stuff online. And there are hundreds of businesses that you can start with in this space.

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Some good examples are eBay reselling, Amazon FBA, or digital products.

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Now this course is going to focus on dropshipping because that's what I'm most comfortable with.

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But all the info I'm going to be sharing with you today is totally applicable to other types of e-commerce as well.

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And that brings us to the first step because every single business relies on this.

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Now if you don't know how to follow this first step.

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You could be bankrupting your store before you even start, which is why you should learn how to choose the right product.

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Hundreds of gurus have taught you the same thing, and that's do your research. And that sounds very simple.

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All you need to do is scroll through Facebook and TikTok to try and find whatever's trending. But that method is only the beginning.

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You can go so much deeper with your product research. And the deeper that you go, the more likely that you'll come across a winning product.

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So there are two ways you can look for products. The first way is

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called the pop down method and this is how it works start

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by looking for a specific group people within a specific set of needs

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or interests like for example with my first store where i decided to go

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in to the phone accessory niche until i pivoted

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and went deeper into the hypebeast iphone and airpod case accessories

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so now that you have your niche you should go through all platforms

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like for example etsy amazon and ali express to find a list of unique products that cater to that specific

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groups so let's just say we decided to pursue i don't

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know crocheting or the crochet niche i would go on

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to aliexpress and search for something like crocheting kits to

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get some more product ideas now the best part about this method is that you

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can figure out if a lot of people want your product and you can do this by checking

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forums like facebook groups or reddit communities and let's just

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say that i wanted to sell this crocheting kit as the example

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and that means that i can go on to a subreddit for crocheting and see

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if anyone's actually talking about it now the top down method is great for

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beginners because you don't need to do a ton of research or use any crazy

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tools to get started now it might take a few hours to find

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a good product but once you know for sure that there are people in

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your market who are using it you're basically ready to move on to the next step

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but sometimes it can get a little restraining if you use this method for

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too long so if you want to be given a bit more creativity in your product

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selection process you can use the second method and that's

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the bottom-up approach now the strategy is really good because it shows

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you what is already trending so you get started with a product instantly

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and slowly do your research from there so here's how it works you'll find

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your product first and then you will figure out which market will want it and

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you can do this by using tools like the amazon opportunity finder amazon movers

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and shakers and etsy trend analysis so here's how i would do this using

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the amazon movers and shakers so first i would head into amazon movers

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and shakers now it shows you the biggest ganners and sales rank

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over the past 24 hours which is updated frequently and

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then after that you have to make sure that your product is in

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fact available then i would go ahead and select various categories

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that consist of a strong community for example we could say

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something like pet supplies babies arts and crafts and

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after that you have to make sure that your product is available on

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aliexpress so once we found our product at aliexpress we would just

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take this url right here and then we would go back to auto ds

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we would add products add a single product and then simply copy and paste the url just like this and then we can publish it straight to the store and the SKUs will be linked to that specific AliExpress link.

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Now, another thing that I could do is let's just say I found my product on Amazon.

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I could take the Amazon link, go to AutoDS, copy and paste it here,

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and it'll notice that the supplier source is from Amazon and it will find the correspondent AliExpress SKU so that when we actually sell each unit, it'll be linked to the AliExpress link where we can purchase the product.

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So once you have a solid idea for a product, you have to figure out what the weaknesses of your competitors are

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so that you can offer something that's new like for example making

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better ads solving a different problem or selling to

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a different market with that same product so for example with

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this dog collar right here you can see that most of the competitors are

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focusing on the shock features and they're just offering very generic

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ads and targeting a broad market so instead of doing that i could focus

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on creating educational ads that focus on the caller's adjustable sensitivity and maybe even the humane vibration options also i can target specific dog breeds or maybe different sizes

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and market to first-time dog owners who are looking for gentle training solutions.

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Now, this method is really good for giving you more flexibility and creativity when you're looking for products. You might be wondering, what's the best method to use?

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Now, personally, I recommend that you switch between these two strategies week by week and then try and generate new ideas.

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So this was how I was able to find products for my own businesses, and it tends to be one of the most effective strategies for me.

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And that's because I didn't limit myself to one single strategy.

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