Welcome to the first episode of Drop Ship Weekly!
DSW is our new Thursday show that answers your questions and celebrates your success.
In this episode, you'll learn:
- When you should start building your store (before or after getting a US Bank Account)
- If you should use Gift Cards in Shopify
- How to know when and if you should compete with other online retailers
- How to get customer reviews (even before you get sales)
- How to use PayPal most effectively
All Drop Ship Weekly Episodes are here:
This is the first episode, so it's a little rough, but I'm hoping you still get a lot of value out of it!
Let me know if you think we should keep them coming every week!
Hey Everyone,
As many of you already know I created Drop Ship Lifestyle after selling a network of eCommerce stores and then trying to find a community of other store owners to network with… What I found was a bunch of scammers who promised newbies they would get rich quick by following their push-button systems!
This led me to create a new community along with an online training program that shares how to build a REAL online business.
I’d love to hear what you think… it’s a 2.5-hour training designed to help you drop ship profitably… all for free.
Be sure to click here to check it out and send me your feedback!
If you go through the “How To Start & Grow A Hyper-Profitable Online Store” webinar and still have questions just contact me and I will help you out
Hi! Would you mind if I share your blog with my facebook group? There’s a lot of people that I think would really appreciate your content. Please let me know. Thanks
Hi Jora,
It’s called Drop Ship Lifestyle LABs… however, it is only available to members of our programs.
Let me know if you have any questions!
Just bookmarked Drop Ship Lifestyle 🙂 Thanks for all the great information!
Hey Anton, how far do you go spending money, till you should give up your niche and start another one?
Great question! I address this in Drop Ship Weekly Ep. 2 🙂
Great stuff, please keep up the good work!
Thanks Jac, I’ll keep them coming 🙂
can I pay installments to do course?
Hi Paul, We do not have any payment plans. Thank you!
Anton,
I am trying to watch the video and there seems to be something wrong with the audio. I get about 1min 5secs into it and the audio starts back at the beginning while the video keeps playing.
Just a heads up.
Matt
Hi Matt,
Thanks for heads up. I’m not sure what can be happening with that… can you let me know if that’s happening when you try to watch the video on YouTube:
Setting up US Bank Accounts, Finding Competitors, Gift Cards, Shopify Reviews!
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Hi Anton! Congrats on your new podcast. It is great, and thank you! Is the podcast available on itunes? It would be nice if we can watch it on iTunes.
Hi K,
That’s a great suggestion! I will look on having it uploaded onto iTunes this week. I’ll post an update here if and when that happens 🙂
Loving the new office and the blue wall! I can’t wait to check it out next time i’m in Austin. Great idea for the show by the way! Love hearing all of the success stories.
To elaborate on paypal holding money, what Anton means is often when you start making a lot of sales, Paypal will want to triple check your identity and it can takes weeks if not months for them to go through the process. Here are two tips to prevent issues with paypal:
1. Make sure your phone number, address, and security answers are up to date in your paypal profile. A lot of us opened our accounts 10 years ago when we first bought something on ebay and if that phone number no longer works you’ll be screwed.
2. Go into your paypal settings and set it to automatically withdraw your balance into your bank account every day, that way you never have more than a few thousand dollars in your paypal balance.
Looking forward to next week’s video! See you guys inside the private member forums where I normally hang out.
Yeah buddy, the new office is really starting to come together nicely! It will to be fun to have you out here when you’re in town.
And those are great tips regarding PayPal. I’ll go ahead and add one more which is to always get tracking numbers for every order your suppliers ship.
I once had PayPal lock my account and request tracking numbers for 20 random orders… I had them for all but 1 and that delayed getting my account opened back up by at least 2 – 3 weeks :/
Hey Anton
This is awesome. So excited to see how you’re always innovating and bringing so much more value to your community and making this so accessible. Glad to see you’re still supporting DSL and taking things to new levels. These Q&A’s will definitely add a lot more context and flesh to what is already a really good course. And stoked to see all the sales that people are making. Whoop whoop
Cheers,
Paul
I’m happy to hear you like it, Paul!
The goal of this series really is to answer questions as they arise, and of course, to celebrate Drop Ship Lifestyle students success (that’s my favorite part ;)).
I agree that the support + extra motivation should go a long way in terms of helping even more students succeed.
Be sure to check back next Thursday for Episode #2 🙂
and if you have any questions for future episodes, just let me know!
I am Canadian like that girl and I don’t see the necessity to open up a US account. I was able to open a shopify account to sell in the US and they would deposit the funds in my Canadian bank account. (Unless she wants the money to stay in American currency, otherwise they will convert it before depositing I believe.)
Hi Raffi,
That’s a great point. Many Canadian sellers eventually go the route of setting up a US LLC and then getting a US Bank account, but you don’t need either to start bringing in sales. Thanks for the share!
Anton,
What a fantastic first episode and a great edition to DSL!
Thank you for this and I think it will be great motivation for all who watch it!
Keep up the great work! You’re a star
Nick
Thanks for the comment, Nick. Motivating others is definitely one of the main reasons I wanted to give this a try.
You can expect more episodes coming every Thursday!
Love the video! Couldn’t find a link to you FB here. It’d be nice to have easy access to one.
Great suggestion, Angela! We will have to get that set up before the next episode. Happy to hear you like it enough to want to share 🙂