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This Product Made Me LOSE Thousands Of Dollars what is up guys here in another video guys are having a great day and today I'm gonna be talking about a big mistake I made when I first got to drop shipping and something that you guys need to look out for and not do the same thing I did I know this is probably not a common mistake but is something that I did and I sort of regret I mean I really try not to regret anything I'm just trying to have like life lessons stuff that I learned from live and learn but anyways if you guys aren't subscribed yet make sure you hit the subscribe button below before you get in this video because the channel is going super fast and I think you offered that all to support we just hit over 20,000 subscribers so thanks so much everyone that has done that and helped me with that so thank you so much guys now let's get back to this video maybe wondering what is this mistake you saw the tile you saw the thumbnail what did I do wrong what caused me to lose thousands of dollars so technically before I get into everything I did not lose thousands of dollars I just missed the opportunity to make a lot more money and it may sound a little bit confusing just off the bat like that but once I get more into depth on what I'm talking about the whole story then you'll understand more so let's get back to the start so I started drop shipping know it was spring of 2017 I just got to drop shipping I was trying to figure everything out and at the time I had no I'm robbing my big food page I had maybe a couple hundred thousand followers then as well as I was friends with a guy who has over 3 million followers on Instagram so he has a theme pages based on DIYs and me and him we're talking we really hadn't known anything about e-commerce but he makes a lot of money off of selling shout outs on his big page because he has a large audience so he's able to make a lot of money by selling ads to all these companies all the time and every day so I me and him were talking we became good friends we were trying to figure out what ecommerce is what is dropshipping how do we make money off of it because we know all these people were buying ads from us whether they're drop shipping or they have an in-house company that they're making more money off of us and that's why they're buying ads so we were talking we're brainstorming we're trying to figure everything out and we figured out what we wanted to do we wanted to dropship so the next thing we needed to do was find a product right so at this time I had two really done any research about drop shipping I knew the basics of it I didn't know how to find the right box I didn't know how to find a niche I didn't know how to make a store anything like that I mean I have always had some kind of like Basics in to my mind of design and stuff like that so I was able to build a website and come up sort of with my own strategies and methods to creating conversions and of course it took time trial and error to see what worked and what did it but so me and him were browsing around we really didn't know how we were gonna do product research how we were gonna find something and then he ran into something and this is what he ran into it is a carbonated bubble clay mask so right now it's in the box but when it comes out it is like this little tub and what it is it looks like green mud what you do you put on your face and it bubbles up and it looks all funny and is supposed to clean your face you wash it off and it's just I don't know something sort of stupid I guess but girls like it because it cleans the face as well as it like looks sort of cool fun whatever they want to call it but anyways this is what we got so we didn't buy any what we bought a few just to see what they were like and we were like okay let's dropship it let's see how this works so we didn't want to buy any ads we wanted to leverage our big Instagram page so he had a couple million and I had a couple hundred thousand so there was a big difference so we sort of leveraged that as our partnership where I will try and do most of the logistics work and he would focus on the advertisement the marketing side of things because we were both new to it and we didn't know what angle we wanted to approach in order to get where we wanted so this is how it all started we had the product I figured out how to set up a Shopify store I figured out how to design I figured out how to create product descriptions I mean everything I learned by myself trial and error I didn't have anyone help me I was just basically using online resources and trial and error just trying things on my own single sounded good well it looks good and I was able to do that as well as I had some constructive criticism for other people that's one thing guys you asked your friends you asked your parents ask the family members what they think of this website you have to tell my series be like hey what do you think about this website what would you change in order to make you want to buy something from it so this was the only product we had on a story this bubble mask this bubble clay mask from China and I believe drop shipping on al Express they cost us like five dollars and some change to sell us or dropship this so that was the only project we had on our page we didn't know that you can have more products and stuff like that so we created this story drop shipping solely based on that we created an ad we had everything set up because we had found that like a couple years ago there's some big youtubers like makeup artists ahead done reviews on this so what we had done is we had taken those videos we dropped them down to under a minute and we made them smaller we add some text to make it look good and we created an Instagram account for our company and it's called Velasco I think the instrum still up I think we're still selling but yeah that's all a mess right now you hear more about it later on but anyways so we had this we created the ad everything was good to go so now all we had to do was start selling so what we did I had him post the first ad on his DIY page to see how it did and so he posted the ad and it seemed to do well we made a few hundred bucks we were pretty excited we're like geez we can scale we can make a lot of money we don't have to spend money on ads I guess I'm saying right now we didn't have to spend any money on ads because we had these big accounts so I made a few hundred bucks and we were excited we're seeing everything's going well we just really wanted to make more money so we're making decent money we were up to like thousand dollars a day or something crazy and we're like dude we don't want to do this we don't want to dropship we don't want to have people wait weeks to get this product and if it's messed up it's just gonna be a mess especially since this is like a face care mask and now that I look back at it this is probably a stupid idea to dropship this because it's something people put on their face and that could be a really big liability issue just in case like someone's face gets all messed up and they're allergic to whatever's in it stuff like that but anyways this is the big mistake where we decided that we wanted to buy inventory and ship it in-house so he lives in New York I live here in North Carolina so what I did was I flew up to New York and it was a like a weekend trip we were talking about business we're just having fun I'd never been up there to New York so we're talking we're hanging out talking about business whatever we're both the same age and we're having a good time we figured out everything that we wanted to do and we weren't making that many sells at the time because we had basically just saturated too much with our audiences on Instagram so we decided that we could make it better and everything like that so we bought I believe 2,000 units of these bubble mask things so 2,000 units we got him at a believ dollar in 92 cents a piece or two dollars and twenty something like that around that area it was a lot better than the prices on how I express so we bought a bunch of these I might have figure out all the logistics of shipping in-house I had to buy the packing things I had to buy the label printer I had to buy like business cards to put in the mailer when I shipped him out I had to figure out things with the post office I didn't make a P o box I had to figure out how all this worked because we didn't want both of us to be shipping stuff out since I'm in North Carolina he's in New York we had to pick one person or the other and we decided that just I would do what I felt like I could do it it wouldn't be a big deal and you know we got everything set up I talked to some people about in-house shipping because I've never done it before I was trying to figure out all the logistics and honestly it's pretty easy with Shopify just takes a little bit of time you have to well now you can print ten labels at a time on Shopify but anyways we'd print out all the labels we have to do it one by one because at the time shuffle I did have a thing where you could print like 10 out of time so one by one it would take a long time just me here by myself you have to put this in the little mailer and then you put the business card in there then you have to seal it up then you have to put the label on there and it takes probably like 30 seconds to a minute of peace and we started off with that we had a bunch of inventory excited I got all shipped to my house and start selling it but what we were doing mainly on Instagram for our sales was the viral video method where basically we would exchange the likes and comments with other big accounts and get them on to our bubble Matt's company page post and the post would go viral so if you go to that page in certain pages like bubble Masco i think the website still up and you'll find some videos on there that have like a million views and stuff and that's how we were able to make a lot a lot of money off of it they started getting a bunch of views a bunch of followers we're getting a lot of sales and I was still in school now that was the summer I believe once we started getting a lot of money going in shipping everything I was taking a very long time to do all that stuff to put all the mast in the mailers putting the label on there and everything like that and then taking it to the PIO box and everything like that and I wanted to hire someone to help me like do it but honestly the sales were so inconsistent but I didn't wanna have someone in here working every day and then paying for something that I didn't need so the sales were pretty inconsistent so I didn't know how I wanted that to work so what I ended up doing I kept doing it by myself and eventually what happened is I guess a lot of other big accounts that we were doing the like for likes and comments for comments with on our bubble mast page to get the viral videos I guess if you guys want to know more about what I'm talking about the viral video method just let me know on the comments below and I can make a whole other video on that if you guys are curious I'm not sure how good it is now haven't used it in a while but it definitely worked very well over the past year all these other big accounts were too caught on they just thought that our process for selling because we were getting so many views so many comment so many followers on our company page that what happened was all these people started copying our website exactly but they were to drop shipping it and they were copying everything exactly step by step every single thing and they were promoting with the same ads creating similar business pages and then like some of our followers on the bubble Maps page we're like this is not a real business like we like bubble Mexico like they like to our business better because we're like two days shipping and that's a good thing that's a pro up shipping in-house but the thing is inventory so anyways back to what I was talking about other people started catch on they're copying our store they were doing the same methods it strategies that we were using and they were implementing them the exact way that we did so we try to switch the means up we tried to avoid the competition we tried to push more than then get more views and get more followers to get more sales but the thing was there was some bigger accounts bigger than us that were able to leverage their audiences to get more sales and basically drive us out of business so after I believe two months total the sales really started to die out the sales were just non-existent competition I just got in the market had become so oversaturated because I guarantee like 50 big accounts start selling the same exact thing that we were we were the first ones that know it for a fact and some of you will start to get in there and we made a decent amount of money off of these things I'm not complaining we still ended up with profit but the thing is now I'm stuck with a bunch of inventory here in my office with like 500 left or something like that it may not seem like a lot but really selling them at like 15 bucks a piece or whatever we were doing it really adds up fast to how much money that we could actually be making we tried lowering the prices we tried offering free shipping basically just trying to cut even and not lose money and like give these things away but we're still not getting any takers um it was taking a long time really just everything started to die down so fast and we had bought inventory we had bought more and more inventory just trying to keep drawing the business and it ended up dying and we're left with some inventory so I'm stuck with these it's not a big deal because we're left with profit I'm not complaining but the thing was we made a big mistake so if you calculate let's say I have five hundred left of these and we would sell for fifteen bucks let me do the math real quick that is seven thousand five hundred dollars that we could be making off of these units that are just sitting here but the thing is the markets saturated so many people who bought it so many people have seen it and the really the marketing approaches just died down and it's something that I really haven't tested it in a while just because it became so saturated maybe they're good now you can start something again no idea I'm sure someone that watches this videos gonna copy it and try and sell them we'll see what happens but anyways let me know if you want the inventory shoot me a DM on this room you want the inventory that's botherin unis left I'll saw them for a dollar piece 500 bucks good deal really just trying to get him out of my house not a big deal but anyways guys don't make that mistake if you're new to dropship and you're starting get a lot of sales don't buy inventory that was something I definitely messed up with and really we were just too distraught about the shipping times with drop shipping and stuff like that so we wanted to avoid that but now after learning more about drop shipping getting more involved with it and making more sales I've really understood the reality of it and that it's not that big of a deal so guys don't buy inventory that's something I messed up with maybe if you're doing Amazon FBA you can do this you buy inventory ship it to them but don't use this product so hopefully this story will help you out I'm sure a lot of you guys are not gonna want to buy inventory anyways like I said in the beginning there's probably a lesson that not many people are gonna have to go through I don't know I guess when you're stupid I don't know maybe it was a good idea we still ended up with profits so I'm not complaining but anyways guys hope you enjoyed this video make sure to leave a like comment and subscribe peace