If I Had to Start Dropshipping Again Before Black Friday, I'd Do THIS!

Vídeo em Inglês, publicado pelo canal Raymond Jamba.

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Video summary

The video outlines a four-step preparation strategy for e-commerce sellers heading into Q4 and Black Friday, covering product selection, automated store building, supply chain management, and expanding sales channels to platforms like Amazon.

Key points

• Focus on finding giftable, desire-driven, leisure, or problem-solving products for Q4 using research tools like AutoDS.
• Build a store quickly using artificial intelligence store-building software.
• Secure reliable supply chain partners such as TeamDrop to manage shipping times and bulk orders efficiently.
• Drive traffic and sales using paid advertising on platforms like Facebook and TikTok.
• Expand sales channels beyond Shopify by listing products and running sponsored ads on Amazon to reach a wider audience.

Topics

E-commerceBlack FridayQ4 StrategyProduct ResearchShopifySupply ChainAmazon AdsDigital Marketing

Video transcript

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If I'm starting e-commerce from zero today, there are four things that I would do to prepare for Black Friday. I would first start by finding the correct product to sell, and I would make sure that I could actually build a store that actually sells, and I would make sure that I have a supplier that makes sense to deliver all the products that I'm selling. And the biggest one is I wouldn't just rely on one sales channel. You want a different sales channel that will allow you [music] to scale. So, in this video here, I'm going to show you the exact game plan that I would use if I was starting as a beginner for Q4. For those that don't know what Q4 is, Q4 is the biggest time in e-commerce. This is when consumers buy the most products, which means as a seller, this is the time that you make the most money. And even if you're already running a store, you could literally follow this exact same strategy I'm about to show you, and you [music] would still scale to the moon. If this is your first time on this YouTube channel, my name is Raymond Jamba. I do e-commerce, and I've scaled stores to over eight figures right here in South Africa. So, you are listening to the right person. Okay, without further ado, we are going to jump into the very important thing that I want you guys to understand first. We are going to speak about finding the right product. This is literally the make or break of your business, or the make or break whether you're going to make money in Q4 or not. The first thing that we're going to start off with is [music] showing you guys exactly how to find the products, because this is what will determine whether you guys are going to make money or not. This is literally the make or break of your business. If you have the correct product, you will literally go to crazy numbers in literally weeks. But if you don't have the craziest of products, then you might not see crazy numbers. So, in this first part here, I'm going to show you exactly how I would look for products that actually sell. Before jumping into that, let's speak about what type of product sell in Q4. You want to focus on products that are giftable, because in this season, people are gifting each other for Christmas, people are gifting each other for Black Friday, people are trying to buy as much stock for their houses, and all these different things for Black Friday. So, you'd want to focus on giftable products. You also want to focus on like products that have to do with a lot of leisure, or products that have to do with a lot of desires. At the same time, you also can go for products that actually solve problems, because this time around, people are just letting their money flow. So, these are the type of products that you want to focus on to actually make a lot of money inside Q4. Without further ado, let me show you exactly how I find these type of products using a special tool called AutoDS. It is only 17 rand for the first 3 days, and I'll leave the link to this tool in the description. So, let's get into it. All right, but before we jump into everything, I have a checklist that I have written here for you that will kind of help you to actually select the product. The first thing that you want to make sure is the product is actually easy to understand. This is a product that you'll be able to run an ad, and somebody understands what the product does in literally 3 seconds. The second thing is does it have a strong problem or desire, which we spoke about earlier on. And then the third thing that you do [music] not want to ignore is your profit margin or the price margin. You want to make sure that the product that you're selling has um some sort of margin so you can be able to make money. The fourth thing that I have here is does it have creatives or images that you can actually use. But, I'll explain all of this as I'm showing you guys how to find the actual product cuz I do understand that for some of you guys, this is the first time that you are bumping or hearing anything to do with e-commerce and Q4. All right, as you guys can see, we are here in AutoDS. This is the platform that I use to find majority of the winning products. So many of the products that I sell in Q4, I just write here on this platform. So, let me show you exactly how I navigate it. Remember, to get to this platform and to get to the screen here, I will leave a link in the description. You It's literally only 17 rand for the first, I think, 3 days. Um and you'll be able to have access to all these products that go crazy. So, now, the first thing that I think for Q4 is I'm looking for giftable products or products that have to do with a certain desire. With this, we're looking at clothing, shoes, we're looking at beauty personal. We're also looking at sometimes automotive, and we are looking at a little bit of outdoors. Pretty much like all these niches are giftable. But, before I jump into like any niches, the first thing that I want you to notice is like when you hear in the marketplace by AutoDS, you will find the best sellers. Now, you might be wondering what actually happens here by the best sellers. AutoDS goes out and they select the products that are moving the most in that season and they put them down for you. Like for example, you have this dog mat here. I don't know how many of you guys own dogs and you have cars, but when you're traveling with dogs, they need mats cuz I mean anything can happen, right? Dogs are pretty messy. And this is also a giftable product. So this is an example of a product that you can actually start selling, but you need to make sure that you're checking is there proven demand. But we all know many people have dogs in South Africa, so we would be able to sell this product. You also have water bottles. The sun is about to come up. You also have like, you know, these type of boots. You also have like, you know, these romantic type of gifts. Um there are so many different products that they just naturally put out there that you can actually find yourself. However, you want to go out there and you want to do the due diligence to kind of prove and check if a product will be relevant for December. All you want to do is you want to really think, "Okay, if I had to start selling this product, is this a product that people can buy around December? Is this a product that people can buy around November?" And literally that's all you need to know. When it comes to Q4, you do not need to complicate the selection of products. Now, let's jump into a niche that I think does well, a niche that I've done millions in in Q4, which is clothing and jewelry. Guys, to be honest, so many people are buying jewelry so many are buying clothes for Christmas. People are just buying this type of things. So if you want to see the best sellers, you're simply going to click clothing and shoes just like I'm clicking here. And when you do that, you will start to see the clothing pieces that are actually trending. As you guys can see here, if there's actually any ladies that are watching this video, look at how cute this dress is. I think this dress is cute. If you had to advertise this dress and somebody had to see it on Facebook and they have money, they are probably going to buy it. Why? Because the sun is out and it's rocking out there. So this is exactly how you find what what products are selling and what products are currently trending right now. What type of jewelry pieces are trending right now in Q4? But all of DS doesn't finish it there. They also have a section that they call handpicked product. This section here is the section that they personally select the products that they can see that are moving the fastest. So, all you can all you have to do is you just have to literally just like take this product and put a store with it. If you're wondering also exactly how to build a store, I will be showing you shortly. So, that's exactly how I'm finding products that are like absolutely killing it in Q4 using this tool called AutoDS. We also have the ad spy section inside AutoDS. Now, you are brand new probably and you're wondering what exactly is the ad spy. The ad spy is where you will see all the ads that other sellers are running on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. So, that means that you are able to take their ads or their videos and run them yourself for the exact same products because the supplier that I will give you later on in this video, you will be able to get literally any product for them. So, it's literally literally easy and that's exactly how I'm doing it. So, that's exactly how I find like, you know, my winning products. Now that you know exactly how to find the winning products that will sell this Q4, I quickly want to break down a few factors that you need to consider for Q4 before you actually select the product. I didn't show you guys this on the laptop, but you want to use a tool called Google Trends, right? You want to go to Google Trends and you want to search in the product that you're selling. You want to put in South Africa in the market and you want to see is there actually proven demand because you cannot sell something that doesn't have demand in South Africa. You just want to go out there in Google Trends and check is there actual demand. Another thing you could do is you could go to Facebook ad library and you could type the name of the product and see if people are running ads. If people are running ads for that product, that means there is some sort of proven demand. So, now secondly, I want to show you guys exactly how I build my stores because it's important to have a solution to build stores in literally under 10 minutes. Right now, you want to use AI. So, I'm simply going to show you the software that I use to build AI stores. I use Build Your Store and if you go down to the link in my description, you will see the BYS software. What you want to do is you you just want to click there and when you click there, you are going to get to this page right here. Now, it's very very easy. What you want to do is you want to follow the steps. But, what I want you to do right now is I want want comment BYS in the comment section if you want me to make a full video breaking down everything on exactly how to do this. So, the first thing that you want to do is you want to click build my store just the same way that I did on the laptop here. And when you get there, it will show you a couple of steps to follow. It's literally as easy as 1 2 3. It's easy as A B C. If you have WhatsApp, you can literally do it. The best part about it is it's completely free. So, you can go ahead right now and do it. Like I said, if you want me to go in-depth, just comment the word B Y S in the comment section and I'll show you a full blown out video where I will show you exactly how I take a store from literally having no store to having a full store just with this software on its own. Now that you have an understanding of how to do that, let us move on to the third thing cuz, you know, we now have the foundation. We have exactly how to find the products and exactly how to place and position our products. So, let's move on to the third thing. Now, let's think about the third thing that we talked about and we say this thing matters. Let's think about our supply chain cuz in Q4, you want to make sure that you have some tight suppliers behind your back because the biggest problem in Q4 is you will be getting a lot of orders. You will be getting a lot of orders if you take action. So, the speed of your shipping really matters. And for me, I always have one solution to shipping. At the moment, I think TeamDrop is the best supplier to use. So, I want to recommend you to the TeamDrop agents that I use. To get the TeamDrop agents or the TeamDrop suppliers that I use, you want to click the link that I'm going to leave in the description and it will give you the best agents that ship to South Africa on time. Not only do they ship to South Africa, but they also able to ship to United States if you are drop shipping in United States. They are also able to ship to the UK if you are drop shipping inside the UK. But, I know many of us are going to start in South Africa. TeamDrop does not only ship out the products. Let's say you are somebody that wants to actually see the business and you don't want to drop ship. Maybe you want a bulk bulk purchases. You want You want bulk orders. You can actually use TeamDrop to make your bulk orders. For those that trust in this type of model, I'd just say if you know the products that are going to sell, from now, make sure that you are ordering your bulk orders right now, and they will be able to deliver your products in bulk in South Africa, so you have faster delivery. But, if you don't want to do all of that bulk stuff, Team Drop is still pretty good when it comes to delivering to the customers'door. It literally takes only 7 to 12 working days. So, my bad. 7 to 12 days, not 7 to 12 working days. Those who understand understand. There's a very, very big difference in those number of days. So, let me quickly open up Team Drop on my side, and let me show you exactly how to connect your store. So, the first thing that we want to do is we quickly want to connect the actual store that we just built right now to our supplier, which is Team Drop. To do this, you simply want to come down to Team Drop. To get here again, it is the same link that I will leave in the description, and it will take you to this exact platform, which is the suppliers that I trust at the moment. So, what you want to do is you want to press stores, and at stores, you want to simply click add store. Now, right now we are building with Shopify, so you want to actually click, you know, Shopify here, and then you want to say authorize. And when you say authorize, it's going to take you to Shopify. Here, you want to make sure that that this is the store that you actually built. This is the store that I built. Let me just quickly cross-check. There we go. These are the same numbers here. That is the exact store that I built. From there, all I want to do is I actually want to install. So, we're going to go ahead and actually install. As easy as 1 2 3, the store is connected. So, from here, you do not have to do anything much more. Your supplier is already connected to your Shopify store. From here, what you want to do is you want to contact the best agents with Team Drop. Now, obviously, using the link that I left in the description to get to these agents, all you want to do is hover to this black little man here, and you want to press the WhatsApp icon. And guess what happens when you press the WhatsApp icon? You will be directly connected to your agent from Team Drop. And what does this agent actually do? This agent will give you codes for every single product that you actually want to ship out, and you get to know how much the price price is. I didn't even mention that TeamDrop is one of the cheapest prices on products that you can actually get, which means this might be one of the best suppliers when it comes to prices that you can get. Why? Because they source their products from where everybody can access in China, which which is your 1688, which is your Taobao, and that's where the lowest prices exist. Those that understand the Chinese market and understand how to source products from China know exactly what I'm talking about. So, just like that, you have your store connected. And when you get orders, you simply just like you know, toggle over to orders, purchase order, and you will see that like, you know, this is exactly where you are able to purchase the orders. They will just show up here when you speak to your agent from WhatsApp. As you guys can see here, these are some of my orders, but obviously, I actually do drop shipping. I don't just speak about and preach about what I don't actually do. So, you can just understand that you are getting taught by a reliable source. That's exactly how to get your supply chain correct if you're a beginner in drop shipping. So, TeamDrop will have, you know, all the stock available. The processing time is good. The shipping time is good. The communication with TeamDrop is absolutely great. The tracking is also amazing. The agent will put the tracking code for you, and [music] the email will automatically be sent to your client when you actually order. I didn't even speak about the quality control. There's so much that I could say about TeamDrop, but that is the supply chain you want to go for in 2026 [music]. Now, I have a little bonus that I obviously didn't mention that I want to tell you guys about. Now, if you're a beginner, you probably are wondering, "How do I actually get purchases to the store? It's fine, Raymond. You showed me exactly how to find the products. You found You showed me the suppliers. You showed me exactly how to build the store. How do people actually buy products from my store?" So, we use a simple simple method that is not that complicated, right? You literally just want to run Facebook ads. On Facebook, this is where people are buying the most. So, you are just getting traffic from Facebook and bringing that traffic to your Shopify store, and people will make purchases. If you don't know exactly how to build uh meta ads or you don't know exactly how to set this up, I can personally set up your Facebook ads for you. Just check out the link in the description and I'll do all that meta ad setup right for you. Another platform that you can use is TikTok ads. It's similar to Facebook. It will also get you to crazy numbers. All you literally want to do is run ads for 250 a day and see whether the products that you are selling get purchases or not. If obviously they don't get purchases on the first day in dropshipping usually those are like red flags, those products just require too much work for them to work. So, if you run ads for 250 rand and you get a sale, that is your sign that that product is actually go up going to go up to the moon and you're going to be able to scale it. So, now I want to speak about the fourth part. I did say that to find success that is crazy in Q4 and do numbers that others are not doing, you cannot only use one sales channel. We spoke about Shopify. Once you find the product that is selling, once you find the product that gets you to 50,000 rand a month, 100,000 rand a month, or 200,000 rand a month, you know that the product sells and which Shopify is doing well, you want to take it to another sales channel. And this sales channel is called Amazon. You cannot sleep on Amazon in Q4. Everybody trusts Amazon, so they buy from Amazon. All you want to do is you want to list your product on the seller platform on Amazon and once you do that, you literally just want to run a couple of Facebook ads. You literally want to just run a couple of Amazon ads. So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to show you exactly how you would run those ads and what it means to actually make money from Amazon. So, to run Amazon ads, what you want to do is you want to go to advertising.amazon.co.za and what you're going to do is you're going to click sponsored products. Remember, you are doing all of this after already listing your product inside the seller account. What you simply do is these are the products that are listed in my seller account. As a bonus, you could literally just take them and you can list them for yourself and you will start getting sales. So, what I'll do from here is I just select the exact product that I want to run, which is this product here. So, I'll click add here, I'll click this one here, add here, and I'll click this add here. And then I'll name the campaign the name of the product. Just the same way I've done here. On your right here, you will see it will be written three products. That will be all the products that you select. That's confirmation to say those are the products that you will be running ads on Amazon for. Now, why do we trust Amazon so much? We trust Amazon so much because other people trust Amazon. So, if you had to run ads, you are literally not like finding somebody cold and convincing them to buy. If the person sees your ad and they're already in the Amazon platform, they're already really close to their pocket, so you do not have to over convince them to actually make any sort of purchase. Now, inside the ad here, when we scroll down, we have the targeting. For beginners, I always recommend just leaving it on automatic targeting. When you scroll down, you want to make sure like, you know, your bid is at least 10 rand. This means that like the highest you're willing to pay for a click is 10 rand. So, you scroll down, and then on your negative keyword targeting, you just want to leave that empty. Leave that empty. Leave that alone. Like I said in the previous in the previous video that I've made, if you want me to go in depth with explaining exactly what this is, just comment that in the comment section, and I'll literally bang out a video for you telling you exactly what this is inside Amazon ads. So, here on campaign bidding strategies, on the dynamic bids, I always select dynamic bids down only cuz I do not want it to go past this 10 rand that we mentioned. But if you're comfortable with paying more than 10 rand for a click, you could just press dynamic bids up and down. Now, this is Amazon just like, you know, selecting everything. Well, I'd still trust it, but if you're more on like, you know, the saving side, just make sure that you're hitting that dynamic [music] bids low. On the big bid adjustments, make sure that you are completely just like leaving that empty. Campaign name again, you just want to change this to like, you know, the name of your products that you're pushing. And you hit it. And as a daily budget, a typical budget that I recommend on Amazon is 150 and you want to see if you're getting sales from there. From there you simply want to hit launch campaign. Amazon will allow you to get an extra amount of revenue that you were not getting from Shopify. That means you reach a completely new audience. That's the first thing that I wanted to speak about that is absolutely been a game changer for me. So make sure that you are using Amazon ads and you are also taking your product to Amazon to maximize on that profit. So now when you're on Amazon, this means that you are able to grow your brand on Amazon. Not only do you just get to list the products, you can literally just like make something that is called a brand store. That means that all the products that are selling on your different separate channel, you could put them inside this brand store and you have a full brand that goes out on Amazon. This matters because a clear branded store helps customers to make a purchasing decision on your Amazon store. So when you select that brand branded store on Amazon and you add all the other relevant products to the product that you're selling, your store looks more branded. Therefore, when you run those Amazon ads, you're able to convert easily. Again, I want to make a video on showing you guys exactly how to build the brand on Amazon. Let me know in the comment section if you want me to show you guys exactly how to build a brand store on Amazon in a clean and undeniable manner where you'll be able to make sales all throughout the year just besides the Q4 that we're speaking about. All right, guys. With that said, those are all the four major things that you want to do this Q4 to actually crush it. What I did is I wrote some timelines that you can actually follow. In October, you want to do a lot of product testing so you find the product that actually works. In November, you want to identify winners and then inside mid-November, you want to improve your creatives, you want to get better landing pages and you want to make sure that in Amazon [music], you are creating your brand. Now when the Black Friday week comes, you want to scale exactly what's working. You want to be confident enough to put a lot of money behind a product that's working so that you can get the most sales as possible. That's literally how it goes and that exact same product will get you crazy sales in December. So that's exactly how you want to play it and that's exactly what the timelines look like. Black Friday shouldn't be the day that you're scaling, but by the time we get to Black Friday, you need to be like, you know, knowing exactly what's working. So, you put a majority of your investments in something that works, so you can make a lot more money. Now, a very important thing that I didn't mention that again is a bonus in this video is the offer that you're running or the special that you're running around Q4 matters. Now, these are some of the specials that you can run that will make you a lot of money in Black Friday. You can run a buy buy two get one free. You could run some bundle discounts. You could run spend X and get free shipping. You could give some free gifts. You say buy more, save more. These things create urgency and they give somebody a reason to buy from your store. So, you always want to make sure that you have some crazy sales. One of my favorite for me is like buy two get one free. Also, just like, you know, the 50%off is always banging and it always always done millions for me. And even on Amazon, you want to make sure that you are doing that 50%off cuz it will matter and it will make a difference when it comes to the sales that you're getting. So, with that being said, we've come to the end of the video. I've told you exactly how to find the products and I've shown you exactly how to build the stores. From there, I've also shown you this exact supplier that you want to use and I showed you exactly how to get sales with Facebook and TikTok. And I told you what game plan you could follow to scale with Amazon. I hope you guys found a lot of value in this video. Now, if you want help and you want somebody on your side that will help you complete all of these steps cuz they might be overwhelming if you're a beginner. I do have a mentorship where I've helped hundreds of students and hundreds of clients get to over 100k a month. This is literally our bread and butter. This is exactly what we focus on and you can tell with the confidence in the video that we do this all the time. So, what I'll do if you want that mentorship is I will leave a link inside the description. Make sure that you are securing your spot cuz I don't know, sometimes I literally just like switch off switch off the mentorship and sometimes you will find it open. So, as soon as you see that link, make sure that you're taking action. Choose a package that makes sense for you and I'll see you on that other side and let's help you get to 100k. So, like I said, Q4 is a massive massive opportunity. Please make sure that you are taking it. I do not want to leave you alone. I do not want to I do not want all the people taking this opportunity and leaving you behind. So, make sure that you are taking action and let's get to changing your life. I'll check you in the next YouTube video. Please make sure that you're liking and subscribing cuz that will help us reach the next person that might need this.

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