--- title: 'How to Start Dropshipping from Scratch in 4 Steps' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=p-90j2GDIKs' video_id: 'p-90j2GDIKs' date: 2026-07-13 duration_sec: 1856 --- # How to Start Dropshipping from Scratch in 4 Steps > Source: [How to Start Dropshipping from Scratch in 4 Steps](https://youtube.com/watch?v=p-90j2GDIKs) ## Summary This video provides a step-by-step guide to starting a dropshipping business from scratch using Shopify and Dropy. The creator shares strategies for finding winning products, setting up ads on TikTok, and managing orders, emphasizing that dropshipping is a scalable way to develop valuable skills. ### Key Points - **Dropshipping Explained** [00:01] — Dropshipping involves selling products without holding inventory; the supplier ships directly to the customer. It's scalable via the internet. - **Dropshipping Is Not Saturated** [02:21] — The business is not saturated; people always buy products, and online shopping is growing. It's a good time to start. - **Setting Up Shopify and Dropy** [03:45] — Create a Shopify store and register on Dropy using affiliate links to avoid fees. Fill in details and verify email. - **Finding Products on Dropy** [07:17] — Browse Dropy's catalog for products with good perceived value. Example: a cold gun for $18 can be sold for $35. - **Winning Products vs Sales Skills** [07:58] — The product is not the winner; sales skills make you successful. Leverage what's already working in other markets or platforms. - **Using the Ad Library** [10:10] — Use Meta's Ad Library to find active ads in more advanced markets. Filter by 'free shipping' and ads running for over a week. - **Matching Products on Dropy** [12:51] — Search for the same product on Dropy using keywords. Compare supplier prices and avoid using the suggested price. - **Creating Sales Page and Advertising** [14:12] — Create a sales page for the product and advertise it via TikTok Ads. Dropshipping is a starting point to develop skills. - **Setting Up TikTok Ads Campaign** [17:38] — Create a sales campaign manually, select purchase optimization, set budget ($12-$15), and schedule ads for early morning. - **Managing Orders and Delivery** [22:47] — Confirm orders via WhatsApp, update status on Dropy, share tracking numbers, and withdraw funds after delivery. - **Earning Potential in Latin America** [28:13] — With 5 sales/day at $4 profit each, you can earn $600/month, exceeding average salary. Scaling to 10 sales yields $1,200. ### Conclusion Dropshipping is a viable way to earn a living in Latin America if you take consistent action. The key is to start small, leverage proven strategies, and prioritize action over overthinking. ## Transcript Dropy using cash on delivery, starting from scratch in four simple steps. You will learn the business that allowed me to transform my life, going from being in I used to live in a tiny room that didn't even have a door, and now I've built a company that has already made over 2 million dollars. So first step and you will have everything you need to have your own real, profitable dropshipping business that allows you to live 100% off it. And the best part is, you 'll be developing the most valuable skills of 2026, which services through an agency, or even build a brand, or dropshipping business like we have, and bill at the levels you much more. Now, to help us understand a little better what very simple example. You probably have a friend or acquaintance who sells things through their WhatsApp statuses, whether it's t-shirts, shoes, chains, perfumes, well, anything. These people are already doing dropshipping, they Because in most cases these people do not have their own products. I'm not saying it's always the case, but many times they don't have their products in stock. Instead, they contact a supplier who already has the products, and when you buy from them, they order the product from the supplier and send it to you. Sometimes you even that money to buy the product and then deliver it to you. This is how it works. So, as you can see, this is dropshipping, and it's the same thing that's been done forever. The only difference is that nowadays this business can be done on a massive scale through the internet. That's the only change. So, if you're selling, for example, a product that you earn $4 for each sale, and if you sell it through WhatsApp, you sell 10 units to your contacts, that would be $40. same product, but to the whole country, and instead of reaching your 100, 200 or 300 WhatsApp contacts, you're going to reach 1000 or 10,000, or even 1 million 1 million people with the same product. That's the big difference this business has today, and that's why it 's not magic; it's a normal business, but it is very scalable. So, the opportunity you have question you probably have right now is whether dropshipping will still possible to make a living from this business? Now imagine you leave your house and go to the I want you to put yourself in that moment when you are in that area that in Colombia is called the center. Now look at all the shops there are, and look at them side by side one shop, next to it there's another, next to it there's another, next to it there's another, and they all have customers, they all sell. And many of the people who own these physical stores have been there for years, we're talking 20, 30 years, and they continue to lot of money with it and have managed to support their families. So, if this is how brick-and-mortar businesses that have been around for so many years work, why is dropshipping or selling online going to become saturated so quickly? Rather, this business is not saturated, but it is just getting people are doing it. In fact, this is the best time to start. Well, actually, the best moment was yesterday and the second best moment is today. People will always have needs and will always be buying products. Whatever it is, they're always going to have to buy things. The only thing is that people nowadays hardly want to go out to buy things anymore, but want them delivered to their homes. So, that's why this business isn't saturated, but on the contrary, it's getting stronger and stronger growing more and more. Okay, we're on the screen now. What we're going to do Shopify, which is where we're going to create our store, and then we're going to register on Dropy, which is the logistics platform we're going to use to manage our orders and to find our suppliers, products. So, you'll go to my previous YouTube video, or you'll find some links in the description of this one too . The first one is from Shopify; you can open it and you'll also find the Dropy links for the country where you're going to sell. Let's say that in this case I'm going to do it for Ecuador. Then, you click on that link and with that link you will be able to belong directly to our Magnates yom community so that you are not charged the 5% commission that Drop yyy charges and so that they let you ship wallet, otherwise you will have to recharge it. Then, register using this link so you can become part of our community. So basically, you're going to fill in your details, you're going to put your name, your last name, you're going to put your cell phone number, it doesn't matter if you're in another country. For Ecuador, I can put my Colombian cell phone number, no problem. You will also enter the email address you will use to then select "dropshipper," click "I accept," and click " create account." You will receive a verification code in your email, open it, enter the code and that's it, you will be registered on Dropy. Now we're going to Shopify. The link you'll find here will take you to Shopify. When you open it, you'll click "start for free." And if you're already logged in with your email, with your Gmail, then it will appear here. If not, you'll see a prompt to add an account, and you select Gmail here. Ideally, you should add your email address here , meaning you should already have it n't have to register with other information, but simply log in with your email. Then, you select Gmail, your email will appear here, then it will ask you for your card details. Uh, for now you don't need to put them on, they're going to give you 3 free days and then they're going to give you uh 3 months for just one dollar. So, I had already added my card earlier, going to skip it so you can see that I don't need to enter my card initially. In this case you're going to select, well, that you're going to have an online store. These questions will not affect you later on whether you answer them a certain way or not. Just answer anything here and that's it. So, new business or idea, products that I buy or manufacture myself. And here you're going to put the name of your store, which in this case, well, I'm going to call it test store. Okay, I'm going to click finish and that's it. We 're already on Shopify here. Remember that with GPT chat, using artificial intelligence; it takes a minute and you'll already have a store that's practically ready to start selling. That's all we need. So, you already have your store. All you'd need to do is create the logo and name, and maybe configure a few simple policies, and that's it. But we'll do that in the next video, and we'll do it with artificial intelligence. Also, in to show you how to create product pages in less than 30 minutes using artificial intelligence. So subscribe to the channel so you don't miss those upcoming Dropy, they've already opened our account and just like that we practically have Dropy account, which is where we're going to manage the orders that come in and suppliers. Up here, make sure it says "magnates" and "with" so that it lets you ship your orders without any problems. Now you're going to go to the products section, the catalog, and here you'll find a lot of products that you can sell at very good prices, products with a very good perceived value that you can sell. For example, this cold gun that costs $18, you could be selling it for approximately $35 if you know how to do it right. Or for example, look at this cap with a speaker, that is, a cap with lot of products like this. In fact, there are hundreds of thousands of products you'll be able to sell here, and that brings us to step number two, which is learning how to find winning products. But anyway, winning products, I want us to be clear about something and that is that the product is not the winner. What makes you a winner is your sales skills, because in the end there are brands that sell stones, I look for it on Amazon and sell it well. So, in the end, what makes the products successful is you, with your sales skills. But then if I were starting out I would say, well, that 's the hardest part because I don't starting out, how am I going to make money without even knowing how to sell those products? Well, look, you don't need to have any skills. If you start from scratch, you can start earning money right away . And I'm going to tell you what the two strategies are that I have used. The first one I've called, well, first of all, in both we're basically going to leverage something that's already working well and we're going to adapt it, improve it or well, do something to it, but we 're already leveraging that which is already working well. So, the call it the conquest, and it's basically about bringing something that's already working well in a more advanced market to our market or a less advanced market. It's called the conquest because that's what they did to us in Latin American countries many years ago. And well, the second strategy, that's the first one, now the second one is very similar, only we're going to do it in our own market. In other words, if you're selling in Colombia, all you're going to do is change platforms. In other words, if there's a product that's already performing well through Meta Ads, right?, through Facebook Ads, you're going to take it from that platform and sell it through TikTok Ads. On this channel I teach you everything about TikTok Ads. In my one-on-one coaching, I also teach everything, everything, everything about TikTok Ads, contingency plans, well, everything you need to know to master this black products, everything, everything, everything. So we're going to use this platform that very few people are it has very little competition, and we're going to sell those products that are already selling well through Metaads and we're going to sell them through TikTok Ads. I call this strategy the mirror; we're simply going to replicate something but on another platform. Ready? So, for both strategies we're going to use a crucial tool, which is the ad library. So, let's go to a new tab. We're going to write the ad library here. Here we're going to scroll down a bit and select this first option. This will send us to the announcements library. This is a place where almost 99% of the ads that are currently active worldwide are gathered. This is where everyone meets. Then, you will learn to study the advertisements of your competitors or of more advanced markets. to find out what's working for them and then use it to your advantage. So, let's go, for example, here we're going to go down and select In this case, if I am going to sell, for example, in Colombia, I am going to select such as Mexico. You could even select the United States. Well, in this case I'm going to do it, for example, with Mexico. And then here in the ad category I'm going to put all the ads. Next, here in keywords we're going to use product sales keywords . This will show us ads that contain that keyword, such as very basic words like free shipping, which are used by almost all advertisers. So if you put " free shipping", it will show you all the ads that have that word. As you can see, in Mexico there are approximately 33,000 ads that include the words " free shipping". And also, if you free shipping". And also, if you put it in the filters where it says "until" and set it to one week before, that is, it will show you ads until February 3rd, or from February 3rd downwards. So let's look at the ads that have been running for more than a week. That means they're giving money to the stores or companies that have them turned on, because if they weren't turned them off by now. If they've been active for more than a week, it's because they're being given money. So let's select a week and apply both filters. And besides that, here in filters I forgot to mention, sorry, here where it says sort by you're going to select most recent. This is a recent update to the ad library, but hey, just mark it as more recent and you're good to go. It's always good to search for it this way with the most recent ones, and here you'll start seeing product ads, and the idea is that for every ad you tired of not seeing results. For example, this product, this is a product, look, functional kit 2026. Basically what you would have to do is look at the ads that are working and then search for the product on Dropy. not going to look for this product because it's unlikely to be on Dropy, but for example, this product, let's go to the page and, for example, look at this, colic pillow. Then you go to Dropy and here in the search bar you type, for example, colic. Colic. If you put in cramps, you may get fewer results. Just say "cold" and that's it. For example, look, here's one. We can filter by lowest price to see the cheapest suppliers. For example, look, here's another one. This one is almost sold out. So, the supplier's price pay for the product. I do n't recommend using this suggested price as a reference for anything because it's completely irrelevant. That's a to upload it to the platform. I don't recommend you use it. Ready? You'll always use this price. So, for example, this product here doesn't cost $5, this one doesn't cost $10.50, and well, as you can see, the product is available. So, you're going to look for the exact same product. In this case it could be this one, look, it could be this one too. And here we already have a product that we can start selling because this product is working. Look, it has two active ads since February 3rd a week ago and it's working in a more advanced market, which means that if we launch it in our market, which is less advanced, it's very likely to work. why it didn't work, but it's very , very likely that it will work. So, up to this point, we have our Shopify store practically ready. We have our platform where we're going to manage our orders, we have our product found that we're going to sell, and now what we need to do is create a sales page for this product and then advertise that sales page throughout the country, and up to that point, if you do things right, that's when all the orders start coming in. Now I want to clarify something, and that is that dropshipping is the best way to start. It doesn't mean you're going to dropshipping, selling these types of products. This allows you to develop skills so you can then start doing much bigger things. But you need to start with something small. You can't start with the big ones all at once. On my Instagram, I get messages from people who say, "Yoel, I want to start, but directly with a brand." So I capital do you have for a brand?" No, it's just that I'm unemployed. Hey, do you know how much capital you need for a brand? For example, what I recommend if you want to have your own brand is that you're earning at least $3,000 to earning at least $3,000 to $5,000 a month with your business and that it doesn't all your time, you won't be able to dedicate time to the brand, and the same goes for any other business. So it's like babies, babies start by crawling, they don't start walking right away. It 's the same here. You have to start with something small so that you can then start to grow. And that's the route, that's always the way. The mistake is that people want to start with something big from the beginning, and that's where they mess up. And the last recommendation I want to make regarding product search is that you don't do exactly you do the same thing, you're giving the market something it already has, so you won't be able to sell much, that is, you won't be able to grow in the end. For are bringing products from a more advanced place to a mirroring, you're changing the platform, but you're never doing the same thing as your competition in the same place. It's like saying that someone is selling well in Ecuador through Facebook, and all you're that are performing well on Facebook in Ecuador and launch them. If you do that, you'll most likely sell almost nothing or nothing at all, and you won't grow that way. So, you have to differentiate yourself competition. So, you already have your Shopify account ready, your Now, all we need to do is calculate the price of that product, create the sales page, which I wo n't go into much detail about bit long, but I'll leave you my complete course, or rather, I have two complete free courses where you can go into much more detail. I'll show you this step by step. So, look at them too. And also, the next video I'm going to be uploading is about how to make sales pages for these products. video I'm going to leave you the link to access the price calculator so you can calculate the price of the product you're going to sell. In addition, in the complete courses I offer, I teach how to use this price calculator. Then, perfect. Now that we have created the sales page for that product, the only thing left to do is advertise it and start receiving sales if we have done everything correctly. So, we're going to advertise for now, which is TikTok Ads. I'll show you this way. Perfect. To get to this point, you must have already registered and have your TikTok account ready with all your data, and you will go to the campaigns section. I'm not going to explain the whole process from scratch because I have several videos on my channel ; in fact, I also teach how to do it in my complete course. So, you're just going to campaigns section and click on create. Once this loads, you will select a sales campaign. If you see a different configuration than what I 'm seeing here on this screen, simply look for a button that says how to return to manual configuration or how to return to the previous version, something like that , so that it allows you to get to this part. Once you're here, you're going to select sales campaign, then you're going to select manual campaign here. I don't recommend you use this for now. At least I don't use them, and I only recommend things that I do myself. So, this hasn't worked well for me either, which is why I don't recommend you do it for now. So, you're going to select manual campaign, then you're going to scroll down, deactivate it, and down here you're going to put the name of your campaign. So, for example, here I'm going to put "test" and I'm going to put, I don't know, the name of the product, today's date. So, try February 10th and from then on you wo n't touch anything else at all . Then you're going to click on continue. Now it's going to send us to the ad set level . So, the campaigns are divided into campaigns, then down here are the ad sets, and then down here are the ads. So, we're already at the ad set level . We're going to give it a name here too. So, the same. Then below you will select your store's pixel, which you should have already Well, I teach all this step by step in my free courses, but it So, here where it says data connection, you're simply going to select your pixel, your store's pixel. Then down here , in the optimization event, you're going to select the one that says purchase. It has to say purchase or at least there has to be another one that says order placed. This one would work too. This one that says "payment initiated" will send a lot of people to your page, but they won't tend to initiate the payment process, right? Those who tend to buy are not buyers. If it doesn't appear the same way to you as it does to me, then all you have to do is go into your store and make some test purchases. So you go here in Shopify, you go to products, you have to create a product, well, you will already have your product created if you are already at this point. Then you go into your product, then you go here. Well, there must be an option around here. Up here you should see the option to view it in the online store, something like that. Then, you enter it into your online store, but as if you were a customer, and you place about three or four test orders. Since you pay upon delivery, you won't have to pay to place your orders. So, you simply fill in your details, click on the form, submit, and that's it. You'll have your test orders here in the orders section, and with that, the purchase event should appear in about 20 or 30 minutes . Okay, that's it. When it appears, select it, scroll down here to this. Ready? We deactivated all of this. Deactivate. Deactivate. And here in the pencil you're going to select location and deactivate these other two things. Okay, you can leave user comments enabled and scroll down a bit, and here in the segmentation you'll simply select the country where you're going to sell. In this case, uh, I'm going to select, for example, Ecuador. Okay , so I've already selected Ecuador here. Okay, now you're going to select the ages. I recommend you leave it open like that, just as it is. Below, you're just going to leave it like this, still, still. Nothing. And here in campaign budget, I recommend that if you are in Colombia you use recommend that if you are in Colombia you use between 50,000 and 60,000 pesos or if you are in another country in dollars, it would be more or less 12, between 12 and $1. Ready? That would be the maximum and it should be at the ad set level . Look, we're here at a group level, not a campaign level, because if you put it at a campaign level, I mean, here it budget at a campaign level, but it will if you set it to a group level, it will allow you to place from 20,000 pesos, if I'm not mistaken. I think so , the minimum, I think it's like 25,000 , the minimum, I think it's like 25,000 pesos. Let's see. Yes, the minimum is 20,000 pesos. So, I recommend 50,000 or 60,000 euros and in an initial phase. Then here you'll select the date, we're going to launch it for tomorrow, I'm going to confirm and you'll also select the day . In this case it would be 11 and I recommend that you do it at 00 or 3 in the morning, between 00 and 3 in the morning. Ready? That would confirm. Confirm. Then you're going to lower the optimization event or optimization goal, which would be conversion, that is, exactly like that. And you simply press continue. Now we're at the level of... announcements. So, from this section you'll simply add each of the ads you have ready. As I told you, we'll cover all of this in the next video or in the full course. I'll show you all this. In fact, we actually went and sold the product we launched . We sold approximately 350 units of that product . In that video, I think we managed to sell about 50 or 100, if I 'm not mistaken. Well, I don't remember, but it's all there . So, here you're going to put the name of the ad. In this case I would put C1 and here you will add the videos. So, for example, I had some videos already uploaded here of the product I was selling. So, let's select one of the ads we have. So, it would be, for example, this. We'll confirm. . Let's close this. I'll explain why this happens in a moment. Here in identity you will select the identity you just created. If you do will simply ask you to create one there, or you can even use your personal TikTok account. Then you're going to mark this here in the text. I recommend using a non- salesy text, like "buy 2 for one" or something like that, right? But something organic, like for example this product helped me for example this product helped me combat shoulder pain, for example, things like that, organic things. And then you're going to leave this alone and here where it says URL, here you're going to put the link to the page you just created. So, you simply go to the page you created, copy the link, which would be the link up here, the one up here , copy it and come back here and paste it and that's it. Then you can click here on preview to make sure the page is working correctly, that is, that it is sending to the correct link. And because I'm not going to release anything. And once you have this ready, you'll just leave it alone and then simply publish everything and that's it. So. Okay, if you have more ads you can click here to duplicate them. Let's see, for example, I would duplicate it twice. For example, if you have two other ads, then the 50,000 or 60,000 pesos or 12, 15 that you added here to the ad set will be divided among all these ads. So, TikTok will automatically determine invest the most budget in . So, here we duplicate the do is go into each of the ads and change the video and change the name of the ad and that's it, that would be all. So, here would be C2 and here we would click update, update and select another one of the videos we have. So, for example, I could select this one, confirm it, and check the link to my normal page should appear, and that's it. And I would do the same with the other one, which would be the C3. Then I would change the video and that's it. your campaign would start running tomorrow at midnight. Now, why is it showing up like this? Okay, I'm going to make more videos later on about how to fix all says, "The advertisement displays prohibited claims or content related to health and pharmaceutical products and services. It may be referring to a health product." So, all those words related to health, TikTok kind of rejects them in a way, that's why it issues these warnings. Then the video would have to be modified by removing those words from both the video text and the audio. And also if suddenly a shot is shown where the person's shoulder is in close-up, that can also affect it, or where a lot of skin is visible; those things also affect it. So if that happens to you, just make those changes and you're good to go. Now you would click publish. And well, up to this point you have your store ready, you have your Dropy account, you have your chosen product, you made the sales page, you launched the advertising and this is where those sales start to come in. And that's the best part because you never forget your first sale, and that real and that it can change your life. But there is something very important, and that is that up to this point those sales that you are getting are fictitious sales or fake sales because those orders have not actually been delivered yet. You have to make them surrender. So now you're going to start confirming all those orders with the customers and follow up until those orders are delivered. Obviously, you can automate all of this, and there are platforms dedicated to automating this, such as Yatea Pro, which currently uses artificial intelligence, but in an initial phase you can do it yourself using WhatsApp. You simply contact the client, take their cell phone number and send them a message, which would be the first message where you will confirm their information. Once the customer confirms their details and you complete, then you will ship it. Once you confirm pending status. Then, at that moment, the supplier will generate the shipping label, and when the supplier generates the label, you will send that tracking number to your customer so they know the order has been shipped. Then, when the order is delivered, order will arrive in your Dropy account that same day at midnight, and you can withdraw it to the bank of your available. And finally, you may still have this question: can you really make a living from dropshipping in Latin America? I to give you an example, in Latin America the average salary is $500. So dividing those $500 by 30 days gives us that we would have to earn $16.66 per day. If we have five sales and we earn $4 on each sale, which isn't really complicated to do, then at the end of the day we would earn $20. 4 * 5 = 20. And if we multiply 20 by 30 days, that is, those $20 times 30 days, then at the end of the month it would be $600, which would be more than an average salary in Latin America. Now, with $500 in Latin America you can live well. In fact, my mother, and I'm not going to stop saying it, raised my sister and me with $500, less than my sister and me with $500, less than $500. There are families in Latin America who live on a minimum wage that is currently around $400, and these are entire families with children, husband, and wife. And well, when I started in this business I only needed to earn $250. So, well, that's fine, but if you need to earn more, well, what do you think? You need to sell not five sales, but 10 sales a day or deliver 10 sales a day. In the end it would be $1,200, which is more than the salary of a newly graduated doctor in Colombia. A newly graduated doctor right now I think is earning between $1,000 and, well, around $1,200 or so. Well, I'm not entirely sure of the figure for 2026, but it's around there. Well , now you know you can make a living from you have a step-by-step guide, all you need to do is start taking action. So stop watching these videos and start moving, start taking massive action, because that's the only thing that will separate you results. Because look, what is true is that most people know what we have to do. The only thing is that some of us do it and others don't because they are simply not disciplined. They lack faith, or well, many things hold them back, but you are not one of those people. And if you've already watched this video, you're going to start taking action and you're going to get results no matter what . And remember, when in doubt, always prioritize action. And that's it, in the next videos I'll be uploading, as I already mentioned, a video on how to artificial intelligence. I'm also going to upload the other video, which is a challenge to take a store from zero to $10,000 in revenue in less than a week. , but we'll see what happens. Subscribe to the channel so you do n't miss them. And as you can see, I also changed the setup. Hey, tell me . Tell me what you want us to talk about in the next videos. And finally, just remember, talk less, but do more. and give it our all.