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title: 'I Tried AI Dropshipping For a Week (RAW RESULTS)'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=rhuYy9LP72M'
video_id: 'rhuYy9LP72M'
date: 2026-06-29
duration_sec: 1708
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# I Tried AI Dropshipping For a Week (RAW RESULTS)

> Source: [I Tried AI Dropshipping For a Week (RAW RESULTS)](https://youtube.com/watch?v=rhuYy9LP72M)

## Summary

An experienced entrepreneur challenges himself to start an AI-powered dropshipping store from scratch in just seven days with a $250 budget. The goal is to make $1,000 in profit, and every business decision is made by AI. The video documents each step, from niche selection to ad creation, and reveals the final financial results.

### Key Points

- **Challenge Rules** [00:18] — The challenge is to make $1,000 in profit within 7 days using only AI for business decisions, a $250 budget, and full transparency. If he fails, he gives $1,000 to a viewer.
- **Finding a Profitable Niche** [01:27] — Uses the 'dummy scroll method' on Instagram to identify trending products and feeds the list into ChatGPT, which selects 'pets' as the niche.
- **Building the Store with AI** [02:48] — Uses 'Build Your Store' AI tool to set up a Shopify store, including banners and automated product sourcing, for free.
- **Finding Winning Products** [07:51] — Registers for 'Auto DS' to automatically find winning products, set prices, and handle fulfillment. The Starter 500 plan costs $0.99 for the first three days.
- **Optimizing Product Titles with AI** [11:34] — Uses AI to rewrite product titles and descriptions, then uses the bulk edit feature to apply changes to all products at once.
- **Building the Brand with AI** [14:09] — Secures the .store domain 'thrivingpaws.store' and creates a logo using ChatGPT and Nanobanana AI.
- **Reviewing Sample Products** [18:15] — Orders sample products to test quality. The dog paw cleaner was high quality, while an interactive ball was cheap and defective.
- **Creating AI Advertisements** [21:37] — Uses AI tool 'CreateUGC' to generate ad videos with AI avatars holding the products, then runs Meta ads with a $20 daily budget.
- **Final Results and Profit Calculation** [26:10] — After 7 days, total revenue was $402.41. After costs (products, ads, Shopify), profit was $81.56. The challenge was failed, but the store showed potential for consistent monthly profit with more optimization.

## Transcript

People are using AI to
make thousands of dollars
in passive income by drop
shipping products online.
- Made millions of dollars
with drop shipping.
- Drop shipping stores
to $100,000 in a week
- [Influencer] 1.6, almost
$1.7 million in sales.
- How you can make $3,000 online right-
- But is this as easy as it seems?
Well, as a businessman
who made his millions
the traditional way, I'm
giving myself seven days
to find out if this new
strategy actually works.
Oh, blimey, there it goes.
Don't think we can be selling that.
I'll be using AI to find
a niche, design the brand,
build the store, find the
products, and create the ads.
And if I don't make $1,000
within that timeframe,
then I'm giving someone in the comments
$1,000 of my own money.
But there are three rules
that I have to follow.
Rule number one is that AI
has to make every business decision.
Rule number two is I'm
limited to a $250 budget,
and most of that has
to go towards the ads.
Which means every tool
I use has to be free
or as close to free as I can get it.
And rule number three, I
must show you everything,
step by step, including the raw results.
Okay, start the countdown.
(clock ticking)
The biggest mistake people make
when trying to make money online
is not focusing on a specific area.
Even Amazon started
off just selling books.
That's why the first
thing on our checklist
is to find a profitable niche.
I'm gonna use the dummy
scroll method to do this.
This is when you scroll
through Instagram reels
on a fresh account and engage
with every drop shipping ad you see.
After this, we should have
a solid list of products
that people are actually
spending money on right now.
And from that finding a niche
will hopefully become pretty easy.
(upbeat music)
Check this product out.
It's a dog paw cleaner.
It's a pretty good idea and
it's got a ton of engagement.
(upbeat music)
(clock ticking)
Right, so I've been scrolling
for about an hour or so now,
and I've got this huge list.
As we're under a time crunch,
I'm gonna feed this big list into ChatGPT
and ask it to pick a niche.
Okay, so that's a pretty
clear answer. Pets it is.
So let's tick that one off the list.
Next up, we need to
let AI build our store.
Believe it or not, a couple of years ago,
building a professional Shopify store
would've cost thousands and
take days of trial and error.
But now it's easier and
cheaper than ever with AI.
So let's head over to an AI
tool called Build Your Store.
I've used this before and
it's the only tool I found
that's able to build a Shopify store
that lets us sell other people's products
without needing our own inventory
or doing any of the hard work ourselves.
The idea is when your
store receives an order,
the product is shipped
directly to your customer,
which allows us to make a profit
without any more work on our end.
If you wanna follow along,
feel free to head down
to the description of this
video and click the top link.
I'm gonna be explaining
everything I'm doing step by step,
so it's very easy
for you to build your
own AI Shopify store too.
Okay, so first things first.
I'm gonna click this button here
that says "Build my free store."
And now it takes me to this page
where there asking for my full name,
which of course is Mark Tilbury.
Also, it needs an email address.
And to pick a password as well.
Right, so all that's done.
Now it wants me to select our niche.
Of course we're gonna pick pets.
If you're following along,
then don't feel like you
have to go with pets.
That's just what my research suggested
was performing well at the moment.
So let's press done.
Now we need to pick two store banners.
This is important as it
sets the vibe of the store.
Now here, the first image
looks a bit cheesy to me,
so let's skip that one.
The next one, now that's not too bad,
but there are a lot of pet items there,
and to be honest, my store
might not actually sell those,
so it's probably best not to use that one.
This next one is perfect.
Look, it's nice and clean and
it has both dogs and cats,
which expands our potential market
and also our product option.
These bottom ones just look way too busy
and not enough focus on the animals.
So that leaves this one
here. That's nice and cute.
So I definitely think
it's the right choice
for my second banner.
So now those have selected,
let's go and click done.
(clock ticking)
Now it is time to create
our Shopify account.
So all we've gotta do
is click access Shopify.
It's now given me an offer
to try Shopify for free
for three days, and then just
$1 a month for three months.
But just a heads up, they have been known
to change this offer quite regularly.
So if you're following
along and it's different,
then don't worry,
they can't offer something
like this forever.
Now it wants me to enter an email address,
so I'm gonna use the same one I used
for the Build Your Store tool,
just so everything is in one place
and can easily be linked up.
And then press Create Account.
Now it's asking me to put
our payment details in,
but for now, let's press skip
as we can come back to that later.
Okay, now it's asking where
would we like to sell,
but we don't need any of this
because we're getting AI
to build the store for us.
So we're just gonna click here
where it says, skip customize setup.
Right, let's keep this open,
but head back to the Build Your Store tab.
And as we've done the Shopify
step, we can click done.
Now it's asking to link the Shopify store
so that it can start
doing all the work for us.
So let's jump back to the Shopify tab
and copy this URL here
on the main admin page
and paste it into here and
click save and then done.
Okay, so now it's time to
get that Shopify discount.
So we're gonna click on Access Shopify,
and that will take us
directly to the plans
and subscription page.
Then I'll quickly add my payment details
and we're doing this so they're ready
for when the trial ends,
but don't worry right now
because it's completely
free and after the trial,
it's just one pound or $1 per month
for the first three months.
So now that's all filled out,
I'm gonna click subscribe.
And there we go. That's all set up.
So let's head back to Build
Your Store and click done.
Now we need to install this app.
It will allow us to automatically
send products to customers
without doing anything ourselves.
So we're gonna go ahead and
click where it says Install app.
It's now showing us the Shopify dashboard.
So let's click install
and it will install it directly
into our Shopify store.
Next, we need to pick the store type.
Now as I don't wanna
spend any of my budget,
I'm just gonna go with the free store
and click continue with basic store.
Then I'm gonna click
skip, and then no thanks,
I'll launch without the Pro Store.
This is just trying to upsell us,
but we don't need to
be spending any money.
Now we're gonna click here where
it says, customize my store
and the AI will get to work
building the store for us.
So we can tick that one
off the list for sure,
and we'll check the results
later to see what it's created.
But for now, let's keep
things moving forward
and jump to the next step.
(clock ticking)
Right, the next thing
on my list is to use AI
to find some winning
products for our store.
I feel like a lot of
people don't understand
how important this step is.
The right products are the
difference between a store
that prints money and
one that gets ignored.
To make this as easy and
efficient as possible,
we're gonna register for Auto Ds.
So let's head back to Build Your Store
and hit install Auto DS.
This AI tool does a heavy lifting for us
by selecting products
that are proven to sell.
It also takes care of pricing,
uploading professional photos,
and once we start making sales,
it'll also ship the products
directly to our customers.
It's gonna ask us again to sign in.
Next, it wants to know
where we're selling,
which is obviously Shopify.
Now we need to pick a plan.
Every plan comes with the first three days
for just 99 cents, which gives
us a chance to actually test
before committing to anything.
The basic plan, to be honest,
is a bit too stripped
back for what we need.
And the advanced plan, well,
that's just overkill at this stage.
So the Starter 500 sits
right in that sweet spot
so that's what we're gonna go with.
Let's click start now for 99 cents
and choose our payment method.
I'm gonna go with PayPal
as it's quick and easy,
and there we go.
So far, the most we've spent
is 99 cents. Not bad going.
If we head over to the Auto DS dashboard
and click on products, then we get a list
of all the products
that have been automatically
added to our store.
We've got 10 here, including a cat tree,
a dog drinking bowl,
and even the dog pool cleaner
I saw on Instagram earlier.
As you can see, the prices
have already been set
automatically to give room for profit.
Some of them range in
price like this one here,
because the item comes
in various different sizes and colors.
Let's add some more winning products.
So let's click here on marketplace
and click Trending products.
This area uses AI to identify products
that are selling really well
for other drop shippers.
There are other ways to find
winning products in Auto DS,
like the handpicked product
section and the Ads Spy.
However, as we're using AI in this video,
I'm gonna stick with
the trending products.
We have all these filters
that let us narrow down our search,
but I'm not gonna use
any of these for now.
All I'm gonna do is
click on the pet's icon.
Here we can see all of the pet products
so we can start adding them to our store.
Personally, I don't wanna sell pet food,
so I'm gonna stay away from that.
I can imagine there
being a ton of problems
with drop shipping, these
types of perishable products.
This interactive toy looks fun.
So let's click on it
to get some more info.
So we can see how many of these were sold,
the profit, interaction rate, reviews,
and the sell price.
We can see the countries
it's being sold in the most just here.
And this one's been
selling very well in Spain.
Here's the sales chart.
Now, as we can see from August,
this product's been doing pretty well.
Actually, it's gone a bit viral.
There's even an example
of a social media ad
that someone has made using the product
to add this product to our store.
All we need to do is click import draft.
Now it's being moved to our drafts
where we can optimize it
further before adding it.
If you wanna save time,
you don't actually have
to go into the product page,
you can just hover over
one like this cat tunnel
and click Import Draft.
I'm gonna go ahead and add some
more products that look cool
and we'll pick up after
I've looked through
all of these pages.
(upbeat music)
(clock ticking)
Okay, now I've added a bunch.
Let's look through the drafts.
As you can see, these titles
don't look very appealing.
This one has New Year 2026 in the title,
which has absolutely nothing to do
with the product we're selling.
So before we add them to our store,
we need to optimize the
titles and the descriptions.
I mean, check out this description.
It's just copied and
pasted from the supplier
and doesn't look great at all,
but I don't wanna do this manually
as it'll take way too long.
So let's use the optimized
title with AI option.
We don't need to use the
enhance with AI button
as this will create a full product page
and Build Your Store has
already done this for us.
So let's just optimize
the title and description.
We can use the dropdown
menu to adjust the tone
and temperature.
I'm just gonna keep it
on a professional tone
and a balanced temperature.
As you can see,
it's removed that 2026
mentioned in the title,
and now it actually makes sense
and we've got a professional
description too.
We could optimize this further.
But as this video is all about using AI,
let's leave it there for now
and click save and import.
Now this will move from drafts
to products. There we go.
It's been imported,
and as you can see, it's now
at the top of my products.
If I wanna check this out on my store,
all I have to do is
click here on the Sell ID
and it will open up my product page.
So you can see we have the
optimized title, clean Images,
bundled pricing, shipping time estimates,
and the reviews are
specific to the product.
So it only takes a couple of minutes
to find a product with AI,
optimize the title and description,
and add it right to the store.
So let's tick winning
products off our list.
Now I know I've got all
these drafts to go through,
but to save time, let's
use the bulk edit feature.
So I'm gonna click here
to select all 15 drafts
and click here where it
says Bulk AI rewrite.
We're gonna go ahead with
title and description again,
and now it's doing it
for all those products,
rather than having to do it one by one.
While it's doing all of this.
Let's move on to the
next item on our list,
using AI to build the brand.
(clock ticking)
Customers decide whether to trust a store
in about three seconds,
and right now, ours
isn't passing the test.
That's why we need to use
AI to build the brand.
So I'm gonna head back to Build
Your Store and click Done.
We don't need to do this part right now,
so we're gonna just skip it
by clicking on generate my first video.
Then just go back to Build Your Store.
I'll keep that tab open,
as we'll be making video
content a bit later on.
Now it's given us the option
to secure a free .store domain name.
This is just like a.com name,
but it's specifically
made for online stores.
This is something we
definitely want to get
as websites on .store
domains get more clicks,
which of course means more sales.
When you think about it, this makes sense
because when someone sees a .store domain,
they know right away they're
visiting an online store.
I guess that's why some
of the biggest brands
and celebrities like
MrBeast, Speed, Lando Norris,
and Emirates Airlines
are using .store domains.
So let's go ahead and secure, I dunno,
maybe HappyPaws.store.
Oh no, this one is already taken.
It shows how popular these
names are with online stores.
No worries, let's go over to ChatGPT
and get some other ideas.
I'm just gonna ask it to
generate .store domain names
for my new Shopify
store in the pets niche.
I wanted something along the
lines of happypaws.store,
but the name is already taken.
Okay, let's see what's coming up.
There you go. So we've
actually got a lot of options.
Ah, I like this one, pawthrive.store.
But how about we try
thrivingpaws.store instead,
as I think that has a better ring to it.
I know AI is meant to
make all the decisions,
but I think you can let me off this one
as it's sort of AI inspired.
Yep, that's perfect and it's available.
Okay, so now the domain is registered.
We just need to connect it to our store
by clicking this button.
Then we're gonna click
on connect existing,
then put in thrivingpaws.store
and click next.
And there we go, but we're
still missing a logo.
So let's go back to ChatGPT and type in,
"I picked Thriving Paws,
give me an idea for a logo.
Give it to me in a detailed prompt form
so I can use Nanobanana."
You can use ChatGPT for
the actual image creation,
but from my experience, Nanobanana
is the best when it comes
to image generation.
So let's head over to nano
banana and paste in our prompt
and submit.
Okay, so this is what it came up with,
and, to be honest, I quite like it.
Let's download it and then
upload it to the website.
All right, so we have our logo uploaded.
Let's go ahead and click on done.
And there we have our Thriving Paws logo.
Let's just make it a little bit
bigger. I think that's okay.
That looks pretty good.
It also goes well with our banner
and the overall look of the store.
So with that,
we can tick off brand
creation from our checklist.
The AI has also finished rewriting
all the new product
titles and descriptions.
So let's bulk add all
of them to the store.
Then we can go back to Build
Your Store and click done.
Let's remove the store password quickly
before checking it out.
Toggle this off and save the changes.
(clock ticking)
Now we can go ahead and view the store.
Wow, this looks pretty cool.
I like the moving banner at the top
because free shipping on orders over $50
should encourage people
to make larger purchases.
The banner also looks very clean
and there are plenty of Shop
Now call to action buttons,
which will take you straight
to the product pages.
Let's click into the catalog page
to have a look at all
the different products.
There are certainly plenty to choose from,
and they all have pretty good photos.
The AI seems to have
done a pretty good job
optimizing the titles for all of these.
I'll check out the individual
product pages later on,
but based on what I've seen so far,
they should be very good.
So that's all checked off.
I'll tell you what, let's
order a few of these products
so we can test them out in person.
So I'm gonna head back to Auto DS
and create some sample orders.
I think it's worth the cost
as I wanna make sure the products reflect
what I'm promising on the website.
I'll check back with you in
a few days when they arrive.
(clock ticking)
Right, so it's been about three days
and the products have finally arrived,
so let's check them out.
Okay, so first up, we've
got this interactive ball.
Sort of a, it's a dog toy.
Well, suppose it could be for a cat too.
Let's have a look at it.
Right, so we've got some instructions.
They don't really tell you a lot.
The charge lead, bit
of string, and a ball.
To be honest, the color looks quite good.
It does actually pop, but
it does feel a bit cheap.
So apparently string goes through here.
Oh, there we go. Something's happening.
There's a light on the bottom there.
It does look a bit cheap, doesn't it?
I don't really know what
that is supposed to,
oh, blimey, there it goes.
Don't think we can be selling that.
That's not really for me, and
it hasn't even stopped yet.
So next is our dog paw cleaner.
Now, I've got a high hopes for this one
because this was one
of the products I found
when I was scrolling on Instagram,
so let's have a little look.
Well, that looks pretty good straightaway.
Certainly feels better
quality, so that's cool.
Got good instructions by looks of it.
Yep, with diagrams, and that's quite good.
A little bit in there,
if your dog doesn't like it to start with,
it shows you how to
get your dog to use it.
So that's pretty good.
Now, I think this could be
our main product to focus on,
or hero product, if you will.
Let's see how it works.
Charger is just on there, all very simple.
Let's see if we can switch it on.
It's all got silicon in here.
Look, for scrub in your
paws or your pet paws.
And let's go for switch on.
There you go, as you can see, quite quiet.
That's pretty powerful
as well, to be fair.
Different speeds. Do you know what?
That is a very, very good product.
Finally, let's take a look
at the Air Tag dog collar.
Now, I think this is a really good idea
if you want to keep track of your dog.
So it comes with a screwdriver there.
So there you go, that's where
the Air Tag goes just on here,
and you just unscrew that
to put the Air Tag in there.
And once it's in there, it's
actually waterproof as well.
So you haven't gotta worry
if your dog goes in the sea
or in the local pond or something
like that, like they do.
It comes in various sizes.
Also, various colors as well.
But I do actually quite like that color.
It looks really good.
Easy to clip on and off, easy to adjust.
Looks good quality, doesn't it?
I'm really, really happy with that.
I think that's gonna sell really
well. So very, very happy.
(clock ticking)
So that's the products reviewed,
and now we need to create
the product advertisements.
This is such an important step
because if nobody knows about the store,
then we are not gonna make any sales.
It's as simple as that.
We've got three different options
when it comes to advertisements.
Option one is to make our own content
and post it on social media.
Now, lots of people do this
without showing their face.
The most important thing
is demonstrating the
product solving a problem.
This would be pretty easy for us
because we've got the products right here.
So it'd be a simple case
of seeing what's popping on social media
and replicating some viral videos.
However, this could take a couple of weeks
to understand what content works
and for those videos to
start gaining traction.
So it's not really a viable
option for this challenge.
Option two is to pay an
influencer to make some videos.
I did this last time, I did
a drop shipping challenge.
However, lots of people
in the comments said
that finding influencers wasn't very easy.
I was lucky enough to know a few lads
who made gym content
called the Grays Brothers,
but I understand that not
everyone has influencer friends,
so we won't go down that
route for this challenge.
The last option is to use paid ads.
Normally I'd only go down this route
once I've proved that the videos
can get organic views first,
and then from there I'd put
some ad spend behind them.
So if you don't wanna waste money on ads,
then I wouldn't recommend copying me.
I'm just short on time.
But luckily I've saved
most of my budget for this
so I can afford to lose some money
while I test which ads work.
But before we can start
running the meta ads,
we need some content.
Now, something that performs
really well on social media
is called UGC, otherwise known
as user generated content.
These are amateur videos
that look like they're filmed
by real customers, which
makes them perform well
as they just feel authentic.
As this video is all about using AI,
let's use a tool called
CreateUGC to get some AI avatars
to interact with our products.
So let's go to the tab I left open before
and click get your first video now.
Now I'm just gonna enter
my name and click next.
Let's go with the scale package.
Don't worry, we won't have
to pay for this right now
as we get a free trial to
make our first three videos.
So let's click start trial for free.
So now I'm onto the dashboard.
Let's head over to this new video button.
Now all I have to do is go to our store
and copy the link to the product
that I want to make the video for.
So let's start with the dog collar.
Now, if we scroll down,
it gives us three options,
a reaction video, the
product in the person's hand,
or the product in the person's hand,
but even better quality.
So let's go with the last
one and press continue.
Now, it just wants me to double check
the title and description.
This all looks good, as
we've already used AI
to rewrite this for us.
It's also manually
selected this image here,
which is probably the best one
so I'm gonna keep it as it is.
Now I have to pick an avatar.
Ideally, I want some that
looks like they have a pet
and will be scroll stopping.
So I think this woman will be best here.
Now, it's generated
three different scripts,
but none of them seem to have
understood the main purpose
of the collar, which is that
it's got an Air Tag holder.
They're overly focused on
it being water resistant.
So let me just adapt
this first script to say,
no more worrying where my dog is.
This collar has an Air Tag,
which means I can keep
track of him at all times.
Right, that should do the trick.
Let's have a look at what it generated.
- Worrying where my dog is,
this collar has an Air Tag in,
which means I can keep
track of him at all times.
Grab one for peace of mind now.
- That's not bad actually.
The collar doesn't look
100% like my product though,
so I'm gonna repeat this
process a couple more times
and get some videos that are spot on
and then set up the ads.
(upbeat music)
Okay, so after some trial and error,
I managed to get some
ads that I'm happy with.
I think this AI UGC tool is great
for quickly generating lots
of different ad variations
and seeing what works in terms of hooks
and overall ad direction.
Before tools like this existed,
you had to pay content creators
to make lots of different variations,
which can get very expensive.
So although the AI UGC
content isn't 100% there yet
in terms of quality,
it is a big help in the early
stages of growing the store.
Then you're able to allocate
money into content creation,
you know will work based on data
instead of just shooting in the dark.
I've gone ahead and set up two metro ads
with a $20 daily budget.
So let's take advertising off the list
and check back in a couple of days to see
if we've made any sales.
(timer beeping)
Okay, so it's the last
day of the challenge
and we made some sales.
It doesn't seem like the
dog collar was very popular,
as that didn't sell at all.
I actually ended up turning
that ad off completely
to save money because
it just wasn't working.
However, we did manage to sell
17 of these dog paw cleaners
and randomly one of
these pet magic brooms.
Interestingly, it was the same customer
who bought a paw cleaner,
which shows the store was good enough
that they came for one thing,
but decided to check out
the other products too.
That lands our total revenue
at $402 and 41 cents.
But of course not all of that was profit.
The paw cleaners cost me
$16 and 77 cents each,
and the broom was $18.92.
So $169 and 85 cents went towards
product cost and shipping.
I'm not counting this
towards my $250 budget,
as I didn't have to spend any
money until I made the sales.
So that money effectively
just came straight from the
customer, not my own pocket.
And then Auto DS shipped
all the orders for us,
so we didn't need to worry about anything.
Over the three days,
I also ended up spending
around $150 on meta ads,
and I also had to pay $1 for Shopify
after our free day free trial ran out.
So our total cost came
to $320 and 85 cents.
That leaves us with a
profit of $81 and 56 cents.
So clearly I failed the challenge.
However, I'm actually really surprised
at how much we achieved in just seven days
and how much this store has
made with minimal effort.
And AI pretty much did
everything for free.
Imagine if I actually
went back to the store
and spent some more time optimizing it
and let it run for a month or so.
I'm sure there are so
many things I could do
to increase sales.
I think given a bit more
time and a human touch,
this store could definitely
make $1,000 in profit
every month, however a deal's a deal.
So I'm giving away $1,000 of my own money
to someone in the comments.
Just let me know what store you'd start
if you were doing this challenge,
and I'll split the money between
three of the best comments.
If you wanna see more ideas
for making passive income,
I've got another video right up there,
but don't click on it just yet.
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you want to grow your wealth.
Okay, I'll see you over there.