[00:01] in 2023 with a friend of mine who handled five other dropshipping stores. The collective revenue of those five stores was Rs 1.5 crore per month. He had experience running ads and I had experience in content and copywriting. [00:18] you want to get started, there's a lot of information freely available on YouTube. People have also uploaded entire courses. One of my favorite videos if you want to start dropshipping is Jordan Brown's 18-hour free course. The ease of [00:32] starting is 10 by 10. The second criteria is starting capital. This Is Where It Gets Tricky. The truth is that today dropshipping has become so popular that millions of people like you and me pay Facebook to run ads. And [00:45] because of that the cost of the ad has become very high. For every 1000 views you have to pay a lot more than before. No matter how good the product is, you have to pay a lot of money to Facebook. For example, last year when we started, the cost was [00:58] year when we started, the cost was around ₹150 for ₹1000 impressions. Due to this our product could not become profitable and we incurred a loss of ₹2000.