Beginner's Guide to Dropshipping (2026)

[00:02] dropshipping and most importantly, I have helped thousands of people to also start their own successful and profitable e-commerce business . Today I'm going to summarize my almost 3 years of experience so that you can

[00:16] start dropshipping in 2025 and begin building your store today and begin building your store today . It all starts with the product's foundation. We need to find a winning product. Research methods

[00:29] for finding products are constantly changing, but if you understand three key principles of a winning product, you'll be able to identify them much more easily and differentiate them from a much more basic product that doesn't sell as well.

[00:42] The difference between beginners and experts is that experts recognize these key aspects. Trending products. You need to start identifying products that are selling according to the season and the

[00:57] trend. Being early on in a trend allows you to take advantage of it before the market starts to become saturated. The key is not to be first, but to enter at the right time. And having competitors is n't a bad thing, because you can analyze them and

[01:09] see what's working for them, what you can replicate and improve, or do what you can replicate and improve, or do differently. Two, solve a problem. Focus on quality products that truly improve

[01:22] do in their daily lives. Avoid products that don't really add anything and focus on those that genuinely provide value, such as improving physical appearance, improving health, or improving safety. One of

[01:37] the most successful products I sold was an insole that helped with flat feet or plantar fasciitis, and arch pain for people who spent a lot of time standing at work or after long days of

[01:52] walking. It was a good quality product that really helped with all these problems, and it was in the health niche, which is a very strong niche. Which is the best niche? Really, choose the one you like best, the one you're passionate

[02:06] about, but really good niches for me could be health, beauty, safety, physical appearance, or child safety . The third characteristic is that it is already being sold in other parts

[02:22] or other countries. Don't reinvent the wheel. What already works in the United States works here in Colombia. What works in Ecuador works in Canada. United States, as I told you, and vice versa. So, don't look for a

[02:37] unique product that has never been sold before, but instead check what the big brands are doing and how people in other countries are selling . And you replicate those products here, and those strategies or

[02:50] sales angles that they are using. And it's even better if you can base yourself on markets like Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom, which are quite a few years ahead of things much better, more professionally. So get ahead of

[03:04] all the competition in Latin America and review from the ground up what the most professional people are doing in this field. Finding a product that combines these three characteristics at the beginning, if you don't know anything, is not so easy. So I'll

[03:17] One of the best strategies this year is to identify products that are going viral on TikTok and sell them on Facebook. Adok is full and packed with videos every day, new trends, gossip,

[03:35] come out. For example, there was a time on TikTok when a bracelet called Vancliff became very fashionable; it was TikTok when a bracelet called Vancliff became very fashionable; it was super trend, as people talked about it a lot. Then they made

[03:49] one of my students started selling it on Facebook. In other words, he took the which wasn't even being sold before, and made hundreds of thousands of dollars he took advantage of the trend that was already on TikTok and sold it on Facebook.

[04:06] You can also try TikTok Ads, but a good thing is to bring TikTok products and videos to Facebook. How can you view and find those products directly on TikTok? Completely free. I recommend you create a new TikTok account

[04:19] where you only train the algorithm to show you videos of products, yes? Recommendations, trends, TikTok made me buy it, products. It will take you a few hours at first, but

[04:35] scroll carefully when a product video appears. Like, comment, save, interact, follow me until the end, repeat. And the TikTok algorithm is very smart, so you'll see more videos like that. So,

[04:47] log in you literally only see products and see that it works; usually United States or accounts from the United States. So, take even more advantage of that probably go viral on Facebook Ads. Another way

[05:01] I like to find free products is by checking major marketplaces like Amazon, MercadoLibre, and AliExpress. Check out all the marketplaces and see what's selling, what categories are

[05:15] trending, and what products are increasingly popular . On MercadoLibre you can filter by the top five of the week, on Amazon you can also look by comments. So, you pay close attention to everything that's sold on

[05:28] these marketplaces so that you can sell it through advertising, that people from Amazon and MercadoLibre don't actually pay for advertising, so they're not attention to all the marketplaces, the trending categories, and

[05:41] products; you need to be very aware of this so you can sell what you already sell there in a different way. Finally, I recommend a paid tool called Pip Ads. With it, you can find products that are

[05:54] selling very well on TikTok Shop in the United States and bring them here for TikTok or Facebook Ads. I guarantee they'll sell because they're much more organic videos. These products are literally scaling a lot on

[06:07] Colombia yet, but it's coming soon. So, Son is a platform that showcases very organic ads from brands that are scaling up a lot, and if Latin America, they're guaranteed to sell. In this tool you can filter by

[06:21] videos with more likes, more purchases, or longer running. Then it has very good filters that you can take advantage of. must meet the three

[06:35] different methods and platforms I showed you, the next step is to build the store. Honestly, the best thing to do is to create a single-product store so that it looks like a brand. Instead of just creating a store with one item and that's it,

[06:47] change the logo, the name, the colors so that it's like a branded product or a brand. So, I don't know if it's for example a So, I don't know if it's for example a massager, well, don't just put a massager

[07:00] there in store X, but create a name for it. I don't know, for example, if it's a suction massager, you could give it a name like, I don't know, relax cup and a alluding to that. Then create a single-product store that is

[07:15] For example, I found a store that's selling AI headphones and they're literally making like $10,000 a day in sales, and honestly, it was a very simple and clean setup. The name they used wasn't as specific

[07:30] as AI headphones, no, it was a bit more general, which allowed them to change the sell very well, because they could simply change the product and only keep that product and not be constantly changing the logo and

[07:44] the name. It was minimalist, the website was like black and white and one other color, it wasn't complicated at all. So, this was also beneficial. The best theme or template to use for your Shopify store is the Shrine theme,

[08:00] which makes your product pages and your entire store look very clean. They are short, the functions are really simple to use , but they are very good and really focus on the benefits and unique features of that product,

[08:14] percentages, also customer reviews, and they can make offers such as by quantity of bundles. So stop making a page with just continuous text and screenshots saturated with a lot of extra information, but instead make something clean

[08:28] and simple, but that really looks very professional, like a brand. So, long way, but make it very simple, more visual, instead of so much Ad launch. Now that we have our store, we need an

[08:43] effective advertising strategy. Honestly, I would personally start by trying TikTok Ads. Currently in Latin America there are still few people coming on Facebook, so they could focus on selling on TikTok. And if

[08:58] TikTok or if it's trending, they can also launch it on Facebook, as it's important to have two sources of traffic. A good advertising video is essential and the most important thing because it's how you communicate and how you reach the

[09:11] customer. Before, many years ago, getting content for ads and videos was complicated. You had to record most of them yourself. Now, TikTok and platforms like Pinterest also allow you to

[09:24] easily find resources for that product. You can search in another language if you can't find it in Spanish; you can search in English and you'll surely find resources that you can quickly edit in Capcod to make it more

[09:38] appealing with subtitles, short transitions, and that way you don't have to recommend is that if a product with internet content and product to record your own content, making it increasingly original

[09:52] and starting to build a brand. That strategy worked really well for me , especially with my latest, well, product brand that I launched; it's not my own product yet, but I branded it. So, I first got videos from the internet and

[10:04] then I ordered the product and with my own actors, whom we hired that day as well as more UGCs, we generated our own content, which is clearly the product and the people there, so it's like brainstorming everything beforehand and it's really

[10:19] something that is much more sustainable, real and scalable. By following this process of finding a trending product, building a store (ideally for a single product), and launching ads on Facebook and TikTok, you can start and

[10:32] perfectly scale a dropshipping business this year. Clearly, I've given you a start taking action now. Do you want something more personalized? You can apply through the first link in my bio for personalized advice, one-on-

[10:45] one mentoring with my entire team, and save yourself a lot of time, stress, and money by show you my whole strategy. So, you can start right away. The description of this video lists all the tools I use,

[11:00] valuable resources that you can also use. So, check it out and that's it, good luck. So, check it out and that's it, good luck. See you at the top.