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This video reviews Dropship.io, a dropshipping platform, and compares it to an alternative tool called Doba. The creator demonstrates Dropship.io's interface, criticizes its product search and store builder, and ultimately recommends Doba for its better product selection, AI tools, and US-based inventory. The video also touches on marketing strategies, particularly using Pinterest due to its demographics.
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The video starts by discussing the potential of dropshipping and AI in product discovery, then introduces Dropship.io as the main topic.
The creator states that Dropship.io's Shopify store builder is 'not good' and 'too basic', based on personal testing, and advises skipping this upsell.
The free trial requires entering credit card information, but users can cancel within 7 days to avoid charges.
Fitness, health and beauty, and tech are highlighted as profitable niches, while gardening and similar niches are considered outdated.
The product library is criticized for being disorganized, with poor filters, small images, and a lack of sorting, making product discovery time-consuming.
Doba is presented as a superior alternative, offering a 14-day trial for $1, with 90% of products stocked in US warehouses for faster shipping and better quality.
Doba's interface is praised for its visual appeal, price tags on products, and filters for TikTok, Amazon, and Shopify selections, plus an AI picker for data-driven product selection.
Doba's AI store builder provides a Shopify store, a standout theme, and 10 winning products, while the AI product finder offers 20 products to get started.
Doba costs $50 per month, which is steeper than Dropship.io, but the creator argues it offers more value.
Pinterest is recommended for marketing due to its demographics (70% women) and high traffic (1.2 billion visits per month), requiring only pins instead of videos.
The creator concludes that Dropship.io is no longer recommended, and instead suggests using Doba for its superior product selection, AI tools, and US-based inventory, while also leveraging Pinterest for marketing.
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What is the main criticism of Dropship.io's Shopify store builder?
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What is the main criticism of Dropship.io's Shopify store builder?
It is 'too basic' and the creator was not satisfied with its looks.
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Which niches are recommended for dropshipping?
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Which niches are recommended for dropshipping?
Fitness, health and beauty, and tech/gadgets.
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What is the cost of Doba's trial?
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What is the cost of Doba's trial?
$1 for 14 days.
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What percentage of Doba's products are stocked in US warehouses?
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What percentage of Doba's products are stocked in US warehouses?
90%.
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What does Doba's AI store builder provide?
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What does Doba's AI store builder provide?
An online store, a standout Shopify theme, and 10 winning products within your niche.
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What is the monthly cost of Doba?
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What is the monthly cost of Doba?
$50 per month.
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What percentage of Pinterest's global user base is female?
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What percentage of Pinterest's global user base is female?
Approximately 70%.
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How many monthly visits does Pinterest have?
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How many monthly visits does Pinterest have?
Almost 1.2 billion.
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๐ก Key Takeaways
Profitable Niches
Provides actionable guidance on which product categories are currently performing well.
01:55US-Based Inventory Advantage
Highlights a key differentiator for Doba that improves shipping times and product quality.
05:35AI Store Builder
Demonstrates how AI can streamline store setup and product selection for beginners.
07:23Pinterest Demographics
Offers a data-driven marketing strategy based on platform demographics.
09:03Full Transcript
[00:02] works. It is true that it can make you money. Nowadays, it's all about AI and it's all about the data and it's a good thing because we don't have to search for products anymore. At least we don't have to spend a lot of time on it. That
[00:15] is why we're going to go over Drop Ship.io today. That's probably the reason why you clicked on this video. And I have some good news and some bad news. Let's just jump into the platform so we can see what they offer. They
[00:29] offer you to build your store on Shopify, which is not good by the way. I've tested it. Well, I'm not satisfied with the looks of it. But some of the tools here, well, let's just go over them. So, whenever you go to the
[00:43] platform, you can just Google for it. I'm not affiliating with it or anything. Just Google for it. It is over at dropshipip.io. And then you have this free trial button here. But the thing with the free trial is that you'll
[00:57] probably have to enter your credit card info and I'll do it for you now with my new account. So, you don't have to. I'll just use my Google account. This is, of course, how it's going to look like. You click on start 7-day free trial, but
[01:10] you're going to have to pay for it. I mean, you will have to enter the credit card info, and if you don't like the tool within 7 days, you can just cancel your subscription, and that way you will save yourself some money. So, let me
[01:23] just show you now the inside of it. So, this is how it's going to look like once you log in and once you enter your credit card info. The next thing they want to upsell to you is this Shopify store for only $49. As I've told you,
[01:39] this is not a good store for me and I wouldn't take this option because it is too basic. I've got a separate tool that's going to do a lot better job and I'll show you that later on. But as you can see, there's a lot of these niches
[01:55] here. Fitness store, pet store, and for every one of these, they're going to charge you another $49. But when it comes to the niches, fitness is going to work well. Health and beauty products are going to work well, and tech is
[02:08] going to work well. Now, I'm not talking about the store creation on drop ship or Shopify. These are just the niches that work. Now, you can forget about gardening. You can forget about those kind of things. That's over. Now, tech
[02:22] and gadgets is maybe the best one. And health and beauty is always going to work out as well. So, I'm just going to skip this. And I suggest you skip this as well. You have this button here. Skip offer. Skip this offer, I'm sure. And
[02:35] then you just go to the dashboard here. Now, this is your dashboard. You don't need a quick tour. They will probably just ask you to connect your Shopify store. I'll just go with I don't have Shopify store. I don't need this. The
[02:48] reason why we're here is that we want to use drop ship in order for us to find the products for ourselves. Now, whenever you go over to the product library and you click on the overview here, you are going to get a lot of
[03:02] these products here. They think that these products are going to work well. But what I don't like about Drop Ship is that it is a mess here. All you have to do is to scroll down and search. You see, this is not even good. The website
[03:16] is not even good for me. It's not readable. And the filters are so bad here. Because if you go to these, let's just say these high revenue products,
[03:29] it's not like they're listed in any order. You've got this like sort by revenue and sales and price. But these filters, which you can find here, they're so bad. All right, they're so
[03:42] bad. And you have to scroll down. The pictures are too small as well and you have to scroll down and now just click on all of these products, view these products in order to see, well, this is not available in my region. But the
[03:55] point is, I thought we were done with this kind of search. You know, it just wastes a lot of time. If I'm I mean, I could do this myself. I could head over could do this myself. I could head over to Tik Tok or Amazon and find these
[04:09] products this way myself. I don't have to pay drop ship in order to get something like this. That's why I have another thing that I got to show you. But just give me one minute for the sponsor of today's video. Quick shout
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[05:35] you scroll down just a bit, you can see that this is US-based inventory. 90% of products are stocked in US warehouses. This is why I love it. My shipping times
[05:47] are great because of this. And the quality of products is also greater because they prevet the products. They have experts that select these products. And of course, there's a lot of AI tools that they have. So, let me just log in
[06:02] into my account here. This is what DOA looks like inside. You can see right away. I like that it looks already like kind of a shop, like kind of a website. I like these pictures. And on all of these pictures, you've got a price tag
[06:17] on it. And if you scroll down, there's more and more products within these categories. And it's really, really good. Now, on top here, you've got filters, which are Tik Tok shop selections. So, these are going to show
[06:31] you what kind of products perform best on Tik Tok. The same goes with Teu here. And the same goes here with Amazon selections and Shopify selections. Also,
[06:43] there are these top ranking products here. And you're going to get all of these. And you can integrate this into your shops with this button here. You can just add it to inventory list just like that. It's pretty pretty good. Now,
[06:58] there is also this AI picker, and I've told you it's all about data. Now, you don't even have to look at the product to know that it's going to perform well.
[07:11] You know, that's what we're looking for. And if you click on the smart shop here section and if you head over to my DOA, you're going to find a lot of other tools as well. If you head over to the AI tool hub, this is what Doba is all
[07:23] about. They've got store builder which is far better than drop ship ios. AI store builder here gives you one online store. It gives you a standout theme on
[07:35] Shopify and it gives you 10 winning products within your own niche right off the bat. This is great for beginners if you're just starting out. Getting these 10 winning products is already going to give you some profits. It's not going to
[07:51] be much. you know, you don't expect to be a millionaire in your first month or so. This is going to give you something to get some of that money back that you paid for Shopify or DOA or whatever other tool you're using. 10 winning
[08:06] products that are guaranteed to sell. I can't promise the amount. Even DOA doesn't promise that. But there are pre-vetted products which perform well already and they just use the data from other people and from Tik Tok and from
[08:21] you know Amazon and all the other platforms and you can integrate this with Etsy with Wix, Shopify. Doa is just great. They also have this which is AI product finder and AI product finder is going to give you like 20 of these
[08:35] products which are more than enough to get yourself started. Now, the pricing plan for Doba here, you can see that it is $50 per month. So, it's a bit steeper than Drop Ship, but you get plenty. You just have a lot more here. There are
[08:51] check out. You get some of this cash back during these holidays. Now, when it comes to the marketing, I use Pinterest nowadays because this is underestimated
[09:03] platform and the biggest reason for it is this Pinterest demographics. If you search for it, it'll show you that women make up approximately 70% of the global user base. This is going to give you
[09:17] ideas on what kind of niche you should look out for if you want to market yourself through Pinterest. And I love to use Pinterest because I only need to make pins or pictures. I don't have to create videos like on Tik Tok. And if
[09:33] create videos like on Tik Tok. And if I've got 70% of the user base looking for, let's just say, health and beauty products, well, that's what I got to use. Keep that in mind. Also, Pinterest has almost 1.2 billion visits per month.
[09:48] And, you know, it speaks for itself. But, of course, the old way of just looking over at Tik Tok and seeing what perform, it's still viable and it's still good. So, yeah, drop ship after all, not so good anymore. use DOA. I'm
[10:03] not affiliating with it, but it's what I use.