What is Dropshipping? The Runner Analogy
45sUses a relatable analogy to explain a complex concept, making it easy for beginners to understand.
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This video explains dropshipping in simple terms by comparing it to a personal shopper or 'runner' who buys items on behalf of customers for a fee. The speaker emphasizes that dropshippers don't own inventory and only purchase products after receiving payment. It also covers how to advertise online, find suppliers, and start a side hustle without needing a website.
Dropshipping is like being a personal shopper who buys from suppliers and charges a service fee, without owning stock.
A runner doesn't buy anything until the customer pays; the customer covers the product cost, the runner's fee, and other needs.
Advertise on online platforms like TikTok, Facebook groups, or WhatsApp, and be clear that you don't offer cash on delivery.
Start with smaller suppliers found on TikTok, read reviews, and gradually grow to bigger suppliers instead of waiting for the 'perfect' one.
You don't need a website to start; you can use social media and messaging apps, and you must be willing to step out of your comfort zone.
Dropshipping as a Personal Shopper
Provides a relatable analogy that simplifies the dropshipping model for beginners.
00:25Advertise Where Your Customers Are
Emphasizes the importance of online platforms and clear communication about delivery methods.
09:24Start with Small Suppliers
Encourages beginners to use TikTok to find suppliers and avoid waiting for the 'perfect' one.
12:04No Website Needed to Start
Highlights that a website isn't a barrier, making dropshipping accessible to more people.
13:15[00:00] This is another way that you can look at the joshiki. If all the other ways are confusing to you and you still do not understand exactly what or how joshiki works,
[00:13] I want you to look at it in this way. Take yourself as a joshika, take yourself as a personal shoka. So what does a personal shoka or errana do?
[00:25] Arana buys from the help of people and they charge a certain amount for their services. You can go on TikTok and just say Arana or Piersnow Shopper, just give them an idea as to how Arana works.
[00:43] They will know that they are in a good relationship. But Arana does not own stock, Arana does not own stock. So what they do is they go to see the culture, think we use in detail of whatever they want to sell or whatever they think customized one, and they look at the type. They add the type with the same amount of same amount of crowns that the shop has. And then they add to their service piece to that.
[01:14] If a runner goes to small street, they will see a dress selling for a hundred grand. They will take a picture or a video of the dress, they will have to pay the dress for the same hundred grand and they will charge their runnancy on the offer.
[01:29] Most of their runnancy is 200 grand. That means that the customer, if you want to buy the dress, you will pay a hundred grand for the dress, you will pay a hundred grand for the runnancy as well.
[01:43] But a Rana does not buy a dress until and unless you pay them. You need to pay for the dress for the Rana and for the user's needs.
[01:55] Where am I calling you to? Then, Joshiki, take yourself as a Rana. You are the middle person. Right? The difference is you, when you are dropshipping, you won't be running, going to town to look
[02:13] for shops, taking videos and pictures from the actual shops. What you do as a dropshipper is you join the relevant groups of what you want to sell, groups of suppliers that are selling what you want to sell.
[02:27] Every time a supplier posts or asks what is new in stock, you take that picture to advertise advertise on the social media platforms. So, a runner goes to town, small streets,
[02:40] narrow streets, you know, West Street in Delhi, wherever they go to the actual shops to take pictures and videos and then they will advertise. As a drug keeper, you do the same thing,
[02:52] but the difference is you won't be running into town where nothing is being given, because you are a supplier. You join the relevant groups of suppliers that are selling what you
[03:04] want to sell. So instead of going to town, you will take pictures from the Wi-Fi groups, from your supplier's Wi-Fi groups, you take those pictures and you add them on your social media
[03:17] platforms. If you want to go dressing, you will join several groups. It can be several groups. You can choose to use one supplier like if you just do not want any confusion you can choose to just joined a group of one supplier What that group of one supplier Whenever a supplier updates whenever a supplier posts a new stock
[03:42] you take the picture and you advertise on the social media platforms. And guys, people do buy pictures. You know, I've heard a lot of people, which is, in my understanding, if I excuse, people will say, I want to buy trains.
[03:57] People want to see the actual video of what you're selling. People want to see or people want to pay attention to your business. That is not true. As someone who owns an online store, 100% of my customers are from online.
[04:14] 100% of my customers are from TikTok and Facebook. And they do buy from me because I ask the entire system. They buy from TikTok. everything that I sell that I post videos.
[04:29] Sometimes I just post pictures because I also do dropshipping. You know what I mean? But let's take that to what I was saying. As an online runner, I just remember we were trying to synthesize this dropshipping thing
[04:42] where naturally, it's also good to do as an online runner. When you're a runner, that's also easy for online. It's also good for doing e-wipeout courses. So when your supplier is selling a dress or they advertise a dress in their website group,
[04:59] that this dress is 100 rands. Well then you can take a piece of that dress and you're like, okay, my supplier wants 100 rands for this dress. I also want 100 rands for my service.
[05:11] So when you are selling or when you are advertising the dress, you weren't advertising for 100 rands, you will now advertise it for 200 rands. You will sell the dress for 200 rands.
[05:23] When you rely on a customer approaching you, at the end, I want this dress, right? You tell them, hey, this necklace 200 grand is my 20 giga. They will print 200 grand into your account.
[05:37] Immediately when the payment reflects into your account, you send the order to your supplier. Hey, supplier, I would like to order this dress. Size 38.
[05:50] This is the name of the customer, this is the kind of details where the dress is going to. You send the supplier a handwritten label where you are opening a handwritten label.
[06:02] I really want you guys to listen to me, listen to me and understand me. Listen to me when I say church-keeping because I know how to say it. Church-keeping is very easy and I hope this example will make a lot of you understand.
[06:18] If the trafficking concept is confusing you, tell yourself that I am an online runner. Do you run? If you think I am giving you the account, I don't run to defend shops in town.
[06:35] I will run through my suppliers group, which is very much possible. Join in a group of whatever you want to sell. If you want to sell sneakers, go on TikTok and sell super players.
[06:51] You can find super players on TikTok. It is meaningless. But I am not willing to do that. I am willing to do it because it is a super player.
[07:04] But you can still find super players on your own It just takes time and dedication And it takes a lot of chatting with different people until you find a reliable supplier And it not going to just hit unique
[07:19] and you need reliable suppliers. You will need reliable suppliers because you are depending on those suppliers. You depend on them to send the correct items, to send the correct
[07:34] to deliver at the promised time. So you need to work or you need to find reliable suppliers if you are going to your click. First, make an excuse which you are going to advertise.
[07:49] Advantage they want to pay cash on delivery. If you are getting a lot of people advertising delivery, it is because you are targeting those kind of people.
[08:01] Remember in business you have a target market and when you do advertising you need to speak to those people. So when you run an online store or a dropshipping store you need to speak to people who are okay with buying online.
[08:19] You know your communication through e-cash install or your video you must make it known that your store is treating online. There is no connection, there is no paying cash on delivery.
[08:35] And if you speak to your customers, if you speak to your potential customers, you will attract your potential customers. I run my business 100% online. I don't do cash on delivery.
[08:50] It is something that is on there. If you go to a social media platform, it says, speaking online, no connection allowed. allowed and I like only daily I get customers, only daily I get orders from people who are
[09:06] working with pay and also paying for e-delivery. So when you advertise you need to give a clear Ubud Turingan, let's be very clear. If you are not shipping, you can't be advertising on local, your social media groups, local
[09:24] you can use WhatsApp app. Obviously, on WhatsApp, people can't find you in your vicinity. On Facebook page, you can find your local Facebook group.
[09:36] They can't find you. So, you will not attract customers. They will have a problem with paying for it in the quarter you are around. So, when you are selling online, make use of online platforms.
[09:54] advertise online and also make it clear which is you run an online store it's case then delivery you will get customers guys online otherwise if there were no customers some of us will be number
[10:12] one i wouldn't be able to to be running an online store i won't have a physical store i don't do I will make it very clear that my store is free online.
[10:27] So this video is for people who want to start a site hustle, for people who want to do e-shop shipping and you don understand the concept of e shipping I want to make it very simple to you Take e shipping as you are a runner Test it in that sense It is a runner and you know a runner does not keep stock
[10:54] A runner does not buy anything until the customer is there. It's only. Start a side hustle this year. If you are a student, dropshipping is a perfect, great way for you to start a side hustle.
[11:08] If you are waiting full time dropshipping as a break-in to start a sales hustle, all you need to do is to advertise. If you do not have money waiting to start your dropshipping, you can send anything, I only sent this in my video, whatever you choose to sell.
[11:26] So, in my team, you just find yourself the supplier. And it's your system that makes it to be an end goal for you. But it can be a second point. Something to start with can be a way for you to raise or to set up for your own business.
[11:45] It is a process of a way of running business. If you want to sell hair, go on TikTok and search for those girls. Go and have a look at these sex things in your own TikTok. Dropshipp from those bloggames. Do not wait until you get a Chinese supplier or a supplier from Dragon City.
[12:04] Go on TikTok, search for those blogs, read their reviews, box in a bandit video as in refuge. If you are happy and you are satisfied, dropshipp from those labels who are selling hair. Don't wait until you find a good supplier as you find.
[12:19] If you go on TikTok right now, you are standing in the line, spreading hair events. drop sheep from over land, you will gradually grow and find the biggest supplier. If you go on to find the most selling sneaker, drop sheep from Ulef, it is a starting point.
[12:35] You will gradually grow instead of waiting with in and out until I find the biggest supplier. I have no idea who they came up with, the supplier comes to go with me from Myanmar. Please tell me, can we stop this starting mentality?
[12:48] And you know I always say, you have to be hungry. You cannot be hungry in order for you to do something that people are not willing to do.
[13:01] So if you still have the choice, if you know what you want to do about food, if you know what you want to do about food, obviously you will choose it. Or if we are allowed to teach, we should be there.
[13:15] Get out of your comfort zone and do what every message is not waiting to do. I'm not saying I'm the only one who is doing it for cheating, but I bet you are one of very few people who are doing it for cheating without a website.
[13:30] Because it's interesting and I leave a message in the media until I've got the website. Because also it is very profitable. That's all what I have for you today guys.
[13:44] I thought let me come and simplify it. Let me come and rather give this example. Maybe it will be more understandable to someone out there. If you want to trust me, tell yourself that you only run.
[14:00] Call Wena Odana on social media. Wena Odana, we will be coming to you with other videos, but I'll go on live back. It's not that complicated. Go out there and start those fine tassels.
[14:12] I'll see you all on the next one. Bye.
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