Beginners Guide To Dropshipping In 2025

Summary

In a comprehensive video guide, Jordan Welch shares his expertise on starting a successful dropshipping business in 2025. He emphasizes the importance of trending products, finding problem-solving items, and choosing products that aren't readily available in major stores. Welch introduces effective methods to spot successful products on TikTok, utilizing tools like Auto DS to simplify the search process. He advocates for building flexible, one-product stores and showcases real-life examples of successful businesses. Additionally, Welch discusses strategies for running ads on Facebook, highlighting the significance of a compelling video ad and reading campaign data to optimize results. Offering a pragmatic approach for beginners, Welch imparts valuable lessons from his own journey in dropshipping.

Highlights

• Jordan Welch shares his million-dollar dropshipping wisdom for beginners! 📈
• Discover the essentials for finding a winning product in the dropshipping world. 🔍
• Learn how to use TikTok and Facebook to skyrocket your sales. 🚀
• Get insights on building a one-product store that adapts to any product. 🛍️
• Master the art of creating viral video ads to boost your business. 🎬

Key Takeaways

• Understanding the elements of a winning product is crucial for success. 🌟
• Leverage TikTok for product discovery, but run ads on Facebook for better results. 💡
• Build a flexible one-product store that can easily test various products. 🏪
• A compelling video ad can significantly enhance your advertising effectiveness. 🎥
• Always analyze data to improve your dropshipping strategies and success rates. 📊

Overview

Jordan Welch dives into the realm of dropshipping, sharing his personal journey to making millions and helping others. Key to success, he emphasizes, is understanding and identifying trending products that solve real-world problems. With experience under his belt, Welch offers tried-and-true methods for product research, greatly simplifying this critical step for newcomers.

Utilizing the power of social media platforms like TikTok, Welch introduces innovative ways to discover products ripe for success. The strategic shift from TikTok to Facebook for ad placement marks a new era of dropshipping. His advice on building adaptable, one-product stores underscores the importance of flexibility and specificity in launching successful campaigns.

Welch highlights the significance of impactful advertising, pointing to video ads as a crucial component of a successful dropshipping strategy. By learning to analyze advertising metrics, new dropshippers can refine their approach, working towards a business model that not only survives but thrives, thanks to the shared wisdom and resources outlined in this guide.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 00:30: Introduction to Dropshipping The chapter provides insights into the basics of dropshipping, shared by an experienced individual who has made millions and assisted thousands in launching their first successful stores. It emphasizes the importance of identifying a winning product, noting that while product research methods evolve annually, understanding the core principles of what makes a product successful is crucial. The chapter aims to present a comprehensive guide based on 7 years of experience to help newcomers create a successful store within the year.
• 00:30 - 01:00: Understanding Winning Products The chapter 'Understanding Winning Products' explains the key difference between beginners and experts in product selection. It emphasizes the importance of identifying and selling products that are currently trending. The goal is to find products that are just starting to gain popularity, allowing one to capitalize on the trend effectively. This approach, rather than being the first to sell an item, has proven successful for the author in recent years.
• 01:00 - 02:00: Importance of Product Solving Problems and Finding Unique Products The chapter discusses the significance of entering a market with existing competitors as it provides valuable insights into marketing strategies. Beginners can learn from competitors' campaigns to design their own. Furthermore, the importance of selecting unique and problem-solving products is emphasized. The chapter advises against selling trivial, gimmicky items. Instead, focus on products that improve people's lives, those you would personally consider purchasing.
• 02:00 - 03:00: Finding Successful Products on TikTok and Using Spy Tools In this chapter, the focus is on identifying successful products on TikTok and leveraging spy tools for product research. The author shares a personal success story about a product called 'The Sleep Band,' a sleep mask with integrated headphones that garnered substantial earnings, nearly $2 million. The product solves a real problem by aiding individuals suffering from insomnia through white noise, hence improving their sleep quality. The guidance provided emphasizes the importance of choosing products that significantly enhance people's lives, particularly those that improve health, appearance, or safety for people and their pets and children.
• 03:00 - 04:00: Utilizing Facebook Ads and Setting Up Stores The chapter discusses strategies for finding and selecting viral products for sale, emphasizing the importance of choosing products that are not readily available in major stores like Amazon, Walmart, or Target. The goal is to find unique items that capture consumer interest and compel them to purchase from you instead. The chapter promises a demonstration of effective methods for product selection using a computer.
• 04:00 - 05:00: The Role of Ad Creatives and Analyzing Ad Data The chapter discusses the current best strategy for advertising, which involves using trending products from TikTok and advertising them on Facebook. This approach has changed from previous methods where TikTok ads were used for TikTok trending products. The shift occurred because TikTok Shop has made it more challenging to run ads on TikTok due to its competitive pricing and influence. The chapter also includes a promise to demonstrate the process of finding a suitable product live.
• 05:00 - 05:30: Conclusion and Future of the Channel The chapter discusses strategies for leveraging the TikTok platform to identify successful products. It suggests creating a new TikTok account and actively engaging with accounts selling products related to one's industry. Even if there isn't a specific industry in mind, consistent engagement with such content is emphasized as a method to gain insights and achieve success on new platforms.

Beginners Guide To Dropshipping In 2025 Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 over the last couple years I've made millions of dollars with Drop Shipping and more importantly helped hundreds of thousands of people start their first successful store so today I'm going to condense my 7 years of experience into an easy to follow guide that you can use to start your first successful store this year and it all starts with finding a winning product look the product research methods are always changing every single year but if you can understand the three principles of a winning product you'll be able to spot products everywhere you look and this is
• 00:30 - 01:00 the difference between beginners and experts is that they understand these things the first thing is that the products that you want to sell need to be trending recently you want to find the products that are starting to pop off in the last couple of days if you can be early on a product you can capitalize on the trend and ride the wave that has been my key to success for finding products over the last couple years not trying to be the first to sell something but catch it just as it's starting to pop off we don't want to be
• 01:00 - 01:30 the first to sell something because as a beginner you don't understand much about marketing so when we have competitors and other people to look at as inspiration it gives us a very clear idea of what's working for the product and we can use that to launch our own campaigns the second thing is that you need to find products that actually solve a problem in people's lives don't go out there and try to sell all these stupid little gimmicky toys or games try to find a product that's actually going to make someone's life better something that you would buy for yourself or for
• 01:30 - 02:00 somebody in your family for me the product that I made the most amount of money selling was called The Sleep band I made close to $2 million selling this sleep mask with built-in headphones this product actually solved a problem for people for people that are struggling with insomnia they put this thing they cover their eyes they listen to White Noise and they fall asleep faster so when you're looking for products make sure that they actually help people's lives and the biggest areas that you can help people is in their health in their appearance or the health and the safety of their pets and children if you can
• 02:00 - 02:30 find products in these spaces that are recently going viral you're going to find a successful winning product finally you need to pick a product that is not available in all the stores these people have never heard of your business before and if they feel like they can just go buy this product at Amazon or Walmart or Target they're not going to stop and give you their money you need to try to find things that stand out to you that you would buy for your family or your friends or even for yourself now look finding a product that combines all three of these things isn't easy so I'm going to jump into my computer right now and show you my fite favorite methods to
• 02:30 - 03:00 do this and I'm even going to go ahead and find a product for you guys live okay so without a doubt the best strategy for this year is to take products that are popping off on Tik Tok and run them on Facebook ads it used to be running these products from Tik tock on Tik Tok ads but what happened in this last year is that Tik Tok shop took over the whole game if you try to run drop streaming products on Tik Tok ads it became way harder because Tik Tok shop is undercutting everybody but but that
• 03:00 - 03:30 also gave us a huge opportunity because now the Tik Tok feed is literally flooded with products so what we can do is we can take those products and bring them over to a new platform and that's going to be one of the best ways for us to have success so how can we find these successful products on Tik Tok well I have two methods first method is making a brand new Tik Tok account and just engaging with as many accounts as you can that are selling products in your industry if you don't have an industry that's fine just make sure you're engag engaging with stuff like this make sure
• 03:30 - 04:00 you're engaging with the ads you're going to the comments you're putting little messages in there just showing Tik Tok that you are interested in purchasing these type of items even taking it a step further and going ahead and buying one of these items will do wonders and make your Tik Tok feed flutter with products because they think you're going to spend more money I really like this method but the problem with it is as you can see it's super inconsistent like you're going to be getting all these other videos that have nothing to do with finding products and it can tend to to be a bit draining
• 04:00 - 04:30 because you can sit there and scroll for literally hours and hours and hours and not find a product and then eventually you'll stumble upon a product like this and now you have something good so it's a good method don't get it confused but it's not the most consistent and it's not my favorite if you've got a little bit of money I recommend using what's called a spy tool and there's one spy tool in particular that I think is the best for this year okay so this tool is called Auto DS now they have a bunch of
• 04:30 - 05:00 different features on here but one of my favorite things is their spy tools so if you go right here and click on ADD spy basically they go ahead and compile the top performing ads on Tik Tok and Tik Tock shop right here for you to scroll through so you don't have to actually scroll through it on the platform yourself and if you put in these filters like I do go ahead and put in 7 days go ahead and hit apply go ahead and sort it by likes you're going to see the stuff that has got the most likes in the last 7 days and again you know there's going
• 05:00 - 05:30 to be a little bit of garbage in there some random stuff but if you scroll for a while you can find some incredible products on here and last year I took a new store from Zer to over $2,000 a day in just a couple of days and this was the tool that helped me do it so I'm going to go through and scroll right now and see if we can find something decent with this platform all right so I just found something crazy this product just got launched like 4 days ago basically it is an AI translating earbud and
• 05:30 - 06:00 basically you put this in your ears and you could speak a different language and it's going to instantly translate it over to your native language now based on everything that we said today I think this product is a nuclear bomb it just started going viral it solves a huge problem especially for people that's traveling or maybe they have family of their loved one that speaks a different language and it's something super unique that I don't think you could buy anywhere else this product for me seems like a super Banger and remember it's
• 06:00 - 06:30 already popped off on Tik Tok so we might be a little late to launch it on Tik Tok but if we take something like this that's going crazy and bring it over to Facebook that is where the real opportunity is at and I found this just from scrolling on autod DS it popped up here um in the search bar just with the filters I said so I really recommend you guys use this tool it's my favorite tool for finding products not only that but they have a bunch of other features as well like they have a AI store Builder they have a whole fulfillment system to run your business these are the guys
• 06:30 - 07:00 that I use when I'm starting a new store and if you want to work with them you can check out the link in the description down below I actually partner with them to get you guys an exclusive free trial so make sure to check that out because I really do love this tool for getting started with your store but now once we have this product selected what is the next step you might have a bunch of products but you might not know what to do the next step is that we need to build a store and there's one store template that is working better than any of the others this year and I want to show it to you live the best type of store this year
• 07:00 - 07:30 for testing products is a one product store but the problem with the one product store is that if you test a product and it fails you have to then repackage and redo the entire business so what I recommend you guys do is creating a one product store but making The Branding and the logo and the name just broad enough that you can use it to test a variety of products and after doing a little bit of research I I actually found somebody that's running
• 07:30 - 08:00 the exact product that I just showed you guys making almost $20,000 a day with this setup so let's take a look at how they're running their business so you can see that this really works and how to set it up for yourself so this is the Facebook ads Library where you can spy on all your competitors and these guys literally just started running this product like one or two days ago and it's going crazy they're running 220 live ads right now which means that they're making a couple thousand do a
• 08:00 - 08:30 day selling this product so I jumped in I looked at their store and this is the exact setup that I'm talking about as you can see the name is not AI earbuds or electronic Goods it's just some random thing VIIs but it's brought enough that you could sell these earbuds or you can go on to sell a piece of clothing or you can go on to sell some health rated products the color scheme of the website is simple it's just white and black and if this product didn't work when you launched it on Facebook
• 08:30 - 09:00 well now you can repackage the website in just a couple of minutes by just putting a new product but if we click around the website you're going to see that they made the website fully focused on this product it's not having any other products on there so for a customer that doesn't know anything they're going to come here and they're going to think that these guys are the top sellers of the product they're going to want to trust them even more so this in my opinion is the best store setup for this year when it comes comes to testing products now I'm assuming all
• 09:00 - 09:30 you guys know what testing products mean but if you don't is basically when you launch a product on Facebook ads and see if the product is well received see if people are buying it see if they're engaging with it and if they're not then you just repeat the process and test another product but this is the type of store that I want you guys to build a simple one product clean branded store that you can use to swap out and Test new products this outperforms anything else the theme that they're using to do
• 09:30 - 10:00 this is called the shrine theme and I have a link for that theme as well Down Below in the description just taking one last look at this product page I want to highlight one last thing and is that they keep it super clean and simple they put the main benefits of the product they have the bundle options they have the main selling point of removing all language barriers and then they have one gift down below and then it's straight to the reviews long gone are the days of these product pages that are super long and super drawn out they work for some products but for the majority of Drop
• 10:00 - 10:30 Shipping products this right here is all you need so I wanted to show this as an example because it's absolutely crushing in fact let me show you how much these guys are bringing in every single day so as you can see in the last week this store generated over $90,000 using the exact strategy that I share with you guys in this video now you guys have the two most important pieces a product and a store but to really execute on this plan you need to learn how to run ads so I want to break down now a simple ad strategy that you
• 10:30 - 11:00 can use even if you have a low budget as I said before Tik Tok ads got way harder with the introduction of Tik Tok shop and I really believe that Facebook ads are hotter than ever before because you can take these Tik Tok shop and Tik Tok ads products and bring them over to that platform the most important thing to capitalize on this opportunity is having a great video ad and in the past it used to be really hard to go out and find the footage for these ads but with Tik Tok shop all these creators are now trying
• 11:00 - 11:30 and fighting to get a piece of the pie so for a product like these earbuds there are literally thousands and thousands of videos that you can go out and repurpose and use for your Facebook ads now disclaimer if you use other people's videos you are putting yourself at serious risk but when it comes to just testing a product it's not a bad strategy and it's the most efficient way to test products very quickly what you want to do is use other people's videos to get the product started but once you find a video that's working you recreate
• 11:30 - 12:00 it yourself that way you have your own piece of content and you're protected from any issues with any creators that's exactly what I did with the Sleep bend over and over again and it worked and by the end of my career with that business I had a bunch of custom content but I started in the beginning just by using other content that was already out there and when we look at these guys that we just looked at before I mean I'm not saying it's the best thing ever but they're literally just running footage of other people's Tik Tok Shop videos
• 12:00 - 12:30 like they're spamming all the Tik Tok Shop videos that they can this is cool they're crushing it they're making 90k a week but for them to take that next step forward now they should start recreating these videos sending it to other creators but for now this is all you need to get started with testing is just using these Tik Tok Shop videos now how should you set up your actual ad campaigns once you found a product and got five to 10 of the top performing videos from Tik Tok shop we need to set up a Facebook ads campaign like I said before the only thing that really
• 12:30 - 13:00 matters is your product your website and your video ad so keep your Facebook ad campaigns super simple when you're testing I recommend you guys just use one campaign with one ad group with a broad targeting option related to your industry and put all of your creatives all of your videos inside of that one ad group and you can start this out with a budget of 20 to $50 a day depending on how much money you got and after a day or two you're going to be able to tell if this product is a winner or loser based on the initial data of the ads now
• 13:00 - 13:30 what's important is that you're able to read that data and figure out where you went wrong and where you can improve if nobody's clicking on your ad well that means that your video sucks or your ad copy is not engaging enough to get them to come through and click are people clicking but not buying well that means that your website needs a lot of work and maybe the offer needs to be improved are people doing nothing well that means that you need to rewatch this video no I'm just kidding but look if it fails you need to make sure you analyze your
• 13:30 - 14:00 product and your campaign and figure out exactly where you went wrong otherwise this whole product testing thing basically just feels like a slot machine if you can spend money on ads and read the data it's actually pretty good because you're buying this data and in my opinion it's the fastest way to learn and if your product succeeds if you start getting sales on the first couple of days well there's a chance that you might have just found that product that changes your life it sounds dramatic guys but when I say that one product can
• 14:00 - 14:30 change your life I genuinely mean it because it happened for me and so many other people that I've known over the last couple of years so for you guys out there when you're going through this process of testing products just stick with it long enough because when you do find that one product everything is going to pay off but today I think this might be the last Drop Shipping video you guys ever see from me it's not that I have any issues with Drop Shipping it's just that it's not what I do
• 14:30 - 15:00 anymore and even though you guys keep asking for it it's not the thing that I want this channel to be focused on for the future I have a lot of things planned that I'm excited to share with you guys and I appreciate you guys enjoying these Drop Shipping videos over the last couple years I hope that they helped you in any way and if I ever see you guys or if you ever get a chance let me know how your stores are going but with that being said if you've stuck around since the OG Drop Shipping days I say a big thank you and I really appreciate you and yeah the best has yet
• 15:00 - 15:30 to come for this channel so I'll see you guys in the next one