Building a Dream Team

I built a $100k/m dropshipping team so you can copy me.

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Summary

In this video, Sam Jacobs walks viewers through his strategy to successfully scale a dropshipping business to $100,000 per month by building an effective team. He emphasizes the importance of starting small and understanding every aspect of the business before delegating tasks to team members. As an experienced CEO, Jacobs explains that hiring a virtual assistant, a reliable supplier, and then a store builder are the first steps to scaling the business. As the business grows, hiring specialists like media buyers, product researchers, and designers becomes crucial. Jacobs also provides tips on where to find these skilled individuals and the typical rates for their services, ultimately aiming to empower viewers to build and manage their own dropshipping teams efficiently.

Highlights

Virtual assistants can be hired for $4-$6 per hour to handle basic tasks. 💪
Having a good supplier prevents chargebacks and keeps cash flow healthy. 📈
Hiring a store builder is essential once you find winning products. 🏗️
A media buyer is pivotal for scaling ad strategies – supervise them closely. 📊
Email marketing teams can work on commission, adding extra revenue. 💌
A product research team can filter out the best products to launch. 🔍
Good designers are key to branding – invest more for quality. 🎨
Regular video content from editors keeps ad campaigns trending. 🎥
UGC teams can be led by your top content creator for authenticity. ✨

Key Takeaways

Start small, learn all aspects of your business, then build a team! 🚀
Hiring a virtual assistant early can free up your time for more strategic tasks. 💼
Use reliable suppliers and tools like dsers to efficiently manage orders. 🛍️
Focus on building a brand, not just dropshipping. Hire designers for a standout store. 🌟
A skilled media buyer accelerates ad campaigns. Keep an eye on their work! 🎯
Use platforms like Upwork for finding long-term employees over Fiverr for short-term gigs. 💻
Hire slow, fire fast – ensure a quick response team to stay agile! ⚡

Overview

Starting with a clear understanding of all business aspects is crucial, Sam emphasizes the need for a hands-on approach initially. This approach helps you identify the right tasks to delegate once you start building a team. The first tactical hire should be a virtual assistant to handle less important tasks, which allows the CEO to focus on high-level strategy and growth.

Once initial growth is observed, the focus should shift towards enhancing operations with reliable suppliers, like dsers, and further skills like store building functions. As you grow, the team structure evolves to include specialists, such as media buyers, whose sole focus is to optimize advertising campaigns, and product research teams, who help streamline product selection.

Finally, progressive scaling relies on building a brand through high-quality design and marketing. Employing designers to enhance store aesthetics and hiring a team to handle video content production can significantly elevate brand presence. Platforms like Upwork serve as excellent resources for hiring long-term team members, allowing entrepreneurs to meticulously build their dream team with tailored talent.

I built a $100k/m dropshipping team so you can copy me. Transcription

00:00 - 00:30 in this video I'm going to be showing you how to build a Drop Shipping team to scale to $100,000 a month and Beyond this is the exact structure I have in my drop shpping businesses that do over a million dollar per year now getting to 5 to 10K a month with your drop shpping business can pretty much be done all by yourself you and the laptop and really that's it however if you want to spend less time on the business have more freedom and make a lot more money then you need to learn how to build a successful team a team that can go out there and build a business for you and
00:30 - 01:00 even run it for you if you do it correctly so in this video I'm going to be showing you how to find these team members what to hire them for how much you should pay them and even show you the exact overview and structure I have in my business right now so without further Ado let's get into the video and if you get any value make sure you hit that like button subscribe button for more videos coming soon let's get into it so as you can see this is a little flowchart that I put together that goes over the exact structure I have in my business right now now we're going to go through each role that you should be
01:00 - 01:30 hiring for in your Drop Shipping business and when you should be doing it and how much you should be paying them and all of that now this is what most people look like in a Drop Shipping business it's you and you are the CEO and you pretty much run the entire business you are the one who are finding the products building your store running the ads literally doing everything and that's totally fine to get to 5 to 10K a month I think that you the CEO should be learning all the aspects of the business and just literally doing almost
01:30 - 02:00 everything now a true CEO understands all aspects of the business but will only spend his time on the tasks that move the needle the most and that's where building a team comes in play so here's what you want to do the moment that you feel like you've tapped out that you're spending so much time in the business that you literally are getting a little bit burnt out the first hire that I want you to make is the virtual assistant hire and this is something that I immediately found once I started
02:00 - 02:30 to see a little bit of success with my Drop Shipping business and I was able to get a virtual assistant for $4 to $6 per hour now this virtual assistant was able to take care of the tasks that were way below me that I knew that I shouldn't be focusing on yet I had to do like writing up some reviews for my store making the to-do lists making sure that I was staying accountable and productive and even handling customer support emails and stuff like that right now once I hired that I needed to make sure that I
02:30 - 03:00 had a good supplier and for the suppliers this is what I actually recommend right now so as you can see I recommend dsers to start right it's an app on the Shopify store and then once you get about 5 to 10 orders per day and you're starting to scale your business right to a few hundred per day $1,000 per day you want to make sure you have a good supplier because if you do not have a good supplier team then you will be stuck with a lot of chargebacks your payment processor will get shut down and it leaves with a lot of returns and not
03:00 - 03:30 a lot of money in your bank so make sure that you have a good supplier and I'm going to leave the form for commerci right down below in the description so you can go ahead and use them once you're scaling your business now after that you want to hire a store Builder and this is actually pretty interesting that most people they spend too much time building their store where they could just pay someone to help them build it and move things a lot faster now really this only comes in play once you find your first winner or two winner products right and the reason for that
03:30 - 04:00 is because if you go and try to hire someone to build your store and you know you don't know what you're doing right you you just won't be able to survive in the business you have to learn how to do yourself first and then you could hire someone and then instruct them to make sure that the store comes out perfectly exactly how you want it to be and then lastly after you hire all those people really after a few winner products and you learn how to run Tik Tok and Facebook ads you can to hire a media buyer and a media buyer's role is to
04:00 - 04:30 just run ads for you scale them test them and obviously you need to be looking over his shoulder making sure that he does a good job and the only way to know if he's doing a good job is if you actually understand the business and that's why you should never hire a media buyer or a store Builder until you actually have run successful drop shpping businesses in the past and once you do you can go ahead and hire these two people okay coming down here into the green this is the third stage okay once you have all these four people you
04:30 - 05:00 can actually hire people that work under them okay so as you can see you can hire a email marketing team and usually their commissions are around 10% I usually find them on Instagram I also give my exact email marketing team to my students and they usually take 10% of all the sales that they generate extra right email marketing is extra money okay then you can also hire a c customer support team and you can to have your virtual assistant make sure that they're doing their job correctly okay and this is something is so important especially
05:00 - 05:30 in you're scaling a business you should not be answering emails of customers and all that you need to be focusing on launching products and scaling them that's it okay everything else you need to pay and Outsource for all right now you can also hire someone and this is one of the last things I would hire for is a product research team and a product research team will go on on all these spy tools like PP ads or Tik Tok and all these different ways that I teach how to find winner products and utilize those methods and bring you a sheet of 10 to 20 products per day right and you look
05:30 - 06:00 through that list and maybe you'll find one of them or two of them that you really really like and those are the products that you should be launching okay quality over quantity is very important now a designer this is something that you can hire especially because everything is branding today dropshipping has changed to branding only so if you're not branding your stores you still have General Stores you still have stores that look like you know everyone else's stores and you're you're going to see the difference right so make sure you hire a designer that really is professional quality is key and that's why as you can see I pay a
06:00 - 06:30 little bit more for my designers especially when I'm trying to build a brand and then I'm trying to scale now in order to really have a good media buyer he needs to have videos to run ads for Right video ads are everything today so you can hire a Editor to actually create videos for you every single day and make multiple of them per day okay so make all different types of videos different hooks right different types of videos to to stay up to the trends different music all the different things like that they should pump out like five
06:30 - 07:00 a day especially when you're scaling and you can also hire a ugc team okay a ugc team will go and email you know all these different ugc creators and also go on Twitter and find them on there as well okay so Twitter is a great place to find ugc creators and what you could do to find a ugc Outreach team or you know someone to get ugc creators is you can actually you know find them yourself on Twitter and you know upwork and all these other places but who whoever your
07:00 - 07:30 best ugc Creator is you can actually hire them right to go ahead and find other people just like them because they understand the game right more than these random people that that probably wouldn't do a great job so I actually hire my best ugc Creator as the person who's going to be in charge of the Outreach team and really this is the entire structure that you should Implement right away as you scale now remember these are stages so stage one is really just to get to 5 to 10K a month and then this is stage two this is getting from you know 20K a month to 50K
07:30 - 08:00 a month or even to 100K a month and then if you want to scale from 100 to 300K a month you're really going to try to you know build out this team as much as you can okay so this is my structure and what I'm going to do right now is show you how I actually hire these people and I actually use the website called upwork.com so let's go ahead and actually set up a job post and I'll show you how I hire these people okay now this is the website I personally use to hire my team okay and it's called upwork.com you can find people for
08:00 - 08:30 everything you need okay now obviously there's other websites like fiverr.com which usually I use for short-term projects but for people that actually want to work with in long term I'm going to want to use upwork so coming on here okay you can either choose longterm or short-term but for the most part we're going to probably choose long-term project depending on what you're hiring for okay so we're going to go ahead and click long-term project we're going to press continue here and we're going to title what we want to hire for so as you can see here's a few examples you you want to build a responsive WordPress
08:30 - 09:00 site right we don't use WordPress but you know you get the gist of things so let's say we wanted to hire a store Builder okay what we're going to do is looking for a Shopify store builder for my drop shipping stores just like that okay done all right and we are going to select e-commerce website development and this really doesn't matter just try to choose a category that meets what you are looking for next we're going to press skills okay going to the next page
09:00 - 09:30 here and then we are going to just type in a few skills here so just Shopify then drop shipping and maybe we development as well okay we're going to press next and this is how long you want some you want to hire them for and this really again does not matter I'm just going to choose 6 months and we're going to choose intermediate again these things really don't matter I'll tell you what does matter the title does matter and the description so let's quickly just go ahead and press next we're going to choose location as worldwide and I choose worldwide for all my team members
09:30 - 10:00 unless it's something that is very quality oriented for example maybe my designers I'll choose just from United States but you'll find a very very talented people all over the world now when it comes to the hour hour rate okay you guys can go back into the video and see how much I recommend you actually pay these people okay so here for the store Builder I would do let's say like 10 to 20 for this one and we're going to press next and this is where we go ahead and make a description now now keep this
10:00 - 10:30 the descriptions very short and sweet I'm just going to break it down for you exactly how you want to structure your descriptions so the first line of description is looking right looking for blah blah blah right what are you looking for so looking for a store designer for my drob shipping business okay please include previous work must be okay these are few qualifications fluent in English include previous work fast and efficient and lastly fast
10:30 - 11:00 communication okay if I have a team member that is not fast communication I will never work with them and this is my rule is I hire slow and I fire fast and that's something to keep in mind when you're hiring these people okay so this is exactly how I structure my descriptions really simple looking for a Shopify website development uh guy right or whatever it is so this is exactly how I structure my description looking for a shop by developer to help me build
11:00 - 11:30 dropshipping stores if you've done this in the in the past please apply and then please include previous work blah blah blah okay so it's really really simple you review your job post and then you just post the job okay I'm going to not going to post it because I already have a team member for this but let me show you how it's actually going to look after about 24 hours so as you can see I posted a job for someone to do my Drop Shipping Store builds and as you can see how many people actually got it was overwhelming okay so how do you actually hire the right person pretty much what I
11:30 - 12:00 look for is a few things number one how much they are per hour like this person would automatically be a no and then really I'm looking for you know depending on the job but for the store builds less than 20 $20 per hour and I'm also looking at their job success and how much they've earned so obviously has to be over $1,000 that they've worked right so I know that they're trustworthy and a over 80% job rat going through these one by one and really what I'm looking for okay is I'm just looking for
12:00 - 12:30 their actual store and work in the past so let's say I wanted to look at this person I would just go to one of his previous work and I would click on it and see how it looks so as you can see I just like quickly look over a store it looks pretty nice is it what I'm looking for probably not right so I probably wouldn't hire this guy but depending on what you're looking for and that's why it's important to only hire a team really after you've already found one or two successful Drop Shipping products right but as you you can see like this side is pretty pretty nice and you know
12:30 - 13:00 thing that I don't like is just like it's missing a lot of information here so that's just careless to me and it's very like Bland in a way it does look like he took a lot of stock images from here so I don't know if I would hire this guy but I would look at a few more of his of his stores that he built in the previous work and pretty much that's what I do for every person this store actually looks pretty nice but you get the gist of things you can go through all these people who literally want to work for you and you got to choose who you want to hire and then once you find someone you want to hire you just press
13:00 - 13:30 hire you send them a job request and they accept it and uh you know they automatically bill you for the hours that they work you can even ask them to message you on WhatsApp and that's how I usually use all my communication and that's exactly how I set up my team structure if you enjoyed it make sure you hit that like button hit that subscribe button for more videos I also have a completely free e-commerce training in the first link in the description go ahead and enjoy that and if you want to apply to my next successory and one of my students you can go ahead and book a call after you watch that training I'll see you in the next one peace