Cut Drop Shipping Times In Half With This One Trick Video Lecture | Shopify tutorial: Build your Shopify Store (English) - E-Commerce

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hey guys so this video is going to be
showing you a couple ways that you can
cut down drastically on the shipping
times for drop shipping from Aliexpress
and I'm also going to be showing you
another resource for drop shipping as
well but since the most common ones
Aliexpress we're gonna start here so
there's actually a way that you can find
and source items that will not take 12
to 20 days to ship to the customer at
least in the US and this is actually
pretty simple and a lot of people
overlook it some some of you may already
know but a lot of people over looking
and just don't think to do this when
looking for products so what you can do
is we'll just go ahead and search for
bird necklace and you can see here's all
the burden X's on Aliexpress so typical
product research but if you go here and
you go to ship from and we switch it to
United States you can see that these
tuber necklaces here are going to be
shipping from the US so what does that
mean that means that they're going to be
delivered a lot faster so obviously the
downside of this is you can see that
there is only tuber necklaces as and
when you're shipping from China there
are over 8,000 so this will drastically
lower the amount of products you have to
choose from but if shipping times is
something you're really concerned about
and you don't want to go ahead and move
into your own fulfillment center yet
then this is one way you can cut down on
the shipping time so you can see I'm
just gonna go ahead and open this one up
here and you can see this is just
similar typical type of product you'd be
selling then a drop shipping store so
burden that close you can get a shipped
from China or from the United States and
you can see the shipping is going to be
a little bit more so shipping is going
to be four dollars so this item would
actually
end up costing you almost $6 in total
which still wasn't that much just maybe
you can mark it up to 15 maybe even more
than $30 depending on how strong your
branding is so you can see the shipping
estimated delivery time is 4 to 13 days
via the USPS and the United States
Postal Service is a very common shipping
method here in the US and typically it
will never take 13 days even if it
shipped with the slower methods of USPS
it usually will still be delivered
within seven business days so this is
one way that you can cut down on
shipping times is just look for products
that you can source from US suppliers on
Aliexpress no obviously this may not
help if you're targeting customers in
Europe but this is gonna help a lot if
your target in the US market so this is
another example if we type in dog toy
you can see here are the results for dog
toys from China and then I'm going to go
ahead and narrow this down to the US you
can see dog toy this is a more popular
product so there's actually a hundred
twenty-nine results for dog toys that
you can drop ship from US suppliers so
if we go ahead and open one of these up
you can see it's about the same so the
shipping is usually gonna be around $5
and the delivery time still 4 to 13 days
via USPS so this is definitely something
you can try out depending on your niche
and depend how many products you have
available as you can see there wasn't
many bird necklaces but there's actually
a nice variety of dog toys that shipped
from the US so if you were making a dog
based store selling dog toys and stuff
then there's plenty of us options for
that so this is definitely something to
look into because if you can find if a
product you're already selling and if
you're targeting the US and there's a
product your sign that's available
in China and in the US it's always gonna
be cheaper to get it from China but
you'll just have to weigh the options
whether you want it cheaper so more
profit margins or whether you want the
faster shipping times right away which
will usually end up in a little bit
better customer satisfaction so that's
something you have to weigh out for
yourself and for the second example I'm
gonna head over to ebay so everyone's
been on eBay and you can pretty much do
the same thing here except for eBay most
of the sellers are gonna be based in the
US so if we go for bird necklace we'll
just go ahead and open up this one
because this was the same bird necklace
I believe that was on Aliexpress that we
were just looking at you can see that
it's $6.99 and free shipping so it's a
little bit more than it is on Aliexpress
you can see if we look at the shipping
details item location is in Maryland and
estimated between September 8th and
September 13th and as of shooting this
video it's September 3rd so that is 5 to
10 days so that's not too bad so this is
going to cut your shipping times in half
as well now when you're doing it from
eBay sometimes it's not always a big
supplier it could be a personal seller
so you just want to make sure that they
have plenty in stock so you can message
them and ask them for their stock where
you can check to ensure that there is
duplicates or multiple sellers of the
same item that you can use or maybe you
can use out Express as a backup in this
case since this is the same product that
was on Aliexpress so keep in mind a lot
of people dropship on eBay straight from
Aliexpress so this product likely could
be being drop shipped from the exact
listing on Aliexpress they could just be
buying it from that u.s. supplier there
and then selling it here for their like
50 percent or not 50 percent 50 cent
profit and that is a common thing that a
lot of people do on eBay they'll drop
ship things on eBay from Amazon and from
Aliexpress for very small profit margins
and it's not really a business model I
like because I don't like tiny profits
but it is something people do so it is
something to keep in mind so if you're
gonna drop shipping from eBay check
Aliexpress ahead of time just to confirm
that there is an au s supplier selling
the same item like in this case because
you'd be saving a little over a dollar
per item by just going straight to the
US supplier on Aliexpress so that's it
for this video and I hope you found this
information helpful and maybe add a cut
down on your shipping times if you
choose to use this approach for some if
not all of your items and I'll see you
in another video