It’s tempting to let AI do the hard work of dropshipping.

Product analysis, customer insights, content creation, store building.

And it works.

It’s super efficient to let AI do the work.

But if we speak about the beginning of a dropshipping journey, AI is not effective.

It’s an illusion to believe you can let AI find the one-in-a-million product (that no one else found before), create a store that looks very unique and original, fill product pages with convincing images and copy and produce ads that will turn heads and convert.

I’m not against AI.

But we need to understand the purpose of it.

AI is excellent at pattern recognition. Every output you’ll get is based on trillions of data points. AI can’t make your business unique. It will provide you with the sum of all data it has access to. Which is great for large scale data analysis. But if you want to build a nice little side hustle or turn a side hustle into a full time gig, it’s just not built for that.

Let’s be realistic for a second.

If you want to make 5k per month at an average order volume of 49 dollars (which is low), you’d need only 100 customers a month.

This is far from large scale ecommerce operations.

To build such a business you need a solid product, a strong brand and okay’ish marketing. Not more.

You’re not Shein or TEMU. You don’t need AI-based personalized experiences.

You need a simple foundation.

And AI can help you get there faster, for sure. I use AI every single day. But just like you can’t expect a virtual assistant or employee to build an entire business for you, you can’t expect an $49/month AI tool subscription to do so.

Use AI where it has impact. Not where you wish it’d help.

What do you think?

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