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It’s time for honest dropshipping

A few days ago I felt nostalgic. Thinking about all the beautiful dropshipping moments I had, I wanted to experience this again. I typed “dropshipping” into YouTube’s search bar. The results? Internet rambos fighting for attention, claiming revenue numbers as profits and lying everyone straight to the face. They’d sell their grandmothers for a few more clicks, I guess. I still thought: “Man, dropshipping is the greatest business ever.” Which brings us to today’s email: I’m back, my friend! I...

the power of invisible

Happy Monday from Germany, Today I have a marketing tip that made their inventors millions: Take something that’s invisible, and make it visible. Like dark toothpaste: Or take something visible and make it invisible. Like invisible braces: Is a dark toothpaste better than a white one? Nope. Not at all. But the contrast of teeth and dark toothpaste is strong. Even yellow’ish teeth will seem white. It’s a mind trick, that’s all. Invisible braces aren’t better either. They’re just more...

Gurus dislike this

Let’s speak about saturated markets and product selection today. Dropshippers seem to have this one mantra: “Find a winning product, or else…” I always thought this is stupid. That’s why I challenged myself to enter a heavily saturated market and document the entire journey. I sold random watches and made $6,667 in under 8 weeks. You can read about it here. The best? I didn’t even spend money on ads. But some gurus got mad at me. Because I kinda busted their entire online course business in...

one-product store or general store?

I believe one of the biggest questions in dropshipping is whether you should go with a general store or a one product store. A general, so the idea, gives you the freedom to sell whatever you want to sell. You can iterate fast and jump from one trend to the other, aiming for maximum revenue. Because, well, if you sell everything to everyone, something has to work, right? No. General stores don’t allow you to build a brand. And people that, at least potentially, shop at general stores don’t...

I love this print-on-demand brand

Today I bring you a tremendous print on demand brand. They make high six figures per month, have brand deals with Tetris, Exploding Kittens, and Munchkin. Their work is featured in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. They collaborate with amazing artists. They, unlike most POD businesses, don’t live off of high-impulsive purchases. Their customers keep coming back. And they don’t hide that they’re running a print on demand business. In fact, they make it very public and use it...

I let others steal your time, ok?

Happy new year, my friend. Personally, I don’t think the first week of the year is the best time to send you new deep-dive content. I let others steal your time. That’s just not my style. But if you have a few minutes to read, here’s everything I published so far in this newsletter: It’s time for honest dropshipping Why empathy makes (and brakes) your business How to build a (real) brand A personal letter from me Why stories work phenomenal in dropshipping The ugly side of dropshipping...

Dropshipping? I want you to learn this

Real quick before we start: thanks for the massive support last week, the email about brand building got so many positive responses… crazy! If you want me to write more about the brand, just reply to this email. Today’s email is important. It’s completely overlooked in dropshipping education. It’s the importance of having empathy with your customers. Empathy is often mistaken as “having the same opinion as everyone else”. But that’s wrong. That’s called sympathy. Empathy is for professionals....

brand building

Today I want to speak about building a brand. In fact, piggyback brand building. A brand isn’t your logo. It’s what people feel when they think about you. But building this up from scratch is tough. Luckily, there’s a hack you can use. Let’s start with your future customers… The folks you want as your customers aren’t new to shopping. They already spend thousands of dollars on stuff online. You don’t need to convince them to shop. It’s a built-in behaviour in our society. If you start out,...

A letter

My dear friend, Don’t be so worried. I know what you’ve heard about dropshipping; it’s a scam. It’s dead. And it just doesn’t work anymore. I know how you feel. Deep inside you feel insecure. Not because you actually are. But because some people on the internet make you feel that way. Yes, I'm speaking about these gurus. It’s such a shame. But I also know that right next to your insecurity is another feeling. A feeling that carries your dreams. It’s not hope. No. And it’s not motivation...

🤔 what about stories in dropshipping?

Yo, Tim here again. I’m writing this on a rainy Sunday. I have the feeling this will be a long winter… Anyway. My buddy Aaron made $156,353 yesterday. Today I bring you 1 of his strategies. A strategy that’s totally overlooked in dropshipping. Aaron’s last month’s results: $3 million in revenue. 11k+ new customers. 35% from subscriptions. Not too shabby, right? His secret is no secret at all. It’s actually the opposite of that: Founder-led marketing. It’s not really new. It’s just that we...

Thank god dropshipping is ugly

Howdy, my friend. Today I’m going to show you brands that made it big. Like big-time big. But I don’t want you to focus on where they are now and what they do now. I want to travel back in time with you and take a look at their humble beginnings. If you want to understand what it takes to go from nothing to something, you gotta look at what they did when they had nothing. The brands I’m going to show you aren't dropshipping. But they all sell dropshippable products. No food and beverages, no...

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