Why High Ticket Dropshipping Will Dominate This Year (Episode 119)

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🗣 In this episode, Lewis Smith and James Eardley discuss why high-ticket dropshipping is positioned to dominate the e-commerce landscape this year. 

From the increasing profitability per sale to the growing customer expectations around delivery speed, they break down the key reasons why this business model is poised for even greater success.

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Topics Discussed:
★ What High Ticket Dropshipping Is: Lewis explains what high-ticket dropshipping is, how it works, and why it’s such a great model for beginners and experienced entrepreneurs alike.
★ Why It's the Future of E-Commerce: Lewis dives into the reasons why high-ticket dropshipping will dominate, including rising ad costs and increasing consumer demand for premium products.
★ The Importance of Quality Suppliers: Learn why working with reliable, top-tier suppliers is critical for success in high-ticket dropshipping and what to look for when choosing them.
★ Location Independence with High-Ticket Dropshipping: The model’s flexibility allows entrepreneurs to run their business from anywhere—find out why this is an ideal business for location freedom.
★ How to Get Started: Lewis shares his best tips for launching a successful high-ticket dropshipping business, including niche selection, systems, and finding trustworthy suppliers.

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Key Takeaways:
★ Profit Per Sale: With high-ticket dropshipping, you can absorb rising ad costs and still make significant profits.
★ Low Overheads: No need for warehousing or physical inventory, which means faster profits.
★ Customer Expectations: As delivery demands grow, domestic dropshipping ensures quicker, more efficient service.
★ Quality Suppliers Are Key: Choose reliable, scalable suppliers that deliver high-quality products on time.
★ Real-Life Success: Learn from real entrepreneurs like Neil and Suraj, who’ve scaled their businesses to £95k and £100k with high-ticket dropshipping.

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High Ticket drop shipping isn't just about bigger profits. It's about overcoming the challenges that other businesses simply can't do. But what happens when you realize that everyone's talking about AD costs going up? But what if I told you that high ticket drop shipping actually makes it easier to absorb these costs? Well here's why it's possible, when people think about drop shipping, they often assume low margins mean low profits. But here's why high ticket drop shipping defies that logic. You've heard us talk about the importance of speed and customer experience and customer expectations. So how can high ticket drop shipping actually meet that demand? Well, the truth is, it's all about what would it mean for you if you could work from anywhere in the world while earning serious money through dropshipping? Well, here's the catch. Welcome to the dropship unlocked Podcast. I'm Louis Smith, the founder of dropship unlocked, and with me is our client success coach. James Eardley. Now when we're not recording podcast episodes or running our own e commerce businesses, you'll find us helping aspiring entrepreneurs launch their own high ticket drop shipping stores. So if you're ready to build your own six or even seven figure online business, then head over to dropship unlocked.com. Forward slash, start now, sit back, relax and let's unlock your potential with the dropship unlocked podcast. So in today's video, Lewis and I are gonna be talking about why high ticket drop shipping is going to dominate this year, and we truly believe that we want to dive into the reasons why we think that and how you can capitalize on high ticket drop shipping if you do want to get into an online business this year. So Louis, we've seen this model gain a lot of traction recently. But can you explain initially, just so that we're on the same page, why? What is high ticket drop shipping. And how does it work? Yeah, of course. So high ticket drop shipping is when you sell more expensive products and but the premise of drop shipping still applies. So you're still not holding any inventory. There's no stock. You haven't got a an office or a bedroom full of cardboard boxes that you're waiting to ship out the door. You still run the whole thing from a computer, and you partner with suppliers who ship those products directly to your customers. Now with high ticket drop shipping, that obviously means that the price of the items is a lot higher. The ticket price is a lot higher. So therefore, when you make your percentage margin, your markup on those those items, the profit you make in every transaction, in every sale, is a lot higher. Therefore you need less of those orders. And people say, Well, why would you mark up a product? And why wouldn't people just buy it directly from the supplier? Well, the type of suppliers we partner with don't sell directly to the public. They don't sell directly to consumers in a lot of cases, although they might, you know that can vary and but just to kind of clarify why it works is we're taking a trade price, marking it up to a retail price, and making the margin. So it's nice and profitable. You make more per sale, way more, hundreds times more profit per sale, in a lot of cases, versus selling cheap products from Aliexpress or temu and sites like that. You still don't need to store any of those products or handle shipping. So it works in this kind of all the good bits of the old model of drop shipping, but with all of the bad parts removed, so you get to focus on quality, giving your customers a really nice experience, making more profit per sale, and having a nice low admin lifestyle business that you can run from a laptop Exactly. I think that's the premise of high ticket drop shipping. It's a lot of it is down to the fact it's such a low overhead, cost way to sell products to customers and drop shipping, if people are worried about drop shipping, if it's going to go anywhere over the next few years, well, to bring it right down to its actual definition, drop shipping, Lewis, it purely means getting a product to a customer that is drop shipping. It's just a method of fulfillment. When somebody buys something from you, if you're drop shipping, it means that you get the product sent directly from the supplier to the customer, without you being acting as a middleman. So Louis, if people come to you and say, is drop shipping going anywhere this year in the next few years, you can simply bring it right back to that, the fact that it's just a fulfillment method. Yeah, exactly. I often. I often. I was speaking to someone the other day, and they were like, Yeah, but isn't this drop stripping thing quite new? And like, do you think it'll be around for a while? I was like, Do you realize it's been around since way before the internet? You know, in terms of, like, mail order magazines, like, remember the Argos magazine, which is things still going strong. And when you used to order, like, a huge garden table off of the out of the Argos catalog. It didn't necessarily come from Argos little shop on their warehouse, although they do carry a lot of stock, some of the items were just enormous, and so they'd have to come directly from the supplier. So when ordering, all Argos would do is forward that order onto the supplier. They'd pay the trade price for it, and so then they would keep. Retail amount from from the customer, the item would go out from the supplier, and you would be, you'd be not only none the wiser, but also it would make no difference to you. It's not like they were tricking you. You know, your your box with the garden table would turn up and it would just have the manufacturer's name on it, and maybe, like an Argos shipping label that they asked the supplier to attach to it. So just to clarify, it's been around for long before the internet. And no, I don't think it's going anywhere. They can't go anywhere. I mean, if you say the dropship is going to go anywhere, then you're saying that you don't believe that businesses of the future will ever send a product from the supplier direct to the customer. And we know for many logistical reasons and profit reasons, of course, and margin reasons, it makes so much sense and less complexity for the product to go directly to the customer. It also means it's great for us as online business owners that want to run lifestyle businesses, because we don't have to have a bedroom with piled up cardboard boxes and have to do all the delivery notes yourself. You can get that all done with the supplier. They'll look after the delivery. And another great thing about drop shipping and why it's so popular at the moment, I think Lewis is the fact that you don't have to spend unless you sell. So the overhead costs are below 100 pounds a month, which is like unheard of in starting a new business with most businesses, the only time it goes above that, that you the money that you spend beyond the first 100 pounds every month is when you're actually selling. So it's the cost, like the supplier cost to buy the product. You only buy that once the product's been sold. The ad cost. You're only spending money on ads when you're generating sales from those ads as well. So I think that's a big thing, isn't it? Lewis, is the fact that drops are being so accessible for people who are looking to get into a business without spending 1000s when they first start. Yeah. What other business models that you can run passively without having to just trade your time for, you know, because you could argue, oh, a service based business. Okay, fine. You want to create a service based business, but then you are the service. Your time is the service. So, yes, there are other businesses that have low overheads, but what other systems like this that you can set up have a scalable and value driving asset of a business that you could actually sell. You could exit the business and sell the asset of the business one day without having to put your time in. Once you've put the systems and maybe, like the virtual assistant in place to run it, it's just incomparable, you know, and also that you own the business, you know, it's not like, it's dependent on Amazon's Terms of Service or policies, where, like, any moment they could just be like, oh, sorry, you broke a term of term of service. We've shut you down completely. Your business is gone overnight. You know, all the people that depended on you doesn't matter, doesn't we don't care. It's shut down. So I think it's quite rare to have a business model like that. And so, yeah, absolutely. Um, overheads are, are minimal with this. There are still some overheads. You know, you are running a business, of course, but if you think about the ad costs that you mentioned, which probably will become your biggest expense, your marketing, remember, you're not leasing a retail premises. You're not having to hire loads of staff. You've not got these huge overhead builds that a lot of the retailers do. You can divert that money into marketing, into ads, and if you can acquire those customers profitably with ad spend, which, by the way, is much easier to do when you're making a lot more profit per sale with higher ticket products. So if you're making 600 pounds in profit on a sale, you can be pretty average at running ads and spend maybe 100 pounds to acquire that customer, or even 200 pounds, if you're nowhere near as good that you're still making 400 pound net profit on that sale, because the 600 minus the 200 it cost you to acquire that customer still nets you 400 so that's why it works. And I think the way people view ad spend sometimes, if they haven't run ads before, can be problematic. So think about ads as imagine you've got a machine, and you put a pound in and you get four pounds out, and so you put another pound in and you get another four pounds out. You take one of those pounds and you put it back in and another four come out. People say, Well, why would I spend so much on ads? Or like, I don't want to spend so much on ads. But if you had a machine like that, how many pounds do you think you'd put in? You'd keep doing it right until it stopped giving you four pounds out. And so that's the premise. With ads, you only scale up that ad spend as it's profitable, as you're seeing the return. And so eventually, if you were spending 30,000 pounds a month on ads, and it was like, Wow, that's so much money. It's a lot of money. But if you're generating 300,000 pounds a month in revenue coming in from the business, 30 grand, nothing, right? So it's all relative to how much you bring in. And we wouldn't just jump there from day one, we'd scale up to it sequentially, gradually. That's right, yeah. I think when you think about ad cost, it has to be viewed differently as every other type of cost, because you're only going to increase your ad spend when you've got a profitable return coming back. It's different to the other types of overhead costs that you'd buy, you wouldn't deliberately go up in price with your Shopify store. That that's the overhead costs, how much you paid for Shopify, because you've got to have a direct correlation to how much money you bring, bringing back in to justify it. But you get that with ads, and it's something very beautiful about the ad machine, when you get it to a point where you're putting. Money in, and you're getting more money back out every time that you put money in. And so it's a machine that you're just going to be keep paying, keep going up to imagine it's an arcade machine Lewis and it was constantly paying out a return on ad spend every time that you put money in. I don't think it exists, but imagine if it did exist in a fairground. It's like, there's tickets that you get, and then when you get, like, a million of them, you can go and buy a big cuddly bear or a slingshot or something at the arcade. So it's, yeah, is that? That's the concept anyway. That's the premise. The way to think about ad spend, exactly, yeah, put yourself in that fairground. Build your own machine that pays you back when you put money in. It's not like when I went to, I've been to peers around UK seaside resort, Western Superman. When my grandparents lived the 2p machine notion, or you put a 2p in, yeah, it stacks up with two P's. Never, never falls off, though, does it? You watch it for hours. I mean, nobody ever comes out with more 2p than they went in. But you see people, the kids, trying to shake the machine. Sometimes you try to do it, and then the alarm goes off and they get removed from the premises. We've all tried it as kids, but no, the 2p machine, it's like having, if your ad machine was was a 2p machine, it's like having the 2p all stack hovering over the edge, and it just needs you to get the machine up and running, put the 2p in, and suddenly you can get more money coming out than you are putting in. And that's where you've got to view ads. And I think people have that necessarily, that viewpoint on ads until they start running them, until they learn how to build an ad campaign profitably. Yeah. And to extend that analogy, you know, the first 2p you put in the machine might not create the wave of income that you were hoping for. That's a bit like saying the first day you run ads might not generate you 10 sales, okay, but we weren't expecting it to, you know, it's a numbers game, and we need to almost zoom out so we can allow the average to give us the data back, rather than becoming emotionally attached to the result that happens on each date. So we say, run ads when you have enough suppliers, you have enough products, your stores ready, everything's good, but we're not running ads until that point, because otherwise we're just pouring money down the drain. If we're pouring ads towards just one supplier, hoping they're the winner. We want to probably have five or six suppliers signed before we go live. And once we go live, 2030, pounds a day. I mean, the more you spend, the more data you'll accumulate, the more result you'll start to see, you know, either result or no result, very, very quickly. And once you've done that, and you say, Okay, I put 20 pounds in today, and I generated a sale for 500 pounds. Okay, great. On that sale for 500 pounds, I netted, I don't know, 150 pounds, great. So I'm 130 pounds up in in profit for the day, perfect. Okay, tomorrow I'm gonna put another 20 and see what happens. And then another 20, and then maybe over a month, you look at it and you say, right, I put in 500 pounds and I got out two and a half 1000 in profit. Okay, great. Maybe next month I'll do another five, or maybe I'll scale it up to 600 so 100. See what happens then. And so you gradually scale it up, assuming a profitable ROI. So when someone says to me, what should or what's my budget for ads, I say unlimited on the basis of a positive ROI. Because why would I stop spending money on ads? If I was getting a really positive return on an investment for it. I just keep pouring money in, if the machine's working, just keep feeding it, exactly, yeah, just keep feeding it, because the more you put in, the more you get out. Another fairground analogy to sort of bring home why it makes sense to go for high ticket rather than low ticket. Drop Shipping is like having two arcade machines in front of you, and you have the choice about which one you want to play. One is the low ticket arcade machine. One is a high ticket arcade machine, and you've got the choice the low ticket the jackpot for the low ticket machine is 50 pounds, whereas the jackpot for the high ticket drop shipping machine is 300 pounds. And it's differences in the cost of the product that you're selling, of course, but but which machine are you going to play with? The 50 pound machine, you can only spend up to 50 pounds, and you need to get the jackpot, otherwise you're in the red. Whereas with the high ticket machine, you can spend up to 300 pounds on tickets to win the machine, to win the jackpot, until you need it to work, to get a jackpot and to make to be profitable. So it's a much larger amount that you can spend on an ad before you need to hit the jackpot, and therefore much larger margin for error. Time to learn, time to find the right products, to make the right store, to build the right ad campaign, to learn from other people. It gives you time, I think for me, Lewis, why I went to high tickets because I wanted to fill that margin, and I wanted to know I was going to be rewarded when the sales came in. Yeah, exactly. It provides more of a cushion, more of a buffer, for beginner level entrepreneurs who maybe haven't run a profitable ad campaign at scale before. It's like when the margins are that small, you know, with some kind of consumer product brands, they'll make a loss on the first product. They might even make a loss on the second sale, because they know that eventually they can start to make those economics work. And if they confront the ad spend required to acquire the customer in the first place, maybe on sale two, they'll break even. Sale three, they'll start to make money. And then it's about kind of trying to email market and retarget and send coupons and do kinds of things like, that's fine if you've got really deep pockets as a bit. This, you're willing to look at those numbers and finances. You want a really kind of long lifetime value for the customer, and you want to try and play that game. And you can do that for sure. It works. But to start with, wouldn't it just be easier to make money on the first sale? Like, if there's a way of doing that? Yes, you might. Your upside might be capped. You know, you might not get that ability that website to 10 million pounds a month, right? Fine, but we've got to start somewhere. Let's get it to 100k a month first, and then start to scale up. And if we find we hit a ceiling, okay, maybe at that point we pivot, we move into kind of different model. But, yeah, absolutely. And just to kind of bring it back to the the fairground machine topic that we were the analogy we've been using, I think that implies that the whole model is kind of quite a gamble, and it's gambling related. I guess the extension, or the caveat to put on that is that you're designing your own machine. So it's like you get to play the machine, but you get to build it before you even play it. You know, because you're building the website, you're choosing the products that are in there. You're choosing the, you know, the suppliers you partner with, the channels that you advertise on. So it's, yeah, I guess just, just in terms of, like, clarifying that one, I think it's, it's probably, you can stack the cards in your favor and the odds in your favor as much as possible, before you even put a penny into ad spend. Exactly, yeah. I think the way to look at it is that, if you were seeing it as this arcade or this casino type of thing that we're building, you're not just the player, you're also the house, because you get to build the game, and you get to take the winnings as well as in a bit, so the player that gets to take the winnings, but you get to build the machine that you're actually playing in the first place, which is what happens when you choose a niche, when you build a store, when you Build an ad campaign, you're building that business. You're building that machine that you get to play with to get money out of the back of it. And I like looking at it that way. Lewis, it's like a game. I think business is not a gamble. It's more of a game. It's like a machine that we build. And it is like playing a game where you get a profitable return, and that's the that's the point of the game to play. Yes, the whole of business is essentially a game, if you can gamify the journey and just enjoy the journey, then you're less worried about the specific outcome on any one day, because you just enjoy the process of solving challenges. The way I think of it is you've got benefits and challenges, rather than like pros and cons. You've got benefits of running the business, which is the cash it brings in, the profit, the profit, the freedom that you've got, and then you've got challenges where it's like, Okay, gotta sign some suppliers. I've gotta make my ads work more profitably. I've gotta, you know, do things, but they're just challenges that are problems to solve. They're games to win. They're things you can overcome. And in that way, you're never phased or feel like you've hit a brick wall as an entrepreneur. You're kind of, you're always just in challenge solving mode by default. Yeah, it's a light hearted way to look at it. When you get challenges, it's all part of the game and you just move on. You don't see it as a as a full stop on these things. So bringing it back to the conversation again about why we think specifically high ticket is the future of E commerce, and why it's going to dominate this year. Anything else we mentioned profit per sale, we mentioned low overhead costs. Anything beyond that that you think is another reason why you think high ticket drop shipping is going to dominate. Yeah, I think the other thing is, customers are becoming more savvy. You know, their expectations are higher. People are more demanding about things like delivery speed. They want that, that fast Amazon Prime, next day delivery experience and so domestic drop shipping, where you're drop shipping products from the same country as where your customers are based. So the items are already in the country, like for us, it's in the UK. Suppliers have the products in the UK. Customers we're selling to are mainly in the UK. Therefore, nice, fast, one, maybe two day delivery, and just makes the whole thing easier to manage. You've not got customers emailing you six weeks later saying, Hey, do you have a tracking shipping code for my product that's halfway across the ocean that's coming? I don't need it anymore. Cancel the order and you're like, it's on a boat. I can't do much about it. The suppliers not going to take it back to China. And with this, it's very simple. You know, even if they did want to return a product like this, it's arrived already, as long as it's in a re saleable condition, most good suppliers will just take the items back. So you just contact the supplier, say customer wants to return it. Item goes back. Really simple for you to manage, and eventually for a virtual assistant to manage for you once you want to take yourself out of that business, completely out for the day to day, yeah, that's when things really get exciting, when you can take yourself out of the day to day business operations and just view it as the owner of business, rather than the day to day operator, customer expectations. Yeah, I agree. I think that's something that's we've got to manage nowadays with in the world of Amazon Prime, as a retailer, we have to be able to give good service and fast delivery, and that's going to come from high ticket drop shipping. When you can work with domestic suppliers, you'd have products already in your country, rather than selling products that might be on the other side of the world. Of the world, in China, for example, and customers just aren't willing to put up three or four week delivery times anymore. That is a bygone era. So suppliers, Lewis, it's a big part of high ticket drop shipping. Why do you think it's so important that we work with high quality suppliers? Yeah, I think the first thing is that. The reliability of your supplier dictates your brand's reputation. So if you work with some really flaky supplier that's like based halfway across the world, and sometimes doesn't respond to your emails and they send out products of questionable quality, and when there's a problem, they don't take the items back, you're the one taking the hit on the reputational damage that that creates, and also the financial damage that comes as a result of all the refund requests you get. So you have to, I think, zoom out initially and just ask yourself, what kind of business do I want to run? What kind of business do I want to wake up, open up my laptop to in the morning? Do I want an email inbox full of complaints and refund requests and, you know, non responses from the supplier about the questions I've asked, or do I want to see five? Six orders that were came in yesterday were delivered today. Profits in the bank. I didn't part with any money up front. The money came in first. Everything works. It's it's kind of a nice, easy business to run and manage for me as the business owner, but also the customer's got a great experience. They're the ones that then go on to leave five star reviews and say how happy they were with it. And the other thing is that with good suppliers, the product quality, you know, things like quality control, making sure that the items have been inspected before they are sent out to customers. Good suppliers will do that, and if your brand depends on the reviews that you get from suppliers, then you want to make sure you have that in place. Because remember, we're not the ones inspecting the products before they go out. So we want to make sure we're partnering with brands that take pride in what they're sending out to customers, and then, yeah, just having a nice, strong supplier base. So 567, even some of our members have got 1015, 20 suppliers on their stores. I don't know if there's, there's probably more than that that I'm not aware of. For some I'm sure I've got over 20. A strong supplier base will help you grow the business without having lots of problems along the way, because you have a nice diversified range of products that you can sell, and you're not all dependent on one supplier. You've not got all of your eggs in one basket. Yeah, and that makes for a business that's built on solid foundations. When you've got lots of high quality suppliers, you're not reliant on any individual supplier, and you've got a nice broad range of high quality products in the niche that you've identified as being a high profitable, highly profitable niche that you're going to go into. So something that a lot of members come into into the program with Louis, is an idea of building a business that they want to be location independent with. They want to build a business that allows them to generate income no matter where they are in the world, because it just relies on a laptop and a Wi Fi connection. So we think high ticket drop shipping is perfect. We've proven that with the way that we live our lives. But why do you think high ticket drop shipping lends itself so perfectly for location independence, sure. So it just ticks a lot of the boxes, doesn't it? In terms of, like you said, you only really need a computer, laptop. Probably do it from an iPad or an iPhone if you really needed to, but, but a laptop is almost like the basic thing that you would need to create one of these businesses and run it, obviously an internet connection. We say Wi Fi, but actually a lot of the time when I lived in Thailand, it was mobile hotspots. It was just using the Personal Hotspot from my phone and then tethering that to the computer and getting online that way, if I wasn't in a cafe or something that had Wi Fi and, you know, if I put myself back in Vietnam or Bali, wherever I was, while running these businesses, I didn't have any physical inventory. I never had to touch any of the products that I was selling because I couldn't that. It was almost like it was removed as an option from me, that the temptation would have been, if I was just based in the UK the whole time, that I'd have been like, oh, well, I'll just pop down to the warehouse. And, you know, do a few things. I couldn't. I literally couldn't do that. So in a sense, that disadvantage actually was a benefit, because it forced me to create the entire business in a way that didn't require any personal, physical in person and involvement from me. The other benefit that initially was maybe disguised as a disadvantage or a challenge. Should we say was that the time zones were off, so I wasn't awake a lot of the time when customers would have been calling. So hiring a virtual assistant, who, by the way, is someone in this world of AI, I think people sometimes misinterpret that and think that it means like a an actual virtual computer, but it's not it's a person who is almost like your business admin, receptionist, person that deals with phone calls from customers, forwards emails to suppliers, but they don't have to be based in the same place as you. We hire a lot of our team from the Philippines, where the average wage is a lot more affordable than it is in countries like the UK, but it's still a fantastic wage for them. It means that they don't have to go to a call center to work, and that they are able to work from home around their families. And then the business can just operate and serve across the country that you're serving in, or even across a global market, if you want to expand it eventually, without you having to be there or even awake whilst the business. This is running now. There aren't many other systems that do that. Yes, you could be a freelancer. You could create an agency. You could do something that you're essentially selling your time as a service, but you've still got to be there. You've still got to be on those zoom calls. You've still got to show up and put and trade your time in the middle of the night in tight you know, the different time zone that you're in with this. You just wake up, see the sales there, make sure everything worked okay, and it's like, then you can just focus on growing the actual business. So quite unique in that sense it is. It's exciting though, because it removes previous barriers for entering a business where, in years gone by, perhaps you had to be located, if you're in the UK, in in central London, in order for you to get the same level of opportunities as everyone else, because you needed to be nearby the people who had the finances to help you start a business. We needed to be around other people that could inspire you. You could learn from it, and you had to be in these locations to really have a very good chance of succeeding in business. But that that barrier has just been shattered nowadays with the fact that we can get information from anywhere in the world. And the fact we can run a business without having to actually be in a particular location. You could start essentially, as soon as you become profitable, you can start running that business from anywhere in the world, overnight. And when you build the business, when you build the foundations of the business, you can do that from anywhere as well, without having to rely on a physical location. So it's a huge thing. It's what is the reason why I first started I was really wanting to travel and see the world, and it's the reason why I've been able to travel around Europe for the past three months, back in the UK now over Christmas and New Year. But it's only possible because of the fact that we set up the business in a way that allows us to run it from anywhere in the world. I'm not alone in my Lewis. We've got quite a few people in the program who are also running these location independent businesses. Have you got any other examples that come to mind Absolutely? Yeah, there's a few that spring to mind of people who've created these types of businesses where they could absolutely just be fully location independent if they wanted to. Neil is a great example. So he's somebody, one of our members, that recently hit the 95,000 pound in revenue Mark within five months by finding a profitable niche and starting to leverage some of this automation and systems around it. So we recently had him on the podcast. Actually, we'll we'll leave a link below to that episode. Suraj, who's another member that we had on the podcast, fairly recently, hit 100,000 pounds with high ticket drop shipping business using very simple systems excellent customer service. And then Mason, another podcast interviewee that we had recently one of our members, who was a professional footballer turned entrepreneur who scaled to 70,000 pounds in sales on his E commerce business using this home turf advantage model. So just a few examples. There of many more. Yeah, got some great examples on the channel and on the podcast, because you gotta really have it home. Why we think it's such a big, such a big deal, such a big opportunity for people. We can back it up with success stories for anyone that wants to listen to that. I think episode 99 was Suraj. It's called How Suraj made 100k with high ticket drop shipping. And it's a great example for someone wanting to make it happen, wanting to get into this business and start on the right foot. So have a watch of that, or listen of that after this episode. Now for somebody that's interested, wants to get started with high ticket drop shipping this year. Lewis, what would your advice be for them to get started? Yeah, try to emotionally disconnect yourself from the products that you think you're going to sell, if you can come into it as a blank canvas and pick a niche that's based on data. So for example, something that's in demand, something that has a variety of suppliers who are already willing to drop ship for you, something that is trending upwards and not hugely seasonal, something where you've got enough people searching for those products, and there's enough customer demand there, and these types of things, there are a few of many criteria that we take you through to ensure that the products that you're thinking about selling are backed up by real world data and not just a kind of gut feeling of I think this might work, but I'm not sure The second would be to set up systems early in the process, making sure that you've got your automation in place. Just make scaling easier as things start to ramp up, if you can operate well with systems at one sale per day, imagine when you're at 1015, sales per day. You have the systems in place, the virtual assistants are trained on how to do things you you don't have to get any more involved at 1015, sales per day than you did at one sale per day. So set it up for scale from the beginning, would be my advice. And then just partner with reliable suppliers. You know, you can never stop adding suppliers to your store, because we're not limited by physical warehouse space. We haven't got a bedroom full of product boxes and products that we have to try and sell. So we've got as unlimited digital real estate effectively through our Shopify stores, so we can just put those items on there. We can sign more high quality suppliers, but choose suppliers that you can trust to deliver quality products and a good service to your customers, because your brand will depend on it. Perfect. Yeah, and that's how we go about creating the arcade machine that we're talking about before Lewis those three steps, pick a niche, set up systems so it's ready to scale, and then partner with reliable suppliers so you can provide a great service to your customers, and you'll be well on your way. Now we know Lewis that a lot of people will listen to this advice, hear about this opportunity, see this opportunity, and not take action just the way of the world. A lot of people listening won't take action on this, but there will be some people out there who really do want to achieve that location, independent lifestyle. They want to reach their potential, they want to achieve financial freedom, and they want to build a life that's better for themselves and their families. Those people are the people that you want to get around as much as possible. So for those people that do want to make a difference, where would you recommend that they go to get started? Yeah, we've tried to put everything for you into one place to make it as straightforward and step by step as possible, so you can't get overwhelmed. So if you are ready to start and you think, yeah, I like the sound of this, I want to do this. And you're listening to us right now and you've enjoyed this and thought that's the kind of business I want to run, head over to dropship, unlocked.com, forward, slash start for all the resources that you need to get started. Are you enjoying the podcast? We'd love to hear from you leave a comment or a review, and we might feature it in an upcoming episode. And for detailed show notes and resources, visit dropship unlock.com forward slash podcast. If you found value in any episode of this podcast, please. Could you take just 10 seconds to leave us a quick five star review on your favorite podcast app? It helps us more than you can imagine, and who knows, you might just hear your comments read out on the show. Thanks for being a part of our community. Your support helps us keep delivering new episodes to you every week. Now it's time to answer a question that we've received from a listener. Now remember, if you want to get your questions in, you want to ask Lewis and I a question simply comment beneath the YouTube video version of this episode, and not only will it be answered in the comments, but it may also be answered on an upcoming podcast episode. So this week, the question has come in from gaz Jenkins. So gaz has got a great question for you, Les, which I'll ask you now, he's asked. Brilliant video, looking to do this myself. Do you do one to one coaching? Ah, interesting. Thanks for your question. Gaz, and so occasionally we do, however, what I find is that people actually, while they might think they want one on one coaching, what they benefit more from? What I see is being in a community where they're getting that one on one coaching in a group environments, because you get to hear other people's questions that you might not have even thought of yourself, and you get to hear people who are a few steps ahead of you, and then foresee those questions and challenges that they have before they even become questions in your mind, so it keeps you moving ahead without you need to needing to hit all the same stumbling blocks yourself. So what we focus on in our dropship unlocked master class program is comprehensive training and support to try and get you to the point where you actually don't need to have any coaching or ask any questions, because the answers are all there in the videos. So that way, we're able to really kind of tailor your journey through however, we do also include twice weekly question and articles on Zoom where you can jump on and speak with either myself or James to ask any questions that come up for you as you grow and scale your business. Also, our program does include community support as well, so even if you're not able to jump on one of those Q and A calls that we host twice a week. The community is full of other e commerce business owners who are there to support you on your journey and help you along the way. They've been where you are. We've been where you are. So we can help along the way, and occasionally we might offer some one on one coaching stuff, but when we do that, it will only be to members of our masterclass program. So the way to be in the right place for that is to be part of the masterclass. Perfect. Yeah, cheers guys, looking forward to seeing you inside the program soon, if you decide that's for you. So thank you, Lewis. 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