One of the most common problems that we face in our journey of being e-commerce store owners is knowing what suppliers to work with and knowing how to expand our suppliers list and get a reach to more products, faster shipping times, better customer service and more. But we don't always have to pay for those suppliers even when we find the high quality ones. That is why in this video I'm going to be going over the top 25 free drop shipping suppliers that you can work with and start expanding your business today. Quick intro and let's go. Welcome back, I'm Liran your host and as you know in this video we're going to be going over the top 25 drop shipping suppliers that you can work with in your e-commerce business to help expand it with better customer service, a reach to much, much more products, categories and niches and of course improve your shipping times and more. So one second before we jump into it, if you haven't done so yet, do not forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel to always stay updated and learn about your next step in your e-commerce business. Having said that, let's go ahead and jump straight into the action. Who are the top 25 drop shipping suppliers and why are they so good and recommended? Now of course everything that I'm going over in this video you can also learn about it in the blog which I'll leave a link to right below in the description. So what are free drop shipping suppliers? So drop shipping suppliers if you don't know yet, they are suppliers who actually give you products to sell on your drop shipping store and you can simply sell them without having to hold them in your own inventory. So the suppliers will hold it in their stock and as soon as you get an order on your store, the store where you listed their products as well as other suppliers products, once you make a sale you'll go to the suppliers website and you'll purchase that product and ship it directly to the end customer who bought it from your store. You don't have to purchase the product to yourself, this is a drop shipping business model, it comes with a low risk and a high reward. Of course, if we learn to do it the right way. Now there are all kinds of directories online that will give you access to all kinds of suppliers. Some are drop shipping suppliers, some are wholesale suppliers that actually want you to have an MOQ, a minimum order quantity, which means that you're not going to be drop shipping anymore. But in any case, many of these websites that give you these databases of suppliers, some of those suppliers might not be relevant anymore. While some may be relevant, those websites are also going to take a monthly subscription for you or a huge one time fee to get access to those suppliers. But all of the good suppliers, all of the high quality suppliers, you can find them by yourself online with just a little bit of researching and a little bit of digging. But I'm going to save you a lot of time and list those top 25 drop shipping suppliers that we love to work with. And hopefully you'll be able to dig out some from this list and maybe even find some more on your own. But that will require a lot of digging, researching, reaching out and negotiating until then learn from our top 25 list and continue from there. Now when looking for drop shipping suppliers, keep in mind these few things. So on the one hand, you want to be able to find suppliers that can ship globally so that they can ship to anywhere around the world, meaning you will be able to do that too. And on the other hand, you also want to find a supplier that has global warehouses worldwide. And the difference between the two is having global warehouses around the world means that your suppliers will be able to ship quicker to your domestic audience. So for example, if you have a supplier that has warehouses in the United States, but also has warehouses in the United Kingdom, then you can ship domestically to your U.S. audience and also to your U.K. audience with fast shipping times. Because once you're shipping from and to the same location, your shipping times are going to decrease dramatically and your customers are simply going to get their products so much faster, they will love you for that. They will come back for repeat purchases and they will also refer their friends and their family to purchase from your store. Everybody wants a fast shipping time. Nobody today wants to wait two, three, four weeks to receive their shipment. The fourth thing is that you want to find a supplier that has reliable customer service. When your buyer reaches out to you on any problem that they may have or even if they just have a question about your product and they reach out to you and they ask you that question and you don't have the answer right in front of you, you might need a supplier in some of these cases. So what you're going to do is you're going to reach out to the supplier just like your buyer reached out to you and you want to get a fast answer from your supplier and you also want it to be a reliable answer. For example, if the buyer has an issue with his product and he wants to return it and he wants you to send him a return label and your supplier offers free returns, then you want to reach out to your supplier, ask for a return label and wait for him to send it to you. Now, of course, you want to get a fast response so that you can respond quickly to your customer, the faster, the better. So another thing that you want to be looking for is fast and reliable customer service from your supplier. Next, you want to look for a supplier with a wide product range. We can look for a supplier that's strictly in one niche, in one category, and that is okay. But if you're just starting off with your drop shipping business, you need to test the market. You need to start to see what's selling. You need to learn what's trending more and what products are not trending at all. Maybe you thought they would sell, but then you learn the other way. And that is usually what happens when you start drop shipping. You learn about a whole bunch of products that you never thought possible would ever sell. Some of them you don't even know that they existed, but they are hot selling products. And you only found out from working with multiple suppliers and seeing a trend in one of them. So another thing that you want to do here is look for suppliers with a wide product range. It's good to start off with a general store and test out the market, test out different categories. Don't only try to sell what you think will sell, but go with the facts, go with the data, go with product research. So if you open a general store with more than one category, meaning more than one niche, and you're selling out a whole bunch of random stuff, but you're actually testing out the market, this is one of the best ways to get those early sales when you just started off and start to learn what's selling on the market. So suppliers with a wide product range will give you an easier time when looking for products to add to your store, and not just once again, go on one specific niche, one specific category that you think will sell, and that will pretty much end your story. So wide product range is a very good thing to have to test the market, but not only that, if you want to add more products similar to one product that is selling for you, and of course that is a good strategy as soon as you sell a product, right away, go to look for more products that are similar to that one to multiply your chances of selling again and again and again while continuing to test the market on the other side. So a wide product range will give you the ability to add more products similar to those that are selling for you. There are many advantages to having a supplier with a wide product range, so be sure to look out for that when looking for drop shipping suppliers. The last two things is high quality products and of course good product prices. We want to stay competitive in the market and we don't want to sell at really, really expensive prices because then our customers are going to look elsewhere. And on the other hand, like I said, we also need high quality products, so we want to look for suppliers that actually have customer reviews where you can see customers, other people who bought from those suppliers and the reviews that they left for them. Now some suppliers may not have this feature, so you will just have to start doing business with them slowly in the beginning, test them out, you can even order some products to your home and see the quality of the products before deciding to list them on your stores. So high quality products and of course affordable pricing. Now those are all of the important things that make up a good drop shipping supplier. Now let's get down to the mix and start listing the top 25 drop shipping suppliers that you should be working with. Starting with the first one, Aliexpress. If you are new to the drop shipping scene, you probably still know about Aliexpress as a consumer. We have a lot of Chinese sellers who are actually selling these products from a third party Chinese supplier. So they are actually even drop shipping to us and we are drop shipping to our audience. That is how it works and that is what's going on with Aliexpress. So it is an online marketplace, lots and lots of online sellers, most of whom are drop shipping to you. But that is completely fine because those are Chinese agents who actually know some or a little bit of English so that they can actually communicate with you because the people that they're buying from are other Chinese sellers who probably don't speak English too well and that is why they do not sell directly to you. Now Aliexpress has millions of products in pretty much any category you can think of. They are very drop shipping friendly so you don't have to worry about using them as a supplier in your drop shipping business and they give you full drop shipping support. They also have a drop shipping center where you can learn about what products are trending today. All of this is completely free and of course subscription does not cost any money so simply sign up to their website and start buying once you start making orders. It's very easy to import your products from Aliexpress to your drop shipping store especially if you're using AutoDS with all of its quick importing options and once again that way you're going to save lots and lots of time when you're trying to test out the market using Aliexpress's products in your drop shipping store. So do your product research head on over to Aliexpress read the seller reviews read the customer reviews for their products make sure that you are working with high quality suppliers that can also ship to worldwide most of the suppliers can and many suppliers on Aliexpress many sellers also have global online warehouses so you don't only have to ship from China it does not work like that anymore today they have warehouses in the US in Europe in the United Kingdom and in other places around the world so check that out I'm sure that you've done so by now but if you haven't check out Aliexpress over a hundred million products very low cost global warehouses to enable faster shipping and that Aliexpress drop shipping center to help you find trending products to sell some of the cons from Aliexpress is that you have long shipping times from China as I just mentioned they do have multiple warehouses around the world but most of the products the big majority are still going to be sourced from China and only when they have some good best sellers they usually ship them to global warehouses worldwide but once again most of the products will still be coming from China so take that into consideration before starting to work with Aliexpress number two on the list is Amazon now remember some of the suppliers that we're going to be going over in this video are retail suppliers some of them are wholesale suppliers and there is a difference between them retail suppliers like Amazon they do support the drop shipping business model but not from one marketplace to another so this is one thing to consider before starting to drop from Amazon now tens of thousands of drop shipping are still dropping from Amazon from one marketplace to another that is simply the way that it goes and what can I tell you it is still a possible thing to do if you do not want to do it that is completely up to you but do keep in mind that if you open up a buyer account and you're creating multiple orders per day to different addresses then they will lock down your buyer account at one point or another and then you'll have to open up another buyer account on another IP address or just simply use the fulfilled by AutoDS service where you don't have to have any buyer accounts and AutoDS will use their buyer accounts to fulfill your orders automatically as soon as they come in and also offer one click returns and of course 100% automatic tracking updates with tracking conversions so that is one way to put up with it you can also have your own buyer accounts like I mentioned you can also automate your orders with your buyer accounts you can have multiple buyer accounts there are many ways to go around it and lots and lots of dropshippers are doing it as long as you have the right information and you're doing it the right way but of course once again it is completely up to you because Amazon has their policies so some of the pros that we have from Amazon is a massive selection of products very fast shipping times especially if you're using Amazon's Prime service but that does come with a monthly subscription so if you do not want to have a monthly subscription do not use the Prime service because here we're talking about free dropshipping suppliers and you can use Amazon for free any order over $25 has free shipping within the United States so you don't really need Prime for that and Prime will simply ship all of your orders no matter how much they cost to anyone and anywhere in the United States in a matter of two days that makes a lot of customers happy and if you are dropshipping from Amazon make sure to use the gift option that way the buyer will not receive a receipt with how much you paid for the order but they will receive it in Amazon's box packaging now most of them will not care 99% of your customers will not care about the products packaging so don't worry about that but do know that that's another thing when dropshipping from Amazon so massive selection of products quick shipping they have the best seller section which helps you find best sellers and they have great customer service especially of course if you're using Prime you simply open up a chat window let them know what's wrong and a live representative will help now let me show you what that best seller section is so right here on Amazon's website we can click on best sellers and this is good for product research even if you do not want to dropship from Amazon so this is how the best seller section works you can simply see all of the products that are selling well from all over different categories and if you hop into a good category that is good for the dropshipping business model like patio lawn and garden for example then you can dive deeper into it let's go with farm and ranch and pest control under that we'll go with bug zappers now check out all of these best selling bug zappers all of these products are proven you can tell by the amount of reviews and this gives you a good indication of what products to go for in the bug zappers niche so you can grab these products you can even grab all of them if it went good for you if you really want to research this whole niche and grab it all using the autodesk extension right here for that you need the autodesk chrome helper extension so head over to google write down autodesk helper extension and download and install this free tool once installed and when you're searching for products on your chrome browser simply click on the extension and click on extract and now you see all of the 74 products on this page got extracted into this extension i'm going to click export as csv and a csv file was downloaded onto my computer now simply on the autodesk platform i will click on add products and upload csv then i will import that csv file and all of the 74 products will be on my drafts page where i can optimize it and publish to my store in a matter of seconds so even if you want to import one product a hundred products or a thousand products and even more of course you can do all of that in just a couple of clicks and it's going to save you an enormous amount of time so that's just a quick explanation on how to save some time but let's go on with the bestseller so with that strategy in particular you can add those products to your store really quickly and easily and test test test the market so once again amazon's bestseller section is a great way to find some bestsellers even if you want to use amazon as your supplier and even if you don't another good place is inside their bestsellers they have a movers and shakers column and this is going to show you the top ranking products from the past 24 hours so this is really what's trending right now in the last day we don't know what happened with these products two days ago but in the last 24 hours this guitar bundle right here is selling well this karaoke machine this electric gel ball blaster and these are all good products for the dropshipping business model so once again here you can learn what products to sell if you want to use amazon as your supplier you can easily import those products to your store and if you simply want to grab these ideas and search for them using other dropshipping suppliers that of course is a good option too so there's more than one thing that you can do here amazon is number two on our list let's move on to number three here we've got banggood this one is a dropshipping friending supplier like aliexpress that's simply waiting for dropshippers like you and i to go to their platform and start reselling their products one of the things that i love about banggood is that they also have millions of products that you can resell at good affordable prices they also have worldwide houses with fast shipping they started only in china but just like aliexpress they're starting to expand worldwide and they also offer cashback promotions and exclusive deals especially to dropshippers so this is what their front page looks like all of the products here are good for the dropshipping business model and that of course is different from suppliers like amazon where they have categories that you can simply not resell like you cannot sell amazon devices and accessories you cannot sell amazon launch pad you cannot sell apps and games and you cannot sell of course things that are dangerous things that are hazardous things that are trademarked copyrighted you can find so much of those on amazon so you really do have to tread with experience before doing that but with other suppliers that make it easy for you like banggood it should be no problem whatsoever everything here is good for the dropshipping business model so all you have to do is simply dig in product research add them to your store start to test the market and work your way up from there now some of the cons of using banggood is that they have return costs so if the buyer wants to return the product it's not going to be easy at least it's not going to be free it's also not free on aliexpress unless the product really arrived damage and you need to send photos and images to prove it and in other places like amazon it's actually really quick and easy you can return products no questions asked especially when using the prime service you don't even have to give a reason you can even open the product use it for a few days and return it within 30 days even if the product was open and used for whatever reason and amazon will take it back free returns and 100% refund sent as soon as the product returns so take that also into consideration what are the return policies are the policies that this supplier is offering me are they good enough for me to pass on on my dropshipping business another thing is that they have limited payment options for the dropshipping program so if you join their dropshipping program you'll only be limited to the options to the payment options that they can support and some of the products on banggood simply don't have any warranty at all now some of these cons may be issues for some but for most dropshippers they're not because most of your buyers are not going to be returning their products and if you have a product that returns more than once you want to check out the reason you want to dive into it maybe it's not a very good product to have maybe your product page didn't really explain what this product is or some of the features that it has or that it's missing so you want to be at the look out for what's being returned why it's being returned and see if you can come up with a good solution for it if you cannot simply remove that product and continue testing out others another supplier is CJ dropshipping they are similar to banggood and aliexpress another dropshipping friendly supplier that is simply waiting for you to come add their products and start reselling them now besides their option to offer fast shipping from and to different locations different warehouses around the world CJ dropshipping also has a sourcing solution so if for example you have a product that's selling really well on your selling channel and now you actually want to order stock from that one product or you want CJ dropshipping to hold that stock for you in their warehouses they can also do that for you and then you will have the exclusive benefit of being the only one with a certain product so that is one thing that you can also do with CJ dropshipping and they can also help you find a product using all kinds of different suppliers mainly Chinese suppliers but also with warehouses around the world they can help you find a better source for a product of course they can also help you source that product to their warehouses so if you have a product that's selling well and you want to look for other products that are similar to it they can do that work for you and then give you a good price to help source that product so they also have sourcing solutions which is very very nice and they also support print on demand so if you're interested in the print on demand solution which means that you can sell products and then print a customized graphic on it on that accessory like a coffee mug saying world's best mom and you can have your customers say what they want to be printed on it or you can print in advance and sell unique products with printed graphics on them so CJ dropshipping also supports print on demand products which is very very nice a lot of customers do appreciate print on demand products and are looking for it CJ dropshipping also offers quality control so they actually inspect the products that are coming into their warehouses making sure that they are made of high quality and last but not least CJ dropshipping also helps with white label branding so while this doesn't mean that you can completely brand your products they can't help you white label brand your products meaning that you can ask them to make some change maybe even to just the products packaging especially if you are sourcing the products through them they can help you get a label on the products packaging but of course you do need to negotiate with them and continue your work from there but all in all CJ dropshipping brings an extra flavor to the house when it comes to being a dropshipping friendly supplier number five on our list is Alibaba now I'm going to start skimming a little bit faster through the supplier since we still have 20 more to go but I will go over all of the main issues so you have Alibaba and they are very good as a wholesale supplier but do keep in mind that Alibaba has two options they have dropshipping options so products that are already in stock and they're ready to sell them so you can dropship them one by one so here on Alibaba's website if I just click on ready to ship then I can see all of the products that are in stock that I can start dropshipping them right now like you see this product right here this soccer ball cost $3 to $9 per unit but I can order them by one piece seven day dispatch and one piece at a time so the shipping isn't so slow considering that it's coming from China and I can dropship by buying them one by one on the other hand they also have low moq customization with 15 day dispatch because here they're actually giving you something that you can customize whether it's the product itself or the packaging and really brand it so instead of white label you're moving over to private label but this does require a minimum order quantity meaning you're going to have to buy two, four, five, maybe 10 pieces but it is a low moq so you won't have to buy that much but once again if you do want to buy before you try I do recommend trying first and then buying so start with the drop shooting business model if you see something that's working well and you want to have exclusivity to that product then you can think about sourcing it and buying a minimum order quantity so that is what Alibaba is good for it is the main site to Aliexpress Aliexpress is just a sister site to Alibaba and in Alibaba you can simply find wholesale manufacturers and help them and even create a product for you once you start having good sales on a specific product but once again everything that you have on Aliexpress you can find them first on Alibaba it all starts with this website and from here the products move on to Amazon to Aliexpress to eBay and to other marketplaces around the world but the manufacturers are sitting right here and they're waiting for drop shippers to contact them and get to work so simply search for whatever you're looking for for example you can search for gaming pad and here you're going to see a whole bunch of manufacturers who are selling this product so you're not going to see stores but you're actually going to see manufacturers so here for example I'm going to click on this one you can see that a lot of people are leaving positive reviews for this seller 4.8 from 259 reviews and this seller's been around on Alibaba for 17 years and he is a verified supplier so if you were looking to purchase a mouse pad then this would be a good seller to go for here you have the prices how much he charges for 100 to 500 pieces just 69 cents now here you guys can start to get an understanding of where the product start the manufacturing stage and how much it costs a manufacturer to produce goods so here you're actually creating the product from scratch and you can reach out to the manufacturer contact the supplier tell him hey I want it like this I want to have this graphics on it I want it to be in these dimensions I want it to have this weight I want to use this material you can completely customize your products and this is where everything starts so reach out to them let them know what you want and start creating your store from the ground up Alibaba hasn't always will be one of my favorite suppliers to go to to learn about product trends get in contact with suppliers start negotiating a good deal and start to get your business to work the last thing that I love about Alibaba is that they have a comfortable payment system and they also have buyer and seller guarantee so if you want to put a few thousand dollars as a down payment and you're not sure about the supplier because you haven't dealt with them before Alibaba will give you protection if you didn't get everything that you ordered in the quality and as described in the product page listing or whatever the supplier promised you if you're not getting exactly that Alibaba will help you with the return process or with the cancellation or with the refund or whatever it may be so you don't have to worry about your money if you're using Alibaba's payment system with their buyer and seller protection number six in our list is Walmart now Walmart is not so different from Amazon where there's simply a marketplace that you can use to drop ship their items now they are a retail marketplace so it's like Amazon where you've also got a whole bunch of categories that are not fit for the drop shipping business model but on the other hand you have a lot of departments you have a lot of categories that are fit and millions of products that you can choose from lots of American shop on Walmart now again remember they are not as friendly just like Amazon they can close down your buyer account once you they notice that you are drop shipping but on the other hand there are other ways to do it just like I explained with Amazon and there are thousands of drop shippers who are also doing it so it is your choice you choose who you want to work with but do know that Amazon has a crazy selection of products and trending products at that many many sellers that are selling on their platform it's not like one big warehouse just like Amazon you've got many sellers using Walmart's warehouses to ship out their products and here you can take advantage of it as a drop shipper so one of the things that I love about Walmart they have a huge catalog of products that are already said they also have free next day delivery so this is a great service it is what it is it's next day delivery and that is what the US customers are going to enjoy now remember it is not good for worldwide you cannot ship from US to to the United Kingdom in a day you just keep in mind that the free next day delivery is only for the US audience so when you're drop shipping from Walmart to anywhere in the United States you can enjoy next day delivery or better your buyers will enjoy next day delivery from the product that you are drop shipping from Walmart another thing that I love about them is their price matching policy so if for example you just ordered a product for $25 so somebody bought a product from your store for let's say $45 you paid Walmart $25 and you shipped it to your end customer now the next day or the next couple of days you see that the price dropped on Walmart from $25 to $20 you can simply reach out to their support let them know that the price dropped and you just purchased that product and they will refund the difference back to your account so that's a great thing to have and a nice way to make some extra profit after you made the sale supplier number eight is the home depot they are similar in terms of how they see the drop shipping seen just like Amazon and Walmart but once again with the right knowledge with the right experience you still can drop ship from the home depot especially when using the Fulfill Bottle Diaz service so you don't really need to worry about buyer accounts and all of that but of course it is your choice to choose and the home depot is the suppliers that thousands of drop shippers are utilizing up until today and also of course moving forward so this is the home niche if you want to sell only in the home niche or also in the home niche the home depot should definitely be one of your suppliers they've got a large product collection of course all in the home niche so you can see right here super savings, appliances, baths and faucets, building materials decor and furniture, doors and windows lawn and garden, kitchen, heating and cooling, hardware everything that has to do around the home niche another good thing about home depot is that they also have a tax exemption program so you can avoid paying taxes of course if you are eligible for that simply give them the documentation that they're asking for and you will get tax exempt and here's just a quick look at their front page so as you can see everything here is around the home niche so home depot is one of the best suppliers when it comes to the home niche but once again not as drop shipping friendly as other suppliers so if you're new to the field learn how to work with them otherwise start with the easier ones and then move on to other suppliers like Amazon, Home Depot and Walmart that we talked about that you can't use to fulfill by AutoDS service if you do not want to use your own buyer accounts and of course there are other solutions to get it done but that is of course the easiest solution to automate it, make your profits and not have to worry about account locks and suspensions number eight on our list we've got Etsy now this is a relatively new player to the field they started as simply an art supplier platform for arts and images with paintings and things like that but today it's of course much more than that and you can use Etsy to drop ship their products on your selling channel some of Etsy's pros they have custom made and innovative products you can find products there that you won't be able to find using other suppliers they also have higher profit margins because there's not much competition because the products are unique to them at least most of their products are exclusive and unique and they also offer free and fast shipping in the United States so Etsy is another good supplier that you should be thinking about especially if you want to sell images photos things like that anything around the art scene here's Etsy's website ranging from personalized gifts to home decor clothing jewelry furniture and whatever products they have on sale let's for example go to furniture this is a high ticket niche where you can really make some substantial profits but on the other hand they're using a currency converter which isn't that practical for this video but as you see they have lots of different furniture and this isn't the same type of furniture that you're also going to find on amazon walmart home depot and others these are customly crafted home decor products meaning you will make a lot of profit from selling them because no other competitor is some of the cons is inconsistent return policies and that is simply because everyone from there is a different seller that can make their own rules so that could kind of become an inconvenience when you have returns and things like that you also have the risk of having limited quantities since these artists are creating sometimes just one unit or sometimes just a few or several you don't have that many in stock so if one product starts to sell and starts to sell well it may very well run out of stock soon and the third con if you want to call it that is that they are relatively new to the market now i already mentioned that but they are big they are growing in numbers significantly every year and i don't see them going anywhere anytime soon number nine on our list is ebay so ebay you can use them as your selling platform so you can actually sell your products from other suppliers on ebay but you can also use ebay as your supplier and use their products sell them on selling channels like Shopify wix facebook marketplace facebook shops and others so ebay has millions of products everything that you can think of pretty much half of their platform is dropshippers and the other half is regular sellers retail sellers and so forth but you simply have a massive selection of products everything of everything is available on ebay they have great customer service with buyer and seller protection they have quick global shipping it's easy to find sellers who can ship quickly there and it's also easy to spy on your competition from ebay so let's say for example i want to sell a product and i'm thinking about the pet's niche so let's see what dog hats are selling for example i'm going to search for dog hat and this is just an example of course this is how i do my product research so you search for whatever product you want make sure that the ship too is whatever country you're targeting so for example i want to target the us audience and i also want to ship from the us so i don't care about what the chinese suppliers what the chinese competitors are doing here i have someone who's selling dog hats from china from three to five dollars it's really cheap it's going to be hard to compete with but because he's selling from china it's not my competition so i don't really need to worry about that buyers are not going to buy from there if they want to have fast shipping the price won't matter at this point so what i'm going to do first on the left side is i'm going to scroll down to item location and here i'm going to choose us only because i want to ship this product from the us so now i'm seeing dog hats at eight dollars nine dollars but not at two to three dollars anymore so now it makes a little bit more sense but let's continue the search let's see what types of dog hats are selling so i see all these listings but i don't know which ones of them are actually selling so once again on the left side i'm going to scroll down and i'm going to click on sold items so i'm going to click on sold and it's also going to click on completed for me so i want to unclick that right after so i'm going to click on sold you see that completed was also clicked in i'm going to scroll down to that again and i'm going to unclick on completed because these are items that went out of stock after they sold out so i actually want to see products that are in stock and that are selling so i've got this mini dog sombrero party hat that's pretty funny and this product is actually selling the last time it sold was on august 13th which was just the other day even though right now in the us it still is august 13th so you can see that it sold today and so did this dog baseball cap right here so what i'm going to do is i can see that all these items here all these dog hats have been selling in the past day or couple of days so i'm going to look for a pattern here and look for a certain consistency a pattern and go to my suppliers and get more products like that like if i would see a few dog baseball hats that are selling i would see what types of dog hats are selling then i would go to my suppliers websites and i would look for them or maybe i would see a few sombrero hats or maybe this seller just found a new trend and i want to try that too so this seller already sold 41 units of the sombrero hat and this is just another way for you to learn what products can sell today i'm pretty sure that when i search for dog hats none of you thought about sombrero hats but now that idea just popped into your mind because i just did one minute of product research so that's another thing that i love about ebay you can easily spy on the competition there and see what's selling and how you can compete as a drop shipper you'd go to your suppliers website and look for dog hats or dog sombreros and so forth number 10 is casco casco is very similar in terms of their rules to amazon, walmart and home depot so there are a retail drop shipping supplier that you can also use to drop ship their goods from them on your selling channels but of course you do want to learn how to do it the right way they've got a wide range of products they've also got some unique products that you won't find at other suppliers websites they've got lots of discounts that are running all the time they've got great customer support when you reach out to them for help and they have a long 90 day return policy which is more than any buyer could ask for they also offer fast shipping times now to help you learn how to drop ship using all of the suppliers that I'm going over in this video you also have links to them as you can see right here casco to ebay, casco to Shopify and the same goes for pretty much every supplier that I'm going over so if you want to read about them if you want to learn how to work with that specific supplier or learn more about it how you can scale and automate and optimize use the links in the blog article linked right below this video next on our list we've got Wayfair a super drop shipping friendly supplier they started as drop shippers themselves and created a drop shipping store and slowly but surely turned that into a service provider for other drop shippers so they know what's hot they know what's selling well check out Wayfair use them as your drop shipping supplier all of the products that they sell in all of their categories are fit for the drop shipping business model so you don't have to worry about what I can sell and what I cannot sell for that you also have AutoDS offering an extra layer of protection for every time you add something that you're not allowed to sell AutoDS will tell you hey this product is vero for this and that reason like let's say the manufacturer's trademark are you sure that you want to import this product and then of course you can choose if you want to continue or not but with suppliers like Wayfair you won't have to worry too much about that because once again everything there is drop shipping friendly some of their pros that they offer free two-day shipping for most of their products they have warehouses all around the world meaning that you can ship quickly domestically as I've spoken about in this video they have a huge product range the my way program which costs a little bit of money you don't have to have it but if you do you will not have to pay for shipping which usually comes around to about $5 for any order below $49 the good thing is it's a very cheap program so if you're drop shipping a lot of products from my way I would recommend going for the annual subscription for $30 a year but if you're not drop shipping a lot of items from them you can either take that extra $5 shipping charge which AutoDS will calculate automatically for you or you can sell products above $49 so you'll never have to pay extra for shipping or of course you can join my way program number 12 on our list is Target another retail drop shipping supplier with multiple warehouses and distribution centers around the world they also have some high quality products and fast two-day shipping for orders above $35 so this is a supplier that you may want to drop ship medium to high ticket prices from just so you can benefit from real fast shipping Target also offers just like Costco a 90 day return warranty so this of course is very comfortable to use and your customers will appreciate it and this could be the extra reason or that extra push that they needed to go ahead and purchase that product from your store so if you're using suppliers that offer 90 day returns make sure that that is visible to your buyers too inside your products policies 13 on our list is Overstock Overstock is an American supplier founded in 1999 and they are simply a large online retail platform that you can use to get high quality products a price match policy just like Walmart so if the price changes after you purchase the product reach out to their customer support and they will refund the difference back into your account so that is an extra profit in your pocket and they also offer fast shipping times now Overstock is drop shipping friendly meaning you don't have to worry about the products categories and the products that they sell everything here is drop shipping friendly just remember to play by the rules and if you're drop shipping products to a country that prohibits certain things make sure you know those things before drop shipping to that certain country number 14 is Costway Costway is another super drop shipping friendly supplier with a drop shipping program meaning in that program you're gonna have much better discounts for drop shippers they've got over 8,000 products that you can resell a drop shipping agreement that they will offer to you so if you're drop shipping on a marketplace like eBay and eBay may sometimes ask you for a contract with your supplier then Costway all you have to do is reach out to them and they will offer that agreement to you so they'll send you the document you can show it to eBay and get that document approved as you can see right here they've got all kinds of categories like furniture, outdoor products, home appliances sports products, fitness home and garden, pet supplies and more everything here is drop shipping friendly and this is another great supplier that you need to consider once again another free drop shipping supplier none of these suppliers cost money some of them do have memberships as I mentioned but you do not need to join them you do not have to be a member in order to drop ship from their websites number 15 is Lowe's another retailer that you can use but here not every product is drop shipping friendly most are but you do need to know your way around here and avoid drop shipping from big brands like Samsung and Whirlpool that like we can see right here but of course if you have some experience in drop shipping or if you know about vero products which you can and what you cannot sell simply hop into that category that you know is good for example patio furniture let's go to patio conversation sets that's what they're calling it now and then you get all of these chairs and tables that are good for outdoor and you can drop ship them now looking at the price tag here you can see that this is a high ticket category so every sell you're gonna make from here will be backed up by a lot of profit Lowe's offers fast and efficient shipping they also offer business credit cards if you want to apply for one they also have a pro loyalty program which you don't have to join once again if you don't want it but you will get better coverage there and a protection plan which simply protects your purchases with one to three business day shipping or two day shipping inside the US you cannot go wrong with a supplier like Lowe's number 16 we've got Sam's Club here you have programs like savings and rewards a 365 day return window for some extreme cases but hey one year returns why not and fast and free shipping now this is another retailer so you do have to look around and cherry pick the products that are fit for the drop shipping business model but Sam's clubs you can find a lot of products that you can't sell from there number 17 is DHgate DHgate offers a lot of low price products offering wholesale pricing on many of those products and they simply have a massive network of warehouses around the world so you can ship quickly from and to the country that you are targeting here is what their front page looks like it kind of resembles AliExpress's websites where you got the categories and hovering over big windows on the left with the big front banner the categories on top the icons here on the bottom the trust badges and the flash deals so it's very similar to AliExpress but of course they've got products that you won't be able to find there AliExpress has products that you won't be able to find here and it's always good to add more drop shipping friendly suppliers like DHgate and get a higher reach to more products that you won't find using other suppliers next on our list is Gearbest now as you can see right here Gearbest has nice selection of categories like consumer electronics cell phones and accessories outdoors fitness and sports computers tablets home and garden drones toys home improvement tools and so much more clicking on any category will of course take you to its subcategories and you can range by products prices you can also filter by how hot they are rated right now so by product rating by what's trending by the newest products and so forth now Gearbest specializes in electronic products but of course they sell more than that they have over 45 warehouses around the world and they also offer a three day price protection number 19 we've got Vita XL this one is relatively new they've got over 90,000 products a drop shipping XL program and fast shipping if you want to learn about that go to their websites check it out 24 seven deals free delivery and returns for their products let's jump into one category really quick animals and pet supplies and you can see under this category they've got 458 products which isn't as much as other suppliers but the products that you'll find here you will not find them using other suppliers some you will but most you actually won't these products here are customized and it's hard to find the same exact ones through other suppliers so you can stand out from the competition sell products from Vita XL and most of the suppliers that I'm mentioning in this video actually all of the suppliers that I'm mentioning in this video you can use them to automate your drop shipping business with them so you can use Vita XL and any one of the other suppliers that I have talked about or will talk about and automate your drop shipping business with them what does that mean this means that you can use all of these suppliers grab products from them use the easy imported tool that I showed you earlier and import them to your store within a matter of seconds now after they're on your store using the Autodesk platform if you're not sure about it you don't know what it means go to Autodesk.com read about what we have there see all of the benefits of using a drop shipping automation tool and you'll also enjoy price and stock monitoring on the millions of products that you can sell from these suppliers so if the price changes or if the stock ever changes the same changes will be applied to your stores and of course the fast importing that we already talked about and automatic orders where you can simply enjoy order automation your orders will get automated as soon as they come in tracking information will get updated so even while you're sleeping you make a sale your product will be purchased from your supplier's website it will get shipped to your end customer and you're still sleeping and as soon as tracking information is available from your supplier Autodesk will grab it and update your store accordingly so your customer will see the tracking information it will also get updated on Autodesk and that's pretty much it order automation you will enjoy that and save so much time doing that with the product importing with price and stock monitoring price automation settings great customer service and so much more so check out what drop shipping automation can give you and how you can scale your business using any one of these suppliers with their millions and their millions of their products and simply have everything 100% automated now you can have the time to focus on how to scale your business and how to optimize your business and how to grow this network instead of spending all day just adding the products checking if the prices change checking if the stock change and doing all of these small little day to day tasks that will consume up easily all of your time day by day and you simply will not be able to grow supplier number 20 on our list is light in the box some of their advantages include low cost products reliable shipping and great customer support on the other hand the return policy may not always be as friendly so if you haven't heard about the supplier before check them out you've got all of their categories right here on the left side and lots and lots of subcategories for example let's jump really quick to smartwatch screen protectors and here you can see a nice list including customer reviews which is always a great thing to have because then you actually have some social proof on is this product made of high quality or not light in the box is another supplier that you want to check out number 21 is mini in the box so just like we have light in the box we also have mini in the box their websites look relatively similar and they pretty much offer similar things similar categories but of course different products one of the great things about mini in the box is many of their products are being sourced directly from the manufacturer or from the supplier so it means lower price for us as dropshippers to pay global shipment so we can ship our products worldwide and they've also got some pretty good customer service from our experience of reaching out to them number 22 is red bubble red bubble offers a lot of print on demand products which is a nice thing to have a huge art database and global delivery options so this is kind of a mix between cj dropshipping and etsy where you've got print on demand and lots of art products this is their front page you can see that they are selling a lot of art products and this is another supplier that you should check out if you want to sell unique products that other suppliers simply do not have number 23 is pure formulas this is a health supplement niche so do be careful when selling products from pure formulas because there are many markets around the world that simply will not allow you to import all kinds of oils or liquids but other countries will allow you so you do want to learn the rules about where I'm dropshipping to and what I can dropship to there but if you do have experience in the vitamins in the supplements niche and you're looking for another supplier to add to that product line pure formulas is the next supplier that you should be looking at number 24 is kmart all of americans know about kmart but if you're dropshipping from outside the u.s maybe you didn't hear about them before but this is another supplier that you can use to dropship their products now it is a retail supplier so they're like amazon, walmart, home depot, casco and others so you do want to stay away from the big brands you do want to dive deep into each category and realize what you can and what you cannot sell from there but if you do have that experience and if you are using autodesk for that extra layer of protection then there's really not much to worry about here they've got a large catalog of products and they also offer 60 day returns which is better than most suppliers like amazon last on our list is wish wish has been around not for a long time but also not for too short and one of the biggest stereotypes about wish is that they have a lot of low quality products which is the same stereotype that we got from alibaba and deal extreme and other chinese suppliers like these that have been around since the start and aliexpress for example many people were complaining that all the products are in low quality and many people still until today do not want to buy products from china because they simply think that anything that they order from china will come out in low quality now granted many products do come out low quality in china one reason is because they're cheap but on the other hand you also have a lot of high quality products from china even cars are being manufactured in china and being imported hybrids and electricos are being manufactured in china your iphone is being manufactured in china and many many other products so it really depends on what product you're buying from what manufacturer any product that costs a dollar or two dollars or less is probably going to be in low quality but even some medium to high ticket products can also be in low quality when the originals cost two or three times more so if you try to buy products that are trying to compare with apple airpods like some earbuds they're not going to be as good quality as the airpods but on the other hand they're also not going to cost as much so wish is another chinese supplier with very very low price products some are so low price that it's simply hard to believe but on the other hand many times the pictures lie you're going to get something different than what you see in the pictures you will be getting a similar product but it's not exactly like it was in the picture so do watch out for this some sellers are good here just like other platforms you have to learn how to find the good sellers from the bad ones you're not seeing the right currency because they're giving me a localized currency but this carpet for example this rug got 439 reviews with four and a half stars and you can read the reviews so you can see that it's real and you also have some images from people who actually bought this rug so you can see that it does correspond to the image so of course there are steps that you can take to measure if this is a good supplier if this is a good seller or not because here you've got a whole bunch of sellers selling a whole bunch of products so if you hook up with the right seller find a good product with good reviews you will be able to drop ship it but one thing that you do want to look out for is moqs some of these suppliers do not ship out one by one this one for example selling these dark welding glasses they do sell one set each but other products will require a minimum order quantity now most products are not like this but this is something that you want to look out for so Wish has some really low prices and they also offer exclusive offers and gift cards the sellers still have some work to do there and it's not as easy to start on Wish as it is to start on AliExpress also when it comes to product research but Wish is another player to the field and they are expected to continue growing throughout the years all of these suppliers that I went over in this video all 25 of them are absolutely free to sell their products some of them as I mentioned are retail some of them are wholesale some of them are dropshipping friendly and some of them are not so dropshipping friendly but either way you can dropship using all of these suppliers as long as you learn their rules so I hope that this video helped you understand who are the top 25 free dropshipping suppliers that you can use today to resell millions and millions of products on your store do not forget about dropshipping automation without that you will not be able to enjoy the benefits of price stock monitoring automatic orders quick product importing price automation easy customer service and so much more check us out at autods.com do not forget to subscribe to our youtube channel to always learn about the next step in your e-commerce business thank you for watching and good luck choosing your next suppliers


get a winner's order! I actually almost got my share there. That wasn't supposed to happen. F*** into the winner's order! Hey, hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. I am so, so excited to watch the rest of this show! If you are unaware, the first episode of the show came out two day as I'm filming this! And hopefully I'm getting this to you! Though it's probably gonna come out tomorrow, which is Saturday for you, the day after the episode That's just because timing and editing and all that and my cat Let's be in the video fairly all right So this video is gonna be a little bit different from a lot of my critical reviews in the past This is going to be more of my thought on the episode, which yeah, that's fair That's what a lot of them. I'm going to do a very very minor spoiler thing at the very end I'm going to timestamp when that ends for if you do not want spoilers for the Falcon and the Winter Soldier I'm gonna do my best to not give spoilers for the most part until my spoiler thing at the end I'm not gonna give specifics. There are minor plot things that you kind of have I have to go into to give my proper thoughts and Review, okay jumping around brain ADHD turn off for a second please But for now here we go my review of episode one of Falcon and the Winter Soldier This episode is so good and set such a good mood for this freaking show Holy crap the episode starts off with Falcon running a mission for the US government That is successful and then it kind of goes from there What I really like is that Falcon is willingly working with the government at the beginning of this episode because he thinks that is the right thing to Do he was a soldier prior to the events of Winter Soldier? It would make sense that after the blip and after the Avengers are effectively disbanded at least from what I can tell So hoping for the young Avengers that he would go back to working with the government to help them You know track down crime and shit like that But one thing I really like about this episode Sam and Bucky do not interact at all in this episode They keep them apart which I thought was a really really good thing for them to do now I'm pretty sure they're gonna meet up either next episode or an episode three and start working together But the fact that they are kept separate throughout the first episode I thought worked really really well because it sets up both of their journey with Sam being his thing trying to help His family after he comes back and Bucky trying to move past his days as the Winter Soldier from there It's just a really really well-told story with a lot of powerful moments in the episode in my opinion Bucky is clearly suffering from some form of PTSD from his time as the Winter Soldier and Sam's story Because he's worked with the government for long enough I'm really excited to see how they're gonna deal with what Sam is gonna have to go through the show perfectly sets up A way to deal with both PTSD and racism and if it's handled well, I am gonna be so happy There are very very few things I did not like in this episode I think the biggest thing I wasn't a massive fan of was we don't get to see Falcon with the shield Like at all at least yet We haven't seen that and I cannot wait to see him actually using the freaking shield in the comics Sam getting past the mantle is one of my favorite moments And I'm super excited to see him take up the mantle at some point in the show because hell Yes, oh man, there are this show perfectly sets up the plot to like the trajectory for all the characters I'm really excited. There was some super soldier stuff happening in this episode. That was great to see overall I am super super excited for this show and I just can't can't get too much into spoilers I'm gonna try and keep this spoiler section as short as I possibly can here right now Spoilers, I am telling you that now. I will repeat once again Spoilers for this episode of Falcon the Winter Soldier skip to this timecode whatever it happens to be to avoid them Have you avoided them are you still here? Don't care so certain specific moments two big key ones that I want to point out There is a character who I think they are hinting at is going to take over the mantle of Falcon from Bucky Bucky, there's a character who I think they are pointing at going to take over the mantle from Sam I believe they are hinting that Sam is going to pass on the Falcon mantle by the end of the show Specifically to a character from the comics who I'm not 100% familiar with I think they're hinting at Sam going to be passing on his mantle to him at least I personally hope so that or We just have two Falcons in the MCU at that from this point on and that's gonna be frigging dope But some of the things that kind of liked were how they dealt with racism in this series Or how it feels like they're dealing with it because the beginning of this episode Sam gives up the shield He willingly gives the shield because he doesn't think that it is right for him to wield Captain America's shield and take on the mantle From him he believes that steves the owner of the shield and that's it steves mantle However at the end of the episode the government the same dudes that are telling Sam Hey, you did the right thing by giving up the shield Captain America should just live on as a symbol gave the shield to the Creepiest-looking douche they could find US agent in this looks like a creepy motherfucker And I'm pretty sure he's in the comics too They didn't even offer this mantle to Sam from the government saying hey you want this no they convinced Sam to give up The shield which had been rightfully given to him by Captain America and then gave it to another white guy I'm pretty sure it has to do with racism personally because it's an old white fuck, but I could be wrong However, I kind of feel like that's where it is going to go in the comics I believe it is a racially motivated thing why they don't want Falcon to have the mantle because I'm pretty sure they tried to take the Mantle in there as well. I'm not 100% again I haven't read this in a minute, and I don't know if I am wrong about that Someone tell me in the comments down below another thing that I am personally really really excited for is that Bucky is clearly suffering from PTSD He's having nightmares from what he did as the winter soldier and he's clearly trying to get past that There was a scene in therapy and I thought was really really nice But there was this also nightmare flashback thing that he had where we see him kill some random innocent dude And then later he's talking to this old Japanese guy guy and he finds out that his son died and then Bucky later goes to his house And he sees a memorial to the guy's kid and it turns out to be the dude that Bucky shot in the past And it's really really sad. It is a really moment, and I just cannot wait to see where the show goes from here Okay spoilers over but yes the first episode of Falcon the Winter Soldier is absolutely amazing my opinion I thought it was a really really well done episode. I thoroughly thoroughly enjoyed the crap out of it It was a lot of fun to watch and I'm really really excited for where the show goes in the future on my personal rating scale I would say that Falcon and the Winter Soldier roles in 18 really really high really really solid first episode not not necessarily the best I still have to see where this goes. Those are my thoughts and minor spoilers for Falcon and the Winter Soldier Episode one. I hope that you all enjoyed this video. I'm hoping to get back into the swing of making videos very very soon I've just had a bit of a mental block going on what I want to do I've been working on other stuff, but I'm ready to get back into the swing of the I'm ready to start making videos again But anyway, that is wow all beside the point But did you guys like Falcon the Winter Soldier episode one? Whatever your thoughts are tell me in the comments down be low And if you guys want to follow me on any of my social medias links to both my Twitter and Instagram are going to be in the Description down below as always, but I hope that you guys have a fan fantastic Falcon day and as always peace out guys


Thank you so much for talking to us today. Thank you. Thank you so much. It's been really long, but it's a kind of radio articles and everything. So it's nice to be a part of this. But thanks to Spice. Pleasure to hear that. And I also appreciate the kind of work you've been doing and just loved your movies. Thank you. Thank you so much. So Ashwini, I was reading about your journey and I understand that you worked in the corporate life for about 15 years or more, and then you thought about getting into films and taking to direction and then production and script writing all of it. So if you could take us back to time and talk to us about how this transition happened for you. So it goes back to a very long time back. And for me, October 2nd actually plays a very important role in my life. So the reason being, of course, it was Gandhi Jainty and there's a great philosophy Gandhi Ji has. And at the same time, I remember I was doing my class 12 commerce. And I had pretty much got a decent percentage in school. And I always wanted to be a painter. But coming from a very middle class family and a family which has a lot of professors and teachers around my mother's a teacher. My father was a double PhD in plant pathology. And he was a professor in teaching in Algeria in French in the French Institute. So you know, so it comes from there. So one of my uncles was an IT has been an IT prof. So my mother wanted me to do my CA, which I don't understand at all. I think nobody's gonna happen because of that. And she wanted me to do my CA study maths and become a charter accountant. But then I kind of retaliated on October 2nd saying that either I finished my 12th, I'm going to leave my 12th, I'm not going to do my give my class 12 exams. And I'm just going to leave everything and just going to start off painting. And she was like, no, no, no, how can we do that? You know, we middle class people, how can we just randomly just leave everything in this go? You know, we need to figure things for you. And she said, okay, you want to do painting, right?  And at the same time, you make money because it's media. And because some of some one of her friends brother wasn't wasn't advertising or something like that. And I still remember very clearly that in class 12, I started interning. She could she made me work, go and start interning in network advertising. That's when I did my first internship. And I didn't know head or tail of it, but I was working for the network advertising event management companies, I was doing a lot of events, designing a lot of events and everything. And from there, I kind of joined Sophia Polytechnic and ended my BFA there, which is bachelor of finance in applied arts. And so while I was working there, while I was studying in Sophia College for five years, after class 12, I was working also. So I was working in network advertising, I was doing a job there. And I was working on doing also internships in Mudra, at that point of time. So I was working and making working and also supporting my school fee college fees is because art itself is very expensive, right from buying camera to getting to a lot of different things. So that's how it started. And by the time I finished my fifth year, it was very clear that whoever gets the gold, this I'm talking about 1999 2000. So it was that time and it was the millennial year I very clearly remember. And it was a thing that you know, if you get the gold, if you like, if you're a goal, if you get the goal, then you get into Oolka or you get into a Chaitra at that point of time, Chaitra, Leo, Benette or no. So these are the three advertising agencies you get to because they get a special preference for anyone who gets gold. And there will be less women who are actually getting into advertising. So a lot of my school, college friends in Sophia's were either getting into graphic design or they were traveling outside the country to do their masters in design and things like that. I wanted to actually go to NID, but I could not because of financial pressure. So and now I teach at NID. So I just I am visiting, I like go every year for one week to teach at do master class in NID. Life was come full circle for you. Full circle for me. So I always tell myself that, you know, if I was not one one teaching side of me and being a prof, I think is always there is because of my background. So I like being in in campuses and having my little Jola. So then I got into Leo Benette as a as a trainee director. It was a time when all the who and who were there, it was Angelo Diaz and everyone if you know anything about advertising and that that period. So I've worked under the best of best people. I learned a lot under KVC, the Arvind Sharma, and the who was who Angelo Diaz, everyone with KVC. And slowly and steadily, obviously, because of I think I'm a hardworking person. So kind of started moving in terms of gradually progressing in in the creative side. And then you become the creative director, then I started handling PNG for a very long time. So most of my brands, I launched Whisper, have a happy period. And then I launched Bella Colestant, home, the hair color, home hair color. And then I launched Fiat, I launched Tata Indicom. I was just talking yesterday to someone they didn't know my profile. And I said that that I just launched your own brand. And they were asking, so what do you do and everything? So it's kind of a little weird. But yeah, you always have to be grounded is because it's glad it's great that people still do not know your journey. So then this makes you work harder. And like, you know, to tell more things, or maybe I don't talk up too much about myself. And that's why spice setting is there. I was very, I was very like the thing that the brand you're handling, I launched that brand. So it was like, okay, so. So yeah, so then then I then I worked on Sony entertainment television for a very long time. So I was I stuck to where I work. So I wasn't in Burnett for like 16 years. And I, I was heading Bombay, ECD, and I was handling ASEAN Rejoice. I was just doing a lot of things. I was at Cannes, I was everywhere, wherever.  So I think because of my bosses, Kevi Shreeder and Arvind Sharma, who used to really encourage women, you know, to be heading brands and to be heading, talking to clients and everything.  So those kind of things and I was even almost going to settle a shift to Bangkok to handle the ASEAN region. But then I fell in love with Nitesh and I decided not to pursue that. So, so that's what happened. And just when I was going to go to Bangkok, everything was set. And then I kind of realized that what is more important, you know, to have a companion or to move ahead and do this. But I think life has always has given you choices and the questions which needs to be asked to yourself. So I think at that time, more than my career, having a family was more important. So, so I so I chose Nitesh over Thailand. I'm getting a very lucrative job in Thailand. So, so yeah, but then he keeps saying that that, you know, this, if this was not happened, then this would not happen. So then I started handling Sony entertainment television and I was handling the brand I've launched about what some 170, 80 shows. Wow. Right from, I worked with her very closely on redefining how do you look at promotion, promotional ads, promotional campaigns. So right from, from calling it promos for a fiction show, we started calling it ads, you know, we, we had an idea for a story. And that's what I think my interest for storytelling and to tell stories because we anyways used to write stories. We were brand people. We understood clients, we understood research, we understood marketing, PR, everything around it is because we were, we were custodians of a brand. And so we used to, it was like a baby every brand was like a baby. And then when I moved on to handling Sony entertainment television, I kind of realized there were a lot more stories to tell and the more and more we were talking about the stories. And I was telling a story for Indian Idol every year. I was telling a story for Konvanega Karodpati, but almost I think this is the first year we have not done a campaign for them. So, but otherwise for the past 12 years, it was all, all work. And that year I did a campaign for Konvanega Karodpati where I insisted to our client who are amazing clients who understood what it was to see at that point of time. This I'm talking about 2016, 15, 13, 12, 13. And we had a KBC campaign where it was basically the whole idea that because of where you come from, you can ever see small. If you do not know how to speaking, it doesn't mean that your knowledge is less, you can still move ahead. So I stood to the client that, you know, what we want one, which would be a woman on the, on the hot seat. She needs to be there and she needs to break diversities in terms of, because I had never seen a woman on the hot seat and we're talking, her talking to Amitabh Bachar would be such a great strategy to have, to have more women on the hot seat. And now you have so many women there. The client bought into the idea and that's how we said, we got this girl from Haryana and it was her story about at that point of time, there was this really serious issue of, you know, not having a girl in the family, eliminating the girl baby before she's born is because they need more boys to carry forward the business or whatever. And things have changed considerably now from what it was and what it is now. So Laurie was about this girl from Haryana where the father wants her to like, you know, just get married and move, move out of home. And so her, her place is in the kitchen.   And they dragged me into the room. They literally dragged me into the room and I thought maybe you can really nice, you know, women who are very beautiful faces and they said that, why have you come here? And I said, because I make ads and ads. So I said, yes, I have two kids. No, I said yes. So I said, yes. So and then one of the women very quietly told me because she didn't want anyone else to hear it outside the, outside the room, she said, you know, be a beard, but now she would be here. She would go to the good. And I have taken care of her.  She can do the rest, but she doesn't want me to read it and she's being bearded. That made me realize that there is so much more for us to tell us like beyond the money we make beyond the position we have. And I think I was very, I was very, maybe I didn't have the money. My family didn't have the money, but they still, but my mother had the education. My mother had the, the, the, the foresight that, you know, that my daughter needs to be where she needs to be. And I felt that if, if, if my voice could, could translate into so many more voices where, where so many girls could have a choice coming from not so privileged backgrounds, maybe, maybe, maybe there is something more there than me, than me continuing to do what I do really well. But was that my purpose? I don't think so. That was my purpose. Cause my purpose had always, has always been, like I always say, I'm a very empathizing creator. And yes, I am pretty, pretty much I handle my finances really well. I, I write from the beginning when I was owning 25,000 rupees. I used to put 10,000 rupees into, into mutual funds, you know, that's how it was. And I've always been someone who has been save money, done my own thing, you know, so for me, even marriage never was like a, like a thing. And I think I also married a guy who kept both of us as individuals who were not like, so for me, it was like, I need to, my mother very clearly told me this one thing, sorry, I'm jumping it, but my mother very clearly told me this one thing that, you know, it's very important to get educated. It was very important to have a job for yourself. And it is very important to own your own living, because you never know what will happen. You'd still need to stand, walk by to what you believe in, so that if anything happens to you tomorrow, you know that you have, you can stand on your own feet. Because you, life is so unpredictable, right? You need to have your own, own part. And then she also told me that, but you still fall in love and you need to get married and you need to have kids also.  There goes the, you were here, and suddenly you come here. You didn't know, but because, because your generation thinks that no, these are things which are not important, but mark my words, these are things also which are important. That doesn't mean, and then you said you have kids, but you don't leave your job, you continue with your job. Didn't we all take care of ourselves? We still didn't have any help, but here there is everyone, you know, so you need to continue doing all these things. And you have to do things on your own. You never take money from anyone. So it was also engraved in my, in my, in my head that, that for me, I felt that, you know, there's something more, there's something more for me. I think I need to have more of a voices because yes, in advertising, there were very few women and they were, we had great bosses. Like I always say this thing, when we have more women, men encouraging women, women to be in the drawing, in the, in the, in the conference room, and many, and many men figuring lies for women to, to, to lead is when we will have a place for equals, and we'll have more women who would be out there to encourage more men and women to move forward. It doesn't, it doesn't become, it doesn't become a case of extremes because I still feel that being an entrepreneur today also, or being, being someone who, who knows how to lead, good leadership only comes when you know what you've gone through and how you need to get people around you to start elevating and that, that leadership ideas comes only when, when you're walking along with people, when you have people around you also who treat you as equals because then you're not trying to prove a point, you're only making sure that everyone elevates and everyone makes their mistakes when it rises up. So, so I wanted to leave the first person, of course, I didn't, the last person I told was my mother. The first person I went and told was my boss. Okay, we shared it and I told him, I want to leave, I want to make sense. And he said that just wait, do one thing, just wait for some more time.  I said, oh yeah, that's a good idea. So, so then he said that also listen, it's like, you're a public limited company, so you've done really well.  So this, but till that time, what did you do one thing? Why don't you see what you can do in the agency itself as a director, as a, as a writer? And then of course, I spoke to Nitesh about it and he told me that, you know what I have one story, why don't you direct it and see what it is like. And I said, okay, fine, I'll direct it. So there were people around me who always felt that, you know what, okay, at least let her try, let her do these things. And I think that is very important. But at the same time, when I left, and I actually started, there were more people who believed me in the, in the feature film world than in my own advertising world. So for the first one and a half years, I didn't get any work as, as the director. One and a half, two years I didn't get, but thanks to my stars or my work or whatever, I was just making feature films continuously. So, but, but I also understand that it takes time for people to trust to believe you as a person. But I was told once that, you know, maybe because you're a woman, that's why you're not getting to direct ads. Oh, so I was like, why would that be, you know, that I think up after about nine years now, I just recently shortened and which is a very male centric brand for Agus witches. And I literally went into the client and I told the agency, thank you. And they were like, why your work is so good. And you know, and I went into the client also, thank you, such an amazing client.   So I said, oh, that's such a nice with that way. But I said, you never thought about that way. But I feel, I feel it is my model responsibility to tell you, thank you. So maybe, you know, so these are the kind of little social service work I do in terms of, you know, instilling that you're that somewhere unknowingly, knowingly, we do things which might just, which might just add so much more value to a woman's life at that point of time. And because it is not about the kind of money you make or what you're doing, it's also about self assurance, reassurance, I would say it's also about it's also about letting everyone know that there is more to do to be than what you are. So then that happened, nobody. So I did that short film, which got a national award. And, and then I, we started writing, nobody's another right in the office is because people not afford to leave, you're getting your paychecks. And of course, the office knew about it. And then I went to one person because I knew the person through, through, through, from one production, how you get to know and all that. And I, because of some good works, I went to Ajay and I, who's an executive producer, now he's a producer. And I asked him whether he would be interested to just take the script because my idea was to tell good stories. It was not about me directing anything. I just wanted to tell good stories in a longer format. So maybe I would leave, not leave. I didn't have any plan. I don't think so far. I'm very impulsive that way in terms of taking quick decisions and moving. And he told me such a beautiful script, why don't you only direct it? And I was like, okay, that's cool. Okay, that was a place I said, okay, give me at least a week to think about it and I'll come back to you. And that decision was very quick. That decision was very quick. It came from taking a sabbatical to almost leaving and there. Yeah. So taking a sabbatical and me getting being told that you have a gratuity and provident fund. And also being told that, you know, you have a husband to take care of you. So you don't have to worry. I said, no, no. That's not what it is. It is about my own self-respect. And that's not arrogant. It's not arrogant. Yeah. There it is together. It is everything is there. But what I'm going to do right now is about the decisions I'm taking. I can always fall back on. Of course, I can fall back on my mother. I can fall back on my husband. I can fall back on my friends. Who will figure life for me? But at the end of the day, I think the most important thing for all of us is that you're responsible for your own path. Whether it is right or wrong. Because you can fall and only you can rise. But you'll have a lot of supporters to help you through if they feel good for you and they want you to rise up again. And that's how Nilbadee Sanata happened. And once Nilbadee Sanata happened, I started, I was coming back from Nilbadee, shooting Nilbadee Sanata and I was at Delhi airport for Magra and I was very bored. So I'm a very avid reader. I read a lot. And that's how my first book also happened. So I read really a lot. And I picked up this book called ingredients of love because it was a very easy read. And I kind of realized that when your mind is too hectic, you won't be able to sleep or anything.  I reached home. Obviously, I was meeting Natesh almost after two and a half, three months. And the first thing I look at, I said, I didn't like this book. I think this can be made into a film. And Natesh is like, oh, you'll just come back from a shoot. What's up? And I said, no, I think this can be made. And then he read it. And he said, yeah, this can be made into a film. And that's how we started writing Barely Puberty. Oh, lovely. And like I said, everything in life sometimes impulse decisions in life are good. It just can backfire also. But I mean, what is life without risk to be slightly more fearless? And that's how this happened. The one who was very, very upset was my mother, because she felt that I don't have a secretary now and I won't travel to Cannes.  It's like a funny thing. I think I can write a web series on my mother. So I keep telling her you're drama queen. So and I started writing that. And then, of course, we pitched it. And Aishman came on board after seeing Gulpates and Nata in an offline. Trust you, my films are not out till then. And then I called him to see the offline. And I thank Aishman because he trusted me and my judgment of my work. Krithi also did the same thing. She just came and saw my offline. But it's not. And she came on board. That was the first film which was completely in terms of her acting. We do start all the acting from her. I'm very proud of what Krithi has achieved today. And she just got the national award yesterday. And Barilliki Murphy was really a turning point, I think, for both of us in terms of what we did. And Aishman Rao was there. He also came. And this day before yesterday, I was at the airport and there was this auntie who comes and tells me, can I take a picture with you? And I was like, yeah, she's like, that is joy for me.  And then what I started doing is that I just felt that the kind of messages I used to get on Instagram and the messages which I used to get from a lot of young kids, and especially women girls who look up to you, who want to hear you. So I started doing a lot of college visits, maybe because the prof in me just, the Jhula and this thing in me just like landed up. And I started doing that a lot is because I just felt that there's so many youngsters out there who who who maybe with my little knowledge of from wherever I've come, I can make a difference. But then the chaska is not less. But after that, I made Panga. And then we started when Panga happened, COVID kicked in. After during COVID, we got the opportunity to work on Mahesh and Leander pieces, docu docu drama. And so I did that, I worked on that. And then I kind of realized that I don't, I only produce it and why don't I start a company called pictures. And it was my thing. And they showed me a stupid, please this, let's just do that. And just keep quiet. Don't get into all this production and everything. I said, no, I want to do it. Because I want to make stories, which I believe in, and I want to give wings to so many more directors and storytellers who can, like, you know, make a difference through their stories. So I started off with sky like that. And we did that. And then we did uncahi, which was a short film series for Netflix, one of the shorts for Netflix. Then we did Turkey Murgy for another shot with Sony, which was selected for Bricks. Then we produced Tarla this year, which is my first time director or writer, who worked with me in Ljubljana and gave him a chance because we'd spelt those kind of stories needed to be told. Then we then we could produce Babal, which was Netesh's film. Then we co-produced another film this year called Tum Sena Hopayega, which is again an entrepreneur journey story with Pod Star. And that's how it started. But in the meanwhile, what I tried, what I tried doing is that I'm pretty restless in terms of, you know, innovating and doing new things. So I have a great interest in the arts and crafts of our country and paintings and textures and textiles. I would say a textile concierge kind of person and I have many textile friends. So right now, we're trying up with a lot of these young textile designers and, you know, telling their stories through something called Roots, which is almost like a CSR thing for me to do that. And then I started off with Outskite Moon, which was only for digital ads and brand, because the brand side of me, that blood in me will never go off. So I kind of realized that a lot of our clients and a lot of agencies wanted, you know, digital communication and ads and writing. So I did something for Karat lane right now, we're doing two more campaigns for smaller brands, but who have big ideas. So yeah, that's where it is going forward now. But it's to keep doing things.


Ancient people held several ideas that seemed silly in light of modern scientific research. The human authors got inspired to write the Bible were no different than any other ancient people. As a result, antiquated ideas about the natural world show up in their writings. As I've outlined in resources available at drmsh.com, the Bible's authors believe the earth was flat. They also thought the liver, kidneys, or intestines, and not the brain, were the seat of human intellect and emotion. St. Paul may even have thought that a woman's hair helped women become pregnant. I get asked a question over and over. How can we trust the Bible if some of the information it records is not actually true? I'm going to answer this question with a story. One day, Joe was sitting on a park bench when he saw Pastor Bill and his five-year-old daughter Mandy going for a stroll. After the exchange greetings, Joe asked the pastor where his wife was. Pastor Bill explained that his wife was at the doctor's office. Concerned, Joe asked if everything was all right. Pastor Bill smiled and said that everything was fine. Then he leaned down to young Mandy and said, Should we tell Joe the big news? Excited, Mandy nodded and said, The stork is going to bring me a new baby brother or sister. Now here's where the story might take a few different turns. When Joe heard what Mandy said, he got angry and shouted, Your views about human reproduction do not align with modern science. I can no longer trust you or your daughter for information on any subject. Then he stormed off. The end. Wait a minute. That's silly. Let's change the ending. After listening to Mandy, Joe shrugged his shoulders and said, Well, since you're a trustworthy man, Pastor Bill, I must take the position that babies are actually delivered by storks, even though empirical evidence suggests otherwise. The end. Wait a minute. That's an even worse ending. Maybe what really happened is Joe heard Mandy's explanation about the stork and was immediately able to see past the child's ignorance to get at the real truth. By now you've realized this is an analogy for the way God communicates through Scripture. In our story, a being with higher knowledge, Pastor Bill, chose to reveal information through an imperfect messenger, his five-year-old child. Obviously, Mandy does not understand human reproduction. But believing that babies come from storks doesn't stop her from comprehending the larger truth, that she will soon have a sibling. Furthermore, Mandy has a message she can share with children and adults alike, regardless of how much they know about reproduction. God chose to communicate his message through ancient people who held pre-scientific beliefs. He chose not to correct those beliefs because teaching correct science wasn't the aim of Scripture. The aim of Scripture was to tell the Israelites, and everyone thereafter, who God was and what their relationship was with him. Just as Joe could see past Mandy's ignorance and get to the real truth of the message, modern people are able to read Scripture and parse out antiquated ideas about science. So even if parts of the Bible contain outdated information about the physical world, we can still trust it for the truths that God really wanted to communicate. How does this work in Scripture? Let's look at a psalm about creation. The Holy Spirit wanted everyone to know that Yahweh, the God of Israel, created the world, so he inspired a psalmist to communicate that idea. Since the psalmist was an ancient person, he thought the earth was flat and that it sat upon physical foundations. So when he wrote about creation, it ended up like this. He established the earth upon its foundations so that it will not totter forever and ever. The psalmist accomplished what the Holy Spirit wanted. He accredited creation to Yahweh in a way his contemporaries would understand. It would have been pointless for God to explain to the psalmist that the world is actually a sphere floating in the void of space, even if the psalmist could grasp the idea. It would have meant nothing to his ancient audience. They didn't know what outer space was. When modern people read this psalm, they can immediately see past the pre-scientific notions and still understand the message. There's probably still a lingering question. A human father letting his daughter believe in storks is one thing, but aren't the stakes higher when God lets people believe untruthful things? Doesn't that make God a liar? The first thing to realize is that God wasn't the one who told people to believe unscientific things. God didn't tell people the world was flat or that rain came through portals in the sky or that their liver, kidneys, or intestines were the seed of human intellect and emotions. Those views were already commonplace in the ancient world when God inspired Scripture through the people that he picked to do so. The biblical writers were already part of that world. God wasn't endorsing their beliefs. He decided to use people who held those beliefs. That was God's decision. He didn't mind because he knew the ancient writers could make the points he wanted them to make in their own way. God was fine with the people he chose. He knew what he was getting. God chose to leave ancient people in their ignorance concerning the natural world because he had bigger goals to accomplish. Teaching science was never the aim of Scripture. The aim was communicating spiritual realities that endure forever and transcend science. Even if we know more about the physical world than ancient people, the Bible is just as relevant now as it was in ancient times. For more information on this topic and many others, visit drmsh.com or thedivinecouncil.com.