Welcome back to the touchline on Y25 Maxel Vaseke It's my name just like we promised you last Saturday We were having a conversation that was never ended successfully and that's why Ngara Kamuna is back on the show to continue dissecting about sports and finance how sports can spur economy and so on but Godly is also here with us Ngara, within the week have you been? I've been okay Oh, that question found me off guard but yes, I've been okay Thank you very much for inviting me It's always a pleasure to cover talk sports Like I said last week I think Saturday is only about one thing or the weekend Yeah, the weekend is only about sports Not having anything else Yeah So I don't know whether you followed something was happening in town The summit being organized and presided over by mobile service provider SafariKom It was dubbed Tissini and I saw a lot of people in attendance My only question and worry has been also See these people who attend How active are they involved in making the game better? Well, that's a tricky one because I didn't know the attendees of that event but most of the time I usually say journalists going for those events I see also sports stakeholders but I usually don't see the main sports stakeholders coming onto those events but the key question is how impactful is that event to the sports industry? That question can be well responded to by Ngaro How impactful? Have you been in position to attend one of those congresses, workshops some more trainings that are being organized by the corporates? Corporates might have good will but now execution Some we don't get invites I don't know But my feeling is there are very few people who understand financing in sports in this country We all look at it from corporate sponsorship We all look at it from corporate sponsorship and that is just one arm of financing of sports Now I've come up with a list here actually it's Osoro who gave me this piece of paper it's something I actually wanted to mention Currently today in the top 100 list of billionaires of the world's wealthiest people in the world and they range up I think the least the poorest on that list for Lakova Beroaid is about what about 18.5 billion dollars We have Steve Burma who owns the Los Angeles Clippers We have Dan Gilbert who owns the Cleveland Cavaliers They somebody have just thrown in there just for purposes of just to show the impact to sports There's Phil Knight The founder of Nike There is Sheik Al Mansur of course Of Manchester City and there's Alicia Uzmanov who's a minority shareholder of Arsenal He had been a big time shareholder That's top five? No no I'm saying the top 100 the wealthiest Now there's some other risk takers who would like to mention they might not be within they might not be above 18.5 billion dollars but they range somewhere between 2 billion dollars and 18 billion dollars Of course they stand cranky who's the majority shareholder of Arsenal You have Roman Abramovich at Chelsea You have the Glazer family Man United and Tampa Bay Bakanias where Tom Brady is now playing You have to me I think one of the most visionary owners and that's Dr. Jerry Bass the owner he died but his family is the main owner of the Los Angeles Clippers You have Jerry Reinsdorf who's still making money of Chicago Bulls and Michael Jordanera You have and this is another person guys are called risk takers There's a gentleman called Paul Allen guys don't know about him but Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates and he was a long time owner of the Portland Trail Blazers from the money he made by the way to mention of that list I've talked about the top 100 guys the top 100 wealthiest people in the world the first sports team owner is at number 8 and that's Steve Burma Steve Burma is a long time CEO of Microsoft long time CEO of Microsoft not even at the owner he was the CEO of Microsoft I think he retired in 2014 and he made a hell lot of money and because I don't know if you guys remember there was a time Los Angeles Clippers former owner Donald Sterling was accused of racism remarks and the NBA insisted that he had to be removed and that's when they got Steve Burma in if you come back to Africa just to show that it also happens in Africa we talked about it last week we talked about Patrick Mutsepa and by the way forget about even the Mamelodi sandowns he's also a 37% owner of the Blue Bulls which is a rugby team franchise based in they play at the Lofters first first of all Pretoria they basically from Pretoria he's a 37% owner of that team you have Muameduji we talked about last week Simba yes you have this name it's French M-O-I-S-E Moise Moa Katoombi anyway he's the owner of Tipi Muzembe former governor of course of the area where Tipi Muzembe come from and he's a businessman but he's very shocking he's about 55 years old but the one common factor about all these people I've mentioned is they made their money elsewhere and they never they looked at sports as from a business perspective none of these guys are former players none they are from company I like business I like to keep and look it for you yes none of them are former players none of them are coaches in fact I think in ownership worldwide the only player who's an owner now is Michael Jordan can you imagine okay you have some small guys like Grant Hill who they have stake in Atlanta Hawks but Lebron Lebron in Liverpool you know but like majority owner it's only Michael Jordan all these guys are businessmen who saw the business aspect of sports they saw Dr. Bass is I've told you Dr. Bass for me is perhaps the best example in 1979 he bought the LA Lakers for $67 million he was a chemical engineer he had made his money and he bought the LA Lakers for $67 million and he implemented four plans that were going to take Lakers to the next level for him Los Angeles is Hollywood and therefore they needed a team to identify with Hollywood so four things he did number one he had just drafted or they had just drafted Majid Johnson was I think the first like mega superstar of the NBA they had just he signed he brought over Pat Riley the coach and because he said the basketball style had to reflect the first place life of Los Angeles so hence the name the Showtime Lakers exactly Showtime Lakers he replaced the half time organist with the Chia girls that are now Chia leaders that are now famous in sports and of course he also he created the hottest night club in Los Angeles being in the Lakers being at the forum the club was called the arenas called the forum yes so he got he got the hottest night club and then because it's can we do that in Kenya? it's possible it's possible I mean then but what will be the perception then look it's business at the end of the day you see sports stars are celebrities and I was telling somebody this morning that okay fine Lebron James or all these guys Leo Messi hands I don't know a million pounds a week or whatever amounts he hands we're not looking to earn a million pounds a week but you can get to a point where they're earning a million shillings a week which is good enough that person is taking home four million shillings in a month of course the taxes are going to be ridiculous but for sports person taking home three million shillings a week for me the biggest thing is you plug there's a very big hole between us in Europe and there's nothing filling that hole the gap is the gap is too wide you're either amateur or you make it pro in Europe but there's no that pro setting here and that's what we need to cover for to cover for that pro setting is very simple it's just that the wealthy guys and these guys are there in Kenya the wealthy guys in Kenya just need to be told look sports is a business no longer look at it as a pastime you know in America they say like and even in England but it's big yeah like sports ownership is like knighthood it's like a yeah it's like a what are they called get it close community close community it's like they are cardemom exactly you just don't get in there yeah it's like this privileged sports you know you just don't get in there and sit down no you know for you to be a sports owner you have to be somebody who has but now which information that is needed to be pumped into the minds of billionaires in Kenya so that they can initiate sports programs because there there is skepticism that you know come on what we've seen from sports management it's not it's not the big deal you see look that two different two different things here there's a kind situation of sports management which is basically society is it's equivalent of Parastatos you're getting money every year it's not your money there's no one you're accounting to yes what it's a delegate you're accounting to really at even the delegates CPSIA or METOR yes so it's not there's no there's no real corporate governance yeah but in this particular aspect that I'm telling you this is there's no difference between these companies and and in a bank it's the same corporate governance structure it's corporate governance structure it's shareholder equity it's you have to explain to the shareholder where at the end of the day in the AGM the shareholder wants to know how was the money spent yeah how was the money spent towards the realization you started with this for a very long time and it's still happening up to today our sports federations our sports managers in this country all they do is benchmark yes all they do is go to bundesliga go to la liga go to epl go all over america look at our nba's workings just benchmarking and looking at facilities and structures not getting to the science behind of how this thing works to the mechanics at the mechanics of how these sports franchises work and how they make money and how they can help the economy and all that now because of that corporate social responsibility that companies have been giving these sports entities not realings that that's the budget of a company for them at the end of the day I'm visible to the audience out there and at the end of the year standard bank standard charter bank will tell its delegates we spent 60 million on corporate social responsibility and our sports managers remained in that age that for us at the end of the day kukakola will give us this amount of 1-2 million shillings and that is not what we are going to use I remember they let bob kolimo actually said it these sports people these sports managers and all that don't want to be accountable even to us don't want to come to us and say hey we gave you 2 million this is how we have spent it so that even bob kolimo when it goes to the shareholder as he tells them I gave 2 million to football Kenya Federation this is how they they use it so that transparency and accountability mechanism has killed the sport at the end of the day because I remember some time back a few years ago in 2010 2011 when safari kum initiated sakata bowl tournament and they pumped a lot of resources into the federation then led by former Supremo Samu Nyamue and you know it was alleged that one of the top officials of FKF then demanded for kickback you see and then safari kum with the way they do things transparent land profession they said come on we withdrawing from this deal and that's how the tournament was killed you see okay granted and let's let's not lie about it the managers of sport in this country ridiculous yes for me to look for a better world they you know somebody told me when we were thinking about all these things that we will be discussing about in terms of commercializing and privatizing sports yes I was speaking to some government official and he told me the problem with Kenyan people is you are focused on governance you never think on business yes you are always focusing on governance how can I get to the top it's only governance so in the rule the law says this the constitution says this delegate says it so governance will always result in politics but you never look at it from a business perspective business is all about this it's all about money you want our players to pay it when we were talking our Kenya television network have these e-sports it's a program so I was curious e-sports, e-sports why are these people bringing e-sports so I went to do my research and discovered e-sports is now $400 billion industry and these are just kids sitting and playing PlayStation playing PS5 universities in the US, in the UK, in Hong Kong now creating labs to structure this into business and it's bringing money our sports people need to realize that we are done away with recreation in sports as a world, as a country and everywhere we are our sports managers need to come to that realization that it is never recreation it's never pastime it is now business and you see the ecosystem that is building you're talking about e-sports now $400 billion economy and e-sport is a ripple effect of these things these people we talked about these high net worth individuals sinking in their money to run the operational costs of a business it just so happened that this business was a sporting organization now forget even about the sporting teams themselves guys, let's even think about stadia yes in Kenya we keep on screaming about this thing about government building stadia Osoro, one of the last times I think not this time the time, the one before and were here we talked about how in England the government doesn't even own any of the stadias Wembley stadias you know it's a I think the only stadium they own is Wembley they don't even own Wembley guys Wembley is owned by the FA FA Yes Futbol asociation Twickenham is owned by the RFU the rugby football union sorry where western play the Olympic stadium or the Olympic stadium might be the only because of the Olympics but even then I think they have a long time I think western have a long time deal with regard to that particular place but you think about the commonwealth games in England in 2002 of course commonwealth is something that's going to be funded by the British government yes but do you know what do you know which stadium hosted the commonwealth in 2002 it's a kind etihad stadium so the deal was immediately after the commonwealth games were concluded in 2002 the stadium was going to be bought by Manchester City yes and then city in fact it is called the city of Manchester yes and then of course now when etihad when the big money came in when Almansoor came in etihad now bought the naming rights for the stadium so even when it comes to stadia it's an issue of private investment and there are so many ways to make money of it we've just talked about etihad for example the naming rights deal how much I was looking at the emirates do you know majority of emirates budget the construct I think it cost about 378 million pounds yes to construct the the emirates now Arsenal's home stadium yeah do you know the bulk of that amount was met by the naming rights deal with emirates emirates yeah the bulk of that money was met by the name they now have they now have a naming rights deal until 2028 yes but what does that mean now emirates is a global brand they want to maintain that global picture yes so of course they're not going to let the emirates stadium be ran down whatever modernization needs to happen to emirates is going to happen it's kind of like on a small scale of course but it's kind of like what happened it's safari kum in kasarani yes you know when when safari kum had a naming rights deal in kasarani but I'm not now looking I'm not looking from a development I'm looking now from I'm not looking from a managing perspective I'm now looking from a construction perspective for example it is something I really want and kudos I must when you talk with some of the leadership and then let me speak where I know when you speak to for example joffrey gangler he's very open to that if he's able to get you know a private investor to come into RFEA and they sit down and they develop a 15,000 modern stadium where you get into an agreement to where this person you know there are various commercial rights that's where you can split the revenues there is advertising revenue we've talked about a naming rights revenue we've talked about there's something that guys don't know called corporate boxes yes and you know when I had this discussion and we were brainstorming about this stuff and I sat down and I went to anfield because I know I have a I have a relative who worked who was a waiter in the corporate boxes yes in in live up yeah at anfield so I was asking him how it works yeah so out of curiosity I went now to look at anfield and how it works guys forget about the corporate boxes like I was telling you last week there's a bar called like the Kalzberg dugout you know Liverpool is associated with Kalzberg so it's called the Kalzberg that's one bar then there's a restaurant you call the legends what that's where now only Liverpool legends go then there's a an affin dining restaurant there you know so all these are revenue generators for the stadium and for the people who have brought in their money to construct that stadium you see when we are talking of the corporate boxes as we go on remember the superboard yes this time it was happening in Miami and one thing they had for the corporate hunchers was picking them all the way from your home so if you have paid for your ticket for your box and the superboard is happening in Miami and you are going to be in the corporate box the car comes for you at your house your VIP guest for us it comes to you in your at your house for you get into your car they drive you all the way to the stadium and take you to the lounge as you wait for the game and take you to the to the box to the box because the amount of money you have paid to sit in that box deserves the hospitality and that they are going to and you know and you know what I am going to tell you Osoro you'll be shocked you'll be shocked that for that day only now a superboard ticket ranges yes you can get you can get the top top tier tickets maybe thousand two thousand dollars but then now the proper tickets go like about 70,000 dollars that's 7 million shillings so the corporate boxes now will be playing about to 50 300,000 dollars that's 30 million one box icing the revenue but you see like you're saying Osoro icing the experience you're being given for that 300,000 dollars because I was looking at the Tottenham new stadium and you look at the amount of money they have been making for the club you look at the there has been television and media which is usually true operations sponsorship and all that and you realize that the gate collections are going down the gate collections are going down but the stadium visibility the stadium advertisement alone is now going to surpass the gate collection because during the game now everybody is watching it on tv yes but Adidas wants the advertisement and something like that was about to happen a few years ago when Coca-Cola came on board in part 2011 the SSMB for renaming of Nyaya National Stadium and I think he looked lucrative but it was turned down it was I mean even left that 2011 they were also doing a deal also for Ellis Park in South Africa so it was called the Coca-Cola by the way it was Coca-Cola Park for like five six years then the Coca-Cola left now Emirates have checked in with a bigger deal yes you know so this case are making easy money I mean to your point whatever you're saying then do you know it was expected that teams were going to lose revenue yes because of COVID-19 the ingenuity that these these guys have immediately pop like you're saying advertising brand so Adidas said they want more visibility so you take off where the guys would have been sitting they put a big Adidas banner so you've been seeing them during the games they put a big Adidas banner revenues have shot up for teams from the commercial partnerships of course the only reason that ties in is because of TV money yes and the visibility like you say but if we go back to where we have started this conversation all those things we are seeing are repole effect of this of the big we have to get yes behind net worth individuals they have to start looking at this from a business perspective they have to start seeing the viability of this when you look at some of the numbers I'll speak again rugby if you look either it's Kenny rugby union or Kenny Hallacoins if you look at some of the numbers these guys they are games they are match day they are making profit I think 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Welcome back to Investory Intel at PDAC 2018. Pleased to be joined this afternoon by John Contact from West Red Lake Goldmines. John had Tom on recently and talked to him, but there have been a ton of announcements and a lot going on even in the interim since I last spoke. So can you bring me up to speed on what the focus is for 2018? Focus of 2018 is going to be continuing to drill. We've announced that we'll be dribbling in March and we will be later this month. We'll take the results from that drill program and look at the data and plan to drill another program on our West Red Lake project property this summer as well. So we're going to be busy in the field in 2018 is what we're going to be doing and we're funded for those programs. Good stuff. So it's the, I know you've got at least three projects there on the deposit. Is it the Rowan project you're concentrating on? Yeah, we have the West Red Lake project property. It's in Red Lake, Ontario on the west side of the Red Lake Gold District. It's a 3,100 hectare property. There's three former underground mines on the property, all of which has a shaft. The Mount Jamie mine and the Red Summit mines, we own 100%. And on the Rowan mine portion of our property, we own that 60% and operate a joint venture that we have with Gold Corp. And Gold Corp funds there 40% of the joint venture. We also have on that Rowan mine property portion of our property where we're joint venture with the Gold Corp and an NI 43-101 resource estimate. It's 1.1 million ounces of 7.57 grams per ton of grading. It's all close to surface, within 500 meters of surface, most of it within about 350 meters of surface. So it's the type of deposit that's, you know, Red Lake Gold District is famous for through the term of 30 million ounces being produced over time, 18 million by our joint venture partner Gold Corp. Close to surface, high grade underground gold mining. And what we're doing in 2018, our focus is just to go to depth and right under the resource area and endeavor to expand the mineralized zones down to about 1,000 meters, which is still relatively shallow in the Red Lake Gold District. And you're looking at starting pretty much immediately, right? It's March, April, you were talking about. We have a camp and we have a great relationship with our drill contractor. Drills are getting tighter, but we always have a drill on the property. So we're just moving the drill and getting going yet in March. Fantastic. So investors should be watching for lots of news. Yes, we're going to keep the news flowing on the property. We'll have data from the March drill program. And then we'll be doing it again in the summer. And at the same time, Jeff, we're starting internal scoping studies to look at the economics of the deposit. And also we've been working on the baseline environmental studies like the water sampling and et cetera. So these are the type of things that ultimately show up in the shareholder value and make it more valuable within the gold sector, which is what we've done over the past. We've made exploration and development projects valuable. And now they're being owned by people like McEwen Mining and Osisko Mining properties that Tom Meredith, as executive chairman of myself and Ken Geyer, exploration manager, we've done this before. That's a real key. We've done this before in Ontario Gold Exploration and Development. We stole my line because I was going to point out you guys have the history with it. And anyways, thank you very much for the update. And we'll look forward to talking to you again soon. My pleasure. Thank you, Jeff.


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Now, this isn't necessarily the most crucial part, but this is where all of our orders are going to be routed through. So that way we can efficiently drop ship our products on TikTok. Since we're not going to be sending people to that website, so not a lot of people are going to be even going there in the first place, we're going to go ahead and cheat on how we make it. And for this, what we're going to do is use AI actually. So we're going to use AI to build our entire Shopify store for us. So right now I'm over at AutoDS.com. If you don't have an account yet, then you can try the trial period for $1 for two weeks. So up here, you're actually going to have the option to add a store. I don't have that option because I already have it connected. So you're going to click on out of store. As you can see for me, it's down here. So I'm going to click out of store here. And we're going to go through Shopify store build with AI. Then here it's going to give you three different options. Just go with the default one, the one in the middle, pre-built store with AI. Go ahead and continue. And now you're going to choose your niche. So which niche do you want to get into? What types of products do you want to sell? Now the cool part about this is whichever one of these niches you choose, the store is going to be built for you with products already in it. And those products are going to be winning products from our marketplace and our winning product section. So these are proven best sellers. Now personally, I always go with pets simply because I have a dog and I can order a couple of samples of certain items and make my own videos. So let's go ahead and choose pets and our store is being built for us. That's pretty much it. It just took a few seconds. And then we got our login for our store. You're also going to get an email with these credentials. So just make sure you save everything. Alright, now the next thing we need to do is go ahead and click down here where it says open Shopify store plans. Now what we need to do is actually start our Shopify store. So we're going to have to select the plan. Okay, so it's going to take us to this website over here, which is where we're going to log in with our credentials that we were just given. And this is the page that we're going to be taken to. So we're going to go directly to choose a plan. We can't continue unless we do this. But don't worry, this is only going to cost $1, at least for the first month. After that, it will be $39 per month. But by that time, honestly, don't even worry about it. The money you're going to be making from these videos and from these products, you're going to be drop shipping on TikTok shop. It's going to more than cover all of this. But to get started, the easiest way to do this and my suggestion is simply go with the monthly plan. Once you do start to get more sales, then you can upgrade to the yearly. So let's go do monthly come from the billing cycle and just go through everything, fill everything out. Alright, once we have everything filled out, then let's just go ahead and subscribe. Alright, next Shopify being Shopify, they're going to try to upsell us. We can go ahead and skip this. We don't need POS. This is optional right now, honestly, and that's connected domain. So this is the store that we have. This is the store that was automatically built for us. These are the products that were automatically added. So these are all as you can tell in the pets niche, everything here is handpicked by professional drop shippers and all of these products are based off of years of data. So these are all currently proven bestsellers and all currently trending. There is market demand for all of these products. So we even have our different pages like our terms of service, our privacy policy, shipping policy, everything was done for us automatically. Now after our store is created with AI, then we're already going to have one of the necessary apps that we need connected already on there and it's already going to be installed and working. And that's going to be the auto DS app. The auto DS app is essential because that's going to be what actually makes the entire automation part happen without the auto DS drop shipping automation app. Then none of this is going to work. So remember that's going to be two apps that we need. That's going to be the auto DS app, which again is already going to be installed and the one that we're going to be installing after ship for TikTok shop. All right. So we have set up our Shopify account and we have set up our auto DS account. The next thing we need to do is set up our TikTok shop account. Now for this, what we're going to do is I've been having a lot of issues on my separate accounts. So I'm going incognito and we're going to go to seller.tiktok.com. Now you're going to choose the region that you're selling in. For me, I'm in North America. So I'm going to choose United States and then it's going to ask us to log in. Now we don't have an account yet. So let's go to sign up now. Now you do have the option to sign up and log in using your TikTok account. I don't recommend that. I've had a lot of problems, especially with multiple accounts. So I have a lot of different TikTok accounts and I have a few different seller accounts on TikTok. When I log in through my TikTok account, there's always an issue. Sometimes it'll log me in and it'll log me in as a different account even though I'm signed into my TikTok account as a completely different one and it's just been a mess. Now this is where you need to select what type of business you are.  Now the majority of us are going to fall under individual or sole proprietorship. Sole proprietorship is if you actually have a business or a company that you're working under. So if you have your own LLC and it's just you, then you can go under sole proprietorship. But for the vast majority of us, we're going to fall under individual. So that's what I'm going to go with. Now this is where things can get a little bit complicated, but not really. So a lot of people have been reporting getting denied when they submit their IDs, but there's a way around this. Just reapply. And then if that happens again, if you get denied, reapply again. And if you get denied again, reapply. Eventually you're going to get accepted. Every single person I have spoken to, myself included, has been denied a few different times, at least at the beginning, but after a few different tries, maybe taking a different picture of the ID, rescanning it and resubmitting it, it gets approved. So just keep trying. Now once we sign up using our documents, whether it be our ID or our passport, then it's going to ask us for shop information. So what's our shop name? Now I'm going to go with Cozy Paws. Now one quick thing that you do need to know is I'm also creating a brand new TikTok account for this. The reason for this is because I want to start from scratch. I want to be able to target a specific demographic of people, that being people with pets, primarily cats and dogs, probably leaning more towards dogs, simply because I have a dog. So it makes it easier for me to make these types of videos, my primary product, pet supplies, and our phone number. Oh, Cozy Paws has already been taken. So let's do Cozy Paws, I don't know, 24 for 2024. Then we just have to submit our information and confirm everything. Now while we're waiting, let's go ahead and go through some of these different options, some of the different tabs, and what we're supposed to start doing. So the first thing we need to do after we get set up is add our tax information. All we need to do for this is just go and click and get started. And here you're going to submit all of the information that you need, everything that has to do with your taxes. This is extremely important. If you don't do this, you're not going to be able to sell. And once we have everything filled out, all we have to do is once again, go ahead and submit. And that's it. So the next step is done. And as you can see, where it says register your business before it was pending. Now it's a green check mark. So we're ready to start selling. Now we need to set up our shipping. So this is something that's extremely important. So let's click on get started here. And this is going to take us to our ship from address. So this is the address that we're going to put where our products are going to be shipping from shipping from right because we're drop shippers, they're shipping from all over the world. So just go ahead and fill that out with your address and your information and then submit it. Once that's done, it's going to take us over here. Shipping information added. It's going to tell us that we're actually already subscribed for USPS but not UPS or FedEx, which is totally fine. So let's quickly elaborate on the ship from address. What this is really is just where your product is going to be shipping from. Of course, your products are going to be shipping from quite a few different places. But this is really just for TikTok to know where your products are going to be shipping from. Now don't worry if it's not the same as where your products actually are shipping from because TikTok doesn't really care much about this. They just need an address to be able to show their customers. Look, this is where this item is coming from. Me personally, I have a virtual address that I use. So I have a virtual mailbox that gives me a physical address and that's the address that I pretty much use for almost anything business related. But if you don't have a virtual mailbox or anything like that, then you can simply just put your home address. Now the only option we have is to click on go to add products. So let's click on that. But we're going to get out of this. So let's go ahead and click get started. Let's navigate out of all of this stuff. And let's talk about shipping for a second. So what we're going to do is we're going to click on orders. And then from here, we're going to go to options. Now this is extremely important, probably one of the most crucial steps in this entire process. By default, you're going to be using TikTok shipping, which means TikTok is going to be providing you their shipping labels. So that way you can just print out your label and ship out your product. We cannot do this. This is not what we're going to be doing. What we need to do is switch it over to seller shipping. This is where we can provide our own tracking numbers. So let's go ahead and select that. And you haven't created a template. Okay, I'm sorry, we need to create a template first and then we can switch over. But at least now you know the difference. So let's create a template first. Okay, so it took a little bit for me to figure this out. But all I had to do was reverse a page for some reason. And I clicked back on orders. And now under the shipping options, I have shipping templates. So we're going to click on that. And then we're going to create one. So we're going to create up here on the top right, create a new template. Now our template name, I'm just going to put general and ship from we're going to choose our ship from address, which is the one that we set up earlier. Now our rate model is going to be either weight based or quantity based. So are we going to charge based off of the weight of our product? Or are we going to charge based off of how many are ordered? Well, what I'm going to be doing is simply just offering free shipping. So the cost is going to be added to the product itself. So really, it's not going to matter what we go with. So I'm just going to choose quantity based. I'm going to choose standard shipping. I'm not going to go with express. I like sticking to standard. Now as far flat rate, I'm going to put zero. But remember, we're going to add our shipping cost to our final product price. So that's at $0. Now under delivery region, let's go ahead and click on edit. And I'm going to select all. So I'm going to be shipping throughout the entire US, except Hawaii and Alaska. And the reason for this is because it just takes a lot for products to get over there. It takes a long time. It takes a lot more money. And ultimately customers whenever I ship to Hawaii, because I've never shipped to Alaska, they get impatient sometimes. So I've just chosen to not ship to Hawaii and Alaska by default. Just leave it off and let's click on submit. Now we can go back to shipping options and we can switch over to seller shipping and we can officially use our own shipping labels now. Alright, so now that we have our shipping set up, let's go through some of these other tabs. We're not going to go through everything, but we are going to go through what's important. So we already went through our shipping options and our shipping templates. Now let's check out our manage order section here. Obviously it's empty, but this is where we're going to see all of our orders manage returns pretty much the same thing except for when a customer requests a return. Now we have our fulfillment settings, which is actually where we can change a few different things when it comes to our fulfillment. So our order handling time, typically TikTok likes things shipped out within three days. You can change that here, but I highly suggest you don't. I suggest you leave it because this is optimized for TikTok and this is what they prefer. They don't want people shipping their items more than three days after. You also get a few more options here when it comes to cancellation with your auto approval or your refund without returning an item. So if somebody wants to return an item, you don't necessarily have to collect that item from them to give them a refund. Then we have our products tab. Here you have everything when it comes to the products we're going to sell. Then we have our product ratings. Whenever we get whenever products rated, somebody leaves a review. This is where we're going to see it. Okay, so let's go to the marketing tabs now. So here we have shop ads. This is where you're going to be able to create ads for your products. I don't really think that's necessary. When it comes to TikTok, you can run ads if you want, but honestly, the best way to do this is going to be organically. It's super simple to go viral on TikTok. You just have to make a couple of different videos. Try switching up to style. I'll show you guys later on a small example, but for now, just know that paying for ads isn't really necessary on TikTok. Also, if you have one of your products attached to your videos, so if you have that little orange product link, TikTok is naturally going to give you a nice little organic boost. So they like to give priority to people's videos that have products attached to them, but you need to make sure that your products are relevant to the video or that they're being shown in the video. If your video has nothing to do with the product that's attached to it, then that product is going to be taken off and you're going to be assigned violation points. Now, TikTok runs on a health score. The more points you have, the worse your health score is going to be. By next up, we have TikTok funded promotions. Now, these are extremely important. TikTok funded promotions are promotions that TikTok runs that comes out of their pocket, not yours. So when you make a sale and there's a promotion attached to it, a TikTok funded promotion such as their free shipping, then you're going to see that that's actually taken out of your profit. But don't worry about that. TikTok is actually supposed to give you that money back through your payouts or through the invoices. Same thing goes for the product coupons. So a lot of times, you're going to see that some items actually have 20 to maybe even 40% off. That's all being covered through TikTok. So if you see these discounts on your products and you didn't authorize them, don't worry about it. Just go along with it. Then we have affiliates. Now, this is extremely important and this is probably one of your biggest money makers. TikTok makes it super easy to get started with affiliate marketing. Of course, TikTok is full of affiliates already. And a lot of these affiliates are looking for products to promote. What products are they looking for? Your products. Now, the way that TikTok makes this so simple is all you have to do is click on get started and set up your profile. From there, you can choose different influencers or different affiliates to work with and you can set your commission rate. Best thing is that TikTok makes this even simpler by automating the entire payout for them. So when they get you sales, TikTok is going to separate their commission and TikTok is going to pay them. You don't have to worry about paying them. TikTok is going to do everything for you. See how easy this is?  Well, this is what they're doing. They're going live and they're promoting their products. This is another thing that TikTok pushes out a lot. We have growth, which has some intensives and it teaches you a few different ways to sell and market your products. This is just not really that important, but we have analytics. Now, the analytics here are actually extremely important. And this is what's really going to tell you which videos are actually bringing customers in, which videos are the ones that your customers are clicking on to take a look at your products. So using this information, having access to this kind of information is extremely helpful because it can tell you what type of video you need to focus on and which types of videos you should stop focusing on. So if you have a particular type of video, let's say an unboxing where you show how you unbox a product and what's inside, if it starts to do very well, then you can start making some more. If you have another one where you're simply showing the product or maybe you're wearing a t-shirt or something like that, and you notice that it doesn't have a high click-through rate, people aren't necessarily clicking on it to take a look at your product, then there's really no point in continuing that kind of video. So these analytics can tell you whether or not to keep going with a particular marketing strategy. And on here, this is actually the last thing that I want to show you on the actual seller center. And this is the shop health. Remember how I told you that TikTok shop works on a account health basis. So if you get violations, if you do things that you're not supposed to, if you ship out items late, if your items sometimes arrive late, unfortunately, because TikTok really likes things to arrive on time. If you get copyright strikes on your videos, if your videos are taken down for whatever reason, for any policy violation, you will be assigned violation points. And those points will add up in your violation score. So here you can see that at zero, you're at excellent. This is really where you want to stay. You want to stay in the green, you don't want to cross over to the orange, and you definitely don't want to cross over to the red. I understand that every once in a while, you are going to get some violation points. It's going to happen, especially as you're learning the platform. But just remember this, when you do something that you're not supposed to do, and you get violation points, don't do it again.  So let's talk about a very important part of this entire thing that I'm sure everyone's been wondering about. And that's payouts. Well, simply put, TikTok is going to wait until your customer receives their item. After a while, you can start to build some reputation. You start to get good reviews. TikTok starts to realize that you're actually fulfilling orders on time and the way that you need to, in which case, then you're going to be eligible to be able to get payouts a little bit quicker. So at the beginning, try to save up a couple of bucks, just so you can have just in case you start getting an influx of orders. Let's just go ahead and go up here. Let's type in aftership. If it shows you that there's no results, just go ahead and click on the aftership in the Shopify app store, then it'll take you to the app store where we'll find the app. So once you look up the aftership app, you're going to find a ton of different ones. But the one that we're looking for is this one right here, aftership feed for TikTok shop. So let's go ahead and click on that. And let's go ahead and install. All right, so after installing the app, we got this connect your TikTok shop store, we're going to click on connect, then United States, because that's where we're located. All right. So then it's going to ask us for a duration as to how long it's going to be connected for. So how long do we want to keep our TikTok shop connected to our Shopify store? If we choose 30 days, then in 30 days, that connection is going to be cut and then aftership and your TikTok shop will be disconnected. So they suggest one year and that's what I'm going to go for because that's their suggestion. You can go for unlimited, but I'm just going to choose a year and then a year from now, we'll just go ahead and renew it for another year. All right, let's authorize everything, scroll all the way down, click on authorize and that's it. We have aftership installed. Now, what aftership is going to do is it's actually going to make it easier for us to synchronize our TikTok shop with our Shopify store. The TikTok app is kind of wonky. It's not really the best. I started having a lot of issues synchronizing my products with the Shopify TikTok shop app. And I know a lot of people that have had that same issue as well. So aftership is a nice way around it. All right, so now it's asking you about products and addling products. So automatically link products with the same SKU. So orders can be fulfilled on your e-commerce platform. What this means is that the product that's going to be on your Shopify store has to have the same SKU number as the one on your TikTok shop. When that happens, both of them are going to be linked and that's how it's going to synchronize everything. That's how it's going to synchronize your orders and how it's going to fulfill your orders. Okay, so let's continue. Let's go ahead and get started. It's going to give us a tour of everything. We can just go ahead and either read everything if you want to learn about it or just poke around, which this is the way I learned. Just go ahead and poke around. So looking around TikTok, I found two different products that seem to be making some pretty big waves. One of them is a ball that you simply squish and it pops up and the other one is a giant tennis ball. Now how I came across these products was simply by going on TikTok and searching up the hashtag, TikTok made me buy it and then simply writing dogs. So this gave me all of the most trending items in the dog niche. So with that, I came across these two different products. So with the first one, the spring ball, the reason I chose that one is because it has both a well factor and it does provide value. Now the way I see it is it's actually getting a lot of hate online, a lot of people don't like it. It's not being marketed or used the right way. I'm going to market it as one, a dog training toy, which provides the value of helping train your dog and teaching them patience. And the reason I chose the second one, the big tennis ball, the value that it provides is the fact that it's almost unbreakable. Now this can really vary. It can be unbreakable and it can't be unbreakable. It really depends on the dog.  So because of that, he can't break it. Now it's important to know why we're using Amazon as our supplier. The reason for this is because simply we need their fast shipping speeds. TikTok needs you to ship their items within three days at the most. And there's really not many other suppliers that can do this, aside from a few others like Walmart, maybe Costco, but really the best and most reliable supplier that we can go with that has the fast shipping speeds is going to be at the end of the day, hands down, Amazon. So what we need to do now is we need to import these products to our store, and we need to synchronize them with after ship. Now, how are we going to do this? We have AutoDS, remember, so what we're going to do is we're going to head over to autoDS.com, we're going to log in, and we're going to choose our store. Then I'm going to go ahead and click on add product, multiple products. I'm going to take this link over here, paste it, then I'm going to take the one from the tennis ball and paste it as well. And then just go ahead and add his draft. And let's run over to our draft section over here. And we can see both the tennis ball and the little bouncy UFO ball thing. Click on this one, click to edit. That's short of the name. I'm just going to do this. I'm just going to give it something simple, UFO dog ball. Then under the description, we're not really going to touch that right now. I'm going to leave it as is the variation. So I am going to get into and on Amazon, I saw that it was selling for about $13. I think I got it for $13 or $14. So I'm going to up the price a little bit more than that. I'm going to put it at $17.99 or $19.99. Actually, you know what? Let's do for $24.99. Then the images, these are all good. All right. So everything was good to go. Now let's just go ahead and save an import. Now let's do the same thing for the jumble dog ball. So I'm going to be only selling the 9.5 inch. Actually, you know what? Let's just change it. Let's go giant tennis ball for dogs. Nine inches. All right. So these I said I'm only going to be offering the nine inch. Let's get rid of these two variations. Then I'm going to click on edit, change this price to $26.99. So just a couple books more. The images are good, except for the eight inch and the seven inch because again, we're not going to be selling those. So let's delete those. Oh, that's a main image. Okay. So let's actually make this one the main image. And now we can delete these. All right. Save an import. Now let's go to our store. Let's go under products. You scroll down. You can see that the UFO ball already uploaded. Now remember how I said that in order to be able to synchronize your TikTok shop with your Shopify, you're going to have to have the same skew number for the products on both uploads. Well, this is how you do it. So let's go ahead and click on all of these. Click on bulk edit up here where it shows columns. Let's click on that. And you see here where it says inventory and skew, make sure that's checked. And then if you look over here, you can see the skew. So these are different skew numbers for the different variations. Now we need to do this on our TikTok shop. So let's run over to our TikTok shop. Let's go to products. Let's go to add a new product. And this is going to be a UFO dog ball. The category should be automatically updated. If not, you can just go ahead and search for it. There you go. Dog toys. Now it's going to ask you for a brand. So here you can click on it and you don't necessarily have to have a brand. If you want to add your own brand, you can, you can put that down here. But if you don't want to put a brand, then up here where it says select the brand, just go ahead and type in no brand. Now these are some attributes to the product itself. So the type of toy dog flying disc. This is actually perfect right there material. I wasn't too sure about that, but it doesn't really matter. You don't have to put these in here. Now the media. So what we need to do is we need to upload our pictures. I do have the items on the way. I'm going to be getting them tomorrow. I could take pictures myself, but I want to upload this now so that way we can get it ready. So to get the images actually what I'm doing is I'm heading over to my product over at AutoDS again under the images tab, you can go ahead and download the actual picture. So there we have that one. I'm going to do this one as well. Let's go back to our TikTok shop upload and there we go. Now it's for the main image. I actually want to have this one. All right. Now for our description, I simply just went to AutoDS and I used the AI rewrite tool. The AI rewrite tool can be used on both the title as well as the description. But me personally, I typically use it more than anything for the description because it's a lot longer. And then I'll take a sample of that and I'll use that as the title itself. Now the AI rewrite tool is great because it lets you rewrite your descriptions and your titles directly on the AutoDS platform. All done for you, of course, with AI. So on this page, we really don't have to do too much. Honestly, when it comes to the seller side on TikTok, we're really not going to be doing much else on here other than uploading products. So on the TikTok seller app, the only reason that we're uploading products here is so that way we can synchronize them using the SKU to our products on Shopify. Because remember, we're going to have to upload them twice, one to Shopify and one to TikTok shop. And then we're going to have the same SKU number on both, which is going to be what links them together through aftership. Now quick note, anything that you update on AutoDS is ultimately going to override whatever you write on the TikTok seller app. So let's say you put a particular name to your products on the TikTok seller app, but then you don't change it on AutoDS and you just leave the default name. Once you save and you upload your product, then that is going to override whatever you have on your TikTok seller app. Then the name that you have on AutoDS, whether that be the default name or not is going to override the title that you have for your product on the TikTok seller app. Now variations here, we can choose the different variations for our products. Sometimes you might not have every image that you want to use. So let's say there's a variation for a purple ball, but you don't have that picture. You're going to be required here to upload a picture for each variation. If this right here, this add image checkbox is checked off. If you uncheck it, then you're not required to link an image to each variation. Now the variation name, let's go with color. We have red, pink, blue and green. So red, pink, blue, green. So I actually did this a little bit quicker than most because I figured out that after each variation hit tab, and then it'll create a new variation, but you have to give it something about a half a second to a second. So that way it thinks about what it's going to do. It makes a second variation. And then right after that half second, you can hit shift tab, and then it'll go back up. So it's kind of complicated. It's kind of weird, but it's pretty quick as you saw. But if that doesn't work for you, then just go ahead and click on each one individually. It's fine. Now remember, we need to add our skews. So let's go ahead and run back over to our variations on Shopify. I'm going to copy this one, which is the red under red, I'm going to paste it here. So red starts with the E pink with Oh, E 51 blue, green is EC 51 blue, green is easy. All right, perfect. So this is what's going to synchronize after ship with our tick tock shop. Remember, this is an extremely crucial step. Now we said we're going to be selling these for 2499. Instead of doing this all together, we could just go ahead and batch edit retail price 2499 quantity. I'm just going to put a five supply. It's going to apply to everything. Now the shipping weight. Remember, we're going to be shipping these ourselves. Well, not necessarily shipping them ourselves, but providing the tracking numbers. And what this is going to do is really just give us an estimate as to how much it's going to cost us. But it doesn't really matter. As for this, let's go ahead and put, I don't know, half a pound product dimensions, it'll probably be something along the lines of 10 by 10 by I don't know five. Again, it doesn't really matter because at the end of the day, we're going to be giving free shipping. Now we're done. Let's go ahead and submit for review. Now let's add one more product and we're going to add our tennis ball. And once again, I used the AI rewrite tool for this description. Now I did like this right here, the mega fetch Titan. So I'm going to take that nine inch tennis ball. It is not for actual tennis.  Once again, we're going to go with no brand. I want to have the pup right front and center. And we said this one selling for 2699. Now let's check out the skew number. Now this one is going to be pretty big. So this was probably going to be maybe 10 inches by 10 inches by 10 inches, because the ball itself is nine inches. So taking into consideration the box, about right, let's go to manage listings and let's see if they are active missing brand authorization. Okay, so let's try something else. Okay, so what I'm going to do is for some reason it's not taking no brand. So I'm just going to add my own brand and let's update it and see if it gets approved this time. So that means the other one actually know the tennis ball actually went through for some odd reason. This kind of just goes to show you that if one thing doesn't work just kind of poke around, see what you can change because this is how you're going to be able to get through certain problems that you might not necessarily know the answer to or immediately find it out by simply googling it or looking it up on a video. Remember, a lot of these cases are case by case scenarios. What happens in my store might not necessarily happen in yours and vice versa. So if there's anything that you come across and you actually figure out how to get around it, then let me know down in the comments below what it is so that way you can help me out and anybody else that could potentially face that same issue. Okay, so a few minutes past and you can see that now my squish and bounce is officially active. Yes. So we got two products that are currently synchronized. All right. So now what we're going to do is let's run back over to aftership. All right, now let's go to product syncing. There's also this other tab called product on tick tock shop. And here it's actually showing that the state of both of them is already live and it's showing the skew number as well. So to clear things up, what we just did was we uploaded our products through auto DS to our Shopify store from there we went to each product and we took the skew number that skew number we then copied over to the product that we also uploaded on our tick tock shop and we matched the skew number to that one that process synchronized both products. So now whenever somebody places an order on our tick tock shop, it should be rerouted to our auto DS account, where it's then going to be fulfilled by auto DS and the order is going to be automatically placed with our supplier. Then once our supplier fulfills the item ships everything out, they're going to provide the tracking number which is then going to be updated through the auto DS account in turn updating our tick tock account. As you can see, there's a lot of gears turning on here. It is somewhat of a longer process to get set up. Trust me, it's going to be worth it in the end. All right. So we pretty much have everything done. We have our products uploaded everything synchronized. Now what we need to do is start uploading some videos. We need to optimize our tick tock account and we need to get it up and running. Now for this, we're going to need a little bit of trust, right? We can't just simply create a random tick tock account and expect people to start purchasing from it. We need to have a logo. We need to have a bio. We need to have some videos. As for the videos, that's going to be coming pretty soon. But for now, let's go ahead and run over to Kittle. I'm going to go to tools AI image generator. Now you can get started here for free. And you are going to be limited to certain things. But what you can do is you can create a logo through Kittle for pretty much for free. And then just crop it out. So here I'm going to logo generator. I'm going to do something simple, a popper with hearts and toys around it with the text cozy pause. Pretty good. I just don't like that text right there. So we can keep this right here. So let's go ahead and download this. Run over to my tick tock account, my new tick tock account. So we're number two view profile. Here I got my cozy pause. As you can see, everything's brand new at our cozy pause logo bio. All right. So what are we going to put for our bio? We got to put something short, but something sweet. So let's do something along the lines of fun interactive pet toys, pet products to keep your pets happy and active. Okay, there you go. Now it looks much better. Now it actually looks a bit more legit. Now we have cozy pause, cozy pause 15 fun and interactive pet products to keep your pets happy and active. All right, so we're pretty much done on getting everything set up. The next thing we need to do now is simply just wait for the products. So we can start making some videos. So I guess let's go. Let's just fast forward to tomorrow, shall we? All right, so it's tomorrow night and we have product number one, which is the ball that I had ordered. This one's actually my favorite one. It squishes down and then it pops up. Now I've seen a lot of negative reviews about this saying that it doesn't last that long when it's squished, but that's actually gonna be my selling point. So what people are trying to use this for is to squish it down and use it as a frisbee. Now there's a suction cup inside this. So it's not going to hold that long because there's also a big spring in here. So this, I think people are using it wrong to be honest with you, or maybe it's being advertised wrong. I don't know, but the way that we're going to market this is as a spring toy where it pops.   So I got both of these in today and we're going to actually start making videos tomorrow. Right now what we need to do is actually start making our account into a business account. Okay, so right now we're going to go ahead and link our official TikTok account. So this is going to be the TikTok account that people are going to be able to go to to actually make a purchase. This is going to be the TikTok account that has our store. So what we're going to do is up here, we're going to click on our name, then we're going to hit my account and linked accounts, then you're going to see the linked TikTok accounts. So you have the official account, which is the one where you make your sales. And you also have marketing accounts. Now marketing accounts is something that you can unlock later on. But these accounts are extremely helpful because if you have multiple accounts, you can link those and create content on those other accounts as well. Now these marketing accounts are completely different than affiliate accounts in terms of you're not going to have to pay any commissions. Since these are going to be your accounts or anybody who you authorize, these are going to be accounts that are specific to market your products. So these accounts are going to have access to link your products to the videos. But again, that's something that you're going to unlock later on, you need to build some reputation, you need to get some sales and you need to get your items shipped out on time. So for now, let's go to official account, click on linked official account. And now we're going to have to scan this QR code. So for that, let's pull out our phone. And right now what I'm going to show you is what I've been doing with our TikTok account. If we click on over to our profile, we're going to see that I changed a few things around. I made it a bit more personal and I'm actually basing it around my dog. Now I am going to be blurring out the username simply because I don't want any traffic that's irrelevant going to that account. If I have people that are watching this channel and they go to the account, and they're not necessarily interested in dogs, then that's going to throw off the algorithm and we don't want that. For that reason, I'm going to have this stuff blurred out for now later on in a future video, then I'll give you a bit more information and we can actually find the account. But until then, make sure you hit that subscribe button. So you don't miss out. Now taking a look at what I've been doing, you can see that it is now geared more towards my dog. And it's because we're going to be focused on the dog niche. I uploaded a couple different videos. The first one that I uploaded was this one introducing my dog. He loves bacon. Sit. And this is how it goes. He loves bacon. Sit. So as you can see, there's a little bit of fun quirky music in the background. The video itself is meant to be a little bit quirky as well, with my dog kind of just listening to what I'm saying and kind of being off at the end. So I did a few more videos. TikTok is pushing a lot of pictures. So I did one of those as well. I did one of just my dog sleeping and voiceover of something cute there. And this one, which is actually my favorite as well, just clips. These do very well. Look at the interactions. It's not an insane amount, but for a brand new account that we opened yesterday, the first one has 604 views and the rest are just under 600. So while it's not absolute virality just yet, it's not bad. And as you can see, there's also already 11 followers and the whole account has 255 likes all in just one day. So this is something that's going to take a little bit of time to build. But trust me, it's going to be worth it. There's already traction going on. So you just got to keep the momentum, make sure that you choose your niche and you stick to that niche. Don't go off topic.  So anyway, enough of that. Let's go ahead and link our account. So we're going to click the three little bars on the top right. I think that's called the sandwich menu. Then we're going to go to my QR code. Now on the top right, you have this little square button, which brings up our camera. Let's go ahead and scan the QR code. Now let's authorize it and we're done. Let's all there's to it. So looking at the screen, we have link and official TikTok account. All right, so close that this needs to be a business account. So right now it's probably going to ask us to do the entire conversion. So let's see what it does. All right, so let's check our notifications. TikTok shop, please complete identity, identity verification. So you need to complete the actual verification on your phone as well. So let's do that. This is something that I've had to do with all of my other ones as well. So let's just go ahead and continue through there. So identity verification successful. We can now sell products and our TikTok shop. All right, we're good to go. Now remember, we also have the cheat sheet with everything that I covered in today's video to get access to that to make this whole process a lot easier for you. Just make sure to comment down below the hashtag TikTok shop. And let me know what your takeaway is from the video. Now I didn't show it because my screen recorder for some reason stopped working. But for the verification, really, all I had to do was verify my name and upload my ID once more, except this time instead of uploading it to my seller account on seller.tikTok.com, I uploaded this directly to my TikTok account. Now the reason we're doing all of this and the reason we're connecting our TikTok account to our seller account is because we need to have an official TikTok account. That official TikTok account that's connected to your seller account is going to be the account that people go to on the TikTok app to make a purchase. Remember, the TikTok shop is only available through the TikTok app through the videos. So there's absolutely no website that customers can go to to the TikTok shop to make a purchase from your store. It all has to be done through the app through your videos. All right, so I refresh the page and now we have the little shop icon. Let's click on that and we can see here that we have both our products uploaded and they're ready to sell. All right, so it's been a few days and as you can tell, I haven't cut my hair, but check this out. We made a sale. What happens next? Well, let's check it out through the Autodesk dashboard, shall we? All right, so right now we're logged into our Autodesk account. Let's just go ahead and run over to our order section. Click on that. There we have our first order. It finally came through. Now we just need to keep pumping out more and more content to keep getting more orders. We have to see what works and keep trying to replicate that. So this item was sourced from Amazon. It's being sold to my Shopify store, but remember, the Shopify store doesn't really matter. It actually nobody even has access to that because it's password protected. Everything's growing through my TikTok account. So the order was placed through the TikTok account. Somebody placed the order through the video that they saw, then TikTok shop connected to Aftership. Aftership connected to Shopify and Shopify connected to AutoDS. So in that little chain, the order traveled all the way from our TikTok account to our AutoDS account. Now, from here, it's going to get automatically rerouted to our supplier over at Amazon. And then Amazon is going to go ahead and fulfill that order. Give us our tracking number AutoDS is going to populate that through Aftership. Aftership is going to update TikTok with that, and we're done. Now, how are we paying for this order? For this, this is extremely important. We need to use a fulfilled by AutoDS. This is the best and the most efficient way to do this. Now, why is that? Simply put, if you're using fulfilled by AutoDS, you're not using your own Amazon account. So you have no risk of blocking your accounts. Now, AutoDS has tons of different buyer accounts for Amazon. So it's going to be using all of these different accounts to source your different products. Now, the only thing that we need to do is we need to make sure that we keep a balance up here. So as you can see, I have a balance right now of about $16. After this order goes through, I am going to have to top it off because as we can see, we're purchasing it for $8.99. We're spending souls for $14.99. I'm going to have to top it off because I'm not going to have enough to sell another one of these, but we're making a profit right now of $4.80.  And you don't want to deal with that, especially if you have tons of orders coming in. If you use fulfilled by AutoDS, you don't have to worry about that at all because AutoDS has a bunch of different Amazon buying accounts. So you're never going to run into that problem. If you use fulfilled by AutoDS, you're also going to have everything automated. So you're not going to have to do anything. Everything is going to be automatically rerouted to our suppliers over on Amazon. Then from there, the fulfillment is going to be done through them. And they're just going to update the platform or the tracking number. Again, we don't have to do anything. So as you can see, we have our first order here. It was actually placed today at about 1146 my time. All right, let's quickly go over fees. Of course, just like any other company or like any other marketplace, in order to make money, TikTok shop needs to charge fees on every transaction fee. So up until the end of last year, up until the end of 2023, from my understanding, it was at 2%. So they would charge you 2% of each sale. TikTok came out saying that this is going to increase. It's not always going to be 2%. They're pretty much using this as a way to bring in more sellers onto the platform and incentivize them with these lower fees. Now, from my understanding, from what they came out saying is they started off at 2%. They're going up to 4%. And then by the end of this year, they're going to be at 8%. So if you want to take fees into consideration, my suggestion is just start on the high end. Start with 8% right now. So that way later on, you don't have to readjust your prices or figure out fees yet again. Now look at this channel. Aftership feed for TikTok shop. That's where the item was purchased from. So the item was purchased through the TikTok shop, and then that's rerouted to Aftership, which then Aftership does everything that we need it to do. It connects all of our platforms together. Status is paid, it's unfulfilled. So right now this is currently waiting on AutoDS to make that order and have it fulfilled. Now to make sure this happens and the order is rerouted correctly, then we need to make sure that fulfilled by AutoDS is activated on our account. And this is how we do it. So for this, we're going to have to run over to our settings. And then once we're under settings, we have to go ahead and select our store. My store is already selected here. So we're using Amazon for this because we need the fast shipping. So what we're going to do is we're going to click on Amazon. And then on these top tabs, we're going to click on orders. Now under orders, we have to make sure that we have process orders using the fulfilled by AutoDS service. This is absolutely crucial for AutoDS to be able to fulfill your orders using their buyer accounts. Now this second one automatic orders, this is optional. Some people like to have it on. Some people like to have it off. Personally, I keep it on. I know other people that keep it off. So if we have it off, the order is going to come on here and it's going to stay as pending, then it's going to be up to you to send it to auto order.  And then AutoDS is going to start the process of placing that order for you. Now if we have both of these checked on, then instead of you having to manually switch it to send to auto order, it's going to be done automatically. Now while we're on this page, another thing that's worth noting is tracking conversions. So TikTok shop lets you use quite the variety of tracking numbers. And that's why we're going with Amazon because they actually accept Amazon tracking numbers. Now AutoDS has this feature where it will convert your Amazon tracking number when you're using Amazon as your supplier to a blue care express tracking number. Now unfortunately, TikTok shop does not support blue care express, but there's a simple fix for this. So once we decide whether or not we want to keep our automatic orders on or off, then we're simply going to go down a little bit and look here where it shows tracking conversion. Then here by default it's going to automatically convert your tracking numbers to blue care express. We need to turn this off. So just go ahead and click on this and simply click on disabled. And that's it.  Now let's look over on our TikTok shop. Here we can see our first item and we have the same thing. So awaiting shipment, seller shipping, economy shipping for $14.01 total. Now I don't know if you just caught that, but the order that came in isn't any of the two items that I showed you earlier. It's actually one of these. This is a legitimately indestructible ball. This ball is seven years old and that's how I marketed it. So in this video, I'm actually talking about how my dog destroys absolutely every single toy he comes in contact with within a day. And then I mentioned the ball. I mentioned how this ball is actually seven years old and I've had it ever since I've had my dog. A lot of people can relate to this because a lot of people have extremely heavy chewers for dogs, meaning they have dogs that again, break everything. So being able to show this ball and being able to show them that it's lasted me this long, that right there is social proof. It's showing a wow factor and it's providing value to somebody. So this right here shows you that you shouldn't stop importing products. If you think you found a winner, keep looking for more winners. No matter how much faith you have in a particular product, it's never guaranteed to sell. So because of that, you need to have more and more options. You need to start making more and more videos, you need to start looking for more and more products to promote. And that's also why the pricing was a bit different than the pricing that I said earlier, because it's a totally different item. So after this, we're pretty much done. The only thing that we need to do now is focus on creating more and more content to keep promoting our products. Remember, I cannot stress this enough, whenever you make your videos, always make sure you tag the appropriate products. Do not tag a random product that has nothing to do with the video or that is not shown in the video, because TikTok will take that product down and you will be assigned violation points and you do not want to do that. As you can see, it's super easy to get started. It's extremely easy to market and you don't want TikTok to start giving you any violation points that can be very detrimental to your store. Now how are we going to start marketing our store more efficiently? Well, there's a few different ways to do this. And to be completely honest with you, the best possible way you could do this is to do it yourself. The same way that I started right now and I got my first order, start by making these videos yourself. Order the product to your house, start making a few videos and try to bring up some hype around your channel. Try to make some trending videos, even if you're not offering a product. You still want to keep making content. And that's one thing that I do suggest that you do. Don't include a product in every single video that you post. Post some organic content, some that aren't trying to sell, but instead trying to build an audience. Build an audience that's relevant to your niche. But aside from that, you also have a few other ways to market your products. For one, you have influencer marketing. Now influencer marketing is pretty easy. All you have to do is simply sign up for the TikTok affiliate program. You can start to contact a bunch of different influencers and see which ones are best fit for your products and which ones can potentially help you grow and get more sales. TikTok takes care of the entire thing when it comes to managing them, as well as paying them. And the last option that you have for your marketing is paid ads through TikTok. Now you always have this option. It's always open to you, but me personally, I don't think it's worth it. Organic growth on TikTok is the way to go. And that's what I'm going to stick to. Maybe eventually I'll dip my feet into the influencer side of things. But honestly, for the most part, I'm just going to be sticking to organic marketing. It's practically free. All you have to do is simply pay for the product. It's more natural. People relate more to it. Ultimately, overall, it's more fun. Okay. So the next thing we need to focus on is scaling now. So we know how to market our products. That's actually going to help us scale. But what's another way that we can start scaling? Simply, we can start a few different stores. Since we already have automation on our side, we can focus on coming up with new niches or new products for new stores. Aside from that, we also have the option to just simply add more products to our current store. Adding more products, adding more videos, that's all going to help us scale, get more recognition, build up a bigger fan base on TikTok, and ultimately get more orders. Now, if you do want to open up multiple shops on TikTok, that's something that you're going to be able to do, but you run the risk of getting banned, at least for the first few weeks. Now this can be remedied simply by submitting an appeal and reaching out to TikTok. But for one, that can take quite a while, and two, it's not always guaranteed that they'll reinstate your other accounts. So if that's something you're willing to try and if it works out great, and if it doesn't, at least you tried, but my suggestion would be to just focus on that one store and just keep building it. Keep building, keep adding tons of products to it. Keep coming out with more content, because if you start getting traction through one, it might as well just keep building it to keep getting more and more. And that is absolutely everything that you need to know about getting started dropshipping on TikTok shop, the efficient way. The TikTok shop app on Shopify does not work. So make sure you go with aftership. Aftership is the app that you need to use. That is so far the best app that we've come across that can actually connect everything together and make dropshipping actually work with TikTok shop. So hopefully you enjoyed this video. If you did, please make sure you smash that like button. It took a long time to make this video and a lot of work. So hopefully you found it informative. Hopefully it helped you out. And hopefully it actually gets you started dropshipping on TikTok. 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Wisdom says on censorship, do you know any political party in America who don't support Israel called? No, they don't, look, the United States lost an opportunity during the mid-2000s because you had one person from the Democrats, which was Dennis Kucinich, and another one from the Republicans, which was Ron Paul. If, if I think people knew where the United States was headed, they would have tried to bring Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich together, and the United States that we see now and the world that we see now would be way different. Okay, because even though they don't see eye-to-eye regarding some of the economic stuff, they saw eye-to-eye regarding geopolitics. And as I said before, what breaks the United States of America is geopolitics, not internal politics. Internal politics is just a reflection of their geopolitics, foreign policy, right? So United States had a chance to free itself from the grip of the psychopaths that are ruling over, not just the United States, but the Western world in the mid-2000s, right, with Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul. It didn't happen, right? Very unfortunate, very unfortunate. But for your question, Wisdom, when you say, do I know any politicians that don't support Israel called? The answer is no. Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul, but they're not in politics anymore, right? Yeah, even Vivek is a clown. If you're to deny Israel is a cult, what is your thought? Yeah, that's my thought. That's my thought.


U.S. has Iran war plan. The Pentagon developed a conceptual plan for war if Iran, during the presidency of Donald Trump, the intercept has reported, citing budgetary documents. The document is one of several indications of Washington's increased hawkishness towards Tehran, the outlet argued. The contingency plan, codenamed Support Century, was funded in the fiscal year 2019. Given that the Pentagon's resources are not unlimited, the fact that effort was expended to produce such a document means that U.S. military planners consider the risk of a clash with Iran significant enough, the intercept suggested. Another sign of possible escalation was the order to reassign Israel from European command to central command in the Pentagon's responsibility structure. The story said, carried out by Trump just four days before the inauguration of President Joe Biden, the reassignment built on the reproachment between Israel and Arab states under the so-called Arab Accords. Israel was previously kept under the European command in order to avoid stoking tensions with countries such as Saudi Arabia. Under the Biden administration, the Pentagon has conducted a series of joint military maneuvers with Israel. The Juniper Oak exercise in January was openly touted by the Israeli leadership as a simulation of a war with Iran. The intercept suggested that Support Century probably guided the drills. Concepts of operations plans serve as the intellectual framework or context when developing military exercises, because it makes sense for units that are honing their skills to have that work to be relevant to likely tasks. Dakota Woods, a retired U.S. military planner, told the outlet. Last week, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides stated that Israel can and should do whatever they need to deal with Iran, and we've got their back. While Israel has had an array of cabinets in the past several years amid an ongoing domestic political crisis, all of them have been hawkish towards Iran. Aviv Kochavi, who retired from the position of the Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Force in January, told the media that his nation's military had devised three operational plans to attack Iran. One includes taking out Iranian nuclear installations and auxiliary sites so that it could not create a nuclear weapon. Tehran denies that it is seeking nuclear armaments.