The United Kingdom is one of the most popular marketplaces to sell to and that's because of the rising demand every year and the big increase that we're seeing every year in numbers in e-commerce online sales in the United Kingdom. So we have so many buyers there and while there is an increasing number of sellers in the UK it's nowhere near what we're seeing in the United States. Therefore the UK is a very good option and a very good alternative to the United States. Therefore in this video I'm going to be showing you guys step by step how you can start your own eBay UK dropshipping business and a successful one at it. Quick intro and let's go. All right eBay UK here we come. One second before we begin do not forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel to always stay updated on all of the latest and all of the hottest topics that we have coming out in the world of dropshipping. That being said let's go ahead and get started. You're probably asking yourself can I even dropship on eBay UK if I don't live in the UK. This is a question that a lot of dropshippers are asking and the answer to that is yes of course you can sell on eBay UK if you don't live in the UK you definitely do not have to live there to sell on it just like eBay US. You don't have to live in the US in order to sell on eBay US you are simply considered an international seller. Now the next question a lot of people are asking before they get started is is it even legal to dropship in eBay UK or in the UK in general if I don't live there and once again the answer to that is yes of course it is legal as long as you are following UK's rules and regulations when it comes to the competition and consumer laws and distance and online selling by the way guys everything that I'm going over in this video plus of course I'm always adding more bonuses in the video but everything is in the blog which I'll leave a link to right below this video so you can always check it out read it after watching this video and get more insights and knowledge and value so I'm going to leave the link to the competition and consumer laws and distance and online selling also below this video you guys should go over that there it's nothing really special there but it's something you want to go over before you start listing products on eBay UK and of course you want to abide by eBay's vero rules for those of you who don't know vero stands for verification rights owners and this is eBay's system to protect brand owners company owners people who trademarked and patented their products but if you're using auto DS you won't really have to worry about any of that because auto DS has a vero database which is updating all the time with all of the vero products products that you are not allowed to resell so you'll always get a warning message if you're trying to add a product that you are not allowed to you do need to get to know the drop shipping regulations in the United Kingdom once again links below this video nothing too special there just familiarize yourself with it before we get to how to drop ship on eBay UK let's talk a little bit about the advantages of drop shipping in eBay UK why you should do it so if you can see this chart here in front of me you can see that every year e-commerce sales in the United Kingdom are simply rising the numbers that you're seeing here is in billion so in 2018 e-commerce sales in the UK closed at almost 678 billion dollars the year after that 693 billion dollars and of course we don't have the stats yet for 2020-2021 at least not in this graph but we can see which direction this is headed as I mentioned in the beginning of this video a lot of people are drop shipping on eBay US and there's more marketplaces by the way guys there's eBay Australia there's eBay Germany eBay Canada and more you can sell on any one of those marketplaces and it's a really good idea to do so because when you have one item or specific products that are selling on one marketplace you can try to multiply yourselves by listing them on other products that are not selling on one marketplace but does have a good winning streak on another so it's always good to test out new marketplaces let's go back to UK so as you saw in this graph here provided by Statista the e-commerce sales are rising every year most sellers today are on eBay US so we don't have so many sellers on eBay UK eBay Canada eBay Australia and eBay Germany once again here we're talking about UK it's not a saturated market and you can definitely take a good piece of the cake if you start anytime soon so with more than 240 million monthly visitors on eBay UK you can definitely enjoy the extra sales and profit that you're going to make when you are selling on eBay UK with less competition and more demand eBay UK versus eBay US which is better this is another question that a lot of people are asking before they start their drop shipping selling channels on one of these regions and it's a good question because you have two great marketplaces many sellers are making a substantial amount of profits on both of them but as I mentioned the US is a very saturated market now saturation is not a bad thing I'm selling myself on eBay US and it's a very profitable market many sales many profits but like I said when you test out different marketplaces you will notice their advantages too so some products that are very saturated on eBay US that either are not selling for you or it's just selling once a week or once every two weeks if you try those same products on eBay UK you'll notice a much higher success rate so this is one of the biggest differences if you're already drop shipping on eBay US what I would suggest to do is start selling on eBay UK you don't even have to register a new account you can use your existing account to start selling on eBay UK simply head over to eBay.co.uk login using your US credentials and start listing your products there but of course don't do that until you finish watching this video because I will show you guys all the steps your policies product research UK suppliers and so much more so let's get on with it there is no better marketplace you should definitely try testing them out and seeing what works better for you depends on of course what products are selling what categories you're tackling the audiences that you're targeting so once again eBay US and eBay UK are both great marketplaces each with their pros and cons but eBay UK is definitely not a marketplace that you want to leave behind so now let's talk about the best UK suppliers for drop shipping on eBay UK while there are suppliers all around the world and you don't have to use a UK supplier first of all I would recommend to do so because eBay wants you to ship out your products quickly to your customers and if you're creating a new seller account eBay is going to look at you with a magnifying glass and see what products you're selling how fast you're shipping them out if you're delivering them on time and if your customers are satisfied so these are things that we really want to focus on in the beginning in order to do that we're going to start with suppliers that are located inside the UK this way we can ship our products really quickly domestically from the UK to the UK and we don't have to worry about things like import tax which I will get to soon and more things but the main point here is to ship quickly using UK suppliers and this is how we're going to do so the first supplier is Amazon UK so of course we're going to click on this link here on our blog and it will take me to amazon.co.uk once you're on amazon.co.uk you can see all of the products that are stored in UK warehouses and make sure that your delivery too shows a country in the united kingdom so that you will be sure that these products can ship to the UK and how long it will take so that is the first supplier that can ship quickly from the UK to the UK in just a couple of days. Then you've also got AliExpress now many of you know AliExpress as a Chinese marketplace and that is correct you have many Chinese sellers inside AliExpress selling products that are sourced from China but then again AliExpress already started opening up warehouses all around the world including the United States and of course the United Kingdom so if I head over to AliExpress right now I'll just click on the link that I have in the blog below now here on AliExpress I'm going to change my country my ship to up here I'm going to click on that and change it to United Kingdom now I can see all of the products on AliExpress that can ship to the UK now this doesn't necessarily mean that it's going to ship from the UK in most cases in AliExpress we're going to use international shipping which means that we are importing products from outside the UK and importing them to the UK every time we make a sale so now I can see all of the products that can ship to the UK let's search for a product like dog collar and here in the search results we have a whole bunch of dog collars that are selling really well as you can see up here my ship to country is still the UK so I know that these products can reach the United Kingdom and here I can play with the ship from so I can also see what products we have here that are being shipped from the United Kingdom as you can see there were more countries there like Spain France and so forth okay so we have all of these products here now let's click on one of these products and see that it can really ship from the UK to the UK inside the product listing so what I'm going to do here is click on one of the variants so let's go with the green color size medium and ships from as you see we have China and here we have the United Kingdom so I'm going to click on that and as you can see we have a little shipping price here delivery in the United Kingdom and the total product price is going to be about 2.6 pounds plus another 4.45 pounds and the estimated delivery is on January 10th now I'm recording this video on December 27th which means that this product will arrive in less than a couple of weeks in just about a week and a half which is a good time to reach a product in the United Kingdom usually buyers don't want to wait more than two weeks to get their items so if you can find products that are shipped from internationally or even domestically and it takes less than a couple of weeks your buyers will be happy about that if you can even find products that take one week or less two to three days like amazon for example that's even better you're going to get very satisfied customers regarding your shipping speed so this is just one quick example if you find more examples you will see that you have better shipping times than this even though as I mentioned a week and a half is not that bad so that's just another supplier example that you can use to ship products quickly to the United Kingdom the third one is Banggood UK so click on the link see what they have see what they can ship from UK to UK warehouses and also check their international shipping times the fourth supplier is Costway UK so once again use the link below click on Costway UK see what products they have and it's always a good idea don't forget guys to work with multiple suppliers if you're only going to work with one supplier and it lets you down like for example if you're working with a Chinese supplier like Aliexpress and you're only importing products from Aliexpress in China and now the Chinese go on some new year or some holiday and they're going to be gone for two weeks you won't be able to ship out your orders and since you only relied on one supplier now your drop shipping business is stuck so you always want to work with multiple suppliers to get a higher reach to more products and of course the diversity better shipping times if one supplier goes out of stock on a product that you sold you can always search other suppliers even though you're using price and stock monitoring these things can happen from time to time and we need to be able to fix any problem that may arise which is available through working with multiple suppliers the fifth UK supplier that chips quickly to the UK is Wayfair UK now let's go back a sec Costway and Wayfair and Banggood and Aliexpress and Amazon they're all suppliers that didn't originate from the UK but they noticed a rising trend in the UK market and they want to tap into that too so with their help you can drop ship their products on the UK market and have a high success rate and the sixth supplier from the UK is Vita XL UK this is a relatively new supplier but they have proven themselves with high quality products and fast shipping time so check out what they have and start working with them too those are some of the best suppliers that I can recommend drop shipping from the UK but we also have a full detailed article on the best suppliers from drop shipping in the United Kingdom which I will of course leave a link to right below this video so you guys can have more information more suppliers and more products to sell to the UK market with of course fast shipping which is something that's very very important here here's a quick glance at that article the top 11 UK suppliers to work with on your drop shipping business the list is right here you can click on any supplier to go down to the description and read about them so once again link right below the video get to know these suppliers and start working with at least three of them to get a good start on your drop shipping business so now that you know about some of the benefits of drop shipping in the UK some of the legal aspects and what suppliers you should be working with to ship quickly inside the UK let's go ahead and get started on how to drop ship on eBay UK so first things first what you want to do is register for a free eBay account so if you haven't done that yet all you have to do is head on over to eBay.co.uk and register for your free account once you finish registration eBay will ask you about your payment settings this is where you're going to have to connect Payoneer as a payment provider service so when your buyer pays you for the product eBay will hold these funds and they will send it to you after a day or two through Payoneer and with Payoneer you're going to withdraw your funds now you can also use Payoneer with so many other things like loading your balance if you want to enable automatic orders which we will get to soon but once you set up once you sign up for eBay set your payment settings and everything is up and verified you can start listing products the first thing that you want to do is list a product manually now for that I'm going to leave once again a link to an article below this video on how to list an item manually on eBay and why is it important to start with a manual product like I mentioned before in this video when you have a new seller account and you're importing your first few products eBay is going to look at it really really close with a magnifying glass they want to see what type of seller you are what you're trying to do here and usually when they see people right from the first day when they create their seller account they start uploading products that they don't have in stock from retail marketplaces the first thing that eBay is going to do is suspend your account only temporarily then they want to get you on the phone and see what type of seller you are what you are here to do on their platform and what your intentions are where you're sourcing your products from and so forth now of course there's nothing wrong with what we are doing eBay supports dropshipping as long as you're doing at the right way you're taking care of your customers and you're very very customer oriented but they're going to ask you questions in the beginning like where you're sourcing your products from you can tell them of course that you're working with wholesale dropshipping suppliers they may ask for invoices if you have any you can tell them that you just got started so you don't have them yet but you do have dropshipping contracts and so forth if you want to take the easier route what you want to do first is add products manually that you have from home so for example i can list this glass cup right here and anything else that you have laying around simply import those products to your store manually which means you're going to have to write the product's title the description take photos upload those photos one by one and add all of the item specifications make sure that everything is correct give it a buying price give it a shipping price so if someone internationally buys it you can also ship it out to them and make your first few sales so what you want to do first again is list your first item manually you're going to get a full guide on how to do that once again right below this video one to list your first product manually continue adding more and more products if eBay starts you off with only five items or 10 items as a starting limit you want to use those limits with 10 products that you have around your home and then what you want to do is get eBay on the phone or on live chat and let them know that you want to get a limit increase because you have more products to sell and five or 10 is nowhere near enough then what they're going to do is easily upgrade your limits by the way guys if you need help raising your eBay limits once again we have a video and an article on the subject all the ways to get in touch with eBay and all of the best tips and tricks to make sure that you will finish that call with more limits in your eBay account so once again i'll be leaving links to those right below this video so that's a little bit regarding starting limits eBay is going to limit you in the beginning use those limits to upload manual listings from home raise your limits and then you can start making substantial profits from dropshipping the next topic that i want to talk about is how to set your business policies for eBay UK now business policies means your return policies your payment policies and your shipping policies and this is different from the US so i'm going to take you on a step by step explanation right here so when you create your first listings manually you're going to create your payment shipping and return policies from inside the listing creation but if you just head over to the link that i will leave once again below this video it'll take you to your business policies page where you can manage them you can create policies delete them and do everything else that you need regarding your policies so what we're going to do now is start creating our policies starting from the first one so i'm going to click here on create policy and i'm going to choose a payment policy so we're going to start with payments then we're going to go with returns then we're going to go with postage which is eBay UK's way of saying shipping so we're going to create first a payment policy give your policy a name i'm going to call it eBay UK payments you can give it a description set it as your default payment policy and here since i've got managed payments by eBay i've got it hooked up with Payoneer then i have this required immediate payment when buyer uses it by it now and i'm going to save this policy now it's going to take me back to the main policy screen which you can see right here and you can see that i have a new policy created called eBay UK payments so every time i create a new listing i can assign this policy to that listing and buyers will be able to check out using eBay's managed payment system for so for the buyer it's credit card and PayPal and all of that eBay is going to get the payment and they're going to send it to your Payoneer account as i explained in this video and by the way guys if you also don't know how to connect your accounts to Payoneer pass the verification process and all of that once again i'm going to be leaving a link to those explanations below this video so you guys really have the whole package here okay let's create the next policy i'm going to create a policy and this time it's going to be the returns policy now this really depends on what suppliers you're going to use if you're going to use suppliers like AliExpress that mainly do not allow returns or they do allow returns but not free returns and they also don't allow buyer remorse so if the buyer just regrets you know purchasing the product and even if he didn't open it he won't be able to return that product to AliExpress unless you really convince the AliExpress seller that you want to return this product if the product arrived damaged or if the item is not as described then AliExpress for example will allow you to return that product but the buyer will have to pay for return shipping anyway if you're using other suppliers like Amazon UK with their Prime service then you'll have 30 day returns no questions ask and the seller Amazon in this case or the Amazon FBA service is going to pay for the return shipping so that means that you can offer free returns so it really depends on what supplier you're going to use in this case you should create two policies one with free returns and one where the buyer has to pay for the returns and every time you import a new listing you're going to apply the right policy for that listing so here we're going to make a policy we're going to create a policy called free returns UK domestic returns accepted so this means that you accept returns from UK buyers after receiving the item your buyer should contact you within 30 days you have the option for 14 or 60 30 days is usually the average that you're going to get some suppliers even offer 60 which means eBay is going to promote your listing even more if you can provide 60 days returns return postage will be paid by the buyer or the seller which means free returns which I just talked about a minute ago international returns accepted if you're going to sell internationally and your supplier allows or supports international returns then you can definitely have this on return postage will be paid by in most cases international returns are always going to be paid by the buyer okay so I'm going to create this policy and this is free returns and I'll set it as my default now I can create another returns policy and this time I won't offer free returns and this is for those listings that I will import from suppliers who don't offer me free returns so this is called buyer pays for returns UK or anything like that doesn't have to be that name domestic returns accepted 30 days only this time the return postage will be paid by the seller international returns accepted once again paid by the seller going to save this policy now I have two return policies and one payment policy which is good for all of my listings now I'm going to create a new policy and this time it's going to be the postage or the shipping policy how long it takes me to provide a tracking number and how long it takes me to deliver the product once the buyer purchases it from my shop so I'm going to create a policy name called shipping policy UK set it as my default now the domestic postage I'm going to keep it on flat same cost to all buyers and the services here I need to choose which one suits my listings best in terms of how long it takes to ship so here we have two things we've got services and we've got dispatch time don't confuse it between the two dispatch time is how long it takes you to provide a tracking number once a buyer buys from your shop so if a buyer buys something from your store and let's say you're using amazon's prime service and you know that within two to three days the product might even be delivered but you will get you will get a tracking number within two to three days so here you can use up to three days now as you see here excessive not typical is anywhere above four working days if you don't have a choice if you're using once again suppliers that take a little bit longer to provide shipping labels like some sellers on AliExpress for example you're going to have to go with four to five working days but if you find a seller that's shipping quicker than that then you can always change the policy from one to the other and so the dispatch time in this case let's say I'm going to use amazon prime service or any other supplier that provides tracking numbers within two to three days I'm going to choose a dispatch time of three working days next my services how long it will take the actual package to arrive after the domestic after the dispatch time is over so after those three days how many more days will it take to arrive you're always going to choose the maximum that you can but don't take it too far because ebay will demote the listing the longer it takes to reach the buyer so here for example let's say let's go with other courier three working days the reason why I'm not choosing a specific courier is because if you don't get that shipping carrier then ebay is not going to recognize that shipping and it's not going to be counted in your seller metrics so here we're just going to go with other courier three working days and this means that I've got three plus three which is six working days to deliver the product to my buyers which is more than enough using suppliers that ship quickly of course you can choose three to five working days or five working days if you're not sure how long it's going to take your supplier and you don't want any surprises you don't want late shipping so test out your suppliers test out the products see what their actual shipping times are and adjust your policies along the way and here I can choose if I also want to ship internationally so once again it depends on your supplier some suppliers support it some suppliers don't if they do support it then use flat same cost to all buyers and start including or excluding countries from the international shipping which is which is what you can see right here and of course you're going to choose post to worldwide what services you can offer so once again it depends on who you're shipping from and where it's coming out of but mostly you're going to go with something like economy international postage or standard international postage and how much it costs once again it depends on your supplier and if you're not sure how to set these policies you can always sign up with hip shipper we have an integration with hip shipper which is an international shipping company that will go to your ebay listings it will scan them using the robot and it will recreate policies it will reassign them to newer policies with international shipping and then when you get an order all you have to do ship it to hip shippers warehouse and ship hip shipper will ship it to the end customer hip shipper will make sure that the buyer pays you for the international shipping and you will have to pay it to hip shipper and of course you can even make some extra profit just from the shipping price and of course you're going to make some extra sales and extra profits once you enable international shipping because this way not only is the united kingdom going to see your listing but everyone around the world more traffic more sales more profit that is what we're all here to do for more information on that check out our integration with auto ds and hip shipper it doesn't cost any money to join them no subscriptions no cost whatsoever just pay them for the shipping after the buyer pays you so that's regarding how to set business policies for ebay uk let me just save this one in this case let's not enable international shipping save this of course we're going to provide free shipping so the cost is zero and zero free postage free shipping this is something that we want to offer even if you're using a supplier that's charging you for shipping if you're using auto ds you can have auto ds include the shipping price inside the source price and still have the same amount of profit that you want to profit only you're going to be offering free shipping even if you are paying for shipping so i'm going to save this and that is how simple it is to create your business policies on ebay uk with all of their options now every time i list a new product whether i do it manually or through auto ds i can always assign my listings to any one of these policies okay so we have a store on ebay uk we have our business policies up and running what's next now is one of the most important parts of our drop shipping adventure and that is called product research this is one of the most important parts as i said and it should go without saying but if you're going to add products randomly or you haven't conducted any research on the product that you're adding to your store you have no idea of anyone is even looking for them and if they're even going to buy it from your store product research is one of the things that you have to spend the most amount of time on to get it down correctly and it requires a lot of testing and a lot of trial and error until you start finding those categories and those niches and those micro niches that will start to sell so put in a lot of work in this part and this is the best way to conduct product research let's get started the first way to conduct excellent product research for ebay uk is simply by seeing what's selling well for other dropshippers or other sellers on ebay uk this is how you're going to go about doing that the first thing that we're going to do is head over to amazon.co.uk and what we're going to do here is click on best sellers right here on top and here i want to get some great ideas on some of the products that are selling pretty well now of course you want to go inside products that are relevant for the drop shipping business model so in this case let's see all these categories on the left side and i will point them out to you guys so amazon devices and accessories no launch pad no these are branded things apps and games also not relevant audible audiobooks not relevant automotive is relevant not for selling the cars themselves but you can definitely sell spare parts cleaning kits and all kinds of things that are bundled accessories to cars also you've got baby products great for the drop shipping business model just stay away from products that are hazardous flammable chocable and so forth beauty products are also great but stay away from things like vitamins supplements and things like that you can't sell things that have to do with fitness or jewelry accessories and things like that books is also an okay category but you probably won't have too many cells from there because there's nothing special about a book you can't really optimize your listing in such a way where you'll really be able to stand out and be special and unique business industry and science you can definitely find products from there just stay away from the really really heavy products ebay charges more when you make sales on those cities and vinyl you really don't have to look at in that category clothing is good clothing is great but remember that you have so many variations and so many sizes so you do have to include them all and it's more challenging to find something that's going to sell well for you on clothing because you have millions of products there so there's a lot of extensive research to do there next you've got computer and accessories which is a great category for drop shipping as long as you're not selling the actual computers themselves but definitely sell accessories and things like that digital music no do it yourself and tools sure why not definitely a yes dvd and blu-ray once again no electronics and photo you can definitely drop ship from that category one of my favorites garden and outdoors pretty much everything you find there is perfect for the drop shipping business model gift cards no grocery no handmade products no health and personal care like i said no vitamins no supplements besides that feel free like mens grooming kits and so forth uh home and kitchen a great great category for drop shipping you've got so many things there that have to do with home decor kitchen products storage products like food storage accessories and things like that jewelry is fine for drop shipping just stay away away from big known brands kindle store is not good large appliances can work lighting is great luggage is also good musical instruments is also good for the drop shipping business model and ebay takes a really really low final value fee when you sell musical instruments pcs and video games no pet supplies definitely a yes prime video no shoes and bags yes software no sports and outdoors definitely a yes stationary and office supplies toys and games and watches are all good just once again stay away from those big known brands so that's just a quick summary of the best categories for the drop shipping business model now let's go inside one of these categories and see what we got so i'm going to go to pet supplies now what i want to do is test the market test the products that i see here and see if i can really find something that's trending and selling well so inside pet products i'm going to dive deeper inside the categories so here for example i'm going to go with dogs then let's go with doors gates and ramps okay so we have a whole bunch of items here what i'm going to do is i'm going to see if this dog bell trainee potty pet doorbell is a good product if it's something that's selling if it's something that i should probably be be selling myself so what i'm going to do is i'm going to take probably the first couple of lines just to get the the the the main product what we're looking at here we're going to copy that title i'm going to head back to ebay and i'm going to paste it in the search field so i can see that the product is being sold here for seven and a half pounds on amazon okay and here i can see a whole bunch of sellers that are selling this same exact product now some of them i have their profit profit margin set really really really low like 890 but then other ones other sellers are really trying to profit here like this guy here is selling it for 17 pounds and we've got another one right here selling it for 13 pounds and he's also taking another 20 pounds for shipping and so is this one so these guys are not really selling it for cheap because they're also taking more money from shipping and of course some of them are not so they're just also really cheap so you're gonna have the best of both worlds here for example let's click on this seller i can see that he sold it 11 times so you can tell that this product is actually a popular product that people are actually looking to buy so i'm going to click on the sold here to see when he sold this product and as you can see he sold it this month once uh in october a couple times september several times and he's had it up since march so this product is working pretty well for him and the more the time passes the better his listing is going to be promoted on ebay because he has he's making a rich selling history here okay so this is one product that you can sell but this is just a really quick example from the first product that i just checked on amazon but how can you tell though what products are selling from the search field so let's go back to the search that we couldn't conduct it here on ebay i want to take out the ones that are not selling because they're not interesting if the seller is not selling a a a listing then i have no reason to learn from him so here on the left side you see there's a sold items button i'm going to click on that but as you see completed items also clicked in i'm going to unclick that because it's only showing me items that are completed which means that now they're out of stock so i'm going to unclick that and have only sold items clicked in now i'm going to see only the products from the search that have sold at least once in the past so here we have them one for 836 another for 10.12 with another 18.6 pounds in shipping so here you're paying about 28 pounds and amazon ships it to the uk without taking any price on shipping so that just comes to show you how much of this drop shipper is profiting so all of these guys here have sold this product and the more i scroll the more i can even see more products that are similar to this one so i can get more ideas and products that are selling now at this point i'm telling you guys don't worry about the prices and don't worry too much about the competition even if you're importing a product that other people are already selling whether they are or whether they aren't it doesn't really matter you're going to be optimizing your product's title and the title is one of the most important things on ebay that's how the buyer is going to get your listing when they're searching for something on ebay so you're going to change your title you're going to optimize it to be unique for you and you're going to also optimize your images and your product description item specifications and so much more so that you will have the winning edge over your competitors let's take a look at an example of how to import your product to autods this is going to save you a lot of time not only is it going to save that time but it's going to help you differentiate yourself from the competition and have a higher chance of the buyer seeing your product and not your competitors so let's say we want to take this dog bell that we just found a couple minutes ago what i'm going to do is take the whole url and simply copy it head over to the autods platform and then we're going to click on add products now of course this is assuming that you sign up to the autods platform and you want to start optimizing your products and stand up from the competition and save a lot of time there's also more things that you can do here but we're only going to touch these specific subjects right now so what you're going to do is add your ebay store on the top left once you register it's a very simple process then we're going to click on add products and in this case we can simply go with a simple product of course we can also add multiple products we can even grab whole supplier pages like for example all you have to do is download and install the autods helper extension so on google just write down autods helper and you'll be taken to our extension from there you can simply search for something like dog collar for example let's just go with the same example that i started with and here let's say you found this niche and it's working really well for you and you simply want to start adding as many as possible to really test out this whole category all you have to do is download and install the chrome extension like i mentioned then when you search for something on your supplier's page you're going to see the autods icon on the bottom right let's just give it one and a half seconds to load here it is right here so i'm going to click on it and as you see this window came up right here i'm going to click on extract what happened now is all of the products all of the 25 products on this page just extracted into this little extension over here all of their product id's then i'm going to export it as a csv and as you see a csv file was downloaded onto my computer next on the autods platform i'm going to click on multiple products or stores and here i can upload that csv file right over here then it'll simply import all of those products to my drafts page i can optimize the product optimize all of all of those 25 products and import them one by one or all together to my store then it'll move from drafts to products that's how i'll know that the products are now live on my store and anyone can go in and start buying them in this case we're going to go with a single product so i'm going to click on add product i'm going to grab the url of that product well let's just go with another product so let's just say it's this one i'm going to i'm going to copy the link address or the url and on autods i'm going to paste it right here the supplier is amazon the region is the united kingdom it grabbed those details automatically for me but if it's wrong for you just switch it to the right thing then what you want to do is click on edit now quick now in just a couple of seconds it's going to grab all of the products details from amazon and upload it to the draft section of our page in autods where we can start optimizing and here it happened while i just spoke so what we're going to do here start with a title we can only have up to 80 characters so we're going to optimize this title reflective dog collar let's delete and delete a seller's name adjustable pet collars with soft neoprene padding i don't think people are really searching for the word neoprene so with soft padding we're going to delete the word and four foot matching leash for small medium large dogs we don't have room for that so we're going to delete it so we're just going to delete delete a few more words here just to make it up to 80 characters okay so reflective dog collar leash adjustable collar soft padding four foot matching leash okay so that's a pretty good title it's optimized and it's a different title from what other people have now for more examples you can go inside the product and read the customer's reviews see what people wrote and try to find words that are repetitive in the customer's reviews you can also use those also because they're probably searching for those same words and you can see what the product is all about read the description and get more word ideas from there you can also try keyword searching so search for this product on google and see what the auto complete is also giving you you will be able to get some more strong keyword ideas from there so once you optimize the product title you have the category so you want to put it inside the relevant category in most cases auto this is going to automatically choose the category for you then you've got the tags which are always filled in automatically so dogs collars harnesses collars basic collars you can add more you can remove and so forth and these tags are good because you can always analyze what products are selling well for you by also checking out their tags it'll help you analyze categories and niches much better in your store shipping methods you can choose the cheapest cheapest with tracking or fastest with tracking and you can choose your policies so we already talked about these policies here you can simply select those policies that we created i don't have it here since the store that i showed you guys is not synchronized here but if it was you would see the payment policy the shipping policy and the return policies that we created on our ebay accounts the country location this is important so if this product is coming from the uk warehouse and of course the country location is the uk but if i'm shipping it from china you want to make sure that it's in this example from china or germany or wherever it's from don't lie about the country location make sure that it's exact then you've got the default zip code so this is the default zip code that you want to show up in this listing of course when ebay sees that the tracking is not coming out from this zip code and they check that they may flag your ebay account flagging your account means you're going to get less views and less sales but this is not a big deal for two reasons one if you get flagged all you have to do is simply add more listings because the more listings you have the more sales you make whether you have more views or less views the more you have the more views you'll get and more views means more sales the second reason and this is a really important one we are now working with aquiline tracking numbers which means that once you sign up for the fulfilled by autods service which i will talk about in a few minutes you'll be able to convert your tracking numbers automatically to aquiline which means all of your tracking information will originate from the zip code that you have set over here this means that ebay will not flag your account because you're not breaching their item location policy and if they already did flag your account all you have to do is enable it now let your next few orders run see that the tracking is coming out from the same place from the right zip code then you can simply let ebay know that you're not breaching their item location policy please unflag your account and they will proceed to do so okay so that's that's a little bit about the default zip code then you've got the brand so you don't need to write anything there if you don't want the buyer to see what the brand is and you've got the monitoring so you can enable stock monitoring price monitoring and automatic orders which we'll talk about soon then you've got the product description so here what you want to do is first set the template that you want for this product now using autods you have all kinds of free templates that you can use so you can click on edit templates it'll take you to the template section of autods and you can use any template that we have ready for you guys it's absolutely free you can use services like fiverr or upwork to hire freelancers for as low as five dollars to create a unique template for your store as long as you have a template your store will look better that way then you want to make sure that your product description looks good so i can click here and edit product description and change a whole bunch of text around i can add more things i can add images i can change the sizing the format and so many things if you're importing a product from a chinese supplier the description is probably not going to look so good you're going to have to optimize it some more then you've got the variants so if the product has variations we would see them here you can even add more variants and i can even add variations from different suppliers in different regions so you can really make your your listing stand out and be unique no other seller will have the same exact listing with these variants so you can really make something special here just get creative then you've got the images so here's all of the images that we got that autods imported from our supplier to the autods platform which will soon be on our stores now here i want to show you guys the advanced image editor it's a great feature to make yourself unique and stand out with your images and you don't want your image just to be the same as other sellers even if you optimize your title item specifications and so forth you still want to have a good image so here i'm going to click on edit of course you have different options you can just see them play around with it like flipping cropping and so forth and this is the advanced image editor this is where i can really make some magic happen i can draw some things like free draw i'm just making something ugly ugly over here just to show you guys you know how it works you can make shapes you can apply icons you can add free text like free shipping worldwide shipping and so forth you can add a mask filter and more check out our advanced image editor help yourself stand out this is absolutely free and included inside your autods package subscription then you've got the item specifications so here i'm going to delete the brand for example i don't want the brand to be to be seen then you've got everything that autods automated for you and you can add more things like for example let's add type dog color you can also add i'm going to click on add then let's say dog size small medium and large and simply continue optimizing your item specifications from there then i'm going to click on save to save this draft and once i click on save and import it's actually going to move from the drafts to the product section of my store and then it will go live anybody will be able to see it so this is our products title the store name is ebay uk that's where i'm adding it to you can add an internal note only that you will be able to see and the supplier of course once you click on it you'll be taken to the suppliers page for this product so that's how simple it is to automate the importing process and it's really important to do so if you guys really want to save time and be able to scale this business and reach new heights in sales and profit and not limit yourself to doing the same daily tasks every day and not really grow your dropshipping business so that's a quick thing about product research and a great way to start conducting your product research once again guys put a lot of work and hours into this and you will start to see the results you also saw how you can quickly import products from your suppliers page to auto ds soon i'm also going to be going over the pricing setting so you guys will know exactly what fees you are paying on uk and what you need to price your products in order to make some profit and how much you're actually profiting at the end of the day we're going to get to that soon so we talked about product research how to import your products also really quickly to auto ds so regarding product research we said that you can go to amazon's bestsellers or any other supplier that has a bestsellers page so you can see products that are selling and trending search for that product on ebay as you can see here once again in front of me click on sold items but make sure that you didn't click on completed items it might be done automatically so you'll have to undo it then you'll see what products are selling there and you can start adding those products and even products that are similar to that now there are more product research methods for example you can use the auto ds platform we have a new product research feature implemented inside the system let me give you a quick look even though we haven't added uk suppliers yet it will be added very soon maybe by the time you're watching this video we may already have it so i just clicked on the auto ds product research and it's taking me to that marketplace and as you see here we have all products i can click on popular products new products holiday products which is also good because every time we have a holiday coming up we're going to help you guys prepare your stores and this place is simply packed with so many bestselling and trending items that we have found out on our auto ds database and we want to share the success with you we want to help you guys really sell more your success is our success it's mutual so we have to get this thing working and this is one of the best ways to do it now the thing is here on the left side you see that you have us suppliers and china suppliers but sooner you're going to have more things like private suppliers which is going to be really great and unique just for the auto ds members and we're also going to add uk suppliers and other regions so this is a great way to see what's selling well and you can search for similar products on amazon.co.uk or other suppliers that drop ship from and to the uk and that way you can easily get more ideas to make more sales so you can use this method and once you'll have uk here you can simply import this product really quickly by clicking on import product if you click inside the product listing you'll see more things like the product's rating reviews item specifications and so forth that's another way to conduct research and the third method that i want to talk about is using the aliexpress drop shipping center to conduct your product research let me show you a quick glance of what it is and what it's like so all you have to do is write down on google aliexpress drop shipping center and it'll be the first link login to your aliexpress account and here on the left side you're going to click on find products to sell this place is going to give you a whole bunch of product ideas even products that you never thought even existed and they're really trending right now so search for those products and even those that are similar to them and get unique with your store and with your number of sales so here we can see that these winter warm gloves are selling really well right now and it makes sense because we're really in the middle of the winter right now we've got these wireless earbuds we've got home decor pot pen holders and here on the right side you can see how many orders we have on these products and how many of these orders are drop shipping orders which you can see it makes up for the majority about 50 to 60 percent here we don't have so many drop shipping orders so here for example only 228 out of 1600 are drop shipping orders so this is probably a good example of a product that you should be looking for and drop ship it on your store because not a lot of drop shippers are selling it at least not yet then you also have the analyze button here so you can really analyze each product's performance so i just clicked on the gloves just to show you an inside analysis view of what it looks like when you click that button you can see when the product started trending and this also helps you get an idea if this product has been trending for a long time like for over a year now so it's going to be much harder for you to sell it or if it's something that actually relatively new that you can actually ride this train and enjoy those cells so here for example this product only started selling just five days ago and yeah so it increased five days ago it started a small decrease and now it's back up to i see a hundred here someone maybe even bought a hundred for their stock because they sell it selling well for them so don't let them be the only ones and enjoy this piece of the cake this is another once again great place to find product ideas that you should start adding to your store so you can use the product ideas here search for it on your suppliers see who can ship it as quickly as possible to the uk and once again this way you're going to be able to find products that are trending really really quickly and save a lot of time on product research now an additional way to conduct product research is by simply letting the product research be get done for you this is especially if you don't have the time for it you can simply use the autodesse finder this is how it works first on the autodesse platform i'm going to head back to the selling platform instead of the product research then what i'm going to do is once again click on add products only here instead of adding single or multiple products i'm going to click on autodesse finder the autodesse finder is going to use autodesse's database with thousands and thousands of trending and best-selling products and it's simply going to add them automatically to our stores we can even schedule it to do the same thing every day to add products every day to our store at a certain date and time so you can make it a recurring thing and simply let your store grow automatically see what's starting to sell from them and then manually search for more products that are similar to those that sold for you from the finder so this is another great way that you can add as an addition to your product research and really find really good items here so what we're going to do here once again we click on the autodesse finder and here we have basic popular bestsellers and coupon products my two personal favorites are bestsellers and coupon products bestsellers will add products that sold at least eight times in the last month and coupon products will give you products that have a high chance of having a coupon which means you will get a discount when you purchase that product which means once again more profit for you so here let's say for example i want to add 20 products that sold eight times in the last month and i want to add 10 more products with a high chance of a coupon now here i can add my supplier's source so i can say that i want i want to source these bestsellers from products that are coming out of amazon and from the region instead of the united states in this case i'm interested in the united kingdom so let's go with the united kingdom now since i changed the region i need to add my selection again so 20 that sold eight times in the last month and 10 more with a high chance of a coupon total cost 130 credits make sure that you have credits if you don't you can easily buy them from the platform in this case i have over 29 000 credits in this account but credits are relatively cheap so you don't really need to worry about that and of course we want to publish these items to ebay uk then i can add it as a draft or i can add a publish recurring which means i want to have this as a recurring thing which means i can select when i want to keep recurring this same action so i clicked on that and here i can select which time so let's say 330 is fine and i wanted to be recurring on a daily basis and finally you can choose if you want to add them as drafts or if you don't have that checked in it'll simply publish directly to your store and i don't need to do anything now i know that every day at 3 30 p.m i'm going to have 20 best sellers and 10 more items with a high chance of a coupon which means 30 items that are probably going to trend pretty well on my store now of course not every item is going to sell and it doesn't matter what type of product research you're doing that's a dropshipping business model the best part is you don't have to pay in advance for your products just add more and more listings keep testing and multiply your success by adding more that are similar to those that are already selling for you i know that i said that a few times i'm probably going to need to say it a few times more for it to really get in your head because this is what's going to help you sell in profit at the end of the day okay so publish recurring let's say that we want to add them as drafts click on next item is being added to recurring click here to track the progress that's all there is to it now the product research is being done for me my recommendation is to use the autodesk finder while also adding in your own product research methods which i talked about in this video but if you really don't have time for product research and yeah you can use only the finder and take a look every day to see what products it's adding see what's starting to sell and start optimizing from there okay so here you can see today december 27th on ebay uk 20 bestsellers 10 coupon products from amazon uk upload time at 3 30 p.m and this is a recurring thing so you can edit the settings of this recurring upload pause it or delete if you do not want to continue with the recurring process so that pretty much sums up the product research phase for ebay uk and how to really do it the right way and succeed at it now let's go over order automation because now you have your store up and running you know what's what you know who's against who you have the right products in your store and you finally started to make some sales now what you want to do is start adding in order automation because you only have two options here once you start getting sales the first one is to manually go to your supplier's website create a buyer account add your payment settings your credit card whatever have you and purchase each product from your supplier ship it to your end customer with your payment details and the more sales that you have the more tiresome this is going to get because when you'll find yourself spending all day just fulfilling orders and maybe even making some mistakes now and then like shipping to the wrong address or anything else that might happen but this is going to be a very time consuming process that will stop you from expanding it will limit you just like if you're not using any drop shipping tools at all and let's say you're doing everything manually like you're refreshing all of the products every day on your supplier's website to see what went out of stock or if there's any price changes you'll never see the end of it and you'll never be able to scale your business same thing goes for order automation what's so good about order automation is that you don't have to be in front of your computer to process your orders now if you're drop shipping from places like ebay us in the us market you can use the fulfilled by autods service which means that you're not even going to be using your own buyer accounts autods has their buyer accounts they will fulfill your orders and update your tracking for the uk that will be available soon maybe by the time you're watching this video fulfilled by autods is already available in uk and if it is start using it now but if not you can use automatic orders so let me show you how that is done on autods i'm going to click on settings and the first thing that i want to do is enable automatic orders on my package so i'm going to click on plans and add-ons and i'm going to make sure that the orders processor here is enabled at just eight dollars a month now i'm going to click on orders and here you will see all of the orders of course that came in to your autods account or to your ebay store which is synchronized right here and when the orders start to come in they can come in in either two forms one is pending or the other is in-order process which is let me send it to auto order in order progress which is what you see right here now let's go back to the settings before we continue there once we enabled it in our plans and add-ons what you want to do next and of course you want to click on amazon uk here and select the right store so the store that i'm going to choose is ebay uk this is the store that i'm referring to for automatic orders and the supplier is amazon uk so now i want to enable automatic orders for amazon uk so once i enabled automatic orders in my plans and add-ons here on ebay uk and amazon uk i'm going to click on the orders tab and i'm going to enable automatic orders requires a buy account what is a buyer account this means that you need to have an account on amazon autods is going to use your amazon account to fulfill your orders for you automatically so even while you sleep or while you travel or while you do anything and you're outside you're not in front of your computer your orders will get processed as soon as they come in which means your buyers are going to get their products delivered pretty quickly not only are the orders going to be processed automatically but once tracking is available autods is also going to update the tracking information on the autods system and on your ebay store so your buyers will be able to see right away that tracking is available and you won't have to do anything for that so what you want to do in the order settings is enable automatic orders and you have the rest of the order settings here like tracking conversion here for example you can choose disabled but if you're dropshipping from amazon uk what you do want to do is convert all tracking numbers to aquiline with zippered masquerade which is what i talked about in this video meaning your account will not get flagged and if it's flagged you can unflag it by telling ebay that you are not reaching their item location policy because with aquiline your tracking numbers are going to come out from using the same zip code that you have in your listing or if you don't want to use aquiline you can also use tracking conversions to blue care express so every time you get an amzl tracking number that is not supported by ebay of course ebay is going to support the blue care express tracking number or aquiline if that's what you chose to go with so in the tracking conversion definitely take advantage of that then you have some more settings and you have your automatic messages now you definitely want to enable automatic messages to your buyers here you're going to send automatic messages and here i'm going to enable it on the right side so automatic messages is going to help you get better feedback for your ebay account you're going to get faster feedback and positive feedback at that so first you have you've got the gift message so if you're dropshipping from amazon you know that amazon enables gift messages here you can write whatever you want and every time an order is sent out it's going to be sent out with that gift message for your buyers so if you want to brand yourself write down your brand name in the gift message if you want to connect to the customer and tell them to leave a positive feedback on the gift message you can even do that then you've got the feedback message which is right here so you're leaving a positive feedback automatically through autodesk every time someone buys from you and when a buyer sees that you left him positive feedback he's most likely going to send you a positive feedback back as a seller so here you can write a custom message for that positive feedback that you're leaving your buyers then you have your after order message so this is the message that your buyer is going to get after the order was processed we already have automatic messages set for you on autodesk but you can definitely get in there click the pencil button right here on the right side and edit it whatever whatever way you want you can even have triggers here like inserting the buyers first name last name product title store name tracking number shipping carrier and feedback url to leave you with a positive feedback then you've got the automatic message for once tracking number is available so dear buyers first name your package is on its way the tracking number is updated in your order details the tracking carrier is shipping carrier trigger and so forth and then you've got the feedback message so this one gets sent a certain time after the package was delivered to the buyer and asks him to leave a positive feedback so all of this is going to really improve your customer service and the positive feedbacks that you are getting on your ebay seller account so use the automatic messages and that's just a little bit more on the order setting so enable automatic orders and then when you hit when then when you go back to your order screen you'll see that your orders are being processed automatically just make sure that you have auto order credits right here you can click on buy credits and each credit costs anywhere between 16 to 30 cents depending on how many credits you buy now once the order gets sent out it's going to the status is going to move from in order progress to order automatically with the order id inside then once it gets shipped auto DS will move the status from ordered to shipped as you can see here with a tracking number in the auto DS order details and on your ebay store so that the buyer will be able to track their progress their delivery and you can also start a return so from the delivered progress you can start a return I don't have a perfect example here since this store doesn't have it but once you start a return you're either going to get two things either you're going to get a download return label as you can see here I simply need to click on that and it's going to download the return label all I need to do from there is send the return label to the buyer and once they send it back they will get the refund and you will also get the refund back credited into your auto DS account if you are not eligible for return like let's say two months have passed and amazon only gives you one month then you will get a return felt and tell the buyer the same thing your policy stays 30 days and you cannot return this product unfortunately so automatic orders is going to save you a lot of time and it's going to help you scale your business really easily definitely take advantage of automatic orders and automatic tracking updates along with your tracking conversions now this video was really long and really guys congratulations on making it this far but there's one more really important subject that we need to talk about how to price your products how do you know what your break even is how much you're profiting and how much you can profit on each product and just for that we created the ebay fees calculator once again completely free to use just so you guys can understand what your break even is and how much you should price your products so let's take a look here for example first you need to choose what category you're importing products from let's say i'm importing this product and i want to know how much i should price it for so here in the fees calculator my category i'm going to look for a pets category but if you cannot find your category here then simply click here on other categories and as you see here we're starting to see what our fees are but it's not ready yet then you've got your payment processor so either either using the managed payments which we talked about or you have an older ebay account and you're still using paypal and you didn't have to move to manage payments yet so choose what your payment processor is then your ebay account options you have an ebay store subscription are you a top rated seller and are you an international seller so let's say for example you're drop shipping to the uk but you don't live in the uk so you're an international seller then we've got the selling price so this is how much i want to sell the product for so let's say i want to sell it for $19.99 oh and of course we want to choose the marketplace up here so i'm going to choose united kingdom okay so we're seeing dollars but never mind let's just pretend it's pounds i want to sell this product for $19.99 the product costs me $8.99 the shipping price in this case let's say zero the shipping cost how much it costs me so the shipping price is how much i want to charge the buyer the shipping cost is how much i'm paying for it and promotions if i if maybe i have a promotion running on this i'll talk about promotions right after this calculator explanation but let's say i'm not running any promotions here so no need to do anything there i can also check the fees by putting in an item link here to an ebay listing so here in total our total fees are $2.87 and our total profit from selling at $19.99 and buying at $8.99 with all of these conditions is $8.13 or eight pounds in this case which is just above 40% so this is a pretty good profit margin and here i know that i can sell this product for even lower if i have to and still make some substantial profit for just one sell so that's not bad right guys this ebay fees calculator is going to help you guys a lot because ebay has different fees in different categories and different options here that is why we created it most categories are going to pay about a 15 category fee you also have final value fees you got promotion fees you got so many things that it's much much more difficult to explain much easier to simply give you the calculator and let you take it from there so this is going to help you guys understand how much you're profiting and then on in autodesk all you have to do is simply set it in your pricing settings so you can do it really easily by heading over to settings of course it's ebay uk and amazon uk and here in the pricing settings i can set the settings that i want so i can go back to the calculator and see that my break even is about 15% so what i'm going to do is i'm going to take that 15% and add that as my fee so that's my break even now above that i want to make additional profit so let's just say i want to have another 50% profit and additional profit in pounds so let's say i want to make another one pound on top of the 50% on top of my 15% break even next you can decide if you want to have an automation for your products so what this means is it helps you get more sales on products that are not selling well and it helps you profit more on products that are selling well so what it does basically is it increases the price of a product every time it sells up to a certain limit of your choosing and it decreases the price of slow movers products that are not selling it keeps decreasing them down to a certain limit of your choosing until it starts to sell so this way you're always going to find your sweet spot for every product and profit the most while still making sales you can also have dynamic profiting so let's say you can you can tell the system for every product that costs anywhere between 0 to 100 pounds i want to make 15 50 profit and another pound you can add another rule from 100 to 200 what you want your profit to be and you can keep adding rules or removing them and you can also set a sense price value so i want every listing to end with 95 cents or 0.97 cents or 0.99 cents just to make your listings look better and consistent so there's many options for you i'm not going to go through all of them but these are the important ones to help you optimize and scale your dropshipping business another subject that we have to talk about is customer support when dropshipping on ebay and uk in this case so using the autods system you have the customer support tab on the left side and that's what you're seeing here in front of me now in this case it's empty because i don't have any yet on this specific account but if you want to know how it works what you're going to see here is all of the messages that you're getting from your buyers so even if you have whether you have one or multiple stores you're going to be able to manage all of your customers messages and all of the cases cancellations whatever they may be everything here under one screen so you don't have to browse through different browsers different tabs and so forth you can see everything all in one place if you want to see a good example of how this works check out our ebay customer support management system page this teaches you everything that you need to know about it but just take a look at this screenshot of how it works so sorry for the blurry picture guys i just can't show you my actual account because everything will have to be blurred and you won't really be able to understand anything but what you're going to see here in the chat screen is the buyer's messages who the who the message came from the status of the message the type of message the time it came in and what story belongs to once you click on one of those messages this is what you're going to see so it's going to open up what looks like a chat window between you and the buyer and here you can see an actual message that i got from one of my buyers on my store so everything is great thank you my fiance will be coming home from the army soon i can't wait to put on her neck thank you so this is a real message that i got from one of my buyers you can guess that i sold a necklace here and they were really happy about it and then all i did was i wrote down here in this chat box congratulations i hope your brave fiance will love it i clicked on send and it sent a message here so for you it looks like a chat window between you and the buyer but what's actually happening in the background is it sending these messages to the buyer on ebay saving you a whole lot of time you can also save chat snippets so if you have recurring messages that you're sending to your buyers you can save those snippets and just paste them whenever you see fit so the customer support system looks like this only in this case let's click on customer support in this case once again you're seeing an empty screen because it's a demo account but we have a video about it on our youtube channel and we have the ebay customer support page which is what you can see here in front of me which tells you exactly shows you how you can work with the customer service feature so guys customer service is one of the most important things don't miss out on your buyer's messages answer and reply to each and one of your buyers and of course if there's a return case or a cancellation request answer them as soon as possible take care of your seller metrics ebay wants to see that you're taking care of your buyers and only then they'll start to see you know who you are how much you're profiting how much they're profiting from you and so forth first and foremost is customer service now the last subject that i want to go over in this video and once again guys good job in making it this far give yourself a tap on the back you really deserve that how to run an ebay ppc campaign step by step now i'm not going to be going over the step by step here but i will talk about the importance of this and i will advise you guys to read this article and watch the video embedded in here right after watching this video now there are two main ways to promote your products on ebay one is using promoted listings standard and the second is using promoted listings advanced the difference between them and you will learn it from watching this video and reading this article the standard is what we had up until now which means you're telling ebay you can take a percentage from my final price if you're able to make a sell by promoting my listings so the higher percentage you give ebay the more they're going to promote this listing so inside your ebay seller dashboard click on promotions and you have the options there to create a new promotion for standard or for advanced so standard you can simply select all of your listings in bulk and tell ebay here take five percent if you're able to make a sell and ebay will only deduct these funds from you only if they were able to make a sell now they have a new option called promoted listings advanced which is ppc or in other words pay per click this way ebay is promoting your listings even more on top of other sellers who are using the regular version of promoted listings only here ebay is going to charge you for every click now many of you are thinking okay if i have to pay for every click no matter how much it is five cents 10 cents 50 cents a dollar i hope not but if i have to pay for every click and i'm not going to make sales on every click it's probably not going to be that worthwhile now guys i want to remind you guys everybody today every big company is running pay per click amazon google facebook and now ebay it's a proven method that works first you need to check all of your listings and put them in a ppc campaign with a starting budget of let's say five dollars or ten dollars per day let ebay play around with your listings and promote each one and see how far they can get you and what sales they can get you when you read this article and watch the video here you'll see my example of the ppc campaigns that i ran on my ebay account what sales i was able to get and the best part is that you're able to export excel files that give you a whole bunch of information that you won't be able to get out there on the internet of what products as you can see here it's a small screenshot but you'll see it better if you read the blog or watch the video but you'll see what keywords people are searching for what they search for to get to your product it's going to give you so much insight on what customers are searching for and what they're what the customer behavior is by simply running ppc campaigns and you'll be able to easily take this information and optimize it to run better ppc campaigns and create better campaigns in the future this is a great feature that was just added and it's a very very good way to get those early sales and take this along the whole way not just when you're in the beginning stages but also when you're advanced and when you're expert you're not going to want to let this feature go it's one of those features that's going to get you the most amount of sales of course you need to analyze it really well you need to optimize it really well but it will all come automatically for you once you just give it a shot so once again the link will be right below this video and that pretty much sums up how to dropship on ebay uk we touched pretty much everything that there is when it comes to dropshipping on ebay uk if you guys have any questions let me know right below this video and i will of course answer you guys you can also check out our facebook community page where dropshippers are helping other dropshippers with all of their questions our goal is to help each other succeed and that is exactly what we are doing here once again if you haven't done so yet like this video if you appreciate the value subscribe to always learn and 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Hey, so my name is Sanjay and so I won't take much of your time I lead the analytics team in APG and I just want to give an overview of what we do and after this I know there is a lunch coming up and we don't have much time so just bear with me for 15 minutes maximum and thank you Hasgeek for organizing this and two lovely talks for on this area. So what to just give an overview of what APG does APG is somewhat in the system in the middle which connects the enterprises with users and apps and there are couple of entities involved in this transactions which are called developers ops API team who builds the APIs platform API business and the business and IT managers and as these transactions happen what is needed by these entities is to understand what is happening and therefore analytics comes into picture. So I will just give a very short and very quick overview of what we do and how we do it over the last one and a half year to almost two years we have been trying to build this system is not yet matured much but we will eventually go there many of these will be similar to what something was saying and let me let me go through this. So as of now what this is this is the kind of statistics that that I put together they almost about 200 plus customers and this whole analytics has got about 250 plus nodes running all of them are in cloud as of now and the amount of data that we are gathering each day from all these customers basically this when I say customers it actually means the transactions that I showed in the diagram before and we are we are we are getting about 200 GB of data each day and this is this is like increasing almost every day. So we are expecting about crossing by end of 2004 750 800 GB if not more we also provide a free offering which is 90% same features as the enterprise customers that we provide and there we have almost our 10,000 plus customers running the whole system spans across five regions US East West EU South East APEC and North East APEC across the AWS many of these customers the enterprise customers have a multi region deployment of their system and therefore we have to collect data from all of these places our availability goal is 99.9949 we haven't reached there we are trying to get there we also have a similar on premise solution the same solution can be deployed on premise for customers who want them on many of our customers don't want a cloud solution they want to deploy these solutions in their premise so we have to add up to that. What are the key goals? The key goals is the data quality of this has to be absolutely perfect because lot of this depends drives a business decision. So therefore it's dependable data availability of the system scale which are the quite natural in today's world responsiveness to interactive queries this is I will come it's a bit of importance ability to customize whatever reports that you are seeing and you should be very obvious in your when you are showing the visualization so one of the I mean one of our big as I said in that shown in the diagram the business users are one of the big users of that so if you make it complex in terms of interpreting your data and all this then it's of not of much use so it has to be very very lucid smart visualization is definitely one of the thing architectural highlights multi-tenanted distributed zero data loss is definitely the guarantee that we have provided we cannot provide it we provide an at least one semantics so so that means we should not have a zero data loss it's a completely metered metadata driven pipeline so as you can imagine the 200 plus customers on the cloud each one it's a multi-tenanted 250 boxes machine so whenever whenever some new customers are onboarded it's the wiring is totally dependent on the metadata so that it makes the operability much more simple this is very important point is we do not have we have a fixed message payload but every customers can extend on top of that so you can define as a customer you can define what extra data you need and therefore it makes a little bit challenging in terms of how you report how you slice and dice your data you have no control of what those extended dimensions and matrix are offline and near real times are one of our goal and every piece of even though we have an UI there is it's that the whole thing is depend is driven by an API rest rest API base even the UI is one of our client so people or the users or customers can write their own applications to consume from our data so it's totally rest API driven we have to guarantee that the data ingestion that happens in in seconds latency cannot be in minutes the aggregated data today we whatever we have we does pre-computations should be available in a couple of minutes I think right now the SL is kind of a two minutes guarantee and these feeds these pre-computations feeds all the dashboards in the near real time when as a something was speaking when when you get the messages you basically have different pipelines one pipelines for real processing and one pipeline for batch processing typically I will I will come to the diagram typically what we are actually deploying is a Hadoop for batch processing where we do all offline transact offline analysis and then there we are also working on storm for near real time processing of various events so for example customers can come and define an event he is interested in remember this is all it's very flexible so we don't actually know what the customer is going to define so you can define a role you can define an event and that event has to be generated event has to be kind of detected in their data pipeline in the near real time and some alerts or some some decision has to be taken based on that so these are mainly so I won't go into much of a detail these are typical stack generally this is the stack that is followed in all probably all data collection data pipeline analytics stuff we have these event collectors or we also call it data pushers which are basically across all these five regions are sitting there and transferring the messages currently we have not gone to Kafka we are evaluating this Kafka our system has been built out of Cupid's if you do if you know about Cupid's this is basically a MQP protocol and this Cupid's build up the message bus that we have and it also provides all public sub-sub-sub model and what happens is that once the data Cupid is essentially MQP is extremely fast but it has got some I mean less kind of features than Kafka provides so therefore we are trying to evaluate and get into Kafka if required ingestion layer is something that we have written on our I mean it's a custom build and what it does is basically it there are two pipelines one pipeline essentially there are three pipelines one pipeline goes directly to Hadoop for any offline processing and another pipeline goes to a database which is a cluster of postgres machines and where we compute as the messages comes here we compute all the aggregations and displayed from here storm is something that we are evaluating for the real-time use cases redshift is something that we have adopted it's an Amazon service which is basically an OLAP database columnar form the reason mainly because we have as I was saying we have this flexibility of customers can actually define their schemas so essentially you don't know what to build your aggregates for what to what customers will query what reports they want you have no control on that it's totally flexible so one of the thing that we initially faced is that as the data volume grows and you you don't know what to I mean what to aggregate or compute on your query starts suffering because you will no longer actually on the database sites or on any other no SQL sites you will be able to actually handle the queries at a volume of like say 50 million data per day or something like that. So what what happened is that post that we try what try to figure out what kind of solutions we we can have and it turned out that MPP or kind of database which is like if you have heard of names of Netiza or Vertica these are the kind of database which handles this kind of use cases. However fortunately we since we were in Amazon rate Amazon came up with a similar solution for which is equivalent to Vertica and Netiza which is called Redshift much cheaper from that for that is columnar DT DB therefore for analytical queries it is much faster than than what we used to have here so we adopted the Redshift. So generally this is our typical deployment picture this path is still being evaluated and we are we are coming with some kind of solutions here these are like even collectors which sit across all 5 data zones all 5 zones I mean sorry regions in Amazon and this is the message and goes via the message bus to the ingestors I haven't actually drawn the message bus this goes for any offline analysis and from there it goes directly to the Redshift where we store this is all of this is a batch pipeline even load to the Redshift is not a real-time one it is it is basically batch so periodically you dump data load data and Redshift this is streaming we get into the PG and so far it has been working excellent for us basically you stream the data and we don't have an index on any of these raw data table therefore it is almost as good as sequential right once we get the data we periodically I think currently around every 2-3 minutes we compute all the all the aggregates and those aggregates or the dashboards that I was talking about was actually fed by this data for the real-time analytics we as I said we will we are evaluating storm in order for any of the event detection mechanisms that we want to do so generally use cases for all the offline things are typically being in this pipeline and it is like things like if you want users customers can come up define rules for example they might want to see what is what is your trend of what is your today's traffic in comparison with last 6 months of average or what is the moving average or various other metrics for example there can be errors there can be latency matrixes there can be business matrixes in terms of revenue and all this so which requires an offline analysis and apart from that we are also using that pipeline for any of the our data sciences activity for example you can you can detect any kind of anomalies or you can detect do any kind of principal component analysis or any any similar things which requires machine learning so one of the things that we are we are using the building the I mean evaluating the Mahut library if any of you knows about it yes so it is basically the transactions it is today we do not capture the payloads of the transactions we capture typically headers as well as if I go back to this to this picture so as the transactions come we have a logic that sits here and it runs this logic can do for example it can avail sort of lot of services for example authentication service quota service cash service right and therefore you are able to identify what has happened in this request and response flow right now as soon as that happens this data is collected along with some of the context data of the transactions these data now flows into the analytical analytic system the data is in key value map obviously and protobuf to the analytics where the initial layer extracts and send it to the downstream did that answer your question these ap these ap is basically we are if you think about this is a proxy so whatever the back end system has the logic is belongs to the enterprise we are just exposing the services when somebody goes through this and talks to our services this service you this service in turn actually calls the actual APS so we have no restriction on what API transactions happen it totally belongs totally depends upon what services the enterprise has to provide this it can be retailer it can be banking anything health care anything yeah so I was talking about the offline processing that we do basically as I said on the redshift pipeline that we have we periodically upload data to redshift redshift being columnar format the IO is definitely much much less for all analytical queries the every so we have something called a custom reports where base because as I said the schema or the data that somebody some customers API transactions are sending they can be customized so it varies from customer to customer so we have as let us say a default in fields right another customer can come up and say I want 10 more data and this can be different from this 10 data can be different from another another customer's 10 data so it is very difficult for us it is it is not it is actually impossible for us to know what kind of queries customer want or what kind of reports customer wants right so therefore there is a new case in which a customer can go and look at his data set and define a set of reports which he is interested in now this reports can contain data about the extended column set extended schema set that he has right that is why it is not possible to index because we do not know what to index so that is the reason we send it to the columnar database and on interactively we query based on the based on the request for the reports these are these are typically any any rule customers can define on their on their systems and these rules are as I said analysis of maybe the revenue maybe the operational details over last 6 months with the current and whatever that rule he wants it it goes and notifies the customer for example one example might be the back end system latency the back end system is owned by the customer not by us so the latency of the back end system has suddenly spiked compared to the average of last week so if he comes and define that we process this data and send the notifications to the customers in real time this one is not real time the other pipeline is going to be the real time very look at it very small period of data so these are some of the these are some of the reports driven by the batch system or offline system this is interactive but I am calling it an offline because it is this reports do not appear I mean they are they cannot be fetched in a in a real time or a near real time there is a lag because it it happens from the raw data and therefore there is a lag on uploading the data to the redshift and then getting it out from from the columnar database near real time use cases say all of our there are there are several number of out of the box dashboards we have those are all handled by the pre-computations that we do every two minutes every three minutes I think and so the latency is basically about three minutes to get the dashboard even detection and alerting is something that we do on the on the streaming model there is we are also thinking of thinking of extending this for example I showed the diagram in which the APG sits in between and then you have an analytic system now one of the use case that we are trying to think about is how do we how does analytic or insights into the insights in this data feedback into the API platform that we have and control that for example you can tune the cache right there is a caching service over there what if you identify what is the bottleneck what is happening and tune the cache right or tune any throttling mechanism right so that is something that will probably be on the real time platform because it has to be or for example can you actually increase the number of machines auto scale up based on some of the data that the analytic system gets in real time so evaluate the data in real time maybe in the last five minutes of data and auto scale set of servers immediately so those are some of the use case that we are trying to handle on the near real time as of now these are the dashboards that all are fed by the real near real time would not call it a real time which basically talks gives you all the operational details for example this is a this is a set of graphs which talks about enterprises back ends errors and latencies how does your back end performs because it is very important for them to make sure that their system is up so that all the transactions that are happening finally end up in giving proper result right so so this this dashboard actually shows the details about that this is a normal dashboard which shows generally about a trend of traffic how many developers are building for example any retailer may be Amazon some lots of developers will be there who can write apps Amazon or Flipkart or maybe some banking applications so this shows what are the what are the apps and which are the developers app that are currently transacting or a given period of time so all of these details are actually these are kind of a near real time within two three minutes it comes and these are operational details that the enterprise customers are interested so I didn't go much into any architecture because that was not my goal we generally had I just wanted to give what we do at APG and we have been trying to do this for for all the cost all our customers that are getting on boarded with APG and over the last years the number of customers have actually ramped up and as you can see I mean we have actually grown into a five different regions it's about in total if you see recent we I think we have reached close to 2000 TPS over the whole system which amounts to about I think 170 million transaction a day so all of these data are basically coming and flowing into this so that's all I had I just wanted to give an overview of what we do PCA is basically so base so that no this is being work worked out basically see the reason the reason yes we are trying to evaluate what works idea is basically see if you if any customers 100 dimensions right or 100 dimension matrix right when you what are the most or the best set of dimension which impacts him right right so that's where we come so we are using 10 years now so the money the multi-region setup this data from as shantanu was saying right from the messaging system we send it to the other cluster we don't take it to the store and then copy so basically there are two parallel active active setup and each one actually to do their own analysis and based on the disaster or whatever that happened data center goes down we switch yes yes it does there are lots of both and other variations are there yes yes I mean there are definitely there are definitely we can talk about detail offline I think and there are experts on these areas I can connect with you but there are issues I mean there are any more okay thanks a lot.