Yes, I'm the content manager here and I'm also here to help you guys out with anything that you need In your dropshipping adventure whether you guys are just starting off if you're already making sales And you want to scale and make more sales Whatever the reason if you guys need help with anything concerning e-commerce and dropshipping in general Doesn't matter whether you're selling on Facebook Marketplace or eBay or Shopify or wix or any other selling platform And also no matter what what suppliers you guys are using and what regions you guys are dropshipping from and to Any help that you guys need any questions that you guys have let me know I have over five years of dropshipping experience and I'm sure that I'm going to have a lot more than that moving forward so I've been doing this for a long time now and Our goal here at AutoDS is to really help you guys succeed with your dropshipping business Our success is mutual and I'm not sure if you guys have tried using AutoDS yet I don't know if you guys are only taking interest or if you guys are already deep down into the business with us Either way, there is so much to learn Everybody always has much to learn whether you are on my side or whether you are on your side it really doesn't matter there is never enough knowledge that we can take in and Of course, if you guys haven't taken any action yet Then I hope that this live QA will help you guys get the motivation and the inspiration that you guys need to go ahead and get Started so in this live QA I'm going to be talking about lots of things that have been happening recently in the dropshipping industry and the world of Dropshipping. I'm also going to talk about Valentine's Day It's about a couple of weeks away now But either way guys if you guys have questions start asking them in the live chat right now This live is also on our Facebook channel. It's also on our YouTube channel So whether you guys are joining us from Facebook or YouTube start leaving your questions and your comments right now in the chat section And I will address each and every one of you guys concerns The only concern that I will not be addressing in this live QA is if you guys have any technical issues Inside the software inside the system. That is not what the slide QA is for So if it's anything technical if a certain feature is not working or if you guys are encountering some kind of bug or anything Like that just open up a chat in the auto DS platform or a support ticket either ways fine You will have a representative that will get back to you and help you guys with whatever problem You may be having besides that anything regarding e-commerce dropshipping how to get started How to scale successfully whatever you guys have in your mind in the chat In this live chat. Okay, and as usual, I don't know if you guys have joined me in my previous lives But I address each and every one of you guys issues so first of all, I want to start with Whatever questions we had on our Facebook community before this live QA that started. So let's go ahead and take a look I'm just going to share my screen and Let's open up See if I have it open here. Yeah, I have it open right here Okay one sec Okay, sorry about that Okay, so here's me in some Valentine's Day Sunglasses with a Valentine's Day background then we only had one comment before the live So let's go over that now and I can already see that you guys have started asking questions in the chat Which as I mentioned, I will get to it very very soon Let me just get all my windows up and running Okay So eyes on Thompson you asked hi if your eBay store is flagged and I want to open a new eBay store attached to The flag one. Does it mean that the new store will be flagged right away? And thanks Okay, so that is a good question if you if your eBay account is flagged and the reason that your eBay account is flagged is Probably because you're breaching eBay's item location policy, which is a different This is a different scenario. This is a just one of the reasons why you may get flagged Which by the way today you can unflag it by the way I'll get to that in a minute But let's answer your question first if your eBay account is flagged and you open up a new eBay account as you know According to your question, I can see that you already understand that eBay is going to connect the two stores together Which of course it makes sense so if for example your store got Permanently suspended and you try opening a new account under the same computer and under the same household the same Wi-Fi connection Your new account is also going to get banned right away So of course if you've got a suspension you need to open up your suspension before opening a new eBay account But but to your question is it going to be flagged your store is not going to be flagged if you open a new one Until or unless you you start breaching eBay's item location policy again Which means you're saying that your that your listing is going to ship from a certain zip code and at the end It comes out from a different zip code Then that's how you know that you're going there your account is going to get flagged You're gonna get eBay's message saying that you're breaching the right location policy But if you're not going to do that on your new account Eisenpumson, then you shouldn't have any problem at all now Let's get to the solution of eBay's flagging especially because of the item location policy So today you guys have a solution for that using the aquiline tracking number conversion with zip code master aid I've talked about it in my previous lives We also have content on it if you just search for auto DS and aquiline on Google You will get to our page about aquiline showing you if you guys join our automated order service If you guys are using it then it's automatic. It's included inside your auto ordering service Which means as long as you have automatic orders on auto DS you can enable aquiline tracking conversions And what will happen then is aquiline is supported by eBay eBay 100% approves it of course and what will happen then is that eBay? Every aquiline is going to ship out your products I mean your suppliers going to ship out your products Aquiline is going to convert it to an aquiline tracking number Doesn't matter if it's a UPS USPS or even an Amazon AMZL tracking number It's going to be converted to aquiline tracking which once again the tracking events are 100% supported by eBay so if the buyer opens up a Item not received or something like that You will have backup because your aquiline shows tracking events and once again eBay supports it but The most important thing here is that aquiline is going to take the zip code that you have inside your eBay listing And it's going to ship out It's going to show the first tracking event which ships out from that zip code What that means is you are not breaching eBay's item location policy and once you do that eBay will simply see that you are shipping out your products from the same zip code that you have in your listings and Once again, you won't be breaching their item location policy. So there will be no flagging That will follow that so that's a solution to that. We're already working with it. It's working absolutely fine I also did it on my stores. Of course, you guys can also convert to blue care express But look her express at this point. They don't have the zip code masquerade like aquiline So that gives aquiline the upper hand at this stage if you guys don't know about it I'm just going to share my screen really really quick and show you guys how this works Okay, so let me just open up the auto DS platform I had it up Sorry for that guys one sec. I Thought I had it open. Yeah, here it is Okay, so on the auto DS platform, I'm just gonna head over to settings Okay, and Then I'm going to go to the order settings. I hope you guys can see my screen. Let me try to zoom in some Okay, so I clicked on order settings This is of course if I have the automatic order service So on your plans and add-ons make sure that you have the automatic orders enabled, which is $8 per month And here what you want to do is here in the tracking conversion You can convert tracking numbers to aquiline with zip code masquerade So I'm not going to get into it anymore because this is all this is pretty much the basic information that you need to get started with tracking converting your tracking numbers to aquiline and this is definitely going to help you guys out with eBay flag Accounts so if you're starting a new eBay account I definitely highly recommend to convert your tracking numbers to aquiline from your first order Okay, and once again, it's it's included inside your auto orders membership So no extra expense there as long as you have your safety Okay, I Considered you guys are already asking questions in the chat I'm going to address some of them now and then I want to talk a little bit about Valentine's Day, but you guys can keep asking questions because as I mentioned I'm going to go over each and every one of your comments. Okay, so let's start with the first question that you guys have So Jan is asking how do I set up? That on Facebook marketplace my listings There is a buy now button and not a send message button because a lot of people ask me about product and don't order Dropshipping, okay, so from what I understand John you're interested in you Well, you're already doing Facebook marketplace dropshipping or you're trying to drop ship on the Facebook marketplace But you don't have a buy now option The reason for that is because you probably do not live in the United States and you don't have a U.S. IP address those are the prerequisites to start dropshipping on the Facebook marketplace and if you guys would You know just step today on our blog page and on our YouTube channel I have lots of explanations there on how to drop ship on the Facebook marketplace and one of the requirements to drop Ship on the Facebook marketplace is of course to be a U.S. citizen because after you pass $500 and sales Facebook is going to ask for a verification a social security number verification and they will also need your bank details in order to Send you your payouts from your customers orders Now once you have those you'll also have a shipping option enabled when you're listing your products on Facebook And once you have that shipping option You know that all 50 states will be able to see your listing and they will all you'll also have the buy it now button But if you do not live in the United States, you're not using a U.S. IP address You will not see the buy it now button just like you won't have the shipping options and then you will not be able to drop ship Now I can see that customers are sending you messages Which means they are interested in your product even though not even enough people are seeing your listing yet because you don't have it open to all 50 listings But still if you don't live in the United States You're gonna have a hard time with this because you will not have the buy now option now maybe Facebook is going to roll out this option later on for the rest of the world internationally and I already know that Facebook shops is really growing and it's also going to be supported here soon So not just the Facebook marketplace But you guys will also be able to connect your Facebook shops to auto DS But once again that requires you guys to be an American citizen, you know with your social security number Then you're gonna have to you'd be using a US IP address Hey, so those are the prerequisites you guys can search for requirements for drop ship and for drop shipping on Facebook marketplace And you guys will head straight to our article on that and that will definitely help you guys I will just share my screen really quick to show you But it's really important for you guys to understand that our blog page as well as a YouTube channel We have all of the content that you guys need So here for example, it's the Facebook marketplace So are you I had some problems with the search recently, but let's see if it works now Facebook marketplace Okay, so we've got Amazon to Facebook marketplace stop shipping. This is a case study best Facebook marketplace categories for drop shipping Shopify this is not Facebook marketplace. Let's see. Let's continue down the list a little bit Okay, so the best way to do it here is through a search on Google We just need to fix some things on searching for on our blog page, but on Google. I'm simply going to search for Facebook marketplace requirements Auto DS and here we go requirements to drop ship on the Facebook marketplace. So I'm just gonna click on that We have more articles by the way, of course on a Facebook marketplace But this is addressing your question right here and this is the reason Jen why you're not seeing Why you don't have the buy now button and why people are not you why you won't be able to drop ship on the Facebook marketplace Let me just open up the code post content Okay, requirements to drop ship on the Facebook marketplace So first as mentioned you need to be a US citizen Just as I mentioned after passing the $500 sales benchmark, you will have to go through an SSN verification Okay, can non-US citizens drop ship on Facebook? unfortunately You're you're not people are not going to see your listings You'll only be able to list items in a in a single location as you can see here Okay, so it's not a very good option if you do live in the US. That's a completely different story. Okay Oops, sorry about that Okay, let's move on to the next question. I'm waiting. That's great William. I'm waiting for you to Sir, please make a video about how doing Amazon to eBay drop shipping without restricted Okay, so I understand your question there You want to drop ship from Amazon to eBay without getting restricted? So personally I've been drop shipping from Amazon to eBay for years now without getting restricted The only thing is if you're talking about opening a new eBay account It's going to be much harder for you to get started because today eBay is dropping on the hammer much quickly than they did in the past but just because they're doing that it doesn't make it impossible if You just need a little bit more knowledge and a little bit more patience to start a new eBay seller account today But it's definitely possible and hundreds of drop shippers are doing it successfully every day Without the right knowledge, of course, you may find yourself, you know Getting these temporary suspensions and not knowing how to get out of it Then you'll start opening new accounts and they'll get suspended right away because you've got the connections from one I come to the other and so forth But mainly if you want to Understand how to do Amazon to eBay drop shipping and in general or just how to do it without getting restricted Then you're going to have to take very very specific steps and let me show you what I mean because Once again, we have great content that's going to help you with this and there's a reason that I'm taking you guys always back to our blog page because Really you guys have all that you guys need here just need to be just be a little bit more accustomed to going to our Blog page and really searching for things that you guys need help with Okay, so we've got an Amazon To eBay let me search for it. I'll start I'll use my best friend Google again Amazon to eBay drop shipping out of DS So here we go full overview. I'm going to click on that and Here you have a pretty good guide on how to get started drop shipping from Amazon to eBay and Everything that you need to know all the advantages and disadvantages that you have drop shipping from Amazon Is it legal in the first place and of course how to begin how to do it? What and what actions you need to take step by step? The main key takeaways that you need to understand here and here you'll also have a good explanation Let me go back to our blog page. I want to take you to a general article, but this is a really Fully detailed one. I think it's on our YouTube channel. Actually. Here we go How to sell on eBay in 2022 for beginner drop shippers. I think that this also has a blog article I'm definitely not mistaken there So I'm not sure if you're the type that likes to watch videos or if you're the type that likes to read So either way I'm going to click on read more you've got the timestamps and of course you've got the blog article right here Now this article is going to help you whether you want to watch the video or read the article Whatever you want is good for you I would suggest first to watch the video because I'm usually throwing in a lot of bonus content But you'll all you you also have the blog article which you can read So I would suggest first to watch the video then read the article as you can see the video was all Is also embedded inside the article so you shouldn't have any problem there and The main thing here the main key takeaway here is how to start selling on eBay for the first time So this is a new account You really have to take it step by step and here you have all the steps Okay, starting with signing up for eBay listing your first item manually and not automatically how to do product research Selecting the right suppliers learning to calculate your profits Importing your first products after doing it manually and after upgrading your eBay selling limits And by the way eBay selling limits is something really really important So in the beginning what you want to do is add your first items from home So just take pictures of products that you have from home uploaded to eBay and the beginning eBay is going to limit you with about Five to ten items and about five hundred dollars in sales or in listing and after that You're going to have to call eBay and let them know that you would like a limit increase because you have so many more things to Sell around the house and you can't list them because they only limited you to five or ten products You want to do this a couple times until you get a lot of list listings on your store as far as many listings as possible This is the most challenging part when opening a new eBay account because it requires Patience you have to call eBay and you have to persuade them to upgrade your limits because you have so many things to sell around the house Now they're going to ask you questions like are you? Selling are you reselling from suppliers? So you're just going to tell them in the in this case It's okay to do it But it's going to be easier for you to just tell them that you're just selling items that you have laying around the house And later on when they upgrade your limits You'll be able to really start dropshipping and start making a profit from that if you do that right from the beginning You may get those temporary suspensions which later on you'll have to persuade eBay that you know how to run a business and and Lots more things that come along with that Which by the way we have an article for that to how to upgrade your eBay selling limits how to increase them With all of the difficulties and challenges that we have today So whether you want to do it with chat by email by phone and all the requirements that you need before Increasing your eBay selling limits. It's all there Okay, so I hope I answered your question there, but mainly Well, actually one more important thing is when it comes to order automation if you want to drop you from Amazon to eBay You're once you have a few orders per day and you're processing you're processing your orders manually It's only a matter of time before Amazon shuts down your account letting you know that they know that you are reselling Their products from their marketplace, which they don't officially support Now you can get away from that using the fulfilled by auto DS service because this way auto DS has many Amazon accounts and they never get locked.  You don't want any account I mean you also don't want to get your money stuck inside your Amazon account I've seen it happening a lot of times and it also happened to me personally before I started using the fulfilled by auto DS service So once you use the fulfilled by auto DS service, all you need to do is load Balance to your managed account I've been doing this from the first day that fulfilled by auto DS service since the service came out and it's working great You've got automatic tracking numbers, but that's up in the beginning You opt into the fulfilled by auto DS service through auto DS more info on that on our blog page on our YouTube channel I don't need to show it here Then every time an order comes in it gets processed automatically All you need to do is have is load manage balance into your account and the auto DS system Will use your managed account balance to fulfill your orders This way you do not have to use your own credit card to fulfill your orders You don't have to use your own credit line You don't have to call the bank and ask for a huge credit line because you need to fulfill lots of orders and once again You will not be dealing with any account locks if your if your customers want to return their products You can open up a return request and just one click and auto DS will upload a return label next to your order And of course order statuses will get changed automatically So from pending to ordered from order to shipped with a tracking number provided inside the auto DS account And you're in your eBay or Shopify store and of course delivered once it reaches the customer So everything is automated You're also sending automatic messages to your bias if you're dropshipping on eBay and it really makes everything much much easier So you never ever have to worry about Dropshipping on Amazon getting your account getting your account there locked getting your funds locked inside Credit line at the bank and so many more issues when you're processing your orders manually. Also, of course your Customers are it's going to take longer for the packages to reach your your customers Because your customers are going to wait for you to sit in front of your computer and process each order one by one Rather than have it get processed automatically while you travel while you sleep and so far Okay, I hope I answered you there. I'm trying to answer you guys with as many details as possible Can I start dropshipping from a brand new eBay account without? without Start doing direct dropshipping. Can I start up for my brand? Okay? So I just answered that in my previous question by dropshipping on first on behalf of direct shipping Can I increase the listing limit? Yeah, so that's exactly what I just mentioned in my previous comments So first you want to use you actually want to ship out real products and guys One of the issues that people one of the things that people ask me the most is wait if I'm doing it manually in the beginning So let's say I got this this this microphone here, right? So I'm just going to take a picture of it and list it on eBay to ship out But wait if I live if I live for example if I live in the Philippines and I want to ship to the US What should my shipping cost be? How much should I charge for shipping? What if somebody from Kenya buys my product? How do I know what the shipping price needs to be there? So you need to check regular standard shipping rates for your items that you're trying to sell Try to check a few countries around the world try to get and try to sort an average up the price a little bit so you'll never lose money no matter what and Once you do all of that most likely people are not going to buy your products Okay, because you're gonna sell like let's say once again this example of the of this cheap microphone and charge like $30 for shipping Anyone can buy a cheap microphone locally, so no one's actually gonna I mean most likely no one's gonna buy your your products and even if they do head over to the post office and chip it out to them as soon as possible, but it's great if you get sells right away and Basically, this is going to make your lives much much easier Okay, so when when you start selling on eBay and you want to upgrade your selling limits So yeah do it manually first You know get your get your hands dirty work manually a little bit in the beginning And it's actually really really good because this way you're going to learn how to use the eBay platform and all the ins and outs Before you actually start automating and start scaling your business and start actually making some substantial profits with the right product research Okay Moving on to the next question after this I'm going to go to Valentine's Day really quick and then I'll get back to you guys comments How do I boost sells during US nighttime almost all the orders come during the daytime only wondering if there's any way Yeah, Sam I actually have had the same exact problem when I when I first started drop-shipping So I would notice that the cells only come in at a certain time Which is usually when the US is If you're I'm also, you know, I also started drop-shipping only to the US So usually only during the daytime when it's the daytime in the US. That's usually when I would get my cells So if for example if my daytime is their nighttime then during my daytime I would get no cells and while I sleep I would get cells and then I'd wake up and I'd be like Oh cool. I got cells and then later on and as time progresses and you start adding more and more listings to your eBay store You'll start to notice that you're getting cells all throughout the day You may still get more cells while while there's daytime in the US if you're targeting the US audience But you'll also start getting cells Also during their nighttime. Okay, and it's gonna make you feel much better when you're getting cells throughout the whole day so right now I'm guessing that you don't have too many listings and That is why people are buying your products, which is great But they're only buying it during prime time and once you have more products You'll start to notice that the cells will start coming in also during other times during their nighttime because it's a numbers game at the end Of the day, especially on eBay the more listings that you have the more you will sell same thing for Facebook marketplace Guys, let's talk about Valentine's Day really quick And I'll get back to the chat because I see that a lot of more people are asking questions And as I promised I'm going to address each and every one of you guys Okay, so let's talk about Valentine's Day share my screen Even though we've got Valentine's Day right around the corner It's I think it's on the 14th of February, which is just less than a couple of weeks from now If you guys haven't prepared your e-commerce stores yet now is a good time Just check out this graph here even though it's a couple years back But look at what happened between 2019 2020 you can imagine what happened in 2021 2022 and so far in e-commerce cells in Valentine's Day now The thing is with Valentine's Day now because it's coming up in just a couple of weeks You guys cannot drop ship from different regions to the region that you're targeting because it's going to take too long to reach Your buyers and your buyers are going to receive their products after Valentine's Day Which you know blows the whole thing out of proportion and they will you will not reach their expectations and your buyers will not be happy but if you're drop shipping from UK to the UK from the US to the US from Canada to Canada from Australia to Australia You know, for example, of course, then you guys will be able to get these products on time They will ship out in just a couple of days your buyers will still get it before the 14th So let's go over really quick But what are some of the best products to drop ship for Valentine's Day? The first is Valentine's Day care package So you've got like these bundles of joy with all kinds of candy Just simply type that on your suppliers website Valentine's Day care packages Start drop shipping those items because a lot of people are buying them right now The second one is explosion gift box. Now, this is a trend that started happening Not so recently, but it's been going on for a while and this is an evergreen product itself all year long And the cool thing here is it's just like a regular black or whatever color box And when you open it you have this explosion like this nice design this nice big flowery design of all kinds of Images photos or whatnot inside. So this is another thing that's going really really well for Valentine's Day Another one is a rose flower bear. So another very very trendy item just search for rose flower bears you have them in different colors and Different sizes and this is usually of course something that couples buy one buys for their significant other The fourth item is LED artificial flowers. These have been selling like hotcakes every time during this time of the year at Valentine's Day So once again, if you guys are shipping if you guys have suppliers that chip quickly to your target audience Start listing those products now because you'll make those quick sells another one is Valentine's Day inflatables This is a really cool item. I'm just gonna zoom in a little bit more So Valentine's Day inflatables can be hard teddy bears Unicorns you name it. It's these large inflatables these large air blow air blown inflatables that people Sometimes put in their backyard or in the entrance to their house and it's just very very inviting Next we've got Valentine's Day wooden greeting cards You've got your traditional greeting cards Then you've got these wooden greeting cards which are really really trending especially before Valentine's Day And of course we can understand why Next you've also got preserved flowers flowers are selling really really well Of course on Valentine's Day goes without saying these preferred preserved flowers are something that scaled really are something that It's a product that rises really really high in demand during this time right before Valentine's Day The next one is Valentine's Day candles And this one is pretty obvious But because it starts selling so well during this time and there are so many different candles that you guys can sell That's another item that you guys could should keep your eye out for Next is necklaces now you've got so many necklaces one of the biggest trends is the I love you to the moon and back Necklace okay, these are these coupled necklaces that you guys can see here and once again people buy it for their loved ones And it sells really really well right at this time and the last the last Valentine's Day item is Valentine's Day pillow covers Once again, it's very self-explanatory not much to explain here, but it does spike in sales right now This is the right time to sell Valentine's Day pillow covers They usually come in two to four packs and of course you can raise your quantity sell more than one Have a quantity of two or three because many buyers will buy more than one unit That way you're increasing your average order of value your AOV and you'll make more profit at the end of the day Okay, so that's just really quick regarding Valentine's Day now. Let's go back to you guys comments as I promised All right, so let me just scroll up a little bit Okay, I think I answered this one How do I boost sales during nighttime Sam I answered you there all right Next question. What kind of items are most suitable to reach more impressions for auctions? Okay, so chatura to be honest I haven't tried drops being much on auctions And the reason for that is because eBay takes a fixed price for every auction item that you list So even if you didn't sell the item if no one was interested in it You're still going to be eBay an insertion fee for that auction And that's not as good as buy it now list things which stay up all the time So if there wasn't anyone interested in your item in the next day or two you may find someone who's interested in your product one week From now so in the auction you would have made that sell but in fixed price listings You will make that sell because your item stays active until someone buys it or until you manually and your listing And that's pretty much it I don't see any advantages to auctions unless you really want to auction a product Which isn't so suitable for the drop to being business model You still can't do it, but you'll have more expenses and less sales Okay, so that's just my input on that But anyway, if you want to reach more impressions You simply need to sell something that people are looking to buy this one is obvious and it goes without saying But you simply want to auction list things that people are buying the way to do that Check out what products you have right now on auctions filter on eBay by products that are By auctions that are about to end So this way you'll see a clock ticking and you'll get items sorted by auctions that are really about to end like in the next Few minutes and you can see that people are actually putting in bids and options for those items So you can sell items that are similar to them okay Do I need to create a PayPal stuff account with the e-bass a base stuff account as well or can I link my virtual bank? directly to eBay like wise Revolut etc So guys in these live QAs i'm going to try to not talk about stealth accounts too much And that's just because it's not something that ebay really supports or you know, they really frown upon that and You know as soon as they find out that you're using stealth accounts They'll simply take down take down your stealth account and any other account that they see are connected to it or that might be connected to it I'm not saying that it doesn't work. I'm not saying that Thousands of people don't have stealth accounts today It ebay made it made a little bit more difficult once they stopped working with PayPal and started working with pannier So it's nice to see that you are still asking about PayPal stealth accounts. I guess that you're still working with PayPal um, but in general The answer to your question is yes, but i'm not going to go into too much detail, uh besides that I'm in brazil on a trip and the video is restricted and I have to use a vpf Okay, william That's good to know. So william, do you have any questions regarding e-commerce drop shipping anything that I can help you with? Sir, I am doing amazon 2 ebay drop shipping, but i'm not able to get much sales as amazon 2 ebay drop shipping still legit or still profitable Yes, mozzano definitely. Yes, so first of all, uh on your amazon 2 ebay drop shipping tell me how many listings do you have I'm sure that you don't that you have anywhere less than a thousand listings if you're not making enough sales Once you reach a thousand listings, you'll already start to make Cells, uh, whether you're making a little sales or a little bit of sales or a lot That's that's just regarding how well you are doing product research But um, it's it's still very very profitable My biggest supplier today is still amazon and my biggest selling channel is still ebay. That's no secret and uh, I don't see it going anywhere bad like in the next few years. It's been working for years now And uh, once again ebay is making a lot of money from it amazon is making a lot of money from it They may try to be strict every now and then because they've got their policies and all but at the end of the day They also need these profits. Um, they're it's a significant amount of profit for them And also for you if you do it. Well, uh, so to answer your question It's definitely still profitable. I wouldn't be saying that if I didn't have any backup to that um, you just kind of know how to take the right steps how to do it correctly and Of course have enough listings and the most important thing is product research. It's all about product research You can Try testing out new categories that you haven't tried testing yet. I'm not sure how you're doing your product research Let me know also But go to youtube.com slash autodesk check out our product finding us all our sell these now playlists Go to autodesk.com slash blog check out our product finding articles We've got we're sharing so much of the you know best sellers and most trending items That you can simply get inspiration from and look for products that are similar to that and start adding that to your store And always check more than one niche more than one category Especially if you're dropshipping in marketplaces like ebay where no one's going to go to your store and look for the same niche It's it's it's impulse buying so people are going inside your product listing Either this product is interesting or not and they're just going to hop onto the next store So nobody cares if you're selling in a certain niche or category. It's not going to help you get that much more Sells on ebay. So definitely test out different categories And when you find an item that you want to start selling Don't list only one or two of them list 20 of them if you can so for example If you want to check out a certain dog leash Then try 20 different dog leashes and then jump to the next category and keep testing this out Sometimes you'll notice that certain categories sell really well at certain months or certain seasons during the year And at other times it doesn't sell so well So you'll also need other categories to back that up So you just give me a little bit more information about how you're doing your product research How many listings you have and i'll be able to narrow down my answer more Okay, next It's so sad in canada. We can't do dropshipping with marketplace. That's right susan I completely agree with you. It's not just in canada. It's pretty much any country outside the united states and And that sucks. Yeah, I also don't live in the united states I lived in the us in the past today. I don't live in the us Um, I am an american citizen, but I don't live in the us So so even on my facebook account facebook season that I don't have a us ip address I don't have shipping options either and I can't drop ship on the facebook marketplace either To tell you that i'm not doing it would also not I mean it wouldn't be right because I am doing it. There are still ways to do it But once again, that's uh, we got um, that's just something that i'm not going to be going over much in this live But you should know that there are still ways to do it if you really really want to But just up front like that if you go to your facebook marketplace and you're in canada, of course, you're not going to be able to but guys We can't wait for facebook to open up this feature to other countries and we're pretty sure they they will Facebook is starting it in the you and in the united states just as a test But the e-commerce but e-commerce is Starting to work really well the commerce in general is starting to work really well on facebook They notice the potential in that they're they're Really expanding the facebook shops now in order to make it really easy for yourself Right now only only if you live in the us, right? They're making it really easy. This is like their testing grounds in the us Later on i'm very sure that they're going to open up to uh additional countries And you guys are going to have a blast drop shipping on facebook marketplace If you guys don't know if you guys can drop ship on the facebook marketplace Go to our youtube channel search for the word facebook marketplace case study And i i have a full case study either broke it up into parts or in one long video Whatever's comfortable for you guys how i drop ship on the facebook marketplace everything that i'm selling all those suppliers that i'm using Everything 100 transparent without blurring out anything so all the info is just for you guys to understand How profitable it is and how easy it is to sell on the facebook marketplace But yeah, i agree with you it's sad it's sad that you cannot do it in countries outside the us at this point But once it will be available, i will definitely update you guys because we're definitely waiting on that too Uh, by the way for those of you who do who can drop ship on the facebook marketplace We of course support it with automation so you guys can import products really easily With on the facebook marketplace using auto ds Price and stock monitoring definitely 100 automated so you guys can list thousands of listings There are no fees no expenses only after you make a sale facebook takes five percent from a transaction fee or 40 or 40 cents Whatever comes out more then that that's the only expense you can have thousands of listings Everything is automated. So you don't have to worry if your supplier changes the price or the stock So it's really easy to uh with auto ds and soon we're also going to integrate with facebook shops making it much much easier to scale Once again, i agree it said that it doesn't work outside the us If one ebay account gets suspended with managed payments pay on your account linked We're going to open up a new ebay account if we use a new payments pay on your account Well, if you open up a new ebay account after one got suspended your next one is also going to get suspended The only way to do it correctly is through stealth accounts, which once again, I won't be uh talking about much in this video But don't open a new ebay account if your old one got suspended first try to live the suspension talk to ebay on the phone Whatever you did wrong tell them that you fixed it now and you know that it won't happen again Do whatever they want to hear in order to get your account reinstated It's much easier than trying to open up stealth accounts now Please do tell some authentic drop shipping suppliers like aliexpress Based in the united states. Okay. That's a good. That's a good question So authentic drop shipping suppliers like aliexpress based in the united states. Okay. Let me share my screen So first of all what you want to do is head over to autodesk.com slash suppliers And what you can do here is click on usa and this way you'll be able to see all of the usa suppliers That you can work with within autodesk now if we're talking about authentic suppliers, then I guess your question is Like outside of aliexpress and amazon you can use banggood, which has warehouses in the us and banggood is You know 100 drop shipping friendly same goes for cj drop shipping Let's see keeping it authentic way fair also has warehouses in the us Overstock has warehouses in the us. Let's see what else we've got more but you want authentic Costway has warehouses in the us and all of these are 100 once again 100 supported By the way, aliexpress also has warehouses in the us So you can of course automate your business using these suppliers and it'll make it much easier for you We also have an article americans drop shipping suppliers autodesk And I just we just recently added more suppliers here. Let's see if it's um Let's let's see if it's ready and revised one sec The top american usa suppliers to use on your drop shipping stores So this one pretty much goes over all the suppliers that have a warehouses in the us that you can use Here we've got nine suppliers So yeah, it's not updated with the newer ones yet But here you have some of them But I pretty much went over it here in our drop shipping suppliers page Okay, so check out those suppliers when you click on usa you'll be able to see who ships to the us and go over the ones that I just mentioned It'll make it much easier for you to drop ship to the us this way Especially when you're working with multiple suppliers and this way, you know If one runs out of stock and you have an order and You didn't automate your order. So by the time you got to it, you know the product went out of stock You can always make it up with another supplier from the you know that also ships from the same location And of course if one supplier lets you down you can always lean on the other Okay, let's move on If we useful filled by auto ds and use amazon walmart, etc as suppliers Can you confirm that our ebay account won't get suspended and is it okay to use multiple shipping locations like china and usa? Okay, so let's get to the first question. Yes, you can use fulfilled by auto ds ebay is not going to suspend your account If you're using amazon or walmart, they're going to suspend your account If you just opened up a seller account right now when you you started listing items right away that you don't have in stock ebay is going to temporarily suspend your account Until you until you get them on the phone and explain what it is you're doing here They just want to make sure that you know how to take care of your buyers that you should be out your products on time And of course they'd rather hear that you're working with wholesale private drop shipping suppliers, which you can tell them So if it's a new seller account take it easy first list manual products that you have from home Upgrade your ebay selling limits.  You're very customer oriented And after that you can start of course drop shipping and you know really making really start making some profit here So you can use whatever suppliers you want ebay will not ban you because of the suppliers that you are using They'll ban you if you see that you're not doing something right if you're not taking care of your buyers if you're a new seller and you know You're And right away you start trying to drop ship right from day one which once again guys ebay supports drop shipping This is something that you guys have to understand They'd rather you drop ship from wholesale private suppliers That doesn't mean that you cannot drop ship from amazon and walmart and so forth And the fulfill by all of this will make it that much easier for you because you won't get any account blocks And of course you'll be able to scale really really easily So, uh, yeah, that's to answer your first question Your ebay account will not get suspended because you're drop shipping from amazon if it's a new seller account Do take it very very easy in the beginning. It'll just make your road much smoother moving forward Now to your second question Is it okay to use multiple shipping locations like china and us say yes Just make sure that inside your product listing you have your item location Make sure that if you're importing a product from the us or let's say if you're importing a product from china Don't say that you're that this item location is from the us Say that it's from china and using any zip code from china and then use aquiline conversions so that Each tracking event will show that your product is coming up from the same zip code that you're having your listing Okay, this is going to keep it to protect you from all sides But if you're drop shipping from if the if the item is coming from china use A china item location policy. Don't write multiple locations Use china if you're drop shipping from the uk use uk as your item location with any zip code inside the uk All right, but do not lie about item locations if it's from different countries different continents and so forth The only thing that you can That you can't play around with is the zip code which does need to be a valid zip code Inside that country and then aquiline tracking conversions will take care of you from there Okay, so I hope I answered your question there What kind of items are most suitable to reach more impressions for options? I already answered that one When will the fulfill by amazon be available for facebook marketplace great question I can't tell you the same the the exact date But this is something that our developers are working on as we speak and we really want to roll out this feature Really soon for you guys So this is one of the next features that you're going to see here by the way guys by the way guys small update Did you know that you can? Dropship from wix and automate your business using auto ds This is something this is a quiet feature that we just rolled out in the past week We didn't really tell you guys about it yet But we already have people who are doing it and of course it's working fine So just so you guys know that's another feature that just came out recently in auto ds And once again our developers are working around the clock It's really important for us to make this the number one automation platform in the world So the fulfill by auto this yeah for amazon for facebook marketplace from amazon definitely is going to come out soon So stay tuned with us If I list some direct shipping products in my ebay store, but didn't get by the way guys Great job keeping the the chat relevant and keeping the questions relevant If this doesn't this wasn't something that was happening in the previous life So i'm actually really happy about that good job there guys. How many people do we have here in the chat? By the way, if you guys appreciate this this content by the way if you guys appreciate this live Please start giving those likes. I want to see the likes going up a little a little bit I don't usually like to ask for it, but usually at the end of the live I like to go and see how many likes And I like to see a lot guys show me the love. Okay, show me the love Okay, next, uh, if I list some direct shipping products in my ebay store But I didn't get any sales how long should I wait to ask to ebay to increase the selling limits Thanks for answering my previous question. All right, so that's another great question You've got great questions, which are going to get some great answers So if you list products on your ebay store, but you didn't get any sales How long should you wait to ask ebay to increase your selling limits? First of all, if you're already adding products if you're talking about products that you have laying around the house Then you should wait one month Usually ebay likes to wait a month before increasing your selling limits or before getting any requests to increase your selling limits So that's usually the amount of time that you need that you need to wait before increasing your selling limits each time You don't have to okay? You can do it unless Especially if you get them on the phone because usually ebay doesn't keep a history of the phone calls But if you reach to them by chat or by mail they'll let you know Hey, you just asked a couple days ago. Please wait one month before asking again That's why the best method to use is by phone But in the beginning do wait one month And that's just like I mentioned guys you need a lot of patience in the beginning All right, lots of patience on new ebay seller accounts What is the issue with buyer accounts getting banned like amazon buyer accounts? Does the upcoming fulfilled by autodesk feature help with this right? So yeah, I just mentioned that also in this slide So buyer accounts get banned on amazon today This is something that happened that started happening a lot recently And that's all the more reason to use the fulfilled by autodesk service not to to answer your question It's not an upcoming feature Actually fulfilled by autodesk has been running for a couple years now And it's working absolutely fine all your orders are automated all your tracking numbers are automated and also converted if need be Um, and that's pretty much it no more account bans guys. I've been scaling my stores really easily with the fulfilled by autodesk service All you all that's left to do if you have Order automation is just to add products to your store And you know, whatever doesn't sell after a couple months You can delete them replace them with other items increase your selling limits Keep adding more items and that's it that's scalability right there So the feature of course is working and you won't have to deal with a buyer accounts getting banned So if you want to learn about how to opt into the fulfilled by autodesk service and how it works and how to work around with it Just go to our youtube channel search for fulfilled by autodesk search google for fulfill by autodesk Yes, read our articles our landing pages or our youtube videos There's more than enough content to show you how to work with it. Okay If yes, does it have something to do with api or non api? Is it address issues? No Doesn't have to do by the way, you don't have to use fulfilled by autodesk You can also use the the automatic order solution But I don't really recommend that because the automatic order solution Connects to your amazon buyer account and your payment methods and uses that So it's only a matter of time when you have a few orders per day before amazon locks your account So use fulfilled by autodesk And without selling any product can I ask ebay to increase my limit? Yeah, if it's a new seller account ebay will increase your selling limits If you have a hundred listings or a couple hundred listings and you're not making any sales You don't even want ebay to increase your selling limits You want to get products that will start selling because you also want to start profiting You don't want to start profiting only because you have 5 000 listings You want to start making some good profits even with a thousand All right So if it's a new seller account, you shouldn't have any problem to ask ebay to increase your selling limits But if you have a hundred listings and you're not making any sales yet My suggestion would be to keep waiting a month And after one month, you know, you have your autodesk dashboard You can see all your items how many views you got how many sales how many watchers Whatever doesn't have a lot of views. Let's say an average of one view per day So you waited one month and you have listings that got less than 30 views Throw those in the trash can and replace them with better product research and better products that will sell This is a this is a challenging process to do, especially in the beginning of your journey But the beginning is always the hardest part once you can overcome these obstacles It's it's like an avalanche. It's a ball that keeps rolling and getting bigger and bigger The more time you put into your product research phase, okay? This is one of the most important things so get your product research right And you will start to sell and when you have a hundred listings and you're getting a few sales You can easily call ebay tell them. Hey, look, I'm making sales I've got some products, but I definitely need I have so much so many more products to sell So you can see that I'm shipping out my products on time. I'm very customer oriented Please allow me to add more listings to help our mutual business Even more and they will do it and even if the first representative is not so friendly Just try calling them again and you will get a different representative until you will get one that will help you That's another great tip that you guys should know about that a lot of service providers Take money for and actually do this work for you, which is another option if you don't want to do it yourself Okay, I already answered this one. We've got 10 minute clips. I'm going to try to run a little bit faster What are the methods or steps? Should we follow to not link multiple ebay accounts? So once again, that's uh, that's a stealth That's a stealth question. I'm trying not to answer that in this live. I'm sorry I'm running six ebay stores each running with different details. I just here we go with stealth you guys love stealth If I want to start using autodesk Would I need to pay a subscription fee for each each ebay account? Oh, you have you have um On on the first package if I'm not mistaken. I think it's um I'm not I don't remember exactly how much it is. Let's see I'll share my screen Plans and add-ons. So as you guys can see the starter store on ebay sorry really quick Start on april variations 500 no, I think it's five I don't remember exactly that that's a great question right here. It shows out of 500 But I think this is a demo account because you can have 500 stores Maybe you can on ebay that you see upgrade plan So in the pricing you can see how many stores you can add here 600 products I guess it's not written here Let's try a different way autodesk.com slash pricing I know that you can have multiple accounts. I just don't really remember exactly how many So this is for ebay Yeah, so to be honest, I don't remember how many stores you can connect. Um, Sorry, you can open up Support ticket and ask that question. I remember that there's multiple stores. It's not just one store from for one Subscription. I just don't really remember how much it is. That's a great question Please just open up a chat really quick and ask that and you'll get an answer right away Sorry, usually I have the answers to these things With a brand new ebay account if I list drop shipping products without listening direct drop shipping products at first Can I increase my ebay selling limit and will ebay restrict my account? So I pretty much answer that one. But once again with a brand new ebay account Uh, if you want to start drop shipping right away Can you increase your ebay selling limits? Yeah, you can you can but ebay is going to ask you questions like Where you're sourcing your products from so let them know that it's also private Drop shipping suppliers if they ask you if you have contracts with them Tell them that you do they may also ask to see a copy of that contract So be ready for that too. That's why I would always suggest to start manually because it's much easier to get those Limits running in a new ebay seller accounts when you're doing it manually in the beginning Rather than drop shipping right away because sometimes you'll have to provide contracts Not everyone has access to those and then you'll have a much harder time getting started How long does it take to increase limit at first? So once again wait a month And after a month whether you made sales or not call ebay get them on the phone Let them know that you have much more items to sell and 10 items is simply not enough for you They'll check your items. They'll see that you're selling it from home. They'll ask you how long You know, they'll ask you basic questions like what categories you're going to list from Don't just let them know that it's you know, these regular items that you have around the house Don't sell things like electronics right from the start Just sell items that have the least chance to cause any problems. Tell them that you ship fast to the to the buyers That's the things that ebay wants to hear and of course you have to be true to yourself If you're saying that you're going to ship out the product within two three or four days Then you have to actually do that and if you don't your selling metric will start to decrease and your account will also get suspended ebay is doing Enchantment process and not giving our money if we get suspended So i'm not sure about that, but ebay can't hold your money forever Before that it was paypal with paypal holds in the beginning in in beginner seller accounts And i'm sure that ebay is also doing it for a new ebay seller accounts too But those these payment holds are are Temporary in the beginning ebay just wants to make sure that you are shipping out your product And you're not just getting money from their buyers and just you know running away with the money You know withdrawing it without shipping out anything if your account got suspended There's a certain time limit where ebay has to pay out at the end of the day It's the same thing for amazon same thing when paypal will do it I think it was uh six months you can check that but there's no reason for you to be suspended Okay, call ebay and upload that suspension Thanks for all the answers. I'm having some issues with my out of this account submitted several tickets But the problem is still not solved. Okay, shine this zone. So i'm not sure what problems you're having I would like to keep the technical things out of here But if if you submitted multiple tickets and you didn't get any any answers Please send me an email the ron li r an at out of this com with your ticket number And I will make sure that somebody will get back to you as soon as possible today Thanks for your previous answers. I've seen some video from you guys about stealth accounts about two years ago Do you guys at out of this have a guide to buy on that topic somewhere? Yeah manual lots of questions about stealth in this live, huh? We don't have anything updated yet We're not taking much interest into into teaching about stealth accounts because it's you know Once again something that's really not supported by ebay or or any other blanket place um My suggestion would just I mean there is no reason to have 10 stores. You can just have one store that's working really really well Of course, it is good to have multiple stores Especially if you want to check out check out different categories different niches, but at the end of the day If you have a limit of let's say 10 000 items on your ebay store. There's really no reason to open up more stores Just don't import vero products Don't import products that you're not allowed to resell Don't import products that are copyrighted that are trademark and things like that because once that account gets suspended That's pretty much all that you'll have and if you have other stores that are connected Of course, they're going to go down too. So I understand why everyone wants to work with stealth But really you guys should have one store that's working really really well before you even start considering that Lots of drops you present on the first day want to open up five stores You're never going to succeed in each in any one of them if this is your strategy Have one store that's working really really well and then start searching about stealth accounts and things that are not as supported Thanks for all the answers. I I think yeah, I just answered this one Where are you from or your accounts from israel or usa? both Both that's my answer to your question How can I share my registered email with you on autodesk your help and a quick solution would be much appreciated Just answer that chandis Where can I get an autodesk shirt? Hi michelle? So I will ask the ceo if he can ship it to you if that's if that's something that you want Send me an email liran at autodesk.com But if everyone starts sending me an email about that it may not happen So let's leave with michelle with that privilege Where's the blog article on the site? So jamon all you have to do is head over to autodesk.com slash blog Okay, or just in autodesk.com You have the top banner that runs on every page. So hover over resources And drop shipping blog right here Okay, next question This feedriger is redoing the titles. Is there any way to make it go faster? Yes, michelle You can hire a virtual assistant to help you with that But if you're not making any sales or profit yet and you don't have that extra budget on the side Do it yourself You guys we cannot get lazy, especially not when we're building the grounds that the the legs of our drop shipping business We cannot get lazy. We have to work hard on product titles We have to work hard on our product pages and we have to work extra hard on our product research Okay, product title and product research These are the two top most important things on ebay to start getting sales After that you have to take care of more things like shipping out your products on time Useful filled by autodesk to really ship out your products on the first minute that they that they that the order gets processed And of course customer service. So answer your customers messages answer their requests See if you have any open cases. So these are the most important things But product titles product research, this is where you really need to put your time on right now michelle Okay, and also let me know what ebay account you have how what are you're selling? What are your current selling limits? How many listings you have and what suppliers you're using Hi, can't you see my question? Um, maybe I missed it. So if I did, please ask it again But I'm actually going through everyone. So maybe it was really by accident My account is called furgin general store. I have the product in my draft section I cannot figure out how to get it transferred to ebay. Can you look at it? Please? Uh, not not like that. No, please send me an email. I'll try to help you out. Okay lyran at autodesk.com Um, but if it's in a draft second you check section You just need to click the import button on the right and then it will import to your store Provided you have an ebay store, of course I have one product in my draft section for some reason it won't let me transfer it to ebay So once again, it's a technical question Please open up a live chat support with that or you can just email me guys I'm not technical support The only reason that I'm telling you guys to email me after the live is to really give you guys that One on one support, but please open up open Tickets and or live chats for these for these things Can we start drop shipping on brand new israel ebay account? Sure vintage valley. Give me one reason why not? Which supplier do you recommend for new ebay drop shipping account? So first I recommend to start drop shipping On new ebay accounts new suppliers First of all first of all first of all manual drop shipping manual Products as I mentioned, okay? So use items that you have laying around the house increase your selling limits and then increase them again Once you have lots of selling limits that you can actually start working with and selling and profiting Then start drop shipping. What suppliers should you use? It really doesn't matter Of course ebay frowns upon using retail marketplaces like amazon walmart And so forth But if you do it you shouldn't have any problem as long as you're shipping out your products on time And you're taking care of your buyers Besides that you can really try Using different kinds of suppliers If you want to go wholesale right from the start and just go to autods.com slash suppliers And use the wholesale suppliers that you have there. I mentioned them in this video But I will mention it one more time Because this is going to help you really with that subject, especially when we are On new account and we really want to take it easy before we start going crazy So here are the wholesale suppliers That you guys can work with oh, I didn't even mention this even once So you guys can also add products from autods. So you can just click here On the top left and go to the product research section We're going to start adding wholesale suppliers private suppliers very very soon And in this product research tool What you can do is just head over to it like I just did now And as you see right now, we've got us suppliers and china suppliers We're also going to be adding wholesale private drop shipping suppliers to this list So here you have all of the trending products that we have and you can easily import the product by just clicking here on import product You have of course all the product information if I click inside I'll also be able to read the product reviews and get more analytics on each product But the main point here is that once again, we're going to add wholesale private drop shipping suppliers Which are exclusive to autods So this is going to make your guys lives much much easier when you're starting a new ebay drop shipping account And not just on ebay, but especially for new ebay sellers Where you're having a hard time because ebay wants proof of the suppliers and contracts that the from the suppliers that you guys are working with Anyone is going to be able to create new ebay accounts drop you from these suppliers get contracts right away and these are Drop shipping wholesale drop shipping suppliers that are approved. They're real And once again, it's going to make your guys lives much much easier when you're starting new ebay accounts That's what ebay wants to see today Even if you guys want to start with you know drop shipping from amazon on walmart once again I'm not saying it's impossible It's just much much more challenging and you guys should have a lot of experience before Starting new ebay accounts and doing that right away But if you guys want to take it the way that ebay wants you to take it Watch out for our product research tool wait for those wholesale drop shipping suppliers We're going to start implementing it really soon and this is another thing That's going to help you guys a lot with your drop shipping journey guys. I'm already five minutes in Further than what I should be in the live So I'm just going to zip to the last question and I'm going to end it here Which supplier provides us with wholesale drop shipping agreement? So At this point you can get them from cost way From other ones that I mentioned in this live. I already forgot it but head to out of this dot com slash suppliers Okay, and you can reach out to those wholesale drop shipping suppliers and ask them if they can also provide you with it Conveniently skip my question. Why do we I didn't I didn't skip Maybe it was by accident. Why don't we have to use paypal and pay 4% fee instead of using your own credit card to cover any customer orders Why don't you have auto fulfill orders from walmart? So steve we do have auto fulfill orders from walmart and you don't even have to use Paypal you can use payoneer with payoneer. There's only a 1% fee That payoneer actually takes from us because of the api connection with payoneer But it's not 4% and you can automate your orders with just a 1% fee So if you load a hundred dollars balance, it's going to cost you a hundred and one dollars Instead of a hundred and four dollars from paypal So you're going you're going to be able to make much more profits this way and you can start doing it right away I got a screenshot from you from my autodesk account to answer that question I got a screenshot from you from my autodesk account to answer that question. Okay You recommend to the first this far center from your home, right? Yes But if I list them under new does the product still need to be in its original package? If it's new yes, if it's a new product and yes, it still needs to be in its original package So try to look for something that you have in your house. That's new or you can use Use the like new or you know use but like new condition then it doesn't need to have the Original packaging but try to look for things that are new Which shipping location should we use for retail drop shipping from walmart to ebay depends on your on your item location So if you're drop shipping from walmart us to ebay us Then of course your item location is going to be us because you drop shipping from walmart Hey guys, I have to wrap this up. Let's make it really quick You can drop ship first just be active in ebay Then wait about four days before selling in drop ship for about five orders put in your home location. Yes Of course, if you're really shipping out your products from home PNR charges two percent check their website now steep But if you're going to use the fulfilled by autodesk service, it's only a one percent fee. So if right now i'm loading Balance into a managed account to fulfill my orders. I'm only going to pay one percent fee Okay, i'm wrapping this up guys. Thank you so much for answering my question. God bless. You're amazing. Thank you. I appreciate it Um, okay guys, that's pretty much it. I'm going to wrap this up. So thank you everyone for joining this live qa Please I want to see those likes right now in this in this live if you guys really appreciated this value If I helped you guys out. I want to know about it Thank you for watching guys and I can't wait to see you in our next live qa Stay updated on our youtube channel youtube.com slash out of the s and on our blog page out of this dot com slash blog Thank you for joining this live qa guys and i'll see you in the next one


In today's class, we will be taking a look at diffusion models and with a specific example on how we can model some existing scenarios, how do you estimate parameters and beta diffusion models. We have seen a stock flow representation of the diffusion model where we divide the total population into two potential adopters of the product and the adopters of the product. An adoption rate or the sales rate will move people from potential adopters to adopters, divided by the factors of contact rate as well as probability of buying i. So, the equations are shown. So, you can see AR is c into i into p into a by n. The total population is conserved n is equal to p plus a. So, in this model, the key thing that you understand is as soon as one person buys a product eventually everybody will buy the product. So, the model will run until the potential adopters become 0 and adopters is equal to n. There is nothing stopping them in preventing them from stopping half way. So, here as soon as one person buys a product then p more potential adopters will eventually buy the product. Now, let us see how we can use it for more real examples. Suppose the sales rate that is the units per year for each quarter is given in the following table. The sales record is from 1981 to 1987 quarter 1 to 4 per year and the units per year is given and when we plot it we get a sales rate graph as shown here that is the units per year. So, step one is once you get the data we visualize what we want. So, the data here shows a kind of a bell shaped pattern. It increases peaks at around 1984 third quarter and then it rapidly falls down and kind of set 0 at 1987 fourth quarter. So, that is the data that has been provided to us. Now, you would like to see how we can kind of simulate this kind of behavior using the diffusion models that we have learned. The first is to map it let us just make the observations. Sales data follows a bell shaped pattern. In case it is reasonable to think that the diffusion model might fit this data. So, what we have is sales rate which is nothing but the adoption rate that is obvious. Then what will be the cumulative sales? So, we are going to map it to the diffusion model. The diffusion model we have seen the terms adoption rate. So, in our example that is a sales rate. So, what would be the cumulative sales in a diffusion model? Owners or the adopters the model wages define adopters. So, that will be our cumulative sales. So, if it is a indeed a diffusion model then this adopters a cumulative sale need to represent a S shaped pattern. Now, that the sales rate is a cumulative sales rate we know that sales rate as it increases and then the sales rate is decreasing the underlying graph has to be S shaped correct it is in due to. But we can go ahead and plot it and see also what happens. The first step is we are going to do is we have the sales data that is only data we have based on that let us try to figure out what is the cumulative sales data plot it and see what is the curve. Then we will figure out how to estimate the parameters C i initial value of potential adopters, initial value of adopters, the total population N. So, let us do that. For that I urge you to download the excel file and open it the data whatever we saw is given. So, column B is given to you and based on column B if you scroll down the graph is also plotted which is nothing but the sales rate. We have plotted those two values right here nothing else to do just observe what is there in the field. So, first thing we are doing is the actual sales data gives it which year and which quarter and things like that whatever computation simulation purposes we can reset the scale to 0. So, the time starts at 0 and then since it is every quarter we can just make it 0.25, 0.5, 0.751 and so on and that is what the reset time column is put. Though we have data until only to 1987.4 we just extend it for few more data points which is fine. So, all we have done here is reset the time starting at 0. In the sense this is a tricky example the units of sales rate is units per year. There is at every quarter I am selling what is the quantity per year. But we want what we want is what is actual quantity sold in that quarter. So, to compute that first we divide sales that is units sold in that quarter as sorry should be 2 by 4 is not it the equation you see will be incorrect just change it to it should be 2 divided by 4. See what happened is kind of it is like you are accounting for that in a simulation time step or the level of accuracy every quarter they reporting what is the sales rate per year. But what do you want is actual quantity that is sold in that quarter. So, since each year has 4 quarters we are dividing the sales by 4. So, let us just divide it. So, it is B 2 by 4 and you just drag the column all the way to the end. So, sales is nothing but units sold that quarter is the total units sold divided by 4 that is the quantity sold in that quarter. The cumulative sales the first value is 0 the second value is the formula is given nothing but current cumulative sales plus whatever has been sold in that quarter. So, the second row you can drag it to the end cumulative sales column is 7 9 0 0. So, all of you got this values. So, all the steps that I am telling you right now is also written on the right side of the sheet step 1 rescale time step 2 get the quarter wise sales column E step 3 calculate cumulative sales column F. So, now just stop there up to column F it is sufficient. So, if you scroll down after doing column F you will see right side graph I mean the formulas have been prefilled for you as soon as put your numbers the graph will show this figure. So, this right side graph shows the cumulative sales data or the total number of order of the adopters over time which is a classical S shape. So, it looks like we can fit a diffusion model to see how well we can fit it. Just hold on to that so that you understand what you are doing there are so many spreadsheets. Now, we need to pretty much estimate these parameters C I P naught A naught and N from the data that is given. To estimate these parameters we need to look at bit of maths let us go ahead and do that. So, we are going to go to the equations diffusion model analytical equation it is going to be a pretty lengthy derivative. So, you can get started we have seen that the adoption rate AR is equal to C into I into P into A by N. So, this is what we had seen from the equation. So, whatever is the sales rate or the adoption rate is the same rate at which actual adopters change. So, this is nothing but the change in the number of adopters A. So, you want a smaller equation what I am plotting here is this model the simplicity sake I am just going to do it C into I is this. So, this is the model and underlying equation is shown. So, the change in A same as C into I into P into A by N we know that P plus A is equal to N or P is equal to N minus A. So, we can rewrite our D A by D T C into I into A into N minus A by N. So, remember what we did to solve for when you had exponential growth or asymptotic growth decide to solve the equations and to try to figure out what is analytical solution for it. We are going to do a very similar thing right now. So, you would like to solve this. So, this let us just denote it as equation 1 solving let us say D A by N into D A by A into N minus A is equal to C into I into D T integrating it on both sides. Let us put it P naught into T and we are going to write N minus A equal to P naught T C into I into D T which then gives me this continuing the last equation and this integrating it. So, it gives us log of A T minus log of N minus A T minus log of A naught minus log of N minus A naught equal to C into I into T. So, T naught is a time 0. So, the last term disappears. So, this can be pre-written as log of N minus A naught A T by N minus A T minus log of A naught by N minus A naught equal to C into I into T or log of A T by P T minus log of A naught by P naught equal to C into I into T. Let us call it as equation 2. Then I can play with this main equation as per my convenience. So, this can be further solved or to give us another expression as A T by N minus A T is equal to E power C I T into A naught by N minus A naught. Let us call it equation 3. We do not need to go through this to get it here. Just from here we can get this expression. So, we can get it from here. We can compute the expression for A T. So, what you are trying to do is trying to come and solve for A T. This is a intermediate step. We can view it in this form or we can expand further.  I just want to reinforce it. That is why this is a equivalent either a represent as P T or N minus A T. I can remove logarithm by raising to the power E which is what I did in equation number 3. We can actually solve for some of this equation. We can directly solve for A T to get A T is equal to N divided by 1 plus N by A naught minus 1 into E power minus C I T. Let us call it equation number 4. So, from 3 I have A T and N minus A T. You can take N minus A T. The other side multiply then take it over the other side, take a common factor of A T and again go back divide it and if you solve you will get this expression A T is equal to N by 1 plus N by A naught minus 1 into E power minus C into T by into C into I into T. First T is the time. So, in this equation if you see initial value of adapters is required. That is the initial value of adapters 0 there is no diffusion model happening. So, there has to be initial value of adapters. As soon as the initial value of adapters is going to be there this equation will come into effect. C is known, I is known, N is known, A naught is known. So, all the parameters are known. The only way I think the changes here is time. So, as we progress with time we can compute value of adoption rate or the not adoption rate. Adopters or in our example it is the cumulative sales. The reason these equations we already come to so much we can actually ask some very basic questions on you know when net adoption rate is maximum. We have taken it as from 1 and option rate is already given as C into I into A into N minus A by N which is A minus C into I into A square by N taking first differential and set to 0. We can get C I minus 2 into C into I into A by N equal to 0 which gives us A is equal to N by 2. So, when A is equal to N by 2 it is going to reach the maximum. You can take you can take second differential if you do second differential you will find it is a negative. So, that means it is a maximum point. So, but when does this occur? At what time will this occur? At what time will this occur? How will I find it? At what time will it occur? To figure this out substitute A t is equal to N by 2 in your equation what is it? In your equation 4 and solve for t. So, substitute A t is equal to N by 2 in equation 4 and solve for it. This is equation 4, this is equation 4. So, substitute A t is equal to N by 2 solve it for t and you will get t is equal to 1 by C into I to logarithm of t naught by A naught. So, this is the time at which it is going to hit the maximum.


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