1 Hour Shopify Dropshipping Challenge (FROM SCRATCH)

Hey guys, what's going on? Today I'm going to be doing another drop shipping video. But it's going to be unlike most of those drop shipping videos that you've seen before. Today I'll be finding out if it's possible to find a winning product, launch a Shopify store, and then get one actual sale within just one hour. I guess we could call this a one hour drop shipping challenge. This is definitely going to be super difficult, but I thought it would be a fun challenge to try. Honestly, I don't really know what to expect, but I think things are going to get pretty wild. But before we get into the video, let me just introduce myself real quick. My name is Steve Salazar. I'm an online entrepreneur that's into all things business, social media, e-com, and all that fun stuff. So if you enjoy any of those topics, consider dropping your boy a sub below. Now let's get back to the video. So I actually own a few Facebook pages that have over 500,000 followers in the inspirational and faith kind of niche. So we're going to be looking for a product that fits into that audience. That way we can push out a somewhat targeted advertisement without having to wait for Facebook or Instagram to approve our ads. And within the 60 minute window, I want to leave about 20 to 30 minutes or so for the advertisement to run. That way we hopefully leave just enough time to generate one sale. Here's sort of my goal time breakdown for this dropshipping challenge. First, I'll spend about five minutes looking for a product. I wish I had more, but that's part of the challenge. After that, I'll immediately start building the Shopify website. I probably won't have time to build a nice homepage, so I'm going to be spending most of my time on the product landing page since that's the page that most potential customers are going to see. And I really hope that the whole website build doesn't take longer than 15 minutes because if it does, we might be in trouble. After the website's built, I'll need to spend some time making an actual advertisement for our product. This should only take about 10 minutes or so, and that should ideally leave us with about 30 minutes left to actually advertise the product and hopefully get a sale. So that's our plan. I really don't want to waste much more time, but if you could, drop a thumbs up on this video to wish us some good luck because we're going to need it. But let's start this timer. 60 minutes on the clock. Are you ready? And we're going, baby. All right, so first things first. I'm going to be moving kind of quick, so I'm sorry in advance, but I need to find a product right away. And I'm just going to be using AliExpress, so we'll go to AliExpress.com. And this is like one of the most popular sources for finding products for dropshipping. So yeah, it's a good one. And I've already done some thinking about what kind of product could do well with the pages that I own. Like I said, they're kind of in that faith and inspiration niche. And the last time that I looked at the demographics for these pages, they were very, very female oriented. I think they're about 80-20. So 80% women, 20% men. So I'm definitely leaning towards a product that would be more so for women. And my brain immediately went to jewelry, and I was thinking maybe some sort of cross necklace or something like that. So let's just start with a search for cross necklace and see what we find. All right, cross necklace, AliExpress. Here we go. And then I'm going to actually sort it by orders. You can do that on AliExpress. It's kind of a cool feature. That way you can see what's kind of hot. And so now I'm just going to be scrolling down and just trying to find a product or necklace that I like that I think will resonate well with my audience. This one's kind of cool. It's not necessarily a cross, but it's kind of different and unique. Sort of like that. Keep scrolling. Let's see what else we can find here. This Tree of Life cross necklace is pretty cool. Yeah, I like this one a lot. And I think that the people on my page would resonate well with this necklace in particular. I like this Tree of Life cross pendant for whatever reason. I think it could do well. So I'm just going to go with it. We don't have much more time to spend on finding a product. Let's check the time and see where we're at. Looks like we have just over 55 minutes left. So we're doing pretty well on time, but we definitely have to keep moving. Now it's time to build our Shopify website. All right, so I'm not actually going to be filming making the Shopify website. I'm keeping it pretty basic. So there's nothing really too special going on with it. Also, I'm really going to need to focus and make sure I get it done in time. So here's a quick little vibey montage. Hope you enjoy. All right, guys. So the website, it took a little bit longer than I was hoping. But we have just over 33 minutes left, as you can see here. Not as much time as I was hoping for. But let me show you guys the website that we came up with really, really quick. All right, guys. So I did end up actually taking the time to make a homepage for this website. I went with the name Faith Sparkle. Just something that came off the top of my head really quick. I didn't have time to really think of a really good name. But that's what we're going with. So you come to the homepage. It's got this nice kind of inspirational, cool image here. The necklace that inspires you with the Shop Now button. Pretty simple. You come down. Here's our product. A few product images you can get through. Keep scrolling down. One more product image. And then a few testimonials here at the bottom. Let's go into the actual product page itself. So now we're in the actual product landing page. This is what customers are going to be sent to from our advertisement. We're doing strikeout pricing. Original price $29.99 and the new price is now $14.99. Keep scrolling down. You've got add to cart. Buy it now. A little description. A product image. And then we've got some customer reviews that I imported directly from the AliExpress listing of this product. Reviews are always a great thing to add. So if you can get them, do it. But that's it for the website. Now it's time for us to quick make an advertisement for our product. And I'm going to try and get this done within like five minutes because we're a little bit behind. All right, guys. So I just finished up the advertisement. But I wanted to update you with where we're at time-wise. As you can see, we have about 27 minutes left. Just about to pass that mark. We're doing okay on time. But I told you I ain't got time for that. Today I got time. I'm still a little stressed about it. I wanted 30 minutes to advertise. So this isn't quite that. But it's pretty close. Before we go live with the ad, though, I want to quick show it to you. So I'll spend about a minute maybe doing that. And then we're going to post it right away. All right. So this advertisement is going to be posted on my page's story. So that's why it's vertical. And it's actually two parts. So this is the first part. Press play here. It's just a video. It's got kind of that snow effect on the image. Just to kind of catch your eye a little bit better. Just says, I need this. And then kind of a quick description of the product. What it is. And then swipe up at the bottom. Second part is this. It says limited amount available. Was $29.99. Now only. I didn't put the new price there. Just because I wanted people to swipe up. So that they could see what it was. And then they're already on the website. Yeah. That's our advertisement. Kept it pretty simple. Didn't have time to make much more than that. So that's what we're rolling with. I'm running out of breath, guys. This is a tough challenge. Looks like we're at just over 25 minutes left here. So I've got to get this advertisement up ASAP. I'll see you guys when it's up. Wish us luck. All right, guys. So the ad just went live. And we've got about 23 minutes almost exactly left to go in this challenge. So let's take a look at the actual website. See if anyone's on the website already. I'm really, really hoping. Looks like we have one active cart. So that's a good sign. Let's hope they check out. But yeah, we've got 20 minutes or so to make a sale. Fingers crossed. And real quick. I just want to show you guys the ad on the page's story. So here's that. As you can see, there's that first part that we looked at before. Click over. There's the second part. So the ad is live. And I'll update you guys when these 20 minutes are up. And hopefully we get this sale. Things are looking all right right now. But I'll see you guys in a little bit. And that's our time. Now let's take a look and see if we made any sales within this one hour window. My hopes have kind of gone down a little bit because I noticed that Facebook didn't push out the story to as many people as quickly as I had hoped. So our reach was kind of low. It was probably around 500 people or so that saw the advertisements. But I'll put up a couple screenshots of the story views right now. Sometimes Facebook can take a little while to push out your stories to your audience. So I'm not totally surprised by this. But I was hoping that we'd reach about a thousand people or so within these 20 minutes. But let's get into the fun stuff. Let's get into Shopify and see if we made any sales during this one hour dropshipping challenge. All right, let's just refresh the page. Make sure it's as current as possible. As you can see, unfortunately, we made zero sales. We did have 24 sessions, which isn't bad in 20 minutes. We had two add to carts, which is pretty cool. One reached checkout, but zero converted, obviously. Most of our traffic was from the United States. One from Canada, one from India, one from Philippines. Most of our traffic was from Facebook, of course, because that's where we were advertising. But yeah, unfortunately, no sales. And my battery's about to die, so I'll be right back. All right, there we go. New battery acquired. But yeah, like I said, Facebook did kind of limit our reach in that 20 minute window we left for advertising. And honestly, I don't know about you guys, but I'm still curious to see if this store can produce a sale. Just because it's so basic and it was made in like 15, 20 minutes, I think it would be kind of interesting to see. So what I'm going to do is let the story ad run for the full 24 hours and then update you guys and see if we made a sale within that window. I know it's not one hour, but we tried. And like I said, it would still be interesting to see if this kind of shoddy store can make a sale. Maybe we'll even be able to buy like one Bitcoin. I think it's doable. Yeah, definitely. Definitely doable. We'll see you guys tomorrow. Well, guys, it's been close to 24 hours now. And boy, do we have some interesting results. I honestly wasn't expecting much during this challenge just because this store was really kind of unprofessional. We weren't even using a custom domain. I think it was faithsparkle.myshopify.com. That was the URL. So in my opinion, the website didn't look very trustworthy. But this, like I said, this store really surprised me. Let's get right into Shopify and go over our sales, visitors, all that fun stuff. Yeah, let's get into it. All right, so click refresh just to make sure these are the most current results. As you can see, we're set to the last seven days, but we've only been running this store for 24 hours basically. We had a total of $134.91 in sales. We had over 600 store sessions, which is great. 30 add to carts, 13 reach checkouts, 6 converted. One of the orders, I think, had like four or five of these necklaces in their cart. So that was pretty cool. Average order value $22.49. Six total orders, like I said. Most of the traffic was from the United States, it looks like. Some in the Philippines, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia. Most of our traffic came from Facebook, which makes sense because that's where our ads were posted. But yeah, I was pleased with these results. Honestly, I think we did more sales than the 24-hour challenge dropshipping video I did. If you haven't watched that video, be sure to go check that out. I thought that store was better, but maybe this product just resonated well with this particular audience, and that's why it worked. But yeah, it's cool to see that it actually kind of worked within 24 hours. So those are our results, and that's going to be it for this video. Thank you guys so much for watching. If you haven't yet, please be sure to leave this video a like and subscribe to my channel. It would mean a lot. If you guys want another dropshipping video, let me know in the comments below. I'm going to try and come up with something kind of unique, different than the rest of the videos about dropshipping on YouTube. There's just so many of them, and I think that there's some different angles that could be kind of fun. So let me know if you guys want another dropshipping video below. And yeah, until next time, guys. Peace.