0:00 So today I'm sitting down with one of my mentorship students, Griff. In the last 3 months, he's taken his AI drop shipping brand to £86,000. [music] That's $115,000. So we're going to figure out what worked, what didn't work, and the exact advice Griff would give a total beginner if they were starting e-commerce today. Uh you want to let the viewers know just your name, where you're from, and how drop shipping's going? >> Yeah, so my name is Owen, and I uh I'm from Scotland. Um, I've started drop shipping around two years ago. Um, started just watching kind of YouTube videos and learning online and then I came across your YouTube videos. I joined the Ecom Mafia um
0:45 >> where I started learning the course, learning a bit better and then um decided to to join the VM the VIP um the mentorship where I had you know your team and the coaches and stuff to kind of assist me along the way. >> Legendary. And and can you maybe show your dashboard somehow? I know you're on your phone. you can film your PC screen and I'll blur anything sensitive so like if the URL is in there but uh so it's 84K pounds and this has been 3 months correct just about >> uh just under three months I think about 70 days from the 11th of November so >> in the profit margins what are we what are we keeping home like 20% 25 30 >> um I think around 30% margins at the minute so it's pretty good >> in quick math you know what [clears throat] that is like profit-wise
1:31 it's it's at least 30,000 USD It's Yeah, it's about 25 £25,000 around about there. >> Okay. And in 70 days, you know, that's a pretty good chunk of money. So, this this interview, dude, I want to figure out what the f you did. Why are you winning? Cuz think about it. There's going to be thousands of people watching this that are like, "Oh, I tested products, you know, I watched YouTube. Why am I not winning?" So, I want to just figure out what you did because you didn't get lucky, bro. You weren't, you know, like a needle in the hay stack. You put in the work. You sought the guidance. you did the the reps yourself and now you're you're finally winning. >> For me, it was I started off following these YouTube videos, you know, and you don't have much guidance. Whereas when I joined the master plan, um I found with the course, you've got like a proper
2:17 stepbystep guide, you know, fourphase kind of way to go about it. Um so anytime I'm stuck, I just look at the the course and and then move on from there. So, what is different from content you watched on YouTube versus an actual program? Because I think a lot of us start the same way. We see videos, we start a story, we lose some money, we get fed up, we join a program. What is the actual difference though of like taking that commitment? >> Yeah. So, I feel like taking a course and having some guidance behind you, you've got like a systematic kind of start to finish way of going through it rather than jumping back and forth. And um a lot of the YouTube videos I found were were great and helped me along the way. However, I just needed that extra bit of guidance. When I ran into that
3:04 issues, I've got no one to to help me. You know, I I could spend sometimes an hour, two hours trying to find a problem, whereas having that course and guidance there, it kind of assisted you through it. >> Okay. And and could we get a bit more technical then? like maybe what specific examples were helpful with like a program versus again just like normal YouTube videos from like product research you know help picking your products pre-built themes which we have one for the subs but the students have a different one um so maybe whatmes were like actually helpful applicable because again a lot of people like watch YouTube they feel like they're on the right track but uh a lot of people are just missing that little extra oomph and [clears throat] that's what they're searching for >> the big thing was for me was like product research you So the YouTube
3:50 videos, a lot of them again, they're great and um you follow the methods, but there's loads of different ways and things also change as well. So for me, I found having different um different methods rather than just one Tik Tok made me buy it scrolling on Tik Tok kind of thing. Um you know, there's loads of different methods. Yeah, absolutely. There's loads of different methods that I found were working and because you've got like the coaches and stuff there, it was great because they're giving you the most up-to-date methods for finding, you know, because things change. >> Okay. And and what was different with this current winning product versus the other? So, like two questions here. What was different with this one product specifically? But also, how many products since joining did it take for us to get to this point? Because I also think that's important. It's not like
4:36 this was the first store. It could have been. I forgot. But uh you know just walk us through a little more. >> Yeah. So with this product that I'm currently testing I think um prior to that I was testing products maybe too saturated or not hitting the right criteria. Um but with this product I knew straight away right I have a feeling this is going to work good the way I had everything just >> but I imagine you felt that way for other products. So what really made the difference here? Um, and I think for me when I was testing and putting in um the product I had like the coaches, which was the the best thing for me is I would try and do like ad creatives and it might have been wrong or they were like, "Oh, just adjust this or change this here." And then before I know it was looking good and then my metrics for
5:22 scaling and things like that on um on the ads when I was running them, I'm like, "Oh, do I need to do this? Do I need to do that?" And then straight away I'd have the coaches, oh just do this, change this, and then straight away it was um it was a winner. >> Okay. You make it, you break it down super simple. Um where do you think then you would be if you hadn't joined this program? Would you have maybe joined another group? Would you have went solo? Would you have quit? You know, what sort of would be your life if you know, we're 70 days into this winter, so we never had this. What would be going on? I think I'd probably be stuck in that YouTube rut of >> following YouTube videos and trying to test and test and test. Whereas, yeah, I think the biggest thing for me is having that guidance to, you know, assist you through the way
6:08 >> um with like the products. Um so I think I tested nine products previously before joining the mentorship. >> Okay. And then >> yeah and then um within like four four products of joining the mentorship um this was this was a winner. So >> okay that's easy as within four bro of the program is good. And for viewers watching I say it typically takes like four to eight products if you were a level one drop shipper joining the group. So you're right on track. Right on track. Um I have two more questions for you. Um the first is what are your plans going forward from here? because, you know, you've made a decent amount of income, you have something consistent, but also, you know, what would be your advice to someone who who's maybe considering a program like this, but you
6:54 know, they're on the fence. There's a million things, you know, pulling them in all sorts of different directions. >> Yeah, absolutely. So, at the minute, my dream, my goal is to just do ecom full-time. Yeah, that would be my dream. Just have that passive income and have a bit more freedom, I guess. I'm not spending any money. I'm keeping it for taxes. Yeah. >> So, we'll see what happens with that. >> But I think for like advice, I think if you're kind of watching these kind of videos, you know, you're into ecom and you want to learn and you know, I think the biggest thing I would say is just take action and do it because you know it's harder to do something without having that guidance and that advice um from someone you know whereas I find like with you you and your team you know you have ran into all the issues multiple times. So for me,
7:42 >> thousands of times over >> absolutely um as soon as I had an issue, you know, I would put it into the chat and within 10 minutes I've got a reply and then, you know, that's me back on my way. So I found that was definitely the biggest thing. So yeah, I would just say take action and um just do it. >> Awesome. Well, thank you Owen for for coming on today. For the viewers watching this, in the description below, I'll have the link to work one-on-one. So you can click that link, fill out an application, get started. Is that the same way how you got started just from a video? You click the link or did we talk on Instagram or something? >> No, it was through the YouTube as well. Yeah, just a YouTube link. Yeah. >> Okay. So, easy as the link to get started below. You heard, you know, uh Owen's story. He's just getting started. So, if you want to be the next person on the channel, click below the description
8:27 and pin comment and then on the screen I'll also have two other testimonials. So, check both of those out. But either way, Owen, thank you for coming on the channel. I'm happy to to see you winning. And dude, this story right here, like you're going to inspire hundreds, maybe even a couple thousand people to to just take ecom a bit more serious. You want to wrap it up with any any last thoughts before we close it out? >> No, we're all good, man. We're all good. >> We're all good. Well, easy link to joins below. Thank you, Owen, for coming on.
