The SECRET To Dropshipping in 2026

So, there have been a lot of changes for drop shipping this past year. We have new policies and laws, shifting markets, and just a lot of uncertainty. However, I've managed to find a way to drop ship that works in any condition in any economy. But unfortunately, it's not the way that most people know how to drop ship. So, in this video, I'm going to break it down for you, and I'll show you step by step how to actually make money with drop shipping this year. Now, at its core, drop shipping hasn't changed. It's still the same system. Here we have a customer and they are shopping online and in this example they purchase something from you for $100. Now in a traditional retail model or traditional e-commerce model, what would then happen is you would ship the item directly to the customer. However, with drop shipping, we don't do that. Instead, you would now purchase the item from a supplier, and that supplier would then ship the item directly to the customer for you, completely hands-off, and you would spend less money when purchasing from your supplier. So, you actually make a profit. And that's what makes drop shipping so unique. It's the fact that you don't have to hold any of the inventory because the supplier is holding all of that inventory for you. That means the risk for you is also much lower because you don't have to deal with all this inventory that may never sell because you don't hold any inventory. In addition to that, you don't have to worry about any of the operations of shipping out items and boxing them out because all of that is going to be done by your supplier for you. So, while that remains the same, we do have to talk about where it is that you should be drop shipping this year. Now, traditionally, a lot of people like to drop ship on their own website. And while that does work, it's not the best approach for beginners. There's a lot of logistics involved. You have to pick a domain, build your own website, pay for marketing. It's much easier for beginners to start out on a marketplace. Now, marketplaces include websites like Amazon. com here. And what's great about these is that there's already customers here. They're already searching for and buying items. You just have to put items in front of them. And there are so many different marketplaces that you can choose from. So, I think it's really important to narrow this down to the best one that you should be using. Now, Amazon is of course one that lots of people think about. Everyone thinks that they should be selling here on Amazon. However, the truth is for drop shippers, this is a really bad choice. Amazon is very difficult to work with for sellers, especially for drop shippers, and they just make it very, very difficult. The primary reason for that is because Amazon really wants you to use their FBA program, which basically means that you take all the inventory you have and send it into Amazon so that they can ship out the items from their warehouses. But for drop shipping, that doesn't work because again, we don't buy the inventory upfront. we only want to purchase it after someone has already purchased it from us. So this FBA model just doesn't work for drop shipping and that's not what Amazon wants. So they make your life really difficult if you don't use FBA. So that's the reason I do not suggest drop shipping on Amazon. Now eBay is a marketplace that has been around for a long time and this is one of the first places that I ever drop shipped. And what I noticed was that when I jumped on here and actually drop shipped, it worked. This was the first online business for me that actually worked, drop shipping on eBay. And it continues to be a fantastic place for beginners to get started just because they are a lot easier on their rules than Amazon is. They're very beginner friendly and there's still a ton of customers here spending a lot of money. So, eBay is definitely an A+ place to drop ship, especially for beginners. Now, Walmart, surprisingly, most people don't know this, but you can actually sell products on Walmart. However, this is another one that I would unequivocally say do not use them. I had a lot of friends who jumped on board selling on uh sorry, on Walmart a few years ago. It worked for like six months and then Walmart shut the whole thing down. They definitely do not want people drop shipping on Walmart. com. So, this absolutely does not work. Another place you could possibly drop ship is onto Facebook Marketplace. Now, Facebook Marketplace really came on the scene a few years ago. It was really, really hot. It was really working well. But slowly as time went on, this just slowly started to die and just isn't the same

as it used to be. You can still make money here. You can still drop ship here, but I think there are much better opportunities. So, I just don't think it's worth your time. And finally, let's talk about Tik Tok Shop. Tik Tok Shop is one of the best places to drop ship. It is really strong, really good. Um, however, just for beginners, and for the sake of this video, I really think that the best place for beginners to get started is on eBay. I think it's just the most consistent one out there, the easiest one to get up and running and the easiest to get started with. So, Tik Tok is definitely great, but I think eBay just has a slight edge right now just in terms of ease of getting set up. Uh, especially if you're brand new to something like this. So, what you want to do now is actually sign up for an eBay account. If you already have one, fantastic. I would go ahead and use your existing eBay account. There's no point in creating another one. However, if you don't have an eBay account, come over to ebay. com and click here on the top left where it says register and go ahead and get signed up. I'm not going to walk you through this process. It's very straightforward. They walk you through it and you should be able to have an account up and running in less than 20 minutes. Now, once you do that, you'll want to start looking for products to actually head into your store. And the way we do that is we have to determine, of course, where we are going to source our products from. So, this is something else that has changed quite a bit over the few past few years and that a lot of people still get very wrong because most people think that you should be drop shipping from AliExpress or other Chinese websites like this because the items here are just so cheap and they are. They are very cheap items. However, I've always had bad luck drop shipping from AliExpress and I just have found it to be a very bad idea. First of all, it just takes a long time for customers to get their items, and that's just not acceptable in this day and age. People customers, they want their items fast, much faster than they can be delivered if you're drop shipping from AliExpress. The other problem with this is that returns are just a nightmare. In order to get an item sent back to China, it's a real hassle. The sellers on AliExpress just make it very difficult. I would just stay away from AliExpress for these reasons, in particular, the first one. Now, another place that a lot of people have always loved to drop ship is, of course, Amazon. com. Now, Amazon continues to be a fantastic place to drop ship from. Actually, we've had a lot of problems that we've run into with them over the years, but I'll show you in a few minutes how to fix those and what those problems actually are. But for the most part, this is actually a great website to drop ship from. Now, another one I used to talk about a lot is Home Depot. com. So, Home Depot was a website that I used to love drop shipping from. I've made a lot of money drop shipping from home depot. com. However, I do not recommend it anymore because they have made returns nearly impossible. They want customers to now return items in store. They won't do online returns anymore. So, it's incredibly difficult and unfortunately I cannot recommend Home Depot anymore for drop shipping. Now, next one up is Walmart. Walmart is just like Amazon. I think it is an A+ fantastic place to drop ship. Uh it just works really well. They have amazing items, really good prices, really good customer service. So, I think this one and Amazon are my top choices for websites to drop ship from when you are drop shipping onto eBay. Now, before we move on and I show you how to actually find items and how to add them into your store, I think it would be really helpful just to kind of give you an example of this and show you one just so you know where we're going with this. So, this is an item that's for sale on eBay. com. You see it's this patio furniture set with this table, umbrella, and these four chairs. And this person here is selling it for like $160. They've already sold 21 of them. Now, if you were to buy this item, all this seller is going to do is they're going to buy the exact same item for less money from Walmart and have Walmart ship it directly to you. So, you see, all you have to do is copy stuff from Walmart, paste it on over to eBay, and then let Walmart actually do the fulfillment of the order. So, that's where we're going with this. But let me actually show you now how to do this step by step. So the first step of this is we need to find items to drop ship. For that I always use this software. This is called Zeke. It is the product research software that helps us find products that are already being successfully drop shipped and sold on eBay. Because at the end of the day, you don't want to be listing random products onto eBay and hoping that they're going to sell. Instead, you should be

identifying already popular items and then you should sell those same items yourself or similar items I should say so that you can really tap into markets that you know are already successful and this software helps you do that. So, if you want to try this software out for yourself, by the way, I'll have a link to it in the description of this video. And by using that link, you'll actually be getting an extended trial of the software. So, definitely check that out if you're interested. Anyway, let me show you how the software works. So, when you log in, they'll give you some winning products right here. But I want to show you actually one of my uh favorite tools, which is here on the left. It's called trending eBay niches. So, what this is showing you are different categories of products that are doing very well on eBay. So, we can see that electric fly bug zappers are very popular, heated blankets, we have men's wallets, we have bracelets, we have TV wall mounts. So, let's take a closer look at one of these. Let's look at deep pocket fitted sheets. I'm not actually 100% sure what this is. So, let's go ahead and open this up. And what that's going to do is it's going to scan through that category and it's going to find for us the most popular products in that category. So, scrolling down here, I can see that these are bed sheets, right? We have a whole bunch of them listed. And at the top, we can see the most popular one, and down at the bottom would be the least popular one. And they give you tons of data on this. So, we can see the picture of the item, the title of it, how many times this item sold in the past 30 days, how many times it sold in total, and the price of it as well. tons of information that we can then use to determine if we want to sell this item ourselves. And then if we do, we can look for something similar on our supplers's website. Let me show you that again. Let's use another example. So, let's look at electric fireplaces. Actually, let's do these outdoor solar wall lights. I'm going to click on that and we'll again look through the results here. And I can see we have this one right here. This one has sold 391 times in the past month. This one has sold 276. This one has sold 240, 221. So, tons of these, right? So, what I now like to do is now that I've identified a product that's selling well, and I know it's selling well because I look at the 30-day sales, right? I want to make sure this item is selling in the past month at least a few times, and these ones have sold hundreds of times. Then, what I do is I look at the top few results, and I look for commonalities between these. I want to see if there's any of these that look similar. And right away, I see that these two, the second and third one, look pretty similar, right? They kind of have this flat design to them, and then they mount onto the wall, right? And they both have a remote. So, what I would now do is I would go over to my supplers's website, whatever supplier I want to use, and I would search for these and see if we can find something similar to these. So, what are these? These are outdoor solar wall lights. So, let's come on over to let's try Walmart and we'll do outdoor solar wall light. And what I'm looking for here is something that looks similar. And you're probably or hopefully you will get a few results. And ultimately, what you're looking for is the cheapest one. So, right here we have a very good result, right? This looks very similar. It's $18. 50. Let's see if we can find one that's cheaper that has that same look because all of these, right, we might find some cheaper ones like this one that's $15. 99, but it doesn't have the same look as that other one that we saw on Zeke. So, here's another one is 1975, but the other one was cheaper. So, I'm not seeing anything better than that. So, now this is the one I actually want to list up for sale. It's similar to the ones that we know are selling well because we saw that on Zeke and it's the cheapest one on this page. So that is the winner right there. And then once you've identified it, you can actually list it. I'll show you how to do that in a minute. Uh actually, let's just do that right now. So this is a software that I use to actually list items on eBay. It's called AutoDS. A link for this will also be in the description of this video. And this once you find items and plug it into this software, it handles all of the rest. It will list the product. It will repric it if the price changes on Walmart or whatever supplier you're using. If the item goes out of stock, it will also automatically go out of stock in your eBay store. And even if customers order this item from you on eBay, the software will automatically order it from Walmart for you and ship it to the customer. So, it really makes it super hands-off. So, what we'll do now is I've already set this software up. I've already connected with my eBay store. I want to now add this product. So, I'm going to go ahead

and copy down this URL. I'll come over to AutoDS, click on add single product, paste it in, and then click on this orange button, and that will then pull it in. So, now we have the main photo here, the title. We'll come back to that in a second. It automatically selects a category, tags, shipping method. it will automatically make a nice looking description. If there's different variations, like if this was available in a two pack and a one pack, we could have all of those brought in. It brings in all the images as well. So, it really does all of it. I just like to spend a few moments optimizing this title and making it a bit better. However, if you want a shortcut on this, you can just use AI because it has AI built in. I'm actually going to do that today. I'm going to make a nice sellable AI title. All right. And there we go. We have a nice title. And I'll click on save. And that will then just plug it right in for me. And then finally, if I'm happy with everything, I can just click on save and import. And then that item would be live in my eBay store. And again, all the automation on the back end will be working for me. The last thing it does for you that's extremely important is that it converts tracking numbers. So, both Amazon and Walmart have an issue where they don't actually always give you tracking numbers that eBay accepts, but AutoDS can actually convert those tracking numbers into usable ones. So, that's why it's very essential you have that turned on and you actually use that feature. Once I list that one product, I'll then return back to Zeke and go through every single product. I'll look for uh more commonalities. So, I'll look for some that look like this. I this and list all of those into my eBay store. And once I've exhausted that for an entire category, I'll move on to another category or use one of the other product research tools that Zeke has built in. The key here really is just to keep adding items into your store. The software can automate a lot on the back end. You just have to feed it with more and more products. So, you can either do that yourself or hire a virtual assistant to do that for you. Either way, you feed it in. That's how you're going to make sales with the system. So, there you go. That's a secret to making money with drop shipping this year that actually works. If you want to get started and do this yourself, make sure to use the affiliate links in the description of my video. That really helps my channel out. Then, make sure to subscribe to the channel and give this a thumbs up. Thanks so much for watching and I'll see you in the next video. Bye for now.