Why My Fully Automated Facebook Dropshipping Store FAILED!

in this video i'm going to show you how you can fully automate your facebook marketplace drop shipping business but there is one big problem what's up everyone paul here from dropshippingtitans. com where i teach regular people just like you how to start your first successful drop shipping business and about four months ago i released a video here on youtube all about how i made hundreds of dollars my first month drop shipping on facebook marketplace now that video went kind of viral and since then i've had a lot of students get similar results with their facebook marketplace drop shipping stores now one of the reasons this works so well so fast for everyone is because this is a very simple business model all we're doing is taking items like this one here on amazon and we're coming over to facebook marketplace and creating a new listing where we just bring in the photo mark up the price create a better title pull in the description and then we list that item up for sale and then once it sells all i have to do is go over to amazon buy the item and have it shipped directly to the address that the customer on facebook marketplace gives us so it's very simple which is why it's been working so quickly for so many people now one of the things i talked about in that video was how i really wanted to find a way to automate this entire process i wanted to be able to quickly just grab like 10 items from amazon have them automatically in my facebook marketplace account and then if i make any sales on facebook marketplace i want those orders to automatically be placed on amazon. com and in the video i said i was working on a way to make that happen so what happened so to understand exactly what's going on you need to understand the difference between facebook marketplace and facebook shops so this right here is facebook marketplace anyone who has a facebook account has access to facebook marketplace you could just come in here and start creating listings just like i was doing right here start listing items up for sale or buying items you could just scroll through here and buy a bunch of items here so it's very similar to like craigslist where you just list up a bunch of old stuff that you have or new stuff like we're doing here for drop shipping so it's very simple and intuitive and very basic in order to use this facebook marketplace now contrast that with facebook shops are a little bit different it is also a way to sell products directly on facebook but with shops they have to be attached to a page on facebook so this is an example of a page is set up by a business to represent that business on facebook so for instance i have my own facebook profile this is it right here but i also have a page for my course drop shipping titans this page represents my business my course now these pages they're free to set up and if you set up a page you can also set up a shop on that page so here's the page for mr beast and if i click here click on shop now i can see his shop i can see all the items that he has for sale this is his entire catalog right here now one of the differences between facebook marketplace and facebook shops is that when i start browsing as a buyer on facebook marketplace i see items listed for sale from many different sellers all in one place but when i come to a shop like the shop here for mr beast i'm only seeing his items i'm only seeing the items that he is selling so if someone visits your facebook shop that's really great because all they're going to see are your items which means that you're not going to have to compete with other sellers like you would on facebook marketplace and there's another big benefit with a facebook shop and that is that you can have the full automation let me show you what i mean right here so we have an item right here on walmart let's say this is an item that i want to drop ship onto my facebook shop all i would have to do is input this item into this software called auto ds and as you can see the item is now right here at the top so it's inside my auto ds account what auto ds will then do is it will automatically list this item not onto facebook but onto shopify now this is kind of like a dummy shopify store that i set up i don't actually use it i don't actually have people going onto my shopify store and buying these items but it is here on shopify and then what i've done is i've set up an app that will then connect shopify to my facebook shop that i set up not the one i showed you before i set up a new one specifically for drop shipping so there's kind of like a chain going on right here there's the item here on walmart which i've put into auto ds which is then put that item into shopify my facebook shop and now they're all linked up so that if this item goes out of stock here on walmart or the price changes here on walmart auto ds will recognize that it will then send that change to shopify will then recognize that and then send that change to my facebook shop so that if any changes happen on walmart they will automatically happen on my facebook shop as well and if you get any orders on your facebook shop then all that information can be sent back the other way all the way to autods who can then automatically fulfill the order for you

so this right here is really powerful and it's really cool but there's a problem with it the problem is that this is only automating your facebook shop and the only way you're going to make money having products in a facebook shop is if someone actually visits your facebook shop but the problem is how do you get someone to actually visit your shop that is the biggest problem you see when you're selling on facebook marketplace people will just come in here and start browsing for items i come in here start looking around and there are a bunch of different sellers in here if i buy this item it's from one seller a different seller so it's a really great place for all these products to be put into one marketplace but in order for someone to find my facebook shop they actually have to search for it want to come to this page so in other words i would search here for mr beast find his page and then click through to his shop and then need to buy the item so that means when you set up your shop you have to get people to visit it now for someone who's big like mr beast that's not going to be a problem people are going to be visiting his page anyway but for the shop that i set up for drop shipping no one's visiting it it's a new company no one's ever heard of it no one's going to be searching for visiting that page and then visiting that shop and actually buying from it so that shops even though it's set up even though it's automated it's not making any sales because no one's visiting it but all hope isn't lost because facebook actually has a solution for that so facebook now has a way for you to link up your facebook shop with facebook marketplace which means that all the items that appear in your shop's catalog will automatically appear in facebook marketplace as well which means that as someone's browsing facebook marketplace just like i am right now some of these listings might be from sellers using the traditional way of listing items which is what i showed you at the beginning of this video and others have facebook shops that are linked up with facebook marketplace so this is what the chain now looks like we have this item here on walmart we go ahead and plug it into auto ds will then automatically list that item to our shopify store shopify through the app will then list that item automatically for us into our facebook shop and then our facebook shop will automatically list that item onto facebook marketplace then you can go ahead and give this video a thumbs up because the entire thing won't work without enough thumbs up on this video but seriously guys now this whole chain has now been set up it's all automated it can go forward listing the items with price changes and stock levels and it can go backwards with orders as well completely automated so this is amazing right this is the full automation that we've been looking for yes there are a bunch of steps but it does work so what's the problem you know there's going to be a problem right you know it wasn't going to be that easy and in fact it's not that easy here's the thing even though facebook allows this to work for some facebook shops it doesn't work with all facebook shops and i've been going back and forth with them for over four months now trying to get it to work with my facebook shop without success now they tell me that this is in beta that there is a beta that they're running having some facebook shops get their items listed on the facebook marketplace but it's not open for everyone yet which is really frustrating because what actually happened was when i first set this whole chain up i was approved for it did say that it was supposed to work for my account but it never actually worked and i started contacting them and we were going back and forth and all of a sudden i logged in one day and the integration was no longer approved and they claimed that it never had the integration to begin with so it's just very confusing obviously this is a beta so there's some kings to work out which is probably why it looked like it was working for me and now not looking looks like it's i can't even talk straight but the point is that it's just not working for most people so obviously this frustrated me quite a bit so i decided to do something about it i decided to set up my own automations as much as i could so check out what i've done and one of the biggest troubles we had was just the listing process took a long time copying everything from amazon pasting on the facebook marketplace was a bit tedious so i'm going to close out of this tab and now i have a chrome extension that i developed where now if i just click on this drop down which is added by the chrome extension that will open up a new tab on facebook marketplace and it just pasted everything onto facebook marketplace for me automatically in just a matter of seconds so this now takes away the tedious process of manually copying everything from amazon and pasting it here into facebook marketplace and for now that's working okay as i said in the beginning i made a bunch of money my very first week doing facebook marketplace drop shipping without automation now we have some sort of semi-automation setup which makes it even easier now i know a lot of you are still interested in learning about how to do facebook marketplace drop shipping i do have a course that teaches how to do it but it's currently closed for enrollment so what you can do is the first link underneath this video if you click on that i have a free ebook for you that teaches you the beginning steps of how to get started with facebook marketplace drop shipping so if you want that free ebook it will be the first link in the description down below and the second link will be the link to the software that i just showed you the

chrome extension that will automatically list these items on the facebook marketplace for you if you're interested in checking out how that works and finally if you want to see that video where i show you how i made hundreds of dollars my first week with facebook marketplace drop shipping then go ahead and click right here check out that video and i'll see you over there in just a few seconds