I Tried Dropshipping on Facebook Marketplace for One Week (Does it Work?)!

i tried drop shipping on facebook marketplace for one week there were some lows nothing's going exactly according to plan here some highs this actually works and i'll be showing you all of it in this video plus how much money i made after just one week if you're here then you've probably heard about drop shipping before and if you follow my channel then you've probably seen some of my videos about drop shipping on ebay or amazon but for the past six months the number one most requested video i've been getting from my viewers is one all about drop shipping on facebook marketplace and because i love you guys want to make you happy here's that video

day one now getting started with facebook drop shipping seemed easy enough i'd use facebook marketplace in the past when i sold some old junk when i was moving and i had a ton of experience drop shipping on ebay and amazon so combine the two how hard could this really be but i wasn't sure how scalable facebook drop shipping would be but you know what i felt like i had nothing to lose i already had a facebook account and since i also had access to facebook marketplace so i started to poke around on facebook marketplace to kind of get an idea of how it worked and i also wanted to see what people were actually buying because in the past the stuff i sold on facebook was just old junk i didn't want anymore but what i'm more interested in now is what people actually want to buy once i felt a little bit more familiar with facebook marketplace i decided to just get right into it and start listing up some items now i wasn't really sure what to sell at first so the first items i listed up were just some items that i had already sold on ebay and amazon and honestly some of the other items were just amazon's best sellers which you can find right on amazon. com and wouldn't you know it less than one hour later i made my first sale and honestly i could not believe how fast that happened honestly i can't i made my first sale after just one hour this actually works facebook drop shipping does work let's see how much i can scale this up so if you couldn't tell i was pretty excited at this point so i hopped back on my computer bought the item from amazon shipped it to my customer on facebook and i was done for a total profit of eight bucks not too bad i spent the rest of the day listing more items i did get some more orders so i fulfilled those orders so i ended the day with a total profit of 26

day two good morning everyone so this is day number two of my drop shipping on facebook challenge this morning we parked over here on this beach in titusville florida because late tonight there's going to be a rocket launch so i'm just going to sit here all day listing items hopefully fulfilling some orders and then tonight we'll watch the rocket launch i already checked my phone so we have a couple of orders so let's jump on the computer and see what it's all about i started out by fulfilling the orders that had come through overnight and was pretty happy to see that they were all still in stock on amazon and walmart i then spent the rest of the day just adding products onto facebook and i really concentrated on items that i had already been selling on ebay and amazon because those were the ones that were selling the fastest for me on facebook all right guys it's 4 30 p. m on my second day and i've been sitting here listing items all day long i've been getting some sales throughout the day maybe like once every hour every two hours but in the last 20 or 30 minutes like holy moly i've been getting a ton of sales like just five or six like right after another a lot of people send me messages asking about items as well so i'm definitely feeling a little bit overwhelmed definitely feeling really excited as well i'm doing this all by myself at this point so i definitely have to get to work to get all these orders fulfilled and kind of put this to rest for the night so i can go watch that rocket launch day three on day three i was so blown away by the rocket launch the night before that i didn't record any videos but i pulled another 12 hour day just listing products fulfilling orders and ended the day with a total profit of 94 to date day four what's up guys it's the

fourth day it's actually saturday morning around seven a. m i'm already up on my laptop doing work because i got a bunch of orders last night it's kind of the reality when you're starting your own business even got to work on the weekends but that's the best time to hustle it gives you the most amount of time especially if working a nine to five job so let's get these orders done so that is a wrap for day number four total profit for facebook drop shipping so far is over 250 i think it's 263 and it would have been more than that but i did sell some items that were out of stock from my supplier so i had to find them somewhere else and order them at a loss so i actually lost some money on some sales but overall we're up by a lot because yesterday we were at less than a hundred dollars profit now we're over 200 profit so we're definitely scaling things in the right direction right now and the crazy part is that about one third of my listings are actually selling which is a huge chunk of them and i think a big reason for that is because i'm really focusing on as soon as i sell an item listing up a bunch of similar items to that one so that it's just kind of full of these items that i know people are interested in and that's been working really well for me now one big struggle i had today was just how overwhelmed i started to feel with all the orders coming in and just being able to keep up with that while still adding products into the store as well so tomorrow i really need to focus find a way to automate this some more whether that's using some software or hiring a virtual assistant because i'm not gonna be able to do this sustainably i don't think and run my other businesses unless i find a way to automate this so that's gonna be my focus for tomorrow hopefully that works and yeah that's a wrap for tonight day

five when i woke up on day five i was really excited to find a way to set up my facebook drop shipping automation and i spent the whole day setting up the software connecting it to facebook but on the very last step i ran into a big issue all right so nothing's going exactly according to plan here so first the automation to set it up it was a lot harder than i thought it would be i did manage to get it despite all the moving parts it did take me a full day to do it but i'm not even sure if it's going to work because there's one final step that facebook has to approve and they say it could take up to a week for that to happen so maybe it works maybe it doesn't i don't even know yet what i do know is that it wastes an entire day setting it up that was the day i could have been listing more products and since doing that i've definitely noticed that my sales slowed down i think you constantly have to be adding products into your store especially this time of year i'm doing this right before christmas and a lot of the more popular items are now selling out so i think that factored into it a lot as well i'm not sure what the exact numbers are so i'll just put them at the bottom of the screen what they are right now but my focus right now i'm going to put the automation on the back burner while i wait for facebook to approve me and i'm instead going to just double down on listing more products and really put the focus in that because i know that works and i can always set up the automation later so i'm trying to keep this seven days of drop shipping i did kind of lose out on an entire day for the automation but i still have a couple of days left so i definitely want to make the best of it day

day six and day seven over the next few days nothing really new happened i just spent most of the time listing items and fulfilling orders plus i was moving out of my van so things were a little bit chaotic yes i live in a van but once i get settled into my airbnb we're staying in until we get our new van i was able to wrap up my one week facebook marketplace drop shipping challenge so here are the results as you're gonna see in a second this business model absolutely does work without a doubt but i'm not too surprised by that what did surprise me was how different facebook drop shipping is from anything else i had tried before and i kind of thought it would be a lot similar to ebay and amazon but i was really wrong about that like if you have a facebook account you can pretty much get started selling on facebook marketplace for the most part so the barrier to entry is much lower than it is with another platform like ebay and amazon because you don't have to go through the process of creating accounts but in a way facebook drop shipping is also a lot harder now the first reason for that is kind of what i was talking about earlier in this video where i was kind of stuck because i wasn't able to set up an automation for this now in full disclosure it's actually been a little while since i did this challenge and i have found more ways to automate the business but for the most part it's definitely not as automated as it is with ebay and amazon and there are a lot of nuances to selling on facebook marketplace that just aren't that obvious when you first get started on there but you know with time you do come to learn it and it does become a little bit more obvious what you're doing the other thing that surprised me is that the customer service on facebook marketplace is just way different than it is on other marketplaces primarily because the person you're talking to knows who you are and you know who they are i mean you don't actually know them but they can click on your profile and kind of get an idea of who you are so i think that really makes the experience very unique and different and actually found the customers while they did tend to ask more questions be a lot friendlier and nicer than they are on other platforms it's also really cool that the margins on facebook are excellent so during this week long challenge i played around with the price a lot i had some items that were pretty much break even just me like a couple dollars in profit and others that had a much larger margin so i made more in profit and even though i might have sold more of the cheaper ones i wasn't actually making more money doing that process i was making more money once i increased the margin so that's excellent obviously that's what i'm going to be doing now and the other cool thing is that the way facebook marketplace is designed i think that's going to continue to be the case we're see larger margins and we're going to still have room for a lot of people to come in make good profit on these items without the market being saturated just because of the way facebook shows results to customers based on where they live now all of that plus the fact that sales come pretty fast on facebook it made this week-long challenge a lot of fun and it was really exciting i've been doing drop shipping on different platforms for years and i've always loved it but i can't remember the last time i was this excited about drop shipping especially on a new platform and maybe that's just because i did pretty well for one week my first week doing facebook drop shipping so let's actually get into those numbers so this is a spreadsheet that i use to keep track of all my sales during my week-long challenge so i kept track of things like the date of the order number the title of the item and the price on facebook as well as what the price i paid for the item and a bunch of other stuff like tracking number most important though is this column which shows my profit for that item so see in the beginning my profit margins were a little bit smaller i lost some money on some products some were cancelled or just broke even as you can see right here but as time went on i much better handle on how things work and my profit margin just kind of went up and up for the most part some items still had lower margins on them but if you scroll all the way down we can see that the total number of rows here is 62 one of them is a header so i sold 61 items yes some of them were canceled and out of stock so i think it's closer to maybe 53 or 52 items that actually were totally fulfilled and with that the total profit for the week was 668 dollars so after just one week i can say that facebook drop shipping definitely gets my approval as a side hustle that definitely does work and my guess is that a lot of you are going to have a lot of questions about facebook drop shipping and how this whole thing works so what i'm going to do next is i'm going to be hosting a free live training where i'm going to go more in depth into how i did this on facebook so if you want to join that free live training it will be the only link in the description of this video click on it enter your email i'll let you know when the training is now i'm creating that training to answer your questions about facebook drop shipping so after you do that come back to this video and in the comment section ask your question about facebook there i'll gather all those make sure i answer as many of them as i can and also provide some more information as well because in this video i couldn't get into everything and a lot i've learned since then so for instance a lot of the automation stuff that i tried to set up i've been able to set up some of it and i'll definitely be talking about that during the live training so make sure to click on the only link in the description of this video enter your email and i'll see you in that live training so you can learn more about facebook marketplace drop 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