Introducing a Profitable Side Hustle
So if you’re someone that’s working a full-time job and you’re thinking about starting a side hustle to supplement your income, you know maybe earn an extra 1,000, 3,000 even as high as $5,000 every single month, you’ve clicked on the right video because what I’m going to do is show you step by step how you can start one of the easiest side hustles.
Personal Experience with Online Business
The reason why I decided to pick this particular side hustle for this video is because I was able to quit my 9-to-5 job around 7 years ago by doing something similar. So I thought you know what, let me show you guys exactly what you can do when it comes to putting yourself in a position where not only are you going to be able to have some sort of a side income coming in but if you’re able to be consistent with it you can eventually turn it into a full-time online business.
Overview of the Side Hustle
Now before I get into any of the practical steps that you’re going to need to take I just want to quickly give you a overview of what is going to be involved. So literally what you’re going to be doing is making physical products available for potential customers to buy them on the internet.
Evolution of the Business Model
Now the way that I got started with this side hustle when I was working my 9to5 job is that I had to buy inventory upfront and ship out the orders one by one but nowadays you don’t necessarily need to buy any products in bulk. There’s a much easier way to do it where you’re not going to have to ship out any products as well it’s going to be the responsibility of your supplier and you don’t even need to build any website because there’s a certain way that you’re going to be able to use AI to assist you with this as well.
Simplicity of the Side Hustle
That’s why I truly believe that this is one of the most simplistic side hustles out there and I’m going to go through everything that you need to be aware of in this article. Now when it comes to building your storefront that’s going to be loaded with winning products you can use this tool over here is completely free.
Benefits of the AI Store Builder
The reason why I recommend this is because as you can see over here you’re going to be able to get an AI built Shopify store again for completely free it’s going to come loaded with winning products as I’ve already said it’s going to come with a high converting theme 100% you’re going to be able to keep the profit 24/7 customer support just literally everything you need when it comes to getting up and running.
Setting Up Your Store
So all you need to do is just fill out your full name email address and password from this point what you’re going to need to do is pick a niche. Now the reason why you need to do this is because the store Builder is going to make sure that your website is centered around that particular niche in terms of the design in terms of the general layout and most importantly the winning products that are loaded onto it.
Choosing Your Niche
So my recommendation to any of you guys is to pick a niche that your passionate about pick one that you know that you’re going to be able to stick with through any obstacles or any issues. So for me what I’m going to do in this case is pick Sport and Fitness from here you need to select two out of these six images for it to place it on your website in various different locations so you can just select anyone that stands out to you I’m just going to select this one and possibly this one over here and then I’m going to click on done.
Creating Your Shopify Account
Once you get to this page this is where you’re now going to open up your Shopify account so the reason why I recommend using this store Builder is because it makes it super easy when it comes to doing so literally all you got to do is just click on access Shopify insert your email address into this section over here. Now the page that you might see when you click into it might be slightly different but it’s going to have this email bar over here so just type in your email once you get to this page click on skip all select your country region for wherever your documents are registered I’m just going to leave it on this one then what you need to do from here is click on sign up with email and insert your email address.
Understanding Shopify
Okay perfect so that’s now done our Shopify account is now created and for those of you that’s not really sure of exactly what Shopify is and how it works or why you even need to sign up for Shopify when it comes to starting the side hustle Shopify is the platform that allows beginners to build an easy to use website. Now it’s a great way to build a professional website that you can use for a number of different things including Building A Drop Shipping Store I use Shopify when it comes to selling all of my physical products I’ve been able to generate hundreds of thousands of dollars in profit using Shopify it’s really easy it’s super efficient and again it’s beginner friendly but stick with me because we got a couple more steps for us to get to the point where we’ve now got our fully built website.
Linking Your Shopify Store
So once you get to this page over here what you need to do is come back over to the AI store Builder and click on done once you’ve created your account on this page what you need to do is now link your Shopify store to the AI store Builder so just go back over to your account and copy the URL that’s on this page go back over to the store Builder and paste it in there just like that then click on done.
Shopify’s 30-Day Trial
And another good thing about using Shopify that I forgot to mention is that they offer a 30-day unlimited trial so you’re going to be able to use all of the features of Shopify within those 30 days which means that you’re going to be able to use it to make as much money that you want to make. Now I’m not saying that you’re going to be able to make thousands of dollars in your first month you may generate a couple hundred maybe even $1,000 depending on your learning curve depending on your skill set but the main point is you don’t need to pay for Shopify for the first 30 days all you need to do is pay a single dollar which makes things a lot easier for those of you that might be limited to the budget that you have.
Activating Your Shopify Trial
So if you want to benefit from that 30-day trial with Shopify what you need to do is come back over here click on access Shopify it’s going to take you back to this page and what you’re going to need to do is insert your full name your card details and of course click on subscribe. Okay great so I’ve just done that as you can see it’s going to say subscription successful so once you’ve done that yourself just come back over to the AI store Builder and click on done.
Installing the AI Store Builder
Now what you’re going to need to do is install the AI store Builder onto the back end of your Shopify account now they’ve made it really really easy they’ve updated things so you don’t need to go through a long-winded process there’s other AI store Builders out there that you can use that make things really really difficult and complicated but this one as I said is really easy because all you need to do is just click on install app it’s going to take you over to your Shopify account and literally all you got to do is just click on install and from here it’s now going to start finalizing your website and we’re approaching the final bit of building your Drop Shipping website.
Adding Winning Products with AutoDS
Now on this page what you’re going to need to do is load the store with the winning products and the tool that’s going to help you do that is called autods so you don’t need to go over to autods yourself because you’re going to be able to do everything from within the AI store Builder it’s going to walk you through what you need to do when it comes to registering it’s not really difficult and again you’re going to be able to use it if I haven’t mentioned for 30 days so it comes with a free 30-day trial it’s going to be useful for so many different things and I’m going to explain it but it’s a necessary part of being able to start the side hustle because you’re going to be able to use it to load the winning products onto your store you’re going to use it when it comes to loading other winning products onto your store if you want to as well as automating the process when it comes to shipping out all of the orders that you get.
Registering with AutoDS
So all you got to do is just click on register to autods over here I’ve already done it myself as you can see I’ve created my autods account and once you’ve done the exact same thing this is the page that you’re going to see so for now we don’t need to do anything we just need to go back over to the store Builder and once you’ve completed the registration just click on done we’re now on one of the final stages of setting up the side hustle and this is what you’re going to use when it comes to assisting you with getting traffic onto your Drop Shipping website once you fully built it.
Driving Traffic to Your Store
There’s multiple different ways that you can get customers onto your website and I’m going to touch on that a little bit later on towards the end of this video but Tik Tok is one of the best options and there’s two main ways that you can use Tik Tok when it comes to driving traffic to your store you can either do it with Tik Tok organic this is where you’re going to post short form videos about your products or about your niche on your Tik Tok page of course you need to make sure that you create a Tik Tok page that is centered around your brand it’s named after your business and from day you’re going to post at least three to four pieces of content every single day some of the videos might do well some of them may not do well but it’s completely free for you to do that when it comes to posting videos so that’s one option.
TikTok Advertising Options
Or the second option is to run Tik Tok ads and the good thing about this store Builder is that it’s going to give you ad credits if you do want to run Tik Tok ads you don’t necessarily need to from the very beginning but if you did want to you can take advantage of this discount when it comes to Tik Tok ad spend by clicking on get free ad credits it’s not going to be around forever it’s just going to be around for a limited time but once you’ve clicked on that all you got to do is just click on claim offer.
Publishing Your Store
Okay great so your store is now ready to be published so what you’re going to need to do is click on access Shopify store to publish it’s going to take you back to the back end of your Shopify account what you need to do is click on restrict access to visitors with password just untick that click on Save and then it should now take you to your online store that’s ready for customers to start buying items from you.
Reviewing Your Store’s Features
So as you can see it’s a fully built website and if you had to do this yourself it would have been really really difficult it maybe would have taken you a couple weeks maybe a week for you to set this up all of these different pages that you can see if I click on about us as you can see things have been formatted around your niche if I click on shipping policy it’s got all of this information already there you may just want to go over things make sure that you’re happy with it make any changes as you can see they’ve put these placeholders here for you to insert your email address and your store name your telephone number etc etc you also need to make sure you add your social media links at the bottom cuz all of these are placeholders but if I just click on new arrivals as you can see it’s automatically added all of these different products.
Currency and Product Display
Now bear in mind I’m currently in Dubai that’s the reason why the prices are in UAE currency but if I just click on any one of these different products the AI store Builder has set things up in a way where everything is formatted all of the images are here the description of the product is also here as well and just generally speaking everything is set up ready for you to start the side hustle now.
Configuring Shopify Settings
Now some quick tips that I want to give you once you do use the AI store Builder is that you want to go back over to the back end of your Shopify account click on settings and there’s some things that you’re going to need to do some changes that you need to make. Now I’m just going to go over some quick ones for example you need to click on payments over here on your one you’re going to see something along the lines of Shopify payments you need to sign up for that you also need to sign up for a PayPal account so that you can receive money through stripe as well as PayPal this is something that you need to do before you start promoting your store before you start creating Tik toks because if you don’t do that you’re not going to be able to receive any money.
Acquiring a Domain Name
Another thing that you need to do is get a domain for your website so just click on domains over here what you need to do is click on buy a new domain I would recommend buying a domain that relates to whatever products that you’re selling those are two of the main things that you need to do but realistically I would say click into every single one of these because there’s going to be some changes that you need to make there’s going to be something that you need to do whether it’s you adding your location whether it’s you adding your languages your policy pages whatever you need to do you’re going to need to go through all of these and make sure that you put all of the information that relates to you and your business.
Adding More Products to Your Store
And for those of you that are thinking right now Sam I followed everything that you said but the products that was loaded onto the store I like them but I want to add other products how can I do that well what you can do is go back over to autods and as you can see over here they’ve got this marketplace where they’re showing us their best sellers and because autods is one of the biggest drop shipping softwares out there they’ve got somewhat reliable data when it comes to you trusting the products that they’re recommending there’s also a section over here where you can come over to handpick products and see specific products that they’re recommending over the past week and you’re going to be able to filter it down to the niche that you’re selling.
Using AutoDS for Product Import
So as you can see I’ve just clicked on Sport and Fitness and if I wanted to add any of these products all I literally need to do is click on import and it’s going to go directly onto my store and when it comes to the traffic side of things as I mentioned before you can use Tik Tok and if I just click on ad spy over here you’re going to be able to use this section when it comes to spying on Facebook ads Instagram ads and Tik Tok ads using this page over here it’s going to give you an idea of what type of videos are doing well and what type of videos you’re going to be able to replicate because if I just type in a random sport related product let’s use one from the store that we just built let’s use this one which is resistance bands I’m just going to copy it like that I’m going to come back over here paste it in there just like that and click on search.
Analyzing Successful Ads
Then what I’m going to do is come to advance filters change the e-commerce platform to Shopify and then click on apply filters and as you can see it’s now come back with different videos that we’re going to be able to replicate that’s done well on various different short form platforms I’m just going to sort it from the most shares. Okay so these are the videos that got the most shares let’s click into this one. Okay so this video did really well we can see that it’s still getting engagement every single day up until now and this is what it looks like so from here we’re going to be able to go over to fiverr pay someone to recreate something like this and run a very similar ad on our own Tik Tok account.