Quote: (04-11-2018 08:59 PM)Aviel Wrote:
Well first of all, I would never buy a course on Dropshipping/POD because everything is available for free online. This has nothing to do with wanting to learn or not.
Every single successful person, business, ideology, religion, etc.. is selling an idea or a dream. Whether we agree with them or not! Top Brands put insane prices on their products because they are selling "You are better than everyone else" dream. Donald Trump sold the dream Making America Great Again! Justin Trudeau sold the dream of a multicultural, liberal, feminist society to gain political power. The two biggest religions have over 3 billion followers, and people die, go to war and give everything they have for the dream being sold to them by religious men. Again, every dream sold can be amazing from one perspective and a con from another.
These drop-shipping "Gurus" just took advantage of people wanting to escape the rat race and make some real money. I did not call Justin Cener out, I don't give a fuck if he's legit or not, I was just informing other members that there is a better business model and if they are willing to pay 997 dollars to learn to make money, then better spend it on a business model that does require some skill instead of POD where they can find everything they need from a couple of hours of research on the internet.
I wrote that post because I just wanted to open their eyes and at the same time see his reaction. I also wanted to write it down and see the opinions of others.
P.S. I like POD as a side business, I've seen people making over 270K profit a year in my niche.
Do you personally know someone making 270k per year with POD or did someone just report that as their income.
We can argue all day about if POD or dropshipping can really make money, I think we can all agree pretty much 99% of the guys claiming to make money aren't making money and the ones who really are are the exception rather than the norm.
I think lots of people go into POD or dropshipping expecting to make tens of thousands a month and the reality of it is if you can squeeze out a couple hundo a month your probably doing better than most.
In terms of selling courses and stuff obviously selling a lifestyle and selling a dream is an aspect of everything we buy from liquor to cars to clothes. Its a bit more see through so to speak when it comes to courses and things like that than buying a car but that element is always present.
It sounds like you realize there is money in that arena but maybe have an ethical or moral problem with appealing to that audience and essentially taking advantage of them or playing on their dreams.
While I do think there's a lot of bullshitters out there at the same time I have to give them credit because it's not easy to do what they are doing either. It's easy to say okay throw out some crazy made up numbers of money you made, copy a course and start marketing it, majority of people who try this will probably fail at it so do have to give some credit to these guys.
Like you said info is out there for free, you don't have to pay for it. Some people like having all the info organized in one place so you don't have to watch 100 different youtube videos half of which will be really shitty and a waste of time. That said I don't personally think that organization and curation of that info is worth $5,000. If someone wants to take a course there's all types of shit on Udemy and ohter sites like that for $10.
One funny thing, that link I posted above where the guy calls out Tanner Fox for being on bullshit, he's also selling "money making amazon products" for like $300 a pop so while what he's saying is true about Tanner, he's really no better himself.
I do POD myself and I make a couple hundred per month, my best month ever was probably $800. I'm not a fantastic designer and I dont put a ton of time or effort into it but I can't complain about the money.
For someone to make 270k a year however that seems challenging. Figure POD isn't great margins so we'll say your making $10 per shirt which probably means your selling shirts for $25, that means you have to sell 27,000 shirts per year. That comes to 2250 shirts per month which comes to 75 shirts per day. I know a guy doing these types of sales numbers on amazon merch but he's not making $10 per shirt more like $2 per shirt, but the only reason he can do that is Amazon traffic. If your doing this throuogh shopify or etsy your gonna be paying a good buck on FB ads and Etsy ppc which is going to inflate your costs which means your going to have to sell even more shirts than the 75 per day we broke it down to earlier
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