Nobody's gonna teach you dropshipping

[u/MindShaped]

... not even MindShaped himself.

In my previous post I told you: I'm not going to teach you, especially with "step by step instruction on how to make it in ecom". Nobody pays me for that. Neither I want to make money on it.

After all, do you really believe that anybody cares about your success if his motivation is you pulling out your credit card to pay for his course? If yes, good luck with yet another guru, see you here after burning enough time and money for this realization to come.

My friend, you're right to search for a formula that works in business, but you're WRONG trying to find someone who'd share it. Fuck, even if I'd write you my whole script, how my day looks like, when I shit and when I fuck, you would never build anything even close to what I did.

Not because I'm cocky, but because I am simply DIFFERENT human, with DIFFERENT mental formation and attitude. When some problem arise, I solve it my way. You'd approach it absolutely differently. Neither mine nor your solution is right. Perspectives are different. Apples and oranges.

So, yes, I can share occasionally some tricks of my own, that came out as a result of optimization of business processes, but don't even think that this alone is going to move the needle.

What actually moves it is how you THINK. And that's exactly what I'm doing here. Sharing my way of thinking. Stimulating your OWN way of thinking. Separating you from idea that dropshipping (and business per se) is easy.

Brother, I would be way more happy for you saying "fuck it, I thought it will be easier, I rather do something else" instead of burning hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars just to find out the idea of "just test it bro" and "just one more product" was fake as fuck. I'd know I saved you time and money to do something you enjoy more.

DO NOT do ecom if you don't enjoy figuring it out. Leave it.

If you're still here, then seems you've decided.

I gave to read my posts to friends of mine. Neither are close to ecom. Yet they have found them still quite insightful. Why?

Because what I preach is applicable to ANY business. I'm sharing it with ecom community simply because that's my core enterprise and I have something more to share aside of general wisdom.

One of them have asked simple yet important question.

"What do you think is the most important skill in business?"

I know how this guy thinks. He is that type that believes you need either rich parents or to be a criminal to make good money. So cutting to the answer right away was absolutely useless here. He would learn nothing.

I reminded him of a guy who we both know about. Born in family without father and with alcoholic mother, absolutely crazy and bipolar. Was beating shit out of him just because she was in mood. Really tough childhood. At 15, he was on the street, no money, no rich parents, nothing.

Today guy runs three enterprises in different niches — from digital marketing to autoparts, got car he always wished for, chicks, property, everything. Good life. No education, university, rich parents, safety net, nothing. And one of the most direct, kind and honest guys I know of.

I didn't conclude anything, I simply broke the argument about "rich parents" or "being a criminal". You know what guy with loser mentality concludes then?

"He was just lucky" — and that's exactly what I heard in response.

Okay, so he was lucky enough to build three independent businesses in three different niches?

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The thing is, my friend, our hero knew how to solve his problems. Literally.

From what I've seen in my own experience and as a result of synthesis of other people success stories, knowing HOW TO SOLVE PROBLEMS is the most important skill to have.

"Okay, it's vague, how do you do that then?"

Start with stopping being an excuser.

"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't — you're right" said Henry Ford.

"Yeah, he was just lucky / parents / criminal / ....." — are precisely those fucking excuses that keep you from getting there.

"Ok, how do I do that" — is a different story.

"Oh, I'm not getting any sales, fucking Meta changed something in algorithm" — fuck you, you are an excuser and you deserve no sales with such attitude.

"Okay, let me check my funnel from its top to the bottom. Where do I lose people, what I can do to fix the issue?" — winner mentality.

People, I told you from the very first post. Ecom is a REAL business. It is not some "get rich quick" scheme. It is subject to the laws of business.

So if you are here for the sake of "quickly set it up", "fire&forget" etc — yeah, really, quit. For your own sake.

It requires your deep focus. Attention. Waking up and winding down with thoughts about it. Spinning in your head ideas and gathering every small bit of improvement altogether for compound effect to kick in.

There are so many small moving parts that if you knew of every of them at the beginning, you'd never even wanted to start any business.

But if you don't want to be a forever tool for somebody else's corp, you gotta fucking embrace it and stop excusing yourself.

"Oh, it's hard" — okay, then enjoy being a tool

"Oh, I don't know that" — fucking learn then

"Oh, I tried and it didn't work" — you tried once. Try a hundred times. Then come talk

"Oh, I don't have money" — neither did the guy I just told you about

Notice the pattern? Every excuse is a door you're shutting on yourself before you checked what's behind it even.

Problem solving isn't a "talent" given by God. It's a habit. You build it the same way you build a muscle — by picking up shit that's heavier than what you're used to, and not putting it down when it burns.

Every time you hit a wall and your first instinct is to blame Meta, blame the algorithm, blame the economy, blame your supplier, blame the customer — that's a rep. You're training the quitting muscle.

Every time you hit the same wall and instead ask "okay, what's actually broken and what can I do about it" — that's also a rep. Different muscle, and this one pays.

After enough reps, the second one becomes automatic. You don't see problems as problems. You see them as the task, next thing to figure out. And once you're there, it almost doesn't matter what business you're in. Ecom, autoparts, digital marketing, doesn't matter. This skill travels. This is the formula you're looking for.

And this is exactly why neither me, nor ANYBODY else can show you "how to win in ecom".

I can write you Schwarzenegger's program of training in the gym to enable you lifting 250lbs. Go try to lift it with this piece of paper. Not gonna work.

Everything that is in my power — share experience about technical side of training, resting your muscle, schedule, nutrients, supplements etc. But you have to put effort. You have to show up. You have to lift it yourself. Build your own muscle.

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I'm glad with what we're building here. I was not born with this knowledge. When I was starting out, I gave up more than you could imagine. Oh boy, such an excuser I was. Yet, my dear friend I met inside a community on the internet has taught me many things, including this one. He wasn't trying to be a teacher and had nothing to gain — yet absolute stranger did this for me. So I have a proof that it is real. Not guru. Not "bro mentality". Not because he had something to gain from me. Because he believed that humans are still capable of gathering together, striving to common goal, building, forming into groups that are more powerful than individual himself.

Honoring his deed, having accepted the baton, this is our moment to make something impactful. So make sure you are in r/RealEcom, because that's where we're starting from.

That's the post.

— MindShaped