Building high-ticket dropshipping stores since 2008. Helping others do the same at https://teapaw.org/t.co/AqGZYyl6WU since 2013.
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Step 3: Use this script. Word for word if you need to.
"Hi, this is [Name] from [yourstore].com. We're planning on going live on [date]. We found your brand, we love [specific detail about their product], and we'd love for you to be part of our launch. Who can I speak to about opening a new account?"
That's it. Thirty seconds. You're through to the right person before email would've gotten a reply.
Step 4: Take notes on every call.
Some brands will say yes. Some will say no. Most will say something in between — "we need retailers doing 10,000 monthly visitors" or "come back when you have revenue data."
That's not rejection. That's a timeline.
Add a notes column to your spreadsheet. Log exactly what they said and when to follow up. In three to six months, a lot of those "not yets" become yeses.
Step 2: Get approved by suppliers.
This is where most beginners freeze. They assume brands won't work with them.
They will. Brands want serious retailers. So look like one.
Register an LLC. Get an EIN (it's free). Open a business bank account. Build a simple demo store on Shopify so they can see what their products would look like on your site.
Then reach out. You'll be surprised how fast approvals come when you show up prepared.
Step 3: Build a store that earns trust.
Clean. Simple. Professional.
You don't need a thousand apps. You need clear branding, easy navigation, strong product pages, and visible trust signals.
One thing I tell every student: your store doesn't need to look like Amazon. It needs to look like a business a real person runs.
Add Shop Pay installments too. Your customer finances the purchase over time. You get paid immediately.
Getting this + the Shopify Claude Code integration within a week is crazy
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19 years ago I started dropshipping because I wanted to stop trading time for money.
What I didn't expect was how many people would come along for the ride.
Thousands of students later, the thing that still gets me is how often the transformation isn't really about the money.
It's about the person who finally stops waiting for the "right time" and realizes the model was always simpler than they thought.
No inventory. No warehouse. No upfront product costs. Just the right niche, the right suppliers, and a store that works while you don't.
If you've been on the sidelines, I do a free 2-hour training that walks through the whole thing. Link in bio.
50 times in the gym so far this year. Behind on my target frequency, but still under my goal body fat %. Time to take peptides and see how far I can push it. Anyone have experience with them?
Yes tracking will never be 100% accurate in 2026 but we’re more than comfortable scaling and cutting ads on Meta based on Shopifys native integration with maximum data sharing turned on, and on Google via the tracking tags we create through Symprosis.
The Shopify App Store has 8,000+ apps.
If you're running a high-ticket dropshipping store, you need maybe 12 of them.
Here's the exact list I give every student starting out:
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