So now it's time to talk about the third and final point with products, which is fast and affordable
shipping, which is clearly essential when building a great business.
Now, that said, we need to have realistic expectations.
It is highly unlikely that we can provide next day delivery.
Why?
Well, because we're not a multi-billion dollar business with hundreds of warehouses all around the
world and thousands of employees.
But at the same time, we definitely do not want our customers waiting weeks for their products to arrive.
What we want is for our orders to arrive in an acceptable time period, so that we can provide an equally
excellent level of service and all of that for a very affordable price.
And so in this lecture, we're going to see how to do exactly that with our first reliable supplier,
which of course is CJ's dropshipping.
So here I am over on CJ dropshipping.
And you can see that I've already done a search on dog.
I've ordered by lists.
And as per the golden rules, I'm searching for a price of $10 or less.
Now you already know that CJ dropshipping has warehouses all over the world.
And you also know because we talked about it in the last lecture, that we are going to start building
this business by, first of all focusing on the United States.
And with that in mind, I would like to draw your attention to this.
The filter by.
And as you can see at the moment, it's set on all warehouses.
But if I were to set this to the US warehouse, now, what you're seeing are all of the products that
will come directly from warehouses in the United States.
So how does that help us?
Well, of course, we're looking for fast and affordable shipping.
So if we can select warehouses that are in the same location as our customers, generally speaking,
we should give ourselves the best possible chance of finding products that have the fastest shipping
times at the most affordable price.
Now, notice that I said, generally speaking, and that's because this isn't a hard and fast rule.
It's simply giving us the best possible start.
And you may well be able to find other great products with fast and affordable shipping in other warehouses.
And also, I'd like to point out that if you have customers that aren't associated with any of these
warehouses.
So let's say you were building your business in Mexico and you can't see a warehouse for Mexico.
Please don't worry.
Simply go to all warehouses, and there's a very good chance that you're going to find some fantastic
opportunities.
But if you are following along with me and starting your business in the United States, filtering by
US warehouses is a great start.
Okay, so I keep on mentioning fast and affordable shipping, but what exactly does that mean?
Well, as I've pointed out already, we're not in a position to offer next day delivery, but we can
offer very acceptable shipping times.
And then in terms of the actual shipping costs, you want to pay on average about $5.
So with that in mind, let's now start having a look at some of these products.
And I'll click first of all on the cat grooming glove.
And just before we look at the actual shipping times and the price, I want to draw your attention to
an important setting.
And it's this where you see us.
And if I open this up, you see a list of other countries.
So what is this setting?
Well, it's the country that this product is going to be delivered to.
And as you can imagine, if you change the country, it can vary the shipping times and also the costs.
Now, of course, we're starting to build our business in the United States, which is why I've selected
United States.
And so just make sure that you've selected the country that you're actually shipping to.
Now, the good news is you don't have to do this every single time.
Once I've selected us, it's going to stay like that for all future products.
Okay.
So now let's have a look at the actual times.
Now you can see here, first of all you have an estimated processing time.
And the processing time is the time that it takes them to actually get the product ready between the
actual order and the time that they send it out.
And then having sent it out, you have an estimated delivery time.
Now, you can see in this case the processing time is 1 to 3 days for most orders and for the delivery
time it's 4 to 8 days.
And of course we want the total time to be 15 days or less.
And so to ensure that what we do is we add up the largest of these numbers.
So for the estimated processing time, we would take three days.
And for the estimated delivery time we would take eight days.
That makes a total of 11 days, which of course is well within our 15 day maximum.
And so to the shipping costs themselves, where you can see in this case we have a stock shipping fee
and also a last mile shipping fee.
Now, to be perfectly honest with you, it's not always easy to determine exactly what these fees mean,
but that doesn't really matter.
What matters is that the total of these fees is around about $5 on average.
And as you can see in this case, it's actually free shipping.
So we are well within our limit.
And so this product, in terms of shipping times and shipping costs, is perfectly acceptable.
And so now let's have a look at another product.
And this time I'll click on this pet water cup where you can see that the processing time is effectively
three days and the delivery time is seven days.
So that makes a total of ten days, which is perfectly acceptable.
And then to the fees.
Now in this case, what we will be doing is adding up $1.37 and $5.64.
And that brings me to around about $7.
Now of course, that's higher than my average of $5, but my $5 is an average.
And so $7 is likely to still be acceptable.
And so once again this product seems to be great.
And so now let's check a third and final product, because I'm sure by now you're starting to get the
idea.
And for this one let's scroll down a bit and I'll take this dog seat cover.
So clicking onto this we can see that the total time is ten days, which is great, but the shipping
fee is close to $30.
So clearly in this case we are not going to be taking this product.
But I hope with those three simple examples, you can see how quick and easy it is to check shipping
time and costs for any product on CJ.
And then just to round out this lecture, I'm sure you've noticed this free shipping.
And if I were to select this, then clearly it's going to show me all of the products where the shipping
is zero.
And that is of course very interesting.
But with that said, I would encourage you not to use this exclusively because if you do, you risk
missing products where while the shipping might not be zero, it's still very affordable and well within
our range of $5 on average.
But in any case, I hope you can now really appreciate that.
Not only does CJ Drop Shipping offer you fantastic products, but it can also deliver most of those
products within a very acceptable time period and for a very affordable price.