I Let AI Pick My Products for a $100 Dropshipping Store

I just started a new dropshipping store. I gave myself a $100 budget. That's usually what I like to do when I'm starting new income streams or trying something new. So far the tools came out to be about $2. So I'll show you where the money's all going and the tool that I use to make this slow part easier. I don't have any sales yet because I just built this, but I'll show you how I built it and then I'd like to turn this into a series and come back and show you how I'm getting sales and we'll just see how it's going. So here's where the money's gone so far. So I signed up for Doba Pilot, that is free. You get 30 credits with no cards, so that's zero dollars. Then for Doba itself to actually run your store, it's a seven day trial for 99 cents. So that's what unlocks the store and the listings, and that's what you pay. Shopify is three days free, then a dollar a month for your first three months. So we have another dollar. So so far up to two dollars and signed up for three tools. Then I'm going to put about $30 towards ordering one sample product for myself before I start trying to sell something. I actually, I want to see at least one of them and have it in my hands, make sure it's not absolute garbage. And then the other, you know, $68 or whatever, I'm going to use for ads. So that's my $100 budget to get this store running and start getting my first sale. So first off, you want to pick a niche. So what's a niche that you're interested in that you'd actually want to sell something in? I picked car stuff for this one, but everybody has a car. And most people have a list of little things that they would like improved about their car And then I want to keep the price low for this drop shipping and I for this one I'd like to go something under $25 that I could sell a lot of so in traditionally This is kind of the slow part trying to find what products are gonna You know be decent to sell and then trying to find a supplier You end up with a bunch of tabs a spreadsheet that you don't test by the end of it So this is the part that I handed over to DobaPilot. It's their AI that searches their database. And I just told it, find me six car accessories under $25 that I could sell profitably. One message is one credit. So actually, I do have a paid DobaPilot account, but you get 30 credits when you sign up for free. So you can run 30 of these searches. So here's what I found. The first option is a start scan car LED hood light. then found a wireless car tire inflator pump so if you get flat tires this is something even i have on my tesla some of the car accessories don't work for my tesla because they're for you know gas engines but this where i get flat tires so this is great for that front seat covers is an option here a rear view video dash cam and then another air pump portable air compressor and then a car cleaning gun which I'd be excited to try that out but each row is one product it gives AI insights so it says here's what AI thinks about this all of these are high profit because I asked for that in the prompt some are higher than others though you know these 19 23 but then you have like these seat covers where you get 60% profit then over here it shows which of my filters it matched so based on just my prompt it turned that into filters so looking for car accessories price less than $25 and profit margin over 15%. And then it gives information about the supplier as well. Um, it shows how long they've been open, which I don't want something that's been open for like a month or two months. You know, 1.5 years is pretty good. Uh, but 6.5 years, that's even better. Uh, then I want to see a high fulfillment rate. They're not missing orders. And actually all of these have pretty high. And then I want to see a low refund rate, which 12.5%, that's pretty high. So this is, I might stay away from this product just because of this high refund rate. Um, honestly, it's kind of looking like this might be the, it's got the highest profit, a hundred percent fulfillment rate, 0% refund rate, although they've not been open as long. One thing I probably should have put in my prompt is I want it to ship from the U S so I want it to have a U S warehouse. Um, the problem is if it's shipping from overseas, if it's shipping from China then you know it might take it a week to get to the US and people with Amazon Prime the way that it is people just don't want to wait that long so narrow these down to only the ones that ship from a US warehouse so it took a couple off and then it put a couple new ones in so the car cleaning gun is still on there that actually that one I was pretty interested in that sounds pretty cool and you notice in demand signals it added this new filter shipped from the U.S. so basically it's taking your prompt and then it's just turning it into filters automatically for you so this takes a lot of the hard work for starting a store out of the way i have my products i have the supplier info already there i can make a really informed decision this is before i've spent any money again this is all on Doba Pilot you get 30 credits free so when you look at the product this one in particular, this dash cam. This is the price that I would pay to get one. And then this is what the MSRP is. So they think you buy it for 20.27. You can sell it for 27.49. I do want to see that there's enough in stock in case people actually start buying a lot of these. I don't want to see that there's three in stock or something like that. Nothing worse than when you get a sale, you go to fulfill the sale and it's out of stock. That would just, that would break my heart. There's free shipping, estimated delivery time, two to five days. That's all good what I'd be looking for. And I have learned that it's also good to take this product and just go look at what it's actually selling for. So this product is actually selling on Walmart for $30. It's selling on eBay for $20. So chances are their MSRP is probably close. Of course, you can get it on Temu for pretty cheap, but people know that that's Temu. Also, this car cleaning gun. They sell it to us for $23.92, and then MSRP is $32.89. So, and this one actually has a map, which is a minimum advertised price, which means that I can't list it for lower than $29.90. This is, again, I'd want to just kind of Google this and see, is it actually selling for that amount? And it is. So, $32 at Walmart. So, honestly, I feel pretty good about this one, the car cleaning gun and I want to try it out for myself. And they have the supplier here. It's Viver. Click into the supplier to get more information like where they're located, where you ship returns to. That's in the US, so that's good. Their average delivery time is 3.41 days, which that's not bad. They've been open for several years. Good fulfillment and pretty low refund rate. So first I created the store in Shopify. I gave it a name. I am not creative at all. Let me know in the comments, a better name than Pelton garage. Um, but that's it. I'm an engineer. I'm not creative at all. So that's how I named things. So then when I had the products that I wanted here, I just clicked list selected products now, and I didn't have stores connected to Doba yet. So it asked me what kind of store do you want? So I said, Shopify, I logged into the Shopify account, installed the Doba app, got it all connected together. And then immediately those products got listed on my Shopify store. So when I go to Shopify, you can see that these are in here and they're already connected to the supplier. So then the last $68 of my $100 to get this store started is I want to do one small ad test. And I'm just looking to see if I can make an ad that people click on and that people buy. That's what the money's for is a test. And the result of your ads test tells you what to fix. If nobody clicks, then it's the picture or the product or your ad in some way if people click and nobody buys then it's the price or it might be the landing page for the product but either way you learn something you know for that $68 so and this is how the doba trial works this is what gets your products into your store and connects it and fulfills the orders but 99 cents gets you seven days on their basic plan here and when the trial is up it'll roll into the paid plan automatically it's about $60 if you bill month to month. So if you start the trial today, you get seven days to do what I just did. Get your store all set up. Honestly, you can probably do it in about 20 minutes. And then before the seven days are up, you can decide, hey, is this worth it? Am I going to move forward with this? So we have day one of our store. Doba Pilot built the shortlist. I checked the suppliers to see what they'll ship from. The store is set up and on the trial and it's cost me about $2 so far. The next video I want to continue work on this same store but honestly Dooba Pilot took hours off of my to-do list to get this store set up in fact you can probably get this all set up shorter than you can watching this video although I do talk pretty quickly so if you want this to become a series please do like and comment series or something like that so let me know who's gotten to this point and we can do a video going through what's after this so if you want to try this and go on this journey with me you can sign up for Dooba Pilot free for 30 credits so you can start doing your research then if you're ready you can sign up for Shopify then you can sign up for Dooba the dollar for seven days so link is in the description and actually I have a promo code in there that you actually get 10 percent off a paid plan so save you some money that way too so thank you guys so much for watching on this journey god bless you all and have a great rest of your day