If We Had to Start Again in Today’s UK Economy, We’d Do This… (Episode 168)

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🗣 In this episode, Lewis Smith and James Eardley run a thought experiment: if they had to start from zero today in the UK — with rising costs, higher overheads, and changing buyer behaviour — what would they do differently?

They break down the “overhead trap” that kills most new businesses, why high-ticket is more attractive in this economy, and the practical blueprint they’d follow to build a resilient store without stock, staff, or a physical premises.

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🧭 Topics Discussed
★ The Overhead Trap — Why rent, rates, payroll, stock and fixed costs crush new businesses before they ever get momentum.
★ The Lean-First Principle — Starting online-only, keeping costs tiny, and building from cashflow instead of debt.
★ Why High Ticket Is Easier Right Now — Fewer sales needed, more profit per order, and more margin for error.
★ Using AI the Right Way — Speed up tasks (copy, research, drafts) without outsourcing the strategy to a robot.

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💡 Key Takeaways
★ Avoid Fixed Costs Early — Don’t start your business from “minus 10” with rent, stock, staff, and big commitments.
★ High Ticket = Fewer Customers Needed — Build around bigger profit per order so you can reach meaningful income with a small number of sales.
★ Use Live Data, Not Guesswork — Validate demand and price points with real numbers, then commit with confidence.
★ Resilient Models Win in Tough Times — If your model works in a hard economy, imagine what it does when the cycle turns.

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If I had to start again in today's UK economy, as of today, the very first thing that I'd avoid is. People think that success comes from having a team and raising capital. But in this economy, and that's why high ticket products suddenly become far, far easier to sell. And that's why starting today is so tough. Unless you know the secrets from experience. If I had to rebuild from zero tomorrow, I wouldn't touch stock or staff or a physical shop. I'd just go straight to the model. Welcome to the Dropship Unlocked podcast. I'm Lewis Smith, the founder of Dropship Unlocked, and with me is our client success coach, James Eardley. Now, when we're not recording podcast episodes or running our own e commerce businesses, you'll find us helping aspiring entrepreneurs launch their own high ticket dropshipping stores. So if you're ready to build your own six or even seven figure online business, then head over to dropship unlocked.com start now, sit back, relax and let's unlock your potential with the Dropship Unlocked podcast. If we had to start today, Lewis and I, in this UK economy, with the current cost of energy, where that is the taxes that are rising, the rising overheads, what business would we actually choose? Well, that's exactly what people are starting from today. And so we're going to put ourselves in your shoes because the truth is we're not living in a vacuum. And I think most people are starting the wrong type of business in this economic environment that we live in today. So Louis, let's begin with the big one. If you and I had to start again today, what is the first principle you think we'd follow in this economy? Firstly, I would try and reduce any overheads that I could absolutely just get rid of and do without. So things like business rates and rent on physical premises and holding stock, having to risk capital on buying stock up front that I'm not sure whether it will even sell or not. Things like national insurance, heavy payroll of team and things like that. So I would try and keep the business as lean as possible. I would leverage AI as much as I possibly could to keep it lean, keep it focused. So I'd use that for creating the copy the writing on my business website. I would use that for product research, I'd use it for admin systems as much as I possibly could. And I would choose a model that had low costs and a very high upside. So that kind of risk to reward ratio that I'm looking for, I'd keep it online only because I don't want to be taken out contracts and leases with physical premises if I've not yet proven the model. And I would go high ticket in what I sold because then I'd need to sell fewer items, make more profit per sale, keeps it nice and healthy, High margins from the beginning. And I wouldn't have any inventory, I wouldn't take any stock, I wouldn't risk any capital upfront. I would only buy product once I'd already sold those products to customers knowing that I had the money already there to then go and purchase the item and have the supplier send it out. So yeah, if I was starting again, the first non negotiable in today's economy with the way things stand would be don't take on overheads that you don't need. I mean we all know that the statistics, like most traditional businesses today fail, they will fail and it's before they start making significant money and profit and it's usually because of those crippling fixed costs. So it's like the rent and the stock and the capital expenditure and the staff and the insurance and the national insurance and all the utilities and everything they had before they'd even made their first sale or made any profit. And that just crushes them financially because it's like they're just operating a business from minus 10, trying to get back up to zero. I just prefer to just stay at zero, just start at zero and then kind of just work my way up without going into huge amounts of debt up front. So with an online only high ticket e commerce system like the home turf advantage model that we teach the business allows you to to start without a physical premises, you just need a laptop, you can just do it from home, you don't need any stock, you don't need to purchase containers or liaise with suppliers in China and organise minimum order quantities and ship loads of items over. You don't need to deal with import duties you don't need and full time staff you don't need to have paid for really expensive softwares like it allows you to start really lean and focus the business so that you are starting from zero so that you can build up. And everything that you build up is then a positive profit number into the bank rather than just trying to get you back up to that baseline of zero. In this day and age this is where AI becomes so much more powerful. It becomes like an equaliser because it allows you to build your website quicker than you ever could have before. You know you can if you're writing out emails for your customers and you want an email below that's like your nurture welcome sequence or your abandoned cart sequence. You can absolutely leverage things like Claude and Chat, GPT and Gemini to write out amazing post purchase or and pre purchase email sequences without having to go and hire a sales copywriter or learn sales copy yourself. Now obviously I'd always recommend putting it through a human lens before it goes out there, but these things just allow you to move much faster and give you such a head start from where we would have been just a few years ago. If you can get your product copy and your supplier outreach draughts and your competitor research, like all done, using strategies that also add AI into them like we have inside our programme, it will allow you to do that research in kind of a course of hours rather than taking weeks or even months to deliberate over ideas that you're not sure if they're proven or not. So it just keeps the business overheads very, very small. But it allows you for huge potential upside, which for me is, is that risk reward ratio that I would be looking for. And we can manipulate that risk reward ratio by choosing to go into a market that's growing and by choosing a model that would facilitate a high upside and scalable potential without having to take on lots of risk and overhead capital and staff and premises. So I think it's a very useful thought exercise because we started our E commerce businesses years ago now in a different environment, but we're always working with people through the Dropship Unlock masterclass who are starting today. And people come to us and they ask us what would you do in today's economy? Because it's different from perhaps a few years ago, things are changing so quickly with different governments involved, etc. Etc. So it's useful to think about how would we actually apply what we've learned to today's market. And I completely agree with your approach, Louis. Let's keep things down in terms of costs where we can and where we don't need to, because we can access AI and because we can access selling products online for very low cost with a tool like Shopify versus having to rent a physical premises and having to take on high business rates and then paying national insurance. And yeah, it all gets very expensive going down that route and you have to make a significant amount of sales before you're profitable with a lot of overheads. Whereas the model that I would also go into is something that has a very low bar to get into the green with. So the overheads are super low. So as soon as we Start making sales. We're going to be in the green as quickly as possible so that we have cash flow coming into the business, which is going to be the lifeblood that will then help us to invest and continue to scale and grow from that position. But I think that's where a lot of people get it wrong and they think starting a business is all about having offices and a big team and fancy logos, or getting an agency to create the branding for you and putting money into stock, putting money into equipment. Actually, I think today it's all about being lean and agile and the successful entrepreneurs are almost invisible because they just have a very low cost, simple to run business that can generate a high upside without having a lot of capital to put into it from the start. So let's shift to then another question there. Is that something maybe even more important in today's economy, if somebody was to start again today, how would they actually attract customers when buying behaviour has changed so much? Well, that buying behaviour has changed, but if the route that you're selling the products to consumers is, is online, we've only seen that go up. So I think if you're going to sell products online and that's a given, like if that's the, the route that you've chosen to go down and you think, no, I don't want to be kind of wedded to a physical premises, I don't want to have to buy loads of stock. I want to use the model of online retail or E commerce. Then my preference, if I was starting from scratch today, would be go higher price points, go high ticket, as they call it in the industry. And so that might mean an average order value, like an average product selling price of anywhere between. I think people have different definitions of high ticket, but let's say £300 up to £3,000 and beyond. We see people all the time in our programme selling items for way above that, because that means you need fewer customers at a much higher profit per order to make your target profit. So, so we kind of reverse engineer it and say, well, work backwards, figure out what you want to make in a month from the business and then just work backwards to it. So if you want to make, say £6,000amonth in profit and you're selling items that are £2,000 at a 30% profit margin, that's £600 profit per sale. So to make that £6,000 profit throughout the course of a month, you now need 10 sales, a 600 pound profit per sale, 10 sales throughout the whole month. That's like one every three days. Do you think you could do that from an E Commerce? Do you think that out of 66 something million people in the UK that you could find 10 people who would pay you money over your website over the course of a month to help you make that initial target income of 6k per month? Obviously from there we can ramp it up, but if we're talking profit into the business, that 6k profit per month is more than most businesses make in their first year, because most businesses, as we say, go into huge amounts of crippling debt to hire the staff and buy the premises and risk the money on stock before they start making profits. So we're talking about like putting in some time now, front loading the work and then getting to the point where you could be profitable in a matter of like weeks, if not months. So absolutely, starting out with with that is going to put you at a huge advantage. If I was doing it again, I'd also validate demand using data. So I don't want to think, do I think these products will sell? If ever I feel myself trying to just hypothesise and think, I think these might be popular. I always try and catch myself and try and think, well, where can I get the data on this? Where can I actually validate my hypothesis with numbers? And if I'm looking at search demand, there are tools that we go through inside our programme that will show you exactly how many times are people searching for the products that you're considering and what are the thresholds that I would be looking for per month to make sure that there's enough demand there for me to make my 10 sales per month initially? We can scale up from there. But, you know, as a starting point then I'd look at, well, are the items that I'm thinking of selling typically in that price range that's going to allow me to make those sales and hit my target profit. So you see how everything works backwards from what the target number is. So that's really important. We start with that and then we work backwards to engineer the business to just get us there. So much simpler. Because then when you arrive there, it's not like you arrived there by luck, it was by design. Whereas I think a lot of people wander into business and they've kind of got this like vague goal of being an entrepreneur and then when they don't get to the point of making their 10,000, 20,000 profit per month, they're like, why didn't I get there? It's like, well, did you ever work Backwards from that number. Did you know exactly how to get there? Because if you did, you will then know at which hurdle you fell and where to. Course. Correct. Whereas when you don't do that, how do you know? So yeah, price point search demand search volume is really important. Looking at supplier availability as well, like I prefer to work with UK suppliers. Why order stuff from China or you know, Europe or wherever when you can just work with the stock that's already with suppliers in the UK and just have it sent out to your customers with next day delivery. Those are just a few of the several criteria that we have for product selection inside our programme. But we work through that process together to really make sure that what you're selling is backed on data and really based on, you know, all of those different criteria. So the whole thing's reverse engineered. If you can sell products as well that in today's market will be needed just as much as they would in a different economic climate, then you're not relying on like trends or fads or things that are popular today and then will be gone tomorrow. You, you kind of want to make sure that your products that you're selling are somewhat evergreen. They are maybe not the coolest product in the world, but they'll just be in demand consistently no matter whether we're in a bull market or a recession. And so in this economy at the moment, if people are kind of watching their, their pennies and you know, everyone's like tightening the purse strings, well then what do, what do people still need? What are items that people are going to still buy regardless? And how can you just get in front of those people to sell those high ticket premium products that are still moving. I think something as well that I've learned and it always kind of amazes me is you can be in this like echo chamber sometimes of bad news here, bad news there, economy is in decline, no one's got any money, everyone's tightening the purseries and then I don't know, like someone will see a customer come and put like a 10 grand order through and it's like, oh, okay, so it's not everybody that's in that situation. And, and actually even the people that are in that situation when they have significantly more disposable money or it's B2B and they have like a huge budget to spend, it doesn't really matter because you know, we're not asking them to buy hundreds and hundreds of products from us as we talked about before. Maybe it's only 10 or 20 per month. We need. So it can still work. You're kind of stacking the deck in your favour, even in those difficult economic times. And it just makes your whole journey so much easier and more enjoyable because premium products are still being bought. People don't stop buying quality, maybe they stop impulse buying kind of junk products. So that's definitely not the end of the market that I would want to be dealing in. But I think that the magic with all of this is with high ticket products, you only need that small number of customers to have a really good month. So, yeah, that's, that's probably the way I would look at it. Validate the niche properly, cheque the average selling price, make sure UK suppliers exist, make sure they've got strong stock, make sure there's demand that's consistent, it's not trend driven. And then all the other criteria that we go through inside the programme to reverse engineer what your financial goal is and your lifestyle goal, what kind of lifestyle do you want this business to create? And then we just work backwards, step by step until we get there. It's very, very scientific and data driven. And crucially, data driven based on today's data rather than relying on what's worked previously. Every time we, we go through the niche validation process, we're looking at live data and search demand and trends to make sure that we're going to enter a niche that is in demand and growing as a niche, despite what's going on. And somebody mentioned there's about that high order that you see come in. It kind of takes you out of that news cycle of telling everyone that there's no money left in the world. When you see somebody place an order for 10k for a product that most people wouldn't consider. So, for example, we've got a member in our community and he had a famous celebrity from London buy a bathroom toilet roll holder for about 300 pounds. And it kind of shattered his worldview, thinking, well, there's people out there that we can access and get our products in front of who aren't sniffing at a £300 for a toilet roll holder. And we can get in front of these people. We've had people in the community sell to footballers and their footballers. Agents have been in touch and purchase high ticket products. I've sold myself to a. I'm quite proud of this. There's a Hollywood, Hollywood director from London, probably the most famous male director, if you thought about it, from London. He's purchased from my site. I won't name him. Not that it matters too Much, but these things are happening. We're accessing this type of person in the market. Do you remember the. What football club the footballer was from who purchased from one of our members? Louis? There was a connection with Liverpool. I don't know if he was moving to Liverpool or maybe from Liverpool abroad and needed to. Then didn't, didn't he then sell the item to one of his Liverpool teammates? That. That was still at the club. Wasn't that the storey? That's right. Yeah, that's right, it was. His agent purchased it and then the member got in touch to see if the other members of the club want. Wanted another item and they said, well, he's left now, but he's gifted it to another team member. And it was like sort of a few thousand pound products. That's a storey. Yeah, exactly. So like there's, there's so many people and, you know, that's just. We're talking about like a couple of famous celebrities there, but there are people every day in here who, you know, work city jobs in, in the city and they're like investment bankers or they're earning, you know, a couple hundred thousand a year and maybe like, they're not considered ultra rich, but they're wealthy enough to be able to like drop 5k on a garden furniture set or a barbecue or a home sofa or a kitchen table or whatever it is that for them is important for their family, for, you know, their business, whatever it is that they're purchasing that our members are selling. Then you know that like a sale like that can kind of COVID someone's entire monthly income that they would have earned from their job previously from one sale. And so I think it's really important to have that view. And sometimes I just. When I'm like driving, I don't know, through like down the motorway and I look at all the towns either side of me and all the hundreds of houses, especially when you drive through London, you see all the houses like, you know, off the side of the motorway and it's just. I just think, God, any single one person in any one of those rooms, in any one of those houses sitting there could be hovering over the buy button right now on one of our sites. And then they click it and that's it. That's like £600. A thousand pounds in profit comes through to us. We don't need every one of them, we just need one of them to be doing it every day or every three days in the example I put. So do you see how, like, sometimes you kind of need to get out of your, your room and out of your house and out of the, the news media that you're surrounded by where it's all doom and gloom actually just look around and be like there are people buying products all the time. You know, sometimes you watch shows like selling a sunset and you look at like the money they're spending on staging some of those houses and you just think wow. It gives you perspective on what you know, certain people are willing to spend when it comes to. And that's just home stuff. You know that's one of many, many niches that people would pick in our market. You know think of it if it was a business and they have like a 50 grand budget or a gym that needs to buy like 20 new treadmills for its sites right across the UK you happen to sell them. Yeah, there's all these things where it's like actually 50k to a huge multinational gym chains probably not that much. They're probably spending that kind of money every month. So it's just putting it in perspective. It's like okay, you think it's expensive in relation to what? In relation to who in the context of what? Because in the business world it's probably not considered that expensive. So true. Makes the economy become a lot less scary when you come from that position of abundance and realise how much potential and opportunities there are out there. I don't think Liverpool players right now are struggling with, with an economy and all of the Premier League players that matter that we can access and even just yeah people that have high level wealth. We're, we're accessing these people through our stores and, and they will find us because we can sell products that they're already searching for and when they search for it on Google our products appear at the top of the search demand and therefore they click on our website and purchase if the time is right. And that's what we're trying to engineer is put products, high ticket products in front of the right people at the right time and we've got the way to do that that we explain all in the programme. And yeah, it's just so important to come from that position. There'll be a few people driving, listening to this now and probably noticing houses that they're driving passing the sheer number of houses. When you zoom out and think about how many different opportunities there are and how big the E commerce market is in the UK it yeah, as I say it makes the economy a whole lot less scary. When you think about from an abundance point of view the opportunities that are out there when we rise above the, the lack and the fear that gets put onto us a lot of the time in the media. So let's wrap this up then in terms of, get to the real heart of, of the episode and what we would do if we were starting again today. What do you think would be the most practical blueprint that somebody could follow in this UK economy? Yeah, so I think it would be to make sure you start lean online only, high ticket UK suppliers. If you're in the UK and selling to the uk, it makes sense to at least, you know, make sure that you're, you're getting your first orders coming from this market. You can always expand internationally down the line but there's plenty of demand here before you start complicating things with foreign entity companies and you know, cross border taxes and customs, import duties and stuff like that. Different laws from different countries on taxes. And I'd leverage AI significantly. I would make sure that I've got a proven roadmap. I'd make sure that I'm not guessing, I'm not relying on like AI to get me the answers on the business strategy. I would want to follow people who've done and walked this path already. I'd want to have a proven niche that's based on several different criteria and reverse engineered from my, my goal, my monthly target income and lifestyle goal. I would then want to build a, a nice high converting store, nice easy website. I'd probably use Shopify, I design those UK suppliers. I'd start running some ads and then I would tweak and optimise and rinse and repeat. Really. And so yeah, keeping overheads low is going to then allow me to make long term decisions because I'm not going to be panicking about cash flow in the short term and it keeps things nice and clear and avoids that early complexity of if I start hiring staff and taking out loans and doing, you know, capital expenditure and releasing premises and stuff like that. But later on I'm then panicking, how are we going to pay for all this stuff? If I was starting again today, the roadmap would almost be boringly simple. So I wouldn't chase shiny objects, I wouldn't go and start a cafe, I wouldn't lease stock or hire staff on day one. I would just choose a niche using the objective criteria and then I would partner with UK suppliers who can offer nice fast delivery to my customers like next day delivery ideally. And I build a clean website. I'd leverage AI to help with a lot of the heavy lifting. Then I'd run Google shopping ads or performance max ads to get profitable traffic to my site from day one for products that I know are already in demand and will make me a nice high profit per sale when they go through and generate sales. So yeah, try and detach yourself emotionally if you can from the economy because I think it will just hold you back if you think that it's all doom and gloom. The economy doesn't matter as much when your business structure is efficient and you know that with a few sales per month you'll be nice and profitable and that you will be able to replace your existing salary with that. If you keep your overheads low, it keeps your stress low down the line. And high ticket items mean that you'll make much more profit per sale, which then means that you need less profit. I mean, we were talking about not letting the doom and gloom of the current state of the economy shroud your judgement too much. And actually it reminded me one of someone I was speaking to recently said that they had a customer recently that wanted to buy a, like a high ticket item from their store, several thousand pounds and they would kind of in the conversation it turned out that the person was unemployed, like didn't really have a job and they were kind of wondering like how are they going to afford this? Are they really going to be able to do this? But it turns out that despite on paper they might look like they didn't have an income, they just inherited something like £600,000 through a family member that had passed away and they were just looking to, you know, allocate some of it and spend some of it. So like don't write people off just because someone's not maybe earning a huge amount of money. There's still money flowing, whether that's trickling down families, whether that's coming from deals that are being made, it's, it's there, you know, and if you can just get in front of it and use your site as a, a mechanism to, to give the market what they're already looking for rather than trying to push what you hope will sell on the market, which is always a dangerous game, then the easiest way to do that is with a proven roadmap that you can follow to make sure that you get faster results, you make fewer mistakes along the way. And that's why so many of our dropship unlocked members are seeing results right now. It's because it's not because the economy is easy, because it's not. But it's because the model is resilient. And so if it works now, just imagine when the economy is booming, how much better it's going to work for them later. Yeah, in today's economy, with things that have changed recently, we had the budget a couple of months ago and the yeah, the income tax levels are staying fixed where they are, so the fiscal drag means that people are going to pay more tax over the next few years. I think what's important is if you try and elevate yourself to a position where you're not so reliant on an income tax. And the most people that get taxed so heavily are people in the middle class who are working at a job day to day. If you can build an asset for yourself, which the business is, you operate through a limited company. There's lots of benefits that we can access by doing that and you can start to operate as an asset owner who really benefits in this type of situation no matter what the market is doing. So if you're listening and thinking today I want to build something like this, but I need a clear place to start and I need to take this step by step. Where do you think people should start this? Well, if you head over to dropshipunlocked.com forward/start, we'll put a link below that in the description and the show notes, but that's where we've laid out the exact roadmap for that our members at Dropship Unlocked follow to build predictable high ticket UK e commerce businesses without all the overheads of a traditional business. Are you enjoying the podcast? We'd love to hear from you. Leave a comment or a review and we might feature it in an upcoming episode. And for detailed show notes and resources visit dropshipunlock.com podcast if you found value. In any episode of this podcast, please could you take just 10 seconds? Leave us a quick 5 star review on your favourite podcast app. It helps us more than you can imagine. And who knows, you might just hear your comments read out on the show. Thanks for being a part of our community. Your support helps us keep delivering new episodes to you every week. Now let's answer a question that we've had in from a listener of the podcast. Remember, if you've had any questions come up in your mind while watching or listening to today's episode, then simply comment beneath the YouTube video version of this episode and we'll answer it in the comments and we may also feature it in an upcoming episode. So that is exactly what Eddie G has done. So I'm going to put his question to you now, Louis. Eddie has asked, I'm ready to start a high ticket store, but how do you actually find the suppliers who will deliver the products to our customers? Yeah, it's a great question, Eddie, one we hear all the time and one that will absolutely guide you through inside the programme. But there's kind of three steps to this at like a, a high level overview of how this works. So you first start out by picking a clear niche using the criteria that we talked about throughout this episode. So suppliers only take you seriously when you're focused and you say, like, I'm operating in this niche or this kind of broad area of products, rather than coming in and saying I'm going to sell absolutely everything I can find, where a supplier will possibly say yes to me, that's not a good look. That looks a bit desperate to suppliers. So they want to know that you're somewhat specialised in their industry. So that's the first thing. You pick your niche. Then from there you identify your direct UK competitors. So you're looking at brands that are already selling the products that you want to sell. Then from there you just trace their suppliers, you reach out to those suppliers using our supplier contact scripts. There's a few things you want in place before you do that, before you go and just contact them and then burn your bridges and end up never being able to work with them again. So we guide you through all of that stuff inside the programme in terms of like, contracts, what to have on your site, what to say, what not to say and things like that. And then most high ticket suppliers are kind of the ones that power these established retailers. And so once you can tap into that network and you can get them on board, you'll then start to find that other suppliers will be desperate to work with you because you're working with all of their competitors and selling their products. So you start reaching out professionally at that point, showing them why you'd be a great partner. And yeah, we teach you all of that stuff with scripts, templates, checklists, pre launch checklists, pre supplier contact checklists, all the stuff so that you make sure you've cross the T's and dotted the eyes before you reach out and risk ruining a relationship before it's even started. It's a great question, Eddie. It's exactly the process that I followed that Lewis just laid out there to access my suppliers. And then I set up my own high ticket business to do 1.5 million in sales so far. Just above that, Lewis is modest with it, but he's done over 5 million himself, approaching 6, which we haven't mentioned in the episode. But that's the credibility that we need to get out there for why that process works. Okay, time now to highlight a recent review that we've had for the podcast. So a big thank you to Lucas Grace for leaving a YouTube comment after watching the three part series where you showcase how to build a new e commerce business from scratch. So Lucas clearly enjoyed that and he simply said this has been great. Well, there you go. Thank you very much for your review. Really appreciate that. We could link that repart How I Built a Shopify Business from Scratch episode below this episode if that would be helpful. So we'll pop that in the show notes as well. But if you found any value in today's episode, we'd really appreciate it if you could leave us a quick review. It only takes you a few seconds, but it means the world to us and it just helps keep this podcast going. We're always looking to hear your thoughts so we can shape the future of what we talk about in these episodes. And if you leave us a review, we might be able to feature your review in our next episodes. Thank you for joining us on this episode of the Dropship Unlocked podcast. We hope you are leaving with new insights and inspiration to fuel your entrepreneurial. Journey to kickstart your e commerce business. Head over to dropshipunlocked.com start. 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