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Build a Dropshipping Empire From Scratch [Proven Blueprint] (Udemy.com)

Starting with just a Few Dollars Create Your Own Successful Drop Ship Business by Following the Step-by-Step System

4.2
9,315 reviews

Created by: Theo McArthur

Last updated September 2026

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Theo McArthur's course is a 6.8 hour, nine section walkthrough of starting a dropshipping store. It runs from choosing niches and products to finding suppliers, building the store, launching it and scaling up. There is a short block on sourcing from AliExpress and Banggood, and a closing set of store critiques. The stated audience is people brand new to dropshipping, or people who tried and stalled. The requirements are light: basic computer skills, a text editor and a few spare hours a week.

Reviewers like the patient, plain-spoken teaching. One calls it truly a beginners' course and says the instructor helps with choosing a niche and what to sell. The complaints are specific. The Facebook audience insights screen did not match what one student saw, another wanted more on Facebook ads and email setup, and one found some on-screen graphics tiny. A 2-star reviewer says the course skips returns, passing orders to suppliers and finding wholesalers who will actually dropship. Another objects to the recommended Spocket app.

The course was refreshed in September 2026 and has 47,437 students, but it dates from 2015, and one 2025 reviewer calls it completely out of date. It holds a 4.2 average from 9,315 ratings, with 5,406 of them five stars and only 268 at one or two stars. Treat it as a solid first orientation, then check current platform screens and supplier choices before spending real money.

Best forComplete beginners who want one start-to-finish plan for a first dropshipping store, from picking a niche to launch.
Skip it ifPeople who want current ad tactics, a deep Facebook ads lesson, or worked examples of returns and supplier orders.

Pros

  • Patient teaching that reviewers call simple to follow, with the instructor sharing experiences from building sites
  • Helps beginners pick a niche and products before touching any store settings
  • Covers the full path: suppliers, store setup, launch and scaling, in about 6.8 hours
  • Closes with about an hour of store critiques after the launch and scaling lessons

Cons

  • Facebook ads and email setup feel thin to reviewers, and one could not find the audience insights menu
  • One reviewer calls it out of date for 2025, and another objected to the recommended Spocket app
  • Little on returns, passing orders to suppliers or finding wholesalers who will dropship
This is truly a beginners' course. The instructor also helps you figure out your niche and what you may want to sell on your page.
Melissa Jordan, a student

Fits true beginners. It asks only for basic computer skills, a text editor and a few spare hours a week.

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What you will learn

  • Choose the right type of products to sell with the dropship model
  • Quickly find the right suppliers to dropship for you and know which suppliers to avoid
  • Set up the 'perfect' website for drop shipping
  • Put in place powerful strategies to turn your website into a sales machine
  • Launch your new website like a rocket, from scratch
  • Grow your dropship income and build an entire dropship empire

Course content

9 sections · 75 lectures · 6.8 hours of video 10 articles

  1. 1Introduction 2 free previews3 lectures · 7 min
  2. 2Choosing Niches and Products 1 free preview13 lectures · 1.2 hours
  3. 3Setting up Your Drop Ship Store13 lectures · 1.2 hours
  4. 4Finding Suppliers to Drop Ship for You9 lectures · 35 min
  5. 5Make Your Store 'Rock'!10 lectures · 47 min
  6. 6Launch and Kick Start Your New Store8 lectures · 53 min
  7. 7Drop Shipping from AliExpress and Banggood5 lectures · 20 min
  8. 8Important Lessons and Resources9 lectures · 46 min
  9. 9Store Critiques5 lectures · 57 min

Who it is for

The instructor says it suits

  • This course is for you if you are brand new to drop shipping. It's also for you if you've tried drop shipping in the past but not been successful

What you need before you start

  • You will need basic computer skills
  • The motivation to put in the required effort
  • Some sort of text editor, such as Notepad or similar
  • A few spare hours per week

How it compares

Against the other 148 rated Udemy courses in E-Commerce on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.2 out of 5higher than 18% of them
  • Reviews9,315#3 of 149 by number of reviews
  • Length6.8 hourslonger than 68% of them
  • Last updatedSeptember 2026more recently than 97% of them

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Course Description

Ready to get serious about your income? The dropshipping model is still a highly profitable way of selling physical products online.  Follow along with me as I guide you step-by-step to creating your own dropship empire.

Copy my method and you will not only be able to create your own successful dropship websites, but you will also be able to do it for paying clients as well if you wish to.

Launch Your First Dropship Website in 14 Days or Less and Build up Your Sales and Profits Until You Reach Your Goals

  • Learn the specific rules for choosing what to sell with the dropshipping model

  • Discover how to quickly find a supplier to drop ship for you

  • Learn the low cost and easy way to get your dropship website set up

  • Get automatically set up to accept credit card payments even if you don't live in the US

  • Learn the right way to set up your website for tons of sales (most site owners are not doing this stuff)

  • Launch your website like a rocket - from scratch

  • Scale up your dropship business from a part-time income to a full-time income, or a lot more!

A complete blueprint covering every single part of the equation

This course does not simply cover some of the things you need to do in order to succeed with dropshipping. It covers everything from start to finish and assumes that you know nothing at all.  Billions of dollars are being earned by people just like you, and you can be taking a share of that. After completing this course you will be better informed than almost all new drop shippers. You will know the true 'secrets' to choosing what to sell and how to sell it.

Course Content and Overview

Created for you if you are brand new to drop shipping, or if you have tried it already and struggled.  The course contains 87 lectures which are mainly over-the-shoulder demonstrations and videos. Along with downloadable PDF's, and resources.

We begin by following a proven process to choose the right type of products to sell. Then we look at how you can easily find the right suppliers to dropship for you.

Once we've completed that part of the process, we move on to getting your website set up using simple, but powerful strategies that can generate tons of new customers and sales.

The next part of the process is all about launching your website with a bang. We do this entirely from scratch and with a budget of around $20. You will also learn some highly effective launch techniques that are entirely free.

Finally, we move onto scaling up. You will learn how to build your dropship revenue quickly and if you wish to, grow an entire drop ship empire!

Fully covered by our 100% no questions asked 30-day money-back guarantee

Enroll today and get started. In just a couple of weeks from now, you could be running your first successful dropshipping store
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Instructor Details

Theo McArthur

My name's Theo McArthur, and I've been working online since 1995. I left my job and went full-time online in 2001. Teaching here on Udemy is probably the most satisfying thing I do. Being able to help others to learn life-changing techniques and business models.

Over the last 15 years or so, I've created and marketed many digital e-learning products and have also worked extensively in blogging and affiliate marketing.

I have always preferred to have multiple business interests, so I started selling on Amazon in the spring of 2013.  Previous to that, I had never sold any physical products online. Today I also run my own independent e-commerce websites.

I'm still an affiliate marketer. However, I always wanted to sell my own products too, and Amazon was the obvious place to get started.

Starting on Amazon without the guidance of an experienced seller can be tough, and the courses I took myself were not complete and were missing certain vital parts of the 'puzzle.' I learned more through trial and error than anything else, and that's what prompted me to create a step-by-step blueprint to success on Amazon.

A year after starting on Amazon, I set up my independent e-commerce store to build an asset that was my own and could potentially be sold in the future.

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Reviews

4.2

9,315 ratings on Udemy

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By Benjamin Shapira on 11/27/2025

Not useful at all. Spocket, the tutorial's preferred app, has extremely poor ratings and is very risky to use. I asked for refund on the very same day of purchase but did not get it, though I only viewed 15% of the course, abandoning it as soon as I realized Spocket was involved.

By Amanda Constable on 11/21/2020

The pace, delivery, content and voice are all working for me at the moment, so thumbs up here.

By Morgen Bardell on 11/14/2020

Everything so far as been really easy to keep up with and everything explained really wel, things are taken slow and gone over so no stone left unturned, rest enjoying the course!!!

By Katrina Gonsorick on 11/14/2020

A lot of information about nothing actually useful. Very vague lessons, not enough in depth material

By Donna duBois on 11/7/2020

The course is well organized

By Tony Katsikas on 11/7/2020

Simple and easy to follow

By Cecelia on 11/7/2020

Instructor is sincere and knowledgeable on the subject. She explains in simple ways that I. can understand. I believe by following her methods, I will succeed in e-commerce business.

By Shannon on 10/25/2020

Overall the course is informative. I thought the shipping section didn't cover enough ground. For example, setting shipping by price or by weight. Where did you get the costs for shipping by price? How did you come up with that? Additionally, this site needs to be updated. Many times you are on Shopify and it doesn't match the current pages any longer. And, how do you get from the theme section to uncheck the sale tag. Again, the pages are different now. So that is a bit hard to follow.

By Roselle Aspinall on 10/23/2020

I love Theo's way of training. This is my second course and already I am learning a lot. Thanks Theo

By Lalit kumar on 10/20/2020

it was so helpful.

By James Covey on 10/6/2020

Good instruction on finding your audience. Step by step guidance.

By Andrew Ahn on 10/2/2020

So far yes, I actually like the short format, i.e. shorter viodeos, centred around a particular point.
I think the lectures could do with a concise text overview, but that may be just me, as |I am using to reading and implementing, whereas the modern trend is towards videos.
I do however like, as in really appreciate, how each lecture builds on the next, for example, everytime he codes in public void, he talks through it, explains what he is doing, what those words mean in the context etc.
I find that really helpful, and purely because of that repetition, I am bumping my review up to4. 5 stars.

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Overall Score : 84 / 100

Build a Dropshipping Empire From Scratch [Proven Blueprint]
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  • Video Duration: icon 6.8h
  • Price: $19.99
  • Provider: icon Udemy
  • Updated: icon September 2026
  • Level: All Levels All Levels
  • Language: icon English
  • Certificate: icon Yes
  • Lectures:75 in 9 sections
  • Students:47,400
  • Subtitles:2 languages
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