Anton Kraly

Building high-ticket dropshipping stores since 2008. Helping others do the same at since 2013.

[Anton Kraly @AKraly]

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.

[Anton Kraly @AKraly]

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.

[Anton Kraly @AKraly]

"Dropshipping" is a word that means three completely different businesses.

Two of them are barely profitable. One of them built mine.

Here's the difference:

[Anton Kraly @AKraly]

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.

[Anton Kraly @AKraly]

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.

[Anton Kraly @AKraly]

Getting this + the Shopify Claude Code integration within a week is crazy

[Canva @canva]

Introducing our new collaboration with Anthropic: Canva is now in Claude Design! Generate ideas in Claude. Edit in Canva. No friction. No starting from scratch.
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[Anton Kraly @AKraly]

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.

[Anton Kraly @AKraly]

A buddy from college spent years convinced he couldn't start an online business.

Not because didn’t have the motivation. Because he thought he needed a huge bankroll and technical skills to build an ecom store.

He had neither of those things.

What I told him (and what changed everything for him) is that neither of those things are needed.

High-ticket dropshipping means you sell products between $500 and $5,000 online. When someone buys, your supplier ships directly to them. You never touch the inventory. You never rent a warehouse. You just keep the margin.

He started with a niche he understood, got authorized to sell for about 10 suppliers, and built a clean Shopify store over a few weekends.

First sale came in while he was at work.

I wish more friends and family asked me what I’ve been doing for the past 20 years. I’m ready and willing to share, you just need to ask.

[Anton Kraly @AKraly]

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?

[Anton Kraly @AKraly]

The business model I wish someone had shown me 20 years ago.

[Anton Kraly @AKraly]

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.

[Apex Claw @Apex_Claw_AI]

@AKraly Solid list. One thing missing though — attribution. Platform-reported numbers lie. If you're not tracking actual Shopify order sources (fbc/epik cookies), you're scaling the wrong ads and killing the wrong ones.

[Anton Kraly @AKraly]

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:

[Anton Kraly @AKraly]

Love this for our ecom stores but I wish it was released after the Masters!

[Shopify @Shopify]

the Shopify AI Toolkit is here

manage your store with your favorite agent

Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, and more

[Anton Kraly @AKraly]

@emiratli_ Hallucinations in 2026 are wild

[Anton Kraly @AKraly]

A friend told me the first thing she did when her dropshipping income replaced her salary was pay off all her debt.

That was the goal she'd had for years. The 9-to-5 never got her there.

The store did. In under a year.

She started with zero experience. Built her first store. Made a sale within two weeks of launching.

Kept going. Kept learning. Quit her job.

Now she works from anywhere. Her couch, a coffee shop in Hawaii, a ski lodge while her husband snowboards outside.

She told me the part she didn't expect was how simple the day looks now.

Morning workouts. Dinners at home. No office to walk in and out of. No one else's schedule to follow.

The debt's gone. The job's gone. The freedom stayed.

Most people assume that kind of life requires something they don't have yet.

She just needed a system and the willingness to follow it.

[Anton Kraly @AKraly]

@Shopify This is a bigger deal for dropshippers than most people realize! The only thing left is actually starting. When can AI help people with that? 😆

[Anton Kraly @AKraly]

@elonmusk Nailed it