Nathan Miller warns against learning from e-commerce gurus whose strategies peaked around 2018. The industry evolves too fast for old playbooks to work. Instead, learn from active practitioners who experiment with new tools like AI and stay current with what actually works now.
Most of these gurus who are out there— technically I'm a guru now, but most of the gurus who are out here are freaking washed, bro. Like, if you're watching someone and they were dropshipping like, you know, in 2018, back in that time, they are probably not up to date when it comes to like the actual strategies and stuff it actually takes to become successful in this game. Because like I said, dropshipping, e-commerce, it's an ever-evolving thing. It's always changing. So what worked back then doesn't work now, right? Or is changing. And a lot of these people who, you know, these big names in the space who used to have— maybe they used to have stores and stuff, but they're not like selling anything now. They don't do e-com now and you're learning for them. Like, why are you learning from them if they're not currently succeeding in this space, right? That's why it's really important. If you're going to pick someone to learn from, you need to pick someone who's actually like in the game, like someone who's constantly trying to like not even just be in the game, but like they're trying to get better in the game because then they're ambitious, right? They're always learning new things. They're trying to get better. They're trying to learn the new techniques, the new AI, everything. You hitch your wagon to them because they are are the ones who are actually learning rather than the ones who are kind of stuck in the past and don't know what they're talking about.
