In this solo motivational talk, Nathan Miller uses a simple success‑curve graph to explain why the vast majority of dropshippers abandon the business. He describes a typical trajectory: an initial high‑earning period (often after finding a winning product), followed by a sharp decline he calls the “Valley of Despair.” Most quit at this point because they cannot endure the downturn. Miller argues that the decisive factor is persistence: staying in dropshipping for at least two years dramatically raises the odds of eventual success. He frames entrepreneurship as inherently volatile—full of ups and downs—and stresses that enduring the hard phase, rather than setting short‑term income targets, is the simplest and most effective way to achieve lasting abundance.
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This graph right here kind of illustrates why most people quit when it comes to dropshipping, right? Because if you guys look at this graph, this is basically the success chart of basically in general, just the general person when they're doing e-com, the successful person. You know, usually they'll do it for a year, you know, have some decent results, probably they'll hit a slump, right? And then this is the pivotal moment, but usually they push through and they end up seeing that success, right? But most of you guys who are either, you know, thinking about quitting or in like a slump or something like that, you guys are here, right? You guys are here and it's obviously not a happy time. This is the Valley of Despair. This is when after you've had these super high highs, right? Like you've found like maybe a winning product, maybe you made it some, a little bit of money, you know, maybe like $50K in revenue or something like that. And you're like, oh my gosh, my life has completely changed forever. And then you go back to making nothing. Because something happened, the store died or something. So what makes most people quit is simply not pushing through. It's simply time, bro. Like, if you can make it past this point and do e-com for 2 years, do dropshipping for 2 years, right, you're gonna see such a higher percent of success, of abundance when it comes to this stuff, rather than if you just give yourself like, oh, I want to make X amount of money in this year. Because there's always going to be up and down. You're an entrepreneur, bro. Entrepreneurship is not this, it's this, right? It's very like up and down. You're always learning, you're going through failures and stuff. And so what really makes most people quit is what they do in the hard time, in this valley of despair. So if you push through, you're going to see success. If you don't push through that part, you're simply not. That's literally the simplest way you can put it. And yeah, that's why I would say 99% of people quit dropshipping.
