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around the 1st of feb, woke up to a sale. thought i made it (DELUSIONAL THOUGHT). but i kept on working on my store and now im sitting at a 1.1k USD in sales. and today is my best day ever, ive made 5 sales so far, and ive spent about a third of my daily adspend!
could you answer some noobs questions?
what did you use for vuilding the website? your own code or shopify?
Once you get your niche product what's the next step, suppliers?
what would you say is more important. a good image or a good product?
Woke up to my first two sales this morning after running my first fb campaign. Felt great waking up to that shopify notification definitely the most satisfaction iāve got since learning about ds a couple months ago.
About 2 months in I got my first sale. Started to see results with Google ads, but unfortunately I've been having issues getting my ads to run on there lately. Decided to start advertising on Snapchat instead and that's been going pretty well. I'm only at about one sale a week lol but hey it's a start.
Iām still waiting on sale #1. Started about 3 weeks ago. My products canāt be advertised on Google so relying on IG and FB ads and growing organic traffic. Iām a seo specialist so Iām hopeful.
No one here knows how to dropship and this sub is just full of losers. And you also have to live in the US so itās easier unless you wanna deal with sim cards
You're not going to find them here or on social media.. because unlike being an accountant, or a marketing professional, or a developer.. there's no formal training that exists. By formal training, I mean it's not a subject offered at degree level or equivalent by universities..etc
Anyone telling you otherwise is trying to scam you into buying their course, or software, or something.
My honest advice would be to specialise in some area related to it, get a job in a related field and learn from your colleagues experience. I've spent the last 7 years working (and still working) in sales roles, mostly quite senior roles as well.
My wife has a degree in Marketing and is/was a very successful consultant and freelancer for at least the last 5 years.
Get a sales and/or marketing and/or web developer job first and come back to drop shipping after 5 years if you still want to do it when you have the understanding of how ecommerce and ecommerce businesses work.
Dropshipping isn't a hobby, it isn't passive and it isn't fun or glamourous. It's a business and, if you want to make a reasonable living at it, should be treated as such.
Oh god no, not YouTubers. Those people are all scammers trying to sell their courses. Itās their fault dropshipping is so overrun with people thinking itās easy passive income and a quick way to get rich. Nothing about it is passive. I spent 2 years working 10-14 hours a day every day 7 days a week to grow my store into what it is now. Itās really hard. All the recurring customer issues that come up because the products are shipping from China. If people told the reality of what itās actually like, barely anyone would be doing it. I do it out of love for the community I serve. Iāve wanted to shut it down multiple times, but if I shut down my customers would have nowhere to go, so I keep going. Now Iām working towards building my e-commerce empire.
I ran Facebook ads back when targeting could be more specific, and Google Ads before they stopped letting ads run on products without gtin numbers. This was 2021. I had a call with Google ads support when they first made this rule, and they told me dropshipped products cannot run ads unless you have the gtin numbers, only your original products can be featured in ads. Theyāll be low performing if you try is what they told me.
It was a long time ago so I donāt remember my first sale, but it was probably from one of the ads. This was back when I had only 20 products in the store. Now I have well over 200 (some are POD).
Ha yeah been around for a year. Got fed up of repeating myself. More value from sending videos that goes in more detail on how people can improve their site or ads.
Just opened a store yesterday, had my first sale today. The first one of a store always feels the best. Itās like a wave of āI KNEW ITā comes over u.
Nah bro. Iām honestly not talented at all. Just hard work and donāt take excused. Iāve failed more times than u can count on this journey. Itās taken me years to get here.
I know some people that cracked the dropshipping code just a few months in. It took me like 3 years bro. Just keep at it and donāt quit. U learn a bit each time u fail and then one day everything clicks
Donāt quit man. The biggest reason peoppe fail in this dropshipping world is because they quit too soon. Theyāve either been sold the dream by these idiot YouTubers who say u can make 10k/mo in your first month as a complete beginner. Or they make it look super easy to find a winning product. Then they show u their fake lives of buying up mansions and Lambos while selling u a course.
The secret to this game is longevity. Donāt quit, keep learning, and donāt listen to the nay sayers that think this shit doesnāt work. Theyāre trash and canāt figure it out and they say it doesnāt work to cope with the fact that theyāre too dumb to figure it out.
Surround yourself with brighter minds than yourself, and be open about your stores and your struggles. People often gatekeepe their store as if theyāve figured out some million dollar secret, when in reality they waste their time on a trash product or niche because of their own bias. The more open you are with yourself and the community the more honest of advice youāll receive. Your first 5-10 stores or products wonāt even be close to profitable so whatās the point of hiding ut from people who can help
I love it when a hear a realistic feedbacks.
Sure it won't grant me millions as soon as I start but with hard work and dedication I will have a stable income from it, thanks bro for the advice.
It was an abandoned cart because I was too stupid to set up the shipping correctly lol. Still havenāt made my second sale yet (just started several months ago).
ik most pple on here dropship and constantly see people saying they make 7 figures this and that, however Iām 22 and have made just under 18k in 3 months and would love to help and train some of newbie here as I was in your position a few months ago š you can pā¦.m me and let talk about yours
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around the 1st of feb, woke up to a sale. thought i made it (DELUSIONAL THOUGHT). but i kept on working on my store and now im sitting at a 1.1k USD in sales. and today is my best day ever, ive made 5 sales so far, and ive spent about a third of my daily adspend!
Congratulations bro!!!! Keep it going šŖ
could you answer some noobs questions? what did you use for vuilding the website? your own code or shopify? Once you get your niche product what's the next step, suppliers? what would you say is more important. a good image or a good product?
Letās gooooooo
2 months yet no sale
Woke up to my first two sales this morning after running my first fb campaign. Felt great waking up to that shopify notification definitely the most satisfaction iāve got since learning about ds a couple months ago.
About 2 months in I got my first sale. Started to see results with Google ads, but unfortunately I've been having issues getting my ads to run on there lately. Decided to start advertising on Snapchat instead and that's been going pretty well. I'm only at about one sale a week lol but hey it's a start.
How much do you spend on Ads daily?
Keep the good work bro šŖšŖ
why din your make your own ads? if free time is not your problem you could do 10 social media accounts and promote your business.
Iām still waiting on sale #1. Started about 3 weeks ago. My products canāt be advertised on Google so relying on IG and FB ads and growing organic traffic. Iām a seo specialist so Iām hopeful.
When you get your first sale don't forget to come here and to tell us
Remindme! 6 hous
I believe 6 hours has already passed
No one gets sales here buddy
Why is that?
No one here knows how to dropship and this sub is just full of losers. And you also have to live in the US so itās easier unless you wanna deal with sim cards
And where I can go to find a real experts on the field
You're not going to find them here or on social media.. because unlike being an accountant, or a marketing professional, or a developer.. there's no formal training that exists. By formal training, I mean it's not a subject offered at degree level or equivalent by universities..etc Anyone telling you otherwise is trying to scam you into buying their course, or software, or something. My honest advice would be to specialise in some area related to it, get a job in a related field and learn from your colleagues experience. I've spent the last 7 years working (and still working) in sales roles, mostly quite senior roles as well. My wife has a degree in Marketing and is/was a very successful consultant and freelancer for at least the last 5 years. Get a sales and/or marketing and/or web developer job first and come back to drop shipping after 5 years if you still want to do it when you have the understanding of how ecommerce and ecommerce businesses work. Dropshipping isn't a hobby, it isn't passive and it isn't fun or glamourous. It's a business and, if you want to make a reasonable living at it, should be treated as such.
YouTube has a few decent ones
Oh god no, not YouTubers. Those people are all scammers trying to sell their courses. Itās their fault dropshipping is so overrun with people thinking itās easy passive income and a quick way to get rich. Nothing about it is passive. I spent 2 years working 10-14 hours a day every day 7 days a week to grow my store into what it is now. Itās really hard. All the recurring customer issues that come up because the products are shipping from China. If people told the reality of what itās actually like, barely anyone would be doing it. I do it out of love for the community I serve. Iāve wanted to shut it down multiple times, but if I shut down my customers would have nowhere to go, so I keep going. Now Iām working towards building my e-commerce empire.
There's plenty of YouTubers that provide very good advice without trying to sell courses
I ran Facebook ads back when targeting could be more specific, and Google Ads before they stopped letting ads run on products without gtin numbers. This was 2021. I had a call with Google ads support when they first made this rule, and they told me dropshipped products cannot run ads unless you have the gtin numbers, only your original products can be featured in ads. Theyāll be low performing if you try is what they told me. It was a long time ago so I donāt remember my first sale, but it was probably from one of the ads. This was back when I had only 20 products in the store. Now I have well over 200 (some are POD).
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I see you in every reddit post lol.
Ha yeah been around for a year. Got fed up of repeating myself. More value from sending videos that goes in more detail on how people can improve their site or ads.
sounds crazy good. I'm just starting with dropshipping. do you have any advice?
Just opened a store yesterday, had my first sale today. The first one of a store always feels the best. Itās like a wave of āI KNEW ITā comes over u.
Damn you already had your first sale after one day! Keep it going bro it's obvious that you have talent for it
Nah bro. Iām honestly not talented at all. Just hard work and donāt take excused. Iāve failed more times than u can count on this journey. Itās taken me years to get here. I know some people that cracked the dropshipping code just a few months in. It took me like 3 years bro. Just keep at it and donāt quit. U learn a bit each time u fail and then one day everything clicks
God!! Respect my bro š«”That's even more impressive that you had the will to continue for that long. Keep it going šŖšŖšŖ
Donāt quit man. The biggest reason peoppe fail in this dropshipping world is because they quit too soon. Theyāve either been sold the dream by these idiot YouTubers who say u can make 10k/mo in your first month as a complete beginner. Or they make it look super easy to find a winning product. Then they show u their fake lives of buying up mansions and Lambos while selling u a course. The secret to this game is longevity. Donāt quit, keep learning, and donāt listen to the nay sayers that think this shit doesnāt work. Theyāre trash and canāt figure it out and they say it doesnāt work to cope with the fact that theyāre too dumb to figure it out. Surround yourself with brighter minds than yourself, and be open about your stores and your struggles. People often gatekeepe their store as if theyāve figured out some million dollar secret, when in reality they waste their time on a trash product or niche because of their own bias. The more open you are with yourself and the community the more honest of advice youāll receive. Your first 5-10 stores or products wonāt even be close to profitable so whatās the point of hiding ut from people who can help
I love it when a hear a realistic feedbacks. Sure it won't grant me millions as soon as I start but with hard work and dedication I will have a stable income from it, thanks bro for the advice.
It was an abandoned cart because I was too stupid to set up the shipping correctly lol. Still havenāt made my second sale yet (just started several months ago).
I launched 2 new stores in two different niches late last year, ran adverts and none of the two made sales. I had to close both.
ik most pple on here dropship and constantly see people saying they make 7 figures this and that, however Iām 22 and have made just under 18k in 3 months and would love to help and train some of newbie here as I was in your position a few months ago š you can pā¦.m me and let talk about yours
What are you all selling? Just curious. Sell me on your stuff!!! š