A quick summary of my story is that I launched my website a few years back selling various items that range from POD items to baby items to pet supplies. Starting out, since I had design experience, to help offset my expenses I began building fully built dropshipping sites for people online.
Funny thing... their stores began to do better than mine.
Why? Because I thought certain strategies, plugins, etc; performed better with certain niches instead of using them all and molding them around your product. (For sports fans, it's similar to how good coaches adapt to their players strengths instead of forcing players to change their play style).
You can view ALL of my past Reddit posts here: https://beacons.ai/salesboostmedia
So - when it comes to apps, these are a few that I recommend.
Now, let me recommend some Shopify apps that have been game-changers for me:
Booster (Page Speed Optimizer): I can't stress enough how much this app improved my website's load times. It optimizes the customer's first visit and then stores the site in the browser cache, resulting in lightning-fast subsequent visits. This will play hand in hand with another app that I will recommend towards the end.
G: Variant Image + Color Swatch (Customization): This app is fantastic for giving your store a professional look. Customers can select colors, sizes, and quantities without leaving the homepage or product page, leading to higher average cart values. This is mostly in the case for clothing, but can be used for other items that have multiple color or size variants. A similar app to this is Swatch King, you can try both and decide which one you prefer but personally I like G more.
Avada SEO Suite: Site speed is crucial, and this app does wonders by optimizing image loading times without compromising quality. What it does is compress your image size by joining similar colors together without it even being noticeable that the quality has been compressed.
Candy Rack Upsell: This one is $30 per month, so if you can’t swing it then no worries, but from my experience I think it’s one of the best Upsell apps on the market currently. It offers upsell options on every page of your store and at checkout it uses AI to offer your customer an upsell option based on what is in their cart. One upsell per month and this app pays for it self.
Junip Product Reviews: From what I’ve used in the past, Junip is definitely a Top 3 product review app and will continue to be the on the I use for my stores. The integration is super easy and quickly matches up to your theme and branding after installing to your store. The only down side is that the Free Starter Plan only allows up to 50 orders and then it goes to $20 per month but if you are a store that is just starting out then the free plan will work and then if you notice that it’s helping generate sales then you can justify whether or not it’s worth paying for.
If you guys have any questions I’ll try my best to answer them. Any time I post I always get asked, so yes I do still build websites and off services so if you'd like to talk about any of that - feel free to chat with me!
Best of luck to all of you on your dropshipping journey.