I've been researching and working on dropshipping, acquiring knowledge and a detailed understanding of how things work and what I need to do once I'm in the middle of it, but I still struggle to understand what to start with. My budget is tight. 100$ max. I can reinvest everything I make for a month or so but that's all I have to start with.

Where do I get started practically and how do I spend my money in the right place to get into it?

P.s: I do plan to do organic marketing until I can push out a handful of sales enough to reinvest back and try for better strategies

So I have looked for hours, and I haven't a clue on where to start, and I have literally a $0 budget, so that really doesn't help, so can anyone give me tips on how to start on nothing?

How much money do I need to start a store? Does it depend on the product/niche? Or is this a low cost/entry type business?

and about how much money would i need to start to scale my store

Hey guys I'm looking to start dropshipping on shopify.

A bit about me. I have never owned a business or ecommerce business.

I have no clue about dropshipping and I am looking to do research before i start.

I was wondering have you guys got any Advice for a complete noob!

I haven't even started my free trial or thought of a name or found a product yet.

Hoping to get some advice as I have seen videos of people make thousands a day in a week... which is a load of crap. I no it it's going to take me a good couple of years to get going. Any advice would be brilliant. Where should I look for products I have been thinking of oberlo.

Many thanks.

Like really how many people manage go make sells and profits out of it.

I tried ebay and it wouldn't even let me list an item and i tried getting in contact with them and nothing.

So I'm gonna risk it, but i really want to know how likely am i to succeed because google says its only betwen 5-10% success rate.

Also, how much money could i make as a beginner and what tips would you give me?

Hey everyone, I’m a complete beginner to Shopify and dropshipping. Me and two of my cousins have decided to give it a serious shot and want to launch our first store within the next 10–15 days. We’re based outside the U.S. and plan to target the American market (mainly through TikTok ads) and earn in dollars — since the conversion gives us a good edge.

Here’s what we’ve figured out so far:

Interested in viral, useful products that are visually appealing for TikTok

Targeting TikTok ads mainly (maybe IG Reels later)

Want to focus on 1–product or niche-based store for simplicity

Still working out how we’ll handle payments and LLC stuff (some say we need it, others say we can start without it)

I’m the one leading the project because I’ve done the most research, but honestly, we’re all starting from scratch.

Questions:

1. What’s the best product strategy right now — go with trendy/viral or evergreen problem-solvers?

2. How much should we budget realistically for ads to test a single product?

3. Do we need to set up an LLC to sell to U.S. customers or can we wait until we scale?

4. Any advice on TikTok creatives or how to find examples that are working right now?

5. And lastly, what mistakes should we avoid as complete beginners?

I’d appreciate any tips, personal experiences, or brutal truths. We’re serious about making this work and learning the right way.

Thanks in advance!

Hey everyone, I just finally got myself onto Shopify dropshipping which Ive wanted to do for over a year now. My website is www.electricdream.store

Looking for any tips and tricks going forward to increase sales (I haven’t got any sales yet as it was made about a day and a half ago)

I’ve been wanting to start a dropshipping business for a while but I’m unsure on where to start, how to design my store, what products to use or anything. Is it even worth starting a business nowadays? From “over saturation” And would you consider this something you would do for a long time like until retirement?

Hello So I'm 20. Work at a supermarket. Make just under 1k a month. I have limited time, parents house is on the market and i feel like I should be fending for myself by now. Only problem is on this wage and in the expensive area I'm in I can't do that.

So here are the ideas i've come up with. I can teach myself marketing by starting a dropshipping niche store. Learn fb ads, email marketing, website design through shopify. I currently have about 500 gbp a month to pour into ads.

Now, my parents are pressuring me to get an apprenticeship in engineering. I studied this at college and hated it.

and even if I fail my store atleast i'll have learn't some skills I could maybe get a job doing marketing? I'd like to hear your opinion.

Can I make this store profit 2k a month in a year? is that realistic? and if I fail do you think I could get hired as a marketer if i show them a portfolio of all the ads/marketing i taught myself? I'd say I have about between 6-12 month to get myself on my feet before im forced into a engineering apprenticeship.

I'd like you hear your thoughts

Basically what the title says. I’m a student based in the US and I would like advice from you all how I can start it. I did watch a little bit of videos and I wanted seek advice if you all have any on how I can start and what kind of products I should have on my page and how to do the advertising. I do have about 200-300$ saved up for this purpose and my ultimate goal isn’t to make money fast as possible but in a healthy way where I can sustain it and learn with the process. I hope you all can provide some valuable insights and share your experiences.

Im very new to dropshipping. I've created my store and set everything up and I've started organically marketing it on Tiktok, Insta reels, and Youtube shorts. Can I have some feedback on the site and marketing?

website - shopvitaliq.myshopify.com (don't have a domain yet)

socials (insta, yt, tiktok): @ vitaliqblend

What do you think of my website? Does it look shady/scammy? Would you trust it and buy from it? Is it too boring? Is it easy to navigate?

And for the marketing, i've only started making videos a few days ago and so far I haven't gotten much engagement from any of the platforms so i'd appreciate any tips suggesting how I can boost my videos preformance. I try to do my best, I copy my competitors videos almost exactly and I've also tried using SEO. Is there anything that im missing or could do better?

I know my product is very saturated and i've only realized that after already setting up the store. Should I keep going with this product and wait a little longer or should I move on from it?

Thanks! Let me know constructive critics.

I have ~1k in stocks and ~10k in savings account. I have near to none knowledge. Should I start a dropshipping store? Or do I need to have more money to start? And how could I learn this: what books, courses or videos do you recommend?

As the title suggests I'm looking for ways to start dropshipping. I've done a little research into the subject but naturally, I'm an overthinker and it's holding me back from actually taking the plunge and getting started. Can anyone give me some tips on the best way to actually get started? What should I sell? Should I use Shopify? Do I need a logo? I initially wanted to do this as a means of secondary income but as I said earlier I think I'm just overthinking it big time. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Been dropshipping for 7 years. Made every mistake possible - burned thousands on bad products, bad ads, and worse advice.

Here’s a step-by-step FREE blueprint to help you avoid all that, and actually give yourself a shot at winning:

Step 1: Don’t Choose Products Emotionally

Scrolling TikTok and saying “this looks cool” isn’t a strategy. Most viral products are already saturated.

👉 Instead, start with market signals from real ad data.

Use the Meta Ads Library to check which products are actively being scaled. Look for:

• Ads that run for 2+ weeks

• Multiple ad variations (shows scaling)

• Products that solve a real problem

If you have the budget, there are tools that help you see what ads are actually scaling (daily spend, launch dates, etc.), which can save you time and money by avoiding dead products. (Not naming tools upfront - don’t want this to look like just promo. Just trying to share real value first.)

⚠️ One of the biggest beginner mistakes is refusing to spend $50/month on a solid research tool, while burning thousands on untested, unproven products. Totally counterintuitive.

Once you found your product, don't overthink the supplier part : just use Aliexpress through the app DSERS on Shopify, i'm still using it to test new products.

Step 2: Pick One Country, Not All

If you target “Worldwide” or all English-speaking countries, your *pixel will get confused.
Your CPM might be cheap, but your conversion rate will tank.

➡️ Instead: pick one country where the product isn’t yet saturated.
Germany, France, and Denmark are great starting points - less competition, and very high buying power.

Bonus tip: Use Google Translate or Shopify's free translate plugin to localize your site in under 1 hour. Stop thinking that you need to speak a language to sell your products !

*pixel = tool used by Facebook to track people that clic on your ad, add to cart, buy etc. It is also the tool that looks for the best audience for you product.

Step 3: Launch Smart, Not Blind

Don’t spend $200+ hoping it’ll work.

Start with $50–100/day on Meta Ads. Use broad targeting, test 1–4 creatives.
Track everything:

• ROAS (Most important KPI)

• ATC

• CPM/CPC

If after $100 you have no sales and %ATC less than 6% → kill the product and move on.

Your job isn’t to “make” a product work. It’s to find one that already works.

Step 4: Don’t Overbuild Your Website

Your site should load fast and do ONE thing:
Make people click "Buy Now".

Use a clean Shopify theme.
Use clear copywriting, high-quality images and GIF's, and remove distractions.

Skip the fancy animations and 15-section landing pages. Focus on clarity.

(They are lot of great youtube videos on how to build a shopify landing page).

Step 5: Iterate or Die

This is where 90% quit.

But here’s the truth:
Even the best marketers test 10–15 products before finding a winner.

The only difference between you and them?
They don’t test blind. They use data to increase their odds.

Track everything. Learn from what flops. And when something starts converting, double down.

Let me know if you want a breakdown of winning ad structures, how to analyze your competitors’ landing pages, or how to calculate product costs.

Last Thing : Please stop watching 100 youtube videos on how to start and how to do things, just do something, and you'll have time to iterate after.

Good luck - and remember, the people who win are the ones who keep testing smart.

(Alright, if you’ve read this far and want to see what products are actually scaling - I built FBSPY for that exact reason. Worth checking.)

Hey everyone! Instead of coming by and dropping some random tips, I thought it might be useful to show you a month to month playbook of my dropshipping journey. I started back in January, didn't know what I was doing and lost money. Now I'm making almost $25k a month in revenue with 40% profits. In this post I've attached a screenshot of my earnings every single month since the beginning and will give a brief outline of what I did each month to grow. Hope this helps!

BTW, this is with a niche store (sorry not giving out the link!)

January - $643: I had no idea what I was doing. I heard about dropshipping on Reddit and decided to try it. Initially I did a free + shipping offer on a baseball cap and I got some decent sales but lost money because of ad spend. Was using Facebook ads only at the time.

February -$3,000: After running the free + shipping offer, people started buying other things on my store. It became clear to me what items people wanted, so I ran single image ads to them and this greatly boosted sales. I also began doing work on SEO this month. That included writing small blog articles, rewriting product descriptions, etc.

March - $6,900: My SEO from the prior work started to pick up so I began getting free traffic from Google searches which increased sales. I also started and Instagram page to build an audience related to my niche that I occasionally promote products to.

April - $13,200: I was able to double my revenue during this month. My previous job was working as a programmer, so I wrote a complex web crawler that search the web to find me winning products. Saved me tons of time and allowed me to test a lot more products. I found some new winners this way which increased sales. I also began running re-targeting facebook campaigns at this point and learning more about effective advertising.

May - $18,400: I added an upsell app to my store which increased my average order value from $20 to $45. I also discovered a new "sub-niche" for my store when browsing results from my web scraper bot. This allowed me to target a whole new audience and product more sales.

June - $15,800: Sales decreased a little bit this month. This was largely because I had recently moved and didn't have a ton of free time to work on the business. Things like being slow to answer customers, not optimizing ads, etc. can all add up to a revenue loss! Totally my fault.

July - $25,000: My best month yet! After a loss of revenue in June, I decided to crack down. I scaled all my Facebook ads up a ton and it didn't end up hurting my conversion cost. I also found another "sub-niche" that contained multiple winning products. I think my lesson here was that I was previously too scared to mess with my winning ads, which included scaling. It obviously worked out in my favor when I decided to get out of my comfort zone!

Key Takeaways:

1. Focus on multiple sources of revenue. I have a lot of sales coming from places like Pinterest, Google searches, my Instagram account, etc. Try not to get caught up in only doing Facebook ads.

2. If you have a skill, use it. Anything you can do that others can't will get you ahead of everyone else who's doing the same thing. In my case, I'm a programmer and was able to create the product finding bot.

3. Find winning products. 80% of your revenue will come from 20% of your products! This means you need to find that handful of best sellers that you can rely on to bring you sustainable income. Test, test and test some more. Browse other successful stores to see what they sell.

4. Don't be lazy. It takes hard work and thinking outside of the box! You saw what happened in June when I slacked off. Keep pushing forward and the results will be endless. I could easily maintain the business spending 15 minutes a day on it, but it took a lot of hours to get there.

I hope this helps! 📷🙂

Edit: I don't sell courses so please don't PM me asking! I'm always open to answering questions in the comments so it helps others too.

Hey guys!

I want to start my own dropshipping business, but first i want to learn everything there is about it. I don't want to rush into it, i wanna take my time, take it slowly and hopefully succeed.

As i believe there are many scam youtube videos of people just trying to sell their course, i would rather ask you people who actually succeeded in this and not brag about it, but are still willing to share some knowledge here and there.

How did you guys start? What articles/books did you read before you started out and during, to keep a successful business going?

I would really appreciate any links, tips, etc...?

Kind Regards

hey guys, I'm new to drop shipping and ecommerce and trying to find my way to get in this business. Probably I would start drop shipping some products manufactured in China to US, UK, Canada, AUS and EU regions.

I'm currently based in South East Asia but I want to run it like a brand based in US, so when setting up Shopify store should I put the location as where I am now or I can leave it as in US base? How is it gonna affect me later when it comes to payments, legal issues, shipping or anything? I'm thinking long term to build a sustainable brand though.