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?

I've just gotten into drop shipping and a lot of sources online say to drop ship via Shopify. I am cool with that however a lot of my friends tell me that drop shipping on Shopify is dead and the store won't do as well as it could of like 4 years ago. Let me know if this is true and also let me know about any other sites I could try drop shipping on. Lastly, reply to this post if you have any suggestions on a product I can drop ship on. Like I said I am just getting into it and it is hard to find a niche product people will buy that also has good profits. I was thinking cologne, but let me know if I should go a different route.

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?

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

Was researching things to start my Shopify store and started to come across some people that were saying that it was dead, and that the gold rush days were over.

Is this relatively speaking true, or is it just salty people making comments?

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 am doing this because I feel the gurus are ripping people off selling courses. I didn't do the basic 5$ adset on facebook and then hoped I got lucky.
I am not here to sell a course. I do not have one. And I am not planning to make one.

Before this, I also created an android app (free) myself and promoted it to 4.5 million downloads without any advertising.

Currently I am creating a Shopify App for email marketing www.emailwish.com It's not ready yet.

Since I realized it's not something I could handle since I was doing it solo. There are so many things to do and you get bombarded with ideas and you got to do only a few. Email marketing was something i ignored completely since I didn't have time to learn something new

Edit: In 2018-2019 I made 200k in sales In 2019-2020 I made 300k in sales

I’m interested to hear opinions when there’s other options, especially woocommerce with Wordpress.

I see time and time again about people being banned, or funds being held up etc, and if you want a 3rd party payment processor you have to pay fees to shopify, and your processor.

Woo commerce has almost unlimited options, and don’t take their own fee, you only pay your processor. I now only pay 1.9% with next day payouts for orders before 5pm.

In terms of design and functionality, you can also achieve anything thig with Wordpress + Woocommerce, with no monthly subscription or application fees.

Is it an accessibility thing?

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

I know many people have made serious money from it but is it worth it for someone who doesn’t have much money to start of with and isn’t that big on social media? Can you do a lot with the basic subscription? Thanks in advance

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.

Hi, I'm new to dropshipping and I'm not sure whats the best way to go about it. I opened a Shopify account, and I've been watching videos but am getting mixed responses. Is AutoDs a good way to do it, or is there better apps to go through?

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.

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?

Just curious, thank you!

If so, what’s the key to stand out and not fail like so many people I’ve seen? And if not, what could be done to make it viable again?

Hi r/dropship/

I wanted to take some time out of my night to create a quick post that might help out some struggling store owners. I've started my store a few months ago and it's been a crazy ride. I realized that the success I've had with my stores aren't that typical. After my last post, I've gotten a lot of people asking for me to review their Shopify store. I took a look at a few of them but honestly, 90% of them had the same continuous mistake. Let's get right into it.

Here's everything in video form: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dqGRDgJ5e0 I highly recommend you both watch the video and read this post for full insight.

Number 1. Understand that if drop shipping was easy, everyone would be doing it. Shopify isn't easy, and stop expecting huge results so quickly. In most cases, stores takes months or even years until they really blow up. If you're fortunate enough, you might pick up some golden products and utilize all aspects of marketing perfectly, and your store will blow up quickly.

Only a small % of shopify stores are truly successful in the long term. Yeah, some stores may have a little spike here and there in sales but that's nothing to get hyped over. Spikes are normal. But the more important question to ask yourself, is your store optimized for a long-term business? Will it be making consistent sales for years to come?

Number 2. WAY too many stores are going into saturated niches along with overused products. People see success with stores such as MVMT, Lord Timepieces, Fashion Nova, with their watch lines and apparel stores, so they try to replicate it. The thing is, pretty much 90% of shopify stores are watch/apparel stores/bracelet/accessories (you get the message) store. Step out of your comfort zone and start a store no one else hasn't or at least don't go into a such populated niche, UNLESS you're a pro at marketing and know how to run successful online stores obviously.

Number 3. You import too many products that don't relate to each other, you need to keep a theme. As you look at these successful shopify stores, you see that they all have their own style and theme. Their products all serve a meaning and are not just there because they saw a bunch of good reviews on aliexpress.

Number 4. You're not utilizing Instagram influencers, but if you are, picking the wrong audience. People make the mistake of starting on Facebook ads first. The thing with starting out on facebook ads first is that you have nothing to go off of. You're paying $5 or however much a day to market towards an audience that you don't even know will like your product or not. So set up a pixel, get out an Instagram influencer ad, and with the sales, you get from that, your pixel will become super smart and know the audience that your product attracts. Then with the pixel, create a custom audience and retarget a facebook ad towards that audience. If you're still confused, check out this vid where I go into more detail. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dqGRDgJ5e0

Number 5. Not utilizing apps - urgency, killer deals, check out. Basically, you're not doing your research on apps. If you're not willing to spend time on researching which apps are out there to help bring you sales, just quit. Apps are a huge part of stores. Look for apps that add urgency. Have a killer deal using discount codes. Also look for apps that make your checkout page more user-friendly and welcoming.

Number 6. No creativity - same themes, images, no logos, store name. Simple, everyone's using the same images from aliexpress and themes from Shopify. Stand out and use something different.

Number 7. Leaving titles, description and themes the same. Again, self-explanatory. When you import your products from Ali, edit them in oberlo and make everyone look better. Get rid of the stores logo and everything else that may make your picture less professional.

Number 8. Marketing. The thing with marketing is that most shopify store owners have no clue what they're doing. Do some research, take a course, or get a mentor who can guide you on how to market your store or products.

Number 9. Giving up too early. This is the biggest reason. People nowadays are too spoiled and impatient. Don't give up if you don't get sales for a week. It's normal, some stores don't get sales for months. Just keep at it. We all are fortunate enough to run an online store virtually without having any inventory. How can you complain? Don't give up but instead, see what you're doing wrong and try your best to fix it.

I'll be open to do some store reviews, just shoot me a message with your store asking what I should look over. ** IT'D BE HELPFUL if you send over some information first before asking me to review your store. As another post on reddit said, send over your stats for the last 30 days so we can see what you need to work on.

* Average Daily Traffic
* Bounce Rate
* Conversion Rate
* Abandoned Cart Value
* Average Product Value
* Average # of items per Order
* % New Visitors
* % New Customers
* Duration between repeat purchases
* % discounts given to total sales

That's all I got for today's post. Hope this gave you a little insight on why stores fail so quickly. Thanks guys.

Once again, Here's everything in video form: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dqGRDgJ5e0 I highly recommend you both watch the video and read this post for full insight.

No way and never believe if any one says that shopify dropship is dead.

[Updated 2024]

Now, to be honest dropshipping with shopify platform has changed a lot and like any otherbusiness model, it will keep on evolving.The important things is that the core principles are still the same. Now let’s understand some basics:

QUE 1: Why do 95% of Shopify Store Fail?

• That’s unfortunately a fact. 95% of Shopify based dropship businesses fail in the first 30 days.Problem is, people, start with the same old formula that use to work in 2010 i.e just put anything from websites like Aliexpress or Amazon/Walmart and it use to work like charm.Now those days are gone and people are cautious on what they are buying especially if coming from China.

• Traffic: The best way to sell on your Shopify store is via Facebook ads. Unless you have some existing traffic source (like your own list, youtube channel or popular content) you need to buy traffic, and FB ads is on the top (in terms of cost vs profitability). The issue is, that FB ads for newbies are getting complicated, and the ROI is not positive immediately. It has become a game of patience and consistent monitoring of ads. Also, IOS 14 update (as in January 2022) for ads also changed the game. Implementation of new rules like verifying domain name, adding even based on URL and verifying pixel on different pages etc confuses you a lot and most of the advertisers don’t even work on this and eventually cannot track the impact of their ads properly.

• Products: There’s a popular saying that ‘not everything is marketable’. So once you come up with your own product idea, chances are, that products has been oversold via ads (if it came from Aliexpress) or fail to sell even a single unit. Because the way wanna be dropshippers research product is same i.e going to aliexpres or Amazon or using some software that shows them a best seller and pushes them to sell the same product. Common sense is, if product is already a best seller then how would you be able to sell it more? Chances are it’s been sucked up till last penny (in terms of profitability).

• Buying cheap stores from Fiverr/flippa etc: There are smart sellers from all over the world and they put in a so called ‘readymade’ million dollars generating store on website like fiverr and flippa , selling the whole thing for $10-$50 a pop. Why would some sell something for so cheap which is so profitable? (common sense 101).

So what is the right way to create a successful (fail proof Shopify store)?

Simply put, there are 2 ways. I have reserached and implemented both of them. One is for the newbie who has no experience and want to start their dropship journey (I followed this between 2013–2015) and second one is for a seasoned marketeer who have some experience and has seen few sales in past but now wants to do amazing with Shopify dropshipping (the one I am doing now [since 2015]).

Startegy 1: If you want to start Shopify dropship business or make less than $5000/mo from your current Shopify based dropship business.

Step by step process:

A) Product Research: Go to Ali Express and search for products under $2 in price (with free shipping). So typically you’ll get lots of gag gifts and key chains. Both of them could be super sellers based on the story behind them. Like back in the days I’ve sold tons of ‘GOT’ (Games of throne) themed keychains. Same way every year there’s some new super hit movie or series or even based on which the Chinese sellers crete these keychains. Now, if you use the series name in your shopify product listings, chances are that you’ll get IP copyright notice, so never use the name of the actual movie/series. The same way you can go with political products like something based on arms (Republicans love this kind of stuff) or something related to trump or any other politicians as opposition supporters would buy it happily. Just some idea.

B) Pricing: Always look for products under $2 on Ali (I’ve sold tons of $0.40 keychains and gag gifts) and price them at $9.95 or 2 for $12. Make sure bulk pricing it as insanely cheap deal, because human mind will always go for best offer. If your store is new, I would recommend to always go for very cheap front-end item, so once there’s a sale, you can immediately upsell the buyer with a little expensive product related to same niche. For example, this piece of product, i have sold over 100,000 of these:

The cost per ice cube tray was like $0.30 and my minimum order size was $12.95 for set of 3.

Now immediately after the sale of first cheap item, I show them an upsell for some like this:

UPSELL Product related to based product:

Now the cost of this upsell product (called Gun Alarm Clock or Shoot to stop alarm clock), is around $39.95 at my store but the purchase price was just $9 (eventually we bulk order for 5000 pieces at $5 bucks each).

Again, we sold over 20,000 of these as upsell, so ouraverage order value becomes $12.95 + $39.95 = $52.9After paypal fees: $45 (around)Ad expense per sale: $5 CPATotal item price: $0.60 + $5 = $5.60

So net profit per top sale = $45 - $10.60 = $34.40Our total net profit (by the time product gets butchered up as more sellers started selling same)was somewhere around half a million dollars (yup, thats $500,000+).

C) Facebook ads:

Now, this is the phase that was little simpler in those times. Back in 2013–2015, the way to sell dropship products via Shopify was to create a business page, post your product’s picture with a link in the description and launch ads by chosing countries like USA and basic interest targeting like for the above products we targeted republicans (USA), second amendment (which basically is a constitutional right of US citizen to keep arms), NRA etc. Pretty direct selling stuff however the game is changing a bit now.

As a FB advertiser now, it’s compulsory to verify the domain where you’ll be sending traffic to and at the same time you need to verify the events like page view, leads, ATC, purchase etc mannually so FB cab correctly update the events in results. I cannot explain the whole FB ads changes here as it needs a seperate post.

For now, just open your Facebook ad account, create new campaign, create new adset and launch a new ad by:

• Upload a new image or product demo video (mostly available in Alix listings)

• Write a very basic description (copy from product description filed of Alix listing)

• Assuming you already created a Facebook page same as your shopify store name (helpful in long term branding) chose that page in ad creation.

• Use URL same as your product URL where user can directly go to your shopify store to check details and complete purchase.

D) Shopify Store: Now, this is the place where you really have to spend the least time when you are starting out. Just go with a basic free theme, upload the picture of first product, copy/paste the description from aliexpress (without spelling mistakes), edit price and just leave it there.

Shopify product page and store settings are important however not when you are still researching the product and testing it out. The only thing that matters at this stage, is the right product, targeted ads, and right price. Once this combination is set, you can work on store speed, image optimization, upsells, seamless fulfillment etc.

So basic formula of strategy 1 is:

Cheap (and viral) product + Facebook ads + Shopify store = First sales.

This will get your interest up in the Shopify dropship niche and once you launched your first ad set, your brain will show you more innovation and you will add value yourself in the your new business.

Strategy 2: To create a Shopify based dropship business that will generate over $10–15k every month while creating a long-lasting brand?

Process: This one i shared on another website called Quora, you can read about it here as an answer to a similar question.

I started dropshipping just over three months ago, and honestly, I didn’t expect to sell anywhere near as much as I have. Last week, I hit 1,000 orders, and it’s still growing! I’m making more money than I ever imagined, and it’s honestly amazing – now I just hope it keeps going!

If you’re looking to boost sales, definitely leverage platforms like TikTok Shop, Etsy, eBay, and Amazon – they’ve been incredibly effective for me.

For those curious, my profit margin is around 32%, and after all expenses, my total profit has reached £18,065.66.

I only dropship from AliExpress, and I’ve seen plenty of people claiming that making money from AliExpress in 2024 is impossible and that the platform is terrible. That’s just absolute nonsense.

Don’t give up – it’s absolutely possible!

Lastly, to Chinese agents and manufacturers: Please don’t DM me. I’m not interested in your services.