Shopify + Dropshipping From Scratch

[blazekhai]

Keep up the good work and good luck with your journey

Thank you very much!

I'm thinking to starting my shopify journey and I can smell your journey would be succesful since you're utilize all the traffics to your site. Btw, I bet you're living in asia right?

Wish you all the best in your store! & Thank you very much! Yup, I'm from Singapore.

Update 5​

Hello everyone!
Since my last update, my traffic have been quite good. I've been utilizing reddit well.
This is a screenshot for yesterday, 13th March.

That was from another reddit post I made. Even though there was a lot of clicks, seems like the product might be wrong so I'm gonna test another product.

What I've been doing?

I've been looking around for partnerships and offer them a deal so they got into it. I just sent to around 70+ people I wish to work with. I know most won't reply so I'm only looking for around 1 or 2 potential clients to work with.

Awhile back, I got a pmed in IG from a 90k+ account asking if I need a promo. I then offer them the same deal which I usually do and they accepted it. (Take note: I did not pay them anything upfront since I'm starting from scratch & well, i'm broke hahaha).They then posted one of my product picture and link it back to my store. Around 15 minutes later after they posted, I receive this.

I literally jumped out of bed his/her followers were following and liking my pictures. Guess I never made a wrong choice making a deal with this one.

EDIT
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I was about to end the post but there was another order that came in 30 minutes after the first one.

This time it was Reddit, a post I made. Kind of a good start to the day currently(even though I have not slept yet). I'm gonna stick close with posting on reddit and sticking with this promoter of mine from ig. Really hope I can go long term with him cause his followers are active commenting and engagement ratio is around 7/8% average.

I'm gonna find and email more clients to help me promote when I wake up later on. Right now, I'm kind of feeling so tired since it's 8am. Goodnight everyone! Have a good day ahead


EDIT 2

The instagrammer who have 90k+ followers, who is helping me promote (in this post), just tagged me in a hundred k++ account. Yes, so how do I know it's his/her account? They posted the same picture and same caption. Man, I really want to screenshot and show you guys but I will probably edit out his details etc later on when I wake up. Ok for real, good night everyone!

 

[SAINTPEPSI]

Wish you all the best in your store! & Thank you very much! Yup, I'm from Singapore.

I just thought whether you are malaysian or singaporean haha I'm from Indonesia btw, currently saving my money to invest for Shopify. Maybe I should PM you if I need shopify guru someday, good luck to both of us!

 

[FCDSerendipity]

Good luck with the rest of your journey, Keep up the good work

 

[blazekhai]

I just thought whether you are malaysian or singaporean haha I'm from Indonesia btw, currently saving my money to invest for Shopify. Maybe I should PM you if I need shopify guru someday, good luck to both of us!

Haha, nice to meet you saint! haha i'm a beginner myself actually. I hope the same as well! I'm kinda saving money so that's the reason why I started from scratch to see if this works out or not with free traffic. Only spent on getting domain name so far . Goodluck in your journey as well . Thank you.

Good luck with the rest of your journey, Keep up the good work

thank you very much!



BIG NEWS - I EDITED THE LAST POST.

It's 9.30am and I'm still not sleep. Reason being is because I'm excited as hell. Seems like the guy/girl, okay lets call him/her instagrammer A. Seems like he/she have a big network in the same niche currently. He/she posted in the same picture and caption to his bigger account. I was at around 40 followers on my store in instagram but kinda at 90 now and most are from his shoutout/promotion. Really wish to see more sales converting! Alright guys, for real im going to sleep now goodnight.

 

[JLTMzz]

Hi mate,

Funny to see that i was thinking in switching or doing ig+ogads and this and seeing here your thread doing this,someone who started ig+ogads more or less the same time as i

Will follow for sure,good luck

 

[thenick]

Hey, first of all congratz I have a few questions. is your store general or niche store ? what theme do you use ?

 

[blazekhai]

Hi mate,

Funny to see that i was thinking in switching or doing ig+ogads and this and seeing here your thread doing this,someone who started ig+ogads more or less the same time as i

Will follow for sure,good luck

hello there! Yup, I left ig+ogads because I wasn't really enjoyed it. Hope everything is going well for you too. Thank you so much.

Hey, first of all congratz I have a few questions. is your store general or niche store ? what theme do you use ?

Hey there, thank you. Well, no one really tells what niche they are using but well if you read the starting post, I did gave a big hint on which niche I'm doing. It's leaning more to a general store currently, I'm thinking to make it a specified niche soon though. It's a custom theme which I edit out myself from one of the basic shopify themes. I just use the basics and edit-ed and added in much more stuffs in so it look better .

nice idea good luck

Thank you!

Short update
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I ended the day yesterday with 3 orders(got 1 order after a few hours from my last post),

I'm having a 2 nights staycation till Friday so I will probably won't be updating then. I'm planning to rest for awhile since I've been working more than 12 hours daily on this. I'm bringing my laptop along though, but that is just for replying emails and orders(if there's any). I'm currently discussing a deal with a 800k+ IG account in my niche, seems like he seems interested in the deal so let's see how it goes. Hope to see more orders coming in

 

[semsei9311]

Good luck, starting shopify journey soon.

 

[Skyzo]

Your hardwork and determination are so inspiring. Goodluck OP.

 

[thegameplayer]

Thank you very much for the reply and the explanation

I know it's better to get proxys and make your account through them. During the last few months(even when I was doing the OG+IG method), I've did tried different ways and methods on creating ig accounts. I've realise that even when I create account through dedi proxy, there's a high chance of getting pv and email verification or even banned.

I then tried using ip addresses instead and creating them through different browsers and devices. And somehow it work well for me. Some accounts in other niches I have has been lasting since October, maybe I'm just lucky as there's no pva or anything I don't really know but somehow it works better for me.

For pinterest wise, followers doesn't really mean much as your photo will still been seen by others as long as you get repins and likes. If the accounts I use to just repin/like my photos get banned, I will just recreate them.

Once again, thank you very much for the reply and share.






Thank you very much! There's a lot of information in the shopify forum as well.













Thank you everyone for reading! It's an honor



Thanks man . There are old threads on people using free traffic too. But well, too bad for me as I won't be able to use it due to my card being banned.




Hello everyone,

It's 7am right now and I'm heading to bed as I'm really tired. I'm gonna do an update soon on what I've been doing for the site. I came back at night just now and I was just watching a lot of videos and reading threads on google adwords. There's the spent $25 and get free $75-100(depending on country) on ads which I think I should not let the opportunity go.

I'm also changing my theme design which would only take 2-3 hours at most. I've much more time tonight so I will probably get that done as well. Reason of changing is mainly because, even though my site speed is only 1 second +, I just feel my sites not look trustable and not 'professional' enough for someone to buy from it. Also, I found out that there are other free shopify themes which are not in the shopify theme store itself. I saw one theme which I really like as it looks so so much better. Even though the theme is not in the theme store, the owner have a quite a number of apps in the app store with good reviews. So I guess I could trust him right?

My traffic wasn't as much today as it was yesterday as the time I had today was quite limited and I spent it mostly on learning google adwords. Good thing is, I'm still getting views from the reddit post which I made. I've also found other different traffic options other than the traffic I'm using currently.
I will update everything tonight(gmt+8) .

Goodnight everyone!

Where are you finding these unofficial themes?

 

[blazekhai]

Good luck, starting shopify journey soon.

Thank you and I wish you the best of luck!

Your hardwork and determination are so inspiring. Goodluck OP.

Thank you so much

Where are you finding these unofficial themes?

Well, I saw one of the themes in shopify forum. There are quite a number there. Although, I did not really used it for myself.
I viewed one of the theme and used some of the html and mixed it up with another from theme in shopify theme store.
So somehow it's more to an edited theme now

 

[Munsteer]

Interesting journey. Subscribed!

 

[blackhatstefan]

Interesting journey. Waiting to see the updates Good job !

 

[dayron]

How many now traffics from social networks?

 

[irfanlone]

Are you drop shipping the items,i mean you purchase them from AliExpress from your payment processor and then deliver them to the customers address.Is it legit?,because i have seen AliExpress blocking people's accounts following this practice,as it is not meant for dropshipping.

 

[blazekhai]

Interesting journey. Subscribed!

Interesting journey. Waiting to see the updates Good job !

Thank you very much

How many now traffics from social networks?

Well didn't do anything since Wednesday(in last post). But still getting traffic around 50-100 daily.

Are you drop shipping the items,i mean you purchase them from AliExpress from your payment processor and then deliver them to the customers address.Is it legit?,because i have seen AliExpress blocking people's accounts following this practice,as it is not meant for dropshipping.

Yup I'm drop shipping. Yes, most people are doing that and I do have some items from Aliexpress. Other than that, I have own dropshipping suppliers actually so if the aliexpress fails, I can just use my supplier to dropship.

Short update​

Hello everyone.
Since my last update, I have not been doing anything for the past few days.
I had a back to back event and well I was kind of busy and it's a good thing to take a few days once in awhile right since I didn't stop working at all.

My daily traffic was around 50-100 daily without doing anything. I didn't check where the traffic is coming from but I am sure it's from my past reddit posts since I did not update any of my social media accounts.

I was kind of shock actually that I got a sale though since I wasn't expecting any.
I found out that it was from my emails that I sent and offer them a discount to attract them back.

I'm gonna start working again by Wednesday or tmr night(gmt+8) earliest, as I have to do some other stuffs tomorrow.
Only things I did recently is to add more instagram accounts in my niche and grow them. Reason being is because I was paying massplanner+proxies every month and I have not been utilizing it well. I only added like 12 IG accounts and most of them are not in my niche. So I plan to make some sub niches and just grow them automated.

Alright, I will get back to work latest by Wednesday. Have a good day everyone!

 

[moh531]

Good luck with your journey and keep the updates coming

 

[Splintersfury]

OP I'm from lion city too!!! Hahah
Great thread, Truly enjoy reading it.
Following your journey while on my internship

 

[BirdyHere]

Keep the updates coming! Enjoying this so far. Instagram is a powerful traffic source.

 

[sergenthw]

Where do you living? For non-US user payment gateway is too painful