- Sep 3, 2018
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Hi guys. I've been lurking on here a lot trying out different things but now I recently started taking dropshipping serious recently (aliexpress+shopify) and I've been seeing some small results.
Here is a screenshot to show where I'm at.
This is purely from influencer marketing. I don't have much data to go off of as you can see, but each ad I pay anywhere from $10-25. I've found one that does $25 and it brings around $100-200 in sales each time. From the $500 in sales, probably half of it is profit. (2 refunded sales are from paypal checkout, which i cancelled bc I didn't want to deal with paypal at all).
At this rate, I'm fairly confident that I can do $1k of profit a month, which is why I set the profit goal as 3k a month.
I hate influencer marketing. I hate reaching out to influencers, and asking about prices, and always having to rely on them to share the post or whatever. Most of them are lazy and not pleasant to deal with. I just hate it. Which is why the ultimate goal is to find success in FB/Google Ads. Also I should mention that I'm relying on the US audience, while NOT living in the US. Which means I have to be up at 2-5 AM in my timezone to hit the golden hours of the US audience which is pretty inconvenient for me, given that I have my life to live.
However at this point, I have no other choice but to do this for now at least. As this is the most efficient way to see some sort of success. I will eventually start testing facebook ads with the profit I make from the sales.
My vision is huge. I have a lot of ideas to implement and more products to test and figure out.
I also have a product idea that I want to create a brand for and manufacture myself once I go back to the US (not an existing product whatsoever)
But 1 step at a time. First I will focus on this journey and go with the flow. The sole purpose of this thread is to stay motivated and keep logging my progress so that it is there for the books and to implement any suggestions and improvements to better myself. I knew about dropshipping and tried it out a little bit a couple of years back and i recently saw that @PBNSurprise had the best dropshipping journey on this site. So it also prompted me to make one myself and log my progress.
So yeah here we go.
I'll clock the meter starting today. I'll update sales, ad costs, and product costs. (this store is targeting womens but I make more stores and will try other general products as well.) let's get it!
Here is a screenshot to show where I'm at.
This is purely from influencer marketing. I don't have much data to go off of as you can see, but each ad I pay anywhere from $10-25. I've found one that does $25 and it brings around $100-200 in sales each time. From the $500 in sales, probably half of it is profit. (2 refunded sales are from paypal checkout, which i cancelled bc I didn't want to deal with paypal at all).
At this rate, I'm fairly confident that I can do $1k of profit a month, which is why I set the profit goal as 3k a month.
I hate influencer marketing. I hate reaching out to influencers, and asking about prices, and always having to rely on them to share the post or whatever. Most of them are lazy and not pleasant to deal with. I just hate it. Which is why the ultimate goal is to find success in FB/Google Ads. Also I should mention that I'm relying on the US audience, while NOT living in the US. Which means I have to be up at 2-5 AM in my timezone to hit the golden hours of the US audience which is pretty inconvenient for me, given that I have my life to live.
However at this point, I have no other choice but to do this for now at least. As this is the most efficient way to see some sort of success. I will eventually start testing facebook ads with the profit I make from the sales.
My vision is huge. I have a lot of ideas to implement and more products to test and figure out.
I also have a product idea that I want to create a brand for and manufacture myself once I go back to the US (not an existing product whatsoever)
But 1 step at a time. First I will focus on this journey and go with the flow. The sole purpose of this thread is to stay motivated and keep logging my progress so that it is there for the books and to implement any suggestions and improvements to better myself. I knew about dropshipping and tried it out a little bit a couple of years back and i recently saw that @PBNSurprise had the best dropshipping journey on this site. So it also prompted me to make one myself and log my progress.
So yeah here we go.
I'll clock the meter starting today. I'll update sales, ad costs, and product costs. (this store is targeting womens but I make more stores and will try other general products as well.) let's get it!
