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Mr. Aesthetic · May 3, 2020

Started another one-product dropshipping store, decided why not create a new journey thread.
Been operating for 3 days, running FB ads atm, 5 adsets with $6 USD budget each.
It's a saturated product but I just want to see if I can make it work.

Current Sales: 1
Current Revenue: $89.97 (customer bought 3 products)
Current Profit: $14.84

If anyone has any general advice, please help me out.
Trying my best to make this work out this time.

Mr. Aesthetic · May 3, 2020

These are my current ad statistics after running for 2 days.

The $ figures are in AUD, reduce it by around 40% to figure out the rough USD value.

ENOVATIT · May 3, 2020

are you only targeting Australia?

Mr. Aesthetic · May 3, 2020

ENOVATIT said:
are you only targeting Australia?

No, all ePacket countries

Zarre · May 3, 2020

The great start. I wish you all the best. I'm following.

Mr. Aesthetic · May 3, 2020

Zarre said:
The great start. I wish you all the best. I'm following.

Thanks Zarre.
My biggest issue usually is giving up on something and moving to something else quite quickly. If I can stick to this, hopefully I can start making a profit but honestly, I would be happy with this store breaking even. It's a practical way for me to learn.

Zarre · May 3, 2020

Are you doing retargeting(vv, wv, atc...)?
Are you shipping from aliexpress ?

TooCorny · May 3, 2020

Mr. Aesthetic said:
These are my current ad statistics after running for 2 days.

The $ figures are in AUD, reduce it by around 40% to figure out the rough USD value.

Where are the conversions?

bugb · May 3, 2020

It looks really great, good luck with your journey

Can I have a question? How long your products ship to customer in average?

Mr. Aesthetic · May 4, 2020

TooCorny said:
Where are the conversions?

This is today and yesterdays results.
Top one is a CBO campaign with 3 adsets. Second one is my retargeting campaign.

bugb said:
It looks really great, good luck with your journey

Can I have a question? How long your products ship to customer in average?

I'm using an Aliexpress seller that offers US shipping to US and China shipping to all other countries. The US shipping is via USPS so I am assuming 4-7 days. For China shipping it can really vary atm due to COVID-19. I estimate 10 - 30 days.

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Made 2 sales today. Going to start creating the marketing email campaign now.
Currently in negative profits, but I'm testing ads so idk what to think.

Current Sales: 3
Current Revenue: $149.95
Amount spent on FB Ads: $136.66
Cost of Goods Sold: $52.5
Current Profit: -$39.15

Anyone have any advice?

Mr. Aesthetic · May 4, 2020

Should I create a lookalike audience using view contents, or is that not such a good idea?

Zarre · May 4, 2020

Mr. Aesthetic said:
Should I create a lookalike audience using view contents, or is that not such a good idea?

I mean you have to wait at least 500 wc for lookalike, that's my opinion.

Mr. Aesthetic · May 4, 2020

Zarre said:
I mean you have to wait at least 500 wc for lookalike, that's my opinion.

Ahh okay, I'll see what I'm thinking when I hit 500.

Zarre · May 4, 2020

Mr. Aesthetic said:
Ahh okay, I'll see what I'm thinking when I hit 500.

But maybe you can try with 95% video views lookalike.

Mr. Aesthetic · May 4, 2020

Zarre said:
But maybe you can try with 95% video views lookalike.

I think my creative might be an issue seeing that I don't get many video plays at 95%.
And this is the first time I've used a CBO campaign, jeez. It has really dumped most of the budget into one adset.

Zarre · May 4, 2020

Mr. Aesthetic said:
I think my creative might be an issue seeing that I don't get many video plays at 95%.
And this is the first time I've used a CBO campaign, jeez. It has really dumped most of the budget into one adset.

Then you have to test more creatives with the same audience.

Mr. Aesthetic · May 4, 2020

Zarre said:
Then you have to test more creatives with the same audience.

I'm gonna get right to doing that now.
Thanks man. <3

Mr. Aesthetic · May 5, 2020

Okay, I've had one purchase today but on Facebook it says I have had 2.
The 2nd purchase is meant to be a $98 purchase which would definitely allow me to breakeven today, but for some reason it is not showing up on Shopify.
Is this a shopify issue or Facebook glitch?

unsungwarrior · May 5, 2020

Best of luck for your journey. Keep us posted on stats!

Mr. Aesthetic · May 5, 2020

unsungwarrior said:
Best of luck for your journey. Keep us posted on stats!

Thanks, kinda confused about this still though:

Mr. Aesthetic said:
Okay, I've had one purchase today but on Facebook it says I have had 2.
The 2nd purchase is meant to be a $98 purchase which would definitely allow me to breakeven today, but for some reason it is not showing up on Shopify.
Is this a shopify issue or Facebook glitch?

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