PotatoWatts
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- Jul 13, 2018
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Decided to pickup dropshipping again after years, good ol' shopify shop just because I dont have much to put in so the couple dozen bucks monthly cost is good enough
Plan
1-Pick a good simple niche (Make sure Aliexpress products are present)
2-Make Shopify Shop - Good Brand, Good Logo, Good watermarking, Good font, Good colors
3-Add products from Aliexpress to the shop, good branding, good description
4-Find videos related to the product, edit and upload them with branding
5-Open the shop (Added template policies, using Stripe to accept payments only for now)
6- Promote the two products via free channels [social media for now] (To see if it was worth all the trouble or not)
Results so far
Making everything took me about 3 weeks, released the shop 2 days ago, selling products for $100, they sell on aliexpress for $50 so im making $50 for each product (only have two products for sale at the moment), got 4k visits and sold 5 products which is not bad I believe.
My only fear is payments. Stripe only accepts like 3 credit cards (And currently all I have setup is Stripe), I think im losing potential buys from this. Tried applying to 2checkout but got instantly denied for using the word "aliexpress" (I did not know better, tried emailing them to see if I can salvage this but I doubt it), and I did not add a PayPal business account yet because well.. I just dont feel like messing with PayPal to be honest but tomorow I might just do that.
Stripe is paying me on the 18th, going to wait until then before moving to paid advertising (to make this a 0investment project of sorts).
Skrill and another one I tried setting up ask for valid business papers, so thats a nope.
I got 4k visits from a social media post that got very popular but a lot of people recently commented that "yo you can get this for cheaper on aliexpress or X site" and it just made me lose all credibility most likely since my sales came from before these comments. (Main reason dropshipping is going down the hole, but it still works if you know how to market it)
Tried installing live-chat to see if that helped them visitors open their wallets but didn't do much so far. Lets see where this gets me.
Any tips? My issue right now I believe is receiving payments and that I dont have a solid strategy to get sales but what im doing seems to work to an extent and the product gets attention thats for sure.
So total investment so far:
$10 for the .com (Just in case the shop blows up and then I'll move to woocommerce most likely)
$30 (rounded up) for the Shopify monthly for July
3 weeks worth of my time
Goals:
Sell $20k (20k profit, not 20k sales) so I can start doing some real investments and get out the shit hole
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6- Promote the two products via free channels [social media for now] (To see if it was worth all the trouble or not)
Results so far
Making everything took me about 3 weeks, released the shop 2 days ago, selling products for $100, they sell on aliexpress for $50 so im making $50 for each product (only have two products for sale at the moment), got 4k visits and sold 5 products which is not bad I believe.
My only fear is payments. Stripe only accepts like 3 credit cards (And currently all I have setup is Stripe), I think im losing potential buys from this. Tried applying to 2checkout but got instantly denied for using the word "aliexpress" (I did not know better, tried emailing them to see if I can salvage this but I doubt it), and I did not add a PayPal business account yet because well.. I just dont feel like messing with PayPal to be honest but tomorow I might just do that.
Stripe is paying me on the 18th, going to wait until then before moving to paid advertising (to make this a 0investment project of sorts).
Skrill and another one I tried setting up ask for valid business papers, so thats a nope.
I got 4k visits from a social media post that got very popular but a lot of people recently commented that "yo you can get this for cheaper on aliexpress or X site" and it just made me lose all credibility most likely since my sales came from before these comments. (Main reason dropshipping is going down the hole, but it still works if you know how to market it)
Tried installing live-chat to see if that helped them visitors open their wallets but didn't do much so far. Lets see where this gets me.
Any tips? My issue right now I believe is receiving payments and that I dont have a solid strategy to get sales but what im doing seems to work to an extent and the product gets attention thats for sure.
So total investment so far:
$10 for the .com (Just in case the shop blows up and then I'll move to woocommerce most likely)
$30 (rounded up) for the Shopify monthly for July
3 weeks worth of my time
Goals:
Sell $20k (20k profit, not 20k sales) so I can start doing some real investments and get out the shit hole
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