Journey: Good ol' dropshipping

dustfinger said:

you have facebook page? or just posting it on fb groups?
also if you use tiktok do you drive any traffic from it?

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PotatoWatts said:

Yes and yes.
Yes!

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dustfinger said:

do you use smm?

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PotatoWatts said:

Nope

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PotatoWatts said:

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)

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PotatoWatts said:

Little update: One or two sales a day, generating around $40 daily, had one or two days without sales. Most sales come in from manual marketing on social media for now.

Want to wait until I get my cash from Stripe (takes one week or so) before diving any further

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Setox said:

If you are promoting using your facebook page, you can base those words : aliexpress,cheaper,fraud...etc , that's the advantageous thing about ad.
7 sales so far for $100 product is so good, you should consider promoting with paid ads ASAP.

If you have FB pixel installed, you can create Lookalike audiences based on your visitors & customers from free traffic, that would help you cut the Split Test period.

Also, think about making versions of your promo videos and test them with your free traffic, when you start advertising use the one that got the most interactions, a trick i use is publishing the videos on facebook groups in mass without any promotion, no link no watermark, with text like : " Anyone know where i can find theses ? " that way you bypass spam and moderation filters, and you get enough data to test which creatives had the WOW effect on audiences.

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dustfinger said:

im setting up mine hahaha, any tips

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warrensandre25 said:

how much cost per profit sales?

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PotatoWatts said:

Thanks for the tips, im not doing any paid promotion and I want to do it but: Reddit users are like rabid dogs, impossible to push anything down their throats. Pinterest my merchant account is under review and cant buy ads until then. Instagram says my business account is not eligible for some reason. Facebook is also pending my merchant account and cant buy ads until then. Google banned my merchant account after reviewing my products in a matter of minutes.

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Setox said:

Tiktok ads, snapchat ads are so good for Ecom.

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aydenjz10 said:

Following. And paypal is definitely something to look into, as just anecdotally, my family (older generation) will use paypal on what they call "risky sites" (anything that they havent heard about lol), since they are super iffy about giving out their card info for some reason.

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PotatoWatts said:

Thanks for the tips, im not doing any paid promotion and I want to do it but: Reddit users are like rabid dogs, impossible to push anything down their throats. Pinterest my merchant account is under review and cant buy ads until then. Instagram says my business account is not eligible for some reason. Facebook is also pending my merchant account and cant buy ads until then. Google banned my merchant account after reviewing my products in a matter of minutes.


Get a winning product, that alone will do the job for you. Im actually finishing up a dropshipping book with decent strategies about this


Selling for $100, buying at ali for $50 (cheapest available, its a high quality product of sorts)
Total cost: Domain.com and shopify membership nothing else

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warrensandre25 said:

Profit so high I think you need set $25 or less let see if lot of sales
Let me know what Is your products niche

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PotatoWatts said:

In my opinion, nah. If they like it they will spend the extra buck and I'll get more cash. This means I can convert less but earn more.
Toys niche

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georgian13 said:

any updates ?

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mapleisaac said:

I like your thread, any updates?

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PotatoWatts said:

I have no time to advertise the shop at all, sometimes I make a random tweet or reddit post and get a few instant sales but that's it mostly

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