Let's Start My Dropshipping Diary

Hey Everyone,

currently, I run a Social Network with about 1000 Members and 600 Visitors Daily. It's niche Adult Network which is now about 6 Months old. So it has already some authority from Search engines and the site is loved my users too.

Due I did some research about members, I decided to start a drop-shipping store. I also want to use this thread as a diary of my journey.


I already did some affiliate marketing with Amazon, earning about 100 USD a month in peak times, but I stopped with it due to hosting costs, work and SEO costs I made roughly 100 USD profit in 1 Year.

This time I want to try drop-shipping using Aliexpress.


I am unsure if I should use Shopify with Overlo. (29 USD Monthly)
Or a Woocommerce Plugin (90 USD One-Time, Hosting about 5 USD Monthly)

Additionally, I want to use:
- Twitter (5%, Not sure if Twitter brings many paying clients)
- Instagram (50%)
- Facebook (45%)
- Adwords
- My Social Network

I am also not sure about the budget yet. I don't want to spend more than 60 USD for them.


Today I will do some niche research and think about a story that I want to tell.


Hope this thread does not get deleted =) And I hope I can get some useful tips&tricks from you =)


Roadmap:

1 Nieche Research
2 Think About Story
3 Develop Marketing Ressources (Ads, Logos, ...)
4 Check if Shopify is right
5 Find influencers
6 Find Products
7 SEO (Will do it on my own)
8 Start SMM Campaigns
9 Earn Money
10 repeat & Optimize


Dont Want to spend too much time on it!

Good Luck.

In regards to:

I am unsure if I should use Shopify with Overlo. (29 USD Monthly)
Or a Woocommerce Plugin (90 USD One-Time, Hosting about 5 USD Monthly)

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This really depends on how knowledgable you are with WordPress/WooCommerce and how much effort you want to put into setting up your cart/theme. Shopify makes things _very_ easy to do, however you will save a good bit of money by using WordPress/WooCommerce.

So to sum it up, no pun, Shopify if you have extra $ to spend and not a lot of time/knowledge and WordPress if you do not have a lot of $ to get started with and a good bit of WordPress skills.

Hope that helps!

Good luck buddy. I use twitter before 3 years and made many goods results and clicks from them

I plan to try with dropshipping too. Good luck OP

If you don't want to spend to much time and money on it you have to be one killer of a dropshipper.
Best of luck

Good luck

Good luck, buddy!

Shopify would be the best choice if you’re new to this field (That’s something I learned here). $60 is not enough for dropshipping IMO, considering marketing costs.

Good luck to you!

Good luck mate, i'll follow your journey

All the best with your journey. You can actually get shopify store without any monthly payment.
Checkout this thread, https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/how-to-create-unlimited-free-shopify-stores.1015335/

Can someone recommend a good woocommercedropshipping plugin?