Man that is really amazing statistics. I am even struggling with the basic concept of Dropshipping.
How do you handle that much of orders? Manually or Any tool or Hired VA for this?
Thank you. Understanding the concept and this business is quite easy, practically doing it gets complicated. We were/are a group of 3 Partners and had hired 2 VAs to work alongside us, for all the work. Definitely not a one man job.
 
Thank you. Understanding the concept and this business is quite easy, practically doing it gets complicated. We were/are a group of 3 Partners and had hired 2 VAs to work alongside us, for all the work. Definitely not a one man job.

So someone from your team place the order for your customer. How do they keep of track of it.
 
Nothing new or useful, I've watched like 5 videos about dropshipping and never touched shopify and even I could've written a better "guide" or whatever this is, couldn't be more vague and why's it in the white hat SEO section? Just another wanna-be ecommerce guru.
Call me whatever you want, mate, It doesn't matter. It's just for helping all those people who are embarking their journey into dropshipping. Ecommerce Guru? What do I gain out of it? I'm not getting paid to post here nor am I expecting anything in return. The results speak it all about why one should touch shopify, and believe me, if you had did and got some better results, even you'd feel the philanthropic need to write a better "guide" than this :)

So someone from your team place the order for your customer. How do they keep of track of it.
Database management is important. Oberlo will handle your product imports while you/someone from your team has to do the fulfilling and maintain/update the CSV.
 
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Just Yesterday, We got this store flipped for an amazing fortune. I have been looking at multiple Ecom/dropshipping stores of friends/clients, many ad accounts, and people do struggle to be profitable. Most 6-figure businesses are barely profitable, this is because they are focusing on the wrong aspects of their business.
The reality is, the front-end is where the cash really ISN'T. I want to continue to explain that the back-end is where the cash is. Building trust, upsells, cross sells, reviews, return customers, trust badges, automation and marketing/ads is what I focus on.
You might be familiar with most of it but are possibly struggling with the fb ads factor. Honestly, even I consider myself a noob at it. But if I can do it, you can too. For full clarification this is the exact strategy we have been following:
➡️ Start with the big 5 being- UK, AU, US, CA and NZ.
➡️ Leave the ages open being 25+. They work the best.
➡️ Make your language English(Obvious!).
➡️ Use 3 stacked interests relating to the product and the third is online shopping without expanded interests.
➡️ Testing all new ad sets straight on purchase conversion.
➡️ Make placement Instagram + Facebook News Feed
➡️ 1 day click and on autobid works fine.
➡️ Make your ad engaging like this using a good image/s for carousel or a video ad with a good thumbnail using canva (Or a 3D image works wonders!)
➡️ Duplicate the ad twice and try 2 additional interests and set them at $5 a day to be launched at midnight
➡️ Leave for 48 hours and verify results!
➡️ That's it - you can now make ads for testing on Facebook!
This is what we've been using for testing all products. Nothing amazing or professional, just plain, easy and simple.
But Again, It is very important you understand that it's not 100% in the back-end. You can have the perfect and the most lucrative ad in the world, but if you have a shit website, you aren't going to make any money.
This is a value post to help you grow, learn, and scale in your respective stores. Trust me, it's not as easy as it looks and it is time-consuming, but if you keep hustling, you are going to make it through. You all can do this

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Thank you for the value bomb! A few question though

When you say 3 stacked interests, does that mean :

2 interest related to the niche + 1 online shopping interest or,
Few interest stacked together to narrowdown the audience size.

What's your audience size for each adset?

What are the daily budget for the adspend?

Thanks in advance =)
 
eCommerce guy here. I run a number of ecommerce businesses, a warehouse with over a dozen staff. We do a lot of business and have been in business since 2004.

There's a few drawbacks to this business model that need to be addressed before diving in; #1 horrendous amount of chargebacks you're going to be getting due to slow delivery times, #2 sheer amount of work in customer service, #3 dealing with returns. These are things to consider.

The massive flaw in this poor business model is the slow delivery times and clearly you have nowhere to return the item. If you can solve delivery times, you may have a decent business.

In 2019, customers in CAN/UK/AUZ/NZ/US do not want to be waiting 3 weeks to get a product and find out it's from China. Something to think about.

Totally agree, the shipping time won't be a problem though, quite a lot of shipping services here in China are capable of sending anything to above mentioned countries within a week as long as you are willing to pay ridiculous delivery fees.
 
Thank you for the value bomb! A few question though

When you say 3 stacked interests, does that mean :

2 interest related to the niche + 1 online shopping interest or,
Few interest stacked together to narrowdown the audience size.

What's your audience size for each adset?

What are the daily budget for the adspend?

Thanks in advance =)
Exactly. 2 interests related directly to your product or niche + 1 online shopping interest to go broad targeting.

I start with $5 play, and if the adset is performing well, we scale with a higher budget. So audience size keeps varying.

Daily budget too depends on performance. We've spent as low as $25 per day to as high as $1000 per day.

Totally agree, the shipping time won't be a problem though, quite a lot of shipping services here in China are capable of sending anything to above mentioned countries within a week as long as you are willing to pay ridiculous delivery fees.
Indeed. The extreme 7 day delivery rates are ridiculously high.
 
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@Infinitee this is the strategy that I was talking about. I did a few others along with this one, but this is rather the simplest and newb-friendly so anyone can understand and do it :)
 
Using the guided ad creation, which marketing objective are you using? I've used conversion but Instagram is not available for that type. Thank you, I found your post informative.
 
Using the guided ad creation, which marketing objective are you using? I've used conversion but Instagram is not available for that type. Thank you, I found your post informative.
Glad it helped. On a broad POV, it can be used for more than one objectives tbh (works for lead gen/views/traffic/reach). Although we always went for conversions since that's the desired end goal.
 
How did you choose your niche? What metrics you followed to choose this one?

How long did it take for you to get your first sale? and Have you done any content marketing or just social ads?

Thanks for doing this and its a great help for all of us.
 
Thank you for this! I've recently started my dropshipping store with organic traffic from my instagram and was looking to start ramping up with some paid traffic and this is the perfect place to start.
 
How did you choose your niche? What metrics you followed to choose this one?

How long did it take for you to get your first sale? and Have you done any content marketing or just social ads?

Thanks for doing this and its a great help for all of us.

There's two ways to choose a niche- either research hard and find a niche which has got the potential (or spy on other successful niche stores who are making a good amount of revenue consistently) OR, sell something that you are passionate about. Difference here is, when you are passionate about a niche, it just does get sold since you put in maximum efforts into it. "Choosing a niche" is secondary, Mindset is Primary. [ P.S- We sold something that we were passionate about and result was this :) ]

Secondly, I'm in Ecom since last 3-4 years, so it didn't go hard to get our first sale since we were implementing all strategies since the beginning, when our store was perfected. Once you get your first ever sale, getting the following sales looks pretty easier since you understand the concept.

Thirdly, we did Organic content, Verbal talk, SEO, Social ads (Facebook/insta/Google, and sometimes linkedIn too), solo ads + cold emails to our lists, and retargeting. Although greater response always came from paid ads and secondarily from returning customers.

My pleasure, glad it helped!
 
Thank you for this! I've recently started my dropshipping store with organic traffic from my instagram and was looking to start ramping up with some paid traffic and this is the perfect place to start.
My pleasure.

Sounds great! Since you initially are on organic, do some awesome SEO to drive in free traffic. It would help a lot in getting your store noticed. While if you wanna go fast, nothing's better than paid ads. Feel free to ask here if you need any other strategic or developmental help. Would love to contribute as much as I can.

Goodluck on your journey :)
 
thanks for this.
can you explain how you find a good niche ?
 
thanks for this.
can you explain how you find a good niche ?

My pleasure, mate. For your question, I'll make an entirely different post since many others are usually stuck in this phase. I'd like if everyone gets to read it openly instead of the value being hidden here in middle of so many comments. Give me a while, I'll tag you in there once it's ready.
 
Just Yesterday, We got this store flipped for an amazing fortune. I have been looking at multiple Ecom/dropshipping stores of friends/clients, many ad accounts, and people do struggle to be profitable. Most 6-figure businesses are barely profitable, this is because they are focusing on the wrong aspects of their business.
The reality is, the front-end is where the cash really ISN'T. I want to continue to explain that the back-end is where the cash is. Building trust, upsells, cross sells, reviews, return customers, trust badges, automation and marketing/ads is what I focus on.
You might be familiar with most of it but are possibly struggling with the fb ads factor. Honestly, even I consider myself a noob at it. But if I can do it, you can too. For full clarification this is the exact strategy we have been following:
➡️ Start with the big 5 being- UK, AU, US, CA and NZ.
➡️ Leave the ages open being 25+. They work the best.
➡️ Make your language English(Obvious!).
➡️ Use 3 stacked interests relating to the product and the third is online shopping without expanded interests.
➡️ Testing all new ad sets straight on purchase conversion.
➡️ Make placement Instagram + Facebook News Feed
➡️ 1 day click and on autobid works fine.
➡️ Make your ad engaging like this using a good image/s for carousel or a video ad with a good thumbnail using canva (Or a 3D image works wonders!)
➡️ Duplicate the ad twice and try 2 additional interests and set them at $5 a day to be launched at midnight
➡️ Leave for 48 hours and verify results!
➡️ That's it - you can now make ads for testing on Facebook!
This is what we've been using for testing all products. Nothing amazing or professional, just plain, easy and simple.
But Again, It is very important you understand that it's not 100% in the back-end. You can have the perfect and the most lucrative ad in the world, but if you have a shit website, you aren't going to make any money.
This is a value post to help you grow, learn, and scale in your respective stores. Trust me, it's not as easy as it looks and it is time-consuming, but if you keep hustling, you are going to make it through. You all can do this

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you are saying you are testing with 15$ a day?
3 adsets?
 
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