blazekhai
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- Aug 14, 2009
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Hello everyone.
I’m here once again with another journey thread.
I believe that when you was a kid, people would ask what you want to be when you grow up. For me, I remember seeing I want to an astrounaut or an engineer. I’m currently studying in the engineering and electronics line and I just finish my internship ( just waiting for gradation to collect the cert) so I’m free now. I did got an offer from my internship place to continue working before I have to go to the army for 2 years(my country is compulsory) and they offered me $1.8k. Well, it’s quite a good money but well I wasn’t enjoying anything there as the management was a little bit bad.. So I decided to find something to do to get extra income while I’m in the army.
Note: To skip intro, search ‘Let’s get started’ by ctrl + F.
INTRO
I dumped my first journey which was using the OGads + IG method even though I did hit $20 per day which was my initial goal. I admit It was a quick and fast way to get easy cash but I didn’t enjoyed every single part of it. It was quite a hassle worrying about accounts being banned, trying out proxies, buying accounts, making more domains etc. There will always be people saying ‘ who likes the job we do nowadays?’ but for me, if I’m going to work online, I rather do something I’m in love in and do it long term so I get to enjoyed the moment. I then stopped at early December and I realise I still have massplanner license left. I was having internship at that time and I didn’t had much to do so I decided to learn about Instagram. So I continued paying for license and proxies the month just to test it out. It was after awhile that I somehow taught to myself, why am I doing something and not getting money from it.
I started reading threads on bhw Instagram and massplanner forum(trust me both are goldmine), journey threads and in the money making section, even the old threads at the far back page as it holds so much information.
I currently have 7 instagram accounts ranging from 5k-17k followers currently all in different niches. I’m not interested in the niches so all I did was scrape pictures from other ig accounts and automate posting through massplanner. And since I’ve reading a lot of threads on differents forums, watching videos, I decided on starting dropshipping.
Why dropshipping you must ask?
I’ve always been interested in buying and selling. Even when I was younger when I was playing MMORPG games, I was always becoming a trader in the games as I didn’t want to spent so much time grinding and training for the ingame money.
During my holidays in 2015 and 2016, I imported branded shoes in sell in my local online market which is called Carousell. Sad part is that my country users don’t use ebay, so all of them will head to carousell. My country people are sceptical and usually won’t dare to order themselves through ali or anything so they rather pay higher price for replicas I did have a good profit during the months I’m doing that, as I set my price the lowest in the website. I did have a highest earning of $2k+ but the risk of selling fakes and I’m kind of afraid of doing anything illegal so I usually do it for only a few months. Sad part is that, I used all that money that I sold fakes with, I get myself authentic shoes for reselling price as I’m a big fan of streetwear and sneakers lol.
Let’s put that all aside, and I guess you should somehow guess what niche I’m doing. I chose this niche as I have good knowledge of it and I’m really interested in it.Yup it’s hard, but I know I will enjoy this J
Let’s get started
I’m planning to create a "brand" and for a long term journey(hopefully) . So right now, I’m in day 9 ever since I started my 30 day shopify trial. (yes the 45 days trial is no longer available). I just launch the store to public today after much editing.
To start off,I sold one of my Instagram accounts which had 3k followers for $50 to get a domain and to pay for this month’s massplanner and proxy payment as I’m kind of broke.
I have sourced out different suppliers and chose carefully products which are in the rising trend currently. All the suppliers I’m getting from are friendly and I ask a few questions before I choose products from them, like for example what will happen if customers ask refund etc.
So what I did for my store?
I’m currently changing meta descriptions, meta tags, titles, product descriptions. It’s tedious and I’m not sure how it would help BUT it makes my products description looks nicer. I passed around the website for my friends to view(I didn’t said I was the owner at first) and they really like the design & etc so I guess I’m good to go.
Apps I’m using
So why free traffic?
My facebook account ad is banned when I first tried it early last year. My both cards are banned and they have not accepted my appeal so I have no other choice to look for other traffic. What’s more, I feel it’s better to start from scratch for the learning progress.
Instagram
I got the idea from https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/building-an-authority-network-niche-ideas.915461/ and I’m thankful I read that thread.
Good thing before I ended my internship, I used their wifi to create a lot of IG accounts on my phone browser. Yes, I have a better experience creating my accounts than buying them. I don’t get any banned, pv or email verify whenever I create the accounts myself.
I’m also going at a safe settings in F/U method in massplanner and I automate post my pictures through there.
I’m currently on have 4 accounts, I will branch more out when it all goes well.
Pinterest
I’m new to pinterest so I’m kind of unsure how it goes. I plan to do the same thing with what I’m doing with my IG accounts which I link everything together. I got this idea from massplanner forum.
For my main store accounts, I’m doing everything manually from repining to following and liking. I’ve yet to post any pictures from my store yet.
Facebook
Since I can’t use FB ads, the only thing I could do is promote to my friends and groups/pages. Good thing I have a fake girl account(looked really legit) so I would just post in my wall. I currently joined different groups and pages and just chat with other members and share my links there.
Reddit
I would use my 1 year account old personal account in reddit but the username is weird lol.
So Created two accounts yesterday, one for spamming and another one I’m planning to be a real poster and make people trust me. I’m impressed that I got 94 karma in just a day with just a few comments suggestions.
What I did was I joined the few top subreddits in my nichi and I posted suggestions. During this suggestions, I link mostly to those famous brands BUT in the same post, I add in my own item from my store in addition so it doesn’t look like I’m just only promoting it. I’m sticking to a 3:1 method where I suggest other stuffs etc in 3 posts then 4th post I will link my store in there with some other authority and trustable stores/brands. I currently have a few messages from users in the subreddits asking me about stuffs etc and well I think I will just continue this method.
I’m also on different forums and I’m just casually talking there. I’m not just gonna spam anything on my first post as it will look suspicious and no one would click or buy from it. I tried a few guest posting too on different blogs.
Twitter
I used two of old accounts with good few hundred followers and set it up with IFTTT to automate postings from other big accounts to link back to my main account in the future. I've yet to post anything on my brand account yet. I will add in pictures from the stores soon.
In a few hours time, I’m only left 20 days in the trial. I’m not doing the free+shipping method, I give free shipping instead to USA users. Most of my items are in the less than $20 and even lower than $10. I only add on some expensive items just for it to be there. Yup I may earn a few bucks per sale but I put myself in the customers shoes and I believe that I would rather go for lower prices.
I’m not sure how this will turn out but I don’t plan on just reading threads over and over again and not try it myself. I probably won’t make any money but I’m just planning to test it out for a month or two and see how it goes. J What’s important is that I learn which will be better for my future projects. And what’s more, as I’m interested in this niche, I’m really enjoying adding products, trying to improve on the site etc. I’m sleeping at 8am everyday and waking up at 2pm just to continue on the site once more. These are my stats for the day currently, I think most of the traffic comes from reddit & forums.
I’m thinking of trying out google adwords due to the get free $75 ads after spending $25 on shopify. Should I? I will probably read up more about it if I should use it.
Thank you and I apologise for the long post, guess I got carried away from writing. I will add on more updates soon
hope to receive any feedbacks or advices. thank you and have a good day sayang.
I’m here once again with another journey thread.
I believe that when you was a kid, people would ask what you want to be when you grow up. For me, I remember seeing I want to an astrounaut or an engineer. I’m currently studying in the engineering and electronics line and I just finish my internship ( just waiting for gradation to collect the cert) so I’m free now. I did got an offer from my internship place to continue working before I have to go to the army for 2 years(my country is compulsory) and they offered me $1.8k. Well, it’s quite a good money but well I wasn’t enjoying anything there as the management was a little bit bad.. So I decided to find something to do to get extra income while I’m in the army.
Note: To skip intro, search ‘Let’s get started’ by ctrl + F.
INTRO
I dumped my first journey which was using the OGads + IG method even though I did hit $20 per day which was my initial goal. I admit It was a quick and fast way to get easy cash but I didn’t enjoyed every single part of it. It was quite a hassle worrying about accounts being banned, trying out proxies, buying accounts, making more domains etc. There will always be people saying ‘ who likes the job we do nowadays?’ but for me, if I’m going to work online, I rather do something I’m in love in and do it long term so I get to enjoyed the moment. I then stopped at early December and I realise I still have massplanner license left. I was having internship at that time and I didn’t had much to do so I decided to learn about Instagram. So I continued paying for license and proxies the month just to test it out. It was after awhile that I somehow taught to myself, why am I doing something and not getting money from it.
I started reading threads on bhw Instagram and massplanner forum(trust me both are goldmine), journey threads and in the money making section, even the old threads at the far back page as it holds so much information.
I currently have 7 instagram accounts ranging from 5k-17k followers currently all in different niches. I’m not interested in the niches so all I did was scrape pictures from other ig accounts and automate posting through massplanner. And since I’ve reading a lot of threads on differents forums, watching videos, I decided on starting dropshipping.
Why dropshipping you must ask?
I’ve always been interested in buying and selling. Even when I was younger when I was playing MMORPG games, I was always becoming a trader in the games as I didn’t want to spent so much time grinding and training for the ingame money.
During my holidays in 2015 and 2016, I imported branded shoes in sell in my local online market which is called Carousell. Sad part is that my country users don’t use ebay, so all of them will head to carousell. My country people are sceptical and usually won’t dare to order themselves through ali or anything so they rather pay higher price for replicas I did have a good profit during the months I’m doing that, as I set my price the lowest in the website. I did have a highest earning of $2k+ but the risk of selling fakes and I’m kind of afraid of doing anything illegal so I usually do it for only a few months. Sad part is that, I used all that money that I sold fakes with, I get myself authentic shoes for reselling price as I’m a big fan of streetwear and sneakers lol.
Let’s put that all aside, and I guess you should somehow guess what niche I’m doing. I chose this niche as I have good knowledge of it and I’m really interested in it.Yup it’s hard, but I know I will enjoy this J
Let’s get started
I’m planning to create a "brand" and for a long term journey(hopefully) . So right now, I’m in day 9 ever since I started my 30 day shopify trial. (yes the 45 days trial is no longer available). I just launch the store to public today after much editing.
To start off,I sold one of my Instagram accounts which had 3k followers for $50 to get a domain and to pay for this month’s massplanner and proxy payment as I’m kind of broke.
I have sourced out different suppliers and chose carefully products which are in the rising trend currently. All the suppliers I’m getting from are friendly and I ask a few questions before I choose products from them, like for example what will happen if customers ask refund etc.
So what I did for my store?
- Used a basic free theme on shopify and customize it with different advance tutorial in shopify.
- Made logo myself and added it
- Added 160 products(adding more everyday).
- Created discount banner at the top
- Created submenu
- Created notification when someone bought something( sales pop up)
- Created pop up discount
- Added trust badges(such as mcafee)
- Added currency changer
- Made a dropdown menu instead of customer clicking and it heads to category.
I’m currently changing meta descriptions, meta tags, titles, product descriptions. It’s tedious and I’m not sure how it would help BUT it makes my products description looks nicer. I passed around the website for my friends to view(I didn’t said I was the owner at first) and they really like the design & etc so I guess I’m good to go.
Apps I’m using
- Oberlo(to import from ali)
- Compass
- Best currency converter
- Shipping Bar
- Mcafee secure
- Sales pop
- Privy
- Plug in Seo
- Photo resize
- Quick view
So why free traffic?
My facebook account ad is banned when I first tried it early last year. My both cards are banned and they have not accepted my appeal so I have no other choice to look for other traffic. What’s more, I feel it’s better to start from scratch for the learning progress.
I got the idea from https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/building-an-authority-network-niche-ideas.915461/ and I’m thankful I read that thread.
Good thing before I ended my internship, I used their wifi to create a lot of IG accounts on my phone browser. Yes, I have a better experience creating my accounts than buying them. I don’t get any banned, pv or email verify whenever I create the accounts myself.
I’m also going at a safe settings in F/U method in massplanner and I automate post my pictures through there.
I’m currently on have 4 accounts, I will branch more out when it all goes well.
I’m new to pinterest so I’m kind of unsure how it goes. I plan to do the same thing with what I’m doing with my IG accounts which I link everything together. I got this idea from massplanner forum.
For my main store accounts, I’m doing everything manually from repining to following and liking. I’ve yet to post any pictures from my store yet.
Since I can’t use FB ads, the only thing I could do is promote to my friends and groups/pages. Good thing I have a fake girl account(looked really legit) so I would just post in my wall. I currently joined different groups and pages and just chat with other members and share my links there.
I would use my 1 year account old personal account in reddit but the username is weird lol.
So Created two accounts yesterday, one for spamming and another one I’m planning to be a real poster and make people trust me. I’m impressed that I got 94 karma in just a day with just a few comments suggestions.
What I did was I joined the few top subreddits in my nichi and I posted suggestions. During this suggestions, I link mostly to those famous brands BUT in the same post, I add in my own item from my store in addition so it doesn’t look like I’m just only promoting it. I’m sticking to a 3:1 method where I suggest other stuffs etc in 3 posts then 4th post I will link my store in there with some other authority and trustable stores/brands. I currently have a few messages from users in the subreddits asking me about stuffs etc and well I think I will just continue this method.
I’m also on different forums and I’m just casually talking there. I’m not just gonna spam anything on my first post as it will look suspicious and no one would click or buy from it. I tried a few guest posting too on different blogs.
I used two of old accounts with good few hundred followers and set it up with IFTTT to automate postings from other big accounts to link back to my main account in the future. I've yet to post anything on my brand account yet. I will add in pictures from the stores soon.
In a few hours time, I’m only left 20 days in the trial. I’m not doing the free+shipping method, I give free shipping instead to USA users. Most of my items are in the less than $20 and even lower than $10. I only add on some expensive items just for it to be there. Yup I may earn a few bucks per sale but I put myself in the customers shoes and I believe that I would rather go for lower prices.
I’m not sure how this will turn out but I don’t plan on just reading threads over and over again and not try it myself. I probably won’t make any money but I’m just planning to test it out for a month or two and see how it goes. J What’s important is that I learn which will be better for my future projects. And what’s more, as I’m interested in this niche, I’m really enjoying adding products, trying to improve on the site etc. I’m sleeping at 8am everyday and waking up at 2pm just to continue on the site once more. These are my stats for the day currently, I think most of the traffic comes from reddit & forums.
I’m thinking of trying out google adwords due to the get free $75 ads after spending $25 on shopify. Should I? I will probably read up more about it if I should use it.
Thank you and I apologise for the long post, guess I got carried away from writing. I will add on more updates soon
hope to receive any feedbacks or advices. thank you and have a good day sayang.
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