KamikaziTurtlezz
Junior Member
- Nov 17, 2014
- 176
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Hi Everyone,
The motivation for the journey is so that I can party weekdays/ weekends and have a bit of money to travel and have enough fun coupons (money) to impulse buy shit I don't need.
I'm not sure whether I will update this daily or weekly.
Backstory
I've had a bit of success with tumblr + shopify earlier this year with my highest day being around $380, good but nothing too crazy. My tumblr got banned and I was left high and dry with no income - from $2k a week to nothing, it sucked. I've been testing ads for a while but it was hard to find success with crappy product photos, so I bought some of my best selling products and took photos myself. Nothing too fancy just a nice aesthetically pleasing shots (like most stores on instagram). I managed to get $80 in sales from a $10 ad spend 2 weeks ago but then I tried focusing on viral products (pokemon go) but failed. My store is pretty general
Why Paid Methods?
I want to focus my efforts on FB and Instagram Ads because I think its a better long term method.
About Me (not important)
I'm 21, Male from Sydney, Australia. Studying marketing at university (between here and other forums you can definitely learn more - half of the people in uni are stupid.
Methods for promotion
Followliker
Using 10 accounts to post similar niche related content back linking to my main store on IG. 5 Accounts will follow my competitors users and the other 5 will follow niche related IG accounts.
IG Ads
Continue testing Ads at $5 per day. Need to Split test different images / ad copy (i suck at ad copy). I will test 4 different products and see which one does best.
Fb Ads
Mostly using for retargeting users who clicked from instagram
Email
Will setup this once a few sales start coming in consistently (around $150 per week should be enough)
IG Affiliates
This method involves finding large instagram accounts similar to the niche and giving them a cut of your sales in exchange for promotion of products. The advantage is that it's a lot cheaper than giving a shoutout and if they don't get any sales its free. There needs to be a benefit for the followers of the account, so to encourage them the caption would be something similar to "@mystore has given your followers a 10% off code - use code @username in the checkout".
The problem with this method is it's going to be a hassle contacting back and forth between affiliates, paying them and (most likely) sending them products so they can show their followers the products without perceiving the post as an ad and rather a genuine endoresment.
Still have a bit more to add but its 12.57 am, will add more tomorrow
The motivation for the journey is so that I can party weekdays/ weekends and have a bit of money to travel and have enough fun coupons (money) to impulse buy shit I don't need.
I'm not sure whether I will update this daily or weekly.
Backstory
I've had a bit of success with tumblr + shopify earlier this year with my highest day being around $380, good but nothing too crazy. My tumblr got banned and I was left high and dry with no income - from $2k a week to nothing, it sucked. I've been testing ads for a while but it was hard to find success with crappy product photos, so I bought some of my best selling products and took photos myself. Nothing too fancy just a nice aesthetically pleasing shots (like most stores on instagram). I managed to get $80 in sales from a $10 ad spend 2 weeks ago but then I tried focusing on viral products (pokemon go) but failed. My store is pretty general
Why Paid Methods?
I want to focus my efforts on FB and Instagram Ads because I think its a better long term method.
About Me (not important)
I'm 21, Male from Sydney, Australia. Studying marketing at university (between here and other forums you can definitely learn more - half of the people in uni are stupid.
Methods for promotion
Followliker
Using 10 accounts to post similar niche related content back linking to my main store on IG. 5 Accounts will follow my competitors users and the other 5 will follow niche related IG accounts.
IG Ads
Continue testing Ads at $5 per day. Need to Split test different images / ad copy (i suck at ad copy). I will test 4 different products and see which one does best.
Fb Ads
Mostly using for retargeting users who clicked from instagram
Will setup this once a few sales start coming in consistently (around $150 per week should be enough)
IG Affiliates
This method involves finding large instagram accounts similar to the niche and giving them a cut of your sales in exchange for promotion of products. The advantage is that it's a lot cheaper than giving a shoutout and if they don't get any sales its free. There needs to be a benefit for the followers of the account, so to encourage them the caption would be something similar to "@mystore has given your followers a 10% off code - use code @username in the checkout".
The problem with this method is it's going to be a hassle contacting back and forth between affiliates, paying them and (most likely) sending them products so they can show their followers the products without perceiving the post as an ad and rather a genuine endoresment.
Still have a bit more to add but its 12.57 am, will add more tomorrow
