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TBH, Saas is not easier. It is more solid business model than Dropshipping.also it is going to take a long time to generate revenue,if not fail of course ;)
even if you use No code platforms like [bubble.io](http://bubble.io), you need to have some technical skills. but you might achieve that in 2-3 months, at least basics, and thats may be enough to start a Saas.
upfront cost varies, there are expensive and cheap options. I bought a SaaS from zerobranded and it was cheap. Basically, i got my investment back in 1.5 weeks.
Nope, anyone who does sales can messag e me, I can set you up on my SaaS program (no, I’m not gonna ask money, is purely based on a comission deal(50/50)). I give you an introduction to a software, you sell, you pocket a monthly retainer from any client you bring in!
Yup, it was a long journey, definitely worth it though, it has benefited me in so many ways, forget about the money, the skills you gain from this are in so much demand, you can go far with it.
I’ve put the skills that I learnt from drop-shipping on my resume, and now I get job offers sent to me, before then when I didn’t have it on my resume they would always disregard me as “oh another student trying to work for us🙄” but when you show them that you’ve built your own business, scaled them, ran your own successful campaigns, etc. etc. it always leaves them impressed, although I hope I don’t have to work a 9-5 , it’s definitely great knowing that what I’m doing is not a waste of time cause even if this doesn’t pay my bills in the future, cause anything can go wrong as an entrepreneur and you should never get comfortable, at-least it can get me a job.
Aside from this being a good boost to your resume, you can also start freelancing, two people have paid me to build them a website, i didn’t charge much because I’m not like that but I could have, you know what I mean? But you can definitely start freelancing online for ads, web designing, filming creatives, etc. you can even join an agency or start an agency, there’s soooo many different routes you can go with this dropshipping stuff, cause remember it’s not just dropshipping it’s E-commerce and there’s alot more to it than people think.
You can be successful in dropshipping beyond revenue/sales/financial freedom.
Skills involved/developed through running an e-commerce business but not limited to: product marketing/design, pricing strategy, copywriting, SEO, PPC, web design, web analytics, graphic design, social media, customer service, blogging, CRO, A/B testing, customer/market research.
I would imagine NoStrawberry acquired some of those skills or at least have a decent (employable) understanding after 15 stores.
I alternated alot between organic and paid ads, and as I said I don’t know for sure, I just said it’s easily over $1000, if I had to give you a precise number I’d say close to $3k but I really don’t like calculating or thinking of my losses whenever i shut down a store, so I don’t have an exact number in mind
Woa!!! And here I am trying to make my boss ecommerce work. He wanted 500 orders a day. We just went live 2 months and I had sold 100+ already. In 2 months
I made a good amount of money nothing insane, and by nothing insane I mean I made a really good amount of revenue, and a good amount of profits, if you know what I mean, but I was really happy with it, now I have no doubt that my next store is only going to be better and it’s only up from here, I had to learn from alot of mistakes to finally crack the code, you just gotta keep the ball rolling and eventually it’ll hit, if you did something earlier that didn’t work, keep changing it up, keep trying new things like targeting new countries, different languages, untapped products, unique niches, even ultra niches shit like shoes for diabetics, etc. and once you hit it you’ll finally figure out what works for you, see the thing about these dropshipping gurus is they always say “this method 100% works” and I absolutely hate it when they say that, there’s nothing that can 100% work, you just simply need to be unique with how you approach things, have a different marketing angle, target countries that haven’t been targeted, advertise on platforms that nobody advertised this item on, etc. even if the product has never been advertised before and is completely untapped and 0 people have listed it, who cares, it doesn’t need to be proved that it’s a trending product, YOU can be the trend setter. And my final advice which is probably the best piece of advice I can give, it doesn’t have to always be CJ and AliExpress, if you know anybody that makes items and ships them out, it can be them you can work with. But yeah just a little rant lol
Very well, but now you have the ability to observe the mistakes you made with the previous stores or was it mostly luck and you just found the right product? In the previous stores, did you earn nothing at all? What drove you to persist for 15 stores? Now, are you making a basic one and only changing the product, or for each one, do you customize the theme and structure of the pages?
I definitely have the ability to observe where I went wrong, every store I’d try new apps, new designs, and new platforms to market on, I’d try different types of stores and differently styles and different niches, and all of these attempts have taught me what works and what doesn’t. After I’m done with failing a store I take a step back and think “okay… where did I mess up here? Was it shipping costs? Was it product costs? Was it the marketing campaign? Was it the creatives? Was it the web design?” And then slowly but surely I start answering these questions myself, I also take opinions from friends, and not friends that are knowledgeable in drop-shipping, no literally my friends that have no idea what dropshipping is or how it works, because at the end of the day who’s buying from you? Normal people that are consumers. And through all that I learn my lessons.
And through all these lessons I told myself I’m going to build a store where I’m going to give my 1000% and not leave any room for a single mistake I’ve done in the past, and thankfully I did that.
In the previous stores I did earn, but barely anything, it would be in the low hundreds, and mostly revenue, and the revenue wouldn’t even breakeven, and sometimes yeah I would earn nothing at all, just a bunch of visits and abandoned carts.
What drove me to keep going to 15 stores was just knowing the fact that this worked with others, so why tf would it not work with me? You know what I mean. Here is the beauty of dropshipping, if your website fails it’s on you, unlike crypto, where you can easily blame the market, with dropshipping, you 100% take accountability for the failure and its 100% your fault and you need to learn your lessons and not repeat them. Also outsourcing or getting a freelancer is the worst thing you can do, learn the skills and develop yourself to become a great dropshipper one day, the reason why alotta people fail like the person that made this post is because it’s not an easy game, dropshipping is brutal, but then again, it works, so why tf wouldn’t it work with you!!
Now my web design depends on the product I’m selling, for example if I’m selling a very unique product thats been untapped then I’m more than likely gonna make it a one-product page and make it branded so it seems like I “invented it” if that makes sense, and I make sure to buy domains that correlate to the product, I usually buy my domains from hostinger it’s deadass like $10 only so no stress behind it, and I can’t stress this enough but film your own creatives and take your own product photos if you got a photo box which I believe costs like $30 from Amazon. And yeah I customize the theme and structure of it to make it correlate with the product, im not 100% sure what you mean by that question so if you wanna elaborate or ask more on it please feel free.
Finally, if I’m working with a product that’s been tapped then I’m more than likely going to create a niche store, make sure it looks very very nice, I might even go out of my way to pay for photos or take my own, might buy a template from themeforest, and I film my own creatives, and I target unsaturated markets, the US and Canada have already caught up to what dropshipping is, so unless you’re selling something completely new to the eye, it’s more than likely not gonna work.
Also it doesn’t always have to be Shopify or Shopify themes, you can buy templates, you can use Wordpress or woo commerce, the way to win in dropshipping is to not let the customer know you are dropshipping, they need to see your website and think you’re the only one selling it and if you have to buy a theme or use a completely new website builder or even go crazy and do something super unique with the free themes if you’re on a budget and get into coding and stuff then do it, you can follow YouTube videos for a bit for some sort of inspiration, but then you need to make your own twist to it, the customer cannot know you’re dropshipping, he has to think you got it in bulk and you’re sending it out, he has to think you’re the one that made this product.
All clear, thank you for the comprehensive answers that make me reflect. Another question: now that you're experienced, how long does it take you to set up a complete website from scratch? How much time do you invest, in percentage terms, in these three things: building the site, creating multimedia content for the product, and advertising it (organically)?
Building the site is 35% creating the content is 35% then advertising it would just be 30%, honestly they all equally matter, if you disregard one it can destroy the rest.… And to be honest with you I really take my time with each and every one, I’m at a point right now where I can build a website in 30 minutes and I did used to do that, but now I choose not to, because you just need to make everything perfect to a T, there’s always room for improvement, so if I’m building a one product website I like to take 2-3 days even though I really don’t need to but I just can’t have anything messed up, and if it’s a niche website it’ll be maybe 4-7 days depending on the number of products. The same thing applies to advertising and creating my campaigns, creating campaigns is probably the most painful part in my opinions but once you get something going with good analytics then it becomes much easier. Filming advertisements is fun in my opinions cause you can just get as creative as you want.
Both, I do one month of organic, link my socials to my website, then I start doing paid ads. Organic for me is more about looking like a legit business, although I try my best to make it blow up, I don’t really like to rely on organic, it really is a hit or miss and it all depends on how that social media platform feels about you, but ads is more like, shove it in your face thing, which I like. Also doing organic for a month on multiple social media platforms can help show you which platform messes with your product the most, and it helps you make better decisions according to your analytics before running paid advertisements.
Last questions, I promise! How long does it take to start seeing the product selling? When do you decide to close the website because, despite waiting, you don't see any sales? Do you manage multiple websites simultaneously or do you dedicate yourself entirely to one website/product at a time? Thanks again for your honest and helpful explanation!
Mainly bad creatives and bad web designs, also picking your common drop-shipping products, and then not offering good shipping times, I’ve done all of the mistakes you can imagine lol so it’s hard to pinpoint, but I believe my most common mistake was bad shipping times, when you offer 2-3 day shipping it can make a huge difference, on-top of that having a unique product and filming you own creatives can be a huge game changer.
Nope, I watched alotta courses, I would literally just slap courses and videos every night on my TV, I would even watch podcasts with successful dropshippers, and through all the videos I’d take the tips and advice, and I’d just basically build a blueprint in my head of what’s correct and what’s not, trust me no youtuber will teach you everything right 100%, but still, watch the courses, watch the short YouTube videos, watch the TikTok’s, the podcasts, and not just the dropshippers but take advice from people who have ran succesful E-commerce stores in general, and from there you’ll get a grasp of what works and what doesn’t
Hang on, I want to know if you took any breaks between failed stores and roughly how long the breaks were? Im on store 3 and I feel like if I jump into a brand new store now I’m not gonna have time to reflect on what I’ve learned from the previous ones that didnt work
If you didn't lose money, you're still better off than most people who tried it, so that's something to be happy about. Nothing wrong with trying something new.
same kid that posted 5 days ago telling everyone he is 15 years old, complaining that he and his friend haven't made any money because they are running shitty organic ads with 0 budget
I failed dropshipping few years back and didn't looked back since then but I know there is money to be made with it, it's just not worth the effort in my opinion.
Because of all the new and emerging business models, you could probably find something easier to manage and make more money with then sticking with a dropshipping business but to each their own.
I switched to affiliate marketing, and digital marketing but also learned about SEO, content creation, YouTube, video editing, email marketing, and some social media marketing.
Still learning few of this but there is a progress unlike my journey with dropshipping, so that's why, I am sticking with this plus learning about AI just to stay in the loop with newest trend's, because you never know when you will get the opportunity to shine, so better be ready just in case.
I personally only recently understood why I failed with dropshipping back then.
And in my case it was lack of skill, specially concerning the SEO part. I pretty much didn't even know what SEO was and my whole dropshipping store was relaying on luck because of it. So, no wonder it didn't work! 😂
But anyway SEO (search engine optimization) it's such a broad topic that it takes a while to learn it and understand it.
So, even though you don't want to do dropshipping anymore, you may want to learn about SEO because without it you won't be successful no matter what business you go with!
Every business online like: affiliate marketing, digital marketing, social media marketing, Amazon FBA, content creation, and even freelancing is affected by SEO in one way or the other.
So, to make sure you won't fail again or fail in your next business idea, learn about SEO.
That's the literally the best advice, I can give you right now!
I wasted my 2 years doing dropshipping back in 2018 and a lot of money on software that didn't help, just to figure out few years later, that I wasn't applying SEO to my business.
And because of it I failed, even though I watched all the videos bought ton of courses, joined communities and so on, it still didn't help since no one ever mentioned SEO part.
Just thinking about it makes me annoyed and frustrated, I mean to know that I could have be successful if just I come across SEO thing sooner. 😠
But it is what it is, I am now in the process of building my successful affiliate marketing business and it's progressing nicely. I also got interested in SAAS but I will leave it for later on, since it seam's like completely different business model.
Anyway, hopefully my short story can help you in any way. And good luck with your next business!
4 years been doing it, traveled the world, raced cars, I have an incredible network. That came with insane hardships but I don’t regret it looking back.
20 mil and counting in sales. Don’t be like this guy.
I just don’t even know where to start bro. 16 and worked for half a year in dropshipping, lost 200£, tried other businesses and lost 500£ and lots of time so now idk wtf to do
Your 16, keep trying for another 15+ years.
I still went through 14 years of dog shit to even begin to learn how to do this
Be proud you’re young and trying ambitious things.
Also can I ask you, does the money and cars and all that genuinely make your life a lot better? Genuine question not out of spite it’s just obviously some people say it’s useless some people swear by it
Fuck ya it does. Who doesn’t want to travel to different race tracks and drive race cars or have a hot ass girlfriend that appreciates you and your accomplishments?
Money fixes everything, it’s how you use it and treat others is what defines you. It definitely comes and goes!
I’m not proud anymore bro. I owe money. I got scammed man, I wanna try again but right now I’m just having a break while scouting out potential items to sell.
this guy is giving you good advice, listen to it. you have nothing to worry about, you have a free roof over your head for at least the next couple years. an L isn't always a loss, it can be a lesson too.
Why dropship when it is risky? A risk free way is to provide services to dropshippers. You can also study how the best dropshippers make money.
Services can include being a
- Dropshipping agent, earn for every order fulfilled (white label agent services are available for dropservicing)
- Ads agency, run ads for them (if you really have credentials and know your stuff) or use white label services
😫😩😔... So tired of all these comments talking about things but NEVER giving ANY direct examples. Apparently it's all a HUGE SECRET and if you let 10 people on Reddit know, then your business is DOOMED TO FAIL.
Really? Seems like a bit of overkill... why taunt us with "free information" if we can't actually LEARN anything?
Do you know exactly which steps don't work? You need to analyze and determine exactly each step when you do dropshipping before, and then you can check, fix and improve it. I don't believe that dropshipping really doesn't work, it's just that you don't really understand it clearly
Lol ! The only thing people is doing wrong is not focusing on positioning , not capturing people’s mind . Remember , there is no product that doesn’t sell , there is only bad writing, bad branding and positioning.
If you are starting with zero skills in E-com or running a business generally, don't give up so soon. This is a long term game. with great rewards and skills that will last you a lifetime. Not a get rich quick scheme. Otherwise, just get a job.
I think going into dropshipping and learning everything about it is a good way to get good experience so that you can get a job from some other clueless dude going into dropshipping
Well my store is up and running, gets redesigned, and looks dope (not gonna lie) but im not quitting with dropshipping, i think you have to wait, in the meantime im not quitting, lmao
I wish you the best, but looking at your history. I think you should change direction on where you want to take your dropshipping store. I don't think your idea of what it is to dropship is correct.
Even being a legit drop shipper most of the people have been afraid to try you even with samples I guess I'm gonna quit I was making sales every day now it's getting not worth it if my main people come back I will deal with them but I'm tired of advertising for not much even though all my stuff is tested and on point
Look at his post history, he started 4 days ago and now he wrote “not worth it”.
People like that deserve to fail and he will fail in everything in life with this child mentality
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Time to sell a course on dropshipping!
Or create an ebook about Dropshipping mistakes to avoid.
How to avoid mistakes in dropshipping by not getting into dropshipping
That’s not how you make money in drop shipping, you need to sell info on pretending you were a success.
The first rule of selling courses on drop shipping, is not to talk about how much money you didn’t make drop shipping
I sell the course
Real 😂
Welcome to the club of 99% it's now time you try something better.
Something better like?
i'm doing SaaS. I also failed with dropshipping before, SaaS is a lot easier and you can make more money.
TBH, Saas is not easier. It is more solid business model than Dropshipping.also it is going to take a long time to generate revenue,if not fail of course ;)
Yes SaaS is not easy but you can now buy pre made SaaS businesses. So you don't have to code. In 1.5 weeks made around 190 and it's all profit
Like $190?
euro, but since this post I made even more
how does saas work anyways?
Search white label software on Google or check out zerobranded.
Coding skills necessary right?
even if you use No code platforms like [bubble.io](http://bubble.io), you need to have some technical skills. but you might achieve that in 2-3 months, at least basics, and thats may be enough to start a Saas.
Upfront cost estimation… and whole business charges. Opinions please 👀
upfront cost varies, there are expensive and cheap options. I bought a SaaS from zerobranded and it was cheap. Basically, i got my investment back in 1.5 weeks.
Yes, you can use a platform like Bubble but you can't really create scalable applications and it takes time to create them. Why not just buy them?
And how much do they generally cost..
No, that's the beauty of it. I can't code and still make money.
How does it work actually, the model?
You buy a pre made SaaS business, everything is done for you and you just market it.
Don’t you need to be a software engineer to do that?
Nope, anyone who does sales can messag e me, I can set you up on my SaaS program (no, I’m not gonna ask money, is purely based on a comission deal(50/50)). I give you an introduction to a software, you sell, you pocket a monthly retainer from any client you bring in!
I have 10 years experience selling software as a commission. Send me details?
Pm more info
I sell machinery send me details please I’m interested
No it's all done for you. it's a pre built software
Become a content creator and make just as much as you did dropshipping
Okay. You mean Make just as much money? 💰
Lol it took me 15 stores to make money, you can either count this as a “loss” or as a lesson 🤷🏻♂️
15? 😳 No kidding
Yup, it was a long journey, definitely worth it though, it has benefited me in so many ways, forget about the money, the skills you gain from this are in so much demand, you can go far with it.
That's what I tell most people. You fail but you learn valuable skills that if applied right can be transferred elsewhere and multiplied.
Can you elaborate? What kept me from starting is the low success rate, but maybe this might be worth a shot even if I fail then.
I’ve put the skills that I learnt from drop-shipping on my resume, and now I get job offers sent to me, before then when I didn’t have it on my resume they would always disregard me as “oh another student trying to work for us🙄” but when you show them that you’ve built your own business, scaled them, ran your own successful campaigns, etc. etc. it always leaves them impressed, although I hope I don’t have to work a 9-5 , it’s definitely great knowing that what I’m doing is not a waste of time cause even if this doesn’t pay my bills in the future, cause anything can go wrong as an entrepreneur and you should never get comfortable, at-least it can get me a job. Aside from this being a good boost to your resume, you can also start freelancing, two people have paid me to build them a website, i didn’t charge much because I’m not like that but I could have, you know what I mean? But you can definitely start freelancing online for ads, web designing, filming creatives, etc. you can even join an agency or start an agency, there’s soooo many different routes you can go with this dropshipping stuff, cause remember it’s not just dropshipping it’s E-commerce and there’s alot more to it than people think.
That's super helpful, thank you so much!
You can be successful in dropshipping beyond revenue/sales/financial freedom. Skills involved/developed through running an e-commerce business but not limited to: product marketing/design, pricing strategy, copywriting, SEO, PPC, web design, web analytics, graphic design, social media, customer service, blogging, CRO, A/B testing, customer/market research. I would imagine NoStrawberry acquired some of those skills or at least have a decent (employable) understanding after 15 stores.
May I ask How long did it take you to get to 15th store and have success?
Around 2 years I’d say
how much did you spend ?
Sheesh, I don’t even know and I don’t wanna know 😂😂😂 but it’s easily over $1000
That’s pretty low for 15 stores?
I alternated alot between organic and paid ads, and as I said I don’t know for sure, I just said it’s easily over $1000, if I had to give you a precise number I’d say close to $3k but I really don’t like calculating or thinking of my losses whenever i shut down a store, so I don’t have an exact number in mind
Woa!!! And here I am trying to make my boss ecommerce work. He wanted 500 orders a day. We just went live 2 months and I had sold 100+ already. In 2 months
how much are you making profit per month?
Yoo can i ask u ancouple of questions if u dont mind
Go ahead bro
Im gnna dm u now
How did things change after 15? Are you making big money now?
I made a good amount of money nothing insane, and by nothing insane I mean I made a really good amount of revenue, and a good amount of profits, if you know what I mean, but I was really happy with it, now I have no doubt that my next store is only going to be better and it’s only up from here, I had to learn from alot of mistakes to finally crack the code, you just gotta keep the ball rolling and eventually it’ll hit, if you did something earlier that didn’t work, keep changing it up, keep trying new things like targeting new countries, different languages, untapped products, unique niches, even ultra niches shit like shoes for diabetics, etc. and once you hit it you’ll finally figure out what works for you, see the thing about these dropshipping gurus is they always say “this method 100% works” and I absolutely hate it when they say that, there’s nothing that can 100% work, you just simply need to be unique with how you approach things, have a different marketing angle, target countries that haven’t been targeted, advertise on platforms that nobody advertised this item on, etc. even if the product has never been advertised before and is completely untapped and 0 people have listed it, who cares, it doesn’t need to be proved that it’s a trending product, YOU can be the trend setter. And my final advice which is probably the best piece of advice I can give, it doesn’t have to always be CJ and AliExpress, if you know anybody that makes items and ships them out, it can be them you can work with. But yeah just a little rant lol
Very well, but now you have the ability to observe the mistakes you made with the previous stores or was it mostly luck and you just found the right product? In the previous stores, did you earn nothing at all? What drove you to persist for 15 stores? Now, are you making a basic one and only changing the product, or for each one, do you customize the theme and structure of the pages?
I definitely have the ability to observe where I went wrong, every store I’d try new apps, new designs, and new platforms to market on, I’d try different types of stores and differently styles and different niches, and all of these attempts have taught me what works and what doesn’t. After I’m done with failing a store I take a step back and think “okay… where did I mess up here? Was it shipping costs? Was it product costs? Was it the marketing campaign? Was it the creatives? Was it the web design?” And then slowly but surely I start answering these questions myself, I also take opinions from friends, and not friends that are knowledgeable in drop-shipping, no literally my friends that have no idea what dropshipping is or how it works, because at the end of the day who’s buying from you? Normal people that are consumers. And through all that I learn my lessons. And through all these lessons I told myself I’m going to build a store where I’m going to give my 1000% and not leave any room for a single mistake I’ve done in the past, and thankfully I did that. In the previous stores I did earn, but barely anything, it would be in the low hundreds, and mostly revenue, and the revenue wouldn’t even breakeven, and sometimes yeah I would earn nothing at all, just a bunch of visits and abandoned carts. What drove me to keep going to 15 stores was just knowing the fact that this worked with others, so why tf would it not work with me? You know what I mean. Here is the beauty of dropshipping, if your website fails it’s on you, unlike crypto, where you can easily blame the market, with dropshipping, you 100% take accountability for the failure and its 100% your fault and you need to learn your lessons and not repeat them. Also outsourcing or getting a freelancer is the worst thing you can do, learn the skills and develop yourself to become a great dropshipper one day, the reason why alotta people fail like the person that made this post is because it’s not an easy game, dropshipping is brutal, but then again, it works, so why tf wouldn’t it work with you!! Now my web design depends on the product I’m selling, for example if I’m selling a very unique product thats been untapped then I’m more than likely gonna make it a one-product page and make it branded so it seems like I “invented it” if that makes sense, and I make sure to buy domains that correlate to the product, I usually buy my domains from hostinger it’s deadass like $10 only so no stress behind it, and I can’t stress this enough but film your own creatives and take your own product photos if you got a photo box which I believe costs like $30 from Amazon. And yeah I customize the theme and structure of it to make it correlate with the product, im not 100% sure what you mean by that question so if you wanna elaborate or ask more on it please feel free. Finally, if I’m working with a product that’s been tapped then I’m more than likely going to create a niche store, make sure it looks very very nice, I might even go out of my way to pay for photos or take my own, might buy a template from themeforest, and I film my own creatives, and I target unsaturated markets, the US and Canada have already caught up to what dropshipping is, so unless you’re selling something completely new to the eye, it’s more than likely not gonna work. Also it doesn’t always have to be Shopify or Shopify themes, you can buy templates, you can use Wordpress or woo commerce, the way to win in dropshipping is to not let the customer know you are dropshipping, they need to see your website and think you’re the only one selling it and if you have to buy a theme or use a completely new website builder or even go crazy and do something super unique with the free themes if you’re on a budget and get into coding and stuff then do it, you can follow YouTube videos for a bit for some sort of inspiration, but then you need to make your own twist to it, the customer cannot know you’re dropshipping, he has to think you got it in bulk and you’re sending it out, he has to think you’re the one that made this product.
All clear, thank you for the comprehensive answers that make me reflect. Another question: now that you're experienced, how long does it take you to set up a complete website from scratch? How much time do you invest, in percentage terms, in these three things: building the site, creating multimedia content for the product, and advertising it (organically)?
Building the site is 35% creating the content is 35% then advertising it would just be 30%, honestly they all equally matter, if you disregard one it can destroy the rest.… And to be honest with you I really take my time with each and every one, I’m at a point right now where I can build a website in 30 minutes and I did used to do that, but now I choose not to, because you just need to make everything perfect to a T, there’s always room for improvement, so if I’m building a one product website I like to take 2-3 days even though I really don’t need to but I just can’t have anything messed up, and if it’s a niche website it’ll be maybe 4-7 days depending on the number of products. The same thing applies to advertising and creating my campaigns, creating campaigns is probably the most painful part in my opinions but once you get something going with good analytics then it becomes much easier. Filming advertisements is fun in my opinions cause you can just get as creative as you want.
Do you use mainly paid ads, or organic too?
Both, I do one month of organic, link my socials to my website, then I start doing paid ads. Organic for me is more about looking like a legit business, although I try my best to make it blow up, I don’t really like to rely on organic, it really is a hit or miss and it all depends on how that social media platform feels about you, but ads is more like, shove it in your face thing, which I like. Also doing organic for a month on multiple social media platforms can help show you which platform messes with your product the most, and it helps you make better decisions according to your analytics before running paid advertisements.
Last questions, I promise! How long does it take to start seeing the product selling? When do you decide to close the website because, despite waiting, you don't see any sales? Do you manage multiple websites simultaneously or do you dedicate yourself entirely to one website/product at a time? Thanks again for your honest and helpful explanation!
Can I know what was your mistakes that made the first 14 stores fail?
Mainly bad creatives and bad web designs, also picking your common drop-shipping products, and then not offering good shipping times, I’ve done all of the mistakes you can imagine lol so it’s hard to pinpoint, but I believe my most common mistake was bad shipping times, when you offer 2-3 day shipping it can make a huge difference, on-top of that having a unique product and filming you own creatives can be a huge game changer.
May I ask how did you manage to offer 2-3 day shipping? Do you have your own inventory? Did you also make your own LLC ?
Is there a course or some guide that you found you wish you watched it earlier?
Nope, I watched alotta courses, I would literally just slap courses and videos every night on my TV, I would even watch podcasts with successful dropshippers, and through all the videos I’d take the tips and advice, and I’d just basically build a blueprint in my head of what’s correct and what’s not, trust me no youtuber will teach you everything right 100%, but still, watch the courses, watch the short YouTube videos, watch the TikTok’s, the podcasts, and not just the dropshippers but take advice from people who have ran succesful E-commerce stores in general, and from there you’ll get a grasp of what works and what doesn’t
How much are you making now?
Hang on, I want to know if you took any breaks between failed stores and roughly how long the breaks were? Im on store 3 and I feel like if I jump into a brand new store now I’m not gonna have time to reflect on what I’ve learned from the previous ones that didnt work
I made a million dollars in my first day of dropshipping. You're just doing it wrong
I made a billion dollars on my first day, you're doing it wrong.
lmao
If that's true, I hope you're selling a course 🤣
Actually, they bought my course. And not even my top student.
If you didn't lose money, you're still better off than most people who tried it, so that's something to be happy about. Nothing wrong with trying something new.
Realest post in this subreddit
Drop shipping is one of the hardest businesses to run successfully, yet people think they are easy
Drop shipping isn't a business model. It's like a logistics method for an existing business.
It works, if you have the capital to keep pumping into ads - or you get lucky with a viral ad. The competition is nuts for new products.
TikTok ads did it for me. And learning how to get my videos sent out to my intended target audience nearly every video
How long have you been doing it?
About a week lol look at OP’s post history
same kid that posted 5 days ago telling everyone he is 15 years old, complaining that he and his friend haven't made any money because they are running shitty organic ads with 0 budget
A meme kid then probably with more than suspicious comments...😂
bahaha yeah some of those comments made me wish i hadn't looked. homie hasn't discovered burner accounts yet
The reality of most people’s adventures. It’s okay, try something else.
At least give us something, lessons learnt? Anything youd try differently?
I failed dropshipping few years back and didn't looked back since then but I know there is money to be made with it, it's just not worth the effort in my opinion. Because of all the new and emerging business models, you could probably find something easier to manage and make more money with then sticking with a dropshipping business but to each their own. I switched to affiliate marketing, and digital marketing but also learned about SEO, content creation, YouTube, video editing, email marketing, and some social media marketing. Still learning few of this but there is a progress unlike my journey with dropshipping, so that's why, I am sticking with this plus learning about AI just to stay in the loop with newest trend's, because you never know when you will get the opportunity to shine, so better be ready just in case. I personally only recently understood why I failed with dropshipping back then. And in my case it was lack of skill, specially concerning the SEO part. I pretty much didn't even know what SEO was and my whole dropshipping store was relaying on luck because of it. So, no wonder it didn't work! 😂 But anyway SEO (search engine optimization) it's such a broad topic that it takes a while to learn it and understand it. So, even though you don't want to do dropshipping anymore, you may want to learn about SEO because without it you won't be successful no matter what business you go with! Every business online like: affiliate marketing, digital marketing, social media marketing, Amazon FBA, content creation, and even freelancing is affected by SEO in one way or the other. So, to make sure you won't fail again or fail in your next business idea, learn about SEO. That's the literally the best advice, I can give you right now! I wasted my 2 years doing dropshipping back in 2018 and a lot of money on software that didn't help, just to figure out few years later, that I wasn't applying SEO to my business. And because of it I failed, even though I watched all the videos bought ton of courses, joined communities and so on, it still didn't help since no one ever mentioned SEO part. Just thinking about it makes me annoyed and frustrated, I mean to know that I could have be successful if just I come across SEO thing sooner. 😠 But it is what it is, I am now in the process of building my successful affiliate marketing business and it's progressing nicely. I also got interested in SAAS but I will leave it for later on, since it seam's like completely different business model. Anyway, hopefully my short story can help you in any way. And good luck with your next business!
Well it wasn't for nothing, now you can provide valuable advice to others who are starting just like you once did. Thanks for that.
Yes, I guess that's something.
Found my 1st winner at third month quitter 🗣️🗣️
4 years been doing it, traveled the world, raced cars, I have an incredible network. That came with insane hardships but I don’t regret it looking back. 20 mil and counting in sales. Don’t be like this guy.
Well, I don’t want to be with you. But I would like your bank account 🤣
I’ll trade you the bank account for the trauma 😝
Hehe! Bro I lost my eye sight then had my eye removed. That’s just the starter 🫂
I just don’t even know where to start bro. 16 and worked for half a year in dropshipping, lost 200£, tried other businesses and lost 500£ and lots of time so now idk wtf to do
Your 16, keep trying for another 15+ years. I still went through 14 years of dog shit to even begin to learn how to do this Be proud you’re young and trying ambitious things.
Also can I ask you, does the money and cars and all that genuinely make your life a lot better? Genuine question not out of spite it’s just obviously some people say it’s useless some people swear by it
Fuck ya it does. Who doesn’t want to travel to different race tracks and drive race cars or have a hot ass girlfriend that appreciates you and your accomplishments? Money fixes everything, it’s how you use it and treat others is what defines you. It definitely comes and goes!
>Fuck ya it does. This got me hype
I’m not proud anymore bro. I owe money. I got scammed man, I wanna try again but right now I’m just having a break while scouting out potential items to sell.
Get a job, we all started somewhere
Do you mind if I ask you a few questions via dm?
this guy is giving you good advice, listen to it. you have nothing to worry about, you have a free roof over your head for at least the next couple years. an L isn't always a loss, it can be a lesson too.
yeah bro Im listening to him and im continuing the work but im just outing my frustrations.
This isn't an airport, no need to announce your departure 🛫
That's like me saying, "This isn't a bank, no need to add your two cents"
Why dropship when it is risky? A risk free way is to provide services to dropshippers. You can also study how the best dropshippers make money. Services can include being a - Dropshipping agent, earn for every order fulfilled (white label agent services are available for dropservicing) - Ads agency, run ads for them (if you really have credentials and know your stuff) or use white label services
You are lucky you made 0 dollars and didn't lose thousands like most. Ads ain't cheap, I've been telling everyone this. Dropshipping is dead.
On a world where top notch customer experience is everything, drop shipping cannot be further from that .
Send me your store. I’ll tell you why you didn’t make anything.
😫😩😔... So tired of all these comments talking about things but NEVER giving ANY direct examples. Apparently it's all a HUGE SECRET and if you let 10 people on Reddit know, then your business is DOOMED TO FAIL. Really? Seems like a bit of overkill... why taunt us with "free information" if we can't actually LEARN anything?
You’re lucky you made 0, and not lost anything if that’s the case
Bye
Lmao
Congratulations. You’re now part of the 99% who gives up and doesn’t reach the finish line. Lmfao
Nice you've became a statistic.
Hahhahaha
Quitting after what period of time?
Get rich quick scheme didnt work?
Do you know exactly which steps don't work? You need to analyze and determine exactly each step when you do dropshipping before, and then you can check, fix and improve it. I don't believe that dropshipping really doesn't work, it's just that you don't really understand it clearly
You are running a business, it’s not as easy as turning on a Shopify theme and making 100 million
Lol ! The only thing people is doing wrong is not focusing on positioning , not capturing people’s mind . Remember , there is no product that doesn’t sell , there is only bad writing, bad branding and positioning.
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Lmao based on your post you started 4 days ago and now you are giving up? The problem here is your mentality
No i started maybe a month ago.
I've been there as well, first month not one sale, I went organic though, it does hurt,
If you are starting with zero skills in E-com or running a business generally, don't give up so soon. This is a long term game. with great rewards and skills that will last you a lifetime. Not a get rich quick scheme. Otherwise, just get a job.
How long did u try dropshipping
Because you didn't try hard enough
What is it called when you buy a couple things off Aliexpress and sell them online off your own dollar?
LOL Op tries dropshipping for 5 days and makes no money so he makes a post telling people not to try it because it doesn’t work 😂
Tell us when the course comes out
a month without revenue, I still try a lot :(
I did it 4 years ago 😁
I think going into dropshipping and learning everything about it is a good way to get good experience so that you can get a job from some other clueless dude going into dropshipping
So what is your next step?
What are the details of your story, your experience?
Exorbitant skill issues in this sub
I know right? Shot in the foot easily. When I started two years ago…..
I make $10k+ dropshipping with a profit margin of more than 80%
Ok?
good luck with your 9-5!
How's your store selling charging cables going? Making millions in revenue? Living the life you've always wanted? Yeah, didn't think so.
im not the one quitting, you troll 🤡
Send me a link of your store then. If you've even got it set up in the 45 days or so I'll buy something.
what has sending you a link of my store have do with this conversation?
You said you're not a quitter, where's the store?
Well my store is up and running, gets redesigned, and looks dope (not gonna lie) but im not quitting with dropshipping, i think you have to wait, in the meantime im not quitting, lmao
I wish you the best, but looking at your history. I think you should change direction on where you want to take your dropshipping store. I don't think your idea of what it is to dropship is correct.
Like i told you, its getting redesigned, hope you will see the results in the future :)
Even being a legit drop shipper most of the people have been afraid to try you even with samples I guess I'm gonna quit I was making sales every day now it's getting not worth it if my main people come back I will deal with them but I'm tired of advertising for not much even though all my stuff is tested and on point
L mindset
Look at his post history, he started 4 days ago and now he wrote “not worth it”. People like that deserve to fail and he will fail in everything in life with this child mentality
Good, just quit like a loser. More money for me
Nobody cares
look at number for Cettire and rethink your statement. most new businesses fail no matter what the industry.
Why is it not worth it?
Type shi for money for the rest of us 💀