/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>7772074
also, dont even mention my refunds they were somali scammers

Dropshipping is unethical, you should be ashamed of yourself. You're providing zero value to society by being money-sucking middleman.

>>7772170
at least im not poor

>>7772182
You're morally poor, the worst kind of poor.

>>7772074
how long did it take you to grow your business out?

>>7772292
I was making profit by the end of the week, but to reach this level took me about 3 months of facebook ads, influencers and seo


>>7772262
but im white

>>7772074
Whats your niche

>>7772346
sunglasses.

don't do it tho, i was retarded and chose a shitty niche.

What is /dsg/? 4chan noob here

>>7772422
Dropshipping general.

It's not an actual board, more so a thread I would run from time to time before the crypto people overran /biz/

Solid info anon.

What modes of advertising have been most successful for you

>>7772345
3 months? foh
I attempted dropshittng with shopify last summer, but was only able to accomplish spending alot on ads. Really I just wanted 1 sale at that point.

>>7772532
Facebook ads but placement in Newsfeed and Instagram

>>7772537
Have you considered trying again with a different product / store / ad?

>>7772170
go work in the church faggot

This is biz.

>>7772670
what are some mistakes you made or things you regret that you wish you can go back and change?

>>7772808
Quite a few

I started FB Ads the same time as I did my influencer marketing. This is very bad for your FB Pixel.

I didn't buy a premium theme. Check out themeforest, the ones on Shopify are too expensive.

I cheaped out on applications too. Those extra few dollars a month on the Shopify Plan can make a huge difference to conversion ratio

How do you decide which product? If you were starting again what woudl you sell?

>>7772074

Congrats on those numbers, what's the profit? What's your main traffic source that converts best?

>>7772888
>I started FB Ads the same time as I did my influencer marketing. This is very bad for your FB Pixel.

Can you elaborate on this also?

>>7772935
Not clothing / wearables, probably accessories or gifts / toys

>>7772938
Profit is a little over half the income. Main source of traffic is FB Ads.

>>7772962
FB Pixel tracks who visits your site and makes a conversion / purchase. When used with FB ads this allows you to find your target audience very easily.
Traffic from influencers can throw off the pixel while it is still building

>>7773166

Any advice on getting started with FB ads? I have a Shopify drop ship site currently but organic traffic only, I've been putting off FB ads for a while because it's changed quite a bit since last time I used it several years ago.

My site converts and does pretty well - any things I should do or watch out for? Thanks a lot for the info btw and those numbers are awesome.

>>7773166

Also do you keep any inventory or do you drop ship everything? I have been keeping inventory of some things to make shipping easier, but wondering if there's a better way around this and what people at your scale do to make sure it's efficient/doesn't piss off customers.

Do customers complain about delivery time?
How do you deal with returns?

>>7773229
How did you generate organic traffic?

>>7773320

Instagram

>>7773330
Did you just build your own profile and shill shit?

>>7773229
If you have great organic traffic, that's really good.
You're off to a great start then. If I was you, I'd chuck on the FB Pixel and Google Analytics to start to find your target audience / most common customer. Get a decent amount of data before heading into FB ads. As for the actual advertisement, try to find a competitor and copy/alter their post.

>>7773269
>>7773301
returns of more expensive sunnies i get shipped to my p.o box and send them out again if they are in working condition to the next customer

>>7773301
Also

"Due to an unexpected increase in popularity, there is currently a slight delay on all orders." or some shit like that idk

>>7772074
how much money would you advise us to start with? is 5k enough to get started? also do you focus on one product, a few or more? Any tips on how to find products (searching alibaba/amazon etc?) thanks for this thread

>>7773402
5K is more than enough.
I've seen success with like $100 before.
Check out thieve.co for products.
I try to fill my store with products but mostly focus on selling 4-8

>>7773359

Yeah, using a paid cheap Chrome extension that just follows/unfollows to build the profile.

>>7773396

That's a good idea.

>>7773365

Might be hard to answer but how many creatives/ads are you running at any given time on FB? What style of ads work best (they have like 5 or 6 diff types now iirc, i.e. newsfeed, etc.)

>>7773451
Running about 12 ads, 2 types of ads to 6 audiences.
Newsfeed and Instagram I found are the best for me. I might A/B Messenger ads at one point

>>7773451
what app?

>>7773472

Excellent - any idea how much you pay per click on average or budget per day to start with?

>>7773502
I mean extension oops lol

>>7773502

The name changed a few times, search Instagram bot in Chrome extensions there's a lot of diff ones.

>>7773424
What are your margins like on each product?

How many products do you have at one time and starting off?

Does it cost you anything to add products to your site? Do you just find shit online and say you have it, then buy and ship it?

>all these newfags who don't know how to reverse image search
>all these newfags who don't know OP is simply shilling his drop shipping guides hoping you idiots will click his affiliate links
>all these newfags who don't recognize these threads were being posted months ago but now OP figured out a new method to shill

gullible retards will never make it. you'll just keep on buying more and more snake oil until you drown.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/239535273915017190/

>>7773504
At the start it was disgustingly high, just trying to get as much traffic to my pixel as possible. The more you can afford while still making a good profit on sale the better. Once you get a good campaign, it should lower the cost per conversion

>>7773562
The products cost me like $5-10 and I sell for over $50, but my expenses are adding up

>>7773575
Thats the point, it's free to add products, once they buy then you get supplier to ship to your buyer.

>>7773594
I have used this image many times. Its actually January 2017. Check Warosu, it's my image l0l. You'll find that it was posted on /biz/ before pinterest.

>>7773472
I didn't research much yet so sorry if this is easy to find. Could you give us a general idea on how shipping works? How do you ship from let's say alibaba to your customer? What's the service called?

>>7773594

Cubicle cuck detected, go back to fudding crypto like a good goy.

Return hell will probably keep me away from this forever.

>>7773670
I use Oberlo but it's changed a lot, don't use Oberlo Supply thats a scam.

Basically it goes like this.

Customer buys from your "store". You purchase from chinese aliexpress with their money. Chinkman ships it to your customer. You keep the extra money your customer pays compared to what you pay chinaboy

>>7773707
return hell is hell. Chargebacks on shopify are a bitch

>>7773472
>Newsfeed and Instagram
can you elaborate on instagram advertising? i never had ig

>>7773802
Instagram is like FB newsfeed but just photos.

So the instagram ad shows up like they follow somebody in their feed.

Hardest part for me is building a social media account. Takes forfuckingever

>>7773625
Any tips on how to scale the FB ads? When to ad more budget? I heard like always start with $5 / $50 and scale 16% a day not more

>>7772074
Do you have a discord where we could discuss this more??