/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>8172888

Making $8k a month with it. My gf runs the store for me. Sup?

>>8172939
how did you contact the products supplier? did you cold call/mail them?

>>8172939
What do u sell bro

>>8172888
make about 43k profit a month from all the dropshipping stores i own. the amount i spend on advertising is fucking insane.

BUMP someone please give the honest run down on stores prices and ads

>>8172988

Clothes.

>>8173003

Any tips on scaling or best paid traffic sources? Only just now scaling into AdWords.

>>8172888
I tried it with two stores.
Did advertising.
Did target marketing.
$0 in profits.
Never worked for me.

Had the site all set up neat with SEO and good images and layout and nothing worked

Waste of time and money because you're just upping the price for AliBaba shit

If I am wrong then help me start a store and I'll give you 50%

>>8173056
This. Everyone else that’s success full doing it is full of shit or barley breaking even

>>8173027
all my stores run on woocommerce and digital ocean hosting.

when i started i had about 100$, which i used for buying my first domain (and stuff related), buying hosting and then ads. i used the $5/month digital ocean hosting for a long time and then just scaled up as my website needed it. ALSO if you can turn profit off of say a 2-3% conversion rate from a $5-10/day ad on FB then the product is worth keeping/advertising.


>>8173048
best traffic source for me would be FB ads.

>>8173099

Lol. No, you just suck at it clearly. Kek.

>>8173056

Youre not wrong at all. Thats the outcome for most. Its a waste of time because everyones doing it now. Its all hype just like crypto was in december. Besides the profit margins are so small due to advertising and actually buying the product.

People chargeback because shipping takes longer than two days and you lose that money, this isnt a legit business, and it will die when the average consumer discovers alibaba and aliexpress

>>8172888
Dropship coin? What exchange is that listed on?

>>8172975
Not exactly what you asked for, but the article below should sum up most of the steps in a story-arc sort of way.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/01/the-strange-brands-in-your-instagram-feed/550136/

I'm fairly certain all the "just made 8K bro" responses are the same faggot though.

>>8173123
Thank you, I am glad you agree.

I can see it working with people who got in early but literally everyone and their dog has a drop shipping site selling scaled up AliWhatever

Dropshipping requires a clientele that is ignorant to where you're sourcing your product

>>8173156
Exactly and studies show that consumers become more intelligent each passing day.

Dropshipping is on its way out, just my opinion. And these fags saying they make so much from it are all selling courses lol

>>8173117

How many stores are you running total now? Have you sold any of them off?

>>8173123
>>8173156
>>8173205

Lol you idiots. Our store is like 6 months old, tops. Keep making excuses.

>>8173132

Back to r9k loser.

>>8173123
They already found out about the chink sites. People that are successful with this build them selfs a brand. Like how moves stats come out with a clothing line. It’s the same shit from veitnam but because your famous idiots will buy it

>>8172939
you're full of shit

Consumers will never buy from Alibaba that shit is bulk sales

>>8172888
I have a shopify store with over 10k SKUs of shirts with a bunch of social media bots reposting porn, memes, and shit literally from threads on 4chan. I used Ychan, which is a 4chan ripper. I have 1 employee (nigerian) that just posts new shirts on it, which he costs $200/month.

I'm making 600$/month in revenue so its a wash, but its all on autopilot and I neglect it hella.

>>8173118
Yea, then explain the process of "it" and what's involved or else you're full of shit

>>8173301

Stay poor brainlet.

>>8173269
Then link your store here tit-head

>>8173328
Ah your the price of Shit who was making “troll” guy shirts

This is my sales just this week. I'm still trying to figure out what I'm doing but I feel like I'm printing money for doing almost nothing

About to start selling stuff on FBA.

Am I gonna get cucked?

>>8173360

>>8173384
What do you sell?

>>8173254
8 stores and no I haven't sold any yet or have plans to.

>>8173384
You made minimum wage. grats

>>8173384
When did you start?

>>8173384

I also forgot to mention my product ships from the USA, so it takes 5-7 days for the product to get to the customer.

>>8173394
Clothing niche, not going to specify which one specifically it took me a year to finally find a winning product

>>8173390

Fba is harder due to storage fees but with the right item it can work still. I stopped doing it after their fee schedule got unpredictable but flipping textbooks through fba used to be great because they charged a way lower fee to store books.

>>8173420
I admire your honesty

So constant trial and error?
Did you break even?

>>8173390
Everyone does now. When amazon finds out that your making money from your chink source(and they will since you’re using their platform) they go them and undercut you

>>8173410

I've been working with dropshipping with almost no success for a year, but then I finally gained some common sense.

My shopify experience also helped me land at an ecomm gig wagecucking for a large retailer. I think it's hilarious though because shopify is so user friendly that anyone could literally do it

>>8173397

Do you fulfill any locally or is it all dropshipping? I’m fulfilling top selling items domestically and dropshipping the rest of the slower moving items.

>>8173420

Took you a year to make minimum wage.

Just sage

>>8173444
You are the man

The patience paid off it seems

>>8173444

You’re managing a retailers shopify store? Is that what you’re saying?

>>8173447
100% dropshipping

>>8173435

It's a lot of trial and error. I've been breaking even mostly, I may even be in the hole a little.

You need to find a product that solves peoples problems. That's literally what I failed to recognize and everyone says it.

People always try to dropship watches and they always fail because no one wants a chink watch and it isn't something that makes someone's quality of life better

Dropshipping is okay but you need to be willing to waste a lot of time on advertising platforms. I make my money else where in Internet Marketing. $5k/month working 2 hours a day right now. Will be opening a legitimate online store sourcing products from Alibaba come May, though.

>>8173479

Baller. Are you all in one vertical or is it spread out in all different niches? If that makes sense. Do you regret branching out to so many sites / wish you had just built up one big one or is it easy to manage that many?

>>8173459

I've enjoyed the process along the way, anon :)

>>8173470

I'm not managing it, but I work fulfilling orders and writing copy for the products

>>8173506

What kind of internet venture is making you $5k? niche affiliate site?

>>8173520
it's certainly not easy, but i don't honestly think it would be possible to be getting 43k a month from one store. some stores overlap niches with others, some are practically duplicates.

>>8173558

Are you spending six figures a year on fb ads then? I’d imagine it’s up there or close. Any shitty niches you recommend avoiding or that you’ve tried and given up on or anything like that? Or advice on automation (if you use any)? Might try duplicating our store.

>>8173548
Web dev + SEO for other people. Most people selling SEO or web dev don't have a single clue what they're doing. Makes it super easy for me to retain clients and make good money. I use a VA to do the stuff I don't want to.

>>8173673

How did you manage to get clients? I have pretty elementary/good SEO knowledge. How can I milk retards?

Bump

>>8173673
Where do you find clients? I am in the process of doing the same thing. I am a webdev for a big corporate place, I make great money but would like to automate my own thing so I can stay home and travel #cliche

>shopify
I've vetted a lot of the 'tubers. It's legit. The pessimism in this thread is kind of sad. I've sunk about $300 into shopify over the course of the last few months. Sure thats a lot but you learn what to do and what not to do. People say normies will figure out ali express. Not likely. Also you don't have to use aliexpress to sell stuff. Make your own shit. SHOPIFY is just a catch all phrase for internet marketing really. You can apply the same formula to lets say your bands album, or a self published cook book.

I haven't given up hope but I am discouraged. I'm starting to stray away from ali express flipping and sell my own digital goods. I was never able to CONVERT my ali express shit but was able to get decent traffic. So I will try something else.

>FBA
Great for beer money. There is a book store nearby that has a $1 section. I go once a week, grab 4-10 books, and flip on FBA. Also, they like to hold your money a lot which is a pain in the butt so like I said it's beer money. They also rape you in fees. However its not so bad since Im literally putting garbage in a cardboard box and sending it to them so meh.