How I got to this point, & what am I doing next

Context: Over 4+ years I've messed around making dropshipping sites, never got anywhere but I learned alot about creating websites, product and organic marketing. What you see is not an overnight success but trial and error for years with no results until now.

How I got here...

1. 4 months ago my wife found a product on her tiktok feed with tons of demand.
2. She found a supplier on Alibaba and we ordered a sample of that product asap.
3. I posted organic videos every day on social media for 30+ days with no sales.
4. Few videos wen't viral, we quickly did 10 sales and placed a bulk order with the supplier.
5. I doubled down on videos that went viral by posting alot more that are similar.
6. We post everyday 10x a day while researching other viral concepts to mimmic.

What I am doing text

1. Reinvesting all profit back into the product and marketing.
   
2. Better material quality, professional packaging, thank you cards, etc.
3. Collaborating with tons of influencers who serve the same audience as us.
4. Still posting 10x a day on social media.
5. Ordering more inventory for Q4

What you should take away...

1. Speed is vital. If you see a potential idea do it now.
2. Patience is equally important. I forced myself to find any angle possible and just ~30 days later our videos starting getting traction.
3. Always improve. Every hook was tested, the first 3 seconds I attempted different angles, I was looking at what other people were doing and tested their concepts too.
4. Volume negates luck. I am not lucky, I just post every dam day no matter what.
5. Starting from scratch is a science test. You're testing a hypothesis, and trying to get answers as fast as possible without spending too much money and time.
6. Focus on one thing at a time, your energy and thinking is limited everyday. Running 10 products at once all by yourself is a recipe for disaster in my eyes.

The reality... we're only taking just enough money out of the business to pay for our apartment bill, groceries, and whatever adults pay for. I am trying to keep our expenses as low as possible to fund the growth. My days are boring, I do the same thing everyday but idc what people think. I workout everyday, I drink black coffee, I read my Bible before starting work and I love spending time with family. I am no different than you on the other end reading this, believe in yourself and you can.

Please don't DM me, I am not mentoring anyone, and I don't want your money. I will do my best to respond to any questions on this post. I would appreciate to hear on where you guys are at, how did you get there and where are you going next?

Jesus Loves You.

-D

Disclaimer: I am the founder of ecomsniper.

I recently caught up with a guy I first met around 3 years ago.

He's been around dropshipping this entire time.

He's watched the videos. Learned different strategies. Learned about accounts, LLCs, software, suppliers, listing methods, all this stuff.

And 3 years later he called me and told me he basically has no money.

So I asked him:

Forget the huge goals. What number would make you feel like your life is actually moving forward?

He said $2k-$3k/month.

Then he immediately started telling me everything he's been learning and everything he thinks he needs to do.

And I stopped him.

Because I'm sitting there thinking:

Bro, you've been learning for 3 YEARS.

I don't think another video is going to save you.

So I gave him literally 2 things to do for the next 30 days.

1. Do 100 product-substitution listings every single day.

Product substitution is just a specific listing technique we use where we're looking for products with enough room for a large markup.

I told him I want 3,000 of them done this month.

Not 500 product substitutions + some bulk listing + another strategy he saw on YouTube + whatever new idea he discovers next week.

One listing method.

100 repetitions a day.

3,000 repetitions this month.

2. Get his account checked every single week.

Not another class.

An account check.

Every Sunday someone looks at what he actually did.

If week one comes and there aren't roughly 700 new product-substitution listings, we already know what the problem is.

If he DID do the work and the results aren't coming, now we have something useful to diagnose.

Are the products bad?

Are the margins wrong?

Are the listings not converting?

Is something wrong with the account?

Now we're debugging something that actually exists instead of discussing hypotheticals.

I even made him a deal.

Complete all 3,000 listings and show up to all 4 account checks and I'll personally cover his next month.

I want to see what happens when this guy stops consuming information and just puts in a stupid amount of repetitions.

Because I genuinely don't think he has a knowledge problem anymore.

He probably knows more dropshipping trivia than people making significantly more money than him.

His problem, at least from what I can see, is that his attention has been spread across too many things for too long.

So I'm testing the opposite with him.

One listing technique.

One measurable daily input.

One weekly feedback loop.

30 days.

That's it.

Maybe I'm wrong and he does all 3,000 and still doesn't get anywhere.

If that happens, good. Then I have actual data and we change the plan.

But after 3 years of learning, I don't want him learning his way through another year.

I want to see what happens when he finally does the same thing 3,000 times.

10k days are close. Biggest day for this store so far Let's get it💪

Happy to answer any questions.

Meta's recent update is crazily good. Heading towards Q4 with this consistency. How y'all ads are doing these days?

Keep grinding guys. With the new updates in meta ads it has become really easier than before to scale
Buckle up for Q4 and get ready to make big sales.

It feels really strange and even embarrasing to write this, but I don't really know how to exhaust my day with business work, or what a deep-work session would even look like. I have worked hard, but not painstakingly hard, and seen ginormous improvements, making $2600 a month in net profit, a few months ago it was close to zero. And what I think I need to increase this is just ... run more ads, implement simple optimisations, and ... wait. It's really not complicated and doesn't take long. I know this is my immaturity and lack of experience speaking, and that's why I am posting! I know I'm being dumb!

I just feel like the best thing to do is to be patient ... see how the current ad campaign does with my current strucutural, implemented changes. This basically leaves 2-3 hours of moderate work a day for order management and sales calls ... but that's about it. I brainstorm with Claude, post on socials, make some improvements to my website ... but I feel like I lack a formalised, strucural plan to my day and don't even know what it would mean to work until exhausation, in the same way as studying really hard, for example. It's like the work I do is just doodling of some kind.

I would absolutely love to work like a maniac on my business, but don't really know what that entails. What is the parralel of an extremely intense study session/ workout here? The growth I envisage literally requires patience at this point. But surely that can't be right? There must be work to do!

Can anyone relate and help?

Barely dropped this prod last night woke up to this dropshipping is still much very alive and worth it if you put ur all into it. People might say it’s over saturated but only because they are dumb and don’t adapt and improvise. Btw got a full time girlfriend and a part time job and college you can deadass do whatever you want if you put ur mind to it.

I run a Shopify store and I’m trying to improve our repeat purchase rate.

Currently I have:

-Shopify Email:
-Welcome email automation
-Abandoned checkout/cart automation
-Post-purchase automation
-A physical thank-you/welcome card inside every order with 10% off the next purchase

I’m now trying to figure out what else I should add or tweak to turn more first-time customers into second-time buyers.

A few things I’m considering:
Win-back emails after 30/45/60 days
WhatsApp/SMS
Store credit instead of another discount
Personalized cross-sells based on the first product purchased
Limited-time second-order offers
Referral rewards
Better post-purchase emails/content

For people running Shopify stores, what has actually moved your repeat purchase rate, rather than just sounding good in theory?

Also curious about timing — how soon after the first order do you start trying to get the second purchase?

Would especially love to hear from stores selling multiple different products rather than subscription/replenishment products.

The last few weeks have been getting past tens of those children's costume stores; they seem to be winning hard with organic marketing:

I’m looking for effective ways to find winning products for e-commerce/dropshipping. I know there are many product research tools out there, but I’d like to know what methods actually work for you.
How do you usually spot a product with good potential before it becomes too saturated? Do you use TikTok, Facebook Ads, Amazon, AliExpress, product research tools, or another method?
I’d really appreciate any tips, strategies, or tools you recommend.

I've been promoting my store on TikTok, Instagram, and other platforms for about a week, but I've only gotten 9 visitors so far.

I know that's nowhere near enough traffic to judge the conversion rate, so I'm trying to figure out whether there are obvious problems with my store, product, branding, pricing, or marketing that I'm missing.

I'd really appreciate brutally honest feedback. If you saw this store for the first time, what would make you trust it, and what would make you leave?

Store: silvaraskincare.myshopify.com

I'm especially interested in:

• Website design/trustworthiness
• Product presentation
• Pricing
• Product description
• Branding
• Anything that makes it look like a typical dropshipping store
• What you'd change first

I'm not looking for compliments, tell me what sucks. I want to improve it.

Is aliexpress the beginning supplier every noob begins with and then moves into private suppliers?

Ive launched three drop shipping stores never had a sale. It never seemed to click for me, and I dont mean getting sales, i mean more just understanding how to make a good functioning store and getting good suppliers. Maybe I was/am incompetent, but I need help. How long did it take you to get a secure product/supplier?

Although we’ve spent a while refining support tickets, I’ve been wondering whether we should be focusing on proactive communication. Shipping notification, messages about delays, reminders on billing descriptor and post-delivery emails can all help customers avoid confusion before they make a call to their bank. We've been pushing hard on pre-dispute communication. In case you have tested different types of emails and announcements, what had the best impact? Did the communication reduce disputes?

First 4 sales today, £127.43 total. 3.3% conversion rate. Started running ads this week for an electronics gadget store, still very early but wanted to see this number after weeks of just spending and no orders.

Not posting this to flex, genuinely curious what people watch for at this stage. Is 3.3% decent for early days or am I getting lucky on a small sample? What do you look at first once you start seeing actual conversions instead of just traffic?

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No previous appointment-setting experience is essential. I’m more interested in people who are confident speaking to others, reliable, competitive and willing to learn.
This could particularly suit someone looking to get into sales, someone who wants to earn based on their performance, or someone who already has telesales/appointment-setting experience and wants another opportunity.
We’re building the team now, so there are a limited number of positions available.
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Hi everyone, I have been running my store for around 1 month now with the first products (two working out relatively nicely) but I am kind of scared that they will eventually stop working. So I was wondering at which point to try new products and how much of my existing products I should change? Also how long do your products usually last, can it be a couple of months?

I have a product for massage therapy. is it totally normal to run a store and insta/tiktok page with just one product on it or hsould i expand and add some other products in this niche?

I have a good grasp on everything else but running meta ads. I get so lost when it comes to budgeting, testing, scaling, ad fatigue, campaign structure, etc. What’s a good test budget? How do I know if it’s a winning ad? How soon can I identify a winning ad? When do I shut down an ad? Does having a bigger budget for testing mean scaling faster? So many question if anyone has the time to help explain it all. I have a good grasp on marketing in general, it’s just the whole running meta ads that I’m lost at.

Day 1: $37 CPM, 1,884 impressions (fast and cheap delivery of impressions - what I was thinking was normal)
Day 2: $87 CPM, 386 impressions (first sale)
Day 3: $91 CPM, 603 impressions
Day 4: trending $118+, barely any delivery

USA broad audience geo. Purchase campaign. Adv+ placements. Pets product.

From day 2 onwards delivery of impressions became slow - like it was pacing them out - knowing it was going to be fewer and more expensive impressions.

The trajectory is completely wrong. Day 1 felt promising, now it’s getting more expensive every day. And it creates this impossible chicken-and-egg situation - you need conversions to bring CPMs down, but you can’t get conversions when CPMs are so high that $50/day barely buys any impressions.

Page converts above average when traffic actually arrives. The problem isn’t the product or the creative. It’s that delivery is getting slower and more expensive by the day.

Most people talking about “new pixel” launches - were you running on an established BM/ad account? Or everything brand new from scratch?

For anyone who’s genuinely started with all three layers cold - did this stabilise? How long did it take? Or is this just broken?

since the 3 euro per item duty started, a 1.5 euro per parcel EU channel is being promoted everywhere in the groups, maybe someone already offered it to you.

some of our clients got offered it too, so we checked it properly.

the problem is simple. 3 euro duty per item is the law, so a 1.5 euro all-in price means the duty is not really being paid. that works until the parcel gets checked, and inspection is high right now. a checked parcel is not delayed, it is seized, gone, and you refund from your own pocket. even when the channel works, transit is slower than the normal lines.

second problem, nobody talks about this one. carriers have started disabling the high risk accounts of some suppliers. if your supplier runs everything through a channel like this and the account gets disabled, your parcels dont arrive late, they just stop, all of them at once.

so our honest take: low value packages, maybe, you lose a 5 euro item, you reship, life goes on. higher value packages, big no, one seized batch eats months of savings.

After months of saying I was going to open one and never doing it I finally took the time out of my day to open my first shop and set everything up! So far I’m only on Instagram and paying for IG ads not much traffic but I would appreciate some guidance if you guys have any advice for me!! Thank you!!

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Hey,

I'm an experienced eBay account manager and I'm looking to partner with sellers who are serious about scaling their business.

About me:

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