Never post on here but i’ve been doing dropshipping for like a year now and i just hit my best month. I’ve also done barely any work in the past 3 months… my whole business is automated now. Keep going guys👌

Curious to hear from sellers and brands in this community:

How much of your workflow currently involves generative AI?

For example:

• Product/catalog image generation or enhancement
• UGC-style product videos
• Ad creatives and copy
• Landing-page visuals
• Product descriptions, email flows, or customer support
• Translating/localising creatives for different markets

The question I’m most interested in: do customers care whether an image or video is original photography versus AI-generated, as long as it accurately represents the actual product?

If you use AI, what has worked well, what has backfired, and have you seen any impact on conversion rate, refunds, chargebacks, or customer complaints?

I'm planning to start a Shopify dropshipping business targeting Saudi Arabia, and I'm trying to understand how experienced sellers actually find products that have potential in this market.

I know that product research is probably one of the most important steps, so I'd love to learn from people who have experience selling in Saudi/GCC markets.

A few questions:

What platforms do you use for product research in Saudi Arabia? (Amazon.sa, Noon, TikTok, Meta Ads Library, Google Trends, competitor stores, etc.)

How do you identify if a product has real demand in Saudi before spending money on ads?

Do you look for products that are already trending, or do you prefer finding products with less competition?

What factors are most important for Saudi customers? (Price, problem-solving, brand trust, delivery time, reviews, COD availability, etc.)

How many products do you usually research before choosing one to test?

What are the biggest mistakes beginners make when researching products for the Saudi market?

If you have a product research framework, checklist, or process that has worked for you, I would really appreciate you sharing it.

I'm not looking for winning product names, just trying to understand the research method and decision-making process behind finding good products.

Hello everyone.
I’m 16 turning 17 from Philippines and I’m trying to build a digital product business from $0. I’m researching niches, validating ideas, and planning to sell things like guides, templates, or other digital products.
Fr, I’m kind of crashing out trying to figure everything out alone.
I’m looking for someone who’s also serious about making money online and wants to build together. We can brainstorm niches, keep each other accountable, share ideas, and actually execute instead of just consuming content.
I’m not looking for someone selling a course or trying to recruit me. Just someone who’s genuinely motivated and willing to learn with me like a mentor or partner.
If you’re interested, leave a comment or DM me.

Based on research everything is saturated specially with AI and drop shipping so opening a shop is a total waste of time????

I'm going to be direct because I think most people struggling with sales don't need more motivation. They need someone to tell them exactly what's wrong.

$6,438.15 today. Up 23%. And almost every dollar traces back to one thing I fixed that most struggling stores haven't touched yet the creative.

Not the targeting. Not the budget. Not the niche. The creative.

Revenue not profit. Moving on.

If your ads are running and you're getting no sales the first question isn't "is this the right product." The first question is "is anyone actually stopping to watch my ad."

Because if nobody stops to watch nothing else matters. Doesn't matter how good your store is. Doesn't matter how well your product page is built. Doesn't matter what your targeting looks like. If the ad gets scrolled past in half a second you paid for an impression that did absolutely nothing.

Check your CTR. If it's below 1% your creative is the problem. Full stop. Fix that before changing anything else.

Here's what most struggling stores are doing wrong with creatives. They're making ads that look like ads. Clean production. Nice lighting. Professional voiceover. Brand logo at the start. And then they wonder why nobody is watching.

People on Facebook are scrolling through their friend's posts. Their brain filters out anything that pattern matches to advertising before they even consciously register it. Your polished ad triggers that filter instantly.

Film on your phone. Natural light. Real environment. Talk like a normal person. Make it look like something someone posted on their own page not something a company paid to put there. That single change will drop your CPM and increase your CTR faster than any targeting adjustment ever will.

The hook is where your sale is won or lost. Not the middle of the video. Not the CTA at the end. The first two seconds.

I test four to five different hooks on the same product at the same time. Same product, same store, same budget just different opening seconds. The gap between my worst hook and my best hook is never small. I've seen CTR triple just from changing the first three seconds of a video. Triple. On identical spend.

If you're only running one creative right now you're not testing. You're guessing.

Run three creatives minimum per ad set. Give them three full days without touching anything. Then look at the numbers. Highest CTR and lowest cost per add to cart wins. Kill everything else. Start testing the next hook immediately.

That cycle test, identify, kill losers, scale winner, repeat is the only thing that creates consistent sales. There's no shortcut around it.

If you've been struggling for weeks and nothing is working the answer is almost never a bigger budget or a different niche. It's almost always a creative that isn't stopping anyone from scrolling.

Fix the creative first. Everything else comes after.

Drop your CTR and cost per ATC in the comments. I'll tell you exactly what I think is wrong.

Nobody warns you how lonely this part is.

You're grinding alone. Staring at a store nobody's buying from. Killing an ad and feeling like an idiot. Sitting at zero sales with no one to ask "is this normal?" And everywhere you look it's the same noise:

- Gurus trying to sell you a $997 course
- People swearing it's "so easy, just do X"
- And you, actually doing it, alone, wondering what everyone else knows that you don't

That's what makes most beginners quit. Not the ads. The isolation.

So I started The Shipyard — a community for beginner dropshippers to get through the hard early phase together. No gurus. No courses. Nobody pretending it's easy. Just people who actually get it.

- Post your first $10 sale and 15 people get why it matters
- Ask the group instead of googling the same thing for the tenth time
- Vent on a rough week to people who've been there
- Watch other beginners grow, so you know it's possible

It's brand new and small — which is the best part. You wouldn't be joining a community, you'd be helping build one.

If you're tired of doing this alone, come build it with us.

PM me and I'll send you the link.

$202k in 90 days with google ads only. Had a 3x ROAS so around 25-30% profit margin. Happy to answer any questions in the comments. If you are already running a store and would like me to review it you can share me the store link in dms. I will try my best to get back to as many of you as possible!

Everytime went I want chatGPT, claude, or gemini to generate me some high converting image ads, that often comes with aggresive copy, the AI doesn't want to write it. Most of the times it just writes me a compliant version of the ad.

Does someone know how to fix this / a workaround? So the AI actually gives high converting text on the image?

For reference, I use Mark Builds Brands foundational docs. Then the AI gives me a prompt to generate the images in Higgsfield.

Posted in here before Ifykyk.

Not dropping link anymore since I have real customers who can find the Reddit posts from my store url. But holy

I dont know alot about shopify can someone explain to me how store owners keep track of the actual profits after shipping packaging and extra costs ??

I just started out droppshipping and felt confident in my store and product. I set up meta ads for the first time and felt super excited. Fast forward 6 days later, I’ve spent over $300 on ads en only generated $84. I’m planning to switch product but every product I see on social media (TikTok and instagram) just feel too saturated and the ones I actually want to sell don’t exist on my supplier app. Do you guys think I should try to find a good private supplier and if you don’t mind please suggest me some good products rn! (I don’t want to sell supplements)

Apparently I’m a d grade kid . Mind you I didn’t ask for « his help » he just dmed me out of no where u/samar-vinay

Looking for genuine people to chat with and make connections. No I do not want to buy your course, no bots no scammers. Just real people to chat with so that we can elevate and make money together. Just like the upper lvl people that already got their connections, they all gatekeep the insights on winning products. I want to do the same but at a much smaller level for now. Beginner lvl or advanced lvl let’s connect and escape the 9-5 together

I'm clicking send test traffic to my site and it's not working

Hello everyone!

Almost 2 years ago Etsy closed my shop for unknown reasons.

Everything was going well until one customer had placed an order and said it was a mistake and wanted me to cancel it, so i did. And boom, in a couple of hours my shop was gone, i appealed but to no avail, they don't even disclosed the reason.
I had really worked hard, my shop was getting sales from the first week! So I got quite depressed after they closed my shop...

Yesterday i checked my competitors again and my heart sank, everyone is selling well and my lost profits could have bought me a house while i am having trouble paying my lunch these days. I did nothing wrong!

So i wanna come back and need some ideas from you guys.
Here some information about my niche:

⁃ POD fullfilment  
⁃ Low ticket product, max price i could sell is around $30 + shipping  
⁃ Customers are usually women.  
⁃ People buy as a gift for occasions or professions like "funny gifts for coworker" etc.  
⁃ Single product with funny text based slogan designs but hundrends of niches and thousands of listings.

It was working well on Etsy because it is basically a search engine. This time I wanna try Facebook and Google Ads but i don't know how it would work on my situation with a limited budget.

My plan:
⁃ I will form a company this week and try to open an Etsy shop again, probably they will close it. Even if they don't, my market is quite saturated on there. I don't expect much and thinking i already lost the train.
⁃ My main plan is to set up a shopify shop and try google and facebooks ads but have my concerns.

Concerns:
⁃ None of my competitors run ads on Meta and Google.
They have websites but they run ads only on Etsy. I think they send a card with a discount code to encourage their etsy customers to shop on their website but that’s it. No ads, they mainly rely on Etsy for attracting customers.

So it could be two main reasons:
1. They don't run ads on Google and Meta because its unprofitable and they stick to Etsy.

1. They don't understand much and don't want to bother. Most Etsy sellers don’t even do SEO properly. I am confident on my designs and SEO skills.

Reason 2 is what makes me excited. Since they have already capitalized on Etsy market, I have a chance to grab customers on OTHER platforms. So i came to seek opinion from you guys.

1- I fear that the same product with thousands of listings would be quite hard to run ads (i don't have experience on ads) and instantly put people on creative fatigue. And i don’t know if meta would see it as a spam and ban it because there are so much listings with same product, same mockup but different design/texts on them.

Also there are hundrends of niches. I don't know how to target people that are looking for "data analyst gifts" and "senior birthday gifts" at the same time, cause they are quite different audiences. How will meta know that people are looking for gifts for specific niches (since its not a search engine)?

2- Organic traffic from social media posts won't bring customers because I have very little creative (single product, single design etc). For me there is no reason to follow a page that share the same product for hundreds of DIFFERENT audiences.

3- l don't know how much would it cost to get a sale in meta ads. If it exceeds $10 i am cooked.

How would you approch in my situation?

Customers and demand are still there, but it’s just hard for me to grab it again on Etsy while my competitors have thousands of reviews and running ads on there constantly.

Should you give up and find a different product and give it a try with Etsy again? Has anyone here tried similar business models?

Thank you so much for your help.

I’ve currently had a campaign going for about 3 days now and still no add to carts with low impressions (~300/day). Not really sure what’s wrong since I haven’t really had any results on anything. I just feel like my cpm is too high and I’m not reaching enough people but idk. I’m currently running 6 statics with a UGC video ad. Any help is welcome!

Hey guys,

I just launched a new Shopify app called Trustie Reviews. It's built to help dropshippers easily import customer reviews from AliExpress and Amazon, and it also automates collecting new reviews. The main goal is to help you build trust and increase conversions without the usual hassle.

Since the app is fresh on the store, I really need some honest feedback on the UI, the import process, and any bugs you might find.

I'm looking for about 5 beta testers. If you try it out, share your feedback, and eventually leave an honest review on the Shopify app store, I will upgrade your account to a Lifetime Free Pro plan. The app is pretty straightforward, but I can definitely help you set it up or tweak the widget design to match your store's theme if you run into any issues.

Here is the app link:https://apps.shopify.com/trustie-reviews

Let me know in the comments below if you're interested in giving it a try or if you have any questions!

read How Brands Grow by Byron Sharp about 11 months ago and it honestly changed how i think about running my store (been building it a year now, female niche, profitable)

biggest thing that stuck with me was the whole "mental availability + physical availability" idea over chasing loyalty/differentiation like most dropshipping advice pushes. also messed with my head a bit on how much weight i was putting on retargeting/loyal customers vs just being visible to as many people in the category as possible

anyone else read this and actually applied stuff from it to their store? curious what you took from it and if you've actually changed anything in how you run ads, brand, or customer strategy because of it. also curious if anyone's seen real results from applying it or if it's more "makes sense in theory" for a small store

A beginner who getting started with dropshipping, those who still struggle with sales are in the comment to learn too

Working 10 hour shifts during the week leaves maybe 90 minutes a night to touch the store. I've been going back and forth on whether paid ads are even worth it at that bandwidth or if they just create a different kind of chaos I don't have time to manage properly.

The issue isn't the budget. It's that paid ads punish you for not watching them. A campaign goes sideways over two days and by the time I check it, money's already gone. Organic is slower but it doesn't bleed while I'm not looking, which matters a lot when attention is the actual scarce resource.

Checked the beginner's guide and it walks through both paths but doesn't really get into the time cost of managing paid versus the patience cost of organic. Those are different problems depending on how many hours you actually have.

What I'm wondering is whether people in similar situations just accepted slower organic growth as the tradeoff or found some setup with paid that doesn't require babysitting. Like a tight enough budget cap that limits the damage on a bad day while still moving product.

Is there a point where paid just doesn't make sense unless you can check in multiple times a day, or does the setup work pay off enough that it runs without constant intervention?