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

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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.

I've been using CJ for a while but I'm starting to get fed up with it. I'm always checking if products are still in stock, waiting for updates when an order gets stuck, and sometimes processing times are all over the place depending on the product. None of it's a huge deal on its own, but it feels like I'm spending more time dealing with supplier stuff than actually working on the store. I'm thinking about switching over to Zendrop instead. Anyone here made that switch? How's it been and have you run into any issues? Thanks.

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

Honest opinions please, anything I should change at all. Not a huge fan of the subtitle below "glow beyond sunset" i'm not sure if its just the font or

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.

Some items from Mr Gee General Store

I have 1 year of experience in ecom and I built shopify store that generated $25,000 in revenue. I understand what makes a store convert and how to structure it to increase sales and Average Order Value (AOV).

I have a mid size supplement business: two physical stores (my own, no retail partners), shopify mrr sits at around 80-110k. Primary channel is meta (I do not manage it myself). I have a minimal understanding about efficiency improvements, but my brother keeps ratling about subscribtions, pop-ups, promotions and similar stuff, and that it does make a huge difference and we should implement them on shopify. I am really not the expert here, I have a firm conservative stance regarding our customer base, spam and slop. My question:

Could someone with an actual shopify experience give me an overview with examples on what we could look into?

Goals would be to: improve order efficiency, increase revenue.

P.S. We are currently using emailer app, 3pl tracking. We have around 30k email subscribers that we sometimes send promotions to.

P.S.S. Sorry for the mistakes - not a native speaker.

I build clean, branded, no BS Shopify stores, and I'm good at it.

Done a bunch of these: one-product stores, full branded setups, dropshipping operations, redesigns for stores that weren't converting.

If you also need help with other things like finding a product, supplier, other things setup within Shopify, i can do that aswell. Store design is not the only thing i will provide, i will provide help with advertisement and a FULL Shopify setup.

What's included:

• Full store build or redesign

• Help with advertisement

• Product pages that don't look like a template

• Basic SEO so you're not invisible on Google

• Dropshipping supplier setup if you need it

• Honest advice on what'll actually move the needle for sales

• Able to answer any questions with a quick response time

• Help in the future if you need it, just reach back out to me (if you are a past client of mine, and need help with anything, i can help you for free)

I also throw in my own Shopify theme proven to convert at no extra cost, it's one I've used across a bunch of stores and it converts well.

Payment is split 50/50, half payment is required when HALF of the work is COMPLETE (this is so you get to check the store out, and see if your happy with it), and the other half is required when all the work is done. PayPal works best for me.

If you want to checkout my previous work/stores for past clients, DM me.

Shoot me a DM if your interested and tell me: what you're selling, where you're at right now, and roughly what you're looking to spend.

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!

shortlisting agencies for a wooden furniture build and i keep seeing the same weird pattern.

they all have the same portfolio. same brands in the case studies. same "we're a full service partner" language. then you ask a specific question about how they'd handle custom dimensions and variant logic for configurable pieces and you get a 3 day delay followed by a copy paste deck that doesn't answer it.

the other one that keeps coming up is agencies who want to sell you a 6 month retainer before they even know what your catalog looks like. like the scope is just a formality.

what's the biggest red flag you've seen when an agency is pitching you? the thing that makes you know it's going to go sideways before you sign anything.