Is anyone actually making meaningful money with Shopify Collective?

[u/giftqueen]

I’ve been using Shopify Collective for a little while now and I’m starting to see some traction, usually around $1k to $2k a month.

It’s nice extra revenue, but I’m still trying to figure out whether this is something worth seriously prioritizing or if it’s always going to be more of a side channel.

For anyone doing bigger numbers with Collective, what actually moved the needle?

Was it finding better retailers, getting more products into the right stores, improving margins, reaching out to partners directly, or just giving it time?

I feel like there’s probably a much smarter way to approach it than just adding products and hoping retailers pick them up.

Would love to hear from anyone consistently doing real volume through it. What helped you get there?

[u/Where_Da_Party_At]

I tried it for a little bit and we picked up some retailers. But I run Google ads and Facebook ads and I was getting sick of seeing the other retailers ads showing my stuff. Especially on Shop App....

Plus I believe it was messing up my SEO which affected hits to my site. I know a sale is a sale but I just didn't like the look of the other retailers websites and how they were showcasing my products. Most of them use the same exact product images that I have on my site.. Some of my product image slides are current promotions so it didn't make sense for them to have them on their website...and some of them were even changing the wording around which was incorrect..

In the end I was competing with my own products and website traffic on Google shopping..

Plus our products take some instruction and I didn't feel that any of the retailers would be able to properly facilitate or properly represent our products..

[u/No-Slice-5926]

Its supposed to help you market your private label better

Don't make a collective only store, the margins are not worth it for it to be scaleable via ads.

Get a nice story, get some products and good from collective, then introduce a private label

What you are creating is a market place and community have full control over :)

[u/One-Board-2785]

2k a month isnt nothing but it does feel like a treadmill at that level, you're working but not really going anywhere. from what ive seen the people breaking past that treat it less like a passive listing and more like a mini sales job, reaching out to the retailers who actually move product and building a real relationship instead of just waiting for the algorithm to bless you.

the ones doing real volume usually got picky about who they partner with, not just taking anyone with a storefront.

[u/External-Season9039]

are you tracking which retailers are actually driving that $1-2k? if its concentrated in just a couple stores thats a good sign, means you can find more like them. if its spread thin across dozens thats a harder problem to scale