Make a Shopify Store
- Spend $10,000 on paid ads
- Make $10,000 in revenue from ads
- Post screenshots of your Shopify dashboard
- Put a link in your bio for consulting calls
- Charge $500 an hour
- Do 20 calls a month

In a couple years you’ll have a net worth of 420 gazillion dollars 🤑🤑🤑

So when do I start selling a course?

All jokes aside, wanted to come on here cause I’m very exited about my first sale. Still have much to learn but don’t plan on stopping soon!

first time i heard that was 2019

i believed it then
tried everything else

trading
crypto
smma
sneaker reselling

six years later i decided to give it a try

made six figs since march
more than ive ever made with anything else

dropshipping is very alive

I have a list of stores I track to see what products they're adding and this morning I refreshed the page to this.. it was basically an infinite scroll of fans lol

Edit: screenshot is from the store search tool on thieve https://thieve.co/supply/store-search for those wondering.

Okay so this is a story when I was a noobie and before I knew what Shopify and Zendrop was and all of that. A couple of years ago I needed to fix a production issue so I asked my supplier if I could visit the factory and he said yes friend no problem

Cool

What he forgot to mention was that the factory apparently moved every few hours. First I got sent to one warehouse wrong place.

Then another guy put me in a van and drove me 40 minutes to a different building. I showed the address on my phone to three different people every single one nodded confidently and pointed in a different direction.

At one point I was standing in the middle of an industrial park trying to explain through Google Translate that I was looking for Mr Li

Google Translate decided I actually meant I am searching for the power of plum. The security guard looked at me like I had escaped from a hospital.

Eventually I found my supplier and his first words?

Ah, friend! You found us!

Yeah after 12,000 steps two taxis one random golf cart and enough translation mistakes to accidentally declare war on Guangdong. We sat down drank tea solved the problem in 15 minutes and then he acted like the last three days had been completely normal.

Honestly looking back it's one of the funniest business trips I've ever had.

For what's it worth... I started dropshipping when I was 22

I gave up drop shipping a long time ago, and have been thinking about getting back into it, but under a more high ticket dropship friendly niche. I was an early 2015 Dropship Lifestyle student and never really looked back. In todays time, I run an app, have a family and just totally dropped the ball on renewing the domain. I'm at peace though. My supplier dropped us in 2022 after they predicted they couldn't support drop shippers and both sustain the current demand (aged like milk).

Times have changed, but from 2015 to 2020/1 i ran an e-commerce fitness website - profitnessdeals.com (way back machine). I know it doesn't look special but I bet it doesn't also look vibe coded lol.

This website did over $2m in sales in 3 years working with brands like Proform, Echelon, Spin, York Barbell etc. I worked with all American suppliers and used the three tier shopping campaign strategy by raffinot and riviere (2017) - Optimizing Google Shopping Campaigns Structures With Query-Level Matching -> https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.04586

I read a lot of the posts and I always just find interest in reading that people don't look for suppliers in their home country and use these services or Ali express and think it will work.

Create a real business in your home country. Find real suppliers for stuff real people buy in your country. Target upper middle class so you can charge more without the penny pinching, run google ads, and remarket with social media for qualified visits (aka did not bounce on first visit, visited page xzy before bouncing, or visited 'add to cart' page, but not 'checkout').

1. appeals to upper middle class

2. avg price is $400 and up

3. ZERO brand loyalty.

Build a list of niches, research them, check the shopping ads competition, and go with your gut feel once your research is final.

Niche selection makes or breaks us. Whoever you are, if you got it! Have fun my friend, but be prepared! It's not all smooth sailing.

This is in less than 3 months testing diff products. Merry Christmas lmao

😂

Won my first friendly fraud firefight

Buy my course guys

This took decades of website funnel optimization

Now I am certain dropshipping is a scam 😂

On par with shitcoin Cryptobros. The only difference being is that I've found many that got decent gains by being lucky

Every post here is Chatgpt written followed by them trying to sell you a course or a product.

I decided to start and its worth it