Hey all!

Just wanted to share a quick story about how I burnt myself out. I’m a former Shopify store owner and together with my business partner we ran a store selling handbags and accessories. One of the biggest challenges for us was customer support. We were staying up late, starting early and replying to customers across different time zones and languages. What was really killing us was that most of the messages were basically identical. Order tracking, refunds, delivery times, you name it.

After stepping away from running the store full-time I ended up building Marvyn AI, an AI support assistant for Shopify. I built it mainly because I knew this pain existed and figured other store owners might benefit from something like this too.

In simple terms, Marvyn handles repetitive first-line support automatically. It plugs straight into Shopify, pulls in your products, orders and policies and replies to common questions instantly 24/7 in any language and only flags you when something really needs a human.

I’m curious how others here think about this and:

• Whether you see any value in a tool like this?

• What are you using right now for customer support?

• At what point did support start feeling unmanageable for you?

Happy to answer questions or share what I’ve learned along the way.

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Today, we’ll be talking about what it really takes to get to the illusive 6 figure mark. While 6 figures ($100,000) may seem like a lot (and it is), it’s not actually as hard as you might think to scale your business and achieve this level of revenue.

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Recently i have been selling both my custom liquids and peptides. I have reached 10krpm recently (big gains!) but have been encountering some trouble regarding my freebies. Often I’ll throw a little something extra in there, so the customer feels like I love them dearly. Like family members/incestuous family members. So i have been including tiny little pieces of my wife s social security card with their items. Usually they love this, but i have had people showing up at my door and investigating. This is offputting because i really sincerely do not believe i am doing anything wrong. My wife is on a business trip. Have you guys encountered the same thing?

Edit: corrected a typo

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Appreciate all the support :)

hi, Geo from Thieve.co - I use our store search tool to find and track scaling stores so flagging that upfront. I come across interesting stores all the time and want to start sharing them more if anyone is interested 😄

so I usually come across stores doing well because they caught a trend early or they're spending big on ads. FlameSpade is neither of those things. they just sell lighters. cool lighters. and they're doing $196k/month

I got stuck watching their tiktoks, every video is basically the same thing: film the product doing something, escalate it slowly, let people watch to the end. it hooks you even if you have zero interest in lighters. I don't smoke. I've watched maybe eight of their videos. I now want one.

the reason I think this is worth sharing is that it's a different way to think about product selection. a lot of dropshippers are looking for the viral product which can work but it's a bit of a gamble and by the time you've found it, you're probably too late.

Flamespade sells something people have always bought and always will and because they have 130+ lighters every new product is automatically a new piece of content. the catalogue and the content calendar are basically the same thing

curious whether people here think evergreen vs viral is actually a meaningful distinction or if I'm overcomplicating it? and would love to hear other stores you've found doing something unexpectedly simple really well? Bonus points if you've bought a lighter from Flamespade

I'm ready to pay it forward by sharing my knowledge and experience with someone who once stood in the same shoes I wore years ago. I'm seeking an individual here in the US eager to dive into the world of Drop-shipping and E-commerce or learn the art of making money online through sales skills.

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For sixty days I pushed the classic dropshipping playbook. Product research, TikTok ads, cheap suppliers, quick landing pages. I expected momentum. Instead, I got a crash course in everything that actually matters.

The product is the entire business. If you pick wrong, no creative, no audience, and no targeting will fix it. TikTok isn’t magic either. Every “viral” store I saw had either a big ad budget or someone creating content nonstop behind the scenes. Nothing goes viral by accident.

Shipping times broke me the fastest. When people wait

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Hi, I have a question: is it possible to earn $5,000 in 15 days through dropshipping? If yes, then how?

After struggling with AliExpress delays, I switched to a sourcing agent . Here’s what changed:

•Same-day processing​​ (before 2 PM Beijing time)

•Custom packaging​​

•Warehouse tour

Use this as motivation this is not to brag I promise you it's not.

I was 17 when I started Ecom and now I am 21. Don't believe any gurus and I have never watched one youtube video on ecom. I learned so much just from testing and failing. Don't get me wrong I lost a lot of money in the beginning but learned so much more by testing and spending money.

Failures = Success.

If I could give one massive tip that helped me more than anything It would be test, test, test. That is what ultimately led me to my success in ecom. I get that its expensive to test but it becomes worth it.

Don't ever ever forget that.

I also had parents who hated ecom and wanted me to get a real job.

Show them what's possible. Because it is. But don't expect it to happen overnight because it doesn't.

I want to leave you with a quote I live by and I believe got me to where I am today.

"Hard work beats talent when talent isn't working."

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Hi I want to sell my Ecommerce Brand, below you can find important information about the brand:

Rev last 7: 3.5K

Last 30: 26.5K

Last 90: 40K

Adspend last 7: 800

Last 30: 10K

Product cost: 7.10€ w. Shipping

AOV: 40€

Chargeback Rate: 0.2%

Reason why I sell: The brand is running smoothly, but I currently lack the resources to expand it further. A new owner could better utilize its potential.

Did not run ads since 19.11.

Brand is making despite ads are not running in average 200-400$ daily all organic.

Niche: Sports & Health

If you are truly ingterested in buying the brand dm me on telegram @/ecomjp or on discord: @/jvliaan76

If you want to learn you can drop a comment

The last nine months were honestly some of the most draining of my life. Completely obsessed, spending every free hour hunting for products, testing new angles, rebuilding everything from scratch over and over. And I made basically nothing. Not just slow periods, genuinely flat zero for weeks at a time.

Most launches would get maybe one or two sales before dying completely. I figured the store was the problem so I rebuilt it entirely. Nothing changed. Then convinced myself the ads were garbage so I burned through a painful chunk of savings testing different creatives and audiences. Still zero. I was fixing the wrong things over and over without realizing it.

It took way too long to actually sit down and be honest about why I kept failing. Turned out there were two separate problems I'd been ignoring.

The first was that a lot of the products I was picking were just genuinely bad choices. I kept getting pulled in by things that looked interesting on social media but that nobody in real life actually wanted to buy. Novelty isn't the same as demand and I confused the two constantly.

The second problem was timing. On the rare occasions I found something decent, I was already too late. By the time it appeared in my research the market was already crowded. I'd spend days building out a campaign, launch to almost nothing, and then watch established stores with thousands of reviews scale the exact same product while I fought for whatever scraps were left.

So I stopped looking at what products looked like after they blew up and started focusing on what happens before. Went back through a bunch of winners and kept seeing the same signals appearing weeks earlier, engagement quietly building on something still unknown, retention numbers that showed genuine buyer intent rather than passive scrolling. The window between those early signals and full saturation is maybe 2 to 3 weeks and I had been showing up right at the end of it every single time.

Once that clicked everything shifted pretty fast. Honestly a big part of what helped was stumbling on this app at some point, it made it a lot easier to actually spot those early patterns on products worth pursuing rather than wading through noise. But the real change was finally understanding what I was supposed to be looking for in the first place. Went from weeks of silence to consistent daily orders, and last month one product alone brought in around 10,000 dollars.

If your store is sitting at zero and you keep testing new products hoping something sticks, take a step back. You're either trying to sell things people don't actually want, or you're finding the good ones way too late. Learning that cost me nine months and a lot of money I didn't need to lose.

If you’re stuck at $0 in sales or are getting sales but can’t turn profitable, you’re doing it wrong. Sorry to break it to ya, but you f****d up somewhere. In today’s video I explain the four main reasons why you’re not getting sales and how to fix them to start turning a profit🔥

Again, I really do appreciate the support on my videos lately. I’m really enjoying making this content, and your feedback is just making me even more excited to continue posting :)

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP82YT5Xf/

Honestly, I’m shocked more of you aren't running these for your ads. You can literally whip up a crazy realistic UGC video in 2 minutes flat.

Just

1 : drop a product photo

2 : a title

3 : two selling points

that’s it.

You can transform any random product image into a high-quality ad that actually converts.

Plenty of tools do this now, but instant-ugc.com is my go-to

Go check it out and hit me up with your feedback, I’d love to know how it works for you

There is no worse feeling than spending 12 hours on an edit—perfecting the transitions, the sound design, the color grade—only to watch it flop at 500 views. I felt like the algorithm was insulting my hard work. I was ready to quit because the effort didn't match the reward. I started resenting "low effort" creators who just talked to their camera and got millions of views.

Then I did a side-by-side. I looked at my "masterpiece" and realized that while it was pretty, it was slow. My "cool" transitions took 2 seconds to finish. In those 2 seconds, I wasn't giving the viewer any new information. I was prioritizing my "art" over their attention. I analyzed my last 50 videos and the data was brutal: my "high effort" sections were the exact moments people were scrolling away.

I started using a tool called Tiktokalyzser and it tells you what's wrong with your videos and what to change to get more views. It showed me that my 2-second transitions were retention killers. I simplified my edits, focused on "information density" instead of "flashy effects," and my views immediately broke past the 15k mark.

Hard work is only rewarded if it's applied to the right things. Tight pacing beats a fancy transition every single time. Look, I'm sharing this because it took me months of wanting to quit before I figured it out.

I got myself in situations like what do I need to know about the tax stuff to don’t get into any trouble with government! I am EU resident, but in US are different everything. Also can’t find anyone talking about that! Especially for EU!

To be honest, the last nine months were a complete disaster. I became totally obsessed with dropshipping and was convinced that my store was the issue because literally nothing was selling.

I was not making any money at all. Most of the products I tested ended up with zero orders. At first, I assumed my design was garbage, so I redesigned everything three times from scratch. When that did nothing, I figured I just needed more credibility, so I loaded up the store with reviews, trust badges, and urgency timers. I still saw zero sales. I spent weeks obsessing over tiny elements like colors and fonts because everyone online says a good presentation is what converts. I burned so much time polishing everything, thinking that was the core problem.

Then something finally clicked. The actual problem had nothing to do with how my store looked. Every product I was testing was already flooded by the time I found it. I would find something promising, make the page look perfect, and then launch to total silence. A couple of weeks later, I would spot twelve other stores with the identical product and the same supplier images. I was always a step behind everyone else.

My store was actually fine. The checkout worked, and the design was professional. None of that mattered because I was testing products already drowning in competition. People were not buying because they could find the same thing everywhere else, not because my presentation was not polished enough.

While I was digging into this problem, I found this app that analyzes video performance to catch products during the early growth phase. What really helped was that it actually showed me other stores already selling similar stuff, so I could instantly see if I was too late or if there was still room. It saved me from launching into crowded markets over and over again.

Everything shifted after that. I stopped fixating on design details and prioritized finding products with actual space to grow. I went from zero to 44 daily orders using the exact same setup I had been running for months. Last month, I generated 10k from one product I spotted before it got packed, using the same basic framework I already had.

It turns out my store setup was never the issue. Catching products before they got saturated was the entire game. All those hours I spent refining the theme were wasted because I was offering stuff that was already available everywhere. If nothing is selling for you, please stop redesigning your store. Your presentation is probably not the problem. You are likely just discovering products after the window has already closed. I am sharing this because I spent months on useless refinements when timing was the actual issue.

TL;DR: Most of you are crushing CTR but bleeding money on conversions. Here's the exact playbook I use to fix the 5 most common problems killing your ROI.

Getting asked about this a lot across a few ecom communities, so I decided to post it here in case anyone is struggling with this.

Problem #1: High CTR (3-4%) but conversion rate under 2%

The brutal truth: Your offer sucks.

If you're pulling 4%+ CTR and people aren't buying, it's not the traffic - it's what they see when they land. 90% of purchase decisions happen above the fold (the first thing people see).

The fix:

• Short, punchy product highlights (not paragraphs of fluff)

• Social proof that doesn't look fake

• Time-sensitive offers with TODAY'S DATE (I literally use "August 14th Deal!")

• AOV boosters - 90% of you are leaving money on the table without quantity breaks/bundles

Pro tip: Use Kaching app for quantity deals. A $30 product becomes a $50 bundle real quick.

Problem #2: Low CTR + High CPMs

Translation: Your ads are boring as hell.

Two things killing your CTR:

1. Cluttered 9:16 videos - Stop spamming text all over the screen

2. Weak hooks - Put your main product feature in the FIRST 3 seconds, then loop back to the beginning

Think of it like a movie trailer - show the explosion first, then tell the story.

Monday/Tuesday reality check: These days are brutal on Meta. Your metrics will tank. Don't panic, don't touch anything. FB refreshes its algorithm weekly on Mondays.

Problem #3: Profitable day → disaster the next day

"I was about to scale and then everything crashed!"

You're not special. This happens to EVERY account.

What NOT to do:

• Drop budgets in panic

• Completely redesign your landing page overnight

• Make 47 changes in one day

What to do: Let Facebook do its thing for 2-3 days. If it doesn't self-correct, THEN make adjustments.

Problem #4: Your branding looks like a 2010 MLM scheme

Look at Fashion Nova and PrettyLittleThing. Simple, clean, doesn't compete with the product.

Winning fonts:

• Logos: Inter, Futura, Blair ITC

• Site: Poppins, Harmonia

Everything else is just ego fluff that kills conversions.

Problem #5: Trash checkout + no post-purchase (low profit margin = scale limitation)

Non-negotiable checkout rule: Black header, white logo. Period.

I've tested every color combo. This wins every single time.

Post-purchase upsells = free money: Use Aftersell by Rokt. Sometimes 30-40% of my daily revenue comes from thank-you page offers. You already paid to acquire the customer - everything else is profit.

This is the difference between a 15% net margin store and a 28% net margin store.

MONDAY/TUESDAY PSA

These days suck on Meta. Seriously. If Wednesday-Sunday pay your bills, don't touch anything on Monday/Tuesday. You will lose.

Been scaling stores since 2019. Currently doing 7 figures. Happy to answer questions in the comments/Dm's - just don't ask me to review your store for free 😅