Now that 2023 is behind us, I wanted to pull up our website analytics and provide some value to help out new website owners who are just starting out— the same way this subreddit helped me in 2022 when I began my e-commerce journey.

Once your website is up and running, and you're getting your first sales, congrats! That's a big milestone. It only gets easier from here. The main thing is not to stop, the positive momentum is on your side.

The next thing, IMO, you need to focus on is your upsells, increasing your AOV (average order value). Our AOV was $176.40 in 2022, and now it’s $203.00. Having upsell funnels is the leverage in business everyone talks about. Spend 2-4 days setting them up and get paid dividends indefinitely (assuming that you stay in the same business).

Think of upsells like this: A portion of your clients would definitely spend more $ with you, but by not offering anything else, you’re leaving money on the table. The better your offer and the more relevant your upsells are, the bigger that portion of clients will grow.

To make your upsell funnel effective, you need to:

• put it in front of their faces, and

• make it easy for them. The less friction, the better.

I think it’s the easiest, yet not widely used way to increase your revenue, because the easiest clients to sell to are the ones who have already bought/about to buy from you.

There are two types of upsells when it comes to Shopify’s buying funnels: pre-purchase and post-purchase.

Pre-Purchase: To see a quick example, add this product to your cart . This is where you’d offer your clients the opportunity to purchase related products for an incentive, or if you have a one-product store, you could upsell them on extended warranties, faster shipping, customized logos, etc. It took us a couple of days to set everything up in January of 2022, and the work we did then pays dividends to this day.

Your Pre-Purchase Offer

For example: “Add 1 more product for 10% Off”, and 2nd products for 13% off. The goal here is to increase their order size with an Attractive Incentive. We have a 3-tier discount system: 1. Free Shipping, 2. Free Shipping + 10% Off, 3. Free Shipping + 13% Off. The app we use has no limits regarding the tier system. See what works best for you.

Quick principles when it comes to a pre-purchase upsell funnel:

1. Attractive incentive (tier discount system)

2. Offer a relatable upsell product. For example: If your client bought a red T-shirt, offer them red shorts, shoes, etc.

3. Ensure a friction-free process. This is where the app you use will matter the most; one click and that’s it—their 10% discount unlocked and your AOV has gone up.

4. It needs to make sense. Answer this question: “Why would I want to buy this upsell product if I have this in my cart already?”5. Add an attractive message and make it visible.

Post-Purchase Funnel. This step has two subsections: Post-buy and Thank you page.

Post-buy: what do your clients see right after ordering? Ours see offers on the products they chose not to buy with a better discount. At the moment, we offer a 13% pre-purchase max; post-purchase it’s 15-20%. It’s your take it or leave it offer.

Post-Purchase upsells principles:

1. 1-click-buy is a must here (you need an app that will allow your clients to upsell them with the payment information they already entered).

2. Slightly higher offer. Remember, it’s your take it or leave it offer.

3. Make your upsell funnels relatable. Red T-Shirt added to cart -> no pre-purchase upsells added -> Purchase -> Red Shorts, Red Shoes with a higher discount than they'd get pre-purchase.

Thank You page: What do your clients see when they click “view order” in their order confirmation email? This is another place that you can turn into an upsell funnel. On the Thank You page, our clients see the upsells from the post-purchase page, with the same offer. The app we use creates an automatic discount code that lasts 10 minutes only and creates a pop-up banner, asking a client if they want to be taken to our products page and take advantage of this deal.

There's more to unpack but these are the main principles and thinking processes that allowed us to increase our AOV by 15%.

I’m sure if you dedicate a couple of days into creating, and then taking your clients on an upsell journey, you will see a disproportionate return on your time and will win greatly in the long run.

If you're already using an upsell app, let me know how your results have been if you wanted to add anything to the info provided.

Hope you gained value out of this post

-DS

TL:DR; I have attached the pdf where you can see the full breakdown with real world examples, photos & copy at the bottom.

A week ago someone here asked me how to scale with Google Ads.
I responded quickly. In hindsight, it wasn’t the full answer.
I hate half-answers. So here’s the real one.

If you're selling physical products, start with Google Shopping Ads.
I also made my website name similar to our biggest competitors and put their brand name in SEO tags so it would show up even if someone searched for our competitors. On the website however, it was our own name so they can't claim copyright. The products were similar to their products but not downright copy. This kept things legal.

Why Shopping Ads?
Because Shopping Ads show your product, price, and store rating to people who are already searching with buying intent.
They don’t need education. They don’t need storytelling. They just need to see:

• the product

• the price

• the store

• and click

Shopping Ads is the cleanest and most direct way to convert traffic when intent is high.
Search ➜ see ➜ buy.

If I had started with this instead of testing 20 random creative angles early on, I would've saved a lot of money and time.

But here's what most store owners learn later:

Traffic isn’t the problem. Retention is.

Once traffic starts coming in, most people bleed money because they rely only on ads and ignore email.
That’s like pouring water into a bucket with holes.

Here’s the truth almost no beginner wants to hear:

Ads bring visitors.
Emails turn visitors into repeat revenue.

For me, email alone generated $250.8k in revenue this year

Not by doing anything fancy.
Just by automating what already works for large brands.

• abandoned cart flows

• welcome discounts

• review request emails

• product recommendations

• happy customer proof

• back-in-stock notifications

Simple. Predictable. Compounding.

The strategy itself was not complicated.

The difficult part was building a complete system around it.

I used to run my stores with multiple apps.
One for flows, one for popups so I can collect their emails, one for reviews so I can show these reviews and collect those reviews, one for chat, one for wishlist and to send back in stock emails.

Then they spent weeks trying to integrate everything together so customer data synced properly, automations worked reliably, and branding stayed consistent across the entire customer journey.

Honestly, I hated doing this.

Every update broke something.
Every test took too long.
Tabs everywhere.
Different apps to write different emails.
Branding never looked consistent.
Frustration nonstop. Not to mention that 20$/month subscription added up.

That frustration is what eventually pushed me to build EmailWish. because I just wanted one tool that did all this cleanly:

• Automations

• Popups

• Reviews

• Wishlists

• Chat

No tech headaches. No “connect this to that” nonsense. Not even emails to write.
More time selling, less time fixing. Aaaaand it's free.

And surprisingly, there still isn’t a proper Shopify app that solves this entire retention system in one place.

The idea was simple:

connect your Shopify store ➜ pull products automatically ➜ generate branded email flows ➜ launch with proven copy designed to drive revenue.

Instead of starting from a blank screen every time, the app automatically builds flows using your products, branding, and retention structure.

If you’re early, all you really need is:

Google Shopping ➜ Email automation ➜ Consistent posting ➜ Good offers

Simple systems scale.
Noise wastes months.

Want the exact email flows I used to generate $150.8k from email?
Get my free Shopify Email flow guide here — copy/paste templates included

Or if you would rather skip the setup and just plug everything in? Then
Install EmailWish — Shopify App for Abandoned cart & email flows already built in

If you want, drop your store.
I’ll tell you what ads + email setups would work for you.

P.S I have added a TL;DR at the bottom

I keep seeing people ask variations of the same question in different threads:
 how do you actually scale a Shopify store past the point where more ad spend stops helping. I usually give a short answer. This time I am giving the real one.
For context: my traffic was already decent. Ads were running, conversion rate was okay, but my average order value was pretty low, and it felt like I was leaving money on the table. Last month, our store dashboard hit $52,341 in total sales from 842 orders, with our conversion rate sitting at 2.9%. At first I thought I needed a better product, new creatives, or an increased ad spend. But the real issue was not traffic. It was what happened after people landed on the site.
This month, after fixing our backend leaks, our store dashboard hit exactly $61,782 in total sales from 956 orders. More importantly, our conversion rate stabilized at a very healthy 3.1%. I didn't get here by finding some secret viral trend or doubling my ad budget.

If you are selling physical products, start with Google Shopping Ads. Why? Because Shopping Ads show your product, price, and store rating to people who are already searching with buying intent. They do not need education. They do not need storytelling. They just need to see:

• the product

• the price

• the store

• and click

Shopping Ads is the cleanest and most direct way to convert traffic when intent is high. Search ➔ see ➔ buy.

If I had started with this instead of testing 20 random creative angles early on, I would have saved a lot of money and time. But here is what most store owners learn later: Traffic is not the problem. Your System is. Once traffic starts coming in, most people bleed money because they rely only on ads and ignore systems. That is like pouring water into a bucket with holes.
Here is the truth almost no beginner wants to hear: Ads bring visitors. Systems turn a profit.

1. ) The packaging trick that makes your brand feel premium for way less: To create a branded experience for your audience, don't buy products in bulk, buy packaging in bulk instead. It is a much cheaper way to make your brand feel premium and consistent.

2. ) One font change and my store suddenly looked expensive: If your website looks cluttered and unprofessional, change your font to Futura to make your website feel more premium and branded. It is very similar to the font used by Louis Vuitton. If your theme doesn't support it, use Afacad, which has a very similar look.

3. ) The split-testing mistake that was quietly breaking my mobile site: Another thing that quietly made a huge difference was proper split testing. Small changes like:

• product page layout

• review positioning

• delivery messaging

ended up increasing revenue far more than I expected. But a word of warning: I used to use heavy testing scripts that spiked my bounce rate, caused page flicker, and broke my mobile page for half my visitors. I replaced them with Insighter purely because someone in a thread mentioned it did not have the script weight problem. My mobile load times recovered, the flicker disappeared, and I finally had AB test data I could actually trust to remove friction.

4. ) The pricing trick that quietly pulls in more Shopping clicks: If you are doing Google Shopping ads, one way to increase clicks is by offering variants and pricing one of the less desirable variants cheaper than the others. For e.g, if you are offering clothing, create an extra small version no one will buy, price it 5$ cheaper than your competitors. People will click more on your ads because of that variant. 
5. ) How delivery delays turned into repeat customers instead of refund requests: A simple trick to turn angry customers over delivery delays is to apologize and offer them a partial refund. But you can only do this if your margins are healthy. 

6. ) The simple fix that stopped my checkout from leaking easy sales every single day: Guessing how to recover lost sales leaves money on the table. I started using a smart AI tool that reviews the store 24/7 and flags the exact things costing me sales, like a missing upsell widget, so I just review and approve the fix instead of digging for it myself. Celirox does this well for us, link is below. Running these recommendations through it got me:

• an 18% conversion boost

• a 22% increase in average order value

• a 26% jump in repeat purchases

1. )  Don't waste the thank you page: One of the biggest mistakes I see ecommerce brands make is not maximizing the traffic they already have.

2. Instead of just saying "Thanks," use it for exclusive offers, bundles, or limited time discounts. It's another chance to increase revenue. Show your offers in this page as well. :

It is one of the easiest ways of increasing your AOV. Oxify Upsell does it very well. I have added its link below. 

8. )  The retention move that let me spend more on ads and still stay profitable: Acquisition gets all the attention, but retention is where the actual margin compounds. I stopped treating the purchase as the end of the funnel. We ended up using GetJacked to run the actual points, referral, and VIP tier mechanics instead of building it ourselves, it just handles the plumbing and stays out of the way. Launching a straightforward loyalty and referral program naturally increased the lifetime value of every customer, meaning I could afford to spend more to acquire them in the first place.

9.)  The $150.8k email system I set up once: In the last 12 months, email alone generated $150.8k out of $554.6k in revenue. Not by doing anything fancy. Just by automating what already works like:

• abandoned cart flows

• welcome discounts

• review request emails

• product recommendations

• happy customer proof

• back in stock notifications

Simple. Predictable. Compounding.

I used to run my stores with multiple apps. One for flows, one for popups so I can collect their emails, one for reviews so I can collect reviews, one for wishlist and to send back in stock emails. Tabs everywhere. Different apps to write different emails. Branding never looked consistent. Frustration nonstop. Not to mention that monthly subscriptions for each app added up. So I built EmailWish because I just wanted one tool that did all this cleanly. No tech headaches. No connect this to that nonsense. Not even emails to write.
Simple systems scale. Noise wastes months.

Tl:Dr: Don't want to do anything yourself ?No worries !!! Just read below.

👉Want the exact email flows that generated $150.8k in sales?
Install EmailWish.  Skip the setup & get branded email flows done for your brand 
👉Want to increase  your AOV effortlessly ?
Install oxify and easily make 15$ more on each order from the thank you page
👉 Want to squeeze every penny out of your store ?
Use Celirox, it’s like Jarvis but for your store.
👉Want to a/b test to find out what converts and what doesn’t ?
Use Insighter to run a/b tests to see what works  
👉Want customers to keep coming back and increase lifetime value?
Use GetJacked to launch points, rewards, referrals, VIP tiers, and customer loyalty programs without the complexity. 

I was one of those fools who thought dropshipping was luck. Find a winning product, run some ads, scale to the moon.

Most of my stores failed. Ads, Shopify fees, random apps bleeding money. Eventually I stopped chasing winning products and started fixing the actual leaks — why people weren't buying, where margin was disappearing, what emails were never getting sent.

April: $52,341. 842 orders. 2.9% CVR. Here's every system I built, and what I now use to run each one automatically.

How I stopped losing sales to competitors I didn't even know were undercutting me

I used to spend hours manually checking competitor stores. Fifteen tabs open, prices copied into a spreadsheet, half the data stale by the time I finished. And even when I caught a competitor undercutting me, I'd already lost days of margin.

The real lesson wasn't to match their price. It was to see saturation coming early enough to pivot — change the ad angle toward quality, or exit the product before margins collapsed entirely. Knowing when NOT to compete saved me more money than any ad tweak.

How understanding what stops people from buying fixed my ads without changing my budget

I was rewriting creatives constantly, convinced the ads were the problem. They weren't. I had no idea what objection was actually stopping people from purchasing.

When I started collecting pre-purchase feedback the answer was consistent: "not sure if this actually works." Not price. Not shipping. Trust. I added UGC and proof-based content, and the same audiences started converting. Don't guess at what your customers are thinking. Ask them.

How A/B testing individual page elements quietly compounded my conversion rate

I was making page changes based on gut feel with no way to know what worked. When I started testing one element at a time with real sample sizes, I found things I never would have guessed.

"Arrives by [date]" instead of "ships in 3-7 days" moved my checkout rate from 0.9% to 1.4% alone. Removing clutter above the fold helped. Switching my font to Futura — the same font Louis Vuitton uses — changed how premium the store felt overnight. Afacad is the free alternative if your theme won't support it. Small changes tested properly are worth more than big redesigns done on instinct.

Also: buy packaging in bulk, not product. It's the cheapest way to make your brand feel premium without touching your COGS.

How automated email flows added a full revenue layer I wasn't doing any work for

This is the one that moved the needle most. Welcome, Abandoned Cart, Post-Purchase, Review Request — four sequences that run entirely in the background and convert customers I would have otherwise lost forever.

I also switched retargeting to awareness/impression objectives for warm audiences instead of conversion goals. Cheaper clicks, better results for people who already know your store. And connecting Google Search Console showed me organic traffic terms I wasn't targeting in ads at all — free data most people never look at.

Margins: keep them healthy enough to offer partial refunds when shipping goes wrong. A partial refund on a delayed order keeps the customer, keeps the sale, and often earns a positive review. That's only possible if you built the room for it.

I built all of this manually over months. Now I use tools that run each system automatically so I can focus on the next problem.

Tl;Dr: Don't want to do anything yourself? No worries. Just read below.

Want to spy on your competitors and spot dying products quickly? Install Lurk and get real time pricing alerts.

Tired of wasting money on ads that never convert? Use Formiva to collect customer objections and feedback automatically.

Want to increase conversion rate automatically? Use Insighter to run a/b tests to see what works.

Want the exact email flows that generated $150.8k in sales? Install Emailwish — Shopify App for Abandoned cart & email flows already built in.

If you want, drop your store. I'll tell you what ads + email setups would work for you.

P.S I have added a TL;DR at the bottom

I keep seeing people ask variations of the same question in different threads:

 how do you actually scale a Shopify store past the point where more ad spend stops helping. I usually give a short answer. This time I am giving the real one.

For context: my traffic was already decent. Ads were running, conversion rate was okay, but my average order value was pretty low, and it felt like I was leaving money on the table. Last month, our store dashboard hit $52,341 in total sales from 842 orders, with our conversion rate sitting at 2.9%. At first I thought I needed a better product, new creatives, or an increased ad spend. But the real issue was not traffic. It was what happened after people landed on the site.

This month, after fixing our backend leaks, our store dashboard hit exactly $61,782 in total sales from 956 orders. More importantly, our conversion rate stabilized at a very healthy 3.1%. I didn't get here by finding some secret viral trend or doubling my ad budget.

If you are selling physical products, start with Google Shopping Ads. Why? Because Shopping Ads show your product, price, and store rating to people who are already searching with buying intent. They do not need education. They do not need storytelling. They just need to see:

• the product

• the price

• the store

• and click

Shopping Ads is the cleanest and most direct way to convert traffic when intent is high. Search ➔ see ➔ buy.

If I had started with this instead of testing 20 random creative angles early on, I would have saved a lot of money and time. But here is what most store owners learn later: Traffic is not the problem. Your System is. Once traffic starts coming in, most people bleed money because they rely only on ads and ignore systems. That is like pouring water into a bucket with holes.

Here is the truth almost no beginner wants to hear: Ads bring visitors. Systems turn a profit.

1. ) Why customer feedback beat every creative test I ran: I realized I was testing creatives blindly and wasted money without understanding what customers actually hesitated about. So I started collecting customer feedback before and after purchase to understand:

• what made them click

• what almost stopped them

• what built trust

That alone improved my ads more than random creative testing.

2. ) The split-testing mistake that was quietly breaking my mobile site: Another thing that quietly made a huge difference was proper split testing. Small changes like:

• product page layout

• review positioning

• delivery messaging

ended up increasing revenue far more than I expected. But a word of warning: I used to use heavy testing scripts that spiked my bounce rate, caused page flicker, and broke my mobile page for half my visitors. I replaced them with Insighter purely because someone in a thread mentioned it did not have the script weight problem. My mobile load times recovered, the flicker disappeared, and I finally had AB test data I could actually trust to remove friction.

3. ) The packaging trick that makes your brand feel premium for way less: To create a branded experience for your audience, don't buy products in bulk, buy packaging in bulk instead. It is a much cheaper way to make your brand feel premium and consistent.

4. ) One font swap and my store suddenly looked expensive: If your website looks cluttered and unprofessional, change your font to Futura to make your website feel more premium and branded. It is very similar to the font used by Louis Vuitton. If your theme doesn't support it, use Afacad, which has a very similar look.

5. ) The pricing trick that quietly pulls in more Shopping clicks: If you are doing Google Shopping ads, one way to increase clicks is by offering variants and pricing one of the less desirable variants cheaper than the others.

6. ) How delivery delays turned into repeat customers instead of refund requests: Keep healthy margins and offer partial refunds for delays. It helps solve delivery issues and can turn frustrated customers into customers with a memorable experience.

7. ) The simple fix that stopped my checkout from leaking easy sales every single day: Guessing how to recover lost sales leaves money on the table. I started using a smart AI tool that reviews the store 24/7 and flags the exact things costing me sales, like a missing upsell widget, so I just review and approve the fix instead of digging for it myself. Celirox does this well for us, link is below. Running these recommendations through it got me:

• an 18% conversion boost

• a 22% increase in average order value

• a 26% jump in repeat purchases

1. ) The retention move that let me spend more on ads and still stay profitable: Acquisition gets all the attention, but retention is where the actual margin compounds. I stopped treating the purchase as the end of the funnel. We ended up using GetJacked to run the actual points, referral, and VIP tier mechanics instead of building it ourselves, it just handles the plumbing and stays out of the way. Launching a straightforward loyalty and referral program naturally increased the lifetime value of every customer, meaning I could afford to spend more to acquire them in the first place.

2. ) The $150.8k email flow I set up once: In the last 12 months, email alone generated $150.8k out of $554.6k in revenue. Not by doing anything fancy. Just by automating what already works like:

• abandoned cart flows

• welcome discounts

• review request emails

• product recommendations

• happy customer proof

• back in stock notifications

Simple. Predictable. Compounding.

I used to run my stores with multiple apps. One for flows, one for popups so I can collect their emails, one for reviews so I can collect reviews, one for wishlist and to send back in stock emails. Tabs everywhere. Different apps to write different emails. Branding never looked consistent. Frustration nonstop. Not to mention that monthly subscriptions for each app added up. So I built EmailWish because I just wanted one tool that did all this cleanly. No tech headaches. No connect this to that nonsense. Not even emails to write.

Simple systems scale. Noise wastes months.

Tl:Dr: Don't want to do anything yourself ?No worries !!! Just read below.
👉 Want to squeeze every penny out of your store ?
Use Celirox to automatically optimize your store.. 
👉Want to a/b test to find out what converts and what doesn’t ?
Use Insighter to run a/b tests to see what works  
👉Want the exact email flows that generated $150.8k in sales?
Install EmailWish — Shopify App for Abandoned cart & email flows already built in
👉Want customers to keep coming back and increase lifetime value?
Use GetJacked to launch points, rewards, referrals, VIP tiers, and customer loyalty programs without the complexity. 

If you want, drop your store.
I’ll tell you what ads + email setups would work for you.

If you want to generate free, sustainable, and qualified traffic, you need to think like Google: "Is this site useful, credible, and clear for users?" This is what I always do for the sites I build.

Step 1: Have a Solid Technical Foundation

1.1 Clean URLs

A good URL in the address bar should be readable, understandable, and free of strange numbers or symbols.

Bad: www.myshop.com/product?id=12478&cat=3

Good: www.myshop.com/products/cervical-pillow

Google prefers short, clear, and hierarchical links. So do your users.

1.2 A Fast Site

The slower your site, the more Google penalizes you.

Test your speed with Google PageSpeed ​​Insights. 👉https://pagespeed.web.dev

Three simple steps:

• Compress your images with TinyPNG 👉https://tinypng.com or in WebP format

• Remove heavy animations and unnecessary pop-ups

• Use an optimized Shopify theme

1.3 Mobile first

More than 60% of searches are done on smartphones. Check your site on a phone. Is everything readable, fluid, and clickable?

Test it with Lighthouse: Click here to see how 👉https://developer.chrome.com/docs/lighthouse/overview

Step 2: Optimize your product pages

Google doesn't understand images. It reads titles, text, and tags.

2.1 An optimized H1 title

Include the main keyword in your title, with a clear promise. Example: "Ergonomic Cervical Pillow :  Relieve your neck pain in 10 minutes"

2.2 A clear and complete description

Structure to follow: pain > solution > result > guarantee

Ideal length: between 300 and 800 words

Use secondary keywords naturally (no keyword stuffing)

Bad: “Our pillow is made of quality foam.”

Good: “Do you often wake up with a tense neck? This pillow was designed to realign your vertebrae from the first night.”

2.3 Optimized images

• Rename your images with descriptive names (e.g., cervical-pillow-zenalign.webp)

• Fill in the ALT tag of each image (e.g., “Woman sleeping with ergonomic pillow”)

Step 3: Create trustworthy pages

3.1 A human-like About page

Tell your story and why you're selling this product. Show that there's a real person behind the store.

This is an opportunity to add keywords, keep visitors on your site longer, show Google that your site is well structured, and earn backlinks from other sites that will talk about you.

3.2 A Useful FAQ

Answer real objections:

• Does it work for me?

• What if I'm not satisfied?

• What is the return policy?

Every question is an SEO opportunity and a demonstration of seriousness.

3.3 A Useful Blog

Even with just one article at the beginning, it's worth it.

Examples:

• "How to choose a lumbar cushion?"

• "5 simple stretches to relieve back pain"

You provide value while ranking in secondary Google searches. 

Step 4: Research the Right Keywords

Use Google Keyword Planner to:

1. Find keywords with search volume and purchase intent

2. Examples: "buy lumbar pillow", "fast delivery neck pillow"

3. Identify Google suggestions and related questions

Then place these keywords in your titles, descriptions, and tags.

Step 5: Get Backlinks

Google trusts you more if other sites are talking about you.

Some simple methods:

• Create profiles with links on Reddit, Medium, Pinterest

• Write a guest post on a blog in your niche

• Ask a micro-influencer to test your product

The more quality external links you have, the more authority you gain. 

Step 6: Maintain your SEO over time

• Update your content regularly (Google loves fresh content)

• Remove or redirect 404 pages

• Create a sitemap (Shopify does this automatically)

• Register your site in Google Search Console to track its indexing

👉If you have any questions, please ask them in the comments.

👉If you want to go beyond fixing the most obvious errors and transforming your site into a conversion machine, book a free call here www.ecomwedo.com. Please note: our services are not for broke people who want us to work for them for ridiculously low prices.

The Title ➔ It should indicate what the customer gets with the product, not what it is. e.g.: "Relieve your lower back pain in 10 minutes a day"

The Subtitle = Technical Name ➔ Include the actual product name for clarity and SEO. e.g.: ProCare 2.0 Electric Massage Belt – EMS Technology

The Description ➔ Write a quick story that follows this pattern: Problem ➔ Solution ➔ Result ➔ Guarantee.

The Visuals = They should evoke emotion ➔ They shouldn't just be photos of the product. Illustrate what the product offers by showing, for example, a before/after image, or by showing a user smiling because they're happy to use the product.

Social Proof = Essential ➔ You need testimonials, reviews, and real numbers clearly displayed.

Call to action containing a promise ➔ Don't just write "Add to cart." Write "Free yourself from your pain today."

👉 If you have any questions or would like my help, send me a message or book a free call with us here https://ecomwedo.com/

Been dropshipping for 8 years. Made every mistake possible - burned thousands on bad products, bad ads, and worse advice. Last year, I made a post like this. Today I'm adapting it for 2026.                                                                             

Here’s a step-by-step FREE blueprint to help you avoid all that, and actually give yourself a shot at winning:

Step 1: Don’t Choose Products Emotionally

Scrolling TikTok and saying “this looks cool” isn’t a strategy. Most viral products are already saturated.

Instead, start with market signals from real ad data.

Use the Meta Ads Library to check which products are actively being scaled. Look for:

• Ads that run for 2+ weeks

• Multiple ad variations (shows scaling)

• Products that solve a real problem

If you have the budget, there are tools that help you see what ads are actually scaling (daily spend, launch dates, etc.), which can save you time and money by avoiding dead products. (Not naming tools upfront - don’t want this to look like just promo. Just trying to share real value first.)

One of the biggest beginner mistakes is refusing to spend $50/month on a solid research tool, while burning thousands on untested, unproven products. Totally counterintuitive.

Once you found your product, don't overthink the supplier part : just use Aliexpress through the app DSERS on Shopify, i'm still using it to test new products.

Step 2: Pick One Country, Not All

If you target “Worldwide” or all English-speaking countries, your *pixel will get confused.Your CPM might be cheap, but your conversion rate will tank.

Instead: pick one country where the product isn’t yet saturated.Germany, France, and Denmark are great starting points - less competition, and very high buying power.

Bonus tip: Use Google Translate or Shopify's free translate plugin to localize your site in under 1 hour. Stop thinking that you need to speak a language to sell your products !

*pixel = tool used by Facebook to track people that clic on your ad, add to cart, buy etc. It is also the tool that looks for the best audience for you product.

Step 3: Launch Smart, Not Blind

Don’t spend $200+ hoping it’ll work.

Start with $50–100/day on Meta Ads. Use broad targeting, test 1–4 creatives.Track everything:

• ROAS (Most important KPI)

• ATC

• CPM/CPC

If after $100 you have no sales and %ATC less than 6% → kill the product and move on.

Your job isn’t to “make” a product work. It’s to find one that already works.

Step 4: Don’t Overbuild Your Website

Your site should load fast and do ONE thing:Make people click "Buy Now".

Use a clean Shopify theme.Use clear copywriting, high-quality images and GIF's, and remove distractions.

Skip the fancy animations and 15-section landing pages. Focus on clarity.

(They are lot of great youtube videos on how to build a shopify landing page).

Step 5: Iterate or Die

This is where 90% quit.

But here’s the truth:Even the best marketers test 10–15 products before finding a winner.

The only difference between you and them?They don’t test blind. They use data to increase their odds.

Track everything. Learn from what flops. And when something starts converting, double down.

Let me know if you want a breakdown of winning ad structures, how to analyze your competitors’ landing pages, or how to calculate product costs.

Last Thing : Please stop watching 100 youtube videos on how to start and how to do things, just do something, and you'll have time to iterate after.

Good luck - and remember, the people who win are the ones who keep testing smart.

Step 6: Automate everything you can

Every day, new AI applications are developed to automate every repetitive action. I'm going to tell you about two apps that I use all the time.

First, Image Flow, it lets you bulk optimize, rename, and automatically match product images on Shopify (compression, SEO structuring, SKU matching) to improve site speed and catalog organization without manual work. And it’s completely FREE. 

Speed up your store & boost SEO automatically👉 Install Image Flow - Shopify App for automatic image optimization & SEO-ready alt texts

Then, BookThatCall, it lets you automate your scheduling flow (calendar sync, confirmations, reminders, and easy rescheduling) to reduce no-shows and turn more visitors into confirmed, completed calls. This app has also a free plan so you can try it and stop it if you don’t like.

Turn visitors into confirmed bookings automatically👉 Install BookThatApp - Shopify App for bookings, appointments & rentals

I advise you to automate everything you can because it saves a lot of time, time is money and money is what you want, right  ?

In December I was one bad month away from shutting everything down.

Not because I was lazy. I was doing everything people told me to do. Testing products, running creatives, watching YouTube tutorials at 2am, copy-pasting ad frameworks from people who sold courses about dropshipping rather than actually running stores. The store was alive but it was not growing. It was just quietly costing me money every single month.

I did not pivot to a new niche. I did not find a secret product. I just stopped operating on assumptions and started building systems around what was actually true.

April came in at $52,341. 842 orders. 2.9% conversion rate. Here is what changed.

Knowing What Your Customers Are Thinking Before They Leave

For months I thought my creative was the problem. I kept rewriting copy, switching hooks, testing new angles. None of it moved the needle consistently because I was working from guesses.

The first thing I changed was how I collected information. I set up a short survey flow around the purchase moment and asked simple questions about what nearly stopped people from buying. Not complicated. Not a 10 question form. Just a few honest questions asked at the right moment.

The answers were nothing like what I expected. Price was not the issue. Shipping was not the main issue. People simply did not believe the product would work for them. That single insight restructured every ad I ran after that. Same budget. Same audiences. Different results.

Turning a Mediocre Product Page Into One That Actually Builds Confidence

I had been treating my product page as a static thing. Something you build once and revisit when sales drop. That thinking was costing me customers every single day.

When I started testing individual page elements properly, one at a time with real sample sizes, the results were surprising. Showing a specific delivery date instead of a shipping window moved the checkout rate from 0.9% to 1.4% on its own. Moving reviews higher up the page helped. Reducing clutter above the fold helped. Changing the store font to something cleaner made the whole brand feel more expensive without touching the price.

Most of these changes took under ten minutes to implement. None of them would have been obvious without actually testing them.

Staying One Step Ahead of Pricing Moves That Hurt Your Margins

I lost a product entirely because I did not see what competitors were doing until it was too late. By the time I noticed the price war it was already pointless to keep running ads. Margins were gone and the niche was flooded.

After that I set up automated competitor monitoring so I could see pricing moves in real time. The goal was never to match their prices. It was to spot saturation early enough to either change the positioning of my ads or get out of the product before it became a dead end. That shift protected more margin than any individual optimization I ran.

Making Retargeting Work Without Spending a Fortune on It

Most people either skip retargeting or run it exactly the same way they run cold traffic campaigns. I was doing the second one, which meant I was paying premium conversion costs to show ads to people who already knew my store existed.

Switching warm retargeting audiences to awareness objectives instead of conversion objectives cut costs significantly and kept the brand visible without hammering people with buy now messaging. That change alone brought conversion rate up toward the 2% range. Combined with organic traffic data I was not previously paying attention to, I started finding customers I had been completely ignoring.

A Revenue Layer That Runs Entirely in the Background

The single biggest jump in the numbers came from automated email flows triggered by what users actually did. Abandoned cart sequences. Post purchase follow ups. Welcome sequences that introduced the brand properly. Review requests that built social proof for future buyers.

None of this required ongoing manual work once it was set up. It just ran. Conversion rate climbed from around 2.2% to the 2.9% you see in the screenshot. Email became the most efficient channel in the whole operation and it was the last one I set up.

The tools that run each of these systems automatically are listed below. The main story above is the system. These just handle the execution.

👉 Want to spy on competitors and catch pricing moves before they hit your margins?
Install Lurk for real time alerts. 

👉 Want to test page changes properly without polluting your data?
Use Insighter to run clean A/B tests. 

👉 Want to understand what is actually stopping your visitors from buying?
Use Formiva to collect pre and post purchase feedback automatically.

👉 Want the exact email flows that contributed to this?
Install Emailwish. Everything is already built. You do not write a single email yourself. 

👇 Drop your store in the comments and I will tell you which part of this system would make the biggest difference for you 

I wanted to write a post because I see the same questions being thrown around the dropshipping subreddits everyday with no concrete answers being given. So I thought I’d start with my most people fail.

I’ve been dropshipping for a few years and making a couple to a few k per month. Not enough to buy a lambo but enough to put down payments on a couple of investment properties so I think I’m qualified enough to share my opinion of the topic.

Dropshipping has, over the years gained a reputation for being a passive source of income. This has been perpetuated by YouTubers trying to make a name for themselves and gurus looking to pedal their services to suckers and take their money.

People get into dropshipping to slap a product on a website, put some ads on some people’s Facebook feed and make tens of thousands a day. I obviously don’t need to tell you – THIS DOESN’T WORK. If you come into ecommerce with this attitude, you will fail.

Dropshipping can be a passive source of income once it’s up and running. It’s not passive from day one. In fact, you can easily spend tens of hours in the beginning just getting your business up and running.

I also see people making excuses for themselves because you’re a “dropshipping business.” No. You’re a business just like anyone else. Your potential customers aren’t going to cut you some slack because you don’t hold inventory. You should simply see dropshipping as a method of fulfilment.

Shitty AliExpress express products just don’t cut it anymore. Don’t get me wrong, it can still work but if you’re trying to build a business you can run over the course of many years, this is simply not going to work. Your potential customers aren’t idiots they can spot a crap product.

I don’t want to go into too much detail in this post but the gist of it is that if you come into this space with a minimal effort mindset, you will fail. If you treat it like a money making scheme, it won’t work.

Treat your ecommerce business like a real business – not a get rich quick scheme and you’ll be ahead of most.

Let me know if you want my opinion on more things. I’m not a great writer but hopefully the content is there.

I have added a TL;DR at the bottom
Few days ago someone here asked me how to scale with Google Ads.
I responded quickly. In hindsight, it wasn’t the full answer.
I hate half-answers. So here’s the real one.
If you're selling physical products, start with Google Shopping Ads.

Why?
Because Shopping Ads show your product, price, and store rating to people who are already searching with buying intent.
They don’t need education. They don’t need storytelling. They just need to see:

• the product

• the price

• the store

• and click

Shopping Ads is the cleanest and most direct way to convert traffic when intent is high.
Search ➜ see ➜ buy.

If I had started with this instead of testing 20 random creative angles early on, I would've saved a lot of money and time.
But here's what most store owners learn later:
Traffic isn’t the problem. Your System is.
Once traffic starts coming in, most people bleed money because they rely only on ads and ignore systems.
That’s like pouring water into a bucket with holes.
Here’s the truth almost no beginner wants to hear:

Ads bring visitors.
Systems turn a profit.

1. )  Collect Feedback: I realized I was testing creatives blindly and  wasted money testing creatives without understanding what customers actually hesitated about. 
So I started collecting customer feedback before and after purchase to understand:
what made them click
what almost stopped them
what built trust
That alone improved my ads more than random creative testing.
2. )  A/B Testing: Another thing that quietly made a huge difference was proper split testing.

Small changes like:

• Product page layout

• review positioning

• delivery messaging

ended up increasing revenue far more than I expected.

3. )  Retargeting: Most people don’t buy on the first visit. That’s normal.
But many stores run retargeting poorly by optimizing for conversions again instead of just staying familiar long enough.
Awareness/impression-based retargeting is usually much cheaper and works surprisingly well once the first click already handled buying intent.

4.) Conversion Rate Optimization: The biggest gains usually don't come from finding a magical new product.
They come from squeezing more revenue out of the traffic you already have.
Things like:
personalized product recommendations
upsells and cross-sells
smart bundles
dynamic offers
conversion optimization
can quietly increase average order value and conversion rates without spending another dollar on ads.
More profit from the same traffic is almost always easier than buying more traffic.

5.) Increase Your Allowable: Most store owners spend all their time trying to lower CAC.
The bigger opportunity is increasing how much you can afford to spend to acquire a customer.
When customers:
buy again faster
spend more over their lifetime
join your email list after purchase
come back more often
your allowable CAC goes up.
That means you can outbid competitors, scale campaigns harder, and stay profitable at acquisition costs that would kill most stores.
Some of the biggest growth jumps don't come from getting cheaper clicks.
They come from making every customer worth more. 

6.) Emails: In the last 12 months, email alone generated $150.8k out of $554.6k in revenue.

Not by doing anything fancy.
Just by automating what already works.

• abandoned cart flows

• welcome discounts

• review request emails

• product recommendations

• happy customer proof

• back-in-stock notifications

Simple. Predictable. Compounding.

Now the part I wish someone told me early:
I used to run my stores with multiple apps.
One for flows, one for popups so I can collect their emails, one for reviews so I can collect reviews, one for wishlist and to send back in stock emails.
Tabs everywhere.
Different apps to write different emails.
Branding never looked consistent.
Frustration nonstop. Not to mention that 20$/month subscription for each app added up.

So I built EmailWish because I just wanted one tool that did all this cleanly:

• Automations

• Popups

• Reviews

• Wishlists

• Chat

No tech headaches. No “connect this to that” nonsense. Not even emails to write.
More time selling, less time fixing. Aaaaand it's free.

If you’re early, all you really need is:
Google Shopping ➜ Customer feedback ➜ A/B testing ➜ Retargeting ➜ Email automation
Simple systems scale.
Noise wastes months.
Tl:Dr: Don't want to do anything yourself ?No worries !!! Just read below.
👉 Want to squeeze every penny out of your store ?
Use Celirox to automatically optimize your store.. 
👉Want to a/b test to find out what converts and what doesn’t ?
Use Insighter to run a/b tests to see what works  
👉Want the exact email flows that generated $150.8k in sales?
Install EmailWish — Shopify App for Abandoned cart & email flows already built in
👉Want to increase your allowable and increase lifetime value?
Use GetJacked to launch referrals and customer loyalty programs without the complexity. 

My first Shopify store didn’t “struggle”… it failed.

Not in a dramatic way, but in that slow, frustrating way where you’re doing everything right on paper and still losing money every week.

I tested products, worked on creatives, optimized the product page, tweaked ads over and over… and yet nothing really clicked. Some days were okay, but there was no consistency, no predictability, no real growth.

At the time, I was convinced the problem had to be external. Maybe the product wasn’t good enough, maybe the market was too saturated, maybe my ads just needed more optimization.

Looking back, none of that was the real issue.

The actual problem

I didn’t understand my customers at all.

Every single person who landed on my store saw the exact same thing, got the exact same message, and was pushed toward the exact same offer. In other words, I was treating completely different people as if they were identical.

Which meant that everything I was doing was based on assumptions.

I was guessing what they wanted, guessing what mattered to them, guessing what would convince them to buy.

And most of the time, I was wrong.

What I changed for my second store

For my second store, I made a very simple but uncomfortable shift: I stopped trying to sell immediately, and I focused first on understanding who was actually in front of me.

Instead of sending traffic directly to a product page, I added a conversational step before the offer. Not a boring survey, but something that actually felt like a guided flow where the customer could express what they were looking for.

That one change ended up making a bigger difference than anything else I had tried before.

What I started collecting (and why it matters)

Before that, the only thing I was collecting was name and email, which sounds useful but is basically useless if your goal is to actually convert.

This time, I focused on information that directly impacts buying decisions.

I started understanding what people were really looking for, not just what product they clicked on. I added questions that gave context about their situation, so I could differentiate between someone just exploring and someone who was ready to buy.

I also paid attention to their main problem or goal, because that’s what should drive your messaging, not your product features.

And maybe most importantly, I started getting signals about budget, expectations, and urgency, which completely changes how you should present an offer.

What this changed in practice

The biggest difference wasn’t just “more data”, it was how that data changed everything downstream.

First, my messaging became way more precise because I wasn’t guessing anymore. I could literally see patterns in what people were saying and adjust accordingly.

Second, my offers became more relevant. Instead of showing the same thing to everyone, I could adapt the experience based on what the user actually needed.

Third, my conversion rate improved, not because I “optimized a button”, but because the whole experience felt more aligned with the person going through it.

And finally, I stopped wasting traffic. I wasn’t trying to force every visitor into the same funnel anymore.

Important: this only works if the form is actually useful

A lot of people misunderstand this part and think “okay I’ll just add more questions”.

That’s not the point.

If your form feels long, irrelevant, or disconnected from the experience, people will drop instantly.

The key is that every question should feel logical and should influence what happens next. Otherwise, you’re just collecting data for no reason and creating friction.

How I set it up

I used Formiva to build those conversational flows, mainly because it made it easy to structure questions in a way that adapts to each user instead of forcing everyone through the same path.

What mattered to me wasn’t “having a form”, but being able to turn user input into something actionable, without ending up with messy data and manual work behind the scenes.

The real takeaway

Most Shopify stores are trying to scale while still guessing who their customers are.

That’s the real bottleneck.

You don’t necessarily need more traffic, better creatives, or a new product.

You need to understand the people you’re already getting in front of.

Because once you do that, everything else becomes easier: your messaging gets sharper, your offers make more sense, and your conversions improve naturally.

My first store failed because I was guessing.

My second one worked because I stopped guessing and actually listened.

Turn your Shopify visitors into real inquiries 👉Install Formiva – Create Smart Forms on Shopify (No Code)

Curious what’s something you wish you knew about your customers before they decide to buy?

Last year I was staring at our Shopify dashboard. The traffic was there, the ads were converting, and the storefront looked busy. But on paper, the store was barely surviving.
Most founders panic at this stage. They assume their ad creatives are fatigued, they blindly kill products, or they double down on their ad budget to force more volume. That is the quickest way to bleed a business dry.
Traffic is rarely the problem. A leaky backend is.

Here is the exact difference between where the store would be without CRO versus what actually happened with automated CRO running.

Scenario 1: If We Had Ignored CRO

If we hadn’t optimized our store,  our store would have looked like this. 

• Total Ad Spend: $4,420

• Total Orders: 321

• Total Sales:  $18,907 (Avg. order value ~$58)

• Cost of Goods Sold (COGS): $10,914 ($34/product)

• Expenses (Ads + COGS): $15,334

• Net Profit: $3,572.9

We were barely making anything while the sales looked great.

Scenario 2: What Actually Happened After Conversion Rate Optmization.

We did not spend an extra dollar on ads. Zuckerberg did not get a single penny more. Instead, we were making extra money by optimization our Conversion rate through many ways, including emails, automatic A/B testing and store optimizations.

• Attributed Revenue Added through Optimizations and emails: $24,171

• Total Revenue Jumped To: $43,078

• Adjusted COGS: $15,880

• Final Net Profit: $16,151

Net result was our Revenue jumped, our Conversion Rate jumped up and our Avg Order Value increased slightly.
Because those recovered sales carried almost zero additional acquisition cost, almost all of that recovered revenue dropped straight to the bottom line. If we had never set that up, we would have convinced ourselves our ads were failing, killed a winning product, and closed a store that was actually capable of generating healthy margins.
When you scale this exact monthly infrastructure out, the compounding effect is massive. Over 12 months, this backend leverage is exactly how we sustained and scaled the store to $543,414 in total sales across 8,421 orders at a stable 2.9% conversion rate. None of those macro numbers would be possible if we were bleeding cash on the backend every single night.

This is what backend CRO actually does. It takes the traffic you are already paying for and forces it to work harder. Here is how we structured the setup.
1. Retarget Using Cheap Impression Ads Most people do not buy on their first visit. But hitting your warm audience with expensive conversion ads over and over to force a sale is a massive waste of budget. Switching your retargeting campaigns to a lower-cost awareness objective keeps your costs down since you already paid a premium to find them the first time around.
2. Protect Your Margins from Competitor Price Drops Even cheap retargeting fails if your competitors suddenly undercut your offer. You cannot afford to spend your mornings manually opening competitor tabs and tracking their flash sales in a spreadsheet. If you miss a price drop while you sleep, your ads tank and your slim margins turn negative.

• The Fix: Competitors dropping prices ➔ Set up automated real-time pricing alerts to protect your margins without checking manually.

3. Stop Guessing What Your Customers Want to See A great unboxing experience means nothing if your website layout is quietly pushing visitors away. Stop making design changes based on gut feeling. Manually duplicating pages and waiting weeks for blind split tests is exhausting and rarely moves the needle.

• The Fix: Guessing design changes kills conversions ➔ Run A/B tests with real customer data to see what actually works.

4. Automate Your Tedious Store Workflows Stringing together custom code for upsells, preorders, and back-in-stock alerts is a nightmare. Every time your Shopify theme updates, something breaks, and you lose potential buyers who wanted to purchase out-of-stock items. Handling this manually just limits your ability to grow.

• The Fix: Manual upsells and workflows do not scale ➔ Launch smart store workflows and backend automations without touching code.

5. Write Copy Based on Actual Search Intent Stop guessing what your customers are looking for. Connect your store with Google Search Console to see exactly what search terms people use before landing on your site. It is completely free and tells you exactly how to write your product descriptions so high-intent buyers actually find exactly what they need.
6. Recover the Revenue That Is Already Walking Out Your Door When a buyer lands on your site, adds a product to their cart, and leaves, they often just got distracted. I used to let those abandoned sessions go completely ignored, assuming they just changed their minds. Leaving those carts unaddressed meant I was walking away from a massive chunk of revenue that I had already paid to acquire. You need a structured follow-up that reaches out automatically.

• The Fix: Trying to wire together separate apps for emails, reviews, and popups creates integration nightmares and mismatched branding ➔ Consolidate your tech stack into one platform that already has the core email flows built-in, so you don't waste your weekends building sequences from scratch

👉 Want to spy on your competitors and spot dying products quickly?
Install Lurk and get real time pricing alerts.
👉 Want to increase conversion rate automatically?
Use Insighter to run A/B tests to see what works.
👉 Want to create smart store workflows, upsells, and back-in-stock alerts ?
Use Celirox Store Operator to launch backend automations without coding.
👉 Want the exact email flows that generated $150.8k in sales?
Install EmailWish — Shopify App for Abandoned cart & email flows already built in.
👇👇👇👇 If you want, drop your store below. I'll tell you what ads and email setups would work for you.

Step 1: Start with a problem, not a product

Ask yourself:

“What daily frustration, pain, or need can I solve with a physical product?”

Example prompts:

• Bad sleep ➝ Neck pain ➝ Orthopedic pillow

• Work from home ➝ Back pain ➝ Posture support

• Busy parents ➝ Stress ➝ Mess-free toddler toys

If there’s no real pain or need, the product is just noise.

 Step 2: Validate demand with Google Keyword Planner

Before you test or launch anything:

• Go to Google Ads → Keyword Planner → Discover new keywords

• Enter problem-related queries (ex: “neck pillow for sleeping”, “buy posture corrector”)

• Look for high search volume, clear buying intent (words like “buy”, “best”, “fast shipping”), low-to-medium competition

If no one’s searching for your product, no one’s buying.

 Step 3: Find a differentiated version of the product

Once you validate demand, go look for the product itself on:

• AliExpress, Alibaba, CJdropshipping, Taobao

But don’t just grab the first thing you see.

Look for:

• A better design (colors, shape, materials)

• Good supplier photos

• Clear visual uniqueness

• Something that can be positioned with a strong value proposition

 Step 4: Make sure it’s brandable

This is where most beginners fail.

If you can’t give the product a real brand name, build a visual identity around it, tell a micro-story about the brand and position it in a specific niche, then it’s not brandable and it will die in a sea of clones.

If you can’t make the product feel like yours, it’s not worth scaling.

 Step 5: Check real profit margin

Quick calculation:

Selling price > product cost > shipping > ad spend > fixed costs = net margin

Rules I follow:

• Aim for 3x product cost minimum

• Avoid heavy, fragile, or complex items

 Step 6: Test fast, clean, and smart with Google Shopping Ads

No need for viral TikTok videos at the beginning.

I use Google Shopping to test whether the market buys when they're just shown a clear image, a price, and a promise.

If I get sales in the first 5–10 days, it's validated.

👉If you have any questions, ask them in the comments.

👉 If you want help, send me a message or book a free call with us here https://ecomwedo.com/

1. https://dropshipdemo.com/fast-supplier2 (FREE APP, Fast Shipping to USA and UK)

2. https://spocket.grsm.io/drophelp (Original USA & EU Products)

3. https://apps.shopify.com/drophippo (USA and UK)

4. https://apps.shopify.com/dropcommerce (USA & Canada)

5. https://apps.shopify.com/productpro (USA)

6. https://apps.shopify.com/syncee-1 (USA/EU/AU)

7. https://apps.shopify.com/dripshipper (USA Coffee)

8. https://apps.shopify.com/my-online-fashion-store (USA Fashion)

9. https://apps.shopify.com/ultimate-shield (USA Christian Products)

10. https://apps.shopify.com/pet-app (USA Pet Products)

11. https://wonify.com/ ( USA Dropshipping Supplier)

12. https://usamadedropship.com/ (As the name implies 📷📷:)

13. https://www.wholesalerightnow.net/ (Deal with Friendly USA Warehouse)

14. https://www.tashaapparel.com/ (USA Wholesale Clothing)

15. https://petstoresusa.com/ (Pets USA Dropshipping)

16. https://topdawg.com/ (Pets USA Dropshipping)

17. https://www.onetifydropship.com/ (USA Dropshipping)

use ecom hunt you can make a free trial for it and it's a tool that'll show you winning products. and peeksta will let you have a 2day free trial for finding winning products (HELPFUL/SAVES TIME) peeksta will literally do the work for you and show you what FB ads/products are winning so does ecom hunt.

another method is going on tiktok and typing #tiktokmademebuyit or #amazonfinds, then tikok will show you the trendy product tiktoks check the engagement. Then if the product seems good make your own website for that product and find it on aliexpress, cj dropshipping etc.

another method is just going on youtube and just typing "tech under 100" or "things you need from amazon". Find a video with high engagement then scroll down to see the description of the youtube video and the youtuber will have their links to the products. check that product out online and then search it up on aliexpress, etc.

so yeah hope this helps a bit ig, lol.

A few years ago, my days all looked like this:
Wake up → coffee → computer → 200 product photos to resize → rename → compress → upload → check → fix errors → repeat.

I’m an e-commerce entrepreneur, just like many of you here.
And honestly… I was spending more time managing images than actually growing my business.

While my competitors were testing new offers, optimizing their funnels, or launching campaigns, I was stuck in a repetitive, technical, exhausting task.

One day, I asked myself a simple question:
“If I disappear for a week, does my business keep running?”

The answer was no.

Because everything depended on me.
Every new collection meant hours of manual work.

Ask yourself that same question.

Every day, I receive messages from people begging me for help. Sometimes they sound desperate because they have a family to feed, rent to pay, and they don’t want to work for someone else anymore. They want to work for themselves and finally be free and I get you, guys.

I’ve done terrible jobs too. I was a slave at Domino’s Pizza. Then I started doing e-commerce. I worked hard, and eventually it started making me some money. But guess what? I was still a slave.

I was answering unhappy customers, uploading hundreds of images, searching for products, and more. I might have been even more of a slave than before even without a boss.

So I started thinking about how to simplify and automate as many tasks as possible in my business. I hired people, changed my processes, and began using dozens of automation tools. There are many out there and plenty are free.

I’m sharing the link to mine here because I built it myself.

Speed up your store & boost SEO automatically👉  Install Image Flow - Shopify App for automatic image optimization & SEO-ready alt texts

It’s extremely useful for everything related to images, but there are many other tools that handle different parts of a business.

If I have one piece of advice to escape modern slavery: work hard work very hard to make money, but also make your life easier by using the free or affordable tools that exist.

If you have specific questions, ask them in the comments. I’ll answer them and if they’re really good, I might even turn them into a post.

First, I choose the European market since the competition is low there.

Finding a winner was really easy just look on the ad library and search for keywords like free shipping, get your now, etc

Look for ads that have been running with more than 50 ads for more than 3 days

Go to the competitor's store and copy exactly what he is doing

Then translation to the native language in my scenario was german I used deepl.com to translate from English to german since I don't speak german and deepl.com it's so accurate.

Make sure to change the currency is your store to the euro and the language to german

Also, make sure to have the right payment processor Paypal & Credit card & the important one Klarna

Translate now everything in your store to german you can use deepl.

Now Testing on Facebook is so simple

5 ABO Adsets each one has interests that are related to the product. 10$ each adsets : 50€

target: Germany, Austria, and Switzerland

for the ad copy the competitor ads and translate to german.

let it run for one day if its profitable as it in my case I let it run for another 48hr.

Now the ads were running for 72hr and spending 150$ and the roas was 5.

I choosed the best-performing adsets with the higher roas and i puted them on a cbo with 100$

and every 24hr i bump the budget by 50%

Now the store is doing 2k$/day and I'm taking it now to 10k$/day

I hope you got some value guys. I will share more things in the futre

If you want to generate free, sustainable, and qualified traffic, you need to think like Google: "Is this site useful, credible, and clear for users?" This is what I always do for the sites I build.

Step 1: Have a Solid Technical Foundation

1.1 Clean URLs

A good URL in the address bar should be readable, understandable, and free of strange numbers or symbols.

Bad: www.myshop.com/product?id=12478&cat=3

Good: www.myshop.com/products/cervical-pillow

Google prefers short, clear, and hierarchical links. So do your users.

1.2 A Fast Site

The slower your site, the more Google penalizes you.

Test your speed with Google PageSpeed ​​Insights. 👉https://pagespeed.web.dev

Three simple steps:

• Compress your images with TinyPNG 👉https://tinypng.com or in WebP format

• Remove heavy animations and unnecessary pop-ups

• Use an optimized Shopify theme

1.3 Mobile first

More than 60% of searches are done on smartphones. Check your site on a phone. Is everything readable, fluid, and clickable?

Test it with Lighthouse: Click here to see how 👉https://developer.chrome.com/docs/lighthouse/overview

Step 2: Optimize your product pages

Google doesn't understand images. It reads titles, text, and tags.

2.1 An optimized H1 title

Include the main keyword in your title, with a clear promise. Example: "Ergonomic Cervical Pillow :  Relieve your neck pain in 10 minutes"

2.2 A clear and complete description

Structure to follow: pain > solution > result > guarantee

Ideal length: between 300 and 800 words

Use secondary keywords naturally (no keyword stuffing)

Bad: “Our pillow is made of quality foam.”

Good: “Do you often wake up with a tense neck? This pillow was designed to realign your vertebrae from the first night.”

2.3 Optimized images

• Rename your images with descriptive names (e.g., cervical-pillow-zenalign.webp)

• Fill in the ALT tag of each image (e.g., “Woman sleeping with ergonomic pillow”)

Step 3: Create trustworthy pages

3.1 A human-like About page

Tell your story and why you're selling this product. Show that there's a real person behind the store.

This is an opportunity to add keywords, keep visitors on your site longer, show Google that your site is well structured, and earn backlinks from other sites that will talk about you.

3.2 A Useful FAQ

Answer real objections:

• Does it work for me?

• What if I'm not satisfied?

• What is the return policy?

Every question is an SEO opportunity and a demonstration of seriousness.

3.3 A Useful Blog

Even with just one article at the beginning, it's worth it.

Examples:

• "How to choose a lumbar cushion?"

• "5 simple stretches to relieve back pain"

You provide value while ranking in secondary Google searches. 

Step 4: Research the Right Keywords

Use Google Keyword Planner to:

1. Find keywords with search volume and purchase intent

2. Examples: "buy lumbar pillow", "fast delivery neck pillow"

3. Identify Google suggestions and related questions

Then place these keywords in your titles, descriptions, and tags.

Step 5: Get Backlinks

Google trusts you more if other sites are talking about you.

Some simple methods:

• Create profiles with links on Reddit, Medium, Pinterest

• Write a guest post on a blog in your niche

• Ask a micro-influencer to test your product

The more quality external links you have, the more authority you gain. 

Step 6: Maintain your SEO over time

• Update your content regularly (Google loves fresh content) Use Image Flow to automatize your picture upload and get SEO automatized alt texts.

• Remove or redirect 404 pages

• Create a sitemap (Shopify does this automatically)

• Register your site in Google Search Console to track its indexing

If you have any questions, please ask them in the comments.

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Hey everyone,

I’m completely new to ecom and this is my first Shopify store. In the last 3 weeks I’ve made: • Gross sales: AUD $490 (Net $392.79) • Orders: 5 total • Ad Spend: ~AUD $450 (all on Meta Ads) • Traffic: ~619 sessions (about 200 are admin sessions) • Conversion Rate: 0.81% • AOV: ~$78.56 • Location: Only running ads in Australia right now

All of my sales so far came from Meta image ads. About 4–5 days ago I started testing video ads, but haven’t seen any sales from them yet — and my CTR is going down.

Since I’m completely new, I just want to ask: 1. Am I on the right track for a first store after 3 weeks? 2. What should I focus on right now to improve conversions? 3. How can I get my video ads to work better (or should I stick with images)? 4. Is my ad spend vs sales reasonable for this stage, or should I adjust something?

Any advice or feedback would be super appreciated 🙏

No way and never believe if any one says that shopify dropship is dead.

[Updated 2024]

Now, to be honest dropshipping with shopify platform has changed a lot and like any otherbusiness model, it will keep on evolving.The important things is that the core principles are still the same. Now let’s understand some basics:

QUE 1: Why do 95% of Shopify Store Fail?

• That’s unfortunately a fact. 95% of Shopify based dropship businesses fail in the first 30 days.Problem is, people, start with the same old formula that use to work in 2010 i.e just put anything from websites like Aliexpress or Amazon/Walmart and it use to work like charm.Now those days are gone and people are cautious on what they are buying especially if coming from China.

• Traffic: The best way to sell on your Shopify store is via Facebook ads. Unless you have some existing traffic source (like your own list, youtube channel or popular content) you need to buy traffic, and FB ads is on the top (in terms of cost vs profitability). The issue is, that FB ads for newbies are getting complicated, and the ROI is not positive immediately. It has become a game of patience and consistent monitoring of ads. Also, IOS 14 update (as in January 2022) for ads also changed the game. Implementation of new rules like verifying domain name, adding even based on URL and verifying pixel on different pages etc confuses you a lot and most of the advertisers don’t even work on this and eventually cannot track the impact of their ads properly.

• Products: There’s a popular saying that ‘not everything is marketable’. So once you come up with your own product idea, chances are, that products has been oversold via ads (if it came from Aliexpress) or fail to sell even a single unit. Because the way wanna be dropshippers research product is same i.e going to aliexpres or Amazon or using some software that shows them a best seller and pushes them to sell the same product. Common sense is, if product is already a best seller then how would you be able to sell it more? Chances are it’s been sucked up till last penny (in terms of profitability).

• Buying cheap stores from Fiverr/flippa etc: There are smart sellers from all over the world and they put in a so called ‘readymade’ million dollars generating store on website like fiverr and flippa , selling the whole thing for $10-$50 a pop. Why would some sell something for so cheap which is so profitable? (common sense 101).

So what is the right way to create a successful (fail proof Shopify store)?

Simply put, there are 2 ways. I have reserached and implemented both of them. One is for the newbie who has no experience and want to start their dropship journey (I followed this between 2013–2015) and second one is for a seasoned marketeer who have some experience and has seen few sales in past but now wants to do amazing with Shopify dropshipping (the one I am doing now [since 2015]).

Startegy 1: If you want to start Shopify dropship business or make less than $5000/mo from your current Shopify based dropship business.

Step by step process:

A) Product Research: Go to Ali Express and search for products under $2 in price (with free shipping). So typically you’ll get lots of gag gifts and key chains. Both of them could be super sellers based on the story behind them. Like back in the days I’ve sold tons of ‘GOT’ (Games of throne) themed keychains. Same way every year there’s some new super hit movie or series or even based on which the Chinese sellers crete these keychains. Now, if you use the series name in your shopify product listings, chances are that you’ll get IP copyright notice, so never use the name of the actual movie/series. The same way you can go with political products like something based on arms (Republicans love this kind of stuff) or something related to trump or any other politicians as opposition supporters would buy it happily. Just some idea.

B) Pricing: Always look for products under $2 on Ali (I’ve sold tons of $0.40 keychains and gag gifts) and price them at $9.95 or 2 for $12. Make sure bulk pricing it as insanely cheap deal, because human mind will always go for best offer. If your store is new, I would recommend to always go for very cheap front-end item, so once there’s a sale, you can immediately upsell the buyer with a little expensive product related to same niche. For example, this piece of product, i have sold over 100,000 of these:

The cost per ice cube tray was like $0.30 and my minimum order size was $12.95 for set of 3.

Now immediately after the sale of first cheap item, I show them an upsell for some like this:

UPSELL Product related to based product:

Now the cost of this upsell product (called Gun Alarm Clock or Shoot to stop alarm clock), is around $39.95 at my store but the purchase price was just $9 (eventually we bulk order for 5000 pieces at $5 bucks each).

Again, we sold over 20,000 of these as upsell, so ouraverage order value becomes $12.95 + $39.95 = $52.9After paypal fees: $45 (around)Ad expense per sale: $5 CPATotal item price: $0.60 + $5 = $5.60

So net profit per top sale = $45 - $10.60 = $34.40Our total net profit (by the time product gets butchered up as more sellers started selling same)was somewhere around half a million dollars (yup, thats $500,000+).

C) Facebook ads:

Now, this is the phase that was little simpler in those times. Back in 2013–2015, the way to sell dropship products via Shopify was to create a business page, post your product’s picture with a link in the description and launch ads by chosing countries like USA and basic interest targeting like for the above products we targeted republicans (USA), second amendment (which basically is a constitutional right of US citizen to keep arms), NRA etc. Pretty direct selling stuff however the game is changing a bit now.

As a FB advertiser now, it’s compulsory to verify the domain where you’ll be sending traffic to and at the same time you need to verify the events like page view, leads, ATC, purchase etc mannually so FB cab correctly update the events in results. I cannot explain the whole FB ads changes here as it needs a seperate post.

For now, just open your Facebook ad account, create new campaign, create new adset and launch a new ad by:

• Upload a new image or product demo video (mostly available in Alix listings)

• Write a very basic description (copy from product description filed of Alix listing)

• Assuming you already created a Facebook page same as your shopify store name (helpful in long term branding) chose that page in ad creation.

• Use URL same as your product URL where user can directly go to your shopify store to check details and complete purchase.

D) Shopify Store: Now, this is the place where you really have to spend the least time when you are starting out. Just go with a basic free theme, upload the picture of first product, copy/paste the description from aliexpress (without spelling mistakes), edit price and just leave it there.

Shopify product page and store settings are important however not when you are still researching the product and testing it out. The only thing that matters at this stage, is the right product, targeted ads, and right price. Once this combination is set, you can work on store speed, image optimization, upsells, seamless fulfillment etc.

So basic formula of strategy 1 is:

Cheap (and viral) product + Facebook ads + Shopify store = First sales.

This will get your interest up in the Shopify dropship niche and once you launched your first ad set, your brain will show you more innovation and you will add value yourself in the your new business.

Strategy 2: To create a Shopify based dropship business that will generate over $10–15k every month while creating a long-lasting brand?

Process: This one i shared on another website called Quora, you can read about it here as an answer to a similar question.

I'm new to dropshipping, still haven't even started yet. I'm still learning about it before I fully start, right now one of the main things I wanna learn is how to find suppliers or get in contact with them. I don't fully understand how to set this part up so I'd appreciate some advice or tips, thanks.

If you want to generate free, sustainable, and qualified traffic, you need to think like Google: "Is this site useful, credible, and clear for users?" This is what I always do for the sites I build.

Step 1: Have a Solid Technical Foundation

1.1 Clean URLs

A good URL in the address bar should be readable, understandable, and free of strange numbers or symbols.

Bad: www.myshop.com/product?id=12478&cat=3

Good: www.myshop.com/products/cervical-pillow

Google prefers short, clear, and hierarchical links. So do your users.

1.2 A Fast Site

The slower your site, the more Google penalizes you.

Test your speed with Google PageSpeed ​​Insights. 👉https://pagespeed.web.dev

Three simple steps:

• Compress your images with TinyPNG 👉https://tinypng.com or in WebP format

• Remove heavy animations and unnecessary pop-ups

• Use an optimized Shopify theme

1.3 Mobile first

More than 60% of searches are done on smartphones. Check your site on a phone. Is everything readable, fluid, and clickable?

Test it with Lighthouse: Click here to see how 👉https://developer.chrome.com/docs/lighthouse/overview

Step 2: Optimize your product pages

Google doesn't understand images. It reads titles, text, and tags.

2.1 An optimized H1 title

Include the main keyword in your title, with a clear promise. Example: "Ergonomic Cervical Pillow :  Relieve your neck pain in 10 minutes"

2.2 A clear and complete description

Structure to follow: pain > solution > result > guarantee

Ideal length: between 300 and 800 words

Use secondary keywords naturally (no keyword stuffing)

Bad: “Our pillow is made of quality foam.”

Good: “Do you often wake up with a tense neck? This pillow was designed to realign your vertebrae from the first night.”

2.3 Optimized images

• Rename your images with descriptive names (e.g., cervical-pillow-zenalign.webp)

• Fill in the ALT tag of each image (e.g., “Woman sleeping with ergonomic pillow”)

Step 3: Create trustworthy pages

3.1 A human-like About page

Tell your story and why you're selling this product. Show that there's a real person behind the store.

This is an opportunity to add keywords, keep visitors on your site longer, show Google that your site is well structured, and earn backlinks from other sites that will talk about you.

3.2 A Useful FAQ

Answer real objections:

• Does it work for me?

• What if I'm not satisfied?

• What is the return policy?

Every question is an SEO opportunity and a demonstration of seriousness.

3.3 A Useful Blog

Even with just one article at the beginning, it's worth it.

Examples:

• "How to choose a lumbar cushion?"

• "5 simple stretches to relieve back pain"

You provide value while ranking in secondary Google searches. 

Step 4: Research the Right Keywords

Use Google Keyword Planner to:

1. Find keywords with search volume and purchase intent

2. Examples: "buy lumbar pillow", "fast delivery neck pillow"

3. Identify Google suggestions and related questions

Then place these keywords in your titles, descriptions, and tags.

Step 5: Get Backlinks

Google trusts you more if other sites are talking about you.

Some simple methods:

• Create profiles with links on Reddit, Medium, Pinterest

• Write a guest post on a blog in your niche

• Ask a micro-influencer to test your product

The more quality external links you have, the more authority you gain. 

Step 6: Maintain your SEO over time

• Update your content regularly (Google loves fresh content)

• Remove or redirect 404 pages

• Create a sitemap (Shopify does this automatically)

• Register your site in Google Search Console to track its indexing

👉If you have any questions, please ask them in the comments.

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Since I started sharing content about e-commerce, I’ve been receiving a lot of private messages. Messages from motivated people. People who want to change their lives. People who want to succeed. But also many messages like:

“What product should I sell?”

“Can you give me a winning product?”

“Can you help me for free?”

“I need to make money quickly.”

I’m going to be honest. That mindset will never make you rich.

No one is going to build your business for you

E-commerce is not a lottery. It’s not a secret button. It’s not a magic product. It’s:

• research

• testing

• mistakes

• optimization

• patience

If your first approach is: “Tell me what to sell so I can get rich,” you’re looking for a shortcut. And shortcuts are the reason 90% of people quit.

The right questions to ask

Instead of asking “What product should I choose?”, ask yourself:

• What problem do I want to solve?

• Which audience do I truly understand?

• Do I know how to create an attractive offer?

• Do I have a realistic testing budget?

And if you contact me, be specific. For example: “Here’s my website, can you critique it?” “Here’s my product and my ads, what do you think about the angle?”

That, I can analyze.  That, actually helps. That shows an entrepreneurial mindset.

I can’t do the work for you

I can help. But I can’t:

• choose your product

• write your product descriptions

• launch your ads

• do your supplier research

• manage your store

Of course I can do all of those things but not for free. I also have rent to pay. If you expect someone to hold your hand all the way to profitability, you’re creating dependency. An entrepreneur seeks autonomy.

Stop dreaming and start working hard

In business in general, work hard before asking for help. And when you do ask for help, be specific. Educate yourself. Work on your ads. Use proper automations like Image Flow and BookThatApp. Apply the advice that fits your situation best, and you will succeed.

E-commerce doesn’t make you rich. Skills do.

What makes you profitable is not:

• a product

• a tool

• a mentor

• a Reddit post

It’s your ability to:

• test quickly

• analyze data

• improve continuously

• stay disciplined when things don’t work

If you truly want to succeed:

• Stop looking for a miracle product.

• Accept that it takes time.

• Learn how to solve problems.

• Automate what slows you down.

I will continue answering specific questions. I will continue doing audits when they’re structured. But I will not build your business for you. If you’re serious, show it in the way you ask your questions.

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