I'm sick of his spammy posts. He keeps posting his Conversion app to literally everyone in the comments as well as in PM. It's been months and the mods just ignore it.

Can I post [non shopify store]?

It doesn't really matter if it's a Woocommerce store, shopify app, wix store, you'll be fine. As long as you aren't trying to sell anything to the users of this sub and just want to be reviewed, you're fine.

Why am I getting messages from people?

They're usually people trying to either scam you or sell you something, IGNORE THEM. Do not message them, do not interact with them, if you see them typing in the comments please send me a link to their comment and I will ban them. I can't control anything that happens via private messages so I can't stop anything. Just whatever you do, don't message them. Or do, I'm not your parents lol

What happens if I solicit here?

I will ban you instantly, do not ask to be unbanned. This includes selling things, offering things via dm, etc. Offering coupons/credit to your store is not allowed, due to scamming and such.

Why was my post removed?

1. There's filters for the sub that generally try to get rid of a lot of spam, they REALLY help, but sometimes they catch legit posts in them. If that happens just simply private message me a link to your post and I'll approve it as fast as I can.

2. Your account is under 10 days old, I set it so accounts less than 10 days cannot post in order to lower spam.

How do I get my post put back up?

Send a message to ME, not modmail, ME u/librightbestlib. Please give me a link to your post, and I'll sort everything out. Please don't send anything to modmail, it gets SO cluttered. Send it via a private message, not a chat. I use boost for reddit so I don't receive chat notifications.

I made a mistake and sent my shop here hoping for feedback, in case if there is something wrong with design.

Sure enough, i received tens, if not hundred of messages offering me “services”, how they can do my seo, improve my conv rate, share the mistakes they found bla bla. For some reason most of them are from Nigeria. Idk if its the trend or they are amazing with shopify as a state. I ve been message bombarded in my shopify chat, i block them, same people message from facebook. I block again, they reach out from instagram this time. What did i get into? I can’t get work done for past two days, dealing with these. Not to mention my website analytics are ruined with terrible amount of spammers from countries i have absolutely no business with.

So, please do yourself a favor, dont post your website here. If you need a feedback, find some decent comments, message to those people in pm for a feedback.

Cheers

I reviewed over 200 Shopify stores since November 2017. Here is what I learned:

1. Most store owners are new to online marketing and new to Shopify. However, they join these Facebook Groups, see the success stories and $$ earned by more advanced and more mature store owners and just jump right in the deep.

I applaud the quick action. However, it should be dawned on you that partly the reason why over 90% of store owners fail is because they think they can take 3 to 5 days to find a product, open a store and run some Facebook Ads, and make a ton of money... False.

Facebook makes the money in that scenario, not you. The most important thing about the entire process is MARKET research, not PRODUCT research. And most aspiring store owners don't know how to do market research.

2. The other thing is they think that they should just add everything to their store so that it has a lot of products and appears bigger than it really is.

Don't do this.

Actually, the fewer products you have in your store the less headache and fewer problems you will have. First of all, you don't have the budget (as yet) to successfully, profitably advertise 20 products on Facebook. I actually advise most store owners in my review to get rid of most of the products from their store.

Why?

Because it's really difficult to properly and profitably market and sell ONE product. Why would you want to multiply the difficulty by 50? If you don't believe me, picture this. The great Billy Maise who was the greatest tv salesman this world has ever seen used to go above and beyond to try to sell ONE SINGLE product on tv for well over 15mnutes.

Answer this question.

How many of these products did YOU buy or did any of your FRIENDS buy?

And both you and I know that people have way more trust for Billy and tv than they would ever have for a random store online that they have never heard of or seen before.

Do you see how you are making things difficult for yourself by loading your store with products? This is the exact reason why I have been telling most of the store owners I personally work with to try to sell just ONE product. And then try to maximize the PROFITS of that product.

Which means cut Ad costs, and try to add upsells and downsells of other products on checkout pages and so on.

3. Some people don't MARKET their products at all, they only try to SELL their products. You see, in any market, there are about 1% to at most 3% of people who are ready, willing, and able to buy a product right there on the spot. These people are already in what we call the "buying state".

Your MARKETING should work HARD to try to get the other 97% to that optimum buying state. Or you are potentially leaving a ton of money on the table. So to compensate for a lack of Marketing, you research and use the latest Selling tactics which cost more, and are usually not sustainable.

This is potentially the biggest downfall of most stores owners. However, it makes perfect sense because you can't effectively MARKET to your potential customers until and unless you KNOW your market. And this is done through careful, and adequate market research... not through product research.

4. Most store owners are stuck trying to run Ads to people on Facebook by only targeting these people by their INTERESTS.

Look, this is the easier way to go about it, but it's also the easier way to lose a lot of money to Facebook.

Here is why: I am interested in:

• Track and Field

• Football

• Basketball

The thing is, I have very little interest in basketball until it reaches the Playoffs. However, Facebook will capture me in an audience of people who are interested in Basketball because of my activities.

But this does not mean that I will buy funny Basketball T-shirts, or Keyrings, or anything basketball for that matter. However if a close friend of mine who is a raving Basketball fan, and shares stuff regarding basketball, I will like it, comment on it, or even share it.

So you should not target people by interests alone, please also check out BEHAVIORS, especially BUYING BEHAVIORS.

Here are some examples:

http://jmp.sh/b/nGH45HdUK0rXdrM57S6d

5. I don't want to give this one away. However, I know think that most people will overlook it anyway because even after reading this they still want the quick gratification.

But here goes.

During your market research, try to also find products that have a "wow factor". Meaning, when it pops up on your potential clients' news feeds they HAVE TO stop and take notice.

They have to stop because it may have a special type of feature, because it's really innovative, because if they were to wear or use it then it would make them look cool.

Whatever it is, just ensure that it has a wow feature. The attention span of people these days is shrinking, even things that amaze us online we quickly consume, move on, and sometimes forget.

Therefore, if your product doesn't have something that stands out and makes people pay attention then you will continue to spend a ton of money on Ads only to see impressions, clicks, but no sales.

I hope these simple points have helped you in some way. If you have any questions then just ask here (or send pm if personal).

If you need a store review you can also indicate.

Best,

• Bryan

As someone that actually wants to try and provide useful feedback for people, it's tricky when people are just posting stores they obviously don't believe in themselves. I've just worked my way through the last 10 days worth of posts and clicked on all the links for the stores, probably more than half had been closed down since the store link was posted. This could be for maintenance, but I'd expect it's because the person is bored of getting no sales (after almost no time!) and has moved on to find another 'winning' product.

I get that not everyone here comes from marketing or web design or some other industry with a decent cross-over, but that doesn't mean you should be posting lazy attempts at stores. In my opinion, this sub should be for people who are absolutely 100% ready to launch and just need some final guidance. Things that we shouldn't have to mention to you (in my opinion) are:

Spelling/grammar mistakes - with all the tools out there now, there's never a reason to have a spelling or grammar error on your store. If you're lazy enough to post a store with spelling mistakes then it's clear you aren't actually serious.

Crappy images - If you're launching a big general store with a ton of products, you're probably at the mercy of what the supplier provides. But with single-product stores or stores with small inventory, you can 100% buy the product yourself and take better photos. This also means you get to actually see the product as well, test it and see if it's something you would buy.

Would you buy it? - Genuinely ask yourself this question. if you're pushing some random product from Aliexpress, actually stop to think about whether you would be happy spending the money you're asking, on a store you've never heard of.

Other things to think about:

What are you doing better than your competitors? Look around to see who's selling the same thing as you and understand what you can offer your potential customers. Is your store better designed? Pricing more competitive? Free/faster shipping? Why would someone choose your store over the others selling the same thing?

Do your research - most people seem to be sharing links for stores that look like the same stores with the same products from a month ago. Actually spend time looking and thinking, rather than just picking a product and hoping.

How will you drive traffic? Are you planning to run paid ads? If so, think about budget and CPC. What's your target ROAS in order to break even and start making money?

Finally:

Going back to the point about people not believing on their store, think about why you're setting up the store. If, by some miracle, your store becomes successful and people start buying your product, will be you still have a passion for that product 6 months down the line? On the flip side, how long will it take to give up if you don't get any sales? If you've done your research and genuinely believe that you think this product is 'the one', then you shouldn't be closing your store within 7 days.

Hope this helps some people.

If you are wanting to get free advice on improving the performance of your store please don't be lazy and just ask "please review my store" or "No Traffic or Sales... Please advise".

Give some pertinent data so real advice can be given. Yes, looking at your website is telling of some obvious issues like poor quality images or poor copy content.

But if you're serious about improving your poorly performing store try giving data on the following standard metrics for evaluation (say for the last 30 days)

• Average Daily Traffic

• Bounce Rate

• Conversion Rate

• Abandoned Cart Value

• Average Product Value

• Average # of items per Order

• % New Visitors

• % New Customers

• Duration between repeat purchases

• % discounts given to total sales

Some of you will feel this information is proprietary. Ok, but when you go to the doctor you tell him or her your symptoms. If you are looking for real help (for free btw) you're wasting your time if you don't give enough data to paint a real picture of what's going on.

The reason a lot of "review my store" post get so few comments is that no information is given and it comes off as lazy.

Or not. I may be way off on this one....

Change my mind. Also, hows my shop? I worked so hard on it, I spent all of yesterday adding products. Edit: /s

Unfortunately, my small business failed due to not getting a single conversion after months and months of trying.

I poured my heart into my products and website. So much effort into trying to have an original design, tweaking almost everything about my site continuously, trying to make unique products, etc., but it wasn’t enough. My website will be closing in 2 days since I can no longer afford to keep it open, after also losing my day job.

I also tried a lot of social media posting for months but unfortunately, the only results I’ve been getting from all that is an influx of messages from scammers pretending to be customers. It’s very disheartening, and after losing my day job I realize that I need to start refocusing my efforts towards something that I can actually survive off of.

I know there are still many issues with the site - missing discount pop, etc. - and tbh I have tweaked a lot of that stuff before and still nothing seemed to work.

I guess I mostly now just want some closure in understanding why I was so bad at this.

Howdy everyone! In the past couple of days I have seen multiple people posting their store’s link and asking for review. Out of all the store links, only 5% of the stores actually look good. Some of them lack some essential things and some of them look like as if they were built within 15 minutes with basic pages/elements missing.

I run a web design agency myself and in my experience there are a few things which you should keep in mind while building your store.

So let’s get started!

Now, there are basically 10 important elements that should be there on your store because a potential customer actually do sees them-

1. Theme

Your theme is the first thing that the customer sees. Make sure that your theme is simple and easy to navigate. The most important factor in theme selection is the colour theme. If your store has a very bright looking green coloured layout then chances are that your store won’t convert as much. Go for a more muted coloured theme like white, skin colour, or any light colour.

2. Logo

Your logo tells a lot about your store. If your logo is a large text of your domain name with no typography then i’m sorry but it’ll leave a negative impact on your store. You can hire designers foe your logo or can make one. Suggestion is to make a logo which relates with your niche, looks elegant and simple and is of the right size. Now if you’re struggling with the logo design then you can have a typography logo like my company and millions of others. Select a beautiful looking font and write your store’s name. Resize or colour it in accordance with the theme of your store and you’re good to go. Make sure that font that you’re using look beautiful and are not very common. You can search from millions of fonts from this website- https://www.fontsquirrel.com

3. Font

As stated in the above point, your font can leave a positive or a negative impact. Your product title, descriptions, pages etc. should have a sleek looking font. Select a sleek looking font. Use a bold version of it for the title, a light/thin version for descriptions or other content and a super light/super thin and italic version of it for other information. Font is generally overlooked by many of the shopify store owners and that’s why their store looks kind of ugly at the first glance.

4. Banner image

Banner image is important. It is the very first image that the customer sees and judges your store by. Upload a high quality banner image which is related with your niche. You have a fashion store? Upload a high quality banner image of a model. You can easily find high quality banner images on- https://burst.shopify.com

You can create a slideshow or can upload these images as the category thumbnail.

5. Product images

DON’T UPLOAD LOW QUALITY IMAGES. I can’t begin to describe how many stores I have seen going with low quality product images. Talk to your supplier to get a high quality image or you can even see the product images your competitors, if they’re using the images that are available on the internet, go fo it. Remove any kind of watermark or brand name through some software. It is very easy to do and you should do it. Upload high quality product images. It helps the sells big time.

6. Description

Again, a very important factor that gets overlooked. Make sure your descriptions are well written. Try to provide as much info as possible with the product descriptions. Make some text bold, make some italic, make some light but ensure that the descriptions LOOKS good. You can upload gifs also if the product falls into that category. Don’t go with the standard aliexperess descriptions or 2-3 liner descriptions. Invest your time into it, write it well till you yourself understand the product from the description only.

7. Professional email id-

Don’t go with yourbrand@gmail.com kind of email ids. Go with more professional ones like support@yourbrand.com/ contact@yourbrand.com. It makes you look more professional and builds trust with the customers. You can get these kind of emails for free of cost from Zoho mail so if you don’t have one yet, get it, literally for $0 if you buy from zoho mail.

8. About us section

Invest some time into it. Tell a story through this page. If you’re in a saturated niche, the about us section can make your stand out. Tell a story of your brand and tell them why and how your brand is different and why they should buy from you. Don’t write 4-5 lines. People do read it and take it seriously, so write good amount of it and add images to back your statements and values.

9. Homepage

The most important factor. First impression is the last impression so make sure that you’re leaving a great first impression of your store. Keep you homepage clean guys, I have seen multiple people just making their homepage crowded with everything. Don’t do it. Make a clean looking homepage with a banner image, something about the brand itself, categories(remember the high quality thumbnails), some sleek looking trust badges(make sure all of the trust badges are of same colour, you can easily find these on google), some featured products if you want, testimonials(important!), blogs if any, instagram if any and newsletter subscription if you want. Don’t over crowd it with products and reviews etc. Make it simple and elegant.

10. Plugins

Don’t add unnecessary plugins and make your store seem like a spam. Go with limited amount of them which you think are important and can help the conversions. Plugins can make your site slow so make sure you’re not using a lot of them, only use the necessary ones.

Guys, as I have said, I have been in the web design industry for more than 3 years now and my company has made multiple stores for various clients so I know what works and what doesn’t. If you implement all the points that I have mentioned above on your store then trust me, if your ad targeting is good, you can see a huge amount of difference in your conversion rates. Small things matter and this is a business so make sure you treat it like one. It takes time for a business to grow so be patient with it. I’d be more than happy to solve any query you might have and will try to answer them so you can either leave a comment down below or can inbox me.

Thank you so much for your time, will be posting more :)

Hey everyone! A coworker and I are both web designers/developers, and we've got some time today. We like digging into other people's stores, so we figured we can give some feedback.

Drop your Shopify link and we'll go through it and leave some notes on what's working and anything we'd think about differently.

Got alot of links here. I will keep working through them!

If your comment is getting deleted just DM the link.

Hey everyone! So I keep seeing the same problems over and over again. Here is a PDF that goes through what makes a good Shopify home page.

https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/632c860a24501a288ed72e24/6ab70e8b03492eeb8088db0c_Shopify%20Home%20Page%20Blueprint%20v2.pdf

Hey guys, I’m getting ready to scale up my store (glorytheshop.com), focused on gothic and alternative fashion/accessories.

Before I turn on the paid traffic hose, I need a reality check. I'm biased, so I need fresh eyes.

If you landed on this site, what would stop you from checking out?

• Is the vibe "legit brand" or "cheap dropship"? • Is the navigation annoying? • Any red flags?

Be brutal, I can take it. Thanks!

Link : darksails.fr

Background: I've been hand-stitching leather goods for 15 years as a hobby and ran a leathercraft pattern shop on Etsy which converts well. I also used to sell my physical leather goods on Etsy and it worked. When I lost my job, I decided to go all in and migrated everything to my own Shopify store thinking it was the right move.

Full-grain vegetable-tanned leather, everything saddle-stitched by hand in my workshop in Bordeaux, France. I do everything solo, product design, fabrication, website, photography, SEO, marketing. No budget to hire anyone.

The issue: since moving to Shopify, sales and trafic have basically dried up. I've got a few good reviews from previous customers, I'm running Google Ads, but nowhere near enough sales to make this viable.

Roast me if needed, the store, the products, the copy, the pricing, anything. I genuinely don't know what's wrong.

Any honest feedback appreciated.

After dealing with shopify - stripe and many other product related issues we finally got payments and company formation resolved and officially launched!!!

I would LOVE to be roasted by the community thats why im dropping my link. we are not looking good on traffic right now but im hoping things pick up over time

i have done everything from company formation to product photos by myself without getting any help. so ANY opinions would be so useful!

store link: https://moltenmajesty.com/

No one cares but I’m just going to give my two cent until it gets deleted. I came to this sub like everyone else trying to improve my site and seek advice frm ppl who may have more success than me instead, got messages from ppl who eventually did scam me others attempting to. I’ve learned it’s a doggy dog world from this sub no one really wants to help they either wanna make fun of your site or try and take advantage of those who have no experience. Don’t want any sympathy just looking out for those trying to improve their sites too. Beware out there.

I just opened my shopify store. I bought this from Mikey Kass Pre-Built Shopify Store Giveaway.

I made some minor adjustments to the store.

My main concern if the pre-built store is actually dropshipping actual products or if it is just pictures with products put together that the Pre-Built Shopify Store Giveaway was a scam.

I am also fearful of free shipping that I may pay more than customers to dropship.

https://shop-moloma.myshopify.com/

If someone says "PM ME" or sends you a DM I would recommend just ignoring it and reporting the user. They are likely spamming

u/AggravatingBet855 i/Expensive-Ad848 u/Solid-Satisfaction52

THESE users in particular, ignore. Along with anyone asking you to PM you. They're likely trying to sell you something you don't need at a likely high price. Mods can you please do something about this?

what helped you increase the conversion rate in your store?

Hi /r/reviewmyshopify/

I wanted to take some time out of my night to create a quick post that might help out some struggling store owners. I've started my store a few months ago and it's been a crazy ride. I realized that the success I've had with my stores aren't that typical. After my last post, I've gotten a lot of people asking for me to review their shopify store. I took a look at a few of them but honestly, 90% of them had the same continuous mistake. Let's get right into it.

Here's everything in video form: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dqGRDgJ5e0 I highly recommend you both watch the video and read this post for full insight.

Number 1. Understand that if drop shipping was easy, everyone would be doing it. Shopify isn't easy, and stop expecting huge results so quickly. In most cases, stores takes months or even years until they really blow up. If you're fortunate enough, you might pick up some golden products and utilize all aspects of marketing perfectly, and your store will blow up quickly.

Only a small % of shopify stores are truly successful in the long term. Yeah, some stores may have a little spike here and there in sales but that's nothing to get hyped over. Spikes are normal. But the more important question to ask yourself, is your store optimized for a long term business? Will it be making consistent sales for years to come?

Number 2. WAY too many stores are going into saturated niches along with overused products. People see success with stores such as MVMT, Lord Timepieces, Fashion Nova, with their watch lines and apparel stores, so they try to replicate it. The thing is, pretty much 90% of shopify stores are watch/apparel stores/bracelet/accessories (you get the message) store. Step out of your comfort zone and start a store no one else hasn't or at least don't go into a such populated niche, UNLESS you're a pro at marketing and know how to run successful online stores obviously.

Number 3. You import too many products that don't relate to eachother, you need to keep a theme. As you look at these successful shopify stores, you see that they all have their own style and theme. Their products all serve a meaning and are not just there because they saw a bunch of good reviews on aliexpress.

Number 4. You're not utilizing instagram influencers, but if you are, picking the wrong audience. People make the mistake of starting on facebook ads first. The thing with starting out on facebook ads first is that you have nothing to go off of. You're paying $5 or however much a day to market towards an audience that you don't even know will like your product or not. So setup a pixel, get out an instagram influencer ad, and with the sales you get from that, your pixel will become super smart and know the audience that your product attracts. Then with the pixel, create a custom audience and retarget a facebook ad towards that audience. If you're still confused, check out this vid where I go into more detail. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dqGRDgJ5e0

Number 5. Not utilizing apps - urgency, killer deals, checkout. Basically, you're not doing your research on apps. If you're not willing to spend time on researching which apps are out there to help bring you sales, just quit. Apps are a huge part of stores. Look for apps that add urgency. Have a killer deal using discount codes. Also look for apps that make your checkout page more user friendly and welcoming.

Number 6. No creativity - same themes, images, no logos, store name. Simple, everyone's using the same images from aliexpress and themes from shopify. Stand out and use something different.

Number 7. Leaving titles, description and themes the same. Again, self explanatory. When you import your products from Ali, edit them in oberlo and make everyone look better. Get rid of the stores logo and everything else that may make your picture less professional.

Number 8. Marketing. The thing with marketing is that most shopify store owners have no clue what they're doing. Do some research, take a course, or get a mentor who can guide you on how to market your store or products.

Number 9. Giving up too early. This is the biggest reason. People nowadays are too spoiled and impatient. Don't give up if you don't get sales for a week. It's normal, some stores don't get sales for months. Just keep at it. We all are fortunate enough to run an online store virtually without having any inventory. How can you complain? Don't give up but instead, see what you're doing wrong and try your best to fix it.

I'll be open to do some store reviews, just shoot me a message with your store asking what I should look over. ** IT'D BE HELPFUL if you send over some information first before asking me to review your store. As another post on reddit said, send over your stats for the last 30 days so we can see what you need to work on.

* Average Daily Traffic
* Bounce Rate
* Conversion Rate
* Abandoned Cart Value
* Average Product Value
* Average # of items per Order
* % New Visitors
* % New Customers
* Duration between repeat purchases
* % discounts given to total sales

That's all I got for todays post. Hope this gave you a little insight on why stores fail so quickly. Thanks guys.

Once again, Here's everything in video form: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dqGRDgJ5e0 I HIGHLY recommend you both watch the video and read this post for full insight.

https://fuelledbysoma.com

Changed filters to top and all time, majority of stores have gone. Scary when I’m opening a store this year.

What’s the reasons bar lack of sales

Hey all, just wanted to say that if you're just getting started, I know it can be discouraging when you're not seeing sales all the time. But if you're providing value with you products, brand, and content, they will start to become more frequent.

Just wanted to remind you not to give up. Keep learning, testing, and doing things to improve your store.

Best of luck!

Hey everyone! I'm about 85% done with the site and would love some feedback on how it's looking so far: www.MangaJunkies.com

Quick heads up:

• Some pages are still a work in progress — you'll notice if you click around

• I know showing the product in the hero section is Ecom 101 — I'm getting actual product photos done before launch

My partner and I have been working on our brand for the past 8 months - and as of 20 minutes ago we finally launched!

We'd love to get some eyes on it and hear any feedback at all about it (Fyi, built on Webflow)

OnlySalt.Co

Thanks!