Building a Shopify Store (Value Post)

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How do you pick

a) the right products
b) the right method (Dropshipping, FBA, POD)

I can find 100 YouTubers proclaiming that the one they picked is the ONE, and all I gotta do is take their course. Affiliate Marketing is the way. No... paying someone $10K so they’ll build out a super profitable Amazon store is the way..

How do you pick?
 

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How do you pick

a) the right products
b) the right method (Dropshipping, FBA, POD)

I can find 100 YouTubers proclaiming that the one they picked is the ONE, and all I gotta do is take their course. Affiliate Marketing is the way. No... paying someone $10K so they’ll build out a super profitable Amazon store is the way..

How do you pick?
You have to pick one and just see if it works for you. You out here looking for some magic bullet and that isn't coming. Pick one and put in work fam until you find one you like or is profitable for you. All this stuff you're doing you ain't going to never pick shyt and just keep waiting for some next person to make decisions for you. You grown make your own choices and get help based on which path you pick.
 

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How do you pick

a) the right products
b) the right method (Dropshipping, FBA, POD)

I can find 100 YouTubers proclaiming that the one they picked is the ONE, and all I gotta do is take their course. Affiliate Marketing is the way. No... paying someone $10K so they’ll build out a super profitable Amazon store is the way..

How do you pick?


For B. In most cases, one of them will make more sense than the other ones based on what you're selling.

POD is most useful if you make your own designs but don't want to hold inventory or don't have the equipment to get your designs on products yourself. Good for stuff like t-shirts, clothing, prints, etc.
Dropshipping is good if you are buying a premade product.
FBA is most useful if you're on amazon, not necessarily with a shopify store. But I guess you could use FBA to fulfill Shopify orders.

For A, I am not an expert there at all. I "lucked" into finding a niche market and jumped on it before everyone else bandwagoned in.
 
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What’s the cheapest way to go about getting a store up and running? For dropshippers what do y’all do about product pictures?
 

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Other than FB/IG & Google are you brehs advertising your products anywhere else for Q4?

I am signed up for Reddit advertising.
There's a couple of subreddits that have been really good for me in terms of word of mouth advertising, so I think experimenting with ads on there could be worth it.
Apparently you can target subreddits and/or users that subscribe to specific subreddits.
I have a target date about 2 weeks away where I plan on putting my first ad up.
 

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I am signed up for Reddit advertising.
There's a couple of subreddits that have been really good for me in terms of word of mouth advertising, so I think experimenting with ads on there could be worth it.
Apparently you can target subreddits and/or users that subscribe to specific subreddits.
I have a target date about 2 weeks away where I plan on putting my first ad up.
Had been thinking about reddit but didn’t even know if they had it available or not. Will peep later today.
Try out Pinterest, I got things rolling over there
I tried them in the past and got a ton of hits but never any sales, Now it looks like they have campaigns you set that directly are aimed at conversions like how FB does. Might try them again.


Also got $100 free credit email from Bing/Microsoft today. Gonna try that out too.
 

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Either of you (or anyone else) know how to target “Amazon shoppers/buyers” or “People who buy online”, etc. with FB ads?

Or what the correct wording is to target?
 
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Either of you (or anyone else) know how to target “Amazon shoppers/buyers” or “People who buy online”, etc. with FB ads?

Or what the correct wording is to target?

check for shopping and online shopping as behavioral characteristics

do you have a second pixel? :steviej:
 

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check for shopping and online shopping as behavioral characteristics

do you have a second pixel? :steviej:
I have one for each store that are my primaries but I think my first store had like 3 different pixels


Why? :lupe:
 
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I have one for each store that are my primaries but I think my first store had like 3 different pixels


Why? :lupe:
use two separate landing pages with each pixel

send crap cheap traffic to one pixel and send your targeted to the other

after you have enough traffic to make a LLA for the crap pixel do so, then use it to exclude from the good targeted one

:myman:
 
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