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Recent content by mclaren

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    Is Dropshipping Dead?

    HOT! 
    i don't see any big brand items on there. the brand logos you see in the images are brands on aliexpress. selling branded items and counterfeits is obviously not sustainable at all, and people still do it, but it never lasts. if dropshipping were truly dead, websites like lightinthebox (which...
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    Is Dropshipping Dead?

    HOT! 
    Buy Delasor - Website For Sale - Health and beauty Business Buy The Muggle - Website For Sale - Gifts and collectibles Business just two examples i found while quickly browsing the shopify exchange. as far as i know, the numbers come from shopify's database so you can't really BS those. not...
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    Is Dropshipping Dead?

    HOT! 
    no, it's not dead.
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    FB PPE Ads - All likes.. no conversions

    MARKETING 
    Maybe I'm reading outdated information then. But nearly everything I've read is "start a campaign off with PPE until you get tens of conversions per day, THEN switch to website conversion because your pixel is now optimized." Like I said, the cost for one click to my website via PPE was $8...
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    FB PPE Ads - All likes.. no conversions

    MARKETING 
    Nearly everybody seems to suggest starting off with PPE ads until you're getting tens of conversions per day for your pixel to work properly. From my experience, jumping straight to website conversions has proven much more effective. With website conversions, I'll actually get what I want... a...
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    The Math Doesn't Add Up (FB Ads)

    MARKETING 
    So like I mentioned in the post before, I'm dropshipping this item. Supplier is selling for $6 with free shipping. I see other people are pricing this item around $25, so I started there. The audience I'm targeting is around 830k people. Average CPC for the ads I've been testing is $0.84 with a...
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    The Math Doesn't Add Up (FB Ads)

    MARKETING 
    Yup, I'm working on that. I know my ads aren't super effective since I'm still learning the platform, but I am AB testing everything. Although, I usually give each ad a day before I change something. Might have to give it a little longer. Currently testing each ad set at $15/day but I could...
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    The Math Doesn't Add Up (FB Ads)

    MARKETING 
    Currently, there is no upsell. I'm dropshipping a jewelry item in a specific category (like a lion ring). But it seems that it'd be a good idea if I added another piece of lion themed jewelry, like a lion necklace or something?
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    The Math Doesn't Add Up (FB Ads)

    MARKETING 
    I'm buying traffic from FB to a single product page, and while I am new to this, the math just doesn't make any sense to me. COGS (including shipping) is $6 Product price is $25 Leaves me with $19 profit, if I have no other expenses. But I'm advertising, so I have to factor that in. If I want...
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    Ask me anything about eCommerce (Ongoing)

    GOLD! 
    That's what I am hoping for. Just seems off to me that these are supplier photos unless these Chinese suppliers have gotten super sophisticated. By the way, I am not referring to basic product photos with a white background or something. I'm selling clothes, and some of the supplier photos...
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    Ask me anything about eCommerce (Ongoing)

    GOLD! 
    Is it acceptable (legal?) to use the photos from the product pages on Aliexpress? I am dropshipping a few items and I asked the suppliers themselves if I can use their photos and they said yes. However, I searched for the photos on Google and found a few other websites using the same exact ones...
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    If You're Doing This, You're Fooling Yourself That You're an Independent Thinker

    GOLD! MINDSET 
    So true. Because of this I've wasted years. Literally wasted. I tried replicating other people's success in various fields but the thing is I never even got past the first step in those endeavors because I could never focus. Always reading differing opinions; some saying now is the best time to...
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    SteveO: From Employee to RE Investor to Golf Course Owner...

    FEATURED USER 
    Probably a tough question to answer, but would you have rather started at 20 instead of 40? If so, knowing what you know now, what would your strategy be for going all in and building your real estate empire (considering the biggest setback to a younger person: lack of capital)?
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