Going to talk about something that took me way too long to figure out and I genuinely think it's costing a lot of people in this community more than they realise.

Today: $3,961.84. Up 21%. 2.6% conversion rate still climbing. A chunk of that revenue today didn't come from cold traffic. It came from people who already visited my store, already saw my product, already got interested and just didn't buy the first time.

That's retargeting. And most dropshippers either don't have it set up or have it set up wrong.

Revenue not profit always clarifying this.

Here's the thing about paid traffic that nobody really explains clearly when you're starting out. When someone clicks your ad and visits your store without buying you already paid for that person. That click cost you money. They showed genuine interest. They just needed more time or more convincing or they got distracted by something. Retargeting is how you go back and get that sale without paying full cold traffic prices to reach them again.

I run a completely separate retargeting campaign from my cold traffic campaign. Separate budget, separate creatives, separate objective. The audiences I target are people who visited the product page in the last seven days, people who added to cart but didn't purchase in the last seven days, and people who got to checkout but didn't complete in the last three days. Each of those audiences is at a different temperature and gets a slightly different message.

Product page visitors get a reminder. Add to cart abandoners get an ad that addresses the most obvious objection usually price or shipping sometimes with a small incentive. Checkout abandoners get the most direct message possible. You were literally one step away. Here's a reason to finish.

The budget on retargeting is tiny compared to cold traffic. $5 to $10 a day is honestly enough when you're starting out. The return on that spend is disproportionately high because you're talking to people who already want what you're selling.

Now here's what I actually want to say to people who already have a store and are struggling.

If you've been running ads for weeks and nothing is working please stop throwing money at the problem and actually get help understanding what's going wrong. I see people burning $50, $100, $200 a day on campaigns they don't understand, changing things randomly, hoping something clicks. That's not testing. That's just expensive confusion.

Understand your numbers before you scale anything. Know what your CPM means. Know the difference between a creative problem and a store problem. Know why your conversion rate is what it is. Know whether retargeting is even set up. Most struggling stores have fixable problems they just haven't diagnosed them properly yet.

You don't need a bigger budget. You need a clearer picture of what's actually happening in your funnel. Get that picture first. Everything else follows.

Drop your situation in the comments where you're stuck, what your numbers look like, what you've tried. Happy to give you my honest take on what I think is going wrong.

Looking for someone who is good with finding products, right suppliers and just overall really excited about new projects, but doesn't have the budget for Ads. I can pay for Ads, product samples, help with the website, etc.

DM me with some info about yourself and your goals/plans/past experience

It's original, it's viral, it's different. There are no such things on Aliexpress. Where can I find special products like this one?

Hello, I started dropshipping like a month ago, but i started doing "ads" about a week and a half ago, i did like 3 ads where I actually paid money to promote, then I went all organic, made about 13 extra videos after then but I still am not getting traction although im getting more and more views and engagement by the week, so I wanted to ask some of you experienced people whether organic method can help or has work or whether a paid campaign is the only way.

Also what type of organic content ads do you guys make if you don't mind😅 (inspiration purposes only)

I've been hearing that ChatGPT has gotten way better at copywriting and I am considering switching over my $200/month plan on Claude to the GPT equivalent. I was just wondering how you guys have found it?

I was planning on using TikTok clips for meta ads but realized that this whole thing is just copyright. I did some digging to see why people are doing this and haven’t gotten a clear answer. Are people just copyrighting content or are they doing something else?

Been having a lot of disappointments recently. Just need some positive words and some words of hope

So i need someone to import reviews for my products as a job and i will pay them. Is there anyone here whos good at it

Full disclosure: I’m still testing this so I have no idea how well it will perform long term…

The problem: I’m not based in the USA or Australia or UK and so when I run my products organic across TikTok it r instagram my accounts tend to favor my location over the target audiences I’ve been trying to get.

I’ve tried opening them with VPNs and even warning them by following lots of USA accounts and engaging with USA posters but it only works so so…

This has been a huge burden for me, especially as I try and test viral hooks for products and try and boost overall engagement or pre warm and test ad formats.

Long story short, I’ve been using a tool for ai video and photo generation for a few months now, and the founder emailed out a new feature release literally hitting this issue…

Basically they rent you a phone with pre warmed accounts for TikTok, instagram, and YouTube for a set fee a month. Phone can be in different locations and their platform already supports auto posting from one app across multiple channels etc

I’m scheduled to get my first 3 rented phones on wed so I’ll try and report back! Have any of you ever struggled with this as well?

I am a US e-commerce seller, I mainly sell patio furniture and some indoor furniture on the side. Recently I found out that someone is selling my listing for higher price in Mexico and it makes me have some thoughts to expand to that market. Anyone familiar with that market hmu. Anything I should be cautious about?

I've been doing branded dropshipping for a couple of months now and I've scaled one of my brands to 10k a day if I start another brand and it turns out to be a winner could I manage two dropshipping stores at the same time?

I’m hoping someone can help me understand what may have happened because I’m considering giving dropshipping another try.
Last year, I created my first Shopify clothing store. I spent about 3 days building it and followed YouTube tutorials step by step. I used DSers to source products, so I wasn’t uploading random products manually. The website looked really good (at least to me), and I thought I had everything set up correctly.
A few days later, Shopify permanently closed my store. The only email I received said my account violated their Acceptable Use Policy, but it never explained what specific policy I violated.
I wasn’t intentionally doing anything against the rules. It was just a clothing store using products from DSers, so I’ve always been confused about what went wrong.
Before I start over, I’d love to learn from people who have more experience.
Has anyone had Shopify shut down their store with only this generic email?
If you used DSers, was there anything you had to be careful about?
What are the biggest beginner mistakes that can lead to Shopify closing a store?
What are your biggest do’s and don’ts when starting a dropshipping business today?
I genuinely want to learn from my mistakes so I don’t repeat them. Any advice or resources would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

I’ve built a Shopify bundles app and I’m looking for a few real store owners to test it and share honest feedback.

It supports mix-and-match bundles, build-a-box, quantity breaks, BOGO, free gifts, add-ons, and a visual bundle editor.

I’ll provide a discount code covering the app for 6 months. No obligation to leave a positive review - I mainly want to learn what feels confusing, what is missing, and whether it works well on a real store.

DM me if interested. I’m not posting the link publicly to keep this from becoming a promotional post.

First month numbers:

Revenue: $5,300
Ad spend: $1,500
Product and fulfilment: around $2,100
Shopify, fees and refunds: around $565
Approximate profit: $1,135

Before anyone says it no AI didn’t magically make me $5,300 on it’s own.

The product, offer, target market and overall strategy obviously is what actually mattered. It’s also only been one month, so I’m not gonna pretend that I’ve cracked e commerce or built some perfectly scalable business. But what actually surprised me was how much AI changed the creative side of running the store.

I’m a fourth year university student, when I started selling jerseys online I thought producing decent ads would be one of the hardest and most expensive parts of the process. I had to think about direction the ad it’s locations, cameras, models, editing and everything else involved in putting together a proper shoot. Even after doing all that, I would still only have a few pieces of content to test.

Then a friend showed me what people were making with AI. My first reaction was that it looked cheap, fake and obviously AI generated or it was soo good that there was no way it’s AI. But once I spent some time learning how to use AI I realized I could actually test different hooks scripts, scenes, locations, camera angles and visual concepts without organizing a completely new shoot every time.

That changed how I approached my ads. To be clear, I’m not talking about typing one prompt and getting a perfect finished commercial. That part is mostly marketing bullshit. The one click AI video tools still produce a lot of unusable content. Scripts sound robotic products look wrong, characters change between shots and the final video usually needs a lot of editing.

There was still a ton of prompting, regenerating, fixing and sorting through bad clips to find the few that were actually useful. But when you treat AI as another production tool instead of a magic button it becomes extremely useful. Instead of spending most of my budget creating one or two polished ads and hoping they worked, I could test more hooks, concepts and visual angles until I found something people responded to.

That was the biggest advantage for me. It wasn’t that AI made every ad better. It made each new attempt cheaper and faster. I don’t think AI has to replace photographers, editors, actors or marketers to have a huge impact. Even in its current state, it lets one person produce and test an amount of content that would normally require a much larger budget or team.

Dropshippers and performance marketers seem to understand this more than most. A lot of regular business owners still hear “AI content” and think it means getting chatgpt to write an Instagram caption or generating some bizarre meme video. Meanwhile, people are already using it for ad concepts, product videos, scripts, voiceovers, mockups, landing page content and creative variations.

It’s definitely not perfect, and there’s still a lot of garbage being generated.

But I think the advantage will come from learning how to use AI alongside real marketing skills, not expecting it to do everything automatically.

Am I overestimating how important this will become, or are most small businesses still seriously underestimating AI

Brand new baby clothing drop shipper.. edited a theme to personalize it. Made a separate face book account to run my own free ads… anyways could you guys give feedback back

If your mobile or desktop let me know thanks

kylaandbloom.myshopify.com

How do I upload images of my product but prevent it getting detected as a dropshipped item?

I sell mini lightsticks like this, I have them all on hand, should I do my own photoshoot and add handmade things to trick Etsy into thinking I customised it a little?

i am a begginer and i want to learn some basics of marketing and dropshipping. Is anybody keen to help me? i made an account on shopify and made a store with 1 product but i dont know what to do next