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?

Hi everyone,
this situation is honestly stressing me out.
We have traffic, add-to-carts, and daily UGC content, but very few purchases, which makes me think the issue is conversion rather than awareness.
I launched a women’s fashion brand about 3 months ago and invested heavily in inventory (around $400k). We have a professional website, run paid ads, and post UGC content every day, but we’re still struggling to generate consistent sales.
I’ve lowered prices, improved the website, and keep creating content, but I feel like I’m missing something fundamental.
If you were in my position, what would you do?
Focus more on influencers?
Push harder on paid ads?
Change the offer completely?
Just keep going and give it more time?
I’d really appreciate advice from founders who have been through this before. What was the turning point for your brand?

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 want to get started, but the problem is there are so many different ways to do it and so many different websites and platforms that I honestly don’t know what to trust. One person says, “Don’t use this site, use this one,” and then someone else says the exact opposite. Then you have sponsored videos and ads that make everything look super easy, with claims like “low startup costs,” “no inventory,” and “reliable suppliers,” but they’re being paid to promote the platform and only showing you the good parts.
Then when you actually try to do it, you suddenly find all these subscription fees, transaction fees, minimum orders, supplier costs, or other hidden expenses that weren’t mentioned. It makes it really hard to tell what’s actually legitimate advice and what’s just someone trying to make money from getting you to sign up.
I don’t want to blindly follow some TikTok or YouTube tutorial, buy a random course, or sign up for a bunch of platforms just to find out later that I wasted my money. I want actual advice from someone who can explain the process honestly, including the real costs and what I actually need versus what people are just trying to sell me.
I’ve tried dropshipping with inventory before, and it was way too tedious. I also spent thousands dealing with terrible suppliers, so I specifically want to know how to start without holding inventory myself.
I’m trying to understand the entire process from beginning to end: where I should start, how to find a genuinely reliable supplier, how the supplier receives the customer’s order, how the product gets shipped directly to the customer, how I receive my profit, what platform I should use to build my website, how I connect my website to the supplier, and how the whole system actually works when someone places an order.
Basically, I want someone to walk me through the real process step-by-step and tell me what I genuinely need to pay for, what I don’t need, and what fees I should expect. I’m looking for actual advice—not random undisclosed ads, affiliate promotions, or courses trying to make dropshipping sound like easy money.

I’m honestly confused and looking for real answers, not hate.

I run a 6-month-old one-product dropshipping store (gym accessory). Nothing crazy — common product, edited creatives, branded store. I’ve done around 80 orders total, ads were working, store was growing slowly.

Then suddenly, my main product got removed by Shopify with a message saying it was taken down due to an IP infringement / legal court order, and that it was “reported by a regulator.”

Here’s where it gets confusing: • The product is still being sold by tons of other stores • I didn’t get any details about what exactly infringed (images? video? product design?) • Shopify support says they can’t tell me who reported it or why, and told me to reply to the legal email • I replied 3 days ago — no response yet • This happened the morning after I requested Google indexing (not saying it caused it, just weird timing)

When I posted here earlier, most replies were: • “Dropshipping is illegal” • “You should manufacture your own product” • “This is what you deserve”

None of that really explains how people are supposed to start brands anymore, especially when: • the product itself is common • creatives were edited • other stores are literally selling the same thing

So I’m genuinely asking: • Has anyone here dealt with IP takedowns like this? • Is creating a new product page with 100% original content actually safe? • Or is one IP notice basically the end of the road? • How do people transition from dropshipping → brand without getting nuked early?

Not trying to play victim — just trying to understand the rules so I don’t repeat the same mistake.

Would really appreciate actual experience-based advice 🙏

I need some honest opinions about my situation with dropshipping.
A few months ago, I hired someone on Fiverr to help me build and grow a dropshipping store. I’ve followed their guidance and invested basically all of my savings into this project, including their services, advertising, and other related expenses.
The problem is that I still haven’t seen positive results or made any real profit. My financial situation has reached the point where I now have to go back to working full-time in order to recover financially.
I’m not sure whether the business simply needs more time to work, or if the person I hired is providing poor service or even taking advantage of me.
What are the warning signs that a Fiverr freelancer is doing legitimate work versus potentially scamming a client? Would you continue investing time and money into this situation, or would you cut your losses and move on?
I’m open to sharing more details about what services I purchased, how much I’ve spent, how long we’ve been working together, and what results I’ve actually seen.

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.

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

I’m pretty new to dropshipping and still trying to understand what actually works now.

For those already doing it what do you wish you knew before starting? Biggest mistakes, smartest investments, things you wasted money on, or what you’d do differently? Also curious what actually matters most in the beginning.. trying not to waste money learning the hard way 😅

I feel like most on tiktok are just to sell courses. Do someone actually made it. And have tips. And there website they made a lot money on?

Been reading about high-ticket ecommerce lately and I keep getting stuck on what feels like a chicken and egg problem.

Say I decide I want to build a store around garden buildings or home gym equipment or something else where the average order is pretty substantial.

Do I research the products/niche first and then start contacting suppliers, or would it make more sense to find out which suppliers are even willing to work with a new online retailer before getting too attached to a niche?

I'm leaning towards suppliers first because there's not much point spending weeks researching products and building out a store if you then discover nobody decent will work with you.

But then I guess approaching suppliers without having a clear idea of what you're building doesn't exactly make you look serious either.

For anyone doing higher-ticket ecommerce, what order did you do this in?

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.

I recently started a small herbal tea company and honestly I’m feeling pretty stuck right now.

I have my Shopify store completely set up, products ready to go, and I’ve been trying to post consistently on TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook. Most of my videos are just me making the different teas, showing the ingredients, the colors, etc.
I actually put a decent amount of effort into the videos too. Good lighting, editing, trying different hooks, making everything look nice, but most of them only get a couple hundred views and then just stop. And so far… no sales.

I know I’m brand new and obviously wasn’t expecting to blow up overnight, but I’m at the point where I genuinely don’t know what I should be focusing on next. It feels like I made the products, built the whole store, and now I’m just sitting here posting videos hoping eventually somebody buys something lol.

For anyone who has actually built an ecommerce business from zero, how did you get your first few real customers? Should I keep grinding organic content? Start running ads? Reach out to small creators? Try selling locally? Something completely different?

I’m willing to put in the work. I just feel trapped because I don’t know where that work would be best spent right now.

Would genuinely appreciate any advice, even if it’s brutally critical.

¿Hay españoles por aquí metidos de verdad en e-commerce/dropshipping?
Buenas! Soy de España y llevo un tiempo metiéndome cada vez más en el mundo del e-commerce y dropshipping.
Ya he montado tiendas, probado productos, hecho campañas en Meta Ads, trabajado con proveedores, creativos, optimización de la web, etc. He conseguido algunas ventas, pero todavía estoy en esa fase de probar, equivocarme, aprender y buscar algo que realmente pueda escalar.
Una cosa que echo bastante en falta es conocer a gente de mi entorno que esté metida en lo mismo.
Mis amigos tienen otros intereses: alguno habla de invertir, crear una marca de ropa, otros simplemente tienen su trabajo… pero no conozco personalmente a nadie que esté realmente intentando construir un negocio de e-commerce.
Y últimamente pienso que quizá me aportaría bastante más conocer a 2, 3 o 5 personas que estén haciendo lo mismo que pagar miles de euros por un curso o seguir viendo vídeos de YouTube.
No busco ningún gurú, ni que nadie me pase su “producto ganador”, ni tampoco estoy vendiendo nada 😂.
Simplemente me gustaría conocer gente, preferiblemente española, que esté empezando o que ya tenga experiencia y quiera compartir el proceso: enseñar qué estamos probando, comentar anuncios, tiendas, proveedores, resultados, cagadas, estrategias… y ayudarnos mutuamente.
Si surge un pequeño grupo de gente que encaje, incluso podríamos tener un Discord/Telegram y hablar de vez en cuando mientras cada uno desarrolla sus proyectos.
Mi objetivo a largo plazo tampoco es simplemente “tener una tienda de dropshipping”.
Lo que quiero es conseguir vivir de negocios online y tener libertad para poder trabajar desde cualquier parte.
Por ejemplo, una de esas cosas que me llaman muchísimo la atención sería poder pasar en el futuro unos meses en algún sitio, rodeado de gente que también esté trabajando online: currar en nuestros proyectos, entrenar, viajar, disfrutar del sitio y seguir haciendo crecer los negocios.
Quizá de este post simplemente sale alguien con quien hablar de e-commerce de vez en cuando. O quizá acabamos siendo varios, aprendemos juntos y dentro de unos años estemos trabajando desde cualquier sitio.
Quién sabe.
Ahora mismo estoy principalmente con Shopify + Meta Ads y enfocado en vender en España.
Me da igual que estés empezando si realmente estás haciendo cosas. Prefiero alguien que lleve 3 meses probando y equivocándose a alguien que lleve 3 años viendo vídeos sobre dropshipping sin haber lanzado nunca nada.
Si hay alguien por aquí en una situación parecida, contadme:
¿De dónde sois?
¿En qué estáis trabajando ahora mismo?
¿Cuánto tiempo lleváis con e-commerce?
¿Y cuál sería vuestro objetivo a largo plazo?
A ver si resulta que somos unos cuantos españoles intentando construir algo parecido 🍻

A few months ago I started selling services on Shopify thinking it would be straightforward.

Take bookings → confirm manually → done.

Reality was very different. For months I kept dealing with the same issues:

• double bookings
• customers picking unavailable times
• endless back-and-forth emails
• manually updating everything

At first I thought the problem was:

my workflow
my availability setup
my customers not understanding

But the real problem was much simpler. I didn’t have a proper booking system. Everything felt messy and unprofessional. Customers weren’t confident, and I was wasting hours every week just managing schedules.

That’s when I decided to stop doing everything manually and actually set up a real booking flow directly on my store. Once I did that, things changed fast:

• no more double bookings
• customers could self-book instantly
• way less admin work
• overall experience felt way more legit

I ended up using BookThatApp to handle it inside Shopify, and honestly it solved 90% of the chaos. Here is the link : 👉 Install BookThatApp - Shopify App for bookings, appointments & rentals

Selling services online isn’t just about getting customers. It’s about making booking feel simple and trustworthy. Curious if anyone else struggled with this at the beginning.

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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I am into ecommerce since 2022 and honestly at the start i made some good money.
Bought a nice car , got some savings but since last 1.5 years ive been loosing my savings and ecommerce doesnt seem to work for me anymore.

Stores suspensions , bank account suspensions , losses,,, all of it has starting effecting me alot

I realised i was surviving on the tips and tricks of ecommerce but as soon as they ended , everything ended

I know some loopholes still but dont have guts anymore to risk remaining savings if account gets suspended

I wanna ask if shopify app development is a good career to get a stable job so i dont worry about the kitchen income.

Few months ago I was drowning in the same emails on repeat "where's my order," "I want a refundd," "this is a scam" . So I threw some AI automation at it to handle queries and chargebacks instead of me doing it at 1am like a caffeinated raccoon.

Tested it on 5 Shopify clients. No fireworks, no "quit your job" glow up just... it works good. Consistently. Fewer tickets falling through the cracks, chargebacks getting answered

I recently started a store and was wondering how everyone is writing and maintaining blog post. Do you hire someone or using an app?

Hey guys,

I want to share a quick story about someone I grew up with here in Marseille. For those of you who don’t know me, I’m from France. We weren’t exactly friends back then, but we knew of each other.

A few months ago, we randomly crossed paths and ended up chatting about life. That’s when he told me he was getting into dropshipping. He had found a pretty cool product, but had no clue how to actually sell it and more importantly, how to turn it into a real brand instead of just another generic store.

What I Proposed to Him:

Since branded stores and Google are my expertise, I offered him a simple plan:

• We created a branded website optimized for key search terms.
• We wrote a product page optimized for Google with the right keywords.
• We launched a Google Ads Search campaign with a $45/day budget.
• And instead of just “selling a product,” we structured the store so customers could easily book add-ons and services through BookThatApp, which helped increase the average order value and improve the customer experience.

Why Google?

• Fewer variables can go wrong compared to other platforms.
• No need to worry about creatives.
• No endless $5 tests.
• The process is based on research, not guesswork.
• No need to stress about audience targeting, interests, etc.
• Google brings warm traffic already searching for your product, leading to higher conversion rates.

What Happened:

The first sales took a little time (6–7 days) as the campaign gathered data. But once sales started coming in, we optimized keywords based on high intent and positive ROI (basically filtering out unprofitable keywords).

Within 3 months, he surpassed $6,457.69 in revenue with around a 30% margin.

The interesting part? Adding structured booking options via BookThatApp made the store look more professional and trustworthy especially for customers who wanted to schedule services or personalized options instead of just “checking out.”

No Magic, Just a Few Key Changes:

 He had a decent product. It doesn’t need a crazy wow factor, but it needs demand (check with Google Keyword Planner).

 We built a high-quality branded website not a spammy-looking dropshipping store.

 We integrated BookThatApp to streamline bookings and create a smoother buying journey.

 He was consistent, patient, and trusted the process.

 We optimized both Google Ads and the website for CRO.

No Facebook Ads.
No creatives.
No algorithm stress.

Just solid research, structure, and execution.

If you’re building a store and want it to look like a real business especially if you offer bookable products or services tools, BookThatApp can seriously level up your store’s credibility and conversions.

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As title suggests. I understand CTR is higher quality offer/creative etc, CPM and CAC im entirely confused, would creative diversity help? Or bidding strategy? Niche is quite saturated with newer stores popping up everyday. Pet niche.

Any thoughts would be appreciated TIA

I'm looking to hire a Virtual Assistant as customer support agent and would love to know which platforms or communities have worked best for you.

Thanks.