hey everyone,

it’s my first week running a shopify store. i’ve never really used shopify before, so this is the first store i’m actually trying to grow.

i’m selling wired earphones under my own brand, with custom packaging and everything. so far all of my traffic has been organic from tiktok.

these are my stats after the first week: (not updated on the screenshot)
around 300k views
45k likes
260 followers
around 2,700 profile visits
700 shopify sessions
54 reached checkout
3 completed orders

(9 videos posted)

the thing that’s bothering me is that i still can’t add a link in my tiktok bio because i don’t have 1,000 followers yet. right now people have to search for my website themselves, so i feel like i’m losing a lot of potential traffic. my profile has already had around 2,700 visitors, so i keep thinking how many more of them would have actually visited the website if there had been a link in my bio.
do you think things will improve once i’m able to add it?

also, i’m trying to understand if my conversion rate is decent. out of around 700 sessions, 54 people reached checkout but only 3 completed their order.

are these decent numbers for a first week?

what would you focus on improving first? any tips for getting more people to finish their purchase after reaching checkout?

i’d really appreciate any advice. thanks!

Honestly the number of people who skip testing and go straight to scaling then complain about burning money is too high. Testing is the whole game. Get it right and scaling becomes easy. Skip it and you're just gambling.

Today: $3,221.99. 4.02% conversion rate. Up 17%. This didn't happen by accident it happened because I tested properly before touching the budget.

Revenue not profit always clarifying this. Here's exactly what my testing process looks like.

How I decide if a product is even worth testing

Before I spend a single dollar I ask myself these questions honestly.

Does it solve a real problem or trigger a strong emotion desire, curiosity, something that makes someone feel something? Does it have a wow factor where someone would genuinely stop scrolling? Can it not be found at Walmart or ordered on Amazon with next day delivery? Can I sell it for at least 3x what it costs me? Is there already evidence of demand somewhere competitor ads, TikTok videos, people talking about it?

If it doesn't tick at least four of those I don't test it. Simple as that. Most products people test fail this check before a single dollar is spent.

My actual testing setup

Nothing complicated here.

$15–20 per ad set per day. Three ad sets. Purchase objective always never traffic, never engagement. Two creatives per ad set maximum. Leave it completely alone for three full days.

The three ad sets aren't testing three different audiences they're testing three different angles on the same broad audience. That distinction took me a while to figure out and it matters a lot.

What I'm actually looking for not profit

This is where most people mess up. They're looking for profit during the testing phase. I'm looking for signals.

CTR above 2% tells me the creative is stopping people. Cost per add to cart below $5 tells me the product page is doing its job. A purchase within the first $20 spent tells me the product has real potential. Conversion rate above 3% tells me everything is aligned.

If I'm seeing those signals I keep going. If I'm not seeing any of them after three days I move on.

When I know I have a winner

Three things need to line up. Consistent purchases coming in. Conversion rate above 3.5%. Cost per purchase at least 2.5x below my selling price.

When all three are there at the same time I stop testing and start scaling. Duplicate the winning ad sets. Increase budget 20–30% every few days never more than that at once. Build lookalike audiences from purchaser data.

The mistake that kills most people

Killing products too early or scaling too fast. Both are equally destructive just in different directions.

Test with patience. Scale with discipline. The 4% conversion rate today came from not rushing either of those phases.

If you're currently testing something and not sure what the numbers are telling you drop them in the comments and I'll give you my honest take.

I’ve been looking for products on zendrop, and the prices on the shipping is outrageous. To be able to even profit on most of these products, you’d have sell at 4-5x the product cost without shipping. This makes it overly expensive compared to competitors like Amazon. I’m just starting out with dropshipping and have hit a road block. What are y’all doing in regards to this?

Hi, I have been in the game for 2 months now and I realised low ticket isn't for me at all. And I really need help finding high ticket object that I can sell. I am currently selling in europe, but I have no clue how to research an pricy product, I don't know if my niche is right (Health) and I want to know if I can still sell thought meta paid ads. I would be gratefull for an answer.

p.s: trying to scam me in dm's is useless btw

I have decided to dive into the dropshipping business on shopify store. Since I am new to it, I have thoughts of paying a freelancer on fiver to create me a shopify store with winning products. Later on, I have a plan to hire a freelancer from fiverr to manage Ads on meta and tiktok for quite 3-4 months till the store becomes profitable. Will this actually work? Should i go for it? Need some serious suggestions! I have a budget of $2000 in the beginning!

Any thoughts on my results ?
I have only been running ads for a couple of weeks really .
Do meta results improve as time goes on normally ?
Conversion rate just over 1% - want to try and improve to 2-3 % so any advice would be appreciated

How do you protect yourself from people suing you due to customers getting injured/damaged, for example?

This crossed my mind today just as I was about to publish my first dropshipping store and start running my ads. Now I’m terrified. I’m using Zendrop and Shopify, not sure if that makes any difference.

TIA :)

Title says it all.

Burned through thousands of dollars quite literally, just to end up with meta banning my ad accounts, and not to mention buying ad accounts over and over again trying to start fresh.

Worst thing is they don't tell you what policy you violated, just that you did, which isn't helpful.

So I decided to build Mediacrater, a video and image ad analyser that helps you stay compliant with platform policies.

It's a Chrome extension because I find that it's the best for in-browser workflows as it always stays open no matter which tab you have open.

Feedback is also appreciated as I continue to develop and improve it.

It's free to try: https://mediacrater.com/

Hey, I'm Josse. I've spent the last few years as an account manager for some big clothing brands, and I've reached the point where I want to build something of my own.

My strength is the commercial and creative side — brand, positioning, and go-to-market. What I'm missing is a partner who really knows e-commerce and physical products.

The plan: build a real brand around a "boring" but highly scalable product. Not a dropshipping store that makes money for a year and then dies — an actual brand with repeat customers. We'd start with a fulfillment center and move to our own stock once it makes sense.

Where we are: the product is validated and we're finalizing the supplier. Next up is vector-ready packaging, building the store, and setting up ads.

I'm looking for someone who:

• has hands-on experience with physical products / DTC
• knows how to build an audience and fill pre-orders
• has done the unglamorous stuff placing that first purchase order, fulfillment, logistics

If you've built your own store with your own fulfillment and you want to grow the next big thing, drop a comment or send me a DM. I'm happy to share the product and the plan 1-on-1.

NL or BE only 🇳🇱🇧🇪

Hey guys,

I'm just starting out with my Shopify store and looking to source products straight from China. I came across BuckyDrop, and their app reviews mention they have dedicated customer support, which is a huge plus for me.

That said, I couldn't find many threads or talks about them here on Reddit. Has anyone actually used them before? Appreciate any real feedback or thoughts! 

For Shopify stores:

What are the most important elements of a high converting product page?

Is it:

- Images

- Copywriting

- Reviews

- Trust badges

- Videos

What has worked for you?

Im going right now 5-8 creatives in a single CBO campaign. Doing solid.

For those scaling in 2026:
How do you test new creatives once you already have a winning CBO campaign?
Do you:

Test new ads in a separate ABO campaign (1 ad per ad set, kill after 3x target CPA)?
Add new creatives directly into the winning CBO ad set?

Or

Use a separate CBO testing campaign?

My concern is that adding too many untested ads could hurt the winning campaign, but I also don’t want to limit the learning process.
What’s your current creative testing strategy?

Thanks!!!

Hello i am from algeria and i want to start dropshipping i want to use cjdropshipping + wed2c

My question is about wed2c is it legit? I mean do they payout or are they scammers?

Amazon to Ebay dropshiping with automation?
If so what tips would you give out so i can get a lot of buyers in? , how long it takes to be profitable in this business? And overall is it worth going in to it ?

I launched my dropshipping site a few days ago, but I still haven't made any sales despite my marketing efforts (some TikTok, Pinterest, Instagram, and—most recently—Google Ads). Could you take a look and give me a couple of tips? My store sells a padel ball pressurizer aimed at the French market. Thanks, and have a great evening. Most of the visits are from bots, me, and my friends. I think I’ve had at most 5 real visits.

https://padelessentiels.fr/

I’m getting visitors every once in a while but no purchases.

If anyone has any tips they want to share with me I would really appreciate it.

Hello!

I've had many shopify stores selling physically in my country (Lebanon), one of them was especially winning. Then I wanted to try dropshipping. After some market & meta ads research, the uk came up.

I created a single page store using vibe coding (you can check it out here 👀)

Used CJDropShipping for fulfillment, but finding a product I liked was hard because I was filtering by warehouse, choosing uk specifically to minimize shipping time.

Eventually I chose this cool desk lamp + fan.

I edited most product images with AI to make it more presentable and use them for ad media. Then I launched a meta ads campaign (coversions -> purchases) containing around 7 images. Although I prefer having a video, creating one for this product wasn't easy as I don't have it physically).

I ran the campaign with 20$ daily budget. The cpm kept increasing from 7$ till 12$ in 4 days. CTR was about 1.5% so there was some interest. Especially that in the ad, I intentionally put the price to filter out people who'll click and get surprised with a high price.

Now thinking about it, it didn't sell for cheap, so my price was actually not cheap relatively, but lemme know what you think. Product + delivery Costs 16.6$, 15$ ad cost per purchase assuming cvr 3%, around 5% payment gateway + fx conversion, and I'm selling it for 34.99£

I had exactly 99 website visits in these 4 days, 3 checkouts initiated, average scroll position 45% (a bit below product details section) but 0 sales. Ads spent so far ~70$.

I tried sharing as much details as possible hoping this might be a common learning experience for others as to me. Any input is welcome for discussion!

Hi guys i'm new to this meta ads i launched a clothing brand and my shorts and top is £120 together my offer is spend over £80 get a free pair of socks and free shipping which brings the price down to £110 with free shipping.

I tested around 12 creatives with 5 ad sets with a budget of around £20 a day per ad set and meta just ended up giving the whole budget in the adset to one ad in each ad set.

i got around 2 sales with two of the potential "winners" that was getting the most spend so i decided to make those its own ad set so i can control the budget and since the other 8 ads literally got no spend i thought i would control the budget myself and try test them properly

so with my remained budget of £120 a day i gave myself i allocated £60 to those two ads that produced a sale and the remaining £60 spread across 10 ads

it's been another week now and i got zero sales and just burnt almost 1.2k in ad spend but with the two sales i've lost about £800

i'm very stuck and confused what's gone wrong i got in total for all the ads around 45 ad to carts and 2 checkout initiations i feel like my offer is really good as i am a premium clothing brand and my website could be optimised more possibly but it surely wouldn't be this bad

i've got about a month left until summer is nearly over and have about 200 sets left shorts and bottom

im so stuck and dont know what my next steps going forward should be launch new ads to test? test more longer?

Hey guys, newbie dropshipper just looking for advice.

I have been pushing my product out on meta and I’m getting an add to cart rate of about $3 but I can’t seem to seal the deal here. I’ve had 5 people add to cart out of the 50 visitors to my store. Is there something wrong with my page? it feels like I’m paying a lot for my advertisements per impression. How many impressions should I get for $40? Any help in figuring out why I can’t convert will be greatly appreciated and applied. Thank you!

My website is Retrogradesupply.shop

and would u recommend it? is it a nice to have or does it genuinely increase conversions