My AliExpress Dropshipping Journey

[onida224]

How to find aliexpress sellers who supports dropshipping ? I am having problem finding it. Can you help me out , Yaros :)

[moataz59]

(03-04-2016 02:17 PM)moataz59 Wrote:  Great job Yaros, many thanks for your screenshots and tutorials.
My question is:
Did you ever used AliPlugin in your own sites or you only use your private DS plugin?
I've searched for some of your sites but found them all depending on DS plugin, do you have any success with AliPlugin or any other aliexpress affiliate plugin? You know that DS needs a lot of work.
I'm a fan of all your posts here and in the other places.
Thanks

[Yaros]

(03-05-2016 07:25 AM)moataz59 Wrote:  

(03-04-2016 02:17 PM)moataz59 Wrote:  Great job Yaros, many thanks for your screenshots and tutorials.
My question is:
Did you ever used AliPlugin in your own sites or you only use your private DS plugin?
I've searched for some of your sites but found them all depending on DS plugin, do you have any success with AliPlugin or any other aliexpress affiliate plugin? You know that DS needs a lot of work.
I'm a fan of all your posts here and in the other places.
Thanks

I am using AliPlugin for building AliExpress affiliate site and I am successful with it as well. For dropshipping sites I am using another plugin that is not for sale yet.

[kashala]

Are there any update .. when are you launching this... Next Month?

[peterheller]

I bought this after using the nulled version..............

guys, support the developer, it's worth the money and updates in the long run.

[Yaros]

(03-09-2016 10:08 PM)kashala Wrote:  Are there any update .. when are you launching this... Next Month?

Yes, hope to launch it next month.

[Sociable]

I am planning for two niche aliexpress dropshipping sites, can you suggest me the plugin for this?

[Yaros]

(03-24-2016 12:44 AM)Sociable Wrote:  I am planning for two niche aliexpress dropshipping sites, can you suggest me the plugin for this?

I am using my own one, not sure if there are other WP plugins exist. However there is a plugin for Shopify.

[Yaros]

It's been 9 months since I have started working with my first dropshipping site WordlOfHarry.com. Today I prepared for you a small summary of what I have now and what I learnt during past 9 months.

I will share with you the list of my most profitable webstores, show you some traffic and income stats for the last month (March) and shortly describe the main promotion strategies I use regularly to make money with AliExpress dropshipping sites.

First of all, it should be noted that I have already developed and run 14 dropshipping stores.

Below I will show the most successful ones.

Stats for March

http://worldofharry.com/

Visitors: 6,898
Profit (gross): $1,228

http://empireneedsyou.com/

Visitors: 1,684
Profit: $790

http://sevenkingdomsmart.com/

Visitors: 717
Profit: $302

http://buyitcarl.com/

Visitors: 613
Profit: $510

http://nailsstuff.com/

Visitors: 549
Profit: $350

http://goputin.com/

Visitors: 871
Profit: $333

http://leggingsfan.com/

Visitors: 451
Profit: $290

http://ksort.com/

Visitors: 737
Profit: $197

And I got several orders last month from my new sites: http://kittenrules.com/ and http://sockinstock.com/

I should also mention 8% affiliate commission I get from AliExpress for each purchase. When I was just starting and had only several orders per month such kind of commission seemed not so serious to me. But when you passively earn $300-400 monthly owing to these affiliate commissions only, you understand that it is a really great addition to your main dropshipping income. By the way, now I know how to get 10% cash back from AliExpress but unfortunately this system works only for Russians for this moment.



Marketing

Most of my orders (about 90%) I get with the help of social media promotion. There are some sales generated through organic search traffic, but generally these sales come from my social pages which can be found in top of Google. So, actually we can consider this SEO traffic as a social media source as well.

My main social media marketing methods can be devided into 5 techniques:

1) Social Rabbit Plugin: Instagram and Facebook promotion
2) Instagram: ShoutOuts
3) Facebook: Group Sharing
4) Pinterest: Follow Liker
5) Twitter: Twidium

I will describe these techniques using WorldOfHarry.com as an example. These strategies are applied to all my sites.

1) Social Rabbit Plugin: Instagram and Facebook promotion

With the help of Social Rabbit plugin I post products on Facebook, Instagram and promote my webstore on other relevant groups in Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram.

On my Harry site I have all of the Plugin promotion options enabled, such as auto-posting and auto-promotion. Auto-posting time in different networks may vary and I am trying to test different time frames. On World of Harry for instance I enable auto-posting each 2 hours. As for auto-promotion, the Plugin launches it on Facebook every 5 minutes and every 10 minutes on Instagram. With auto promotion option Social Rabbit finds popular niche related groups, visits them, gives likes, leaves comments and reposts the most popular posts on my own Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest accounts/pages.

You can learn more about how it works here: Knowledge base | Social Rabbit Plugin

2) Instagram: ShoutOuts

On WorldOfHarry I usually make ShoutOuts once a week (four times a month) on different Instagram accounts. Each time I try to pick one of the best selling products on AliExpress, choose an attractive picture or make a collage of pictures, make a short catchy description and place it on the chosen Instagram account for 24 hours.

I am working with following accounts:

https://www.instagram.com/perksofamuggleborn/

Number of followers: 65.5K
Price per ShoutOut: $6

https://www.instagram.com/hpfashion934/

Number of followers: 131K
Price per ShoutOut: $28

https://www.instagram.com/butterbeermug/

Number of followers: 70.5K
Price per ShoutOut: $28

https://www.instagram.com/hermionegranger44/

Number of followers: 183K
Price per ShoutOut: $20

3) Facebook: Group Sharing

I create a new Facebook account, choose a profile picture, add personal information and add some friends to make an account look nice. For example, this is a profile created for sharing World of Harry posts : https://www.facebook.com/carlos.payne.98

After the profile is created I join different popular niche related groups: for Harry for instance I choose fan groups such as Harry Potter Hogwarts wizard, Harry Potter fan etc. Twenty five – thirty groups are enough.

After your join requests are approved you can start sharing your posts in the chosen groups. I usually share posts created by my Social Rabbit plugin, because these posts already contain some comments, a site name, URL and hashtags. Or you can create a nice post on your FB fan page manually and then share it using your new Facebook account with groups you selected.

4) Pinterest: Follow Liker

Pinterest account of World of Harry is mostly promoted by Follow Liker. This program promotes your account by auto-scraping users and pins, likes, user following and unfollowing. You can get it here: FollowLiker - Best Pinterest Bot and Pinterest Marketing Automation Software - Follow Liker. After buying you will be able to download the user’s guide.

5) Twitter: Twidium

Twitter account of World of Harry is promoted by Twidium Twitter Edition. This program mainly serves for auto-following and unfollowing Twitter accounts. You can get it here: https://twidiumapp.com/index.shtml. Read the instruction carefully to make all necessary settings.

That's all.

I expect questions like - how you handle refunds, - what about long delivery time, - do the packages include any signs or receipts, etc. I have nothing to add to my previous answers to these questions. I was worried about such things at the beginning as well, but now I can say that the cooperation with AliExpress suppliers works pretty well and does not have any crucial drawbacks.

So, take actions, always improve and enjoy the ride, otherwise what’s the point.

[maple]

Hi Yaros, thank you for all the info and effort. It is possible to get this plugin soon? Many thanks