My AliExpress Dropshipping Journey

[grumble]

WIth FB ads - Look at the time in your market. Post ads that are (say) Tuesday-friday 10am - 5pm in the buyer's country. Start the bid at $5 for say 3 days, rest a week and run again - this keeps the price low.

If you post at 1am in the market, your money is gone before breakfast.

Other thing is targeting - you need to get the customer profile correct for the product. Advertising Harry Potter in 'Kids' is too broad a target, so tighten the focus. This will improve your returns but takes a lot of time and effort.

[leondari]

Thanks Yaros, yes I will put aside FB ads for the time being and get my social sites up and running and start getting some followers and interaction, of course I would be interested in SocialRabbit, anything to make life easier.

Question: I noticed on aliexpress there are various methods of delivering the product depending on the country it's sent to, for example you can use e-packet for an extra 1.98 or so to get delivery to USA between 5-15 days, which is great. Although for other countries it varies considerably. Sometimes it's 15-45 days, for other destinations it's 15-30 and so on. How do you let the customer know when the product will be delivered, do you advise them after they buy or in the product description? It gets a little messy, just wondering how you approach that aspect of the business?

To Grumble - thanks for the FB insights, I will take your into consideration when next I start advertising again.
Regarding the ad campaigns, I ran them for 3 days straight and got a stack of engagement on my 2 posts I put up, one had 412 likes and the cost per 'like' was cheap but the problem was very few visited my site, not sure what to make of that. I will experiment with different images, wording and the like next time.

[abatshi]

work it on opencart 1.5.6.4???

[lostinheaven]

I have an idea on how to set the price
you want and instead of sending to Aliexpress
you send then to your shopping cart. And then
you place the order through your affiliate link.

Just use the plugin to import the products you
want and that are covered by their affiliate program
but not post them straight to the categories.
After choosing the products you want, post
manually each product and then check out to your
shopping cart and do it like yaros does place the order
via your afillate link. Just an idea;)

(11-13-2015 11:19 PM)kashala Wrote:  

(11-11-2015 05:47 PM)Yaros Wrote:  

(11-11-2015 05:04 PM)kuroneko19 Wrote:  So if price in Aliexpress is $12.00 you increase twice = $24.00 correct?

Yes, right in general. If the price on AliExpress is from $1 to $10 I usually increase by three times. For $10 - $30 two times. For $30+ items I add 1.5 coefficient.

Thank you for your Answers
How You can Increasing Price by three times? Is This Option available in this Plugin...? Can You Show Details Screen Shot.... how to increase Price... or Steps to increasing Prices of any products or all products... Because I want to install this plug in to my Brand New Domain BuyShoppingStore Dot Com ... Please suggest me

[grumble]

@Leondari Try putting up an FB shop so they buy without going to your site. Too many steps and people are lazy. Selz and ecwid does this (and LeadSnaps will make / post a landing page direct to FB).

[kuroneko19]

Hello Yaros,

What plugins are you using for SEO on your dropshipping store?

Thanks

[leondari]

Hi Yaros, a few question has come to mind, I see you have lot's of products in your store, do you keep track with wholesalers at aliexpress with the availability of the products your selling. I'm sure there will be a time when the aliexpress wholesaler ceases to sell one of the products, how do you deal with that aspect?

Do you prefer to buy your products form one particular wholesalers or spread them across many?

Have you reached out to any wholesalers and asked them for better prices, giving out promo material for you, better shipping or anything like that?

Thanks again for sharing your thoughts with us at BBHF

[Yaros]

My stats for November (Best Month so far!):

TRAFFIC



I got around 8% increase in traffic comparing to October stats.

INCOME

Total income: $1489,67
Supplier costs: $609,12
Affiliate commission: $41,09
Net profit: $921,64 (+60% comparing to October)

Most of my sales were generated with the help of organic search and social media (not paid ads).

Top 3 countries people purchased from:
- United States
- Canada
- Australia

AND NO REFUNDS!

Good month!

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(12-01-2015 09:23 AM)kuroneko19 Wrote:  Hello Yaros,

What plugins are you using for SEO on your dropshipping store?

Thanks

I don't use additional SEO plugins. I integrated necessary features in my dropshipping plugin, like metadata fields, tags and keywords.

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(12-01-2015 11:30 AM)leondari Wrote:  Hi Yaros, a few question has come to mind, I see you have lot's of products in your store, do you keep track with wholesalers at aliexpress with the availability of the products your selling. I'm sure there will be a time when the aliexpress wholesaler ceases to sell one of the products, how do you deal with that aspect?

Do you prefer to buy your products form one particular wholesalers or spread them across many?

Have you reached out to any wholesalers and asked them for better prices, giving out promo material for you, better shipping or anything like that?

Thanks again for sharing your thoughts with us at BBHF

My plugin tracks all the products added to my store and shows how many pieces left (this data is taken through AliExpress affiliate API).

I prefer to work with many suppliers on AliExpress in order to have a good range of products on my store. This is the reason why I don't spend time on talking with sellers about better prices, etc. However it is a good idea!

[leondari]

Sounds like a valuable tool your plugin, add me to the list of potential customers when you have it for sale.
At the moment I have 5 products but potentially see a problem in the futue when I'm more products, keeping track of availability.
Do you have a time frame when you can make this dropship plugin available to the public?

BTW - Your figures are impressive and growing steadily, great work!!!!

[Yaros]

(12-01-2015 05:20 PM)leondari Wrote:  Sounds like a valuable tool your plugin, add me to the list of potential customers when you have it for sale.
At the moment I have 5 products but potentially see a problem in the futue when I'm more products, keeping track of availability.
Do you have a time frame when you can make this dropship plugin available to the public?

BTW - Your figures are impressive and growing steadily, great work!!!!

I can't say exactly when I launch the plugin for big market but hope it happens soon. I will keep you informed.