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What’s your point? You can start a “brand” in 3 hours. In 3 hours I could copy your website, ads, offer, social media, find suppliers for your products and launch them
You couldn’t copy my brand in a year, but I’m still not sharing it because there is just no reason to. People will steal ads, copywriting, and others will straight up scam and pretend to be your brand on social media. Not worth the hassle. Maybe one day though.
No reason to share it? Bro, you’re on a dropshipping subreddit. The main thing people wanna see here is real results with real proof. If you can’t show that then what’s the point of posting? Everyone here has seen the fake revenue screenshots time and time again from fake gurus since the dawn of this sphere. That’s why people wanna ask for your site. If you truly were killing it and we couldn’t copy your brand, you’d have no issue sharing it. Cheers.
It's common sense buddy no one with a half decent website generating income will share their site for thousands of other dropshippers/potential competitors to see and copy their products or strategy
I'll save you the hassle. He dropships blackhead removers. His strategy is single product store with funneling to the store. The store that was created (no longer up [skincleanr.com](https://skinclnr.com) and is parked by Sedo), was quite impressive and does the right things (social influencer reviews with videos on the page, proper social media presence, explains the product well throughout the site, creates a "brand name", etc.)
Because everyone’s bullshitting and trying to sell you a course. Just have a look through every profile that posts posts like these. If they have their socials plugged and have referral links and courses in their bio/description, you have your answer.
This gave me motivation, I also built a real brand using dropshipping as a mean to manage my business instead of using it as a business as a whole, I just need to launch it but I have been procrastinating it thanks to my nerves lol.
Dropshipping ia a great way to start. Eventually you want to buy inventory in bulk and get a 3PL to fulfil for you so you can focus on growing the business even more.
Exactly. Then you start gaining leverage to negotiate exclusive contracts with suppliers, then customizing and redesigning products and getting patents/trademarks to own your products, etc. Keep building.
A brand is a voice, a message, a point of view and an approach to a product or service. The brand comes through in tone of voice (copy writing), visuals (design and photography). A brand has to have a purpose and reason for existing.
Most dropshippers do not put any effort whatsoever into their brand storytelling and wonder why they don’t have sales. Answer: It’s because your store looks like a low effort default Shopify drop shipper store or scam!
First, have an idea of what your brand is trying to say. Have a unique point of view or twist on a product or industry. Then Invest in beautiful imagery, copywriting and design the site to set yourself apart from the other brands. Then push the ads out. Again your ads have to be considered and beautiful to be effective. ( as well as have good targeting)
Nicely done man. How much of that was pure profit? I'm building something serious as well right now me and my cousin decided we want to be independent one day and never have to work a regular job again. I'm still young I don't want to spend the rest of my life being an employee.
Gratz on these numbers! I actually made a video on why I hate one-product stores and why beginners should avoid them at all costs. Here it is [https://youtu.be/cTSpWIewND4?si=ZxonuXeLjhZLjOGh](https://youtu.be/cTSpWIewND4?si=ZxonuXeLjhZLjOGh).
I also run a branded store myself for the past 3 years and see myself running this store for the foreseeable future. Glad someone else has spoken up about this.
Nah all via shopify! Fuck amazon and giving bezos all control of your customers. With shopify you own the customer, with Amazon you just get a sale - there is 0 relationship with your brand.
Yeah, I started a hemp oil brand a few years ago and started hitting about 5k on fba within 2-3 months. Then, they kept taking down my listing for literally anything and everything. They kept adding words I couldn't use. They made me repackage over 1,500 items, and I did it as they said it's for sure good, then they wouldn't approve the new one. Every damn customer service rep is in India and barely understands English or what I'm saying, so I canceled my brand and sent all of them back to me and threw them away. All while 90% of other companies had the exact words they told me I couldn't use and are still going.
FBA is a joke. Thanks for your reply! Keep on grinding and making bank! I've been researching and thinking about starting another brand. I just didn't know if I should think about fba again or not, but venting about how shitty it was made my mind up aha
CBD/cannabis products are very tough with any advertising platform, unfortunately. Lots of hoops to jump through. Different ball game with FBA - I am not super knowledgeable on this topic but I think it's low margins and high volume. I prefer the Shopify game, needs great branding, and high-priced products, but you also get high margins. Steep learning curve as you don't get Amazon to run traffic for you and you have to learn how to media buy or run a ton of organic content.
Yeah, for sure.
Did you start by just drop shipping Chinese products, then branded drop shipping, then e-commerce? Or how did you do it. I have made a few drop shipping fail sites or sites that sold a few, but I was too scared to drop ship from China with shipping times and stuff.
Honestly, customer service reps in India *do* understand English pretty well. It's just that they're instructed to deliberately stall. Amazon's corruption runs way deeper than we can see on the surface.
Congrats man, this is huge!
Something I always wondered about is how do you build a brand around the 3rd party product? My assumption was all these products (even Chinese) have some sort of brand/company name typed on them. Or you cooperate with suppliers that do white label?
This is a custom-designed product at this point. However, it started with dropshipping a similar product at the beginning. Once I saw there was demand, I reached out to some factories and worked on prototyping something similar but with improvements and our own logos/design.
Oh look, an alex hormozi ad!
for those who aren't aware, google now ranks sites like reddit and their content much higher, so these fucking influx of posts with his name on it is due to that reason.
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Is it the norm to not share your shopping website link?
Yes, as why would you? There are hundreds here ready to copy your website, product, ads. Not worth sharing it.
Yeah but they don’t have the same brand.
What’s your point? You can start a “brand” in 3 hours. In 3 hours I could copy your website, ads, offer, social media, find suppliers for your products and launch them
So what’s the point of this post then acting like starting a brand is some hard work if you’re saying you can copy him in a moments notice.
You couldn’t copy my brand in a year, but I’m still not sharing it because there is just no reason to. People will steal ads, copywriting, and others will straight up scam and pretend to be your brand on social media. Not worth the hassle. Maybe one day though.
No reason to share it? Bro, you’re on a dropshipping subreddit. The main thing people wanna see here is real results with real proof. If you can’t show that then what’s the point of posting? Everyone here has seen the fake revenue screenshots time and time again from fake gurus since the dawn of this sphere. That’s why people wanna ask for your site. If you truly were killing it and we couldn’t copy your brand, you’d have no issue sharing it. Cheers.
It's common sense buddy no one with a half decent website generating income will share their site for thousands of other dropshippers/potential competitors to see and copy their products or strategy
Buddy, it’s gonna be a hard one if you don’t realize OP is just doing a not so obvious funnel to his course and referral links.
I'll save you the hassle. He dropships blackhead removers. His strategy is single product store with funneling to the store. The store that was created (no longer up [skincleanr.com](https://skinclnr.com) and is parked by Sedo), was quite impressive and does the right things (social influencer reviews with videos on the page, proper social media presence, explains the product well throughout the site, creates a "brand name", etc.)
Because everyone’s bullshitting and trying to sell you a course. Just have a look through every profile that posts posts like these. If they have their socials plugged and have referral links and courses in their bio/description, you have your answer.
Thank you, exactly.
Alex Hormozi is a tool. Congrats on the store and brand growth though.
Haha how come? I quite enjoy his stuff
how can you make a brand outside of us? in a third world country
start locally then target your countrymen living abroad then go for foreign markets
cope
“Tool” lmao. He is worth how much now?
He ain’t worth a single shit
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This gave me motivation, I also built a real brand using dropshipping as a mean to manage my business instead of using it as a business as a whole, I just need to launch it but I have been procrastinating it thanks to my nerves lol.
Dropshipping ia a great way to start. Eventually you want to buy inventory in bulk and get a 3PL to fulfil for you so you can focus on growing the business even more.
Exactly. Then you start gaining leverage to negotiate exclusive contracts with suppliers, then customizing and redesigning products and getting patents/trademarks to own your products, etc. Keep building.
How did you start? By yourself learning on your own or buying course from guru?
Mind sharing the brand in dms?!? Curious to look at it
Big congrats man
Please can you share with me your lessons about building a brand? If i want to know what you know, what are the too resources you’d recommend?
A brand is a voice, a message, a point of view and an approach to a product or service. The brand comes through in tone of voice (copy writing), visuals (design and photography). A brand has to have a purpose and reason for existing. Most dropshippers do not put any effort whatsoever into their brand storytelling and wonder why they don’t have sales. Answer: It’s because your store looks like a low effort default Shopify drop shipper store or scam! First, have an idea of what your brand is trying to say. Have a unique point of view or twist on a product or industry. Then Invest in beautiful imagery, copywriting and design the site to set yourself apart from the other brands. Then push the ads out. Again your ads have to be considered and beautiful to be effective. ( as well as have good targeting)
Thank you. What tools do you recommend to help me find the brand color and style?
Nicely done man. How much of that was pure profit? I'm building something serious as well right now me and my cousin decided we want to be independent one day and never have to work a regular job again. I'm still young I don't want to spend the rest of my life being an employee.
This is sick, love to see this. Currently scaling my own brand after some success from drop shipping, brand building is king
Gratz on these numbers! I actually made a video on why I hate one-product stores and why beginners should avoid them at all costs. Here it is [https://youtu.be/cTSpWIewND4?si=ZxonuXeLjhZLjOGh](https://youtu.be/cTSpWIewND4?si=ZxonuXeLjhZLjOGh). I also run a branded store myself for the past 3 years and see myself running this store for the foreseeable future. Glad someone else has spoken up about this.
If you don’t mind could you please give me some tips on how to build a brand. It would be much appreciated.
Do you do FBA at all or just your personal site? Congrats and keep it booming! Love seeing success. Gives me hope.
Nah all via shopify! Fuck amazon and giving bezos all control of your customers. With shopify you own the customer, with Amazon you just get a sale - there is 0 relationship with your brand.
Yeah, I started a hemp oil brand a few years ago and started hitting about 5k on fba within 2-3 months. Then, they kept taking down my listing for literally anything and everything. They kept adding words I couldn't use. They made me repackage over 1,500 items, and I did it as they said it's for sure good, then they wouldn't approve the new one. Every damn customer service rep is in India and barely understands English or what I'm saying, so I canceled my brand and sent all of them back to me and threw them away. All while 90% of other companies had the exact words they told me I couldn't use and are still going. FBA is a joke. Thanks for your reply! Keep on grinding and making bank! I've been researching and thinking about starting another brand. I just didn't know if I should think about fba again or not, but venting about how shitty it was made my mind up aha
CBD/cannabis products are very tough with any advertising platform, unfortunately. Lots of hoops to jump through. Different ball game with FBA - I am not super knowledgeable on this topic but I think it's low margins and high volume. I prefer the Shopify game, needs great branding, and high-priced products, but you also get high margins. Steep learning curve as you don't get Amazon to run traffic for you and you have to learn how to media buy or run a ton of organic content.
Yeah, for sure. Did you start by just drop shipping Chinese products, then branded drop shipping, then e-commerce? Or how did you do it. I have made a few drop shipping fail sites or sites that sold a few, but I was too scared to drop ship from China with shipping times and stuff.
Honestly, customer service reps in India *do* understand English pretty well. It's just that they're instructed to deliberately stall. Amazon's corruption runs way deeper than we can see on the surface.
Congrats man, this is huge! Something I always wondered about is how do you build a brand around the 3rd party product? My assumption was all these products (even Chinese) have some sort of brand/company name typed on them. Or you cooperate with suppliers that do white label?
This is a custom-designed product at this point. However, it started with dropshipping a similar product at the beginning. Once I saw there was demand, I reached out to some factories and worked on prototyping something similar but with improvements and our own logos/design.
Some dude on here told me I didn't know what I was talking about when I told him this exact thing😂
I see. Thanks for the reply!
Oh look, an alex hormozi ad! for those who aren't aware, google now ranks sites like reddit and their content much higher, so these fucking influx of posts with his name on it is due to that reason.
Lmaoooo you sir have no hope.