The Official E-Commerce Tips and Tricks Thread (Shopify, Amazon, EBAY)

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Not dropping bread on professional photography until the rest of my products are in. They've been selling well on Ebay as I already have stock photos from my wholesaler.

Thewn that's not PL. That's wholesale
 

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So what are you selling exactly ?

Are you selling your own products ?

I thought you were experienced in this.
It’s working now, I just didn’t give it enough time the first go round :skip:
 

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How do you guys go about doing/outsourcing your product descriptions?

I’ve sharked a few and modified them but i’m thinking I may get someone from Upwork/Fiver due to time constraints.
 

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@LeVraiPapi @MMS @Grizzly

How do you guys go about doing/outsourcing your product descriptions?

I’ve sharked a few and modified them but i’m thinking I may get someone from Upwork/Fiver due to time constraints.
I use an HTML template for my Ebay descriptions. The benefits are that it's visually appealing, looks professional and I can type the bare minimum product details while still leaving a good impression on the buyer. For Amazon, I sold mainly books and cds so I never had to worry about writing a description. If you need a good virtual assistant on Upwork though I can refer you to one that I use. Just pm me if you want their details.
 

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How do you guys go about doing/outsourcing your product descriptions?

I’ve sharked a few and modified them but i’m thinking I may get someone from Upwork/Fiver due to time constraints.
I purchase them from a vetted copywriter

its too important to do myself. I did my first one using the scribbles feature in Helium10 which worked well. There is a big gap between those that are good at sales writing and those that aren't. It costs me only $90 to get one done.

I had a fat chick who did NLP AMZ listings for $350 that some of my students used. I never purchased from her but I learned most of my ideas.
 

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@LeVraiPapi @MMS @Grizzly

How do you guys go about doing/outsourcing your product descriptions?

I’ve sharked a few and modified them but i’m thinking I may get someone from Upwork/Fiver due to time constraints.

Write it on your own because nobody knows your product better. I did the same with mines. The only time I outsourced it, I didn't like the copy.

Also, I am still confused about what you doing. So my advice is not really rounded. :manny:

Prime Day sucked for me by the way. I didn't run any deals but I still managed to get sales.
 

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I just put aside $2000 for a Facebook ad marketing budget. From reading different stories about people who run successful ecommerce stores they all echo the same thing. Once they installed their Facebook pixel, got their first 100 sales and created a lookalike audience from the data collected their store took off. I was already getting sales from Facebook ads without a real budget but I have some money in my war chest now that I'm gonna put to good use. Ebay is amazing and it is the vehicle that I'm using to catapult my other streams of income but at the end of the day that's their platform. I need my own shyt.
 

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I just put aside $2000 for a Facebook ad marketing budget. From reading different stories about people who run successful ecommerce stores they all echo the same thing. Once they installed their Facebook pixel, got their first 100 sales and created a lookalike audience from the data collected their store took off. I was already getting sales from Facebook ads without a real budget but I have some money in my war chest now that I'm gonna put to good use. Ebay is amazing and it is the vehicle that I'm using to catapult my other streams of income but at the end of the day that's their platform. I need my own shyt.
Hell yeah, I been selling a lot but Ebay been eating like a mofo off of me, from the warranties I didn't know shyt about:gucci:, to ad fees, to final value fees.


Definitely about to start building out my own website and pushing my shyt there
 

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Hell yeah, I been selling a lot but Ebay been eating like a mofo off of me, from the warranties I didn't know shyt about:gucci:, to ad fees, to final value fees.


Definitely about to start building out my own website and pushing my shyt there
Man, it's the fees, the fact that Ebay always favors the buyers over the sellers and a bunch of other shyt. They might side with you in 1 or 2 cases but there's no seller protection. People can buy an item, wear it to a party or get-together and return that shyt by saying "It's Not As Described" so you can't decline it. I've been dominating one of my niches on Ebay so now because other people aren't selling as much I got butthurt competitors messaging me from different accounts telling me that they're gonna report my listings. Competitors purchasing shyt from me on different accounts, submitting returns to try to get defects put on my account for particular listings and admitting to it. You tell Ebay and they don't do shyt about it. Being a Top Rated Seller with all positive reviews doesn't mean shyt either. I'm staying on the site but there's been a lot of fukkery in the past couple days that opened my eyes real wide. I'm diversifying my platforms heavily now.

Yesterday I started directing some of my Ebay customers to my Shopify store and this is what happened:

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They even spent more than they intended to because I was able to offer better pricing. No ad fees or final value fees and I made way more profit off those sales than I would have on Ebay.
 

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Man, it's the fees, the fact that Ebay always favors the buyers over the sellers and a bunch of other shyt. They might side with you in 1 or 2 cases but there's no seller protection. People can buy an item, wear it to a party or get-together and return that shyt by saying "It's Not As Described" so you can't decline it. I've been dominating one of my niches on Ebay so now because other people aren't selling as much I got butthurt competitors messaging me from different accounts telling me that they're gonna report my listings. Competitors purchasing shyt from me on different accounts, submitting returns to try to get defects put on my account for particular listings and admitting to it. You tell Ebay and they don't do shyt about it. Being a Top Rated Seller with all positive reviews doesn't mean shyt either. I'm staying on the site but there's been a lot of fukkery in the past couple days that opened my eyes real wide. I'm diversifying my platforms heavily now.

Yesterday I started directing some of my Ebay customers to my Shopify store and this is what happened:

S7BiR3P.png



They even spent more than they intended to because I was able to offer better pricing. No ad fees or final value fees and I made way more profit off those sales than I would have on Ebay.
Nice, I was getting ready to go all in on Shopify because of shyt that was going on with Amazon but they fixed it. Still planning on going all on shopify though and use cards/emails to push my Ebay/Amazon customers there in the future.

Some other hoe shyt i’ve had competitors/trolls do is buy some shyt and then never pay up. Now I got immediate pay in effect on all my listings. If you ain’t paying right away you can :camby:

August is about pick up nicely. Paid off this last CC in full so I can get my score to max out then reupping on a few different variations of my best sellers. Unlimited scalability :blessed:

Only issue is I have a one BR apartment and i’m running out of space for everything :pachaha:
 

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@Grizzly Aside from the monthly fee, are there any hidden payments/fees with shopify?
 

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Looking to get into this thru drop shipping on Shopify then I’ll do EBay/Amazon to making my own site


First step is finding out what products to sell:patrice:

Feedback from you brehs in here doing it big?
 
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