Low Traffic, No Sale

Sobbee

Sobbee

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I've purchased a custom Alidropship store somewhere in Mid April 2019 and added social rabbit and all sorts of addon bundles. It's been more than a month and the unique traffic till date is less than 60 visitors, not even talking about making a single sale. I'm not sure what i can do for now and i don't think paid ads will help from other dropshippers' experience.

I'll be really greatful if anyone can point a direction for me. This is my webstore: sobbee.com
 
Direct Webstore

Direct Webstore

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Basically, the plugin, your site and other addons like Social Rabbit are "tools". They're not magic money makers. You have to know how to use tools to get a good result. i.e, you have to learn via research.

You have to find a niche that's at least a little unique and not just another boring clothing store like you have. But even a clothing store can do well if you market it correctly. That's just another thing you need to research and learn.

I'll be brutally honest here. If I was you, I would scrap that clothing store completely and start fresh with a narrower niche. Perhaps based on something you like. e.g (This is an old example I have used before) "DRAGONS" (or frogs, unicorns, Labrador dogs, turtles ANYTHING that people like!) Then set up categories like Dragon pendants, Dragon rings, Dragon watches, Dragon pins. Dragon Patches, Dragon Statues, Dragon T-Shirts, Dragon Hoodies, Dragon Novelties, Dragon Posters and Prints, Dragon Stickers, Dragon Phone Covers etc etc

THEN start adding interesting blogs about dragons. Get photos of your products and make them into video slideshows with a music background and upload them to your sites Youtube channel .. with a link to the product page etc etc ... its endless the things you can do.

START GOOGLING!! Google knows all!

;)
 
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Judgedredd6572

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Sobbee said:
I've purchased a custom Alidropship store somewhere in Mid April 2019 and added social rabbit and all sorts of addon bundles. It's been more than a month and the unique traffic till date is less than 60 visitors, not even talking about making a single sale. I'm not sure what i can do for now and i don't think paid ads will help from other dropshippers' experience.

I'll be really greatful if anyone can point a direction for me. This is my webstore: sobbee.com
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It looks like a good website but it needs interesting content, where people can engage with each other. You have a great-looking website but advertising and promoting it is a whole different story.
 
Sobbee

Sobbee

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Direct Webstore said:
Basically, the plugin, your site and other addons like Social Rabbit are "tools". They're not magic money makers. You have to know how to use tools to get a good result. i.e, you have to learn via research.

You have to find a niche that's at least a little unique and not just another boring clothing store like you have. But even a clothing store can do well if you market it correctly. That's just another thing you need to research and learn.

I'll be brutally honest here. If I was you, I would scrap that clothing store completely and start fresh with a narrower niche. Perhaps based on something you like. e.g (This is an old example I have used before) "DRAGONS" (or frogs, unicorns, Labrador dogs, turtles ANYTHING that people like!) Then set up categories like Dragon pendants, Dragon rings, Dragon watches, Dragon pins. Dragon Patches, Dragon Statues, Dragon T-Shirts, Dragon Hoodies, Dragon Novelties, Dragon Posters and Prints, Dragon Stickers, Dragon Phone Covers etc etc

THEN start adding interesting blogs about dragons. Get photos of your products and make them into video slideshows with a music background and upload them to your sites Youtube channel .. with a link to the product page etc etc ... its endless the things you can do.

START GOOGLING!! Google knows all!

;)
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That's good advise. I'll give some serious thoughts about it. I've spent quite a bit on the current store and its a pity if i just take it off.
 
Sobbee

Sobbee

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Direct Webstore said:
Like Facebook? I don't think so. Or do you mean just blogs for them to read ... by themselves.
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Judgedredd6572 said:
It looks like a good website but it needs interesting content, where people can engage with each other. You have a great-looking website but advertising and promoting it is a whole different story.
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Thanks, that's encouraging. I do have twitter, facebook, instagram, pinterest set up for the store. I guess i'll just have to keep trying for awhile.
 
Direct Webstore

Direct Webstore

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Sobbee said:
I've spent quite a bit on the current store and its a pity if i just take it off.
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Have you heard the expression "Flogging a dead horse"? It's pointless. I have 8 stores and I have killed off 3 over the past 2 years and rebuilt new ones. You have to do what you have to do.
 
Sobbee

Sobbee

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Direct Webstore said:
Have you heard the expression "Flogging a dead horse"? It's pointless. I have 8 stores and I have killed off 3 over the past 2 years and rebuilt new ones. You have to do what you have to do.
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I see.. Would you suggest getting a store that has more products? I've seen some guys that does single product stores and they make half a million in a couple of months. Over and over again.
 
Direct Webstore

Direct Webstore

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Sobbee said:
I've seen some guys that does single product stores and they make half a million in a couple of months. Over and over again.
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That's right. I've seen it too. But the product is always something new, interesting, unique or extremely useful that's not easy to buy at the local stores.

Sobbee said:
Would you suggest getting a store that has more products?
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No. "More" is not always "Better". A store with a single fantastic interesting product or a store with 50 fantastic interesting products will do much better than a store with THOUSANDS of CRAPPY BORING and/or easy to get locally products. That's just common sense.

(But there is one member on this forum who has the opposite view. He thinks having thousands of crap products is good ... but he's retarded ... lol )

I suggest you get interesting and/or more unique products that are not easy to get at local stores. Clothing is easy to get anywhere and is not special. And there are tens of thousands of others selling clothing too.

You need a "niche" dedicated to a particular thing. Something that people are passionate about. And people are passionate about LOTS of different things. Like "Dragons" I mentioned above and HEAPS of other things.

Run of the mill clothing is pretty boring. People don't form Facebook Groups based on normal run of the mill clothing. They may form groups based on "specialised" clothing like Goth clothes or Cosplay costumes though. And those are examples of specialised niches too (Goth and Cosplay)

Find a specialised thing large numbers of people like (dragons, cosplay, Goth, Labradors, Poodles, vampires, unicorns, colour-in books, macrame the list is endless! Then type the niche into Google Trends and see if the interest graph is steady or going up. Then Google the niche and see how much competition there is. Then search Aliexpress to see if there are enough products related to it available.

There are also a few blogs on all this in the Alidropship Blogs. Or simply Google ... "How to find a drop shipping niche"

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Sobbee

Sobbee

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Direct Webstore said:
That's right. I've seen it too. But the product is always something new, interesting, unique or extremely useful that's not easy to buy at the local stores.


No. "More" is not always "Better". A store with a single fantastic interesting product or a store with 50 fantastic interesting products will do much better than a store with THOUSANDS of CRAPPY BORING and/or easy to get locally products. That's just common sense.

(But there is one member on this forum who the opposite view. He thinks having thousands of crap products is good ... but he's retarded ... lol )

I suggest you get interesting and/or more unique products that are not easy to get at local stores. Clothing is easy to get anywhere and is not special. And there are tens of thousands of others selling clothing too.

You need a "niche" dedicated to a particular thing. Something that people are passionate about. And people are passionate about LOTS of different things. Like "Dragons" I mentioned above and HEAPS of other things.

Run of the mill clothing is pretty boring. People don't form Facebook Groups based on normal run of the mill clothing. They may form groups based on "specialised" clothing like Goth clothes or Cosplay costumes though. And those are examples of specialised niches too (Goth and Cosplay)

Find a specialised thing large numbers of people like (dragons, cosplay, Goth, Labradors, Poodles, vampires, unicorns, colour-in books, macrame the list is endless! Then type the niche into Google Trends and see if the interest graph is steady or going up. Then Google the niche and see how much competition there is. Then search Aliexpress to see if there are enough products related to it available.

There are also a few blogs on all this in the Alidropship Blogs. Or simply Google ... "How to find a drop shipping niche"

;)
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Wow, thanks for your detailed advice, i'll check it out and do something about it. Thanks again my friend
 
Direct Webstore

Direct Webstore

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If you want to sell clothes, you need to carefully hand pick every item and make sure it's unique and different.

It's like the difference between selling a normal plain brown coffee mug you can get anywhere and a coffee mug with a 3D Fairy attached to it. Or a "self stirring" coffee mug. (built in motor)
 
Sobbee

Sobbee

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i've re-vamped the entire website to focus on a niche instead of just selling general tshirts. Hopefully this is an improvement. And i prolly gotta explore paid ads.
 
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Sobbee said:
i've re-vamped the entire website to focus on a niche instead of just selling general tshirts. Hopefully this is an improvement.
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I think it is. Niches are the way to go! People need niche-based patches, pins, pendants, bracelets, hair-pins, caps, posters and whatever to go with niche-based t-shirts.

You can build a niche store based on anything that has a large enough number of people interested in it. Well, almost anything.

Like Earthworms! Sell earthworm patches. earthworm pins, earthworm pendants, earthworm bracelets, earthworm hairpins, earthworm caps, earthworm t-shirts, earthworm posters, earthworm coffee mugs, earthworm statues, earthworm lamps, earthworm toys, earthworm stickers, earthworm socks, earthworm backpacks, earthworm wallets etc.

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Hmmm, will have to run "earthworms" through Google Trends and Facebook Pages/Groups first ... lol.

Disclaimer: The above is just a joke example. Don't take it seriously. But who knows? It might even work. lol

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julieh

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@Sobbee,

Look at your store SEO. Even the meta title on your main page is simply the domain name. Aim for every page on your site to have a meta title and description unique to that page. Your products take the meta title from the product title which will work in most cases but your product categories need seo input.

And Earthworms. o_O I have seen it all now,

Talking about weird niches, how about giant virus plushies... Ecoli looks kind of cute.

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