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This is what a great ad looks like

Dropshippers remain undefeated at advertising

My girlfriend showed me a TikTok ad for a product she liked I told her it was a dropshipper “Dropshipper? What’s that?” We are still so early

Dubai is shit There’s simply too many people here and the infrastructure can’t handle it Everything is a nightmare What should be a 30 min trip to the mall turns into 3 hours etc The only people that say it’s convenient and efficient are the hermits that don’t leave their building

You have to genuinely believe you have the Midas touch That everything you attempt will be massively successful just because that's what always happens That you are eternally lucky, blessed by God, favoured by algorithms That you've just got that x factor that nobody, including you can explain It's a self fulfilling prophecy

Has no problem saying she’s a doctor though SMH 🤦‍♂️

Hire freelancers. Ship from China. Be happy

Icon is a a bit of a farce Signed up to see if it would live up to the hype. It doesn’t Doesn’t do anywhere near what they say it does Examples: Paying for 100 ads a week to be automatically generated. Been onboard for around 2 weeks now. It’s made a grand total of 3 ads (all bad) “Launch ads with one click” this is a blatant lie, not possible. Also huge limitations in what you actually have control over when launching Also, no show from their team for the onboarding call. Poor form Avoid

Drop-shippers at it again

Ok so update on this I asked manus to build a landing page that will serve to convert cold traffic coming in from my top spending ad I gave Manus a link to my top spending ad It analysed it and transcribed it I gave it a URL of a listicle style I liked It one shotted it in HTML including congruent copy from my ad It generated the images using nano banana pro without me telling it to or using an API key I gave it or my Google account I gave it shopify access and told it to add the page to a draft theme It one shotted it Then asked it to edit the code so the page would be broken down into editable sections in theme editor instead of a one block page It one shotted it Checked all CTA and button links. All correct It even had the discount code I display on my regular website announcement bar for new customers in its announcement bar Fucking nuts

Average 19 year old dropshipper - tested 100+ products, knows what works and what doesn’t - has built 50+ stores and can create stuff in a day that agencies would charge $50k+ for - knows breakthrough advertising by heart and can convince your mum to buy anything - thousands of hours of graphic design and video editing - handled thousands of customer service tickets personally and knows how to manage expectations and keep refunds low - Can scale an ad account better than most people who get paid to do it - Learned how to stay lean, manage cashflow and scale a business without funding Average 30 year old ‘brand founder’ - lent some money - paid people to do everything There is a large skill gap in Ecom and I honestly feel if some of these dropshipping kids had access to the same capital / credit the guys in the startup world have they would absolutely wipe the floor with them Unfortunately most dropshippers never make the leap into really trying to reinvest a lot of their profits into building something for the long term. The ones I know who have are running rings around your favourite Twitter gurus

I’m 500,000 years old I make $18 a month dropshipping Ask me anything

A new brand we started in June just crossed 100,000 orders today Subscription based, no funding, no debt, profitable and hitting 7 figures per month So how did we do it? I hear all the time you need a lot of money to start a subscription based brand. "prepare to be unprofitable for months until repeat revenue compounds" At my core, I'm a retard and I like it when things are super simple I haven't done any financial projections, borrowed money to fund growth or anything like that. I literally started this with a purchase order of 250pcs and a $100 per day ad budget Here is the retard proof formula to starting a subscription focused brand if you don't want to float losses, borrow money, take on investment or spend hours in google sheets making projections and financial models etc Pre-requisites: - Fulfil form China in the beginning. Non negotiable IMO if you want to follow the same playbook. Will keep your costs minimal and with super fast lead times it lets you be very reactive to performance and scaling budgets etc without having to place large PO's or make projections with no data - Do not enable subscriptions when starting. Adding subscriptions will always lower your conversion rate. In the beginning getting more conversions, more data, more traffic etc is far more valuable as you have limited budget. This will allow you to test offers, creatives etc faster as you'll be able to raise ad budgets faster Ok lets go At the start test offers to find something that lets you be first order profitable. For us this took around 1 week at a $100 a day budget Then we started scaling making sure to maintain healthy margins We scaled to around $1k per day and then introduced subscriptions. CVR rate lowered but take rate was high and we were still profitable first order Once our first rebills started hitting we then raised budgets and scaled at break even on ads. Profits were driven by the repeat revenue Those first re-bills won't be anything crazy which is why we didn't go below break even on front end as I didn't want to risk getting caught with my pants down. Continue to scale at breakeven and let subs compound. This will add up quick and your margins should be very high going into second month of re-bills (we were averaging 45% net Then once month 3 re-bills hit and we had some decent LTV data and cash in the bank we raised ad budgets and started scaling ads at a loss now knowing what CAC we could afford based on that data and the cash we had i That's it. Nothing complicated, no fancy financial models needed Just stay profitable first order in the beginning When first re-bills start hitting, scale at breakeven. Collect profits from repeat rev Once you have 3 month LTV data scale ads at a loss if your data allows it This allowed us to never be in debt, always have money to fund inventory and scale Worth mentioning we also were able to fund this growth while having 25% hold on PayPal If you think you need to take on debt or raise money, sorry but it's a skill issue I am terrible at maths and probably one of the most financially illiterate people you will ever meet in ecom, which is why I like to break things down to their most simple form If I can do this, anyone can

The duality of e-commerce

[Hook] → [Credibility] → [problem] → [tease possible solution] → [Why other solutions don't work] → [Why this one’s different] → [Testimonial] → [Soft CTA]

Dubai is shit There’s simply too many people here and the infrastructure can’t handle it Everything is a nightmare What should be a 30 min trip to the mall turns into 3 hours etc The only people that say it’s convenient and efficient are the hermits that don’t leave their building

This is what a great ad looks like

I don't go to the gym, I take zero supplements (never have) my diet is mostly fast food and I likely smoke more than anyone you know Yet I'm slim, healthy and never sick. Explain that

Icon is a a bit of a farce Signed up to see if it would live up to the hype. It doesn’t Doesn’t do anywhere near what they say it does Examples: Paying for 100 ads a week to be automatically generated. Been onboard for around 2 weeks now. It’s made a grand total of 3 ads (all bad) “Launch ads with one click” this is a blatant lie, not possible. Also huge limitations in what you actually have control over when launching Also, no show from their team for the onboarding call. Poor form Avoid

About to get on an 11.5 hour flight Ask me anything about Ecom I’ll try to answer everything

Dropshippers remain undefeated at advertising

A new brand we started in June just crossed 100,000 orders today Subscription based, no funding, no debt, profitable and hitting 7 figures per month So how did we do it? I hear all the time you need a lot of money to start a subscription based brand. "prepare to be unprofitable for months until repeat revenue compounds" At my core, I'm a retard and I like it when things are super simple I haven't done any financial projections, borrowed money to fund growth or anything like that. I literally started this with a purchase order of 250pcs and a $100 per day ad budget Here is the retard proof formula to starting a subscription focused brand if you don't want to float losses, borrow money, take on investment or spend hours in google sheets making projections and financial models etc Pre-requisites: - Fulfil form China in the beginning. Non negotiable IMO if you want to follow the same playbook. Will keep your costs minimal and with super fast lead times it lets you be very reactive to performance and scaling budgets etc without having to place large PO's or make projections with no data - Do not enable subscriptions when starting. Adding subscriptions will always lower your conversion rate. In the beginning getting more conversions, more data, more traffic etc is far more valuable as you have limited budget. This will allow you to test offers, creatives etc faster as you'll be able to raise ad budgets faster Ok lets go At the start test offers to find something that lets you be first order profitable. For us this took around 1 week at a $100 a day budget Then we started scaling making sure to maintain healthy margins We scaled to around $1k per day and then introduced subscriptions. CVR rate lowered but take rate was high and we were still profitable first order Once our first rebills started hitting we then raised budgets and scaled at break even on ads. Profits were driven by the repeat revenue Those first re-bills won't be anything crazy which is why we didn't go below break even on front end as I didn't want to risk getting caught with my pants down. Continue to scale at breakeven and let subs compound. This will add up quick and your margins should be very high going into second month of re-bills (we were averaging 45% net Then once month 3 re-bills hit and we had some decent LTV data and cash in the bank we raised ad budgets and started scaling ads at a loss now knowing what CAC we could afford based on that data and the cash we had i That's it. Nothing complicated, no fancy financial models needed Just stay profitable first order in the beginning When first re-bills start hitting, scale at breakeven. Collect profits from repeat rev Once you have 3 month LTV data scale ads at a loss if your data allows it This allowed us to never be in debt, always have money to fund inventory and scale Worth mentioning we also were able to fund this growth while having 25% hold on PayPal If you think you need to take on debt or raise money, sorry but it's a skill issue I am terrible at maths and probably one of the most financially illiterate people you will ever meet in ecom, which is why I like to break things down to their most simple form If I can do this, anyone can

I’m 500,000 years old I make $18 a month dropshipping Ask me anything

Currently around 40% of our subscription cancellations come immediately after first order Talking with my CS team and they’ve said around 80% of those people are doing it for the discount on first order and around 20% of them didn’t know they were subscribing (probably some % of these are fully aware but are also just doing it for the discount) Is there any good solution to stop people subbing and cancelling straight away just so they get a discount?

Seeing too much ego on this app and people shitting on others for not doing $10m a month Everyone has to start somewhere and learn the ropes Everyone who has done 7 figures+ per month at some stage was at 4 figures per month. Never forget that. We all come from the same place If you’re a newbie to Ecom, you’ve got a little bit of traction but aren’t sure what to do now: Drop some questions below, I’ll try and guide you as best as I can

Will pay any landing page builder $15k if they can beat the performance of our current main landing page (which is a pdp) Can be any style you wish (listicle, advertorial, sales page, pdp) If it doesn’t beat our current page I will pay $0 If your up for it, dm me

“Meta doesn’t work for us” The same people’s ads:

Drop-shippers at it again

I swear I think 99% of the clawdbot / openclaw use cases you see are just pure cap I can’t even get mine to login to an email account I created for it

Genuine question for marketers / psychologists wtf is the desire behind buying shit that just looks cool? I’ve struggled with this for a while Products like mini katana for example Doesn’t solve a problem, doesn’t help in avoiding any kind of pain, doesn’t appear to help economically, socially or create any form of efficiency in their lives etc but is wildly popular What is actually driving people to buy stuff like that other than ‘oh, that looks cool’? How do you come up with angles for stuff like this other than just trying to make it look as aesthetic / cool as possible I find it so hard to pin point for products like this

Is there any app that calculates your real P&L. Including shopify fees and allows you to setup shipping costs properly (different prices for different markets, products and quantities)