finally transparent information!! too many saturated rubbish on the youtube videos, lot of fake guru promoting fake products im sick of it. i want to watch honesty ppl with honest review keep it up!!
Hi everyone. I am sorry for some of the late reply. RUclips only notify me if it is a new comment. I would suggest you don't add comments on the old comments. If you have a second question. Please leave me a new comment so that I will be notified and be able to answer you in a timely manner. I am sorry for any inconvenience.
Hi i m kuldip, I m a physically handicapped guy, lost my two legs in an accident. I would like to start this business from home. Could you please help me how to start and i have no idea about it
hi Joy, are you planning to build it your own or you want to purchase a custom store with Alidropship? There are mainly two different ways. With Alidroship basically either you build it your own, assuming you have time and you are willing to learn and you are good with the computer( purchase plug-in only). Otherwise, you may consider purchasing the service to let them build for you( premium store or custom store). the advantage of alidropship is no monthly fee and the automatic system. The alternative way is Shopify, similar idea, however, it is much easier to build your own store in shopify, however, there is a monthly fee. once you get your store set up and load with products, you just need to promote your products. you could run ad through social media( either paid or organic traffic). Organic traffic is ideal however it is not as easy and you may not see the instant result or could be no sales. The paid ad you may see an instant result, however, if you don't know how to do it properly, end up will loose a lot of money on Ad. Since you may be new to e-commerce, I would highly recommend you learn as much as possible. From youtube, friends( doing e-commerce, or whatever way you can. Then decide what would you interest in selling incl product research( I would recommend to start with a niche store, I have make a detailed video talk about General store Vs Niche store, you may check this out ruclips.net/video/F-UJKNr7rNo/видео.html ? choose which platform to build your store? how are you going to promote your or product? as I mention in the video, purchase a store does not cost the most money, how to run it for example product research, creat ad copy, photoshop, promote with Ad , cost the most time and money. my finally advice is do not spend any money on Ad, uless you absolutely know what you are doing. I hope this info help. To be successful is not easy, it is same as like running a normal business, it takes time , experience, hard work, and be able to take risk. I wish you success. let me know how it goes, maybe you could share some experience too.
Thanks for a good honest review. You talk fast :) I would like to learn more about how much you've spent and how much you've made and how much time you've spent. Is your business growing?
Hi Glen, Thank you for watching my video. I actually talk extremely slow, but I speed up the video to make it less dragging. To answer your questions. I bought the classic store back in May, 2020. I bought the premium store with the installation package, marketing package, and the social rabbit add on. After the coupon discount, I have spent $800USD for the store. For Facebook advertisement, I have spend almost $3000 USD. Total sales conversion is about $1400. There sounds terrible. but most of the money I lost was facebook advertisement due to my mistake at the beginning. In the past two months, I have been able to make a balance(total sales conversations cover the ad fee and purchasing the products). The amount of time I have spent at the beginning is alot to me especially I can only work after my children are asleep, about 5 hours a day for 3 -4 months. Afterward, it is not too bad at all. Now I would say average I spend about one hour a day just to order and answering emails and keep the store going. Yes, my business is growing slowly. I am getting more comments and share on social media which will help my store. I would say this is a learning process, buying the store does not spend the most, the advertisement fee is killing. These premium stores can only provide you an easier way to start. I understand most people only care about how much money I have made, I would change the questions to how much skills I have learned to prepare me for the future success. I hope my long winded answers does not bored you. Hope I have answered your questions. I wish you success!
@@EcomWithCindy Hi Cindy, thanks for an excellent reply. I appreciate it. You seem to be very determined and I'm certain you will be very successful. I love that you chose to measure on the skills you've learned rather than the financial aspects. Another key to your long term success. I created a Shopify/Aliexpress store for the experience. Early on I learned that it would never be a successful store but I completed it for the experience. Now I intend to build a successful shop which is why I was checking your video :) I'm in Australia so most of the online training material isn't a good fit. I'm still learning :)
@@glenyoung4126 Hi Glen, thank you for sharing your experiences. It was not easy at the beginning for most people including me. You have mentioned you are from Australia so most of the online training material isn't a good fit. There is some truth about it, in my opinion, most of the skills are universal. For example, Video editing, photoshop, run advertisements on social media, how to built-up organic traffic, how to find winning products, how to find a reliable aliexpress sellers, how to market your products and email marketing, etc. Australia is one of the top five converting countries. I live in Canada, I got a few sales from Australia too, thanks to the social media platforms we can target different countries. I do want to mention that don't waste money on any fake guru courses, the more one's want to take shortcut, the more ones will fall into it. RUclips has a lot of free valuable content, but you do need to evaluate them. I hope you will find a learning path is right for you soon. Wish you good luck!
@@EcomWithCindy hi as u mentioned u spent usd3000 for the ads and the sales are pretty slow. R u saying that the marketing package is no good? I’m planning to buy the premium with marketing & setup and looking at your experience should i cancel my plan then?
@@HumbleKAB I personally think the marketing package is not helpful.if u just copy the material It won't help u to make profits . But if u want to learn only. It is ok. U could also learn it from RUclips.
Hi Lorraine, thanks for watching. you will need to first let you customer know that shipping takes about 2 to 4 weeks at check out and also remind them on confirmation email. . Also you need to find a reliable supplier that offer two weeks shipping if possible. . I had made a video talk about how to find a reliable AliExpress supplier. U may check it out here.ruclips.net/video/YNA8PR2Zve8/видео.html .
Thank you so much!!! Now, I have a more realistic idea of what does this premium stores have to offer. Your video also made me realized what to expect so that I can get ready before buying a store.
Hello, how is it possible to do dropshipping for products whose sizes are Asian while the shirts sold on the site are in European sizes. For example: a size on a product page as an Asian size 3XL In a European size it is XL How can this be done automatically? work with alidropship plugin. thank you so much!!
I got what you means, In fact, I try to sell some clothes on my site too, the measurement is way different compare with Asian size and US size. What I did was hide the aliexpress measurement chart on my Alidroship plugin( since it is way off), in my product description, I make a chart myself. To compare the US size with Asian size. So far, clothes is not my hot selling products.
There are some ways to work around with that. But first you need to do some homework. find a realiable supplier and communicate with them and find out exactly how long is the shipping time. Try to only promote these products you have done research. Also need to inform your customer about the shipping time. Hope these helps.
Wow. Thanks for sharing and thanks for being very transparent. I am building a Shopify store, got stuck. Still really confused. I know this video is old. Any advice so far as you’ve been in the business for a while now? What advice would you give for those of us who’re about to start?
Cindy hello. thank you very much for the review. i am also trying to figure out whether starting Alidropship is worth it. i am thinking of the Ultimate package. Can you please let us know how things are now with your shop? Also can you post its link to have a look?
hi Panayiotis, I had purchased the premium( premade) store, as far as I know, the ultimate package is a custom store, most likely the common thing between the two is the alidropship plugin and some add on. So far my store is doing ok, I won't say it is very profitable yet. I have try many different strategies, some show positive results, but so far none of them give me a fantastic result yet. However, I would say compare with the beginning, my store is doing much better. I am still trying different new ideas, hopefully by the end of this year will give me a much better result. unfortunately, I choose not to post the link of my store because this is the first ecom rule--not to disclose my store address, I already explained the reason in detail in one of the comments under this video. since my channel is mainly for share experiences, if you have any questions, I would happy to share what I know. hope you understand. The store I purchased is the exact copy of one of the premium store www.buyitcarl.com, but I did make some changes to make it better. Hope I had answered your questions. Wish you good luck!
Hi Cindy, thanks for the review and it does help the people like me who is trying to get in to ecommerce. Wanted to know how much time do you dedicate to run your store?
Hi, Thank you for the video. My Aliexpress Dropshipping plugin is active on a website I no longer have. How can I reset it to use it on my current website?
Hi ! how are you ? May I know what is status of your after one year? Have you started making money and if yes then what we should expect profit after one year of running store.thanks
Cindy, excellent video as I want to purchase a dropship store too. Without going through all of the comments do you have a link where we could have a quick look at your site that you purchased from Alidropship. Thanks very much. Jimmy.
hi Jimmy, thanks for your comments. I saw your comments on the other videos too. Thanks for supporting my channel. My premium store is the exact copy of BUY IT CARL( the original store form Alidropship). However, I made some changes to it as I mention in my video. Unfortunately, I choose not to reveal my own website, because this is the first Ecom rules---never reveal your own website unless you are going to give it up. I understand why this is so important as I learned throughout this half a year. However, I am willing to share what I know and what I have learned. Same idea as I could show you how to fish, but I won't catch the fish for you. I hope you understand.
Hi HY, you could try to use facebook as a good tool, if you see an ad comes to you with tons of like and share. Or you can check alidropship droshipping center to see the number of dropshipping items. I think there two will be good to start with. I know alidropship offer a monthly subcription called premium product that could also help, but it is a paid services. I know there are other paid service out there if you are not using alidropship. For advance level, I may need to make an indepth video to explain more ( I change my previous comments because I realize it is not gonna be a short while for me to make the video). I hope this info help and I wish you a success.
@@HY-oz2cb hi, HY, with the new IOS 14 take in effect. some facebook data has been affected, the good news is that facebook could still track conversion. We can not analyze the same way by using the old method. I am still adapting the new changes and waiting to see if Facebook gonna do something about it. For now, it is hard to say.
HI Cindy, I'm lving in CAnada too and I'm considering between shopify or Alidropship. I find a problem with dropshiping is the shipping time is too long, you can't beat amazon for 2 days shipping.. is it possible I can import from suppliers store them at my house or a wearhouse then ship when i have order. ? And how do sell to the US? Do you need to register your business?
Hi Duc, You are right, Amazon makes dropshipping not easy. There is no way you can beat the 2 days shipping. However, there are ways to do dropshipping without directly competing with Amazon, I may make a video to talk about that in the future. It is possible to import products from suppliers and store them at your house and ship them out when you have orders. Only if you find a winning product and you are 100% sure it is gonna sell( assuming you have mastered how to market the products and they are selling extremely well). But because you need to deal with the inventory( usually you need to order a large quantity from the supplier for a lower cost) and shipping, end up it may not be as profitable. Since you live in Canada, you may also know that the shipping cost in Canada is very expensive, if you register for a business account with the carrier, ship within Canada may not be too expensive, but if you are selling worldwide, the shipping cost will be too expensive that it is almost impossible to make a profit. Even if customers may be willing to pay a small amount for shipping, that will make your selling prices less compatible. However, if you could dropship some local products and if you are selling high ticket products, this may be a different story. You could sell products worldwide by advertising through social media platforms, which I may also make a video to talk about that in the future. Since you live in Canada, to do dropshipping you don't need to register as a coparation. you could register as sole proprietorship, which I may also make a video to talk more about that in the future for more detail. I hope I have answered all your questions. To know everything at once, I am afraid I may need to make a 10 hours series of videos to talk about dropshipping alone from head to toe. I want to emphasize that dropshipping most likely will not make you become a millionaire overnight, but it does teach you a lot on how to run a business. If you can master it, you could earn a very good amount of money. There are so much to learn and I am still learning. I hope you enjoy learning more about dropshipping.
@@EcomWithCindy hi Cindy, I also live in Canada, I’m interested in the topic of register the business, sometimes I got confusing about this, not sure do I need to register or not! I look forward to watch your video. Thank you for sharing your experience.
Hi, How is your shop progressing now? 😊 Awesome video and i plan to buy a premium store for myself? Is it Possible to make 3x profit (3x more than the amount spend on the shop) in a few months?
Hi Muhd, making 3x profit is a bit ambitious. I think you could look at it as a tool to help you, but to make profit or not, it depends on a lot more factors than just the store itself as I have mentioned in the Video . I wish you luck and hope you will find a way to succeed.
Will you continue with the website or you will stop? I am an IT person and I so sell online. It a hard work and I’ve been searching drop-shipping. If it’s true what they sell , then you would see everybody involved and want to do it! What you get is nothing much other than paying money for Facebook and for AliExpress
Hi, thanks for watching. Yes. I will continue my website since keeping the site is cheap compared with Shopify monthly fee. I am keeping my website to test products. I agree with you, at the beginning. All of my money goes to Facebook ad and AliExpress . I have been testing new strategies, and it show some results, I am quite confident I will do better this year.
Hi I'm considering buying a premium store and all this is new to me. What is the difference between a premium and a custom store. Also once I've purchased my premium store where will my items be listed? Will they be listed on Ali express or on my own website? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks
hi Buggurs, thanks for watching. I would glad to help you with whatever I know. A premium store is a pre-made store, which is the exact copy of the sample store from alidropship( however, the choices are limited) . please refer to this alidropship.com/premium-dropshipping-stores/?via=14846 A custom store means you choose whatever you want , alidroship could build it for you depends on what you want it to be. Once you purchased the premium store, you need to transfer all the stuff into hosting and buy a domain name. Both domain name and Hosting could be purchase from anywhere. if you choose alidroship hosting , the basic plan is $48 a year. For example , The domain name ( website address) is like the address of a house. The hosting is the house to contain all your belonging ( which is your items). ONce you have transfer your belong( your items) into a hosting, then they are ready to be seen on your website. Aliexpress is different from alidropship, Aliexpress is an online market place like Amazon, Ebay, which means they sell actual products and ship to customers. Alidropship is a ( shop/ platform) that sell you e-commerce related products and services and provides customer support. I hope I have answered your questions. Wish you good luck!
hi cindy, im struggling to build my store. which one to choose from alidropship plugin and build my store or buy a premium store or custom store ? what do you suggest for complete beginner plus no initial investment just to check if it works and makes any profit i can reinvest everything i got into it again ??
hi Ecomm Guy, I like your name! I would say if you don't have much budget and you have decent computer skills, you can try just the alidropship plugin. However, be prepared to spend a lot of time build your website and the result is not instant, it could take months not only to build your store, at the same time you need to learn how to do e-commerce . Since there is no monthly payment, you can take as much time as you want. Try to build organic traffic in social media, which will reduce the cost at the same time. There is also an alternative way, which is Shopify, although it has a monthly fee, it is much easier to build your own website if you just want to get a taste of it and just want to check if it works. Once you want to get serious, you can consider get alidropship for long run. Both ways will not cost a lot. as I mentioned in the video, purchase a website does not cost the most, How to promote your products cost the most. Hope I have answered your questions. Wish you good luck!
hello i bought an alidroship premiun store, but no idea to bigging the installetion to wordpress webside . can you tell me how to initial the installetion in wordpress webside. and also i want to know if i have to buy an hosting please
Hi Dear, Thanks for watching. I purchased the premium store with the installation package, when I received my store, it is up and running. Be honest, I am not a tech person either. As far as I know, you do need to transfer your store into hosting. I will strongly recommend you to email support@alidroship.com to ask what should you do next. Sorry, I can not help much.
But to long in wordpress they give you the adress and password or you have to create it? I tried to contact AliDropship but sometime take time to the response . Thank you by the way for your time
how much did you earn for the first month what percentage of the monthly earnings of the original store? and how long will you probably cover the total expenses you spend on buying a premium store?
Hi, Gerald. Thank you for your inquiry. For the first month I did not earn any profit at all, in fact, I lost about $600 on facebook ad. ( I did make some sales, but the facebook ad cost is way higher than conversion). As I have mentioned in this video. First few months I have lost some money on Advertisement, however business gets better after I get some help from the alidropship support and learned from my mistake. For now I would say sales conversion are enough to cover advertisement and product cost. This is not a get rich scam. If everything going well. I would expect to make some profit next year. I hope this answered your questions. Let me know if you have any more questions. I am happy to share my experience.
@@EcomWithCindy Oh great! I am very hesitant to to purchase, but after you answer my question I think I would like to try a premium store. I am just a college student who would like to invest money on e-commerce so that in the future i can be successful. Do you think I can mange to do it? I have an exact savings to purchase it, is it worth it? Thank you
@@geraldmathewapostol4060 Running the store does not take a lot of time. However, be prepared to spend a lot of time at the beginning( If that does not affect your study). As I mentioned in the video, to learn how to market your product, to improve your website content, how to run ad properly, these are extremely important. So be prepared for the first few months you may spend a lot of time but with not a lot of results. But after you get the hang of it, things will start to turn around. At least it happened to me.
Hi Christine. Thanks for watching. If you click through any of the link under this video description. Add custom store on your shopping cart. Enter coupon code ****ECOMWITHCINDY*** at your check out. you will get 15% off everything. Hope this helps.
Dear i have 2 points in mind i hope you would reply to me 1 if i have purchased premium store who will marketing 2 what chances premium store financial losses 3 can i earn first day
Hi Abbasi, To answer your questions. You will be the one responsible for marketing. The premium store is only provide you a tool for a premade website. If you don't work on improving your store , seek marketing strategy,the store will not generate money by itself. If you do paid advertisement. You could possibly make a sale on the first day. Only if you have previous experience. Hope these answers your questions. Good luck.
The Premium Store selection looks intriguing. But, as I still believe that it might not be the best option because it wouldn't top the original version of the store, because A- it's been promoted and marketed by the highly professional team of the AliDropship itself, and B- because the original version of the store must have gained the most of the audience interested in the store.
I agree. After I try running the store, there is no way I could achieve the same result as the original store does. This premium store is an easier way to help me get started for a dropshipping business so I can learn from it. But in order to make a profit, I have to make changes to become better than them and add new products too.
@@EcomWithCindy Did you have a success with the premium store? I was scammed by a Shopify builder. They made me a very bad Shopify store. I don’t know if you was able to success. Let me know please.
hi Sandra, I agree with you. it took me almost three months to learn then launch my first Facebook ad campaign and I was still doing it wrong at the beginning. So just be patient, try to learn as much as you can first, get familiar with how to run the store, set up everything properly, and also make sure you really know what you are doing before publishing any ad. I hope you will get better soon.
@@EcomWithCindy Hi Cindy, thank you for replying to me, I was kind of lost because I didn't know if what I was doing was wrong, but I guess you right I just need to give time. thank you again.
Hi Cindy. I purchased Premium Store from Alidropship October last year. Till today, I haven't done anything about it. Each time, I require an assistance about the Store, the Project Manager (Person-in-Charge) will forward a link instead of helping out further. I did a review about Alidropship and most of the review mentioned that after the purchased, Alidropship staff will do what they did to me. Appreciate your point of view.
@Rhys Clarice, You are right, the Alidropship support will send me a link to access their data base on how to solve the problems most of the time, which requires me to read and solve the problem myself. Actually, I don't mind it because I see it as a learning curve( some people expected more personal assistance, which I understand). There are a few times I just can not get it after I read the information they provided. The support team will always step in and help. Yes, I agree with you, It actually took me 3 months to learn how to run my store and make some custom changes before I launch my first advertisement. Appreciate your input! Hope you will get your store set up and running soon!
@@mackenziemajors7444 Honesty I didn't like the items in my store. It shows that it is a sloppy job. It is for the sake of completing their task. Afterall, there are thousands of deperate pple like me who needs help to generate income through online.
Hi Cindy, thank you for sharing your insights. I wonder how does your dropshipping store with Alidropship is doing now? I am interested to join this type of industry.
Hi Carl, thank you for watching my video. Since I never have a custom store from Alidroship, I may not have a good answer. From what I understand, a basic plan is one of the custom stores. Before I bought my classic premium store, I did a comparison. The feature of the premium store is about equivalent to the advance custom store plus google merchant and facebook business. The basic plan has 50 products ready. If you are willing to spend time to find your own products , and added to your website. It could be similar to the advance packages. This is what I got from the Alidroship website. Sorry that I can not give you a better answer.
Thank you for the wonderful messages or tips on how start up a alidropship. it’s very is useful tips ! I have a question for you do you earn money that they promise on alidropship? Thank you the reply I appreciated 😊
Hi Cindy and thank you for your informative videos. I've been thinking about buying a alidropship store, but now I'm not so sure. It seems they sell you a shell and once you own it, you're on your own. I thought that they would research a niche for you for that price? $700 is quite steep😟. Thanks again. Cheers from Australia!
Hi Ben, thanks for watching, the premium store I got is a "cookies" store, it is a copy of the original store, And it is filled with products, I would said everything are ready to sell when they hand over to me. Yes, once you own it, you are responsible for your store and you have 100% ownership. Alidropship will provide some technical support. However, if you get a custom store, I heard they will help you to find products within your niche, but I am not sure. However, no matter which platform you buy it from, you are always on your own, it is a business after all. Unless you paid for extra mentorship from someone( which I am not even sure if it guaranty for success ). For the price I pay and the price for keeping the website for long run, I would said it is worthy. But still as I mention in the video, I have to put in a lot of effort to make it works. if you just want to try only and not sure if you want to do it for a long time and you dont want to pay for a lum sum at the beginning, I think you can get a shopify store to try, the basic plan is $29 a month, but usually you may need some extra application , probably you are looking at about $60 a month. In my personal opinion. it really does not matter which platform. Most important is your website content, how you market your products and more. Which none of these platform can provide. I hope you will find something is right for you. Feel free to share with me if you find something nice. I would love to hear.
hi, thank you for watching my video. For the Marketing Package, this is exactly what you will get. I copy from Alidroship website. Marketing Guide on how to set up and run your own campaigns with our materials Banners and videos used for the original campaigns Ad texts used for the original campaigns Descriptions of the recommended target audiences As I have mentioned in my video, the marketing package will not lead you to achieve the same result as the original store does. Which means, most likely you will not be able to make money by copying their material. However, if you have no idea how to run an ad at all, you may use it as an example. To be honest, if you want an example, you could get this knowledge from youtube. and it is free. I hope I have answered your questions. Let me know if you want to know more.
@@EcomWithCindy Thanks for your reply. I'm most curious about the "materials" and "videos" the package includes. Are they ad videos ready to use? I understand I will still have to make revisions of my own but would you say having their materials and videos would save me a lot of time? Do they have materials/video ads for each product on your site or only those that have run?
@@lfmaquie hi dear. Yes. The material are ready to use. If u going to use it to run your ad and yes. It will save u time. But most likely u will not make much profit from it. Only if you make much better version of it and u may get a chance for profit. The marketing package incl about 6( I think, not with my computer right now) winning products materials. Not all the products.
Hi Cindy, just wondering have you had any returns from customers? How does it work? Do they return it to alipress or to you then you return the item to alipress? Thank you in advance.
Hi Kayla, return is up to you , best communicate with your AliExpress seller and see what they can help . Afterall it is your own business . What I did is if the product is very cheap. I will refund and let the customer keep the products. But if it is a high ticket product and assuming AliExpress seller has warranty. Then I will ask the customer to sent the products to China.hope this help.
@@EcomWithCindy hi Cindy thank you for your reply. Do you request for a refund from the supplier if you refund the customers? Or you just got to wear it?
Hello EcomwithCindy I was watching your video and it is very informative, I´d like to know where you are from and where most of your clients are from? and how long your clients do have to wait for their products ?
Hi Cindy, thank you for the very detailed and informative video. I am in the midst of getting a premium store myself but there are still a few questions I need answers to. May i ask in your highlighted item - F9 Bluetooth earbuds, the selling price is at US $31.90 - what is the supplier's ( Aliexpress') price, or how much do you buy it from the supplier? I want to know your profit margins on each product that you sell. thank you.
Hi Teng, the Bluetooth earbuds is selling $9.50 at aliexpress, Shipping cost is about $4.50 to united state. The cost of the product is about $14. The automatic price formula I have set is base of the product price listed on aliexpress( shipping is excluded). Because of the pandemic, a lot of the shipping cost has increase. So when you set up the pricing, always let a lite higher to cover the shipping. profit margins is all depends how much you are comfortable with selling the products. Some people is ok with 2X, some are 3X. actually there are strategy on set up pricing too. But those are more advance. If I have time in the future, I may make a video to talk about that. Anyways, I hope I have answered your questions.
@@EcomWithCindy got it! So it’s basically 2x the aliexpress price. Is the shipping cost shouldered by the customer? Or the $31.90 srp of the earbuds is the “All-in” price paid by the customer?
@@tengreyes8972 sorry. I did not see this until now. The $31.9 is the price of the product on the sample website. For the shipping charge is totally up to u. If you want to charge . Just simply add shipping on the plugin. This sample website from alidropship is free worldwide shipping.
Hi Eljen, thank you for watching. Dropshipping can be done anywhere. Canada is one of the five most converting countries. However, if you want to sell your products to Canadians, the market is not as big as United State.
@@EcomWithCindy Hi Cindy, I also live in Canada, do you know if there’s an online community for dropshipping? It would be really helpful for beginners. Also If you don’t mind me asking when did you start making money from the time you started? Thank you in advance.
@@eljenfajardo3809 sorry. I did not see your post until now. I don't know if there is any Canadian community. But if you found one please let me know. I do join the Facebook verumecom group. I would not say I am profitable yet. For now I can only break even that is also because I lost quite some money at the beginning due to my mistake. But I think I am on the right track. because recently has been showing some results. I have better plan this year. With the new strategy. I should be able to make some profile this year.
@@EcomWithCindy no problem. I actually found several communities on Facebook but not Canadian, most of them are from shopify, oberlo etc. thank you for your reply btw. I had to postpone buying the premium store for now, I am taking Digital Marketing right now to gain more knowledge.
Hi again Cindy, I’ve recently purchased a Premium store and I am inspired by your detailed review here. It’s still a long way to go for me and there a few kinks that I need to iron out. If u don’t mind me asking, what is your strategy in buying fb ads and from what country is your target market.. thank you and I continue to follow your videos.
Hi Teng, Thank you very much for following, Facebook ad is very complicated at the beginning, also make sure you really know what you are doing before spending on Ad. For Facebook Ad strategy first I used the strategy I bought from the Marketing package, but find out it does not work for me, because I spend quite a lot of money, and get not many sales. Then I slowly test out using smaller budgets with smaller target audiences( that perform much better). I learned from my mistakes too. Also, you need to know how to analyze the data( very important). Most people loose a lot money because they don't know when to stop. I mainly targeting the most converted countries, like US, CA, AU,UK. But obviously, the most converting country is US( which usually CPM is the highest).
@@EcomWithCindy thank you. US, CA and AUS, UK is where I plan to target. I will rely on the Marketing package but with a conservative mindset, I’m just starting out and have limited funds.. again, if it’s not too much to ask, can you specify your strategy about testing smaller target audience with smaller budget.. thank you, all your insights mean a lot to me.
@@tengreyes8972 Hi Teng, I would suggest you don't waste money on using the same marketing package to run facebook Ad. The marketing package is an example how alidroship run ad for the original store, if you are using the same thing to promote products, it won't work. Regarding for facebook strategy, I would tend to target about 1M audient size., I am afraid I won't be able to break it down in detail here. Besides, I can tell you that so far, none of my strategies has helped me to achieve an outstanding result yet. Ecommerce is a business, . It takes times to learn and adapt. so I would said I am still learning and testing out strategy. If you really want to learn now, there are lots of resources you can find in youtube, but you also need to test it and see if it works for you. In fact, Ad Stratagy is important, but it is one of the few components to become successful. Since you are new, I would rather suggest you work on your website contents and make your website stand out. You will start to make money once you really master all the skills.
@@EcomWithCindy great advice Cindy.. I will work on customizing my website slowly - changing the theme, color schemes to make it more enticing to audience.. I will do extensive research regarding putting out ads to reach my target audience. Thanks again
Hi Monther, thanks for watching my video. Let me know if I understand your question correctly? Are you asking how the client chooses the shipping methods that are available for his / her country? If this is what you are asking, my answer will be I do not have the option for my client to choose. When clients check out, they could choose different shipping method like regular or express .( I only do regular shipping method) Aliexpress has tons of suppliers and not everyone provides the same or express shipping method . But Some may even have express line for certain countries. The premium store only provides options for the different shipping methods that you set up when customers check out, but not base on the availability of the products info on aliexpress. If you just simply want to provide client with options on the different shipping method, just go to Setting--Shipping, you could add shipping options. Here is the instruction on Alidropship for how to set up help.alidropship.com/en/articles/2236954-shipping-settings. Hope I have answered your questions. This is what I know from running my own store. If you need more info how to set up, the best way to ask support@alidropship.com.
@@montheral-masri5049 No need to loose your mind, lol. It is normal at the beginning, after working many hours with my store, I slowly figure it out slowly. I prefer to keep discussions here , and this is what my channel about--- to share experience, no matter good or bad. it is a learning journey. However, I am not an expert yet, I can only share my personal experience. I hope you understand.
As far as I know. Only one currency could be set in payment gateway. If you set it as US dollar for example, if customer from Asian region, they can still pay for it. But customer will be charged in USD . However. The best way is contact customer service in alidropship if you have further questions.
Would be better a custom store instead? In the end of day, gained or lost money? I'm thinking hard in buy a custom store but i didn't find yet a decent review about it Till now, it's pretty sure to asume that the success of any store or business is how hard you dig, study put effort into it... The heart of all this ends up in ADS, not doubt it
I won't see a custom would make a big difference. But nice observation. You are absolutely right. Successful or not is base on how much time and effort you are willing to put into practice. This is what I am trying to give out the message in wrap up.
Let me know how it goes, recently facebook IOS 14 policy has affect the data a lot, at least good news is that it can track the conversion. Need to learn and adapt the new changes.
I'm looking into this and I have a few questions? How does the purchase from the consumer to your store to Aliexpress work. Then the packaging do you do your own? Do you have some suggestions on which platform is best? Should I be concerned with how much extra money besides what the store costs to be able to cover expenses and returns how does that work. Thank you for your video it helped me see a lot more and what's involved.
Hi Banshee, as I mentioned in the video. Once customer paid for the order from your website. Then u will order from AliExpress through the alidropship plug in. AliExpress will ship it to customers address. I don't have any suggestions which platform is the best. I think they all the same . All up to you hard work. Yes. You will need to prepare spend way more money on advertising the product. Alidropship is just a tool.
i have purchased a ready made premium store, however, i didn't do much on this store for the past one year. Now i wish to restart my store, can advice how i get it restarted with a new hosting ?
Hi Cindy. Thanks for your sharing. I only get to know Alidropship last month and have been watching their RUclips videos. May I ask a question. Is there a reason why you chose their Premium Store over Custom Store?
Hi Sweetiong, thanks for watching my video. To answer your question. Back in May 2020, the Classic store was the most profitable store option available on Alidroship webstie. I was debating to get a custom store for a niche. My thought was that since if I purchase their marketing package, I could copy their success. At least will be a guaranty of Success. As in my review video above. I was disappointed with the result. I have learned that the premium store would only provide me an easier way to start, but there is no guaranty. I need to learn a lot of necessary skills to run an online business. After running a general store, I think a niche store may be easier to advertise to particular audients. And return customers are more likely. A general store is too broad, I will need to spend more on testing different audients interested. Return customers are less likely. However, running a general store allows me to test all kinds of products. If I found a niche that works out for me, I could add a niche store for scaling. I would see both pros and cons. I hope I have answered your question. Wish you good luck!
@@EcomWithCindy Hi Cindy, thanks for taking time to answer my question. It helps to clarify my thinking. As I don't have any experience in dropshipping and not IT savvy, I think the custom store may be easier to start with. I will need AliDropship to guide me along the way. Once again, thank you for your generous sharing and I wish you every success in your business.
Last year I have lost money on facebook ad , although I bought their marketing strategy, I can not achieve the same result. So I have changed my store, and trying out different strategy, so far is Better, but I am not making " big" money yet. lol
Hi Cindy Thank you for the video on alidrop premium store. I just bought the same store "but it karl". But after I watched your video I'm not sure it was a good idea. May I ask if your store is making money now? I'm committed at this point so I wanted to ask if there's any other advise or suggestions you might have? Thanks again Cindy! Ray
Hi Ray, I have changed a lot of things in my store to make it works better, but still my store is not making a lot of money as I wish it to be. Maybe until I could find a better way then I will share more updates. I found Alidropship has a lot of information about how to Run the store. If you are new, you may want to check it out.
Hi.. I have no experience in dropshipping...NONE. which package that i can choose which can jave me do almost everything so i can learn slowly from there. So i can maintain for sales and updates.
Of you don't mind to spend time to learn. Just get the basic plug-in. alidropship.com/plugin/?via=14846 . you could use the coupon code in my video description to get 25% off. Hope this help.
Hi Cindy, would you recommend, if you had not bought the installation package, that it's better that you just installed the Alidropship Premium Store yourself and save the money instead on Advertising? And If I do decide get without the installation package and try installing it myself, can I still avail of the installation package later if I dont manage to do it?? Appreciate reply. And how is your store now please? Thank you.
If you can install it yourself I think you will save a lot of money. I don't think there is a problem if you buy the installation package later if you really can't do it yourself. My store is ok, but nothing is killing yet. Hope I will find a better formula soon. Thanks for asking.
@@EcomWithCindy Hi, sorry so it's the custom store that comes with everything you need to get started not the Premium. But it seems the custom stores cost more but are set up to make money faster and easier. What are your thoughts?
@@Staye03 in my opinion. This is just a tool. As long as you got what your need . The website will not generate money on its own. Good product selection, proper advertising strategy , customer service are the key.
Hi Chris. I allow my customers to do return or exchange as I promised in my website. Of course , it will be a lost for me, because my supplier will not reimburse me most of the cases. I do require my customers to ship back the product at their own cost. Most of the time, shipping is too costly , so I offer store credit, most of them are ok. Thank God that return or exchange only happen a couple times to me, so I guess I am lucky. Since you run your store, You could do whatever way works for you.
Hi Cindy, I am planning to launch my own store and your video was very helpful. I would just like to ask on how orders are fulfilled through Alidropship Premium Store? And will we have full access to the website because you’ve mentioned in your video that you have edited some stuff out? Thanks in advance!
Hi Charles. You may fullfill your order by go into order---order automatically----sign in to you AliExpress account----pay for order. Please follow this link for instructions help.alidropship.com/en/articles/2236918-processing-orders. I make some changes mainly on the website appearance. For example the color of the button.Remove the social share icons, about Us page etc. I have choose not to disclose my website address as I have explained in detail in previous comments. I hope you understand. Thank you.
Hi @@EcomWithCindy thank you for your fast response. How about for the orders of my clients in my store? How will their orders be fulfilled? Thank you!
@@charlesjeromelazaro2251 hi Charles. The procedure I mentioned above is the actually precedure to order for your clients. Once your clients ordered. You will use the automatic system to order for your clients from AliExpress, once it is done. The Alidropship plugin will sent a confirmation email to your clients. When product ships out. The plugin will sent tracking number to clients. . If I did not understand your question. Maybe you may explain a bit more please? Thanks.
I’m interested in purchasing the established store. What are some things that I have to learn to improve the store. I figured an established store would be better since it’s Ben making money
Hi Matt, there are so many things need to learn before running your store. Like product selection, how do you want to promote the products, customer service. How to run the store and alot more. I would say buying a pre-made store just help you start up easier.
@@Walkingstreetswithmatt1989 I use aliexpress. I have make sure I found a reliable aliexpress supplier ( shipping time should be 2 to 3 weeks)before I start promoting the products. For that being said, shipping time is a lot longer compared with shipping within the US. I will let my client know the shipping time, but since I charge free shipping, there wont be too much complaints.
Hi Cindy, nice video and thank you for sharing your thoughts, also in the comments. I have recently purchased a premium store, now it's live and running, but as you can imagine, sales are still at zero. Would you mind me asking, how much do you think you should budget for each FB ad campaign? I've been testing a few times, but I can't get decent results, even simply in terms of engagement. Appreciate your feedback on this, thanks!
Hi Lorenzo. Thanks for watching. At the beginning, I followed the marketing package instructions that I bought from alidropship. I noticed that In order to test a product. Minimum spending at least $500 to $700 . Then I use a very low budget tragedy. I think it make more sense to me. I hope this help. Beside. You will also give yourself some amount to have trials and errors.
@@EcomWithCindy hi Cindy Thank you for your post. How is your store doing now? Also can you explain what you meant by "very low budget tragedy"-what happened there?
@@AndreVDO-1919 sorry. Typo. Low budget strategy. I test $5 per interest per day. By doing this . The result is slow. And take more time. But at least I won't spend all at once. there were up and down. In the past few months I was busy with work, so I stop Facebook ad for a little while. I change to focus on organic traffice and affiliate marketing. And I am marking some profit out of it. But it take a long time to built. I hope I will make a new video to talk about that soon.
@@EcomWithCindy Thank you Cindy, appreciate the reply. It seems like you have budget substantial amounts in order to get some sort of returns... Something to consider carefully. Thanks again
Hi Cindy... I've been watching your videos for me to get the hang of dropshipping. Been reading comments as well..my question is what is the fb ads mistake did you have that cost you thousand dollars? If you don't mind..new subscriber here
Hi, Cindy! how are you? thank you for your video!!! I purchased the premium store a month ago and even sitting and giving time to learn how to do it, I feel "stuck". I realized the website is not "on" yet, how can I start selling if I don't see any product on my page? Did you have to click anywhere to "appear and start selling" or it's on them ? thank you :)
Hi Junia ,I don't think there is a click.did you purchase your hosting with alidropship? I think you need to transfer the data into the hosting. Since I purchased installation packages with alidropship. They did everything for me. My website was up and running and fill with products when they handover to me. So I don't really know exactly how those work. I think the best way is email alidropship customer service. I come across there is a RUclipsr teach you how to set up premium store yourself. Maybe you can watch his video and see what step is missing? Let me know if you need his link. I can try to look for you if you need.
@@sandraminaya4751 did you buy a hosting and domain name already? Did you buy Alidropship installation package? I am not a tech person. That is why I bought the installation package. They did everything for me. . Best I would suggest you to ask support@alidropship.com. they could help you further?
Dear Cindy, Yours was a highly informative and well produced video, I appreciate the hard work you applied. You are exceptionally effective and well informed in your comprehensive review. Did you spend the additional $200 and purchase the promotional package? If so did you still have to promote on your own: or was all your promotion original? Did you recoup your investment and do you now consider this a viable secondary income revenue stream? Thank you. Adrian
hi Adrian, Thank you for watching. I purchased the $200 marketing package incl. all the Ad material and Facebook strategy. In the beginning, I use exactly the same material to promote, but it does not work . Now, I make my own video Ad to promote other products. I would say ecommerce has the potential, but I really need to test out different strategies and different way to improve. For that being said, testing always involves risk. I am still learning. My business is getting better , but nothing is killing yet. last year is definitely a lost for me. This year is better, but Since I am testing out new strategy, I have reinvested the money I made , too early to give a conclusion. Probably end of the year I will have a better picture. I hope you may find your way to success too. You may share your experiences too, we can learn from each other!
finally transparent information!! too many saturated rubbish on the youtube videos, lot of fake guru promoting fake products im sick of it. i want to watch honesty ppl with honest review keep it up!!
Hi everyone. I am sorry for some of the late reply. RUclips only notify me if it is a new comment. I would suggest you don't add comments on the old comments. If you have a second question. Please leave me a new comment so that I will be notified and be able to answer you in a timely manner. I am sorry for any inconvenience.
Hi i m kuldip, I m a physically handicapped guy, lost my two legs in an accident. I would like to start this business from home. Could you please help me how to start and i have no idea about it
Hi,Ms.Cindy
I’m planning to build a store,but I don’t have any idea what & how to run it.
Can you give me more ideas,tips how to run a store.
hi Joy, are you planning to build it your own or you want to purchase a custom store with Alidropship? There are mainly two different ways. With Alidroship basically either you build it your own, assuming you have time and you are willing to learn and you are good with the computer( purchase plug-in only). Otherwise, you may consider purchasing the service to let them build for you( premium store or custom store). the advantage of alidropship is no monthly fee and the automatic system. The alternative way is Shopify, similar idea, however, it is much easier to build your own store in shopify, however, there is a monthly fee.
once you get your store set up and load with products, you just need to promote your products. you could run ad through social media( either paid or organic traffic). Organic traffic is ideal however it is not as easy and you may not see the instant result or could be no sales. The paid ad you may see an instant result, however, if you don't know how to do it properly, end up will loose a lot of money on Ad.
Since you may be new to e-commerce, I would highly recommend you learn as much as possible. From youtube, friends( doing e-commerce, or whatever way you can. Then decide what would you interest in selling incl product research( I would recommend to start with a niche store, I have make a detailed video talk about General store Vs Niche store, you may check this out ruclips.net/video/F-UJKNr7rNo/видео.html ? choose which platform to build your store? how are you going to promote your or product? as I mention in the video, purchase a store does not cost the most money, how to run it for example product research, creat ad copy, photoshop, promote with Ad , cost the most time and money. my finally advice is do not spend any money on Ad, uless you absolutely know what you are doing. I hope this info help. To be successful is not easy, it is same as like running a normal business, it takes time , experience, hard work, and be able to take risk. I wish you success. let me know how it goes, maybe you could share some experience too.
Thanks for a good honest review. You talk fast :) I would like to learn more about how much you've spent and how much you've made and how much time you've spent. Is your business growing?
Hi Glen, Thank you for watching my video. I actually talk extremely slow, but I speed up the video to make it less dragging. To answer your questions. I bought the classic store back in May, 2020. I bought the premium store with the installation package, marketing package, and the social rabbit add on. After the coupon discount, I have spent $800USD for the store. For Facebook advertisement, I have spend almost $3000 USD. Total sales conversion is about $1400. There sounds terrible. but most of the money I lost was facebook advertisement due to my mistake at the beginning. In the past two months, I have been able to make a balance(total sales conversations cover the ad fee and purchasing the products). The amount of time I have spent at the beginning is alot to me especially I can only work after my children are asleep, about 5 hours a day for 3 -4 months. Afterward, it is not too bad at all. Now I would say average I spend about one hour a day just to order and answering emails and keep the store going. Yes, my business is growing slowly. I am getting more comments and share on social media which will help my store. I would say this is a learning process, buying the store does not spend the most, the advertisement fee is killing. These premium stores can only provide you an easier way to start. I understand most people only care about how much money I have made, I would change the questions to how much skills I have learned to prepare me for the future success. I hope my long winded answers does not bored you. Hope I have answered your questions. I wish you success!
@@EcomWithCindy Hi Cindy, thanks for an excellent reply. I appreciate it. You seem to be very determined and I'm certain you will be very successful. I love that you chose to measure on the skills you've learned rather than the financial aspects. Another key to your long term success.
I created a Shopify/Aliexpress store for the experience. Early on I learned that it would never be a successful store but I completed it for the experience. Now I intend to build a successful shop which is why I was checking your video :)
I'm in Australia so most of the online training material isn't a good fit. I'm still learning :)
@@glenyoung4126 Hi Glen, thank you for sharing your experiences. It was not easy at the beginning for most people including me. You have mentioned you are from Australia so most of the online training material isn't a good fit. There is some truth about it, in my opinion, most of the skills are universal. For example, Video editing, photoshop, run advertisements on social media, how to built-up organic traffic, how to find winning products, how to find a reliable aliexpress sellers, how to market your products and email marketing, etc. Australia is one of the top five converting countries. I live in Canada, I got a few sales from Australia too, thanks to the social media platforms we can target different countries. I do want to mention that don't waste money on any fake guru courses, the more one's want to take shortcut, the more ones will fall into it. RUclips has a lot of free valuable content, but you do need to evaluate them. I hope you will find a learning path is right for you soon. Wish you good luck!
@@EcomWithCindy hi as u mentioned u spent usd3000 for the ads and the sales are pretty slow. R u saying that the marketing package is no good? I’m planning to buy the premium with marketing & setup and looking at your experience should i cancel my plan then?
@@HumbleKAB I personally think the marketing package is not helpful.if u just copy the material It won't help u to make profits . But if u want to learn only. It is ok. U could also learn it from RUclips.
I find Ali express shipping time is too long. Most people don't want to wait that long. Any solution to that?
Hi Lorraine, thanks for watching. you will need to first let you customer know that shipping takes about 2 to 4 weeks at check out and also remind them on confirmation email. . Also you need to find a reliable supplier that offer two weeks shipping if possible. . I had made a video talk about how to find a reliable AliExpress supplier. U may check it out here.ruclips.net/video/YNA8PR2Zve8/видео.html
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@@EcomWithCindy thanks Cindy 😊
pretty okay is a stretch, pretty not okay is closer
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Thank you so much!!! Now, I have a more realistic idea of what does this premium stores have to offer. Your video also made me realized what to expect so that I can get ready before buying a store.
I am glad it helps. Wish you good luck!
Hello, how is it possible to do dropshipping for products whose sizes are Asian while the shirts sold on the site are in European sizes. For example: a size on a product page as an Asian size 3XL In a European size it is XL How can this be done automatically? work with alidropship plugin. thank you so much!!
I got what you means, In fact, I try to sell some clothes on my site too, the measurement is way different compare with Asian size and US size. What I did was hide the aliexpress measurement chart on my Alidroship plugin( since it is way off), in my product description, I make a chart myself. To compare the US size with Asian size. So far, clothes is not my hot selling products.
I was about to avail the premium but found out shipping will last 30 days up to 50 days delivery due to a pandemic.
There are some ways to work around with that. But first you need to do some homework. find a realiable supplier and communicate with them and find out exactly how long is the shipping time. Try to only promote these products you have done research. Also need to inform your customer about the shipping time. Hope these helps.
Worst plugin...full of buggy...this plugin wont optimise mobile version ... images wont load properly..
That was awesome! Thank you!
Misleading video. Its says "bought a premium store" everybody just trying to get some affiliate bucks no reliable reviews.
Wow. Thanks for sharing and thanks for being very transparent. I am building a Shopify store, got stuck. Still really confused. I know this video is old. Any advice so far as you’ve been in the business for a while now? What advice would you give for those of us who’re about to start?
Cindy hello. thank you very much for the review. i am also trying to figure out whether starting Alidropship is worth it. i am thinking of the Ultimate package. Can you please let us know how things are now with your shop? Also can you post its link to have a look?
hi Panayiotis, I had purchased the premium( premade) store, as far as I know, the ultimate package is a custom store, most likely the common thing between the two is the alidropship plugin and some add on. So far my store is doing ok, I won't say it is very profitable yet. I have try many different strategies, some show positive results, but so far none of them give me a fantastic result yet. However, I would say compare with the beginning, my store is doing much better. I am still trying different new ideas, hopefully by the end of this year will give me a much better result. unfortunately, I choose not to post the link of my store because this is the first ecom rule--not to disclose my store address, I already explained the reason in detail in one of the comments under this video. since my channel is mainly for share experiences, if you have any questions, I would happy to share what I know. hope you understand. The store I purchased is the exact copy of one of the premium store www.buyitcarl.com, but I did make some changes to make it better. Hope I had answered your questions. Wish you good luck!
Hi Cindy, thanks for the review and it does help the people like me who is trying to get in to ecommerce. Wanted to know how much time do you dedicate to run your store?
Hi, Thank you for the video. My Aliexpress Dropshipping plugin is active on a website I no longer have. How can I reset it to use it on my current website?
Hi ! how are you ? May I know what is status of your after one year? Have you started making money and if yes then what we should expect profit after one year of running store.thanks
Thanks so much for the info. Im planning to purchase a store so this video gives me an insight.
Cindy, excellent video as I want to purchase a dropship store too. Without going through all of the comments do you have a link where we could have a quick look at your site that you purchased from Alidropship. Thanks very much. Jimmy.
hi Jimmy, thanks for your comments. I saw your comments on the other videos too. Thanks for supporting my channel. My premium store is the exact copy of BUY IT CARL( the original store form Alidropship). However, I made some changes to it as I mention in my video. Unfortunately, I choose not to reveal my own website, because this is the first Ecom rules---never reveal your own website unless you are going to give it up. I understand why this is so important as I learned throughout this half a year. However, I am willing to share what I know and what I have learned. Same idea as I could show you how to fish, but I won't catch the fish for you. I hope you understand.
your video was straight to the point and useful. do you have advice or recommended methods/tools to do product research?
Hi HY, you could try to use facebook as a good tool, if you see an ad comes to you with tons of like and share. Or you can check alidropship droshipping center to see the number of dropshipping items. I think there two will be good to start with. I know alidropship offer a monthly subcription called premium product that could also help, but it is a paid services. I know there are other paid service out there if you are not using alidropship. For advance level, I may need to make an indepth video to explain more ( I change my previous comments because I realize it is not gonna be a short while for me to make the video). I hope this info help and I wish you a success.
@@EcomWithCindy thank you for your reply. i think maybe you should do video on how to run FB ads.
@@HY-oz2cb hi, HY, with the new IOS 14 take in effect. some facebook data has been affected, the good news is that facebook could still track conversion. We can not analyze the same way by using the old method. I am still adapting the new changes and waiting to see if Facebook gonna do something about it. For now, it is hard to say.
Appreciate your honesty
May I know how do you have a US business address when you're obviously not from the US?
I live in Canada. I don't think US address is a must to run an online business. However I admit that US residents has some advantages.
HI Cindy, I'm lving in CAnada too and I'm considering between shopify or Alidropship. I find a problem with dropshiping is the shipping time is too long, you can't beat amazon for 2 days shipping.. is it possible I can import from suppliers store them at my house or a wearhouse then ship when i have order. ? And how do sell to the US? Do you need to register your business?
Hi Duc, You are right, Amazon makes dropshipping not easy. There is no way you can beat the 2 days shipping. However, there are ways to do dropshipping without directly competing with Amazon, I may make a video to talk about that in the future.
It is possible to import products from suppliers and store them at your house and ship them out when you have orders. Only if you find a winning product and you are 100% sure it is gonna sell( assuming you have mastered how to market the products and they are selling extremely well). But because you need to deal with the inventory( usually you need to order a large quantity from the supplier for a lower cost) and shipping, end up it may not be as profitable. Since you live in Canada, you may also know that the shipping cost in Canada is very expensive, if you register for a business account with the carrier, ship within Canada may not be too expensive, but if you are selling worldwide, the shipping cost will be too expensive that it is almost impossible to make a profit. Even if customers may be willing to pay a small amount for shipping, that will make your selling prices less compatible.
However, if you could dropship some local products and if you are selling high ticket products, this may be a different story.
You could sell products worldwide by advertising through social media platforms, which I may also make a video to talk about that in the future.
Since you live in Canada, to do dropshipping you don't need to register as a coparation. you could register as sole proprietorship, which I may also make a video to talk more about that in the future for more detail.
I hope I have answered all your questions. To know everything at once, I am afraid I may need to make a 10 hours series of videos to talk about dropshipping alone from head to toe. I want to emphasize that dropshipping most likely will not make you become a millionaire overnight, but it does teach you a lot on how to run a business. If you can master it, you could earn a very good amount of money. There are so much to learn and I am still learning. I hope you enjoy learning more about dropshipping.
@@EcomWithCindy hi Cindy, I also live in Canada, I’m interested in the topic of register the business, sometimes I got confusing about this, not sure do I need to register or not! I look forward to watch your video. Thank you for sharing your experience.
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Hi, can you please guide me how one can start dropshipping business from Pakistan. Is it profitable?
Hi Rita,
I am not sure how . I live in Canada. I hope you may find some help. Sorry .
Hi, How is your shop progressing now? 😊 Awesome video and i plan to buy a premium store for myself?
Is it Possible to make 3x profit (3x more than the amount spend on the shop) in a few months?
Hi Muhd, making 3x profit is a bit ambitious. I think you could look at it as a tool to help you, but to make profit or not, it depends on a lot more factors than just the store itself as I have mentioned in the Video . I wish you luck and hope you will find a way to succeed.
Will you continue with the website or you will stop?
I am an IT person and I so sell online. It a hard work and I’ve been searching drop-shipping. If it’s true what they sell , then you would see everybody involved and want to do it! What you get is nothing much other than paying money for Facebook and for AliExpress
Hi, thanks for watching. Yes. I will continue my website since keeping the site is cheap compared with Shopify monthly fee. I am keeping my website to test products. I agree with you, at the beginning. All of my money goes to Facebook ad and AliExpress . I have been testing new strategies, and it show some results, I am quite confident I will do better this year.
is this an AI robot?
Thank you so much for the honest Review
Hi
I'm considering buying a premium store and all this is new to me.
What is the difference between a premium and a custom store.
Also once I've purchased my premium store where will my items be listed? Will they be listed on Ali express or on my own website?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
hi Buggurs, thanks for watching. I would glad to help you with whatever I know. A premium store is a pre-made store, which is the exact copy of the sample store from alidropship( however, the choices are limited) . please refer to this alidropship.com/premium-dropshipping-stores/?via=14846
A custom store means you choose whatever you want , alidroship could build it for you depends on what you want it to be.
Once you purchased the premium store, you need to transfer all the stuff into hosting and buy a domain name. Both domain name and Hosting could be purchase from anywhere. if you choose alidroship hosting , the basic plan is $48 a year. For example , The domain name ( website address) is like the address of a house. The hosting is the house to contain all your belonging ( which is your items). ONce you have transfer your belong( your items) into a hosting, then they are ready to be seen on your website.
Aliexpress is different from alidropship, Aliexpress is an online market place like Amazon, Ebay, which means they sell actual products and ship to customers. Alidropship is a ( shop/ platform) that sell you e-commerce related products and services and provides customer support.
I hope I have answered your questions. Wish you good luck!
Thank You CIndy!
Awesome video! Thank you Cindy!
Thanks Cindy, Could you also share some insights on a successful ad campaign on fb and instagram
Hi Aweej. Thanks for you watch. I am planning to make a video . Hopefully will get it ready soon. Thanks.
I love you Cindy you are the most honest RUclipsr i have ever come across on this platform... The rest are liers trying to impress visitors
Thank you for your words of encouragement!!!
Do not waste your money on this please- it is so confusing
I am confused too. I thought the point to buying this, is that the work is already done for you
hi cindy, im struggling to build my store. which one to choose from alidropship plugin and build my store or buy a premium store or custom store ? what do you suggest for complete beginner plus no initial investment just to check if it works and makes any profit i can reinvest everything i got into it again ??
hi Ecomm Guy, I like your name! I would say if you don't have much budget and you have decent computer skills, you can try just the alidropship plugin. However, be prepared to spend a lot of time build your website and the result is not instant, it could take months not only to build your store, at the same time you need to learn how to do e-commerce . Since there is no monthly payment, you can take as much time as you want. Try to build organic traffic in social media, which will reduce the cost at the same time.
There is also an alternative way, which is Shopify, although it has a monthly fee, it is much easier to build your own website if you just want to get a taste of it and just want to check if it works. Once you want to get serious, you can consider get alidropship for long run.
Both ways will not cost a lot. as I mentioned in the video, purchase a website does not cost the most, How to promote your products cost the most. Hope I have answered your questions. Wish you good luck!
hi , can you explain how I can post products on Amazon?
Hi Ahmed. That is a good question. Infact . I never post product on Amazon. I may not be the right person to answer your question. Sorry.
hello i bought an alidroship premiun store, but no idea to bigging the installetion to wordpress webside . can you tell me how to initial the installetion in wordpress webside. and also i want to know if i have to buy an hosting please
Hi Dear, Thanks for watching. I purchased the premium store with the installation package, when I received my store, it is up and running. Be honest, I am not a tech person either. As far as I know, you do need to transfer your store into hosting. I will strongly recommend you to email support@alidroship.com to ask what should you do next. Sorry, I can not help much.
But to long in wordpress they give you the adress and password or you have to create it? I tried to contact AliDropship but sometime take time to the response . Thank you by the way for your time
@@diblack4769 my project manager give me login user name and password.
how much did you earn for the first month what percentage of the monthly earnings of the original store? and how long will you probably cover the total expenses you spend on buying a premium store?
Hi, Gerald. Thank you for your inquiry. For the first month I did not earn any profit at all, in fact, I lost about $600 on facebook ad. ( I did make some sales, but the facebook ad cost is way higher than conversion). As I have mentioned in this video. First few months I have lost some money on Advertisement, however business gets better after I get some help from the alidropship support and learned from my mistake. For now I would say sales conversion are enough to cover advertisement and product cost. This is not a get rich scam. If everything going well. I would expect to make some profit next year. I hope this answered your questions. Let me know if you have any more questions. I am happy to share my experience.
@@EcomWithCindy Oh great! I am very hesitant to to purchase, but after you answer my question I think I would like to try a premium store. I am just a college student who would like to invest money on e-commerce so that in the future i can be successful. Do you think I can mange to do it? I have an exact savings to purchase it, is it worth it? Thank you
Last question tho, will i be able to earn if i dont rely on ads? if i only shared my page on groups or let the seo to work?
@@geraldmathewapostol4060 Running the store does not take a lot of time. However, be prepared to spend a lot of time at the beginning( If that does not affect your study). As I mentioned in the video, to learn how to market your product, to improve your website content, how to run ad properly, these are extremely important. So be prepared for the first few months you may spend a lot of time but with not a lot of results. But after you get the hang of it, things will start to turn around. At least it happened to me.
@@EcomWithCindy THANK YOU FOR ANSWERING ALL MY QUESTIONS! YOU'RE THE BEST
hi Cindy. Thankyou so much for this vid. Is your fulfillment automated -if not it must be very time consuming to process each and every product?
I have made a video to explain a bit more about the plug-in. You may feel free to check that. Thanks. ruclips.net/video/JudvJZzxSUM/видео.html
@@EcomWithCindy Thank you so much- :-)
Hi Cindy, thanks for this Video! So is there a link or promo code if I want to purchase a custom store to get discount?
Hi Christine. Thanks for watching. If you click through any of the link under this video description. Add custom store on your shopping cart. Enter coupon code ****ECOMWITHCINDY*** at your check out. you will get 15% off everything. Hope this helps.
Dear i have 2 points in mind i hope you would reply to me
1 if i have purchased premium store who will marketing
2 what chances premium store financial losses
3 can i earn first day
Hi Abbasi,
To answer your questions. You will be the one responsible for marketing. The premium store is only provide you a tool for a premade website. If you don't work on improving your store , seek marketing strategy,the store will not generate money by itself. If you do paid advertisement. You could possibly make a sale on the first day. Only if you have previous experience. Hope these answers your questions. Good luck.
@@EcomWithCindy would you suggest to me ??should i purchase premium store or not
Thank you ! It is very useful 💓
The Premium Store selection looks intriguing. But, as I still believe that it might not be the best option because it wouldn't top the original version of the store, because A- it's been promoted and marketed by the highly professional team of the AliDropship itself, and B- because the original version of the store must have gained the most of the audience interested in the store.
I agree. After I try running the store, there is no way I could achieve the same result as the original store does. This premium store is an easier way to help me get started for a dropshipping business so I can learn from it. But in order to make a profit, I have to make changes to become better than them and add new products too.
@@EcomWithCindy Also what about additional add-ons to improve success, like the new add-on (Sellvia) to make shipping faster?
@@EcomWithCindy Did you have a success with the premium store? I was scammed by a Shopify builder. They made me a very bad Shopify store.
I don’t know if you was able to success. Let me know please.
Hi thank you for your insight,, I purchased my premium store like a month ago, I'm still waiting on setup to finish/? I guess! I feel kind of lost.
hi Sandra, I agree with you. it took me almost three months to learn then launch my first Facebook ad campaign and I was still doing it wrong at the beginning. So just be patient, try to learn as much as you can first, get familiar with how to run the store, set up everything properly, and also make sure you really know what you are doing before publishing any ad. I hope you will get better soon.
@@EcomWithCindy
Hi Cindy, thank you for replying to me, I was kind of lost because I didn't know if what I was doing was wrong, but I guess you right I just need to give time. thank you again.
@@sandraminaya4751 Let me know if you have any questions. I will try to answer whatever I know. I hope you will get it up and running in no time.
Thank you for your honest review.
Hi Cindy. I purchased Premium Store from Alidropship October last year. Till today, I haven't done anything about it. Each time, I require an assistance about the Store, the Project Manager (Person-in-Charge) will forward a link instead of helping out further. I did a review about Alidropship and most of the review mentioned that after the purchased, Alidropship staff will do what they did to me. Appreciate your point of view.
how did you like it?
@Rhys Clarice, You are right, the Alidropship support will send me a link to access their data base on how to solve the problems most of the time, which requires me to read and solve the problem myself. Actually, I don't mind it because I see it as a learning curve( some people expected more personal assistance, which I understand). There are a few times I just can not get it after I read the information they provided. The support team will always step in and help. Yes, I agree with you, It actually took me 3 months to learn how to run my store and make some custom changes before I launch my first advertisement. Appreciate your input! Hope you will get your store set up and running soon!
@@mackenziemajors7444 Honesty I didn't like the items in my store. It shows that it is a sloppy job. It is for the sake of completing their task. Afterall, there are thousands of deperate pple like me who needs help to generate income through online.
Hi Cindy, thank you for sharing your insights. I wonder how does your dropshipping store with Alidropship is doing now? I am interested to join this type of industry.
is the basic plan also a nice option?
Hi Carl, thank you for watching my video. Since I never have a custom store from Alidroship, I may not have a good answer. From what I understand, a basic plan is one of the custom stores. Before I bought my classic premium store, I did a comparison. The feature of the premium store is about equivalent to the advance custom store plus google merchant and facebook business. The basic plan has 50 products ready. If you are willing to spend time to find your own products , and added to your website. It could be similar to the advance packages. This is what I got from the Alidroship website. Sorry that I can not give you a better answer.
Informative video, but your voice is Robotic sound, we cant understand 100%,
Thank you for the wonderful messages or tips on how start up a alidropship. it’s very is useful tips ! I have a question for you do you earn money that they promise on alidropship? Thank you the reply I appreciated 😊
Hi Cindy and thank you for your informative videos. I've been thinking about buying a alidropship store, but now I'm not so sure. It seems they sell you a shell and once you own it, you're on your own.
I thought that they would research a niche for you for that price? $700 is quite steep😟.
Thanks again.
Cheers from Australia!
Hi Ben, thanks for watching, the premium store I got is a "cookies" store, it is a copy of the original store, And it is filled with products, I would said everything are ready to sell when they hand over to me. Yes, once you own it, you are responsible for your store and you have 100% ownership. Alidropship will provide some technical support. However, if you get a custom store, I heard they will help you to find products within your niche, but I am not sure. However, no matter which platform you buy it from, you are always on your own, it is a business after all. Unless you paid for extra mentorship from someone( which I am not even sure if it guaranty for success ). For the price I pay and the price for keeping the website for long run, I would said it is worthy. But still as I mention in the video, I have to put in a lot of effort to make it works.
if you just want to try only and not sure if you want to do it for a long time and you dont want to pay for a lum sum at the beginning, I think you can get a shopify store to try, the basic plan is $29 a month, but usually you may need some extra application , probably you are looking at about $60 a month. In my personal opinion. it really does not matter which platform. Most important is your website content, how you market your products and more. Which none of these platform can provide.
I hope you will find something is right for you. Feel free to share with me if you find something nice. I would love to hear.
Hello Cindy! What exactly do you get with the marketing package? Is it worth it?
hi, thank you for watching my video. For the Marketing Package, this is exactly what you will get. I copy from Alidroship website.
Marketing Guide on how to set up and run your own campaigns with our materials
Banners and videos used for the original campaigns
Ad texts used for the original campaigns
Descriptions of the recommended target audiences
As I have mentioned in my video, the marketing package will not lead you to achieve the same result as the original store does. Which means, most likely you will not be able to make money by copying their material. However, if you have no idea how to run an ad at all, you may use it as an example. To be honest, if you want an example, you could get this knowledge from youtube. and it is free. I hope I have answered your questions. Let me know if you want to know more.
@@EcomWithCindy Thanks for your reply. I'm most curious about the "materials" and "videos" the package includes. Are they ad videos ready to use? I understand I will still have to make revisions of my own but would you say having their materials and videos would save me a lot of time? Do they have materials/video ads for each product on your site or only those that have run?
@@lfmaquie hi dear. Yes. The material are ready to use. If u going to use it to run your ad and yes. It will save u time. But most likely u will not make much profit from it. Only if you make much better version of it and u may get a chance for profit. The marketing package incl about 6( I think, not with my computer right now) winning products materials. Not all the products.
@@lfmaquie I thought if you buy the marketing package they will be the ones to market your store.
Hi Cindy, just wondering have you had any returns from customers? How does it work? Do they return it to alipress or to you then you return the item to alipress? Thank you in advance.
Hi Kayla, return is up to you , best communicate with your AliExpress seller and see what they can help . Afterall it is your own business . What I did is if the product is very cheap. I will refund and let the customer keep the products. But if it is a high ticket product and assuming AliExpress seller has warranty. Then I will ask the customer to sent the products to China.hope this help.
@@EcomWithCindy hi Cindy thank you for your reply. Do you request for a refund from the supplier if you refund the customers? Or you just got to wear it?
@@kaylata7651 depends on your agreement with the AliExpress supplier. Most likely they won't give u a refund.
@@EcomWithCindy thank you Cindy
So did you make money? Were you profitable???
Thank you Cindy for your very good and honest appraisal . It's very hard to get a reliable review. well done
Hello EcomwithCindy I was watching your video and it is very informative, I´d like to know where you are from and where most of your clients are from? and how long your clients do have to wait for their products ?
Hi Vittalizate, I live in Canada, most of the clients are from US. Shipping Usually takes about 2 to 3 weeks .
Hi Cindy, thank you for the very detailed and informative video. I am in the midst of getting a premium store myself but there are still a few questions I need answers to. May i ask in your highlighted item - F9 Bluetooth earbuds, the selling price is at US $31.90 - what is the supplier's ( Aliexpress') price, or how much do you buy it from the supplier? I want to know your profit margins on each product that you sell. thank you.
Hi Teng, the Bluetooth earbuds is selling $9.50 at aliexpress, Shipping cost is about $4.50 to united state. The cost of the product is about $14. The automatic price formula I have set is base of the product price listed on aliexpress( shipping is excluded). Because of the pandemic, a lot of the shipping cost has increase. So when you set up the pricing, always let a lite higher to cover the shipping. profit margins is all depends how much you are comfortable with selling the products. Some people is ok with 2X, some are 3X. actually there are strategy on set up pricing too. But those are more advance. If I have time in the future, I may make a video to talk about that. Anyways, I hope I have answered your questions.
@@EcomWithCindy got it! So it’s basically 2x the aliexpress price. Is the shipping cost shouldered by the customer? Or the $31.90 srp of the earbuds is the “All-in” price paid by the customer?
@@tengreyes8972 sorry. I did not see this until now. The $31.9 is the price of the product on the sample website. For the shipping charge is totally up to u. If you want to charge . Just simply add shipping on the plugin. This sample website from alidropship is free worldwide shipping.
Thank you for sharing this! I'm thinking of trying this route as my first online drop shipping store. This was very informative.
Thanks for the video. I learned a lot. I am thinking of buying the Premium Store. So is Canada a good market for Alidropship? Thank you in advance.
Hi Eljen, thank you for watching. Dropshipping can be done anywhere. Canada is one of the five most converting countries. However, if you want to sell your products to Canadians, the market is not as big as United State.
@@EcomWithCindy Hi Cindy, I also live in Canada, do you know if there’s an online community for dropshipping? It would be really helpful for beginners. Also If you don’t mind me asking when did you start making money from the time you started? Thank you in advance.
@@eljenfajardo3809 sorry. I did not see your post until now. I don't know if there is any Canadian community. But if you found one please let me know. I do join the Facebook verumecom group. I would not say I am profitable yet. For now I can only break even that is also because I lost quite some money at the beginning due to my mistake. But I think I am on the right track. because recently has been showing some results. I have better plan this year. With the new strategy. I should be able to make some profile this year.
@@EcomWithCindy no problem. I actually found several communities on Facebook but not Canadian, most of them are from shopify, oberlo etc. thank you for your reply btw. I had to postpone buying the premium store for now, I am taking Digital Marketing right now to gain more knowledge.
@@eljenfajardo3809 sounds a good plan. Wish you success for whatever you do.
Hi again Cindy, I’ve recently purchased a Premium store and I am inspired by your detailed review here. It’s still a long way to go for me and there a few kinks that I need to iron out. If u don’t mind me asking, what is your strategy in buying fb ads and from what country is your target market.. thank you and I continue to follow your videos.
Hi Teng, Thank you very much for following, Facebook ad is very complicated at the beginning, also make sure you really know what you are doing before spending on Ad. For Facebook Ad strategy first I used the strategy I bought from the Marketing package, but find out it does not work for me, because I spend quite a lot of money, and get not many sales. Then I slowly test out using smaller budgets with smaller target audiences( that perform much better). I learned from my mistakes too. Also, you need to know how to analyze the data( very important). Most people loose a lot money because they don't know when to stop. I mainly targeting the most converted countries, like US, CA, AU,UK. But obviously, the most converting country is US( which usually CPM is the highest).
@@EcomWithCindy thank you. US, CA and AUS, UK is where I plan to target. I will rely on the Marketing package but with a conservative mindset, I’m just starting out and have limited funds.. again, if it’s not too much to ask, can you specify your strategy about testing smaller target audience with smaller budget.. thank you, all your insights mean a lot to me.
@@tengreyes8972 Hi Teng, I would suggest you don't waste money on using the same marketing package to run facebook Ad. The marketing package is an example how alidroship run ad for the original store, if you are using the same thing to promote products, it won't work. Regarding for facebook strategy, I would tend to target about 1M audient size., I am afraid I won't be able to break it down in detail here. Besides, I can tell you that so far, none of my strategies has helped me to achieve an outstanding result yet. Ecommerce is a business, . It takes times to learn and adapt. so I would said I am still learning and testing out strategy. If you really want to learn now, there are lots of resources you can find in youtube, but you also need to test it and see if it works for you. In fact, Ad Stratagy is important, but it is one of the few components to become successful. Since you are new, I would rather suggest you work on your website contents and make your website stand out. You will start to make money once you really master all the skills.
@@EcomWithCindy great advice Cindy.. I will work on customizing my website slowly - changing the theme, color schemes to make it more enticing to audience..
I will do extensive research regarding putting out ads to reach my target audience. Thanks again
@@tengreyes8972 what is your website?
Thank you
Hope you enjoyed the video. Let me know if you have any questions. Merry Christmas!
Hello
I bought same as yours
I have a questions about shipping
How the client choose his country and see the shipping mithods
Hi Monther, thanks for watching my video. Let me know if I understand your question correctly? Are you asking how the client chooses the shipping methods that are available for his / her country? If this is what you are asking, my answer will be I do not have the option for my client to choose. When clients check out, they could choose different shipping method like regular or express .( I only do regular shipping method) Aliexpress has tons of suppliers and not everyone provides the same or express shipping method . But Some may even have express line for certain countries.
The premium store only provides options for the different shipping methods that you set up when customers check out, but not base on the availability of the products info on aliexpress. If you just simply want to provide client with options on the different shipping method, just go to Setting--Shipping, you could add shipping options. Here is the instruction on Alidropship for how to set up help.alidropship.com/en/articles/2236954-shipping-settings.
Hope I have answered your questions. This is what I know from running my own store. If you need more info how to set up, the best way to ask support@alidropship.com.
Can i contact and ask few things
Please
Sometimes it make me lose my mind
@@montheral-masri5049 No need to loose your mind, lol. It is normal at the beginning, after working many hours with my store, I slowly figure it out slowly. I prefer to keep discussions here , and this is what my channel about--- to share experience, no matter good or bad. it is a learning journey. However, I am not an expert yet, I can only share my personal experience. I hope you understand.
@@EcomWithCindy yes i do
Thank you
@@EcomWithCindy i want to ask you another questions
Dose the formela price working with you right
how about the payment gateway does the mastercard works in asian region country, specifically Brunei Darussalam
As far as I know. Only one currency could be set in payment gateway. If you set it as US dollar for example, if customer from Asian region, they can still pay for it. But customer will be charged in USD . However. The best way is contact customer service in alidropship if you have further questions.
Do you need to set your T&C for your online store?
Would be better a custom store instead?
In the end of day, gained or lost money?
I'm thinking hard in buy a custom store but i didn't find yet a decent review about it
Till now, it's pretty sure to asume that the success of any store or business is how hard you dig, study put effort into it...
The heart of all this ends up in ADS, not doubt it
I won't see a custom would make a big difference. But nice observation. You are absolutely right. Successful or not is base on how much time and effort you are willing to put into practice. This is what I am trying to give out the message in wrap up.
Nice Review..
Excellent Video! I also bought the store recently and still trying how to run the fb ad, Thanks
Let me know how it goes, recently facebook IOS 14 policy has affect the data a lot, at least good news is that it can track the conversion. Need to learn and adapt the new changes.
Don’t invest much in it !! You will loose a lot of money , take it as a learning experience.
iPhone will block Facebook ads without the users consent soon .
Your voice sounds weird like cartoon fast fowarding, can hear clearly? Not sure if its my reception or is your actual clip is like that.
Then go watch a different one go take that BS somewhere else
shipping time? item location?
I'm looking into this and I have a few questions? How does the purchase from the consumer to your store to Aliexpress work. Then the packaging do you do your own? Do you have some suggestions on which platform is best? Should I be concerned with how much extra money besides what the store costs to be able to cover expenses and returns how does that work. Thank you for your video it helped me see a lot more and what's involved.
Hi Banshee, as I mentioned in the video. Once customer paid for the order from your website. Then u will order from AliExpress through the alidropship plug in. AliExpress will ship it to customers address. I don't have any suggestions which platform is the best. I think they all the same . All up to you hard work. Yes. You will need to prepare spend way more money on advertising the product. Alidropship is just a tool.
i have purchased a ready made premium store, however, i didn't do much on this store for the past one year. Now i wish to restart my store, can advice how i get it restarted with a new hosting ?
Hi Tan. Thanks for watching. I think it is best you ask Alidropship support, I am not sure how to get hosting back.
Lady sounds as though she is talking robotically fast.
Yea. Sorry. I actually talk super slow. So I speed up the video it cause that robotics sound. Buy I don't have a good video editor back then.
Hi Cindy. Thanks for your sharing. I only get to know Alidropship last month and have been watching their RUclips videos. May I ask a question. Is there a reason why you chose their Premium Store over Custom Store?
Hi Sweetiong, thanks for watching my video. To answer your question. Back in May 2020, the Classic store was the most profitable store option available on Alidroship webstie. I was debating to get a custom store for a niche. My thought was that since if I purchase their marketing package, I could copy their success. At least will be a guaranty of Success. As in my review video above. I was disappointed with the result. I have learned that the premium store would only provide me an easier way to start, but there is no guaranty. I need to learn a lot of necessary skills to run an online business.
After running a general store, I think a niche store may be easier to advertise to particular audients. And return customers are more likely.
A general store is too broad, I will need to spend more on testing different audients interested. Return customers are less likely.
However, running a general store allows me to test all kinds of products. If I found a niche that works out for me, I could add a niche store for scaling. I would see both pros and cons.
I hope I have answered your question. Wish you good luck!
@@EcomWithCindy Hi Cindy, thanks for taking time to answer my question. It helps to clarify my thinking. As I don't have any experience in dropshipping and not IT savvy, I think the custom store may be easier to start with. I will need AliDropship to guide me along the way. Once again, thank you for your generous sharing and I wish you every success in your business.
@@EcomWithCindy Thanks for your coupon code.
@@Fax62622088 Wish you success!
@@EcomWithCindy Thanks, Cindy. The Custom Store was suitable for me as I needed their guidance and support. WIP.
How much are you making with the store? Are what they say the store is making true?
Last year I have lost money on facebook ad , although I bought their marketing strategy, I can not achieve the same result. So I have changed my store, and trying out different strategy, so far is Better, but I am not making " big" money yet. lol
Hi Cindy
Thank you for the video on alidrop premium store. I just bought the same store "but it karl". But after I watched your video I'm not sure it was a good idea. May I ask if your store is making money now? I'm committed at this point so I wanted to ask if there's any other advise or suggestions you might have?
Thanks again Cindy!
Ray
Hi Ray, I have changed a lot of things in my store to make it works better, but still my store is not making a lot of money as I wish it to be. Maybe until I could find a better way then I will share more updates. I found Alidropship has a lot of information about how to Run the store. If you are new, you may want to check it out.
do they give a sample product before you buy it?
Hi Cessna, AliExpress will not give you a sample product.
Hi.. I have no experience in dropshipping...NONE. which package that i can choose which can jave me do almost everything so i can learn slowly from there. So i can maintain for sales and updates.
Of you don't mind to spend time to learn. Just get the basic plug-in. alidropship.com/plugin/?via=14846 . you could use the coupon code in my video description to get 25% off. Hope this help.
@@EcomWithCindy hi again... when this promotion ends?
Thank you for the valuable information. Does the premium store allow you to provide faster shipping?
For faster shipping . You will have to choose from AliExpress yourself.
@@EcomWithCindy ok, thank you!!
Thank you
Hi Cindy, would you recommend, if you had not bought the installation package, that it's better that you just installed the Alidropship Premium Store yourself and save the money instead on Advertising? And If I do decide get without the installation package and try installing it myself, can I still avail of the installation package later if I dont manage to do it?? Appreciate reply. And how is your store now please? Thank you.
If you can install it yourself I think you will save a lot of money. I don't think there is a problem if you buy the installation package later if you really can't do it yourself. My store is ok, but nothing is killing yet. Hope I will find a better formula soon. Thanks for asking.
@@EcomWithCindy thank you for responding... try facebook ads...
I’m in Canada and the price for a premium store is almost $3k. Do you know why there’s such a drastic difference in pricing?
Hi Saba. The premium store is selling $300USD. Did u check out the link under description?
@@EcomWithCindy Hi, sorry so it's the custom store that comes with everything you need to get started not the Premium. But it seems the custom stores cost more but are set up to make money faster and easier. What are your thoughts?
@@Staye03 in my opinion. This is just a tool. As long as you got what your need . The website will not generate money on its own. Good product selection, proper advertising strategy , customer service are the key.
Hi Cindy, how do you deal with returns and exchanges as a drop-shipper?
Hi Chris. I allow my customers to do return or exchange as I promised in my website. Of course , it will be a lost for me, because my supplier will not reimburse me most of the cases. I do require my customers to ship back the product at their own cost. Most of the time, shipping is too costly , so I offer store credit, most of them are ok. Thank God that return or exchange only happen a couple times to me, so I guess I am lucky. Since you run your store, You could do whatever way works for you.
@@EcomWithCindy lovely, thank you for your response Cindy. 😄
Hi Cindy, I am planning to launch my own store and your video was very helpful. I would just like to ask on how orders are fulfilled through Alidropship Premium Store? And will we have full access to the website because you’ve mentioned in your video that you have edited some stuff out? Thanks in advance!
Hi Charles. You may fullfill your order by go into order---order automatically----sign in to you AliExpress account----pay for order. Please follow this link for instructions help.alidropship.com/en/articles/2236918-processing-orders.
I make some changes mainly on the website appearance. For example the color of the button.Remove the social share icons, about Us page etc. I have choose not to disclose my website address as I have explained in detail in previous comments. I hope you understand. Thank you.
Hi @@EcomWithCindy thank you for your fast response. How about for the orders of my clients in my store? How will their orders be fulfilled? Thank you!
@@charlesjeromelazaro2251 hi Charles. The procedure I mentioned above is the actually precedure to order for your clients. Once your clients ordered. You will use the automatic system to order for your clients from AliExpress, once it is done. The Alidropship plugin will sent a confirmation email to your clients. When product ships out. The plugin will sent tracking number to clients. . If I did not understand your question. Maybe you may explain a bit more please? Thanks.
Hi did you purchase the marketing package?
Yes. I did.
. did u get profit in the first month ?
@@Michael-kz5nc no. I have to change a lot of things.
I’m interested in purchasing the established store. What are some things that I have to learn to improve the store. I figured an established store would be better since it’s Ben making money
Hi Matt, there are so many things need to learn before running your store. Like product selection, how do you want to promote the products, customer service. How to run the store and alot more. I would say buying a pre-made store just help you start up easier.
@@EcomWithCindy thanks and also why are we not supposed to tell people our web address
I’m gonna target USA they said I can use selvia. But it’s 16 dollars shipping so what would you recommend that’s cheaper to ship?
@@Walkingstreetswithmatt1989 I use aliexpress. I have make sure I found a reliable aliexpress supplier ( shipping time should be 2 to 3 weeks)before I start promoting the products. For that being said, shipping time is a lot longer compared with shipping within the US. I will let my client know the shipping time, but since I charge free shipping, there wont be too much complaints.
Hi Cindy how much did u make in the first month with premium?
Hi Vanda , in the first three month. I was learn as much as I can . So I did not make any money.
I AM só confused, if I pay for the premium account does the money autogenerates itself or?
@@Moreninha55 no . It won't. You will have to pay for your own advertisement. Advertisement are expensive. And no guarantee you will make money too.
Hi Cindy, nice video and thank you for sharing your thoughts, also in the comments. I have recently purchased a premium store, now it's live and running, but as you can imagine, sales are still at zero. Would you mind me asking, how much do you think you should budget for each FB ad campaign? I've been testing a few times, but I can't get decent results, even simply in terms of engagement. Appreciate your feedback on this, thanks!
Hi Lorenzo. Thanks for watching. At the beginning, I followed the marketing package instructions that I bought from alidropship. I noticed that In order to test a product. Minimum spending at least $500 to $700 . Then I use a very low budget tragedy. I think it make more sense to me. I hope this help. Beside. You will also give yourself some amount to have trials and errors.
@@EcomWithCindy hi Cindy Thank you for your post. How is your store doing now? Also can you explain what you meant by "very low budget tragedy"-what happened there?
@@AndreVDO-1919 sorry. Typo. Low budget strategy. I test $5 per interest per day. By doing this . The result is slow. And take more time. But at least I won't spend all at once. there were up and down. In the past few months I was busy with work, so I stop Facebook ad for a little while. I change to focus on organic traffice and affiliate marketing. And I am marking some profit out of it. But it take a long time to built. I hope I will make a new video to talk about that soon.
@@EcomWithCindy Thank you Cindy, appreciate the reply. It seems like you have budget substantial amounts in order to get some sort of returns... Something to consider carefully. Thanks again
hows the store doing now
chị phải người việt nam không chị
hi, Huypy, Sorry, I am not Vietnamese.
Well. So where are you from.?
@@huypynguyen9524 I can speak Chinese.
@@EcomWithCindy wow. Me too. But just a little
Can you friend me on wechat!
Hi Cindy... I've been watching your videos for me to get the hang of dropshipping. Been reading comments as well..my question is what is the fb ads mistake did you have that cost you thousand dollars? If you don't mind..new subscriber here
Hi Dear. Good question. In fact I am planning to make a video to talk about it so that I hope it will help others to avoid those mistake. Stay tune!
@@EcomWithCindy that would be golden! I'm looking forward to it.
Hi, Cindy! how are you? thank you for your video!!! I purchased the premium store a month ago and even sitting and giving time to learn how to do it, I feel "stuck". I realized the website is not "on" yet, how can I start selling if I don't see any product on my page? Did you have to click anywhere to "appear and start selling" or it's on them ? thank you :)
Hi Junia ,I don't think there is a click.did you purchase your hosting with alidropship? I think you need to transfer the data into the hosting. Since I purchased installation packages with alidropship. They did everything for me. My website was up and running and fill with products when they handover to me. So I don't really know exactly how those work. I think the best way is email alidropship customer service. I come across there is a RUclipsr teach you how to set up premium store yourself. Maybe you can watch his video and see what step is missing? Let me know if you need his link. I can try to look for you if you need.
I'm in the boat, I purchased my premium store like a month ago, I'm still waiting on setup to finish/? I guess!
@@sandraminaya4751 did you buy a hosting and domain name already? Did you buy Alidropship installation package? I am not a tech person. That is why I bought the installation package. They did everything for me. . Best I would suggest you to ask support@alidropship.com. they could help you further?
What is your current marketing strategy?
Dear Cindy,
Yours was a highly informative and well produced video, I appreciate the hard work you applied.
You are exceptionally effective and well informed in your comprehensive review.
Did you spend the additional $200 and purchase the promotional package?
If so did you still have to promote on your own: or was all your promotion original?
Did you recoup your investment and do you now consider this a viable secondary income revenue stream?
Thank you.
Adrian
hi Adrian, Thank you for watching. I purchased the $200 marketing package incl. all the Ad material and Facebook strategy. In the beginning, I use exactly the same material to promote, but it does not work . Now, I make my own video Ad to promote other products. I would say ecommerce has the potential, but I really need to test out different strategies and different way to improve. For that being said, testing always involves risk. I am still learning. My business is getting better , but nothing is killing yet. last year is definitely a lost for me. This year is better, but Since I am testing out new strategy, I have reinvested the money I made , too early to give a conclusion. Probably end of the year I will have a better picture. I hope you may find your way to success too. You may share your experiences too, we can learn from each other!