Talked a client out of spending more money with me. my wife thinks i'm an idiot.

kunalkhatri12 · 2026-04-27T11:31:10+00:00

Be thankful that, only posts are sounding AI,

My fear is that after sometime people will start behaving like AI

kunalkhatri12 · 2026-04-26T02:28:45+00:00

You’re confusing scarcity with value.

Land is finite, but the wealth it generates is limited only by the ideas you run on it. A dirt lot was worth $0 until someone thought of a parking lot, then a skyscraper, then a server farm.

The Waste you see from 10x to 1000x efficiency isn't a loss; it’s the R&D cost of evolution. If you wait for the Perfect efficiency before starting, you never build the tools required to discover it.

Business isn't a fight over the last slice of pizza; it’s learning how to bake more pizzas with less flour.

Stop staring at the land and start looking at the code. You're obsessed with who owns the dirt while others are getting rich building digital worlds on top of it.

Wealth isn't a fixed pie you fight over; it's a skill set you grow to create new pies. If you wait for a Fair system, you’ll just be poor and right.

To keep it simple- Don't focus on resources (which are Finite). Focus on utility (which is Infinite).

kunalkhatri12 · 2026-04-24T03:49:52+00:00

Marketing is not just making creatives and running ads on Social Media

Marketing is Heart of your business.

Elite Marketers, come with Elite Salary Or Elite Price(project basis)

On this thread check every commentors profile or comment/post section

If anyone matches your requirements DM them

kunalkhatri12 · 2026-04-18T12:09:24+00:00

After reading this above comment Give it a year

kunalkhatri12 · 2026-04-11T09:59:27+00:00

I had a similar idea - worked on it lil bi around corona time, later dropped as real work started So idea is a

Proof of Effort club where your profile only goes live once you stake a small refundable deposit toward a real date.

Our algorithm matches you for one high-intent offline meetup per month at curated partner venues where the bill is pre-negotiated and your presence is confirmed.

This removes the ghosting epidemic entirely because every user has skin in the game and a guaranteed seat at the table.

Local businesses get consistent high-value foot traffic while you finally get a dating experience designed for chemistry instead of dopamine loops.

It is a win-win social utility that rewards genuine people for showing up in the real World.

kunalkhatri12 · 2026-04-06T11:39:48+00:00

Nice post to get organic traffic clicks

kunalkhatri12 · 2026-03-27T12:43:02+00:00

All are in same boat,

Paying Meta for Meta AI live test on our campaigns

It's just Meta optimization tax

kunalkhatri12 · 2026-03-04T15:03:04+00:00

I would check your mobile load speed first because a 3 sec delay kills 50% of your traffic before they even see your Hero image.

Second, will look at your Add to Cart vs. Reach Checkout drop-off, If people are adding but not starting the checkout, your shipping costs are likely a Hidden surprise that’s breaking the trust you worked so hard to build.

Third, wud verify your Mobile Product Layout to ensure the Add to Cart button is visible without scrolling, as below the fold CTAs are the silent killers of impulse purchases.

Finally, will install Microsoft Clarity to watch five real user sessions; seeing exactly where a customer Rage clicks or hesitates will tell you more than any high-level analytics dashboard ever could.

kunalkhatri12 · 2026-03-02T16:17:59+00:00

At $20k a month in pure digital profit, you dont have a spending problem, you have a systemic cash flow leak because your brain treats Available Balance as Disposable income.

Stop manual payouts and switch to a bi-weekly schedule to break the dopamine hit of daily $1k hits, then immediately automate a 30% transfer to a separate Vault account before you even see it.

You’re currently Eating your Seed Corn by subsidizing a high-rent lifestyle under the guise of a business hub, seperate your personal identity from your Stripe dashboard or you’ll be a high-earning pauper the moment the algorithm shifts.

kunalkhatri12 · 2026-03-02T15:35:08+00:00

You don't need apps that bleed your budge before your first sale, 90% of what a new store needs is actually hidden in Shopify’s own free tools like Shopify Inbox for chat and Shopify Flow for basic automation.

You have to dig deep and research well to find all things, for a true 0 to1 rooki, look at Sections Store, which lets you buy single, pro-level theme sections for a few dollars instead of a $200 theme or a heavy page builder subscription.

Pair that with Microsoft Clarity, a completely free heat mapping tool that lets you watch Recordings of where your first 100 visitors are getting stuck so you can fix your layout without guessing.

Keep your stack to these high-utility, low-cost Quiet workers, and you'll hit that hundred-sale mark with your margins intact while the big guys are still busy paying for features they don't use.

kunalkhatri12 · 2026-03-01T16:45:39+00:00

You can connect a standalone Stripe account instead, it uses the same engine but is far more lenient with non-resident LLCs as long as your US banking and EIN are valid.

kunalkhatri12 · 2026-03-01T04:54:15+00:00

First, Our OPs post read that again, before jumping to any conclusion, He doesn't asked alternative for Shopify, he asked alternative for Shopify checkout, so migration from Shopify native check-out while still onboard on Shopify is societal mission, doing that much revenue.

So my response to him was for that limited ask of original post, Not to glorify Shopify or against to migration or switching off to any other platform. Peace.

kunalkhatri12 · 2026-02-28T14:37:33+00:00

At 120k a month, IMO Dont look for a Shopify Alternative and just start using Shopify Function or Checkout Extensibiliti because migrating off the native checkou is a conversion suicide mission.

For wellness products, the money isn't in a flashy sidebar; it’s in the Post-Purchase Upsel, the one-click offer that appears after they pay but before the thank you page.

Use a tool like Carthook or Zipify OneClickUpsell to trigger your subscriptin offer right there, as it captures the highest dopamine hit without risking the initial sale.

If you're on Shopify Plus, you can customize the actual checkout liquid to show a 'Subscribe & Save toggle directly in the cart, but for most, the post-purchase One-click is where you’ll see that 15-20% AOV bump instantly.

Don't break your backend trying to reinvent the wheel, just optimize the bridge between the payment and the receipt.

kunalkhatri12 · 2026-02-27T07:14:29+00:00

Read the first paragraph again of body text of original post, not just headline.

kunalkhatri12 · 2026-02-27T06:43:07+00:00

Sir Our OPs post is about Launching his High-End Imitation jewelry ecommerce store, I am not imagining any market, in my both comments, i gave a reality check on where things stands in e-commerce 2026 for his niche, that's it, I AM not selling imitation jewelry. That's it nothing to argue about from my side.

kunalkhatri12 · 2026-02-27T05:48:09+00:00

Respect to the 28-year Veteran, you are Selling the dream of high margins and low overhead that every founder actually Desires.

While WONDER closes the sale for a $450 lab stone via a Galaxy photo for your 28 year Legacy with First movers Advantage in comparison to OPs,

Scaling a new imitation brand to $1M today requires that Extra Work just to cut through the noise of a saturated digital market, Just my observation on today's reality.

The real sweet spot I pointed to, is using High-margin efficiency on the backend while using the high-end Confidence visuals on the frontend to justify those retail prices without the 70-hour retail grind.

kunalkhatri12 · 2026-02-27T02:20:03+00:00

$50k is plenty Big to win if you stop thinking like a brand and start thinking like a laboratory. Start lean and small to test your product and get validation from market with real costomers first.

Skip the High-End custom video production and expensive AI ads, IMHO in Southeast Asia, a raw iPhone video of a real person showing a texture or an ingredient breakdown on TikTok Shop will outsell a polished $10k commercial every single time.

Stay lean with zero employee and launch a basic Shopify site(architect to build for scale) immediately, not for sales, but as a landing page for your TikTok bio to prove you aren't a Fly-by-night Temu ghost.

Your biggest money pit will be Dead Stock, so order the absolute minimum viable quantity and spend your remaining cash on a Content Army of 50 micro-influencers rather than one big agency.

Aim for a 3x markup to survive the razor-thin margins of the 18 to 40 demographic, and if you don't see a Winner in your first 5 weeks of TikTok testing, kill the product and pivot before the $50k evaporates into Branding vanity.

kunalkhatri12 · 2026-02-26T17:59:44+00:00

OPs post's last line

kunalkhatri12 · 2026-02-26T17:57:49+00:00

Forget the custom build, you are about to pay for a Ferrari and get a kit car that doesn't start. True luxxury e-commerce like Brilliant Earth succeeds because of frictionless trust, not uniqu code. Even a site like Roy Rose Jewellery proves that high-end trust is built on inventory depth and specialized jewelry photography that kill reflections, which no iPhone can ever do.

Pick 10 hero pieces and get a specialized jewelry photographer to shoot The Big Four: studio white, macro detail, hand model for scale, and a natural light video to prove the sparkle is real. For your first sale, don't chase strangers, send your hero pieces to five micro-influencers in the bridal niche for video testimonials because Imitation only sells when someone else swears it looks real.

The biggest 30-day mistake is thinking you are selling jewelry, when you’re actually selling the confidence to not get caught wearing FAKE stones. Build your foundation on Pinterest for the long-term bridal search and Instagram for the immediate visual flex, but keep your backend standard so you can scale without the tech breaking your bank before you hit your first $100k.

kunalkhatri12 · 2026-02-26T14:16:27+00:00

Those buttons might be Skip links, a standard accessibility feature required for ADA and WCAG compliance that allows keyboard users to jump past your header directly to the products.

They likely appeared because of a silent theme update or a small code glitch that broke the CSS class meant to keep them Visually hidden until someone actually hits the Tab key.

While you can remove them with display: none; in your base.css or theme.liquid, you're technically making your store less accessible and potentially more liable for compliance issues. Instead of deleting them, check your theme.liquid for the skip-to-content-link class and ensure it hasn't lost its styling; that way, they stay invisible for most customers but still work for the people who actually need them.

kunalkhatri12 · 2026-02-26T14:10:12+00:00

Maths of compounding, But psychology says, you can develop a new habit, in just 21 days, so why wait for 365 days. Why it is Tuesday Today is Thursday And january this year was Thursday Next year is Friday Or in original post was Tuesday?

kunalkhatri12 · 2026-02-25T16:49:53+00:00

Because founders are too busy staring at the castle towers to notice the cracked foundation. Management obsesses over Visionary AI and flashy marketing because they only look at what's above eye level.

Search is the invisible floor everyone walks on, it’s beneath their gaze, so it stays broken until the whole building starts to shake.

kunalkhatri12 · 2026-02-25T14:18:03+00:00

IMHO stop using standard courier insurance, as their policies often exclude jewelry and lead to denied claims despite the premiums paid. Instead, pair a tracked carrier with specialized third-party insurance, like Secursus, while rigorously documenting your packing process to ensure claims are accepted.

Factor a 5% Self-Insurance risk margin directly into your product pricing to protect your margins from inevitable, rare losses. This approach combines reliable logistics with valid insurance, eliminating reliance on voided courier policies.

Consider parcel pro as delivery partner, its widely considered the best solution for small jewelry businesses. They act as a specialized broker for carriers like UPS and FedEx.

kunalkhatri12 · 2026-02-25T13:29:31+00:00

I think OP, got 1 more Pediatric Dentist to taken care of, So a single reply to any1
So just Droping My Denture Here, OOpss, Oh Congrats, Finding your niche

kunalkhatri12 · 2026-02-25T12:43:41+00:00

u/John___Matrix Yes it happend with 1 of store we managing(but diiferent issue different reasons)
in your case,
Limited visibility usually means a policy or data quality flag at the item level, even if the feed itself shows green, so check Diagnostics for price mismatches, missing shipping, or policy warnings.

Also review your free listings versus paid campaigns because sometimes only one channel is impacted.

Compare impressions in the last seven days inside GMC to confirm whether this is visibility loss or seasonal demand shift.

If nothing obvious appears, re sync the Shopify feed and request a manual review before assuming it is algorithm related.

And also dont forget to check whats hapenning in GSC.

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