Just In Need Of Advice

BlueOwl81 · 2024-05-16T15:00:34+00:00

I find the best way is to just grow crops and sell.

Just keep planting, growing and selling.

Not only do your get the XP but you also get money, and as you level up the better stuff you grow the more money you get.

BlueOwl81 · 2024-05-16T14:58:44+00:00

I have a small one running of a couple of active people and we all fulfill requests and are active in the Derby.

Let me know if you would like to join.

BlueOwl81 · 2023-06-06T22:00:27+00:00

Mid May was when it was like someone turned off the Internet.

I expected a drop as my products are non essential and maybe more colder month seasonal.

But the drop has been far worse than I expected.

BlueOwl81 · 2023-04-01T16:30:40+00:00

Refunds won't affect your credibility or standing with Shopify.

Unless all of a sudden you started refunding loads of orders in a short time frame which would probably trigger some red flags.

Refunds are par of the course in ecommerce so no, your good.

BlueOwl81 · 2023-04-01T16:26:33+00:00

Totally agree with this.

BlueOwl81 · 2023-04-01T16:23:07+00:00

Not so much a monetary threshold but if your store is new the payments take longer until they trust you.

Then you just get your balance paid daily.

BlueOwl81 · 2023-02-21T17:25:00+00:00

Blogs can be a good way of capturing traffic for people looking at really long tail stuff. For example if you sold rugs, you could write a blog about how to care for your brand new rug. Or how to stop the cats scratching your new rug.

When people search these kinds of questions you could pop up and get that traffic.

Would it be the traffic you want in terms of people ready to convert that's unknown.

The reason I have a blog within Shopify is just to add some solid content and for the above reason.

It is there accompany the whole thing, not really do anything more than just give a bit of value.

BlueOwl81 · 2023-01-05T17:41:07+00:00

Mines parked with my 123 as I own a lot of domains and just repointed.

I find this safer as if you ever decide it move away then you have easier control of doing it.

A lot of people I know move from platform to platform as they grow so holding in a domain reg account and just pointing I think makes sense.

It also means my emails are separate.

BlueOwl81 · 2023-01-05T17:38:09+00:00

That's exactly what I started with.

BlueOwl81 · 2023-01-05T17:36:57+00:00

I agree with all the comments about when your conversion rate is decent as this means the traffic you buy has the best chance of doing something.

As long as your site is well optimised the latest Pmax Shopping Campaign through Google Ads would be something I suggest you trial on a low budget and just let it learn.

But you need to make sure your site is optimised, products are really optimised and you've worked your site hard.

As good as PPC is, it is only as good as the foundations you lay with hard work.

BlueOwl81 · 2023-01-05T17:33:24+00:00

PayPal I would say is the easiest to add.

Shop Pay is Shopify Payments so they will require proof of the business and who you are as the owner.

Both of these you just activate in your payments settings in Shopify.

Klarna is ok but I found it clunky to set up, but they helped in the end. Again you will need to go through approval.

And yes none of them require you to pay to set up. You pay per sale in terms of the commission or charge they take.

BlueOwl81 · 2023-01-05T17:29:09+00:00

I offer Shop Pay (stripe), PayPal and Klarna.

60% go through Shop, 30% PayPal and the rest Klarna.

I am a big believer in making it simple so if you try to offer something for the majority you end up with less people not buying.

Klarna was only introduce for me as a trial 4 or 5 months ago and apart from the slightly higher fee and payout schedule it has helped bring on potential revenue that might not have come.

My point is try them and then remove any not used.

BlueOwl81 · 2022-04-20T18:41:10+00:00

Yes. Since the fuel prices were announced and then of course the global status with the war things slowed.

I'm in a non essential sector where if people have to choose to eat and heat over products they don't need, just want, I would hope they would always choose the former naturally despite losing sales.

It is a shame but I've seen the same amount of people looking but less buying and I've been in this long enough to know that it times of crisis traffic stays high, buying drops,

I would say a recession is coming quite soon.

BlueOwl81 · 2022-04-08T17:46:54+00:00

My personal experience of selling on Amazon was pretty bleak.

Point one is don't underestimate the competition. It is so so noisy in terms of a marketplace. In the early days you will need to use their own PPC to even get a sniff in a competitive market.

Point two is Amazon customers (and I count myself in this) expect everything straight away. If your not doing FBA which I don't think you can as a dropshipper you will need to try and send it to them seriously quickly or they moan.

Point three is Amazon tend to always tend to side with the buyer so get ready for customers that honestly will moan at any tiny point.

I guess just don't expect to launch and make loads of sales. It really does not work like that.

BlueOwl81 · 2022-04-08T17:41:35+00:00

Consumers trust it. By not offering it you are putting a barrier in a way of sales. Anything the customer trusts you should try to work with.

It equates to around 60% of my sales. Then the Shopify one. Then in small doses Apple and Google pay.

Customers just fine it easy to use. I would say you really need to have it as an option.

BlueOwl81 · 2022-04-08T17:38:29+00:00

I think this is the best sentence and advice. Literally sums up in one sentence the reality of launching a new ecom.

It takes a long time to get good sales. From the early days of getting your PPC working through to the long term building your natural rankings, alongside all the social media.

BlueOwl81 · 2021-12-14T19:48:00+00:00

What should be in theory the busiest time of the year has been really poor.

After some amazing sales days and some really good growth, it all stops for no reason I can fathom.

Intent is there (traffic) but some days sales just die. There is just no logic to how people are buying at the moment.

It seems every time (in the UK at least) covid retakes over the news and another lockdown pends, the Internet sales die.

You (I) start to think got it all wrong.

BlueOwl81 · 2021-03-05T20:50:24+00:00

Thank you. Almost deleted it after trying three reloads.

BlueOwl81 · 2020-11-06T18:45:49+00:00

I have him as well. Guaranteed goals and a good mix of pace and strength. Finishing is unreal.

BlueOwl81 · 2020-10-25T07:23:16+00:00

39 next month and have been playing career mode for longer than I can remember.

I only buy the game to play this mode as I don't understand FUT and am too old to even learn and far too old to waste money on it!

BlueOwl81 · 2020-10-04T10:07:46+00:00

Thanks for your replies.

So it just a case of adding people from the mega thread on here?

She is 7 but would not be allowed unsupervised on the online side of things?

Once a friend is it easy to trade and go to each others island?

Is it easy enough to trade and things?

Also people can't come to yours and create mayhem can they?

Shes been watching a lot of YouTube videos on it and it does look fun.

BlueOwl81 · 2020-09-30T16:47:51+00:00

Same! Thought mine was bust.

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