First 1k after months of no sales · Inside Out Marketing (FREE)

First 1k after months of no sales

I started off drop shipping with a very naive perspective. (Like most people do) I'm 20 years old and I wanted to learn an online money-making skill.

So when I first started, I thought of this as a side hustle, a cute gimmick. I watched trash youtubers and consumed trash content. I really fell for the glamorised *fake* side of drop shipping and ecommerce.

I was rudely awakened a couple months in when I thought I knew a lot but was making 0 sales, burning money on ads, I tried to blame Facebook ads, I thought maybe I was unlucky.

However, that was not the case, it was really just my incompetence, no beginner should expect to make any revenue within their first few months, especially someone with no business experience.

I had a choice, I could either be like most people who give up at this stage and say e-commerce is dead (it never will be). Or I could just keep going, learn from my mistakes, and seek out advice.

So, I made a promise to not give up and keep going with my journey, with the help of a more experienced guy I had found on reddit, I took a step back and re learnt everything the right way, applied his lessons, worked super hard for 6 weeks, then started running ads.

The rest is history, I've been pleasantly surprised to see a steady wave of sales coming in, my profit margins aren't great at all, but this is something that can improved on, just happy to finally see some sales coming in. The next step for me is becoming profitable and improving my roas.

So just a message to all the beginners, don't watch gimmicky youtubers, treat drop shipping like a legitimate business model, and seek guidance from more experienced individuals. Provide real value to customers.

This is a difficult journey but if you stick to the path you will be rewarded.

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