Welcome to Shopify 101 Part 1. This will be a solid reference guide to be able to wrap your head around what everything means and where everything is located. Some of this is going to be a repeat of the
New subscriber here as well, have a ton of time on my hands to build something but having trouble finding out where to start. I don't have a lot of funds to dump into something but I have plenty of time. I'm thinking affiliate marketing is the route I should take since it has a low start up cost and will allow me to learn. Now I'm struggling finding a niche to pursue.
I've read a ton of the articles. The issue I think I'm having is that I don't have any real world work experience to talk about or share. So if I were to start writing it would have to be about hobbies life fishing or woodworking, which I don't think would be bad but I'm not sure how much content I could put out for those ideas.
1. Do kw research and decide what you're going to target
2. Do the research to learn
3. Write article
You don't have to be an expert on the subject matter, you just have to be able to do research on it.
Also, if you live remotely close to a city and know woodworking, you could start a woodworking business. From a consumer perspective they're hard to find, easy to rank for and drive traffic (local seo), and can charge insane rates. (I literally just spent thousands of dollars on a custom piece that I could have done myself if I had the tools or time)
Hell, if you went this route, you could start a blog and socials detailing your experience building a woodworking business (build in public) and turn it into an online and in person business with multiple revenue channels.
- Affiliate
- Local clients
- Remote clients
- Ecom store for work that's less custom
Your channels would be
- Local seo
- SEO - focusing on random kw's
- Twitter (build in public)
- Instagram/TikTok showcasing your work and how it's made
Do you think I can do this anonymously? Obviously I wouldn't be able to run a business anonymously but maybe the other stuff like a newsletter that sells woodworking plans. Could make websites that can do affiliate sales and make create an instagram that is faceless and shows how to make stuff. I really want whatever I do wifi money wise to be anon since my full time job is pretty public.
Yeah you can but you would pass more traffic between all of the properties and make more money by having them all be part of the same group. I don't know what you do for a living but that seems like an easy one to pass off as a hobby to your boss and colleagues.
I'm a professional baseball player so I'm trying to find a way to make some money and build a business in my free time while trying not to get the two jobs involved with one another. A lot of this life is public so I'm just trying to keep it behind the scenes. There's a chance that if I wasn't playing I wouldn't mind it being public but for now I want it to be unknown.
New subscriber here. Based in HK with access to a lot of cheap electronics and basically anything. Thinking of building a parallel imports business on Shopify, and are consuming your content with fervor. Any advice is very much welcome!
You're going to have a lot more luck selling on Amazon/Ebay/Walmart as you don't have to create your own demand. You just have to capture the demand that's already there.
Shopify is better used to build a brand. If there's already a market for the exact products, the marketplaces will be a better place for you to start.
Sorry for the delay, thank you very much for the feedback. What do you think about a situation where you're re-selling existing brands, and price arbitraging different markets. Aka if you were able to buy 'insert famous brand' headphones in HK for cheaper than an wholesaler in the USA, and then ship them. I take your point around marketplaces vs. BYO, but marketplaces seem quite 'busy' for famous brand products?
Same response as above. The marketplaces are "busy" but if you build up shipping history and can undercut price, you win the buy box on Amazon leading to huge demand even if there's other sellers.
You best bet in this hypothetical situation is to created an Amazon account and do FBA. If you can't do FBA for whatever reason, go to Ebay.
It'll usually be too expensive to drive traffic to your website if you're reselling product.
New subscriber here as well, have a ton of time on my hands to build something but having trouble finding out where to start. I don't have a lot of funds to dump into something but I have plenty of time. I'm thinking affiliate marketing is the route I should take since it has a low start up cost and will allow me to learn. Now I'm struggling finding a niche to pursue.
The niche can only be picked by you. If you read from the beginning, you should have a lot of ideas to choose from.
I've read a ton of the articles. The issue I think I'm having is that I don't have any real world work experience to talk about or share. So if I were to start writing it would have to be about hobbies life fishing or woodworking, which I don't think would be bad but I'm not sure how much content I could put out for those ideas.
1. Do kw research and decide what you're going to target
2. Do the research to learn
3. Write article
You don't have to be an expert on the subject matter, you just have to be able to do research on it.
Also, if you live remotely close to a city and know woodworking, you could start a woodworking business. From a consumer perspective they're hard to find, easy to rank for and drive traffic (local seo), and can charge insane rates. (I literally just spent thousands of dollars on a custom piece that I could have done myself if I had the tools or time)
Hell, if you went this route, you could start a blog and socials detailing your experience building a woodworking business (build in public) and turn it into an online and in person business with multiple revenue channels.
- Affiliate
- Local clients
- Remote clients
- Ecom store for work that's less custom
Your channels would be
- Local seo
- SEO - focusing on random kw's
- Twitter (build in public)
- Instagram/TikTok showcasing your work and how it's made
Do you think I can do this anonymously? Obviously I wouldn't be able to run a business anonymously but maybe the other stuff like a newsletter that sells woodworking plans. Could make websites that can do affiliate sales and make create an instagram that is faceless and shows how to make stuff. I really want whatever I do wifi money wise to be anon since my full time job is pretty public.
Yeah you can but you would pass more traffic between all of the properties and make more money by having them all be part of the same group. I don't know what you do for a living but that seems like an easy one to pass off as a hobby to your boss and colleagues.
I'm a professional baseball player so I'm trying to find a way to make some money and build a business in my free time while trying not to get the two jobs involved with one another. A lot of this life is public so I'm just trying to keep it behind the scenes. There's a chance that if I wasn't playing I wouldn't mind it being public but for now I want it to be unknown.
Thank you once again.
New subscriber here. Based in HK with access to a lot of cheap electronics and basically anything. Thinking of building a parallel imports business on Shopify, and are consuming your content with fervor. Any advice is very much welcome!
You're going to have a lot more luck selling on Amazon/Ebay/Walmart as you don't have to create your own demand. You just have to capture the demand that's already there.
Shopify is better used to build a brand. If there's already a market for the exact products, the marketplaces will be a better place for you to start.
Sorry for the delay, thank you very much for the feedback. What do you think about a situation where you're re-selling existing brands, and price arbitraging different markets. Aka if you were able to buy 'insert famous brand' headphones in HK for cheaper than an wholesaler in the USA, and then ship them. I take your point around marketplaces vs. BYO, but marketplaces seem quite 'busy' for famous brand products?
Very useful - thank you
Same response as above. The marketplaces are "busy" but if you build up shipping history and can undercut price, you win the buy box on Amazon leading to huge demand even if there's other sellers.
You best bet in this hypothetical situation is to created an Amazon account and do FBA. If you can't do FBA for whatever reason, go to Ebay.
It'll usually be too expensive to drive traffic to your website if you're reselling product.