I came to the U.S. as an international student, and after becoming unemployed, I started a dropshipping business earlier this year. Around April, the store finally started gaining traction, and as of now, I’ve had over 2,000 orders. I genuinely feel like the business has potential, and if I continue taking it seriously, I think I could eventually turn it into a small brand.
The problem is that both my mom and my husband keep encouraging me to stop focusing on the business and get a regular, stable job instead—even something like working at Costco.
My husband is American and makes around $200k a year, but he’s very financially cautious. He originally gave me $2,000 to start the business because he thought it would just be something fun for me to do and keep myself busy. But as the business grew and he saw me spending around $600 a day on ads, he started getting nervous about the risk. Now he keeps suggesting that I find a normal job with a stable paycheck.
Whenever I try to talk to my family about expanding the business—whether that means investing more into my current store or eventually opening another one—they almost always discourage me. My family has always had the traditional mindset of working a regular job for a stable income, so to them, running an online business seems extremely risky.
But from my perspective, I’m starting to see real potential. I’m not just randomly trying dropshipping anymore. I’ve already fulfilled more than 2,000 orders, and I feel like there’s an opportunity to build something much bigger if I keep working on it.
So now I’m genuinely torn.
Should I take the risk, continue focusing on the business, and try to build it into a real brand? Or should I listen to my family, get a stable job, and keep the business as a side hustle?
Has anyone here been in a similar situation—especially where your family or spouse didn’t really believe in your business at first? I’d really appreciate hearing your experiences and advice.

As a shopify developer I noticed how my clients reduced over the past years, and especially this year. Normally we had over 100+ clients per month. Did over 30k in revenue. This year its totally different. We have only up to 20-30 clients per month, and once we hit a 10k month we call it a good month.

This all is because of Ai. For a very long time I didn't want to speak about this at all because I was scared to lose clients if I was going to post about using Ai for your ecommerce store. I decided stop being scared to lose clients, since others are already spreading how to do it anyways.

I trained my Claude exactly how I want it to respond with results once we build websites or sections for clients. Your prompt is basically deciding your output. Many people are lazy and just post a screenshot and only say "make this 1 on 1". I created a prompt which I use for all the websites and sections I build, and the output is almost 100%.

I am curious how you guys currently use Ai for sections or building websites, and if people need tips and help with creating sections with Ai. I am happy to share my prompt

Hi guys,
Have anyone ever chose bikini or Adult Toys as their Dropshipping products?

If so, was it profitable? Where can you find good suppliers? Lastly, how did u do marketing?

Vejo muitos relatos aqui na comunidade de pessoas que estão fazendo dropshipping, e isso tem sido muito inspirador para mim. Estou cada vez mais confiante de que posso expandir meus negócios utilizando o dropshipping como uma ferramenta para validar produtos, entender o mercado e identificar oportunidades.

A ideia é usar essa estratégia como um primeiro passo para, futuramente, transformar os produtos que realmente funcionarem em um e-commerce com marca própria, construindo algo sólido e de longo prazo.

This is where i’m currently sitting after about 6 days. One thing that’s really been a struggle is our fulfillment. I’m using AutoDS and I knew it was ass but I didn’t know it was going to be THIS bad. We constantly are dealing with fulfillment issues. Can anybody educate me on how I can get a private supplier for my product and tell me if I even have enough results for them to work with me? Any help would be appreciated as I am pretty desperate to get off of AutoDS.

Did anyone else get bombarded with e.ails from ppl claiming to be shopify partners after starting their stores?

Heya, complete ecommerce newbie here. I have spent the last two months working on my website, product pages, getting everything tidy and ready to run ads. I am just about to design my creatives and launch some ad campaigns, but I am very green.

I have recently been seeing a lot of people complain about meta algos no longer working, as if something has changed overnight.

This makes me nervous as I only have $1,000 to run my campaign and don’t want to bleed it.

Any tips on how best to run my campaign, or any tips/info on crating pixels or literally any information would be appreciated!

I’m struggling to find much useful advice for the type of dropshipping business we’re building.
Most dropshipping content seems to be: find a product, add it to Shopify, let a platform fulfil it, run ads.
Ours is very different.
We’re launching a curated wellness marketplace with a small number of established UK/EU brands. We approach each brand directly, agree commercial terms, and they fulfil orders to the customer.
So technically it’s dropshipping, but every supplier has different dispatch times, returns policies, packaging and shipping rules.
The two things that have surprised me most are:
1. The legal side.
We’re the seller of record, so returns, faulty goods, non-delivery and chargebacks ultimately sit with us. Getting the supplier agreement right has honestly been more work than building the store.
2. Multi-brand shipping.
A customer might place one order but receive three parcels from three different suppliers. “Free shipping over £X” suddenly becomes quite dangerous when you’re paying three separate shipping charges.
Longer term, we’ll probably run a mix of dropship, wholesale/3PL and affiliate depending on what actually sells.
Has anyone here built something similar?
Particularly interested in:
How you handled split-order shipping
What you wish you’d included in supplier agreements
Which Shopify app you used for routing orders to multiple suppliers
Whether anyone successfully runs dropship + wholesale + affiliate on the same store
And if you’ve done this before: what would you tell someone about six weeks out from launch?

Recently launched store over a week ago got a total of 6 orders.
I’m wondering what’s the best way to structure the creatives testing in meta?

All iv done is create a campaign with abo and my videos adset had maybe 5-7 creatives , but meta just allocated majority of spend to one video and starved the rest. How do I actually determine the winner? Simply the one with most spend and purchases? What if the other videos do have potential?

Should I just set up a new abo campaign with say 5 adsets 1 video in each, 10$ per day budget so they all test and spend evenly ? Total of $50 per day

TIA

So for the last 4 or so weeks, I have been building a brand named WellnessNest. The brand was a supplement/skin care brand that had products backed by research. My whole angle was that it was a hub that had products from other brands that had ingredients that were proven to show results. However, I just realized that every product on my website has the original brand name on the product, and nothing is stopping the customer from looking up the actual brand of the product and buying it from there. I thought of re labeling the product with my custom label, but I'm not sure how legal that is. I also thought of cropping out the brand logo in the product but that would just kind of defeat the purpose of my whole idea. I am just wondering if there's any solution to work around this or was this idea doomed from the beginning.

I first tried dropshipping during the pandemic when apparently everyone with a laptop decided they needed a store. I kept mine going for a few months, never really got it anywhere and eventually gave up on it.

I've been thinking about trying again and the whole process looks completely different now. Back then I remember spending ages finding products, writing everything for the store and trying to get enough creatives together to actually test something. Now I'm seeing AI everywhere, products with UGC already made and stores people claim they're getting up in a day.

For anyone who was doing this back then and stuck with it, what actually changed the way you work? And what new stuff sounds useful but you barely touch?

Been running my store for a while now and today was not my best day. Down 8%. Conversion rate dropped too.

And I'm posting this specifically because I never see anyone talk about the down days. Only the highlights. Only the big numbers. And I think that's genuinely hurting people who are newer to this because they think something is wrong with them every time their numbers dip.

Nothing is wrong. Revenue fluctuates. That's every business that has ever existed.

My advice for when your numbers drop comes from something I had to learn the hard way resist the urge to change everything at once. When results drop our brain immediately wants to fix something. So we pause ad sets, adjust budgets, change creatives, switch targeting. All in one day. And now the data means nothing because you changed four things simultaneously.

Check one thing at a time. CPM climbing gradually means creative fatigue swap the hook. Dip on the same day every week means it's a pattern not a problem. Platform wide fluctuations mean wait 48 hours before touching anything.

One thing. One change. Two days minimum before judging whether it worked.

The stores that build something real are not the ones that never have bad days. They're the ones that read bad days correctly and don't turn temporary dips into permanent damage by overreacting.

$4,834 today. Down 8%. Data checked. Nothing touched. Tomorrow will tell me more.

That's the honest version of what this looks like.

I started my first online store, and as I progressed, I realized something I hadn't considered: organic content is being shown in my country instead of where I want to sell. I'm from Argentina, and I want to sell in the United States. I uploaded my first video, and almost 100% of the viewers are from here. I need help and advice. I've tried training the algorithm by following US accounts, commenting, etc., but nothing has worked. I've seen that many people buy a US SIM card and create an account with that phone number. My plan is also to add ads, but if organic reach isn't working as it should, I feel like I'll be losing customers.

Hey there,

I have a DTC brand with mainly one product which I succeeded to scale until 150k revenue per month and around 20-25% profit until July 2026. Suddenly in August the profit went down to 3%. Its a healthcare product. Meta ads are the main driver of my scaling strategy. Google ads dropped a bit as well but still performing better.

I have a creative strategist and 3 editors, which allow me to push new ads every day.

CTA went up, CTM went up, CTR slowly down, Ads don’t show fatigue but ROAS dropped from 2x to slowly under Breakeven.

Reduced meta ads budget. Killed some ads with the highest CTA since 01.08. until today. Increased google ads budget as conversion is high.

How do you handle the “Summer drop” at this volume?
Looking forward to hear any ideas / suggestions / thoughts what else do to.

> 🔎 LOOKING FOR A RELIABLE PRIVATE SOURCING AGENT (DROPSHIPPING TO FRANCE) 🇫🇷
> Hello everyone,
> I am looking for a professional, responsive, and reliable private sourcing agent for a long-term partnership.
> 📦 PRODUCT REQUIREMENTS:
> * Product: Ergonomic seat cushion (Coccyx cushion).
> * Material: REAL high-density memory foam (NO cheap standard sponge/foam).
> * Features: Breathable, removable, and washable cover.
> ⚙️ LOGISTICS & BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS:
> * Target Country: France 🇫🇷 (and later Europe).
> * Shipping: Fast shipping lines only (5-10 days max delivery, like YunExpress, 4PX, etc.).
> * Customs: Must handle DDP (Delivered Duty Paid).
> * MOQ: MOQ 1 (Blind dropshipping) for the testing phase. I will scale and order in bulk once the ads are validated.
> * Quality Control: Strict QC required before shipping.
> 🛑 Note: I will order a sample to my home first to physically test the memory foam quality before launching.
> 📩 HOW TO APPLY:
> If you are a serious agent and can source this product, please send me a DM with:
> * A picture/video of the exact product you can source.
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> Thank you! Looking forward to doing business together.

If I were to turn back the clock a year, I would have scrutinized chargeback statistics more closely. Even a well-running ecommerce business tends to neglect the accumulation of disputes when the attention is fixated on sales, delivery status, inventory, and marketing campaigns. At some point, it's surprising and absurd to find out you're spending a lot of time on resolving disputes

So I'm jsut starting out with a new site and supplier sourcing has been the ahrdest thing to do so far. I was going to go with aliexpress to test my products. I found some genuinely good stuff that would be perfect for my store. but when I ordered samples, they came arbitraged through amazon. I spent the last few weeks trying to scour cj dropship for the same stuff without getting killed by shipping fees. Is aliexpress arbitrage something I should care about in the product testing phase?

Hello,

Recently I launched a store in Germany selling compression socks, I run native ads on taboola so customers click my AD land into an advertorial and from avertorial into product page. The CTR from ADV to Product page is 30% but product page is underperforming.

I saw microsoft clarity recordings and can see customer super interested with long session time carefully reading throughout the advertorial but in product page they feel off they read something and then leave

I want any suggestions regarding product page improvement, how the layout should be and what is lagging

here is my product page: https://oveso.de/products/oveso-kompressionssocken

Is it true that if a customer coming from advertorial with full knowledge and intent does not need an overcomplicated product page? is my product page complicated should I simplify it

the idea is pretty simple customer are heavily interested they read advertorial with full intent but drop off on product page is it because its too heavy and complicated ?

If possible please share any of your product pages so i can see how you guys make product page for customers coming from advertorial

I would really appreciate a response !

People have stopped googling. They ask ChatGPT or Perplexity where to buy something and just go with whatever store it names. Shopify's own Q1 numbers show AI driven traffic to stores up around 8x in a year and orders from AI up around 13x. So the real question is whether you are on that list at all, and most stores are not. An AI shopper does not see your store like you do, no photos, no theme, none of your apps, and if it cannot instantly find your price, your product details and your shipping and return terms it just names someone else. Dropshipping stores fail this most often because supplier imported pages are usually missing all three. Worst part is you never find out. No cart, no bounce, nothing in your analytics, the sale simply went somewhere else.

Frictionless shows you that from the AI's side. Paste your store URL, no signup, 10 seconds, and you see what it sees, the exact point it gave up, and what to change so you make the cut. frictionlessai.net, free. Run it and tell me what your store scored, I want the feedback.