How to find winning products for your Shopify/Woocommerce Store (22)
How to find winning products for your Shopify/Woocommerce Store
Ecommerce 101 - How to find winning products for your 
Are you interested in getting into ecom but don't have an idea where to start? You are going to love this, because I am going to share a premium method with you for free that we use with my team to find products that sell.
This method is going to cost you nothing more than time, and some creative energy. It will also work best if you already have a niche you are passionate about, or one that you would really like to get into. For me, this is quad copters and that is what I am going to use in this guide today as a keyword niche reference.
Okay first things first, you need to open your browser and type in www.google.com
At the google search page you will want to type in the following syntax: site:myshopify.com "keyword"
so for me, it will be site:myshopify.com "quadcopter"
The results are going to bring up a lot of
Then on each site, we want to find the best selling product. Many shopify owners hide this function so their competitors can't see what the best selling products are, but there's a cool 'hack' if you will to find out.
For this to work you must go to the main product display page that shows multiple products, then in the top URL you want to append the following code: ?sort_by=best-selling
And that's it, if they didn't disable this, simply hid it on their theme, you will find the best selling products.
Next, you should make a list of the top 5 products, write down their name and price on site, and save their main images. Chances are they are using images from the wholesaler/factory (the drop shipper), you can go to images.google.com and search using image to uncover the product on aliexpress. After you located the product, take note on what their price is for product + shipping (if any). Now note these down in your document.
You then take the listed price the shopify store is selling the item for, and minus the product cost + shipping to determine the margin.
When you have the margin, you know if there's a chance for profit here or not. I prefer to find products that have at least 2x the product cost in margin. Say you find a product for $10 on ali express, and they sell it for $29.95 on a shopify store. That means that you have $10 for product $10 for marketing cost (think facebook ads), and $10 potential profit (of course there's minor expenses in that, but it's a good general rule we like to follow)
Have fun finding cool products to sell and make some money! 
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Amy
How would you set up drop shipping with Alibaba or Aliexpress?
Originally Posted by clickspark
That is how in a nutshell.
Do people ever complain about shipping time and that the postage is from China?
You can mention that the products come from an international warehouse and inform them that it may take up 3 to 5 weeks to receive.
Just ensure you make it clear on your website that shipping WILL take that long. Put that on the front page and also on the checkout page. This way there will be no surprises, and you will continue keeping you customers happy.
There are solutions within the
Not sure if I can name drop here, but just google it and you will find it.
/Andrei
expressfy?
Originally Posted by andymin
Oberlo is the one I had in mind as well. It seems everyone is using it with great success.
How would you usually get good images of the product?
Originally Posted by clickspark
Originally Posted by iAmAttila
Thanks.
Q: when you do know your niche is good! - But, can you advise how to pick a good niche, hot, trendy...
Thanks.
Any niche where you have people passionate about it. Survival/Doomsday Prep, Yoga/Meditation etc. Tons of different ones to choose from. You only need one winning product to do 7 figures. The item must have a high perceived value. Jewelry is at the top of the list of items that carry a high perceived value.
This thread is great!
I have a few questions:
1. what would be the advantages of building a shop through
2. How do you usually promtoe your shop? through FB only or are there any other good traffic sources suitable for that?
3. Would this model also work if you have a product of your own?
Thanks!
FB, PPC, Native all work fine. Don't think of it as building a shop, build a long-term brand instead. Things are simple on
This will definitely work great if you own your own product. Check this for a good example of a great business on shopify. This is co-owned by Ezra Firestone who is one of the big players in ecom marketing -> Boom By Cindy Joseph
Solid reply, thanks a lot!
Originally Posted by pain2k
What exactly do you mean by building a brand? can you elaborate some more on this?
It's normally recommended to start with a general store where you test products. Then go with a niche brand after you have winning products in a store. So if I found out Firefighters were converting me on X products, I'll go niche to a brand that caters to those. Firefighter-themed design and language on the shop and so on.
To address a post above - Don't bother with Oberlo, use ShopifiedApp. They had a lifetime deal but it's ended now. Anyway it allows you to import from more places than Oberlo.
Originally Posted by pain2k
However, look like the http://shopifiedapp.com had expired
Originally Posted by kmchong
really awesome and useful idea you've shared here, thank you so much. I am thinking to build up a SP store but did not want to touch the produce/stock part, I have a question, can I just pass(transfer) automatically the payment I get in my SP store to aliexpress seller store, by some kind of app or setting? Does Oberlo solve this issue?
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