In December I had never made any money online
As April closes, my brand’s done over $1 million sales in under 2 months.
Here’s a quick story about how I went from zero to 7 figures months in 4 months.
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My ecom journey
This is what the course sellers won’t tell you
July - Spent on a course, start of the journey.
August - First month. Proper beginner, lost money
September - Sales started coming in, still lost money
October - Sales started to climb a bit, still lost money
First ever £1k day 💫
£200 ad spent (dsl🥲) with 44% margin
Seeing small success like this is so good after you spend months losing money every month.
Having the risk tolerance to believe in what I’m doing and keep putting money in + long hour days has made the difference.
Most of money twitter is waffle
But occasionally you’ll find some gold amongst the trash
Here’s a mini thread of 5 of the best tweets I’ve bookmarked over the months
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What an insane month
Some of the achievements this month are crazy
- $375k rev
- $30k day
- 6 figs profit
-
@chrislocherty
first winner to £7k days
- Built a discord community with 500+ members
- Providing insane value to the community for free
Changing other peoples
Average UK monthly salary in 1 day
Grateful to be in this position cus not long ago it seemed miles away
For most making money online doesn’t feel possible
Only thing that kept me believing through those days was that I saw other people do it
Knew I could get to that level
£2k day for the first time
Apologies for all the screenshots I’m trying my best to be a guru so please allow it
Crazy how at Xmas, I was thinking I was gonna have to stop cus I was going broke
Was running out of money, debating to just go full organic to save money on ads
This is what I noted down new years eve
Thought I was shooting way beyond my abilities because I literally had not made 1 single penny of profit in any business model throughout 2023
It’s March and I smashed that in one week
Mad how quick life changes when you actually just
Here’s yesterdays numbers more in detail
Still small and not where I want to be yet
But as a uni student, the profit I made yesterday is how much I get per month for a student loan
Pretty sweet if I say so myself
Free discord dropping tonight
- Dropping advice and tips daily
- Only place where I’ll answer questions
- Access to other high level dropshippers
Tons of value, make sure you’re inside
Got a part time job at 16-19
Saved up pretty much all the cash
Then just took mad risks with it doing ecom
Nearly lost it all with no results
But now we here
Fuck having ‘savings’ at this age
What even is the point
Risk risk risk
Just over 7 days into the store.
£1000 on ads, 3.17 ROAS. 30% margin.
Numbers looking small for now because of spending limits on the ads.
Putting in work on the backend to put in structures so I can spend more and scale.
Sacrificing some revenue right now to be able to
When I first started on money twitter, I couldn’t really understand why $10k/m was considered minimum wage
It seemed like a lot of money at the time, so I didn’t quite understand it
However, you quickly realise that $10k/m won’t get you far
If I had to start from scratch
Started my new store on the 3rd, not any sort of crazy results yet but it’s moving.
£400 in ad spend since the start, constantly growing every day.
Been putting in the hours all day every day pretty much since Xmas, hopefully this is the start of it paying off! 💫
He used to carry me in Fortnite
Now I’m carrying him in ecom
24 hours in to running ads for the first time ever and Chris has managed to get his first sale
Potential is high 🥂
Some ecom tips that people don’t really speak about too often 📍
- Move with speed when testing new products
- Test new angles and creatives regularly
- Connect with other dropshippers on your level. Helps you learn new tricks and makes life more enjoyable.
- Build
Yessir best week yet
Spent end of January fixing a few backend problems and it’s paying off coming into February
Gonna continue to scale up as best I can and max out profits
Give me some questions to answer and I’ll reply to all 🧑🦯
Crazy what having a mentor can do
Got Chris into ecom 2 months ago
No prior knowledge or experience
Fast + aggressive moves
Look where is now
Over £1k profit in just over a day
It’s crazy when you combine his work ethic + proven strategies
Some of you guys need to
Stopped my main product recently due to some manufacturing issues. Taking my time to bring it back so I can go into Q4 with things as perfect as possible. Planning on how to attack Q4 is already well under way.
Also launched a new product recently. $1k profit days always nice,
Always hear that if you were good at video games then you’ll be good at online biz
And it’s so true
Smacked everyone at Fifa back in the day
And now I’m running up the numbers in online biz
Treating it like a video game and grinding like I used to when I was younger
A month full of problems unfortunately. Worst supplier ever meant that I got a lot of returns and also created a lot of other issues. The 2 chargebacks also meant that shopify have gave me a 20% hold.
Gonna shut down this store and open a new one. New month, better results 🔥
I get messages every day from people asking to pay me for mentorship
I tell them no
Haven’t reached that level of guru yet
Then out of the blue I take someone on
For free
Never let them know your next move 😎
Haven’t posted in a while. The left is the month of April when I started Ecom, the right is the first 10 days of May. Money May has started off well, 47% margins and 5.7 ROAS. Looking to build on this the next 10 days. Aim to get better each day. Let’s continue to get it💸
So far in the free discord
- Dropped full ads strategy for fb + tt
- Product research strats dropped
- Gave out my supplier who’s been with me for all the success
Over 400 members in a few days
Appreciate the support for real 🫶
I’ve managed to sustain a similar level all the way through April. These past couple months have been pretty crazy, and it’s such a nice feeling to see the long nights and hard work come to fruition.
I hope this timeline can show people how fast things.
In addition to my own
Hit my first ever £1k week!
Managed to do it between 2 different products that both have potential to scale.
Hard time this week navigating between £40 - £100 dsl while agency accounts take ages to come but hopefully this week I’ll have my hands on an account. Big numbers 🔜
This is probably one of my biggest achievements
Mentoring Chris to £1k+ profit days
(go drop some support on his tweet)
All done within 2 months with no prior knowledge
Since posting about his success I’ve been getting a lot of messages
People asking for help or mentoring
Store update:
Unreal numbers, but just numbers on a screen to me
Facebook fucking about with my DSL all day, increased and decreased about 5 times throughout the day
Trying to sort a no DSL account to really start scaling
Could be a blessing in disguise for cash flow
5 lessons making $5M in the last year dropshipping:
1. Stop trying to build a brand
I don’t have any IG accounts
No custom packaging
etc
Make decisions that increase profits today.
If your trying to dropship, just dropship don’t get sucked into tryna build a brand.
2.
Back to back £1k days
A lot of you guys probably wondering I’m just sitting at the £1k day level and not scaling
With CNY approaching and my factory closing down, I’ve only got enough stock to be able to sit at this level for the next few weeks
Managed to increase my gross
Day 3 testing this product and achieved my first 1k day, 45% margins, an unreal feeling. Just makes you want to grind even harder. Tweaks and angles seem to be doing decent, will keep it going. Another shoutout to the 🐐
@finnkemlo
Life/money tip btw:
If a guy is trying to sell u something but has the iconic Jet-Ski photo in front of the Burj Al Arab + pics of him with rented whips driving to Meydan Bridge - u shouldn't trust him.
There’s something to be said about the mentality you have to have to earn money online
3 most important things
- Work ethic
- Stress Tolerance
- Risk Tolerance
Everyone bangs on about technical stuff but realistically if you can develop these 3 things then you’re guaranteed
Unreal trip in an unreal place. So grateful I get to do this. 🫡
The other side of it is that the work is stacked up now I’m back. Time to sit at the laptop and run the numbers. 🧠
Got my mentor in place, ready to start dropshipping and see where we can go.
Prepared to sit at my laptop for 12 hours a day until I win.
Follow along for the journey. 🫡
My mate is starting ecom right from the the beginning
If you had to give one bit of advice that you wish you had from the start, what are you telling him?
One thing that I’ve learnt this past month:
It’s so important to have high customer satisfaction to make real money in ds.
Selling bad quality products don’t cut it.
Invest into sourcing high quality and build strong relationships with suppliers.
A lot of you guys really liked my tweet about the journey
In a couple of months I will probably give an update with hopefully some crazy numbers
Will probably make it more in detail and maybe even include some numbers of the losses that I took in the first few months
That
The 1st of March, I hit a $1.74k day. The 31st March I hit my first $30k day, closing out my first ever six figure month. I don’t think too much else has to be said about March, life changing stuff fr.
@stackingcad
Managed to save myself enough to go to Bali and have living expenses for the next 15 years. Hopefully I’ll be able to work something out in that time 🤞
The best dropshipping tip I can give to beginners is to invest into a mentor.
It increases your chances of success and speeds your journey up.
You can either spend the money on a mentor, or lose that money testing ads when you don’t know what you’re doing. Choose wisely. 🧠
End of the week store update
Facebook issues this week means the numbers tailed off this week, however, still my best week so far.
Finish off the week with a 1.96 roas, aiming to create better consistency and work on getting a better FB set up next week so we can scale. 🤝
5 lessons making $5M in the last year dropshipping:
1. Stop trying to build a brand
I don’t have any IG accounts
No custom packaging
etc
Make decisions that increase profits today.
If your trying to dropship, just dropship don’t get sucked into tryna build a brand.
2.