How We Made $4500+ Revenue in Three Months by Promoting Our Dropshipping Store on Facebook Groups
Have you just opened a dropshipping store and are now wondering what promotion channels to choose?
Or, maybe you just want to accelerate sales of your existing dropshipping business? Making money and dreaming of your first million dollars?
In both cases we have something interesting for all drop shippers – both experienced and just starting an online business.
This is the story of a successful SMM strategy for a dropshipping store that brought us $4,587 in just 3 months.
Now World of Harry, an online store for Potterheads, brings us income that grows day by day – and we are more than satisfied with that.
Table Of Contents
- A brief note about our dropshipping store
- First look at the brief description of the simple steps we made
- How we followed these 4 steps
- The results of our dropshipping store promotion in FB
- The conclusion
A brief note about our dropshipping store
World of Harry is a WordPress online dropshipping store based on the AliDropship plugin. It offers a wide range of Harry Potter movie related merchandise: costumes, clothing, gifts, gadget stuff, posters, jewelry jewelry, and other dropshipped products. Such ecommerce store is a true paradise for Potterheads, isn’t it? Here they can find products of their dreams. The only question was: how to make this audience and our project happily meet each other.
We have no secrets! Our strategy was as follows:
If you sell online, there are different ways to find your audience. We used several promotion channels for dropshipping stores including PPC and on-page SEO, but the main focus was on working in social media – Facebook fan groups.
Instagram, Twitter, Google+ and Pinterest were also involved, but on an additional basis. After we tried it all ourselves we are happy to share with you our tactics of how to deal with dropshipping on Facebook.
First look at the brief description of the simple steps we made
Step 1: Create a Facebook fanpage for your dropshipping online store and fill it with product posts and entertaining materials. Don’t forget to add calls-to-action, hashtags and enticing captions. Visual content is always the winner!
Step 2: Find and join dozens of niche fan groups with as great a number of subscribers as possible.
Step 3: Share your entertaining fanpage content in these groups to get likes, shares and subscribers to your fanpage.
Step 4: Watch all these activities turn into rich social traffic to your ecommerce store. You should see high conversions, great revenues and happy clients!
Anyone can do it without any special skills and expertise, don’t you agree?
How we followed these 4 steps
Step 1:
We created the dropship store’s fanpage on Facebook and filled it with primary content before starting the promotion.
What was the content?
We published a mix of product (commercial) and entertaining (neutral) posts. The second category included actors’ shots, citations, movie related humor, etc. Photo captions contained calls-to-action, links to Worldofharry and popular relevant hashtags to grow the reach.
Example: “Like if you remember! Love Harry Potter? Visit us: WorldOfHarry.com. #HarryPotter #Potter #HarryPotterForever”.
Product posts contained a merchandise image, several calls-to-action (“like”, “share”, “tag a friend”), a product name, a note about free worldwide shipment and a link to the product page.
Example: “Like and Share if you want this Severus Snape Magical Wand! Tag a friend who would love this! FREE Shipping Worldwide. Get it here /link/”.
Step 2:
We found numerous closed and open Harry Potter related groups – the biggest ones with most active subscribers (our target audience).
Social networks are a densely populated meeting place for any movie fans, with Potterheads being no exception, and so it was not a problem at all. We joined these groups, although sometimes it took time for us to be approved as members.
Step 3:
Having become approved group members, we shared posts from the World of Harry fanpage in these groups. It is simple – you can easily do it yourself!
Just follow these points:
A. Select a post to be shared in a FB group. Click the “Share” button and select the second option – “Share…” (the first one will make a repost in your personal timeline, not a group).
B. Select the “Share in a group” option.
C. Start typing the group’s name in the “Group” field until you see the needed group name offered by Facebook below the field.
D. Click the offered group name – it will appear in the “Group” field. Click the “Post” button. Done!
Your repost is already published in the group or is waiting to be approved and published (depending on the group’s moderation policy).
Our reposts were published right away or quite soon after pre-moderation. Since all the posts were visual, entertaining and non-advertising (commercial product posts were not shared in groups), about 99% of them were approved by the groups’ admins and appeared in the subscribers’ feed. Sometimes (in the biggest and most popular communities) we had to pay a little fee, which was about $25 for the post to display in the group for 3 days. These expenses always paid off many times!
The posts about Harry Potter got a substantial reach on FB, with numerous likes and shares. The reach grew every hour – just look at these numbers:
Step 4:
And then came the time for CONVERSIONS!
Since the post captions contained backlinks to Worldofharry, the dropshipping webstore’s traffic stably made up 7,000-9,000 sessions per month.
Look at the number of paid orders in the store’s dashboard – they were all received within a couple of weeks:
And these are payment notifications in our mailbox:
The results of our dropshipping store promotion in FB
In the first three months of SMM activities in Facebook groups, the dropshipping webstore got 353 orders from social traffic. Fulfilled orders brought $4,587. The average monthly income is currently $1,500.
The conclusion
Promotion of your business activity in the field of dropshipping on Facebook is very simple and extremely effective for any fan online store. Taking into account that FB boasts billions of users, every merchandise store can find its audience here.
And every dropshipping store owner can easily follow the steps we’ve described – and repeat our success. Everyone who wanted to start their own drop shipping businesses and now are reading this are on the right way! Using this business model, you don’t need great money to start selling products. Shipping costs – if any– are included in your price. With AliExpress it’s very easy to find reliable dropshipping suppliers for your ecommerce business.
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Do I have to create a nee facebook account in order to share to groups with page name or can I just use a personal account and switch the user from there?
Thanks
WOW
Love Naruto? Visit us: WorldOfHarry.com
Nothing 1 minutes, my account is banned in the group facebook.
Why its happens? You send example with share my post fanpage. Can you explanation to me more?
I am really sorry to hear that you got banned on that fb group you posted but please look at the respective’s group rules or ask the administrator of that group about the rules … in most cases you need to write something entertainment not just advertise your website plainly … be more creative about it and use the method explained on this page because it is rich with knowledge and you have to use your knowledge or even partner with someone that you know is more fluent with English and can use more creativity for your purposes … even create a partnership with a such person … it can be a very good friend(or someone you know is good at writing posts/comments on facebook) and you two can for instance agree that he gets paid when his help provides you some sales … hope these ideas can help you to some extent and get the snow ball rolling in your favor
Daniel
I am interested in getting this plugin. would you please email me, if I need to have a Ali Express affiliate I.D. ?
I am not an affiliate for Ali Express.
https://alidropship.com/codex/how-to-get-cash-back-from-aliexpress-while-drophipping/
2. Then open your Facebook fan page and choose one of your posts.
3. Click “Share”- “Share” – “Share in a group” and “Posting as”- choose your Page name.
What did you use the make the welcoming video on the home page ??
I am looking forward to a exciting and profitable relationship with you and your
very progressive organization.I have enjoyed researching all the great information you provide that allowed me to make an informed decision as to
the best company to join. Again thank you for your guidance.
You can share to your own group
To share to some one elses group you need to have their permission now
1. Create a new FB Account and adding some friends before sharing our FB business pages to the niche groups?
That way everyone immediately knows theres a buying option 1 click away.
I am just surprised that posting as fans page was allowed in some groups.
Admin probably can’t say this but I think it’s what is being done.
You could change your profile name ( I have successfully done this) but you may be liable in the future if you get found out of course.
There’s something called VPN’s (virtual private network) that allows you to hide your IP address so FB won’t know where your from, so you simply start a new FB profile with a name that they can’t detect is a business one, something generic. Hide.me is a VPN provider.
Then you’ll have to rejoin your FB groups but as your new profile name so they won’t know it’s you.
Wondering, how is the frequency of sharing our FB Page to FB groups?
Is this strategy still working fine?
https://forum.alidropship.com/threads/webrily-go-viral-and-get-targeted-traffic-for-free.2502/
And then came the time for CONVERSIONS!
Since the post captions contained backlinks to worldofharry.com…
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I’m not even joking right now.
Get out a pen and piece of paper, go to the sales page, and go through all 32 of those points.
If your sales funnel isn’t taking advantage of EVERY SINGLE ONE of those conversion boosting tactics… then your funnel isn’t performing like it should.