r/Dropshipping_Guide

Hello guys!!
I want to start a business online thoughts that drop-shipping income may fit my case any tips or resources to rely on plus is it worth it to start drop-shipping in 2026 is it profitable?
Would love to hear your thoughts 🙏🏻

I’ve been dropshipping for a while and I’m looking to connect with other people who are actively scaling and doing meaningful volume.
Thinking of putting together a small, private Discord — no courses, just a close-knit group to share product ideas, creatives, scaling strategies, suppliers, ad insights, and what’s actually working.
The goal is to keep it small, useful, and build a circle where everyone contributes and grows together.
If you’re doing solid monthly revenue/ad spend and interested, comment or DM me

I was working on my first store and I feel like I've spent way too much time trying to get everything perfect before I've launched. Finding products, setting up pages, fulfillment, creatives and everything else, there's always something else I convince myself needs fixing.

All of that went to the dumpster fast and now I gotta start from scratch, I'm planning on just getting up a quick store and just need some advice on how to do it and if it's even worth trying to get one up and running fast? Also yes I do have my niche selected.

I’m starting a dropshipping business and I’m stuck at the domain-name stage.

How do you guys decide what domain to choose?

Should I:
Pick a brandable/random name that I can build a brand around?

Include the product/niche in the domain?

Focus on getting a .com?

Avoid numbers, hyphens, and unusual spellings?

Buy the domain first and then build the store around it?

Hello
I’m curious to hear your thoughts on selling digital products with Shopify; do you think it’s possible to make sales and find customers through Facebook ads? Thank you

Hello, what would you say is the best niche to go with please?

@shopseidora.com
Is the product already too saturated, meta ads arent really scaling however I only spent 100 dollars so far.

I need a mentor for dropshipping and meta ads

Looking for a reliable dropshipping agent in China 🇨🇳
Does anyone have a good agency/contact they can recommend? Please DM me 🙏

About to launch my first Meta purchase campaigns from a brand new BM, ad account, pixel, everything. Targeting US market, women’s products (fashion and home/lifestyle categories, nothing supplement or health related).

I know CPM varies based on audience, competition, creative quality and a bunch of other factors, so I’m not looking for one magic number. Just trying to set realistic expectations.
A few things I’d love to hear from people who’ve been through the new account phase:

1)What CPM range did you see in your first week on a purchase campaign before you had any conversions on the pixel?

2. What did it settle to once you started getting sales, and roughly how many purchases did it take to get there?

3. Did your CPM drop gradually or was there a noticeable shift at some point?

Trying to plan my budget properly and want to know what “normal expensive” looks like for a new account versus “something is actually wrong.” Appreciate any real numbers from your own experience.

Made a website but my product failed, can anyone point me in right direction on what products to look for , mine was old and over saturated.

I see a lot of posts about picking the right cheap but popular product from overseas and trying to ride the hype, but i have a different idea. I come from the Agriculture industry, and i search for and buy products on line from various websites quite often. Ive noticed over the years that a lot of these products, many of them niche, are from websites that i visit and buy from once, then never go back.

Is it possible to set up a dropshipping store and sell items based on what i know Ag producers need? Most importantly can i make it profitable? I can make a list of a hundreds of things that are needed, but the strategies i read about online never seem to address anything but "Find the new Fidget Spinner" and sell it while its hot.

TLDR; Is it possible to focus a store on items needed in a specific industry and provide as many of those products as can? Can that be profitable? Or is dropshipping just a find a Hype product/sell volume game and i should focus my efforts somewhere else? Thanks!

I'm still a newbie when it comes to dropshipping and I'm interested in learning about ai tools and which one are worth implementing early on and which ones are more useful later down the line. I'm using Zendrop right now and I've seen the ai features on it that's how I even found out about them, but I'm not really sure which ones I would need now.

The mcp especially looks cool to me, but what do you really use it for? And other ai tools I've seen on it too, but just want to figure out ai tools in general are more useful and worth studying?

Need some quick advice.

I’ve been using AliExpress for some cheap accessories (phone charms, keychains, little add-ons) because I honestly didn’t expect them to sell much. Now one of them is getting way more orders than I thought and I’m starting to get messages from customers.

The problem is every batch seems a little different. Colors are off, packaging changes randomly, some pieces just look cheaper than the listing photos. Nothing major on its own, but enough that people notice.

Do you guys actually stick with AliExpress for this kind of stuff or is this the point where you find an agent/private supplier? Feels dumb switching suppliers for a low-ticket accessory but I also don’t want reviews to tank over something this small.

What would you do?

Running a small health store (clinical/peptide serums, private label, & an electronic device which is dropshipped). Here’s what’s messing with my head:

When I first launched, the site was basically bare bones, old theme, barely any content, maybe one or two posts total. And I was still getting sales, nothing crazy but a steady trickle.

Since a certain point a couple months back, sales just stopped completely. And it’s not for lack of effort, I’ve since rebuilt the theme properly, fixed mobile/SEO issues, added proper product pages with all the ingredient/compliance info, and I’ve been posting content regularly. By every normal metric the store should be in a better position than when it started.

Traffic actually isn’t the problem… had a session spike recently well above what I was getting early on, but it converted to literally nothing.

Only thing I can think of that changed around when this started: a couple of 1-star reviews came in from a previous supplier issue. I’ve hidden them on the storefront itself, but I have a feeling they might still be showing up on the Shop app version of my store, which I can’t fully control. Has anyone dealt with something like this, trying to diagnose wtf is going on. I’ve done an actual checkout myself and confirmed everything there is working as it should.

Store’s about 4 months old, 500-700 sessions/month, three products. Genuinely stuck on this one. Any advice would be appreciated!

Hey everyone,

I'm completely new to dropshipping and looking to start my journey. I have a strong drive to take action, but I’m caught at a crossroads: Should I start taking action immediately and learn by doing, or should I pause to study the process first?

I want to avoid wasting time and budget on unnecessary mistakes, but I also don't want to get stuck in "analysis paralysis" by just watching tutorials forever.

If you were starting from scratch today:

I am interested in starting an ecommerce website with my friend but my biggest struggle is finding a product to sell and that brought me here. I’ve been searching for like a week and I keep running into the same problem of people trying to sell a course or selling info on “winning products” which I’m pretty sure is just guru talk. So if someone could please help me on how to do product research I’d be grateful

Hey everyone! I finally made my first few sales completely organically. The product is already on the expensive/high-ticket side, so I thought the margins would be safe.

​...Then shipping, taxes, platform fees, and payment processors entered the chat. 😂

​Because the base product price is high, the percentage-based fees plus international shipping wiped out almost all my profit. I’m basically running a high-end non-profit at this point!

​Is this the standard initiation rite when selling pricier items? How do you guys optimize shipping rates and fees on higher-priced products without pushing the total price too high for the customer?

​Would love to hear your experiences (or just share the pain lol).