Still No Sales - Very Frustrating.

Still No Sales - Very Frustrating.

Beyrun
Excursionist
23 0 6

Hope someone can help me out here. It's getting to a point where I'm about to lose it.

 

I have been using Shopify since 2020. Have attempted multiple times to build a successful business. Wasn't able to achieve anything.

 

However have put in so much this year and re-built a great looking store with almost 100% SEO.

 

Instagram and Facebook marketing. Also Google marketing, indexing and many other strategies.

 

Have been promoting it via word of mouth as well as leafleting.

 

But still no sales.

 

SEO on all prpducts

1 month views: 2000

Optimization Score: 95%+

Approved products in Google: 1800

Store appears on Google

 

I really need help here, as I'm relying on this as the only source of income.

 

Thank you

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PaulNewton
Shopify Partner
7722 678 1626

If you've been at this for 4 years with no sales something is fundamentally wrong in the businesses budgets|plan|model|experience, or just plain lack of self awareness that a single forum contribution cannot fix.

See your mistakes by walking the graveyard of the cliche your trapped in  https://community.shopify.com/c/forums/searchpage/tab/message?q=no%20sales 

 

Ignore the feel good glossy answers that just create busy work as a distraction with aesthetics, look for the patterns of success and survival that address real business problems.

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Beyrun
Excursionist
23 0 6

Appreciate your message Paul. But that's not what I mean.

 

I have been using Shopify for a while, attempted to build multiple stores but never been successful.

 

These stores had no strategies what so ever.

 

What I ment was, the current website I have built have carried out strategies that are required.

 

So the first 3.5 years were just a waste of time. This year I did my homework before setting up the website.

 

The new website was launched 2 weeks ago.

 

Hope it's clear now.

 

Thank you

PaulNewton
Shopify Partner
7722 678 1626

@Beyrun wrote:

strategies that are required


This is the type of glossy anti-pattern to watch out for: in business there is no strategy that is "required", that is in inflexible trap.

Aside from the legal requirements of regulations for some business practices or industries.

Context matters, blindly applying recipes cannot guarantee increased success and will waste time or can create a false sense of accomplishment that does not match the lack of real results.

Most online ecommerce "checklists", or guru/dropshipping courses etc are a bare minimum not even worth calling a tactic let alone a strategy.

 

When your investing this much time you need more than forum posts,  if there is a local community college around take some business/critical-thinking course(s) , and or do networking and look for local in-person business/mastermind groups or meetups.

Good Luck.

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Boniu
New Member
4 0 0

or you ask professional team make a diagnosis?😀

Laza_Binaery
Shopify Partner
370 68 106

Hi @Beyrun 

 

Is your store  https://www.beyrun.co.uk/  ? If not please provide a link so we can check it out.

Kind regards
Laza
www.binaery.com
Beyrun
Excursionist
23 0 6

Yes. This is my store

Laza_Binaery
Shopify Partner
370 68 106

OK, so first a good job on setting up a store, there are a lot of products, collections, and information. Plus you seem to have done a lot on the SEO side. That is all good, but to be frank, that is not great looking store. It is just fine. It is a base, a good base but as it uses a default free theme that looks like so many other stores.  But there are quite a few stores with that free theme which with some configuration and adjustments look good.

 

The first thing I check on the online store is contact information. You got just an email and that one is one from Gmail and not your own domain. But there is no business info, address, or phone. Something to have a bit of trust.

 

And for design here are some things that do not work for me:

  • the whole site is too narrow, just 1000 px. Maybe that is good for responsibility but I think it cuts a space for content.
  • The announcement slider, which could be easily just one sentence instead, now it is a bit distracting.
  • The menu has too many items, I read somewhere that 7 is the max. Plus you have them in two rows and that is not too readable. You could have them all under Shop for example or split to 3-4 main ones.
  • On your homepage, the first section has your email and a big link to the contact form. So when visitor first visit your site, the first link and the most important thing is to contact you. You should always first try to lead visitors to collections and to somehow interest them in buying. Can be a hero banner with link to collections or like the second section Top sellers.
  • Top sellers is a good way to continue the visitor journey but images need to be bigger and maybe in a grid.
  • Product collections are good except that product titles are too small 13px with often 4 rows are not too readable. And try to not have a sold out products o n featured collection. It does not look good. 
  • Collection pages, again a bit cramped, maybe to try 3 products in a row with slightly bigger product titles
  • The product page and title is huge. Add to cart does not stand out as it should. The description is good and often long but would be better if it is full width, maybe below images
  • There are no reviews and no other sections that would be specific to that product or in general for customer reassurance
  • Did not notice items on sale, people do love to buy on sale. 

 

Keep going, keep working on the store, sales will come.  

But also do check some of the paid themes, not only do they look better, and have more sections and features but they are mostly

focused on conversion. It could help.

 

Wish you luck.

Kind regards
Laza
www.binaery.com
Beyrun
Excursionist
23 0 6

Appreciate your feedback. Have changed the store now and looks much better. Thank you

VKSSALES
Visitor
1 0 0

Have you started seeing any sales?

Beyrun
Excursionist
23 0 6
Nothing