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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
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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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
@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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Hi @Beyrun
Is your store https://www.beyrun.co.uk/ ? If not please provide a link so we can check it out.
Yes. This is my store
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:
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.
Appreciate your feedback. Have changed the store now and looks much better. Thank you
Have you started seeing any sales?
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