Help Needed: Optimising Store After $2 K Campaign Spend

Topic summary

A store owner seeks feedback after spending $2K on campaigns for their site (vanvic.us), requesting input on design, product selection, user experience, and effective marketing strategies.

Key Feedback Received:

  • The homepage contains over 30 competing visual elements and widgets, creating a cluttered, overwhelming appearance
  • The design appears “desperate, boxy and dropshippy” with no clear value proposition beyond discounts
  • A typo exists: “Meet the Markers” should read “Meet the Makers”
  • Suggestion to research similar “no sales” posts for common patterns and solutions

Current Status:
The discussion remains open with limited responses. One commenter offered to share their own website setup process, while another provided critical design analysis. No concrete action plan or resolution has emerged yet.

Summarized with AI on October 26. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.

Hello everyone,

I would be grateful for any constructive feedback on my online store—especially regarding its design, product assortment, and overall user experience. I am also looking for recommendations on the most effective marketing strategies to attract and retain customers.

You can visit the store here: vanvic.us

Thank you in advance for your time and insights.

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Hello fitmesportswear,

By the way, have you set up your website yet? Are you currently working on it, or would you like some guidance on how i did mine? and will you love to check it out?

Just on the index alone there’s over 30 visual elements and widgets slapped on jockeying for attention.

Looks desperate, boxy and dropshippy, no actual value proposition beyond discounted wares.

For actual grounding, do the digging for every “no sales” post even the best of the bottom of that pile look like this.

And “Meet the Markers” should be “Meet the Makers” unless there’s some clever in joke going on here that’s out of no where.