How do I process my first sale and find American influencers?

Topic summary

A new seller is preparing to launch their first product and has two main questions:

Order Processing:

  • Asking whether they need to manually create an order through Shopify’s “creating an order” feature, or if they should wait for an actual customer purchase first
  • A screenshot was referenced but the content is corrupted/unreadable in the thread

Finding American Influencers:

  • Seeking recommendations for US-based influencers to promote their product
  • Wants to know the best approach: directly selling the product to influencers or asking them to create content/stories featuring it
  • The seller is based in Italy and plans to sell products across the United States

Current Status:

  • The discussion remains open with no clear answers provided yet
  • Some responses appear garbled or corrupted, making it difficult to determine if helpful guidance was offered
Summarized with AI on November 22. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.

Hello everyone, my product, as I said some days ago, is ready to be sold. Just a few questions…can you tell me if I have to buy my product from “creating an order” (look at the screenshot) or I need actually an order before by someone.

Second, can you guys give me the name of some AMERICANS influencer to contact for a a story of my product? Do you recommend to sell him the product or just asking for a story for example.

Thanks a lot!

Hi @earnestepps1 , I’m sorry but I don’t understand what you mean with “what kind of niche are you In”. If this can help you I’m from Italy and I sell my products all over the U.S.