I have not made a sale in 4 months

Topic summary

A dropshipping store owner has gone 4 months without a single sale despite trying various promotional offers (try before you buy, BOGO). They’re seeking honest feedback on their store (juce.info) as a last resort.

Main Issues Identified:

  • Generic branding: The site resembles a typical AliExpress dropshipping store, lacking product-specific branding, custom imagery, and clear value propositions
  • Poor site performance: Extremely slow load times (Google PageSpeed issues), with unoptimized images, high JavaScript execution time, and layout shift problems that cause visitors to bounce
  • Weak product presentation: Product photos, titles, and descriptions appear copied directly from suppliers without optimization for SEO or emotional appeal
  • Navigation problems: Image carousel on homepage is difficult to use on mobile; lacks clear product categories and collections
  • Missing trust signals: No favicon, improperly loading reviews, and the .info domain reduces credibility
  • Unclear traffic strategy: No mention of traffic sources (ads, organic social), making it impossible to determine if the issue is traffic quality or conversion

Recommendations include: choosing a specific niche, adding product categories, optimizing images to WebP format, implementing sticky header, adding customer testimonials, and conducting regular SEO audits. Multiple commenters emphasized that 4-6 months without sales is common for new dropshippers.

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Hi everyone, I am Paul.

I’m new to Shopify. I am dropshipping. I launched my store 4 months ago. I planned to test a bunch of products from various niches and double down on the best sellers.

I have not made a single sale ever since I launched 4 months ago. I have done everything possible from TRY BEFORE YOU BUY OFFERS TO BUY ONE, GET ONE FREE OFFERS

At this point, I just want to make a sale, and I have come to this community for advice; this is my last hope.

Here is the link to my store in case you want to check it out. I hope to get honest criticism no matter how bad it sounds, don’t worry about my feelings.

www.juce.info

Your branding, logo, and overall design feel default. It looks like a typical AliExpress dropshipping site, which people are highly cautious about. High converting storesven dropshipping—put effort into product-specific branding color palette, product-focused landing pages, lifestyle images, and clear benefits

Your product photos, titles, and descriptions are likely being copied from suppliers without editing for SEO, emotional appeal, or clear benefits.

Most winning stores heavily optimize their product pages with custom images, demonstration videos, clear sizing charts, shipping times, and bold guarantees.

It’s unclear where your traffic is coming from. Are you running ads? Organic TikTok or Instagram? If you’re getting traffic but no sales, it’s a conversion issue (your site doesn’t convince buyers). If you’re not getting targeted traffic, it’s a traffic quality issue.

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Hi @juce

The first thing I noticed is that your home page has an image carousel. People do not like image carousels because they have trouble seeing the images, and they are more difficult to interact with on the phone.

An alternative to carousels is to create an image with your most popular products and use Shoppable Image Hotspots

The app lets you add links to your images, which will pop up when people hover over the products in the images.

This is more engaging and easier for visitors to see your products.

Hello there @juce so sorry for your early business struggles but if this makes you feel any better (and I’m not saying this just to pacify you), a lot of the most successful store owners on here usually don’t make many or even any sales in their first 6 months to a year so I don’t think you should let that knock you down too much.

For the suggestions, a simple starting point would be to make your header a sticky one so navigation becomes much easier for customers in your store.
Another suggestion would be to add a blog section, this would help with both your store appearance and also your marketing needs as well to drive more attention to the store

Even though you’ve not made any sales, I strongly believe you still need some reviews to help with the outlay on your store so my suggestion would be to find a few product testers that can help you out and then leave well written reviews on the homepage. Customers tend to trust stores with proper testimonials over those that don’t have them.

Hi @juce

Welcome to the community. Sorry to hear that you had not a single sales. But as you figured out by now, dropshipping is not easy, it is not just plug and play, choose products and customers will come. @EcomGraduates describe issues very well. But I will repeat and mention a few other things. I do like your last section on the homepage, your giving model, it is relatively unique and good thing to have and promote.

For me that .info domain is wrong choice, yeah, I know .com is very hard to get, especially anything short. But still it does not give confidence to customers. Next, you said you wanted to try various niches but that is very hard, as there are probably thousands of similar stores. And customers know by now about dropshipping and some will just search on AliExress or any other site and just order directly. So you need to choose some niche. Or at least add some collections, split products into categories, now it is just a bunch of products and customers can not find something quickly. You Catalog menu for example should have 5-6 main categories, then have a section on homepage to lead to each one. And yes, you need to focus on each product, have at least first image that is clear and just the product, and clean the others. Product titles as well, they all have a too many words, and if you think if other 1000 shows have same name, how customers can find your store, your product? There are a bunch of small things on theme to fix but I think that is not critical now. Please take time and search this community, “no sales” and dropshipping topics. There is a bunch of great advice that can help you and improve your store. You are not the first one who dropship and has issues, so learn from others.

Good luck.

Hello @juce ,Your website design and development are good, but your site speed is the worst, as per the Google Page Insights Report, which is the reason for fewer customers and low sales, as customers are not even able to access your website quickly. According to Google, as page load time increases from 1 second to 3 seconds, the probability of a visitor bouncing increases by 32%. As it increases from 1 second to 5 seconds, the likelihood of bouncing increases by 90%. This drop in user engagement leads to lower conversion rates.

Images Not Optimized

As per the report, your images are not optimized, causing LCP to go high.

Suggested Improvement

I would recommend optimizing the images by using the WebP format for images, and you should also use online compression tools to reduce the loading time for it.

As you have used a slideshow for the images. I recommend avoiding lazy loading for the first image in the slideshow. Instead, ensure that it loads immediately (e.g., using loading=“eager” for the first slide).

Like -

First Slide

High Javascript Execution Time

Your js is taking too long to execute, as keeping less JavaScript execution time is essential to improve your website’s performance.

Suggested Improvement

Use dynamic import to split your JavaScript into smaller chunks. When a certain part of the page needs to be loaded, Webpack will only load the corresponding chunk, not the entire JavaScript file.

Example -

import(‘./path/to/your/largeModule.js’).then(module => {

const someFunction = module.someFunction;

someFunction();

});

Additionally, try minifying your js file, there are online tools available to perform this action, but you can do it on your own as well, like-

Before Mification

function sayHello(name) {

let greeting = "Hello, " + name + “!”;

console.log(greeting);

}

After Minification

function sayHello(a){let b=“Hello, “+a+”!”;console.log(b)};

Main Thread Work Issues

Your style and layout are causing a concern for site with HTML not parsing effectively.

Suggested Improvement

Layout shifts are caused by elements (like images, fonts, or dynamic content) that change position as the page is loading. These shifts not only impact user experience but can also affect Core Web Vitals, especially the CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift) metric

Use the width and height attributes for images: This prevents the browser from having to recalculate the layout after images load.

Code example -

image description

Use CSS min-height for dynamic elements like -

.dynamic-content {

min-height: 100px;

}

Alternatively, if you’re stuck on these issues and want to fix automatically, Try Website Speedy - a Shopify app that optimizes LCP, FCP, speed index, and other core web vitals automatically. It comes with a 14-day free trial.

Hi @juce

It is happy to know you would like to make some changes and optimize the store in a further way. I have found out some points you can make as reference and strengthen the page performance. Here are the details below:

  1. When I access your homepage, I notice the review elements are not loading properly, and it has a small delay compared with your other contents. I believe you should use an external plugin to practice via this way, but its unpleasant performance will affect the user experience when they firstly visit your website. Do your best to let it load correctly or smoothly, or it will leave a bad impression and lose sales on your store in some ways.

  1. The border of add to cart button seems too thick and looks like very outstanding. This did not match with other contents on your product page very much. I can feel that you may want to get users attention immediately, but we can use other methods like making text content in bold or using animation, which will be better than your current style.

  1. There is no favicon adding on your store. This will confuse your customers when they intend to find out your website, as there exists no clear brand appearance. You can add the favicon from Shopify admin page directly and then let Google reindex your web pages. After waiting for some time until Google update your page content, it will act in a better way.

Lastly, you can also consider doing store SEO Check regularly and plentiful issues or suggestions will be provided on your end to better optimize page contents and get more sales in the future. Don’t give up easily under the current situation, and please stick to each step on your website. I believe you can make it. Cheer up!

Hello @juce,

Have you ever considered providing a more interactive shopping experience for your customers?

3D shoe previews can help increase sales by giving shoppers a better understanding of the shape, texture, and style before they buy. Instead of relying only on photos, customers can rotate and zoom in to see the details that matter, like stitching, sole shape, and materials.

Another great thing is that this type of technology has become very affordable, accessible, and easy to integrate. You don’t need a big budget or any tech-knowledge. Many tools plug right into your store and are designed so merchants can start using them quickly without technical experience.

It might feel like an investment, especially if you are just starting but tools like this usually start paying off pretty fast. Once customers can really see and understand the product, they tend to buy with more confidence and return less.

Wishing you luck!

Critical fixes needed:

  • Build immediate trust - Add shipping/return policies and an “About Us” page

  • Focus your niche - Choose one product category instead of random items

  • Improve product pages - Use original photos and detailed descriptions

Use our apps to help:

Focus on establishing a legitimate brand first - customers need to trust you before they’ll buy, regardless of how attractive your offers are.

Hi @juce

Paul, don’t give up — all the successful dropshippers were once in your shoes. Focus on one niche with obvious demand first rather than nailing too many. Increase trust in your product pages with clear photos, real reviews, and benefits-focused copy. Instead, go for mini campaigns to approved people instead of everyone.

Totally get the frustration. Four months with no sales usually means the issue isn’t the offer itself, it’s the first few seconds of the visitor experience.

A few things that usually help new dropshipping stores:

• Most visitors bounce because they don’t see a clear reason to stay. A simple popup with a clean welcome offer or “limited-time deal” tends to turn cold traffic into at least some early conversions.
• Make sure your product pages show why your version of the item is worth buying. Stock photos + generic copy kill trust fast.
• Bring shipping, returns, and guarantees closer to the add to cart button so people don’t wonder if it’s safe.
• Don’t test too many niches at once. Pick one lane, make the store look built for that niche, then refine the product.

Even one small popup flow can give your traffic an actual chance to convert, especially for first sales