My Experience Selling On Shopify (The Best eCommerce Platform To Sell Your Products Online)

I have an intimate experience with Shopify. The reason is because I used Shopify to sell my first every private label product, which I imported from China.

The name of my Fitness brand is “Invincilete”. If you’re wondering, I combined the words “invincible” and “athlete” together to create “Invincilete”. My message is that with an invincible attitude and invincible work ethic anything is possible.

Moving From Amazon FBA To Shopify

Anyway, I after importing 5 boxes of “Resistance bands” and “Core Sliders” from China I moved from Amazon FBA to Shopify. The reason was because Amazon had began to take 30% of my revenue and on top of that were charging $0.78 per cubic foot in the off-peak season (January–September) and $2.40 per cubic foot in the peak season (October–December). Oversized items$0.56 per cubic foot in the off-peak season and $1.40 per cubic foot in the peak season 

Storage utilization ratio $0.87 per cubic foot for standard-size items with a storage utilization ratio below 26 weeks, and $1.02–$1.19 per cubic foot for ratios of 26–39 weeks and 39+ weeks, respectively 

New sellers $0.87 per cubic foot for standard-size items for new sellers, individual sellers, and sellers with a daily volume of 25 cubic feet or less 

Amazon also charges additional fees for long-term storage and inventory storage overage: 

Inventory storage overage fee: $10 per cubic foot per month 

Aged inventory surcharge: $0.50–$6.90 per cubic foot for products stored for 180 days or more 

Obviously this was becoming too expensive and so I made the immediate switch to Shopify.

Boy, let me tell you, the profits soared, as I was now able to take home 100% of my revenue. In addition, I was able to build my email list and have full ownership instead being beholden to Amazon’s greedy tactics, rules and regulations.

Fun story is when my wife, son and I lived in Forest Hills, New York, I had to physically drop off the products to the post office and mail them to my customers myself. After hearing Jeff Bezos had to do the same thing, I felt happy to hear we both the same struggles.

Shopify truly made me feel like a business owner as I had my own online eCommerce storefront, access to all my customer’s pertinent details, and payment processors for my customers to easily make their purchase.

I earned $3,000 per month selling on Shopify for 1 whole year. It was a thrilling ride and experience that has helped me become the entrepreneur I am today.

Here are some Pros and Cons of Shopify:

Pros:

  1. Easy Drag & Drop
  2. Customer name, email, phone number, address, order amount
  3. Well Trusted brand name
  4. Beautifully designed, professional, sleek and modern website.
  5. Tons of pre-made template options to easily create website storefront.
  6. 24/7 Live Customer Support
  7. Shopify easy integration with Stripe
  8. Multiple Integrations
  9. So MANY Apps!
  10. Reliable Payment Processors
  11. Value for money is very good

Cons:

  1. Difficult to exit. Once you stop payment, they will close your Shopify store and your website will show this sign, “This domain points to Shopify but isn’t configured properly. If you are the owner of this store, please check the domain settings in your dashboard and follow the troubleshooting documentation.”
  2. Pricing. Quite pricy.
  3. Difficulty with content marketing.
    • CMS is quite basic and not as robust as WordPress.
  4. Limited customization
  5. No email hosting
  6. Big dependence on Apps to do more advanced things with your site.

Conclusion:

In closing, Shopify was an amazing eCommerce cloud based platform to use to sell my Invincilete products online.

The professional, sleek website design, ease of use, functionality, apps, integrations, payment processors, and access to my customer’s info made it the best eCommerce platform I had ever used.

And with a Founder like Tobias “Tobi” Lütke, who is constantly evolving his product offering, highly adaptable, passionate, innovative, and a master of allocating his attention to the highest value opportunity at Shopify.

I love Shopify and it’s no wonder why millions of business owners rave about and use it to run their eCommerce businesses.

Give it a try.

Click the link below:

Try Shopify free for 3 days, then $1 per month for 3 months.

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