If you're brand new to the world of Shopify, or you're finding it tough to get your very first
sale, you're in for a treat. Because this video is going to help you get your first
Shopify sale today and let me tell you when it rains it pours so let's help you get that very
first shopify sell let's get into it. Hey friends, Andrew here hope you're all doing well. Before we
get into the fresh tips on getting that precious first shopify sale make sure you've subscribed
to this channel so you're recommended more useful tutorials just like this one here we're all about
e-commerce digital marketing and tech gear here all right so i know just how hard your first
shopify sale can be in fact on average only two percent of your website visitors will become
a paying customer there's a lot of different tweaking that's required to get your first
shopify sale from your store to your marketing strategy and your product but once everything's
in the right place it doesn't stop at your first sale it doesn't stop at your fifth so it doesn't
even stop at your 100th sale so the point is don't get disheartened it took me a whole failed shopify
store until i was able to get most things right and then within the first few weeks of launching
that store i was able to make over ten thousand dollars in a single week the first tip to get
your first shot by sale is to use exit intent pop-ups you know those very convenient pop-ups
that just so happen to come up at the right time every time you have to quit the tab or
move on to do something else well they actually significantly increase the odds of the customer
making a purchase from your site and if you're not using it correctly then you should be using
it right now it's actually activated by a trigger point and this trigger point is usually at the
very top of the browser window so when your mouse scrolls over boom the pop-up comes up you can set
one of these bad boys up with a small discount code and personal message and you'll see people
use this discount code go back into their carts and then check out you might actually be surprised
just how many people actually do this it's a great way to recapture someone's attention and prevent
people abandoning their online shopping carts run a giveaway giving out something for free
how does that make me money i hear you ask well sometimes you need to spend money to make money
and in this particular case by running a giveaway you're promoting your shopify store product and
brand what i found is if you run a giveaway you'll get an influx of people to your shopify store who
are too impatient to wait for the giveaway to end and will just go ahead and buy that specific
product especially if it's relatively affordable best of all they're now exposed to your store and
brand so you can market to them later on and so giveaways usually cover the cost itself just make
sure though that the giveaway is within your budget use new social media channels so we all
know that facebook and instagram they're platforms that are getting harder to use organically without
spending money on ads but there are still quite a few or a number i should say that are great
social media channels to promote your product for free for example snapchat's new public
profile lets you literally set up a profile to share content on and gain snapchat subscribers
this means a new source of customers for your ecommerce store and of course speaking of snapchat
don't forget to claim your free ads credit down below to grow your business and don't forget to
use it tick tok is of course another great social media channel with a big organic reach right now
so make sure you're building your brand on these channels as well and you'll definitely see some
more purchases being made through these platforms that are free and organic experiment with facebook
ads this one is a no-brainer if you have some cash to invest into your new store and business spend
it on facebook or instagram ads if you haven't yet tried creating effective facebook ads then you
need to give it a go asap the ability to put your business and product in front of the right people
at the right time at scale is a superpower even just experimenting with test ads you often see
a purchase come through but whether or not it's a profitable purchase is a different question if
you're finding it difficult to set up effective facebook ads i'll leave a link down below to a
free facebook ads crash course that i teach right here on youtube for you to check out after this
video use your personal network have you asked your friends or family to make a purchase from
your new store it might actually be worth sharing your new store on your personal socials and asking
your friends and family to share it with others heck go ahead and ask them to make a purchase
from you more often than not your friends are more than happy to support your new business at least i
hope you have decent enough friends who have your back if not that's okay we're here for you on this
channel and in the comment section too the point here is to leverage the resources you have to get
your store rolling until you're ready to start selling to new customers and cold traffic review
your sales page everyone sees the sales product page before they actually commit to purchasing
that said product so you have to sort of make sure it's in tip top shape because your sales is
only as healthy as your sales page do you have high quality images that means high resolution
good lighting no bad edits it should all look professional when it comes to those product images
do you have great copy describing your product and is it also enticing just like no one enjoys
reading a fully written book you're not going to hook your customers in with bad product
descriptions and is the page also visually structured in a way to be appealing if your
product page is all over the shop with different fonts font sizes colors it generally looks like
a left over frat party well let's be honest no one's going to buy from that store product reviews
speaking about the sales page do you also have product reviews on the sales page because 81
percent trust the advice of friends and family over businesses but are we really surprised at
that fact social proof is so important nowadays customers are more skeptical than ever and
rightly so we want to know the product is something that we really do need and that
others have had good experiences with not just the product itself but more importantly your store
and your brand but what if you haven't even made a sale how do you get a product review
well you could import reviews from aliexpress if you're drop shipping or you could run a giveaway
like i said earlier and ask for a review in return heck you could even give a product to a friend
or family member and ask them for a review regardless of how you get your product review
they're extremely important to achieving more sales and with more sales that comes in comes more
reviews it's a flywheel effect where the more you achieve the more you get check your checkout
have you run a checkout test yourself before even launching your store you'd honestly be surprised
just how many people i've seen say why am i getting so many add to carts but no sales
so only then realize that customers can't even check out because something's wrong with the
checkout process but this is not going to be you because you're watching this video so with shopify
you can actually place a test order by simulating a transaction all you need to do is head over to
settings then payments and then on third party provider select bogus gateway and go ahead and
place that order where this is bogus man i know bogus gateway sounds hilarious to me also just
be sure though to switch back to a real payment gateway once you've finished testing with that
bogus gateway payment method so besides testing the actual payment gateway you also have to make
sure that the checkout process itself is actually appealing and optimized you want as little steps
as possible to go from product to purchase the checkout process is the only thing between you
and that interested user to a purchased customer so spend that time to make sure that your checkout
flow is bang on and most importantly not to do with your store but to do with your mentality
be resilient and don't give up initially like i mentioned it took me a whole failed store
so that meant months and months of work money energy and effort until i was able to get a
profitable sale i remember my first ever shopify sale i was driving and i heard this cha-ching
sound for the first time and found out that it was my first ever sale on shopify and i was literally
over the moon that feeling of someone purchasing from your very own online store with all the work
you've put into it was so overwhelming satisfying and motivating so hang in there is my point
implement what you've learned in this video and i'm very confident you'll get there also
if you're as confident in yourself as i am about you drop a comment down below goal crushes and
i'll like your comment in support of your store and your ambition now if you want to learn just
how to get more than just a few sales i'll leave a link to our mastery courses down below where we've
had students build multiple five and six figure shopify stores and a few more are still in the
progress of doing so right now too so if you'd like to join the program the community and learn
from a step-by-step course go ahead and check it out in the description box below if this video has
helped you out and you've indeed ended up with a shopify style and firstly congratulations and then
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