QUICK BACKGROUND
Like many, I’m new to affiliate marketing but not new to entrepreneurship. I currently own a moderately successful local services business, but am wanting to increase income and gain more mobility.

While studying affiliate marketing, I saw Sapven’s post about doing $846,365 in 9 months with ecom and thought I would try my luck.

I started to research various niches and decided to jump on the Fidget Spinner fad.

I’m sharing my niche/numbers, etc, for a few reasons: 1) This will be short lived, 2) I’m not making a lot of money… in fact, I’m pretty sure I’m operating at a loss right now, 3) The market is already saturated, and 4) I want to LEARN as much as I can from this experiment. I can’t do that unless I’m an open book!

WHY FIDGET SPINNERS?
I chose Fidget Spinners for a few reasons:

  1. High demand
  2. Can dropship from AliExpress
  3. It will be short lived (This might just be me, but knowing this reduces pressure to make mega-millions and creates space to lose money while I learn)

SETUP
Here’s a quick list of everything I’ve done to set up for this experiment:

  • Launched Shopify Store
  • Added trust badges, free worldwide shipping, a 14-day money back guarantee to increase conversions
  • Setup theme with ...

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