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Brazil Dropshipping Experience: Here’s How Rafael Makes $8,200+/Month Thanks To Facebook Ads

By Yaroslav Nevsky

Brazil Dropshipping Experience: Here’s How Rafael Makes $8,200+/Month Thanks To Facebook Ads

Have you heard anything about dropshipping in Brazil? Or, maybe, you’ve been thinking about targeting the local customer audience? Let’s look at this market from the inside and learn from the feedback of a Brazilian online business owner!

Disclaimer: all the success stories published in AliDropship blog are the results of interviews conducted in the written form. Even though the editors may make some minor changes to the grammar, spelling, and/or punctuation, the respondents’ writing styles, views, opinions, stores screenshots and personal photos are left unchanged.

Hi, please, introduce yourself!

Hi, I am Rafael, a telecommunications engineer from Brazil. I’m 30 years old, father of two sons, always open to new techs and new ways to grow up as a professional.

How did you decide to start dropshipping in Brazil?

I have a friend here who began this business earlier. Since here it’s all new, he started selling a course, explaining how to create your store and how to run ads on Facebook.

I got interested because this business model is very practical: you don’t need a physical space to keep your products. Even though I had literally zero experience, I decided to try anyway.

How did your dropshipping journey begin?

I started with Shopify, after some months I migrated to WooCommerce, then I bought the AliDropship plugin and it’s AMAZING. I chose AliDropship Woo Plugin, and what I love about it is that importing products from AliExpress is fast and practical.

I started my first store at the end of last year. In Brazil, it’s summer – so, it influenced my product choice. I decided to launch a store in a niche that meets buyers’ seasonal demand during this period of time.

I thought that it’s best to promote these products on Facebook, so I studied a lot about Facebook ads and writing selling texts. Then, I started testing some products. I was investing about R$20,00 or US$5,00 per day on Facebook ads.

And, really soon, in 4 days (!), I got my first sale! It was a cheap product, about R$89,90 in Brazil or something around US$22. But still, it was my first sale, and it felt amazing.

What’s happening with your dropshipping business now? What do you do to make it grow?

Now, I have 4 stores! Here’s a performance screenshot from one of them:

Brazil Dropshipping Experience: Here’s How Rafael Makes $8,200+/Month Thanks To Facebook Ads

To drive my stores forward, I select items with a high number of orders, comments and of course, a good grade. There isn’t any specific strategy – I just add a product when I see it has a top quality. And for pricing, I usually just double the seller’s price.

To promote the stores, I still use Facebook ads because since the very beginning, they proved to be working really well. To access wider audiences, I combine them with Google ads.

The question here is how to reach an audience that is ready to buy. So, I test my ads first with an open audience, and wait for them to click. Then, I look at the data and think about what I can get from it.

Both these advertising methods show themselves pretty well, but I think Facebook ads are more efficient. My average monthly spendings on marketing are about R$10,000 or US$2,500.

What does your daily dropshipping routine look like?

Every day, I spend about 4 hours to manage my stores. Customer care is the part that takes most of the time, but another difficult challenge is to find the right products. To pick the best ones, I have to do a lot of testing.

And speaking of customer support… Yes, it happens that I have ‘difficult’ clients, but there is always a reason why they are like this. So I just try to be calm all the time.

One time a customer was trying to buy in my store, but she couldn’t find where to press to continue to the cart. So I asked her to send me as screenshot of her browser. Then she sent me her selfie 😀

I’ve registered my business officially. As far as I know, the legal requirements here are to be registered and to pay the federal tax off all products. Didn’t have any troubles so far 😉

How has your life changed?

Now I can travel with my family more than ever. That’s my second job 🙂

Funny that many of my friends wanna do the same, but they don’t want to study as much lol.

I have big plans for the future – to grow up my brand and be a millionaire hahaha 🙂

What can you advise our readers – those who already run their stores and those who didn’t start the business yet?

Test it, don’t be afraid to make a mistake, it’s hard to achieve the success without testing!

What an inspirational story! Once again, it proves the importance of self-education and shows that even with zero background and knowledge in dropshipping, it’s possible to launch a money-making business. Are you ready to follow Rafael’s lead? 😉

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By Yaroslav Nevsky
Yaroslav is a founder of AliDropship Community helping people worldwide to start and run a successful dropshipping business.
20 Comments
Leandro Passos 5 years ago

Great article.

However i have a question about shipping: how long do your products arrive to Brazil? I thought it takes 30-40 business days to arrive to Brazil?

Do your customer complain about it?

Thanks.

Rafael 5 years ago

Fala Leandro, beleza?

Cara, qualquer dúvida que tiver, me chama por e-mail.

Faço mentoria se tiver interesse!

Abraços!

Edu 4 years ago

Oi, Rafael. O seu email não é informado no artigo. Poderia informar por favor? Eu gostaria de fazer uma entrevista com vc caso tenha interesse. Um abraço.

Rafael Ramos Apolinário 4 years ago
Rafael Pereira 5 years ago

Just starting in this business. I’m also a Brazilian guy and as a beginner, I started a general store. Didn’t go to niche yet because I want to test the business model. I made a store with multilingual switcher, because I don’t want to target only the Brazilian audience. Let’s see what happens.

Ivanilson Ribeiro 5 years ago

I am also from Brazil. I loved the story. I will start with faceads soon.. Its a great inspiration for me that story

Ivo 5 years ago

Eu montei uma loja mais os resultados não foram satisfatórios, acabei tendo prejuízo. Gostaria de uma consultoria ou mentoria.

Olga L. 5 years ago

Hi, thank you for your feedback!
Our Store Review service might be helpful to you: https://alidropship.com/services/dropshipping-store-review/

Rafael 5 years ago

Fala Ivo, beleza?

Manda um e-mail pra mim.

Sou eu aí em cima! hehe

Laketa 5 years ago

Once again Alidropship crew, fantastic article. I’m editing products and my next move is creating traffic for my store, so this article was very motivating! Thanks!

Ivanilson Ribeiro 4 years ago

Rafael eu tb uso o Plugin montei 2 lojas pro Brasil e outra pra fora mas não sei criar os anuncios investi mas em resulado. Vi tua dica quantas campanhas vc cria .. Como tu seleciona o publico alvo nos anuncios? Grato amigo parabéns pelo sucesso.

Rafael 4 years ago

Manda um e-mail pra mim, vamos conversar por lá!

eng.apolinario@gmail.com

abraços!

MarcosToshio 4 years ago

Rafael Pereira, como registrou sua loja? MEI, Limitada…?
E quanto aos impostos? Isso não pode arruinar as compras já que deve girar em torno de 50% mais seu lucro (dobro do preço de custo)?
Vejo muitos “gurus” do e-commerce de Shopify, Hotmart, etc mas os Correios podem ser um grande problema ao Dropsipping no Brasil pois é a única opção e ultimamente não confiável, o que você tem a dizer sobre os prazos de entrega e preço final para seus clientes?

Obrigado e excelente história!

Rafael Ramos Apolinario 4 years ago

Manda um e-mail pra mim, vamos conversar por lá!

eng.apolinario@gmail.com

abraços!

vivek rajput 4 years ago

i am from india i want to do dropshipping in brazil do people buy peoducts there in us dollars ?????

Olga L. 4 years ago

Hi, thank you for your interest!
You can set up any national currency you want for your store.

Muriel 4 years ago

Rafael, Blz ?

Cara poderia entrar em contato comigo para negociarmos uma consultoria ?

Abraço!

Rafael 4 years ago
Elena 4 years ago

Hello,

I am based in US. How can the people in the Philippines order with Philippine currency?

Olga L. 4 years ago

Hi, thank you for your question!
Our stores have a Currency Switcher, so you can set any desired currency in your store: https://help.alidropship.com/en/articles/2240506-currency-settings

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