blym4real:
what your website URL?

Lordtrillion:
It depends on so many factors.
As you said, you just launched your site newly. Most customers are been careful on websites they buy from online & make payments on. Knowing the Nigerian factor of high scamming rate online, its only few people who would take such risk by paying for goods or services on a new & not too popular website.
Also, your price might be higher than that of your competitors.
My little advice for you are
1) Try registering as a merchant & listing the products on any of the Popular Ecommerce website like Konga, Jumia, Dealdey, Kaymu. Your Facebook advert should redirect to any of them for checkout. This is because they are more popular & your prospective customer might have used them before
2) If SSL certificate is not installed on your website, try buying one & installing it. That green address bar & certificate image (e.g. this website is 256 bit SSL secured) which your customers see each time they visit your website creates a little trust in them.
3) If your ad is less than a 5 days old, you can still give it sometime. Most times, Facebook conversion doesn't come immediately. If you're getting enough likes & shares on the ad or sign ups on your website, still give it sometime.

rawswag:
what could b wrong is what u sell may differ to b different. from what the other dude sells

2sexycom:
are you good with something like this?

2sexycom:
Lol bros, It's not a full blown ecommerce site actually but same model. We are selling just one product and we offer pay on delivery. Therefore, the issue of trust and scamming shouldn't arise.

Lordtrillion:

Except you're not targeting the right audience, then you should have made at least one sale.
Hope your checkout process is easy to understand?
Also, your ad is still new. Just less than a week. Your competitors ad would have been around for a while so therefore, they must have tweaked it to get the right audience & thereby reducing their cost. Facebook ad is more of trial & error when launching it for the first time.
Also install a Facebook pixel on your website in order to track people who visited your website from the Facebook ad. With this, you can setup a new ad to target only them & their look alike audience. Since they visited your website after seeing the ad, 60-70% they must have been interested in the product. Targeting only them & their look alike will make better sense & will convert more than the first ad

blym4real:
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just want to take a look at the website before I offer my advice. A number of factors can be responsible for Facebook ads not converting to sales. e.g your choosing location, targeted audience, ur website not convincing enough, time you are displaying ur ads and many more.

2sexycom:
okay bro. Actually, traffic isn't our problem but I think the product itself.

Some guys imported their from China with good images of the product etc. Sadly, it does not work. We decided to look for a local maker for one that worked. The local maker's own actually works but the packaging isn't good or as stellar as the imported one.

So when people visit our site, there seem to be something repelling them. Remember Nigerians don't like anything made in Nigeria, as in majority of them and our packaging, both image and all appeared so.

We had as much as 2000 visitors on first day bro but could only record just 5 sales, whereas those with even lesser traffic get as much as 23-30 orders per day.

My friend has decided to test with the imported one and by end of today we shall know.

suyamasta:
Why are you not revealing your site name/url? are you selling drugs?

blym4real:
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just want to take a look at the website before I offer my advice. A number of factors can be responsible for Facebook ads not converting to sales. e.g your choosing location, targeted audience, ur website not convincing enough, time you are displaying ur ads and many more.

2sexycom:
you are following me right, bro? Make I send you PM.

2sexycom:
yeah... even cocaine, hemp, igbo, marijuana, kush, bud, mary J, bong, spliff, vapor...
call ICPC and EFCC on my azz.

blym4real:

yes.

2sexycom:
yeah... even cocaine, hemp, igbo, marijuana, kush, bud, mary J, bong, spliff, vapor...
call ICPC and EFCC on my azz.

mrsage:


This is a classic example of how entrepreneurs get it wrong.

You just missed a golden chance to market your product and website at the same time and you here complaining about poor sales.

How will the sales come when u guard your web addresses like a top FBI secret? yet you pay facebook for adverts

A website is nothing but your shop online. A replica of your physical shop kind of.

You need to take some lessons in marketing.
Invest in some form of training my brother.

You sure need it.

mrsage:
Bros. What is your website??

EnterPRO:


he's worried about competition too.


most people here are more likely to compete with him than to buy from him.

mrsage:


If that is the challenge then he needs more training on marketing and brand positioning.

Even if the oga decides to hide his website, competitors will still exist.

Competition is normal in every industry.

EnterPRO:


he's worried about competition too.


most people here are more likely to compete with him than to buy from him.

2sexycom:
You have a good head on your shoulder. The market is a money spinner, we have done all the background work. Even those friends who record better results than us said our sales page is kick aSs... but why are we having lesser sales than they? they themselves say they can't answer cos they don't know.

So we narrowed our observation to how we packaged the product in the picture. My friend has decided to test with the imported version cos the manufacturers took awesome images of their own product, which is the only area we seem to be lacking.

Then I recalled at one time, I bought a wristwatch from China because of just the picture quality. The seller had over 1k feedback and I used same picture to sell same watch and also recorded good sales both here on nairaland, kaymu, olx. Truly, a picture says a thousand words.

Business, marketing is all about trial and error. We have decided to replace the product on our website with the image of the imported one to see the difference. By tomorrow, we shall know.

EnterPRO:


agreed. they can start competing when he has sold his first batch and recovered his expenses.


not people that will browse the thread, discover the name of a product selling 30 copies per hour, then start selling same products themselves with the skills op his asking for rather than teach him (after he has told them the hot selling product).


let's just assume he's selling car tyres then use that as a case study to teach him FB marketing.

my 2 kobo.

2sexycom:
I just sent you a whatsapp message now with my friend's phone cos mine is down.

blym4real:

WhatsApp me on this no 08101525574

2sexycom:
okay bro.

Lordtrillion:

Except you're not targeting the right audience, then you should have made at least one sale.
Hope your checkout process is easy to understand?
Also, your ad is still new. Just less than a week. Your competitors ad would have been around for a while so therefore, they must have tweaked it to get the right audience & thereby reducing their cost. Facebook ad is more of trial & error when launching it for the first time.
Also install a Facebook pixel on your website in order to track people who visited your website from the Facebook ad. With this, you can setup a new ad to target only them & their look alike audience. Since they visited your website after seeing the ad, 60-70% of them must have been interested in the product. Targeting only them & their look alike will make better sense & will convert more than the first ad

Lordtrillion:
It depends on so many factors.
As you said, you just launched your site newly. Most customers are been careful on websites they buy from online & make payments on. Knowing the Nigerian factor of high scamming rate online, its only few people who would take such risk by paying for goods or services on a new & not too popular website.
Also, your price might be higher than that of your competitors.
My little advice for you are
1) Try registering as a merchant & listing the products on any of the Popular Ecommerce website like Konga, Jumia, Dealdey, Kaymu. Your Facebook advert should redirect to any of them for checkout. This is because they are more popular & your prospective customer might have used them before
2) If SSL certificate is not installed on your website, try buying one & installing it. That green address bar & certificate image (e.g. this website is 256 bit SSL secured) which your customers see each time they visit your website creates a little trust in them.
3) If your ad is less than a 5 days old, you can still give it sometime. Most times, Facebook conversion doesn't come immediately. If you're getting enough likes & shares on the ad or sign ups on your website, still give it sometime.

Lordtrillion:

Except you're not targeting the right audience, then you should have made at least one sale.
Hope your checkout process is easy to understand?
Also, your ad is still new. Just less than a week. Your competitors ad would have been around for a while so therefore, they must have tweaked it to get the right audience & thereby reducing their cost. Facebook ad is more of trial & error when launching it for the first time.
Also install a Facebook pixel on your website in order to track people who visited your website from the Facebook ad. With this, you can setup a new ad to target only them & their look alike audience. Since they visited your website after seeing the ad, 60-70% of them must have been interested in the product. Targeting only them & their look alike will make better sense & will convert more than the first ad