These Five Types of Newcomers Should Immediately Join Global Commerce Independent Sites to Make Money! Including Real Investment Costs and Life Status of New Individual Sellers (Part 2)

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Last issue mainly discussed two core newcomer elements: These Five Types of Newcomers Should Immediately Join Global Commerce Independent Sites to Make Money! Including Product Selection Practical Demonstration (Part 1)

Multi-skilled problem-solving attitude and ability, corresponding to the full-chain implementation of global commerce.

Rich and diverse lifestyle, corresponding to the product selection stage of global commerce.

This issue covers the next three: a certain level of economic condition support, persistence and adaptability, yearning for freedom and self-driven.

3. Have a Certain Level of Objective Economic Condition Support

This is also a question many newcomers love to ask: How much money do newcomers need to invest initially to do global commerce independent sites?

Let me use my own investment as an example (my stinginess level, group friends and fans know):

Fixed necessary initial costs:

• Shopify service fee (1 year 2500+ yuan)
• Domain fee (1 year 68 yuan)
• Domestic and foreign entity setup fees
• Plugin service fees and other miscellaneous items

Total about 4500+ yuan per year.

Dog deceives, meaning with just 4500+ yuan (actually the limit is around 3000+), you can start your own global commerce entrepreneurship journey.

This is much more cost-effective and valuable than any random TikTok leek camp (8999 sending an iPhone 6) or Amazon master class (18888 sending a 5G phone card).

After all, with this investment you can practice directly - practice is the best teacher.

Other operating costs include:

• Inventory costs (personally don't stock much, but keep 3-5 items to ensure shipping efficiency)
• Ad spend
• Packaging materials
• Shipping costs
• Company entity annual review and tax services, etc.

I won't go into these - they only arise as you get orders and continue operating.

For specific cost structure, see this article: Discouraging Global Commerce Independent Site Newcomers! Talking About Product Selection Pitfalls from the Perspective of Real Full-Chain Costs! Only those who have practiced will tell you the harsh reality. (I'll share a dedicated personal cost breakdown in the future)

However, at the same time, I hope individual sellers don't overlook the most important cost: your personal time cost and your cost of living.

When you work a job, you earn at least a few thousand or tens of thousands per month, right? You also have fixed expenses for living: rent, utilities, food.

If you calculate it this way, if I tell you I didn't get a single order for over three months, newcomers, do you still dare to do it?

Or if I tell you I lost xxx in a certain month, newcomers, can you accept that?

This is also why I suggest that if you want to try global commerce independent sites, you must have certain objective conditions to support you. Is it possible you won't see results for half a year or lose some money? Can you accept that?

If yes, then come.

But if your life is already tight and you're going for "I'll work hard and gamble, bicycle becomes motorcycle," then I advise you not to mess around, just go deliver food on your bike - it's much better than global commerce.

When you have a certain amount of economic conditions, your footing won't be too chaotic.

Because the path of individual sellers in global commerce independent sites is inherently full of anxiety and setbacks. When your life also faces heavy burdens, you might be crushed and unable to breathe.

4. Persistence and Finding New Opportunities

Actually, this is quite a useless toxic鸡汤 (motivational quote). Where there's a will, there's a way - even elementary school students know this. Or, if you put this phrase in any entrepreneurial direction, it's actually absolutely correct nonsense.

This also corresponds to a question many newcomers love to ask: How long does it take for newcomers doing global commerce independent sites to see results?

But I still want to combine my own practice and experience to talk about persistence in global commerce independent sites, and more importantly, what we can do besides persistence.

Persistence

Why should individual sellers persist in doing global commerce independent sites? And why have I long recommended everyone to take the "legitimate" "long-termism" approach to independent sites?

In the last cloud weekly meeting and countless shares, I emphasized an important point with everyone: independent sites are assets that can grow and accumulate.

I think this is also why many platform sellers, even after making money hand over fist or having stable income on platforms, still want to invest heavily in independent sites.

This almost risk-free growth is something platforms can't provide (premise is you're compliant and legal).

You see on social media that someone exploded on TikTok, then someone's Amazon warehouse exploded during peak season, then someone selling Haiwu5 is having a blast, and you start getting incredibly envious.

And let's assume the sharer is real, although 90% are fake.

But why don't you think about it: can that person who exploded on TikTok explode with every post? What do they rely on for food when they don't explode?

Their site looks like shit, they don't understand any operational skills, they don't even ship goods to people, they just moved a video and got lucky by dog shit; did they tell you when their account got banned?

Did they tell you they moved 100 videos and all got 200 views?

Did the person whose Amazon warehouse exploded today tell you that tomorrow their link will be ruined by countless sellers copying them?

How much cost did the person selling Haiwu5 pay to solve full-chain bottlenecks, and how much they worry every day about being disconnected and banned?

No, they turn around and charge you 9998, send you a beautiful iPhone 6, and you join the Leek Explosion Camp, full of silly leek seedlings just like you, all thinking they're the chosen one, if I do it I'll explode too.

Finding New Opportunities

This point is something you'll only discover when you actually execute.

I mentioned in the cloud weekly meeting before that I'm actually very grateful for some friends I met on social media before doing independent sites.

Some are doing TikTok, some Amazon, some independent sites, some brands, some tools.

I remember when I first started doing independent sites, I was also very anxious, confused, and doubted myself.

But when I actually executed and did it, I discovered that there are actually so many different paths and opportunities in this world.

Not just those "get rich quick" cases you see.

5. Yearning for Freedom and Self-Driven

This point is actually the most important and hardest to achieve.

Because freedom and self-driven sound beautiful, but actually doing them is quite difficult.

Freedom means you need to plan your own time, arrange your own work, and solve your own problems.

Self-driven means you need to set your own goals, find your own motivation, and find your own direction.

You might procrastinate, you might slack off, you might give up.

But if you truly yearn for freedom, if you can truly be self-driven, then global commerce independent sites are really a good choice.

Because you can completely control your own time and work, you can completely control your own income and future.

You can completely control your own life.