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Playbooks written from real order data

Product research frameworks, trend breakdowns, and ad strategy — sourced from millions of AliExpress listings, not guru screenshots.

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TutorialJul 10, 2026 · 12 min read

Your First Product Analysis in Majorka: The Full Walkthrough

I've watched a few hundred people run their first analysis, and almost everyone skips the same two steps. Here's the exact click-by-click routine I teach, screenshots included.

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Ecom Tutorials13 min read

12 High Converting Shopify Themes for 2026

Your theme is your silent salesperson. I ranked 12 themes by what actually matters: speed, mobile checkout flow, and how the top stores in our database actually use them.

Maximus · Jul 11, 2026Read

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Ecom Tutorials10 min read

How to Add Customer Reviews on Shopify

Reviews are the highest ROI element on your product page and most stores set them up wrong. Here is the exact setup, app choice, placement and how to get your first 20 reviews honestly.

Maximus · Jul 10, 2026Read

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Competitor Research9 min read

How I See What Any Shopify Store Is Selling

Every Shopify store leaks its bestsellers, its ad strategy and roughly its revenue, if you know where to look. A tour through my exact workflow with real screenshots.

Maximus · Jul 9, 2026Read

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Product Research8 min read

How to Spot a Saturated Product Before You Spend a Dollar

Saturation kills more stores than bad products do. Here are the exact signals that separate a crowded market from an open one, and how to read them in under a minute.

Maximus · Jul 8, 2026Read

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Competitor Research8 min read

The Meta Ad Library: The Free Spy Tool Everyone Ignores

Every ad your competitors run on Facebook and Instagram is public, searchable and free to browse. Here is exactly how I use the Ad Library to read competition before spending a dollar.

Maximus · Jul 7, 2026Read

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Ecom Tutorials9 min read

How I Vet an AliExpress Supplier in Five Minutes

The product can be a winner and the supplier can still kill your store. Here is my five-minute screen for ratings, sold counts, shipping options and the traps hiding in cheap listings.

Maximus · Jul 5, 2026Read

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Ad Strategy9 min read

Unit Economics for People Who Hate Spreadsheets

You don't need a finance degree, you need one napkin and 90 seconds of honesty. The margin math I run before every single test, with the real numbers most people hide.

Maximus · Jul 3, 2026Read

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Data Deep Dive10 min read

Reading AliExpress Order History Like a Pro

The order history on an AliExpress listing is the closest thing dropshipping has to a public earnings report. Most people never learn to read it. This is the full guide.

Maximus · Jun 30, 2026Read

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Product Research10 min read

How I Research Competitor Stores (The 20-Minute Routine)

Every store you compete with is leaking information, their traffic, their winning products, their ad angles. Here's the exact routine I run on a rival store, in order, in about 20 minutes.

Maximus · Jun 26, 2026Read

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Ad Strategy7 min read

The Real Cost of a Failed Ad Test (And How to Avoid It)

A failed test is never just the ad spend. Count the creative costs, the store build, the samples, and the week of attention, then learn the framework that cuts the failure rate in half.

Maximus · Jun 22, 2026Read

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Data Deep Dive8 min read

What 1,000 Winning Product Pages Taught Me About Pricing

We looked at a thousand product pages attached to rising order curves and compared them to pages attached to flat ones. The pricing patterns were not subtle. Some of them surprised me.

Maximus · Jun 18, 2026Read

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Trends9 min read

7 Signals a Product Is About to Break Out

Breakout products leave fingerprints weeks before they explode. These are the seven signals we watch across millions of listings, ranked by how early they fire.

Maximus · Jun 15, 2026Read

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Ad Strategy11 min read

The Q4 Playbook: Preparing for the Season That Pays for the Year

Q4 CPMs will double whether you're ready or not. The sellers who win holiday season locked their products in September. Here's the timeline I actually run, month by month.

Maximus · Jun 10, 2026Read

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Trends6 min read

TikTok Made It Viral. Should You Still Sell It?

Virality is not a green light, it is a timestamp. How to tell whether a viral product still has room for you, or whether you are about to fund someone else’s exit.

Maximus · Jun 5, 2026Read

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Playbooks11 min read

From Zero to First Sale: A Data-First Launch Checklist

Forget "just launch and iterate." This is the exact sequence, validation, page, creative, launch, kill lines, for getting to a first profitable sale without burning your savings on guesses.

Maximus · May 28, 2026Read

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Tu próxima prueba de anuncios no tiene por qué ser un cara o cruz

Pega un enlace de AliExpress y mira la curva de demanda completa del producto.