Shopify Dropshipping Operator — Build & Run My Gym/Fitness Store (Ongoing)

I'm launching a dropshipping store in the gym and fitness space, selling into three markets: Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom. I'm looking for one person to own it end to end. I run a separate business full time, so I need an operator, not someone I have to project-manage. I'll fund it and make the calls on budget and direction, and stay out of your way on execution. You can be based anywhere. What matters is that you've actually sold into these markets before and know how they differ. This starts part time at 15–20 hours a week on an hourly basis. If the store performs, hours and scope grow with it. **The multi-market piece — this is the part I care most about** Running one store across AU, US and UK is not the same as running three copies of a single-market store. I want someone who already knows this and can tell me how they'd handle: - Shopify Markets setup: currency presentation, market-specific pricing, domains or subfolders, geolocation and market switching - Local payment methods that actually convert in each region — and which ones people abandon checkout without - Shipping: realistic delivery windows to each market, which suppliers and warehouses serve which region, and how you set customer expectations so you're not drowning in "where is my order" tickets - Duties, GST/VAT and sales tax at a practical level — what has to be collected or displayed in each market, and what thresholds I need to watch. I'll have an accountant confirm the detail, but I need you to flag what's required rather than discover it after the fact. - Consumer law basics per region: returns and refund rights, required policy pages, and advertising claim rules (particularly relevant in fitness — no health claims that'll get the store or ad account pulled) - Ad account structure across three geos — separate campaigns or one, how you split budget, and how you read performance when the markets have very different CPMs **What you'll own** - Store build: Shopify setup, theme selection and customisation, apps, page structure, checkout and payment config, domain and email - Product and supplier research: winning products in the fitness niche, vetting suppliers (CJ, Zendrop, AutoDS, Alibaba/agents), sample ordering, margin and shipping-time analysis per market - Listings: product pages, copy, images, offers, upsells and bundles - Paid ads: Meta and TikTok primarily, Google/YouTube if you can justify it — setup, creative briefs, testing, scaling and ROAS reporting across all three regions - Creative: sourcing or briefing UGC and ad creative, iterating on what's converting - Email/SMS: Klaviyo flows (abandoned cart, welcome, post-purchase, win-back) plus campaigns - CRO: tracking, analytics, A/B tests, fixing what's leaking money - Operations: order fulfilment, tracking, customer service across three timezones, returns, disputes and chargebacks **What I'm looking for** - Proven Shopify dropshipping experience — you've built stores and taken them to consistent revenue, not just completed a course - Direct experience selling into at least two of AU, US and UK. All three is ideal. Tell me which. - Real paid media experience with your own money or a client's, and you can talk honestly about what you spent and what came back - Fitness, apparel or lifestyle niche experience is a strong plus - Strong written English — you'll be writing copy that has to read naturally to customers in all three countries - Some overlap with Sydney business hours (AEST/AEDT) for a weekly call. You don't need to work my hours, just be reachable at a consistent time. **What I'm not looking for** - Agencies subcontracting the work out — I want the person doing it - Anyone who needs a full brief for every task - "Guaranteed 10x ROAS in 30 days" pitches. I'd rather hear a realistic view of what months one to three actually look like. **How to apply** Please don't send a template. Applications that ignore the questions below get skipped. 1. Link 2–3 Shopify stores you've built or run. Tell me what your role was, which markets they sold into, and roughly what revenue and ROAS they were doing. 2. What's your total ad spend managed to date, on which platforms, and in which countries? 3. Given a fitness dropshipping store starting from zero and targeting AU, US and UK — would you launch in all three at once or sequence them? Explain your reasoning. 4. What supplier and fulfilment setup would you use to serve all three markets, and what delivery windows would you promise customers in each? 5. What's the single biggest mistake you've seen people make running one store across multiple countries? 6. What's your hourly rate, and how many hours a week can you realistically commit? We'll start with a short paid test project so we can both see how we work together before committing to anything ongoing. Ad budget is separate from your rate and gets discussed once we've spoken. Start date: immediate.