eComHunt Review

Do you remember fidget spinners? They where a viral, hot product, that a lot of DropShippers jumped on.

The beauty of doing it via DropShipping, is that once the trend has gone, you are not left with 4,000 useless unwanted toys.

The other reason DropShippers like to get on these trends early, is that you can make a lot of money (potentially) if you manage to ride the viral wave before they become boring once again. Of course, it can be a huge gamble.

Any one can find these hot products, if you know where to look, or have access to the right data. This is where tools such as eComHunt start to be useful. 

What Is EcomHunt?

They are a 'hot product' curation platform, doing the research and effort to find the next viral product. 

In their own words, they are;

"a curation of the best new products, everyday."

Which is quite a bold statement to give people. At the core of their business, they are a sourcing and marketing company.

They find hot products that are selling online. They do this by watching large social media accounts or finding products that are trending on AliExpress. They then provide these on 'fire goodies' to DropShippers, with extra data.

The newest products are given to their paying members. Free members get access later.

As they have expanded, they have also created resources and tools to help DropShippers. You will find resources such as master classes, e-books and podcasts, designed to help store owners.

As well as a variety of tools and plugins to help improve your research, selling and growth.

Due to these new upgrades, we have now updated and split this eComHunt review into multiple sections.

Below you will now find, eCom Hunt Tools & eComHunt Resources.

ecomHunt Tools

Since my first review of this platform back in 2018, a lot has changed. With 6 tools and apps being released. Each offering different information or abilities to help you. 

All of these tools are open to free members. Though you get varying degrees of information, and free members have to wait longer to see products. 

Currently there are 6 tools or sections of the platform under this category, including;

• EcomHunt Classic
• Live
• Lucky
• Tracker
• Adam
• EcomHunt Chrome Extension

I will dive into each one below. 

eComHunt Classic

The core of what this platform used to provide, is now called eComHunt classic. A collection of trending aliexpress products that both free and paying members can access. 

These products come with a variety of information;

• Product Images & Description
• Profits & Analytics
• Saturation Inspector
• Social Media Engagement
• Facebook Ads
• Targeting & Audience ideas
• Buyers Reviews
• 1 - 1 Expert Consultation (via Messenger)

Each listing also gives you the option to import the AliExpress product into Shopify directly, or to review the product directly on AliExpress.

This gives you a really rough profit margin, but doesn't take into account any marketing costs or additional fees. 

The second section you are provided tries to add the marketing budget, analytics and engagement.

Analytics offer you an insight into the number of sales, reviews and upvotes from AliExpress. This provides you more information and can help you decide if the product is worth it. High orders and votes, with a decent rating may show it as a worthwhile product and could stop you wasting money.

Finally, comes the engagement metrics. A set of numbers that show the total number of comments, like and shares across social media.

The higher the numbers, usually the more likely it is that a product will do well. If an item is being shared a lot, or an advert is getting a lot of comments, it shows that it may be very popular. 

Overall, these metrics and numbers are quite useful for DropShippers, and it's good that even the free members get access too some of them. 

Saturation Graph

This graphic will tell you the total number of stores or online shops that have this product live and are selling. You can then hunt the stores, and see how they have marketed or sold the product.

Facebook Ads Information

This section provides you with information about Facebook ads that are already running. This includes links to stores with Facebook ads, the video that stores are using (sometimes a few videos) as as well as some advertisement information (ad copy, catchy titles etc)

This section is brilliant if you are completely out of ideas for ad copy, or you don't have a video at hand!

Targeting

Much like other platforms, Ecom Hunt provides you with advertisement & targeting ideas.

They provide you with quite broad targeting ideas, usually a country, an age range and a rough idea about what interests to target, or the audience who may react well to your advert. 

It's massively useful as a guide, especially if you are not used too using Facebook adverts. 

Helpful Links

A small section, designed to give you links to adverts and stores. 

Influencers

eComHunt has provided a selection of influencers who may be good for promoting the product you are viewing. This looks to mainly be based on keywords. For example you may be looking at a car product, and this will find a number of car related accounts. 

You could then use this data to find influencers to help with promoting your adverts and products. 

Reviews

Finally, after all that you AliExpress Reviews from real buyers. As with DropShip Spy, for me, this was not quite as useful, as I didn't need to download the reviews and upload them to Shopify.

I took that stress out by using an app called AliReviews. You just add the link and they do the rest, magic.

Import To Shopify

This feature allows you to directly pick up the product from AliExpress, a bit like Oberlo does within Shopify. 

Simply add your store URL to the box, sign in and get started on the import. Easy enough to use be honest and saves a bit of time. It does save you from having to find it on AliExpress and then using something to import it.

This removes the need for Oberlo, which may be useful for some. 

EcomHunt Live

A new addition to the platform, the Live tool shows you trending data from the last 30 days. Giving you an insight into the top, trending product, and the countries it is currently going viral in. 

They also provide data on number of orders, which countries are buying it the most, and the platforms it is currently being purchased on the most. 

As a signed in member you can see the top 50 products. Each with a clear breakdown, and then a link to the classic view shown above.

Lucky or GetLucky

If you don't fancy looking through products, you can simply use the lucky tool. 

Designed to search and find you a 'winning' product, without the guess work. Giving you a randomly selected product that can then be used on your new store. It's worth keeping in mind, these are not categorised. They are random niches and categories. 

As you can see, you are given information quite similar to the classic and the live tools. If you are a a pro member then you can find products that not many people know about, or have a decent 24hour score. 

You are essentially getting access to products before they go viral or they are starting to rise in popularity. They may not be the most obvious products, but some of these look quite interesting. 

Tracker

If you are someone who loves data, or you think a product may become popular in the future, then this may be for you.

The ecom tracker let's you add 5 products, checking to see how they are performing and selling.

If they start to rise, then you can create your ads, and start riding that viral wave. If they drop off the mark, then you can forget about it and move on. 

I would say this is only useful if you are unsure and want to try and find a product before it goes crazy. 

Adam

Do you need a virtual assistant? Someone to do the hard work for you? 

If you answered yes, then Adam is the VA for you. Kind of. Again a combination or re-working of other areas. 

Adam curates data that you can find within the Lucky, Live or Tracker and provides you with the details.

As with Lucky, you are shown products that have suddenly started to increase in sales, or have seen an uptake in orders going through. 

 I'm not sure if you need yet another place to see this, or if the view here is better than say the Lucky, or Tracker view. 

EcomHunt Chrome Extension

The chrome extension used to be a standalone section, but has now been placed under the tools part of this platform. Covering a number of tools and ideas, the chrome extension is a decent addition to your arsenal. 

AdHunter

It lets you find, use and analysis real competitors Facebook adverts, providing you with traffic amounts, how longs its been running, what countries have hit that ad and a few more useful bits of data!

The extension allows you to find a shopify store, then analyse ads that they be running. You can then filter the ads, look for posts, sponsored posts or viral ads.

Store Analyser

The second part of this chrome extension, is the ability to review their products. Finding the top sellers, viral products or even understanding what theme they are using.

Essentially your own store spy to understand what they are doing that is making the store successful. Very useful if you are new to DropShipping and you want to find what decent profitable stores look like.

eComHunt Resources

The second half of this platform, or eco system is the ecomhunt resources section. This is one of the areas that I believe sets them a little above the competition at times. 

This section is made up of the following areas; 

• ecomhunt Masterclass
• eBooks
• YouTube
• Podcast
• Community 

Some of these are their own paid for extras, they don't come as part of the membership. 

You are also limited with the timing, brand new products are only released for pro accounts. 

To access unlimited amounts of data, up to date products and even some of the videos and tools, you will require a pro membership. 

At the current time of writing (I will update this), there is an ecomhunt discount code available. This discount will reduce the monthly price from $29 per month, to $20 per month.

Click this link if you want to take advantage of the discount and stop wasting money.