Dropship Auto Parts
One thing is to run a dropship business that gets 500 unique visitors monthly and another – 50,000. There are certainly other important metrics when you analyze online businesses:
- average order amount,
- page impressions,
- conversion rate,
- return rate,
- SKU number,
- and more…
But my point is that you earn as much as you aim at. Yes, eBay market is great as you can tests products and reach customers there in no time compared to running your own website:
• Marketplaces has approximately 83.9 million active users worldwide.
• Marketplaces net revenues totaled a record $1.48 billion in Q1-08, representing a year-over-year growth rate of 19 percent. With 45 percent from US operations and 55 percent from our International business.
• In Q1-08, gross merchandise volume [GMV], the total value of all successfully closed items on eBay Inc.’s trading platforms, was $16.0 billion. [Total GMV for the full year 2007 was more than $59 billion.]
• eBay.com users worldwide trade $2,040 worth of goods on the site every second.
Nonetheless, my personal opinion is that eBay loses its attractiveness due to high seller saturation and rates (from my personal experience) and should be just ONE of your sales channels.
Final goal of any online business incl. dropship should be something like below case study. I still believe that it is possible to achieve that scope starting with any of the listed dropship merchant list sellers (they cost a few dollars and if you can’t afford that then you are destined to run 500 uniques per month business) and after careful analysis of many case studies published on pages of our website.
Below come the details of really BIG drophip business:
Work from anywhere in the USA - No auto experience needed
• URL: www.partsgeek.com
• Established: Mon Mar 31 2003
• Uniques/Month: 43,279
• Page views/month: 4,000,000
• Monthly Revenue: $141,000
• Google Pagerank: 0
Description:
Here is your chance to purchase a Virtual Auto Parts Store and work from your home or office –even if you have no prior automotive experience. The owner’s spouse has become ill and he can no longer dedicate himself to operating his business and needs to sell the business.
What you are buying:
1. A turn-key, Active Business that in 2007 had sales of $1.7 million at 30% gross profit. (Sales and profit are increasing each year)
2. 53 domains (.com’s and .org’s) with May’s 2008’s actual Unique visitors registering at 43,279 that month. Averages between 40 - 60k per month of uniques. 4,000,000 (million) hits per month is a rounded down estimate. Only 14 active sites are active, others are ready in waiting to open up.
3. Database of over 132,000 customers – nearly 30% are wholesale (dealerships and repair shops)
4. Gain of nearly a dozen different Internet Catalog Licenses that are not avaialble to the public.
5. Gain of our eBay and Amazon stores
6. Ownership of two established US trademarks
7. Owner will train on-site (I will travel to you) and via remote computer and phone and make transition smooth (assume 30 – 60 days to learn business and advertising; with one year of phone support afterwards).
8. Owner will sign a non-compete agreement
9. 3 dedicated and protected servers in 2 different states
10. Customer retention rate of 20% (this is incredibly high considering we do not market to our customer base)
11. Web design staff, tech support, IT support, cart support and all integration is seamless and included in the sale
12. An Advertising spend of 12% with Google and Yahoo (industry average is 20%) that has been operational since 2003 and Google algorithms always like the older ad campaigns overt the new ones.
13. Optional Bonus - One part time (30 hours per week) sales rep who works from her home 50% sales and she handles 50% of the customer service. She has been employed over 3 years with us and is a 1099 sub-contractor.
14. Optional Bonus #2 - One part (30 hours per week) employee 1099 sub-contractor, customer marketing, order sending, order sourcing, etc.
15. This is not an affiliate deal, or a franchise offer. This is a one of a kind, fully operational business for sale with the owner leaving the industry. The owner averages about $10,000 per MONTH in draw salary, and the growth potential is incredible.
Revenue Details:
$1.7 Million per year in sales @ 30% GP.
This is not an affiliate deal, or a franchise offer. This is a one of a kind, fully operational business for sale with the owner leaving the industry. The owner averages about $10,000 per MONTH in draw salary, and the growth potential is incredible.
Traffic Details:
Domains (not all are live, but all are owned) included in sale: 53
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