GPS units are hot products right now. Demand is huge (so is competition). Our new case study features a dropship project that was on sale (and sold) recently.

Have a look at a few keywords from Wordze, quite popular (but I am not sure if it displays correct info as there is no clear explanation how that keyword data received unlike with WordTracker) keyword research tool:

7308 Keywords Found		Count	Estimated	KEI
	gps	10246	82541	0.14
	garmin gps	4572	36831	3.1
	gps navigation	2744	22105	0.2
	gps tracking	2598	20929	2.41
	magellan gps	2343	18875	0.95
	gps reviews	2191	17650	12.52
	gps systems	2099	16909	5.97
	gps software	2045	16474	1.62
	gps vehicle tracking	1743	14041	4.96
	buy a gps online	1596	12857	443.34
	gps vehicle tracking system	1445	11641	8.69
	gps vehicle tracking device	1395	11238	363.69
	gps mapping	1381	11125	3.71
	gps equipment sales	1347	10851	6781.88

The below case shows you potential of dropshipping GPS units. As I have mentioned huge demand is compensated by huge competition. Take your time to explore the top search engine results for GPS keywords listed above. You will see Amazon, Overstock, more e-commerce stores, price comparison engines like Shopping.com, PriceGrabber.com on top.

In this situation it is a wise decision to start with eBay to test the market.

Check the featured dropship lists for GPS merchants to dropship your sold GPS units.

Also browse our dropship case study category for more products to dropship – probably, GPS units are not the product you are passionate about.

GPS Drop Shipping Website for Sale

GPS units are very popular with lots of growth ahead!

• URL: www.RockCreekGPS.com
• Established: Sun Dec 31 2006
• Page views/month: 8,591
• Monthly Revenue: 500
• Uniques/Month: 1,348
• Site Sold For: $ 1800.00

Description:

This listing is an asset sale of an established website - RockCreekGPS.com. The site has not had the attention it needs lately and it needs a new home. The site is still active and listed products and pricing just need to be updated. Orders still trickle in with no promotion running at all. This site is ready to go with little work!

The site was designed by me and started up about January 2007. We had a great year promoting the site and selling online but some family issues took precedent and the site maintenance fell to the side. It would not take much to get the site back up and running effectively to compete in the marketplace. I can offer many suggestions and avenues that will bring this site back up to making a profit.

The semi-custom site was built right and with the ability to expand. I used the Volusion platform so it has an affiliate network built in, the ability to list coupons and sales, newsletter and updates, and really a great backend to manage the site and products.

First and foremost, all the GPS products and accessories are all dropshipped. I have 2 vendors I work with to make sure when orders came in I am able to get the hottest and latest GPS units to the customer. A new owner of the site would need to establish accounts with these dropshippers. The dropshipper’s website interface makes it easy to place the orders and not have to handle any inventory or shipping!

The second part of the site I integrated into it was GPS rentals. Believe it or not, there was only one other company that offered GPS rentals about a year ago other than me. As you can see there have been many copycats since then. The GPS rental market was just another way to meet a need that was there, the new owner would not have to integrate this.

What is included in this sale:

• The domain - RockCreekGPS.com
• All site content and custom graphics
• Customer List: Approxiamately 3,100 names and emails of people who signed up for newsletters, coupons, etc. (please note, ~3,000 of the names/emails were exported before an update last fall, the other 100 are new signups after the update reflected in the backend of the site)
• Drop shippers contact info

Financial details:

When the site was running profitable I was making anywhere from $250-$1,500 a month profit, this included sales on eBay and Amazon.com, these outside sales do not show in the backend of the site. Whenever a new GPS comes out it is hot and most of the time you can get it before anybody else through the dropshipper. This equals great money!

On an average I would spend about $100 a month on advertising - Adwords only. $50 on GPS products, $50 on GPS rentals. This is the only advertising I did, other than word of mouth.

I have the site hosted and integrated with Volusion.com. I have over 500 products so the monthly web fee is $99.95. I would recommend staying with Volusion but it is totally up to you. I can transfer the whole site to you through Volusion, all you need to do is enter in new credit card info for billing and setup your merchant account (Paypal, Google, Credit Card Merchant, etc.)

I have tried to cover some basic info here but please send me an IM or email with any questions, I am here to help!

Revenue Details:

1. Direct GPS sales from the site
2. Ebay and Amazon auction sales
3. Google shopping search engine
4. Word of mouth

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