I guess it is high time to update our dropship case study category with some valuable information case.

Beauty products… There is no need to use sophisticated online target audience tools to see that 70-80% are female shoppers of beauty products But it is not a simple task to understand what a woman wants… And the market of beauty products is overcrowded with brands, merchants, etc…

While examining today’s case study I was definitely impressed with the business scope – now I do not talk about $3,500 monthly net income, but about 3 professional blogs, 13 mini sites, huge selection of videos, 40 dropshippers and more… that are aimed to help with promoting the main business website Who would say it is easy to make money online today? You need to invest a lot of money and time to build a prospering online business – dropship, affiliate or real e-commerce.

Established Ecommerce site Dropship Beauty Products. $3500 Mth/Profit

Work 1-4 Hours a day with Avg $3500 Month Net Profit, Work from Anywhere, Natural Traffic

• URL: www.salonhive.com
• Uniques/Month: 7,000
• Page views/month: 21,000
• Monthly Revenue (USD): 6,500
• Google Pagerank: 3
• BIN: $17 500

Description:

Growing Beauty Drop Ship Business, 6 Months Old, Profitable, Complete Drop Ship.
Gross Sales : $22,601.27
2009 Gross Profits: $8708.88

Average Monthly Gross Profit : $1644.20
May (1st-14th) Gross Profit: $1541.49
April Gross Profit: $2872.56
March Gross Profit: $1543.61
February Gross Profit: $1316.64
January Gross Profit: $570.79
December Gross Profit: $862.79

As you can see May is already on track to do $3500 in Profits. This sites revenue continues to increase each month. The potential in this market is massive; doing $10,000 day in sales is easily doable. I do have a quality SEO team I work with on my other sites and would recommend the new owner using them to promote Salon Hive. You can get started with their basic service for $350 month and they do an amazing job.

About Salon Hive

Salon Hive is a 6 month old successful business that was started in December 2008 and began making sales immediately. The site has seen a consistent growth in traffic and sales and is very profitable. All products are drop shipped from reliable suppliers with authentic product. Many of the products are 100% markup with the minimum markup being 15%. The site is also setup to make revenue from affiliate products and Ad revenue from Google Adsense or you own ad network.

This is a great business and you can work from anywhere in the world. A lot of the products we sell are only sold by us, we did not use a cheap drop ship database, and we have searched and contacted hundreds of companies one by one and established a drop ship relationship with them. I will show the new owner how to establish more accounts with suppliers and add thousands of more products to the site. I highly recommend adding more products as you can expect your revenue to go up with each new product you add.

What’s Included
• Site comes with 3 professionally developed mini blog sites each with 20 pages of unique content that promote the main site.
• Twitter account with 1180 followers and growing daily (http://twitter.com/salonhive )
• Listed with all major Directories (We have not listed in the Yahoo Directory and doing so will greatly help the search engine rankings)
• Over 5000 Back links from Quality sites
• Over 7000 Indexed Pages
• SEO Marketing plan we have been using to grow the business. (complete white hat)
• Heavily Modified Shopping cart with One Page Checkout
• All keywords and Analytics information
• Primary Domain name
• Over 1100 Products with 40 Quality Drop Ship Suppliers
• System we use to run the business
• 13 mini niche Sites included, All the niche sites run from the Salon Hive admin so keeping track of orders and sales is all done from one admin panel. All the following domains and mini sites are included with the sale:
www.qualityhairscissors.com
www.onlycosmeticcases.com
www.suntanningstore.com
www.herhairremoval.com
www.onlymassagers.com
www.onlyjewelryboxes.com
www.qualityflatirons.com
www.qualityhairshears.com
www.acnetreatmentstore.com
www.mymakeupcases.com
www.hairextensionsstore.com
www.hairwigsdirect.com
www.salonequipmentstore.com

Salon Hive Videos

http://www.salonhive.com/videos/

• Professional designed Video Section
• Over 7000 hosted beauty videos
• Monetized for Adsense or your own ad network
• Clip Share Pro with Upgraded Movie Player ($350 Cost)

Salon Hive Reviews

http://www.salonhive.com/reviews/

• Professional designed and programmed review system

This area of the site has the most potential with the ability to review every single product in the beauty industry. From the Reviews Admin Panel you can review all the products in the beauty industry and either offer the link to the product on Salon Hive or you can use affiliate links or a mixture of both.

Beauty Bloggers

http://www.salonhive.com/beautybloggers/

Complete automated blogging directory. Bloggers can add their site to the directory by installing a Salon Hive Member Badge on their blog which will then auto approve their blog and list it in the directory. This area of the site has not been promoted yet and is a great method to get Salon Hive branded across beauty blogs as well as increase incoming links.

Beauty Buzz

http://www.salonhive.com/blog/

• Professional designed and installed Beauty Blog with over 200 unique content posts.
• Completely optimized for SEO
• Wordpress Platform

Beauty Bookmarker

http://www.salonhive.com/bookmarker/

• Professional designed social bookmarking.
• Over 350 bookmarked beauty sites
• Pligg Platform

Traffic
Please see the attached screen shot for traffic sources

7600+ Unique Visitors a month

All traffic and sales is from natural SEO, data feeds, blogs and referrals.

Potential
Women spend a majority of their money online, plus products targeted towards women tend to have a higher markup. With online users increasing this site has great potential to become a million dollar year plus within the next 12-24 months.

We have not even begun to market this site as we have been mainly focused on the usability of the site, so now it just needs to be heavily marketed. Many of the top keywords for brand names have not yet been targeted and many of the keywords that drive sales and traffic are not yet in the #1 spot in the major search engines. Please note we do have a plan in place which will help the new owner achieve this and if you use this plan you can double the current sales revenue this year.

Amount of people to run the business
1 Part Time

Right now I run the business from the South America and have a part time employee outsourced in Canada who is paid $600 a month. I will continue working with the employee so you will need to hire a new employee or if you prefer you can do the tasks yourself. The employee handles all customer emails, sends orders to suppliers, processes refunds, makes Squidoo lenses, works with bloggers for promotions, and runs all the daily business activities. You can do all the work yourself or you can outsource like I have done and spend about 4-8 hours a week on this business checking stats, market research, finding new suppliers, and making sure things are progressing.

Training
I will work with the owner via email and/or msn for 3 months to help you get situated in the business. The new owner can also contact me if they ever need help after these 3 months, but I will provide my full attention for these first 3 months.

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Spring is finally here – time to research for seasonal products that will make us tons of sales and then decline in fall. Sunless tan is probably not a perfect sample in the middle of spring but you can easily apply the described research to any other summer seasonal products that are available from verified dropshippers in abundance

We focused our analysis on separate products in our past articles. For those who are new to our site I recommend to check our few recent product researches:
Oakley Dropship
Diamond Dropshippers
Jigsaw Puzzle Drop Shippers
Coffee Dropship
Feng Shui Drop Ship
Diaper Bags Dropshipper

We also research dropship sites that come on sale so that we could discover profitable markets and products, a few recent case studies include:

Tactical Supply Dropshipper
Anime Dropshippers
Playstation Dropshipper
Pool Products Dropshipper
Basket Dropshipper
Dash Kits Auto Accessory Dropshipper
Men Apparel Dropshipper
Waterproof Photo/ Video Housings Dropshipper

Demand is seasonal (we did not doubt that). Surprise – the highest demand occurs in May!

Top searches

Rising searches

Keyword research is a must – demand and competition checks:

Few keywords searched and huge competition. To those who still find this product interesting I would definitely recommend keyword difficulty research – browse Google top 10 for the above keywords to get a feeling of those sites you are likely to compete with. As a rule, with such a short list of demand keywords you should expect very tough competition.

If you already dropship some skin care or nail care or makeup products then sunless tan might be a nice addition, otherwise forget it.

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What you are likely to enjoy is also the scope of the guy’s business – 25 dropship websites with properly considered legal and tax issues – he runs his business in the name of some European offshore company that allows him not to pay profit taxes.

I call this advanced dropship approach when people build it on a large scale – $2 000 000 turnover over 4 months with $400 000 in profits – would you doubt if dropshipping business model works and can be VERY profitable after that? It is neither easy, nor cheap to start and run a dropship business of that scale, but definitely is worth the efforts.

He dropships beauty products, sporting equipment, apparel and more – so it is not necessary to focus on dropshipping adult products, video games, cameras, books or DVD’s to make good money with e-commerce.

LARGE RETAIL DROPSHIP BUSINESS/ WEBSITES

Very rare high profit business.

•    Established: Tue Dec 26 2006
•    Uniques/Month: 300,000
•    Monthly Revenue (USD): 100,000
•    Min Bid: $250 000

Description:

This is a 2 year old dropshipping ecommerce retail business and can be operated from any country in the world as long as you have internet to check email.

When setting up the business I worked full time but the last 3 months i just worked 1 hour a day.

The employees handle 99% of this business, i have set it up so it runs with very little work from the owner.

We have workers handle building websites, customer service, advertising, SEO and data entry.

No technical skills are required. All my knowledge will be transferred to the new supplier.

I will provide daily support for the buyer for the first 6 months and longer if needed.

The business sells retail products on websites and dropships retail products to the buyer such as Sporting equipment, clothing, beauty suppliers and several other products.

We have an exclusive agreement with our dropshipper and he has agreed to deal with the new owner.

Having an exclusive agreement with our dropshipper makes the business very secure and I expect growth in 2009.

We have also spoken to the credit card processor and they have agreed to process payments for the new owner.

The business bank accounts and company registration is located in Europe in a tax free country, we do not pay taxes on profits.

I can transfer the registered company and bank accounts to the new buyer or we can set up a new company for you, I will pay these costs.

You do not need to be in USA to buy this business, it will work for anyone.

Sales: 2 000 000 in 4 months.

Profit per sale before costs: Roughly 30% as profit varies on each product.

Business costs:

Approximately 10% of sales.

A full list of business costs can be emailed to interested parties.

Profit after running costs: Approximately 20 %

I have made over $400 000USD since september 1.

Traffic is over 10 000 uniques per day.

Reason for sale:

I am getting married on March 26th and will be taking over her families business, i would hope the full business sale would be completed by that time.

I currently have a low offer of $250 000USD from my dropshipper but i am wanting more then that.

Full screenshots, bank statements and proof of revenue can be given to people who are interested.

The business includes 25 websites and a full business plan for expansion.

We will not provide screenshots to people who are not willing to sign a NDA or do not have the money to buy such a business.

This is the perfect business for someone wanting a business with very little work and a great return.

Profits are paid weekly into your bank account.

Revenue Details:

Revenue is earned by sales of products that are sent to the buyer.

This business is all retail selling actual items such as t-shirts to tennis racquets to beauty products.

Traffic Details:

Traffic comes from a number of sources.

SEO, PPC, Paid banner advertising and a number of other techniques.

Beauty Products, Sporting Equipment Dropshipper And More is a post from: We talk on making money on the Internet