Dropshipping is getting harder. Really. And there are a number of obvious reasons:

- It is expensive to promote products online. It is getting more and more expensive. And dropship affiliates that have low profit margins are not competitive with the merchants or manufacturers.
- More and more merchants enter online space. More and more producers start online e-commerce to cut the middlemen.

So, the question is if dropshipping business model is likely to be a lasting business strategy remains open. Is it a smart move in a situation when competition gets tough to acquire an established dropship business? Probably it is, as you get valuable assets – established website, reliable merchants, customer base…

New case study is maternity and baby clothing store.

Well established, great reputation

• URL: http://www.InStyleMoms.com/
• Established: Thu Jun 30 2005
• Uniques/Month: 3,200
• Page views/month: 24,000
• Monthly Revenue: $1500
• Google Pagerank: 4
• Sold: $11,000

Description:

Comprised of drop ship accounts, this web boutique has the potential for massive growth!

* Established 7/2005
* $1,500/month in gross revenues
* Net Revenues average 25% of gross as the sales are drop shipped from the vendor. The new owner may want to consider wholesale of the best sellers to increase net profit. I would be happy to recommend the top sellers.
* Approx. 3200 Unique Visitors per month based on Google Analytics
* Established vendor relationships with top-selling designers, the best in the business.
* We have a google ranking of 4
* Site was redesigned and renamed in November 2007
* Included in sale is a Blog that ties directly to the E-Commerce site (instylemoms.blogspot.com)
* Email list includes nearly 600 emails. Current account is with Constant Contact
*Aloha Cart shopping cart and administration.
*Currently using PayPal to process credit cards and PayPal payments. Aloha Cart has capabilities to use other merchant accounts.
* The current monthly expenses are

$30/mo for Constant Contact newsletter with 552 subscribers

$24/mo web hosting. There are cheaper options available but I have found the one I am using to be reliable.

Sale includes web site, current stock of merchandise (approx. $200 worth), ongoing ad relationship with a popular maternity information website and blog, 30 days of support during the transition.

Revenue Details:

Online sales of maternity, baby, nursing products and mom-inspired clothing.

Traffic Details:

Based on google analytics. I also have stats via cpanel

Our never ending series of case studies: successful dropship businesses (I think here I should define the meaning of successful applicable to our case studies. When I say a successful dropship store I mean an online store that generates income for its owner by means of selling products dropshipped by third parties).

I think one should feel some sort of interest in the products he sells – otherwise your business become kind of a job that does not enjoy you, but it should from my point of view. The below products are quite specific and one needs special kind of hobbies/ interest to get excited about selling them, but on the other hand this sort of dropship store could diversify your portfolio if you run a bunch of dropship stores.

• URL: ghillie-suit.net
• Established: 21 Dec 2005
• Uniques/Month: 10,000
• Monthly Revenue: $1,500
• Listed: 9 Oct 2007
• Min bid: $18,000
• But it Now: $21,000

Description:

I am listing these sites up for sale again as negotiations for the sale of these sites has fell through at the last minute. Up for sale is the domain and business for www.ghillie-suit.net and www.sniperghillies.com.

www.ghillie-suit.net is the established site and www.sniperghillies.com is a site with
the same products but different design used as a price and marketing test site.

This business works best if owner/operator resides in the US however the business can be ran with little difficulty from most countries.

www.ghillie-suit.net is a 2 year established e-commerce site that sells a unique
camouflage system called ghillie suits, very popular amongst hunters, paintballers,
military snipers and nature photographers. These suits are growing in popularity and
there is a good market for them online becuase they are nearly impossible to find
offline. A great growing niche market with an established presence.

All items for sell on the websites are available for dropship though our supplier accounts, which will be supplied only to the buyer.

A $500.00 deposit will be required to end the auction, gain access to all financials and dropshipper information, as well as initiate the transfer process.

There are 3 payment processors used by the site: PayPal, 2Checkout and google checkout. You will need your own paypal account but the 2 checkout accounts and the google checkout accounts can be transferred. The 2checkout account currently has a $700.00 balance that will be included if the site sells for the right amount.

Total sales per month average between $3000 and $9000. Total profits per month range from $1000-$2200. Each sell typically earns a 30-40% profit. So a suit that sells for $100.00 earns $30-$40.

Running the business takes usually only 1 hour a day at most.

Duties include:

- Processing orders (ordering from supplier and sending thank you emails to customers)
- Answering customer questions (via email and/or phone if you provide a phone # on site)
- Updating site with new products and out of stock notices.
- Our suppliers do not ship internationally, so if you want to accept international
orders you will have to have items shipped to your address (in the US) and
ship out from your local shipping providers (we just use USPS in these cases)
- Managing PPC campaigns ( it is up to how aggressive you want to be with this,
honestly we have not managed our current PPC campaigns very well and there
is a lot of room for improvement in this area)
- Any SEO you may want to do to the sites

ghillie-suit.net is the main site and is very established amongst the search engines. The 2 websites combined average over 300 unique visitors a day. Access to traffic stats can be provided to interested parties.

This is the perfect opportunity for someone to take over a business that requires little work and creates a nice income. It could easily be turned into a fulltime income with a little more time. The starting price is firm. If we do not get the price we expect from this sale we will continue to run the site ourselves. Thank you for your interest and all questions are welcome.

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I regularly post dropship businesses for sale as a proof that the business model is a viable solution for those online entrepreneurs who have no/ do not want to invest funds into the stock. Dropship is also a perfect solution to test waters if you are about to enter a new niche – once you make sure that you can earn in this indurty you can easily switch from dropship to traditional business model and increase your profitability margin.

I have posted a list of recommended real dropshippers lists that are scam free.

Dropship lingerie is the recent dropship business on sale that I have posted.

Here is a profitable business that dropships baby products for sale:

• Minimum bid: $38,000
• Buy It Now: $65,000
• over $100k a year in sales
• URL: petitebabyboutique.com
• Established: 10 Jul 2003
• Monthly Revenue: $8k-$10k
• Listed: 10 Jul 2007

Description:
I have a very detailed spec sheet for this business so if you are interested please pm me your email address and I will email you the word document, spread sheets, and screen shots. There is just to much to put in this area.

Our business works with drop ship companies such as gift basket companies, lingerie, and over 400 other types of suppliers and we build them websites to sell their products and then we sell the sites for them.

We make about $1400 to $1500 per sale plus a lot of residual income from hosting and affiliate programs. We sell about 60 to 80 sites per year such. Sales last year was just over $140k and residual income from hosting runs about $1400 to $2000 per month.

Right now I just have no time to spend on the business. Back when I was running it full time it did well over $200k a year and very good residual income and it would be easy to get back to that point.

The sale includes 9 sites. One is the main site and 8 sites we have for sale (those might change). I could only put one URL in the spot on sitepoint but the rest are included on the word document. The one list will give you an idea of the types of sites we sell and it is for sale at this point.

The business was started back in 2003 and it has good search engine rankings, a large past customer base. Our help desk has 580+ people signed up. A very large mailing list and a lot of other good assets.

Conclusion:
You have two options – buy an established baby product dropshipper business or start your own examining/ copying the businesses similar to this.

[tags]baby products dropshppers, dropshipping, drop ship, wholesale, internet marketing, affiliate marketing[/tags]