In the previous bratz dropship post I have mentioned the idea (though it is not original) to focus/ never stop researching for new hot products emerging on the market.

It is evident that you can’t cover all industries and follow news and trends in every consumer niche, so you need choose one-two where you were/ are successful and feel comfortable or you have personal liking to or some other reasons you feel you would like to give that industry your time and resources priority.

How you follow that industry trends is up to you. You can use tools mentioned in the previous articles, you need to read industry magazines and websites, watch industry TV programs, etc. The goal is simple – to be on the alert for opening opportunities in that niche.

Let’s turn to some examples. Electronics is no doubt the most popular online product category (with LOTS of demand and the same amount of supply). And this industry develops fast. Consider blue-ray discs. They are not the latest invention and sell for a few years now, but they are relatively new compared to CD’s and DVD’s.

Blu-ray Disc (also known as Blu-ray or BD) is an optical disc storage medium designed by Sony to supersede the standard DVD format. Its main uses are high-definition video and data storage with 50GB per disc. The disc has the same physical dimensions as standard DVDs and CDs.

[definition by Wikipedia]

So, how do you feel about blueray DVD’s dropship? Let’s use one of free and reliable tools to define the product demand You get the idea about the product demand over the years, you see that it is still top product in the United States, you get a list of popular search terms and most important – you get a list of rising searches.

Studying those rising searches you get more ideas about blue-ray related products that are in demand on the market and consequently are worth your time of deeper research.

Rising searches

Before making a thorough product research make sure you will have access to blueray dvd’s and other products dropshippers. Quick check of some dropship sourcing catalogs where you can browse catalog by categories and get a free trial access for a week if you see the products you need listed or you can browse other dropship catalogs offering free preview and tours

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Our today’s case study deals with specialized electronics dropshipper affiliate that sells marine electronics. The products are seasonal and this fact may appeal to some online entrepreneurs.

While most electronics sites sell digital cameras and GPS units this one specializes in a less crowded niche.

Niche Ecommerce Site For Sale – Profitable

Easy to Run

• URL: www.saltysmarine.com
• Established: Sun Dec 30 2007
• Uniques/Month: 15,000
• Page views/month: 75,000
• Monthly Revenue (USD): 7,000
• Google Pagerank: 2

Description:

This site has been online for about 1 1/2 years, selling marine electronics.

All products on the site are drop shipped from a reputable marine electronics wholesaler. There are about 10,000 items that are easily uploaded via an excel file.

SEO
Site has been fully optimized. The site utilizes SEO friendly URLs, and ranks top 10 in google for many terms including:
“Discount Marine Electronics”
“Marine Electronics”
“Marine GPS”
“Fishfinders”
And more…

All traffic is ORGANIC. There are no paid positions.

There is also an automated data feed to Google Base.

The site requires about 5-10 hours per week to process orders, etc.

You don’t need to know a lot about marine electronics to run this site. Most buyers have researched their products, then come to us to buy. If you do have product specific questions, the dropshipper has staff members that can answer them.

Reason For Selling

I have too many web sites, and the wife has told me it’s time for some to go!

I am looking for this to go to a good home, as I put a lot of effort in getting this store off the ground. I am willing to stick around and help the new owner get on their feet.

Revenue Details:

Revenues
2008 – $88,957
2009 – $16,149 (YTD)

This is a seasonal business that is busy in Spring/Summer, and slows in Fall/Winter. Sales are projected to be down from 2008 due to economic conditions. The margins right now are about 13%.

Traffic Details:

Google – 76%
Yahoo – 5%
Direct – 4%
AOL – 2%

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Video games, consoles and accessories are popular online sellers for a few years now

And there is money in this niche that you can make dropshipping this mega popular items. Need proof? In additiotn to our today’s case study have a look at these posts:

Playstation (PSP) Accessories Dropshipper
Playstation Dropshipper
PSP Dropshipper

Yes and this sort of product is also available from verified dropship merchants in abundance

What I dislike about case studies dealing with ‘hot products’ is that they get no organic traffic – they are new sites (= not established in Google) trying to catch the wave of the product demand, but it leaves you with no choice, but driving traffic with PPC – and it is not cheap as you have to compete with top online retailers biddong for a limited number of keywords.

PSP Dropshipping Site – Easy to Run – Little Work Involved. Make $1000+ / Month

• URL: unbricker.com
• Established: Fri Nov 21 2008
• Page views/month: 1,400
• Monthly Revenue (USD): 450
• Google Pagerank: 0
• Uniques/Month: 600
• BIN: $ 5 000

Description:

Huge Untapped Niche With Very Little Competition

This is a Sony Playstation Portable (PSP) dropshipping site that sells Pandora batteries and memory sticks. This niche sells products that allow Sony PSP owners to make their PSP compatible for downloading free games and installing applications. This is something that every psp owner would want, so there is great demand for these products. This is such an untapped niche, with very little competition, front page google clicks will cost you .05, so there is great potential for high profits.

This is a very easy to run website, there’s almost no work involved. Every item sold is shipped through a dropshipper. There are no products to handle or stock. Just place customer orders with the dropshipper after payment is received and the product is shipped directly to the customer, and respond to customer emails.

I will give you the dropshipper information, you get paid by paypal and you pay the dropshipper using paypal. I will also give you the contact info of the manufacturer of these items and a huge list of all the keywords your competition is using to make serious money in this business.

With the drop shipper method, you will make $10 to $20 profit on each order. If you buy from the manufacture you can make up to $30 per unit.

Traffic and Revenue:

Most of the traffic is generated through Adwords. Anywhere $5-$10 a day would significantly boost traffic. The majority of my traffic is organic and some type-in traffic. This site ranks in the 6th position on the first page of Google for the keyword unbricker.

Revenue – I made a few sales on Ebay and made about $200 net profit when I promoted it for a couple weeks with adwords.

The other sites might be getting more sales but you still have to continue with an adwords campaign and promoting the site to get those results. And some of those sites do not consistently give you the same earnings every month. What I will give the winning bidder is two months of seo and ppc help to get this site to the top of google for many keywords. I will run a ppc campaign for you so you can generate more sales and I can also give you 3 months free hosting at hostgator.com or I can send you a zip file. The domain is registered at godaddy.com.

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Though we feature on this site product sourcing through verified merchants you can make your own research and search for your own dropshippers online establishing direct contacts. You need to keep many things in mind, but the most important one – will you get really wholesale prices competitive on the market?

With time you can make one extra step – and become a dropship merchant yourself like today’s case study with electronics dropshipper. To tell the truth, it has never occurred to me to look in that direction. And I admit that I find some common sense with this idea – once you know the market of the products you work with (in our case – gadgets, MP3 players, MP4 players) you can establish good contacts in the industry and buy some heavily discounted stock for your own operations – also offer them to dropship for many dropship affiliates.

How can you achieve that? Here is how:

Well Established Business | 12,000 Profit | 1500 Orders completed | Huge Growth Potential

We are the “UKs Best Dropshipper” – Huge growth in our sector!
• URL: DropTheGoods.com
• Established: Thu Nov 20 2008
• Uniques/Month: 6,517
• Page views/month: 38,858
• Monthly Revenue (USD): 21,000
• Google Pagerank: 0
• BIN: $14 000

Description:

Regrettably we have decided to sell our successful online business. Although we have not been established long we have seen unprecedented sales considering our advertising budget which has remained at next to nothing throughout.

We are a UK based Dropshipper. We specialize in electrical items such as MP3 Players, MP4 Players, Phones and Gadgets. Our customers are people who want to make some extra money but may not have the investment needed to purchase stock first. This market is growing very quickly with the economic situation the world is facing, everyone seems to be looking for second income streams and dropshipping is the perfect solution.

All the products we sell are “unbranded” and are all completely legal to sell, unbranded goods at the moment are also increasing in popularity with the state of the economy, a lot of people are looking for cheaper products and unbranded goods are the way to go.

Just to confirm, we are the dropshippers i.e. we hold the stock

Since our creation at the end of November 2008 we have only really advertised on one related forum. That one forum has been VERY good for us. It has generated over 1500 sales and a Turnover of ?62,000 ($86,000), the current products on the site give us an average of 20% profit after ALL costs. We have plans on adding new products that will offer much better margins – 30-35% which will drastically increase the ?12,000 profit we have made so far.

With some serious SEO and advertisement www.DropTheGoods.com could become the biggest dropshipper in the UK. We have a solid base of customers (over 400 registered members) which have made over 1500 orders with us. Imagine what the orders will be like with double the current members.

If sales continue to increase as they have we estimate that the minimum profit the new owner should make anywhere between ?50,000 and ?100,000 in the next 12 months!

The sale will include full website control, domain name, details of our suppliers and a non-compete agreement (subject to terms).

Revenue Details:

Through sales of items. Turnover currently is at ?62,000 and Profit is at around ?12,000

Traffic Details:

Nearly all visitors come from a 3rd party forum and word of mouth.

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Waterproof housings are not cheap – and this makes it attractive to online sellers. The housings are not so popular as digital cameras, and demand fluctuates according to digital cameras demand. It is hard if not impossible for a small home business owner of a dropship venture to get into digital camera sales even armed with the best wholesale product sourcing – the margin is so slim and big players do not want to let you get a piece of their pie, but waterproof housings are a niche product where you can find your place.

I guess dropship affiliates who enjoy photography will find this product interesting. How much can you make with it? If we estimate the below established dropship store of waterproof photo and video housings performance with time you can expect to make $1500-1700 monthly (30% profitability sounds possible for this sort of products).

Those dropship business cases that we post with our project should be just a starting point for your research of products you would like to dropship. The fact that others make money with dropshipping this or that product does not mean that you will also do. Market research (demand and competition), product research, evaluation of your strengths and weaknesses… These are the steps that you should take once you get interested in the dropship case found here.

Dropshipped Yahoo! Legacy Store

• URL: www.keepitdrycase.com
• Established: Thu Feb 28 2002
• Uniques/Month: 8,810
• Page views/month: 27,064
• Monthly Revenue (USD): 5,521
• Google Pagerank: 3
• BIN: $10 000

Description:

For Sale: Keep It Dry Case

Reason: Retirement

Details:

I am retiring and wish to sell my Yahoo! Legacy store. The domain is registered through Yahoo! and is geared for underwater products. We are 7 yrs old and dropshipped through a company who will handle a new merchant as well. We began selling a similar product and switched to “ewa-marine” in 2003. Our listings never missed a beat.

Other waterproof cases, underwater camera housing lines could probably plug their own info in (as we did when switching in 2003) and maintain top spots.

Everything (editing) is done through the regular editor as in a stock “out of the box” store – no surprises!

Operating cost of this full featured and hosted Yahoo! Store is $99.95 per month.

Google these if interested (singular and plural): waterproof camera case – waterproof digital camera case – waterproof digital slr camera case – waterproof slr camera case – waterproof dslr camera case – waterproof camcorder case – waterproof case – waterproof all purpose pouches – underwater camera case – underwater digital camera cases – underwater dslr camera cases – underwater slr camera cases – underwater camcorder cases – waterproof camcorder housing – waterproof camera housings – waterproof digital camera housing – waterproof dslr camera housings and on and on……..

Other domains go with it:

www.keepitdrycase.net
www.keepitdrycases.com
www.keepitdrycases.net
www.keepitdry.net

If you or anyone is interested, it’s got all of the Y! features such as page views, sales, references, searches, Y! shopping searches, graphs, click trails, reports, repeats, integrated shopping cart, and so much more.

There are lots of other built in features like cross-sells, affiliate programs, collecting email lists for newsletter signups, for marketing that we have never used.

Each order has a clickable reference to the site or search engine, clickable email address of customer for follow up dialog and more.

This site was appraised to list for $40K by Quiet Light Brokerage.

This site has been a pleasure to operate and is ready to change hands to the highest bid!

Revenue Details:

Products are sold 100% organic and site referrals. Orders are faxed to dropshipper and UPS or USPS tracking confirmation is faxed back the same day or the next business day.

Products are secured via credit card on file with dropshipper – sale button is clicked and customers money arrives in our acct. in 2 business days.

Your ideas for this site may vary, also the product line you’d like to add to this store. Our dropshipper has many line of photography related lines that can be added and are search engine relevant. Any waterproof gear would integrate nicely into this store.

The monthly revenue varies so drastically due to seasons and holidays that we were hard pressed to give an accurate monthly revenue.

We took the total revenue since Mar 2002 to date and divided by the months to give an avg. monthly revenue.

The next two months will be slow then things start popping as Spring approaches!

Traffic Details:

Again, the monthly traffic varies so drastically due to seasons and holidays, that we were hard pressed to give an accurate monthly page view and unique customer number.

We took the total since Mar 2002, to date and divided by the months to give an avg. monthly response.

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