As you know browsing our large drop ship case study section dropship websites are different. Some make pennies, others are such a success that provide their owners with a decent revenue.

What is the size of that decent revenue that successful dropship websites make? We have revised our dropship case studies to make the below list (includes large dropship businesses and smaller scaled ones):

Industry – Cars
Niche – Auto Parts
Monthly Revenue – $141 000
Details…

Industry – Department Stores
Niche – Beauty Products, Sporting Equipment & more…
Monthly Revenue – $100 000
Details…

Industry – Books
Niche – College Textbooks
Monthly Revenue – $10 000
Details…

Industry – Apparel
Niche – Halloween Costumes
Monthly Revenue – $10 000
Details…

Industry – Electronics
Niche – Cell Phone SIM Cards
Monthly Revenue – $10 000
Details…

Industry – Apparel
Niche – Socks
Monthly Revenue – $20 000
Details…

Industry – Electronics
Niche – MP3/ MP4 Players, etc
Monthly Revenue – $21 000
Details…

Industry – Consumer Products
Niche – Handbags
Monthly Revenue - $20 000
Details…

Industry – Electronics
Niche – TV’s, Home Audio, etc
Monthly Revenue – $13 000
Details…

Industry – Electronics
Niche – Ink and Toner
Monthly Revenue – $12 900
Details…

Industry – Home Improvement
Niche – Canvas Paintings
Monthly Revenue - $23 000
Details…

Industry – Perfume
Niche – Fragrances
Monthly Revenue – $37 000
Details…

Industry – Sports Goods
Niche – Pool Products
Monthly Revenue – $10 000
Details…

If you feel inspired and like entering dropship business to achieve that level of income off just one dropshipping website you need to do a proper market research for products where you can compete with big retailers and generate enough sales. A few tools that will help you with that (include both: free and paid):

Popular eBay products (more free eBay research tools are here)
Hot selling eBay products
Demand fluctuations over years (includes geo and seasonality aspects)
Built-in market research tool (online demand vs competition and more…)
Keyword research tool

Once you have defined the idea of products that might be good sellers in your case it is time to see what product sourcing providers have to offer and join one or two:

Over 6 000 000 products + free training & videos + in-built market research tool
Over 8 000 verified wholesale dropshippers with ratings + free training + member forums

A few more product sourcing options are compared here

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When it comes to video consoles and games it seems to me that there will be no end to that craze about PlayStation, Nintendo, Xbox. Just have a look at the popularity of these three terms over years.

I think it should be illustrated compared to some other popular search term, say, GPS systems (if you have a habit of keeping an eye on popular Amazon products you know that GPS is always on the list of bestsellers.

The product is popular with kids, teenagers and grownups of both genders – video consoles and games target the entire Planet population!

If we approach this fact from home based drop ship business angle we will think in terms of dropshipping both video consoles and video games

Dropship distributor I would look for partnering with should be in business for some time. Huge demand is balanced with huge offer in video games industry – so it is naive to expect to be one of the few players in the niche. The market changes fast with new video games released each month – with dozens of successful releases there are thousands of failures and it is of crucial importance to know and be able to offer those few popular video games.

Where should you start your dropship merchant partner search? Wholesale dropship directory is the first place to turn to. First check these places where you are certain to find a few (not one) verified video game dropshippers:

• Worldwidebrands
• Salehoo
• Doba
• Shopster

If you can’t afford $50-100.00 investment into your home based drop ship business you can do Google research for free lists and verify found dropship merchants yourself.

A few advantages that the above listed drop ship directories provide:

• user’s community where you can find reviews of wholesale dropshippers,
• in-built market research tool that should help you to identify more hot market products to dropship,
• free 7-day trial;
• 100% refund in case you are unhappy with what you get for your money
• find more benefits of getting access to one or a few drop ship sourcing directories

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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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If you review our previous posts you will see that I most focus on two types of posts:

- Real life dropship case studies – what people dropship, how they promote and what they earn.
- Ideas for products to dropship – bratz dropship and blue ray DVD dropship are a few examples.

I have never turned to seasonal products yet – and to tell the truth, I have no experience with that type of products. Say – bicycle dropshipping. I am sure that there is demand for that type of products – to make sure I will check with a few tools. We see those search demand waves reminding us that we really deal with a seasonal type of product.

What about the supply? It makes no sense to move further if you are not sure you have a selection of verified dropshippers – I do not mean those that you get in Google when you type in ‘bicycle dropshippper’. I talk about the companies that are experienced with dropshipping and have some track record

I turn to the lists of reputable dropshippers and see that one lists no products I need and another offers them in abundance:

Along with the number of supplies I get some cool online market research – demand, competition, auction and retail pricing numbers. I do not rely on this data only, but it is really of great help to have a look into the product category where you have no experience.

Next – I turn to another dropship list and see six more potential bicycle dropship merchants that are presented in this way:

Bicycle Supplier – Join for Supplier Name & Website
Visit Website | More Information
Products: Summit Adult Trike, Kruzer King, Summit Industrial Bike.
Description: Distributor of bicycle products representing the top names in the industry, like Shimano, SRAM, Thomson.

Then I need to develop a marketing strategy. In my case I am not in a hurry with this project and I do not have a large budget at the moment. So, I would choose one of the cheap online bicycle dropship business strategies:

Launch a separate e-commerce website adding a few incoming links and growing content by 3-4 pages monthly. No PPC advertising, no e-mail marketing, no CPM banner advertising, no eBay auctions. I will start the website and assign min monthly time to update/ promote it. I hope the site will be properly indexed and gain some search engine rankings for the next peak of bicycle sales – in Jule 2010.

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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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