But in this case study I would like to discuss a few more e-commerce elements that any reputable online store should offer its potential customers in addition to a nice selection of reasonably priced products and good service.

I mean site credibility and transaction security.

Credibility is achieved with professional design, top notch code and signs of the third parties that monitor the site security (sample – ScanAlert, etc).

Transaction security is probably of even greater importance (do you check if SSL certificate  is valid with every online store you shop?) as any online shopper would like to be sure his payment information is secure and private.

I have tried to visit the below website and my virus system WARNED me of the virus threat.

So, if the store is not secure even for visiting what about shopping security? And what potential of making money this sort of project have?

Car GPS, Car Audio and Video Dropship Site

Work from home, lots of potential

•    URL: www.nav4cars.com – be careful to check the site as it was infected with virus when I have tried to evaluate that
•    Established: Fri Nov 30 2007
•    Monthly Revenue (USD): 100
•    Uniques/Month: 200
•    BIN: $ 3000

Description:

This is an e-commerce site that has is products dropshipped straight from the manufacturer to the customers. It has a shopping cart loaded with 34 products complete with detailed pictures and Product descriptions. It has a user friendly control panel from which you can control all aspects of the products. I have paid for SEO but still waiting for results to come in. I have notified the supplier that I am selling and they are ready to work with the new owner. I will be available over email and telephone for support.

Revenue Details:

This is a dropshipping e-commerce store. I only sell a few units per month but this is only the result from a limited Pay per click campaign if advertised more it will have a lot more revenue.

Traffic Details:

My traffic comes from PPC campaigns and youtube although I took my youtube advert down due to selling. Still waiting for SEO results as i herd it takes a few months. A lot more is possible if it was more heavily marketed.

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I think the key assets of the below project are the mentioned relations with two GPS dropshippers that are reliable and offer great prices. Is it possible to develop similar relations through other product sourcing channels? I guess it is, but it takes time and you are not the only one targeting the same dropship merchants.

If you do not think that GPS units are your sort of products – then a long list of product categories in our case study category should help.

GPS ecommerce site

1 year in business, unique design, easy to operate ecommerce site selling hot products

•    URL: www.progpsshop.com
•    Established: Mon Dec 31 2007
•    Monthly Revenue (USD): 1,500
•    Google Pagerank: 2

Description:

I started this website in Jan 2008. Unfortunately, I never had a chance to dedicate enough time to this
site to fully use its potential. In March-April-May it was promoted in Google Base / Shopping.com / Shopzilla – as result traffic boost, sales and revenue. Then due to complete luck of my attention/efforts traffic/sales dropped. This is completely drop-ship operated website, no stock involved. Current inventory is about 300 items but my drop-shippers have at least 3 times more. I have two highly reliable drop-shippers with great prices.

Traffic/SEO:

All pages are optimized for SEO. I have also done initial offsite SEO – link building and such. Have top 3 rankings with MSN on keywords such as “best portable gps” / “best handheld gps”. All traffic is from search engines / Google Base. I also tried Shopping.com / Shopzilla with success.

Traffic details:

March = 450
April =1900
May = 1200
June = 560
September = 342
October = 117

Bottom line:

You get great looking ready to sell website with great products. You also get 2 great reliable dropshippers.

You’ll get my support and help with installation/setup. I also have some professionally written articles I haven’t used yet – you’ll get them too.

This business has great opportunity to grow into something big, I believe so. Christmas shopping is coming and it’s a good opportunity to sale allot, because GPS is very popular gift these days.

Reason for selling:

Due to recent changes in priorities I’m selling ALL my web businesses and walking away from online to concentrate on my family and offline businesses.

Revenue Details:

April 2008 – $1500
May   2008 – $1200
Then zero
Net profit is about 15-30%.

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a. Investment. $15 000 is a nice lump amount and it is a risk to buy an internet business for this money.

b. Experienced online entrepreneur – one needs to know how to run the store backend, how to promote it and be sure how to return the investment and make profit with time.

It is an established website that is nearly 5 years old – it is one of the reasons to price it for $15,000.

Another great advantage for the new owner is 100% organic traffic – it means that it is possible to keep the current revenue level with no advertising costs, to run the business on autopilot taking care of customer service only.

Will I personally buy this dropship business?

I do not think so. The price is not cheap ($15,000) compared to risks involved. I am not familiar with the products and the market, so it could take some time to explore it. The owner tested affiliate programs on e-commerce website – why should I care about some affiliate sales if my e-commerce business runs smoothly? Those ads just take away your valuable traffic.

My approach is to start/ get low priced dropship businesses that do not require significant investment from the start. While you grow your cheaply acquired dropship business you learn: you get an idea about the market, competitors, suppliers, website promotion in that specific niche.

But you probably have a different look at this.

Here are the details of the gps dropship business in question:

4 years in business, custom templates, easy to operate

• URL: gps-store.net
• Established: 1 Jan 2003
• Uniques/Month: 10,000
• Page views/month: 30,000
• Monthly Revenue: $1k to $2K
• PageRank: 4
• Listed: 24 Oct 2007
• Sold: $15,000

Description:

Well Established Website started in 2003. This store is a yahoo store hosted by yahoo merchant solutions ($99 a month plus 1% sales) and can be moved. 80K in sales via web only, 300K total (government and toll free number). All products are dropshipped, no inventory. This site has never come close to its potential due to my time and effort with other projects. Will provide help with the transition.

Revenue Details:

Site will generate at least 1K to 2K profit or more depending on if you are willing to take calls generated from the website. This store will usually do $10K to 15K in orders during Christmas with no advertising.

As a test I have recently took 3 pages of our website (October 1st) and turned them into affiliate pages with amazon and google, it has generated $70 in commissions with Amazon this month.

Traffic Details:

99% of all traffic is from search engines hardly ever used PPC. There are approximately 700 pages on this website with around 500 active items. Have top 5 rankings with Google and Yahoo on high traffic keywords such as “Gps Store” #2 Google #2 Yahoo and look up “discount gps”

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