This is no doubt a hot product to sell online – huge demand (vs. huge competition, of course). If you have any doubts, monitor this list over time – I guarantee that you will always come across some GPS units in there.

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%.

For those who do not feel that product approach described in our previous article is their way with online business we add a new case study – this time we will have a look at the car audio (plus other electronics) dropship website for sale.

The goal of this post as well as of all those articles that you can find listed in our dropship case study category is:

• to show what type of products other online entrepreneurs dropship and what hot is right now
• to learn how dropship affiliates efficiently market those products online
• to understand how to build proper long term relations with customers to build a lot of regulars
• to get an idea how to build proper long term relations with the suppliers to cut returns, get better prices and improve fulfillment

Completely finished dropship business for sale. Already generating traffic and sales

Sells car audio, home audio, and marine audi equipment plus more. Already signed up with supplier. LLC Legal Structure

•    URL: www.dominantcaraudio.com
•    Established: Sun Aug 31 2008
•    Page views/month: 30,000
•    Monthly Revenue (USD): 400
•    Google Pagerank: 0
•    Uniques/Month: 3,000
•    BIN: $4 000

Description:

Search Engine Optimized
Submitted to all major search engines
Submitted XML sitemap to google
Submitted to over 100 directories
Many press releases released
About 20-25 articles have been written
Over 4400 products in inventory.  It took me 2 weeks alone just to add all of those products.  All of the prices are competitive.
Merchant Account setup
Authorize.net account setup.
Been Posting on forums and at answers.yahoo.com

Traffic being tracked by google analytics.

-1600 visitors so far this month alone
-Bounce rate is 25%
-9-10 pageviews per visitor
-Average visitor time on site is 5-6 minutes
-15,500 total pageviews so far this month

I launched it last month on October 2nd and made $400 in net profit that month.  I’m sure with an experienced web marketer you can easily double or triple that.  I’m open to offers and I can prove all of those statistics that I just mentioned.  I’ve put so much work into this website and I’ve simply run out of money.  The amount of debt that I put myself into must be paid off before I spend any more time or money advertising for this website.

Revenue Details:

It is a dropship business.  Once someone places an order, you place an order with the supplier.  The supplier ships the product straight to the customers house and you keep the difference in price.

Traffic Details:

carstereo.com ppc account
google ppc
google organic
yahoo organic
answers.yahoo.com
wikipedia.com
ezine.com
freepressrelease.com
direct traffic

I would like to discuss today what steps you can take once you have spotted a cool hot selling product. It is not a secret that any business idea check starts with market research – demand, customers, market, etc.

Let’s assume you have done all that properly and discovered that Lego toys are really hot with eBay right now. You see an opportunity, but the problem is you need some reliable Lego dropship merchant. And you don’t want to spend money on all those lists of dropshippers available online

So, you can do your own research for dropshippers – but you need to remember that you are not protected against scam, that the prices can be uncompetitive, etc.

Nonetheless, this idea of a direct and free dropshipper search is a good one. Once you are through with 5 Google search result pages you feel that something does not work – you come across either those dropship lists that you do not want to pay for right now or across some unrelated stuff – eBay auctions, YouTube videos and other crap.

Why do not you find dropship merchants with their Lego listings? There are various reasons – those companies do not use Internet to that extent yet, they do not want to be visible to the public with this product category, etc…

Step by step you are back to the idea to give a try to those lists of verified dropshippers So you check the reputation and feedback – are you likely to get another scam product? Then you need to choose one – you can’t afford buying all lists.

At this stage it is reasonable to use free trial offers or free previews Once you have tried that and did not find what you need for your home business – time to invest some money into those lists that are not labeled as scam, but do not offer any free trial or preview.

Before entering your card data shoot an e-mail and ask the list seller if they have any Lego dropshippers. No reply received? It is better to forget about that dropship list.

Otherwise it is time to do some ivestments into your online business. In case those lists do not deliver what they promise – feel free to ask for a full refund. The seller will have no choice, but reimburse you in full.