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.

[tags]dropship turnkey website, drop ship, wholesale, ebay, e-commerce, dropshippers list[/tags]

It is often the case: a person gets an access to some verified dropshipper wholesale list and have no idea what products to start with. The easiest (and often recommended) way is to begin with some product category you have knowledge of.

I do not share this point. In my opinion it is a much better solution to start with those products that can bring you a nice profit margin. No doubt – you will get profits from dvd dropship much different from jewelry items or electronics dropship. It makes sense to spend some time to research the industry and the market (you know – some advanced dropship directories now integrate market research in-built). Then slowly test the sales and the entire process on eBay or Amazon. And finally start your own e-commerce store.

Selling higher priced tickets is also less time consuming. You can expect much higher demand for dvd’s than for DSLR photo cameras. As a result, you need to make much bigger volume of work to process the orders, to accept payments, to reply the buyers’ e-mails and complaints, to control that all items are available and shipped by your wholesale dropshippers, etc.

Just another case study of dropship website that is on sale. I think our dropship businesses on sale series is a great way to see what products are more profitable to dropship. And certainly you know that you can always invest some money and buy a fully functional dropship business that deals with the products you would like to dropship.

$10,000-$15,000 sales a month, $2,500-$4,000 profit a month

• URL: MonkeyTech.com.au
• Established: 24 Jul 2007
• Uniques/Month: 4,500
• Page views/month: 10,000
• Monthly Revenue: $10,000 – $15,000
• Listed: 5 Oct 2007

Description:

This website, www.MonkeyTech.com.au, is a very well established website, that took several months to design and set up, until it’s launch in Late July 2007.

So even after only a few months, www.MonkeyTech.com.au has already had over $25,000US in sales! And this is in AUSTRALIA ONLY! Just think about the money that could be made if Monkey Tech went global!

Monkey Tech sells:

• Digital Cameras
• Video Cameras
• Handheld Consoles
• Memory Cards
• Mobile Phones
• Projectors
• Multimedia Players
• D-SLR Lenses
• Batteries
• Games

We have numerous Drop Shippers and wholesalers that we use to get our products, with some being in Australia, and the rest all around the world! We have built up very strong relationships with these Drop Shippers, meaning fast deliveries, and amazing customer service from them. These Drop Shippers, will ship worldwide with tracking.

Sales per month are about $10,000US – $15,000US on average. Total profits around $2500US – $4000US a month. Here are details for September sales online:

September:

Total Sales: $11,100.00 US
Earnings: $2,550.00 US
Expenses: $650.00 US
Profits: $1,900.00 US
Orders: 18

These are our sales figures, and as you can see, VERY BIG numbers. And keep in mind, THIS IS AUSTRALIA ONLY! I just don’t have the time and patience to add prices for United States, United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, and other countries! THE MONEY YOU COULD MAKE IS…. HUGE!

Running the business takes usually only 1.30 hours a day AT MOST. Duties include:

- Processing orders (ordering from supplier and sending tracking numbers/shipping info 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 (even if this does take time, the orders you get from it will be worth it!)
- Our suppliers do ship internationally, so you never have to worry about carrying un-needed stock
- Managing PPC/Advertising campaigns ( it is up to how aggressive you want to be with this… honestly we have not managed our current PPC/Advertising campaigns very well and there is a lot of room for improvement in this area, if you want to invest the time)
- Any SEO you may want to do to the site, as not much is being done at the moment

Advertising:
We currently advertise with Australian companies:
www.getprice.com.au (this one costs from $200-$350 a month), and provides great advertising on several websites.
www.google.com/adwords (used less, but very good for advertising in multiple countries, can cost about $40-150 a month)
www.shopping.com (we use this on and off, but when we use it, very good advertising, can get costy though)

You see that the website takes just 1.30 hour per day to run this electronics dropshipper store properly. Just 18 orders bring over $11,000 in earnings. Imagine how many low price items you need to sell to make that volume.

Yes, and the owner has distinctly outlined the possible directions to increase the sales. It is not a secret that online electronics market is oversaturated. But do you know markets that are not oversaturated today?

So, my point was to show that it makes sense to target high priced tickets with your dropship business to maximize your earnings with business model that is call dropshipping.

[tags]dropship, drop ship, wholesale, ebay, e-commerce[/tags]

I have recently posted a sample of jewelry wholesale dropship website for sale. Another sample comes today.

Some of this website readers ask what is the purpose of posting all these dropship website on sale. My point is simple:

- it is an excellent proof that dropship model works, it is profitable and a great way to make money from home with no much investment
- you get an idea how much one can earn with dropshipping
- you get ideas what products are a nice match fro drop shipping
- you can start your profitable dropship business within a week or so if you decide to buy the website listed in our case studies review section

In addition to working dropship websites (incl. jewelry wholesale dropship) I provide the product sourcing reliable directories:

OneSource – dropship directory. FREE preview & video

Doba – 250,000 products to sell. FREE 7-day trial

SaleHoo – over 150 product categories. FREE tour & member forum

Real dropshippers REVEALED

Over 700,000 Products to choose from. FREE trial

See the detailed real dropshippers directories compared here.

So, from my point of view you should get enough information once you browse this website long enough:

- what products to dropship
- where to find those reliable dropship merchants
- where and how to promote your online sales

Today I list another sample of jewelry wholesale dropship business on sale:

• URL: jscwholesale.com
• Established: 5 Aug 2003
• Uniques/Month: 1,275
• Page views/month: 13,847
• Monthly Revenue: 250-No Advertising
• PageRank: 1
• Profit: 30,000/ year

Description:

Hi guys this site is still a diamond for the right owner. As soon as I tapped into affiliate marketing and info products I immediately stoped promoting this to focus on my new business model. The plan was for my wife to take this site for herself but we had twins and that consumed all of her time. The site did 30,000+ in 04 and 05 when I was promoting the site via Adwords on specific products. The site gets all natural traffic and makes about $250 per month without advertising as it stands. I recently changed hosts so my stats are scewed but you can check alexa and the way back machine to see the site has been around.

The site is regularly indexed by 15+ search engines and all that it would take for the new owner to make the money again is to advertise. I will show you exactly how to get set up with the distributor and anything else you need.

The hosting and domain are set for another year so you can simply login and take over. I really have no idea how to tranfer this all myself so you should know all this if you want to move it. The recent host change I had to pay a guy to do. Please contact me with all details and proof.

Revenue Details:

Right now the site brings in about $250 a month with zero advertising but here are the financials going back to 2003. Send me a message for actual proof of earnings and oscommerce sales/tax reports.
2007-$1,287-April and May I had the site down to move to another server
2006-$5,604
2005-$30,024
2004-$36,433
2003-$8,698

Traffic Details:

Currently the site recieves all natural traffic and recurring customers. In the oscommerce admin panel there are over 700 customers with their email addresses in which I never really took advantage of. Some customers come in and spend thousands ay one time to stock their stores or resale at flea markets. When I was advertising I was simply using Adwords with product related keywords. The biker gear and knives are especially hot items.

[tags]dropshp jewelry, dropshipping, drop ship, wholesale, internet marketing, affiliate marketing[/tags]