What about dropshipping products for real men?

Something unlike:

Clothes dropshipping
Basket dropshipping
Book dropshipping
Handbags dropshipping
Jewelry dropshipping

But something like:

Tactical Eyewear
Tactical Apparel
Tactical Footwear
Protective Gear
Tactical Knives
Tactical Lighters
Tactical Lighting
Sharpeners
Outdoor Gear
Tactical Swords
Tactical Tools
Tactical Watches

I admit that products are quite specific. No doubt, they have their audience and customers – a niche store that can make thousands with proper marketing. And I think it is possible to spot a merchant dropshipper of these products quite easily

To tell the truth, it is one of the most professional dropship site designed I have ever seen. 90% dropship affiliate stores are amateur websites that I would never submit my credit card details to.

Tactical Supply Website 4 Sale – 27,000 Products – Blog – Single Drop Shipper

A premium ecommerce website offering a cutting edge design and programming.

• URL: www.elitetacticalgear.com
• Established: Sun Nov 30 2008
• Uniques/Month: 583
• Page views/month: 1,668
• Monthly Revenue (USD): 45
• Min Bid: $5 000

Description:

Elite Tactical Gear is a cutting edge ecommerce store, built on the world famous Yahoo! Store Platform. Elite Tactical is a high end Yahoo! Store that would take 6-8 months to build by a qualified Yahoo! Developer. The Website Design is a custom “original” design and if you compare this site to your “Tactical Gear” competition. You will blow them all away! The cost of building a site like this, not including adding a 27,000 product catalog would run in the thousands.

Price: I have an amount reserve set. Don’t ask me what the reserve price is. If someone contact me and makes me an offer I will consider all reasonable offers.

Drop Shipper: I have a relationship set-up with the drop shipper. An account set-up with this state-of-the-art company can be managed easily by one person.

Reason Selling: Time Constraints

Open for Business: Elite Tactical Gear was started December 2008. The Design, Programming and 27,000 product catalog was added and “Open for Business” of March 18. It has received a sale.

Support: I have over 10 years experience with Yahoo! Stores. I am a Official Yahoo Small Business Developer. This fact should insure you that you will get all the support you need.

Real Html Pages: Elite Tactical gear uses real .html pages or does it have long dynamically driven url that looks like www.domain.com/shop/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1452. Static HTML pages do extremely well on Search Engines. Yahoo! Store pages rank highest on the Internet.

Programming: Yahoo Merchant Solutions is an RTML programmed website. RTML is a proprietary programming language used exclusively by Yahoo!’s Yahoo! Store and Yahoo! Site web hosting services. RTML outputs to HTML

Payment: Serious bids & inquires only! We use an escrow service like Escrow.com.

Ecommerce Platform: Yahoo! Merchant Solutions

Hosting Fees: Hosting Fees: 39.95 per month afterwards – includes site, cart, and complete website. 1.5% transaction fee with additional plans available at lower transaction fees.

Transfer of Ownership: The ownership is through my company New Ad City LLC. Site can be transferred easily.

Domain name: New owner assumes the rights to the domain name www.elitetacticalgear.com

Yahoo! Backend Support: Elite Tactical Gear is fully supported from Yahoo! Merchant Solutions (backend and cart)

Maintaining Inventory: Anyone that purchase this site will get information from me on how to maintain you ACTIVE product catalog seamlessly

Image Hosting: All website and product images are hosted within the store. Yahoo! Store assigns each product image a unique ID. All main product images and additional inset images can be resized automatically using the Store Editor. Images can also be stored in the Store Editor Files Library. Web hosting Control Panel (ftp access available)

Training: 30 days of Training and help with the website

Training includes: Store Editor | Catalog Manager | Shipping Manager | Checkout Pages | Promotion | Coupon Manager and more.

Revenue Details:

Open for Business as of March 18th 2008. On sale so far.

Traffic Details:

Traffic Comes from Organic Search Engine results.

Tactical Supply Dropshipper is a post from: We talk on making money on the Internet

I guess we have discussed how to choose hot products – what tools to use to define those product categories that get tons of demand (= not so fierce competition). Dropshipper sources are reviewed at our website though an attempt to find one directly is worth trying.

It is hard or next to impossible to monitor ALL hot products – the best way to resolve this is to go niche deep. Say, you choose shoes products (cool products to sell online, but quite high returns) and build your dropship business around this product category.

It is much easier to research for hot products just in the shoes niche. When you work in one niche you learn much about it and you get a feeling for it. Ugg boots are hot right now.

It is news for me, but I am sure that those who do business in the shoes niche know of this fact weeks or even month already – in this way they get a competitive advantage that allows them to be one step ahead of others.

I just start to make a market research though my smart and shoe focused competitors dropship Ugg boots for weeks now. It is going to be hard to catch with them.

What I try to tell you in this post is that to be successful online (as well as offline) one needs to properly choose one industry/ product category/ niche and focus on that. When I was new to online business due to my inexperience and poor marketing skills I have chosen to dropship wrist watches. It took me two years to finally understand that writ watches are not hot and in high demand, that most people can do without watches altogether… I did some sales while others – smarter competition – focused on dropshipping iPods, GPS systems, adult toys, video games…

Ugg Boots Dropshipper is a post from: We talk on making money on the Internet