Do people buy electric guitars online? I do not play the guitar and need to first research this question. If you check Top 500 online stores you will find Musician’s Friend Inc. store on the list.

So, musical instruments are a good online seller. If you review just our recent articles you will agree that everything sells well on the Internet nowadays:

Scooter Dropship
Pet Apparel Dropshippers
Skateboard Dropshipper
Candle Drop Ship
Beauty Products Dropshipper
Bicycle Dropshipper

Back to electric guitar dropship. Now have a demand check with Google Insights service (Google just added a cool feature – Forecast – that allows you to look into the future of online demand). Here you see a declining trend of electric guitar search, but a good sign is that the top demand for this keyword is in the United States – so, it is your key market.

In-built Market Research (the research tool that comes along with the largest database access of verified dropshippers and wholesalers) is one more way for a product research. Valuable research data you get: demand, competition, advertising, auction pricing (yes, it is worth your time to explore eBay market). Here you also get information about suppliers available (= your potential dropship merchants):

If you feel that electric guitar dropship is your product you need some dropship merchants to check what they have to offer. In addition to the above service I would suggest you to check other sources of verified dropshippers

In my opinion, electric guitar dropship is not for everyone. You need to know the online market, demand, competition, but you also need electric guitar knowledge and passion. It is not that kind of the product that you can learn to love and it is not the product that you can become rich with, but it is great for those who plays and enjoys this instrument.

If you are a new reader of our dropship website you might be interested how we choose products for our research to define if they are good candidates for your home based business or dropship eBay business. The choice depends on the demand.

Keyword research tools, eBay Pulse, Google Insights for Search and a few other tools are invaluable and as a rule free sources of this information. Below are examples of our recent product researches:

-       Skateboard Dropshippers
-       Pet Apparel Dropshippers
-       Candle Drop Ship
-       Bicycle Dropshipper
-       Bluray DVD Dropshipper
-       Bratz Dropship

Another great way to start or develop your dropship business or dropship websites is to see what other people do and learn their best practices. For that purpose, we have our huge database of dropship business case studies where you can browse by product category or income generated to get ideas.

Finally, we have reviewed and listed dropship sources – you need reliable dropship merchants for your business – either you are going to dropship scooters or video games

OK, after this short introduction to dropshiparea.com website let’s turn to researching another potential product for your home business – scooter dropship. My first questions are – seasonality, market and demand volume as the price is relatively high (compared to other products like candle, pet apparel or dvd’s). Google Insights for Search is here to help us –you can clearly see the seasonal nature of the product You get more valuable info through this source – the top scooter markets:

Now I would like to have a look at my online competition – in my case I prefer to run dropship business through my websites (not eBay), so I need to see how much competition I have in general and who are top players in SEO & PPC. For that purpose I need a deeper keyword research to make sure I use a commercial keyword (we can check that with MSN online commercial intention tool).

Now it is time to learn something about our potential customers. Google Insights for Search is good to see the top markets for this or that product. Quantcast and MSN are helpful to get a more detailed description of out target audience.

The last, but not the least step of this initial scooter dropship research – scooter dropship merchants. You need to make sure there are verified suppliers that will drop ship your orders.

You can browse available merchants by category if you have subscribed to any of the below product sourcing providers. I prefer two sources – SaleHoo and WorldWide Brands (they provide lots of cool extras like In-Built Market Research that is a good starting point for your own product research and a valuable addition to my researches of products). OK, what we see is:

And SaleHoo listings include:

Yay! 6 results found for Scooter

Scooter Supplier – Join for Supplier Name & Website
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Products: ATV, Pocket Bike, Dirt Bike, Electric Scooter, Electric Golf Tricycle, Two Wheels ATV, Sea Scooter, Go Kart, Pogo Sticks, Electric Bike, Foot Scooter, Wheel Bicycle, Gas Scooter, Snow Scooter, Skateboard, Mini Chopper.

Description: A high-tech enterprise integrated with sports equipment production and trade.

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Products: Mini Motorcycles, Pocket Bikes, Gas & Electric Scooters, Dirt Bikes, Mopeds, ATVs, Go Cart, Scooter Accessories, Scooter Parts, RC Toys

Description: They are located in New York and are an importer of scooters. They carry a full line of gas and electric scooters as well as large amount sorts of scooter parts…

Now you have collected some initial information about online scooter market, competition and demand, suppliers and target audience. I tend to compare that information to other product research results and my past personal experience. There are much more factors that define your dropship product selection – free resources (time, money, personal likings, etc.)

Assuming you have done a proper research for a product that you would like to give a try to dropship pet apparel. Some samples of product research are available here (they are sort of starting points and in no way recommendations to dropship those product categories):

• Skateboard Dropshippers
• Candle Drop Ship
• Bicycle Dropshipper
• Bluray DVD Dropshipper
• Bratz Dropship

So, you have defined a product category to dropship – pet apparel. Next step in your e-commerce business plan is likely to be setting up relations with pet apparel dropshippers. This is an important step.

Your options include contacting local dealers, doing your independent internet research, applying to verified dropship sourcing providers. Let’s consider each option.

Contacting local dealers – this option greatly depends on your location. Not every place has a number of pet apparel wholesalers that you can reach out… And not every local pet apparel wholesaler is familiar with dropshipping business model. Though most wholesalers will easily get the idea most will decline your offer – they would need to make change to their business processes and paperwork and your volume of sale (from their point) would not compensate their efforts.

Your own online research of available pet apparel dropshippers – the idea is simple. You go to your favorite search engine and type ‘pet apparel dropshippers’. Your first impression – wow, thousands of pet apparel dropshipper listings to choose from. Once you browse through 20-30 listings you are less enthusiastic – many unrelated information, many listings of some poor quality products offered by some unknown companies… It does not mean that all hose thousands of listings are complete garbage – there are real dropshippers, but the question is how to define and verify those real dropshippers – reliable, with competitive prices and good reputation.

Applying to verified dropship sourcing providers – probably the easiest way to start your pet apparel dropship business. Those product sources are familiar with dropshipping and ready to fulfill your orders on the one hand; on the other hand those companies were verified by some third party and you can be confident that it is not some sort of scam Where do you find those listings of verified pet apparel dropshippers? You can see a few selected lists compared here