Dropshipping is a woking model for your e-commerce business. I have posted about possibilities you have to buy an established dropship websites. Samples of droship website sale are here and here There was another sale of an established dropship website – this time outside furniture dropship website:

• URL: thecedarstation.com
• Established: 9 Mar 2002
• Uniques/Month: 12,000
• Page views/month: 45,000
• Monthly Revenue: Profit $17,000+ Year – Taxes are available from 04′ and 05′
• PageRank: 4
• Listed: 14 Aug 2006

Description:

Im selling a dropship furniture website I have, if anyone is interested. You dont have to stock anything, or ship anything. Its a yahoo legacy store. I dont have time for it anymore, and its being neglected. It has rankings for outdoor furniture, teak outdoor furniture, deck furniture type phrases, and a bunch more. “Patio furniture” has fallen into the 60’s, though I had number 2 for that phrase for sometime. That phrase alone gets like 200,000 searches in the summer, and it shouldn’t be hard at all to get back into the top 10 on google. Im sure you could have all rankings back by the next summer rush. The site has about 9,000 total backlinks also. Its a very strong site.

I got into real estate investing sometime ago, and its basically become my life. I don’t have time for article writing, link exchanging etc. I hate sitting here, and watching this website go down the tubes, because its made me great money over the last few years.

Email/pm and Ill fax/email you tax information and whatever else you need. I’ve never sold a website, so Im not sure how this process is supposed to work.

PR4
4 years old
Individual visitors per month – 12,000+ (low end. This number was MUCH higher when all rankings were in place.)
Page views – 45,000+ (low end)
Dmoz listed – 3 years

Compared to other phrases I’ve ranked for, outdoor furniture type phrases are generally easy. I cruised for over 2 years doing absolutely no seo, and kept top rankings. Last summer/fall this site was getting well over 1000 individual customers a day. Im also going to give you a guide I wrote that tells exactly how to achieve rankings in search engines, so you can keep the rankings I have obtained, and get the ones you want. The seo I’ve done to this website alone is worth $10,000 alone.

Revenue Details:

Summer/Spring months are 90% of income

Traffic Details:

Traffic is from multiple organic rankings for highly trafficked keyphrases in major search engines such as Google, Yahoo! and MSN.

Summary: Drop ship business model is a good way to diversify your online business. I do not think you should focus all your efforts on drop shipping – it is not a lasting business model – at least from my point of view. But if you have a good supplier and after your online marketing research you see potential to grow business in that direction – you should give it a try.

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So, you run or are about to start your own blog and devour the information (that is abundant online) how to make your blog successful. One of the ideas that you will come across in every article on blog success is that:

You need to generate original content of super quality.

Partly, I agree with this statement, but it is not always the case.

If you think that you can succeed in blogging with high quality unique content only I will prove you that you are wrong. Below are just a few samples of the blogs that are super popular on the Internet, but they do not generate much unique content, they just link to different kind of information that they find themselves or get from their readers.

I do not say that it is a simple way to succeed, but it proves that you can find an angle or niche, think of the ways how to present your information and succeed with the blog that just links to other website information.

BoingBoing The most successful blog of this kind I am aware of. They have about 50,000 feed subscribers (including me). Home page rank 9 (!). A Directory of Wonderful Things – this is the way they position themselves that gives a pretty wide area for post links – they cover any topics that fit their idea of Wonderful Things.

Lifehacker Home page rank 7. About 1,000 feed readers. Unique Selling Proposition (USP) – Lifehacker recommends the software downloads and web sites that actually save time. Don’t live to geek; geek to live. Yes, a great motto.

The Hype Machine This one is about music. They have a lower number of feed subscribers – just above 200, home PR 6. But it is very popular with those who search and listen to music online. The idea of the blog: Discover, listen and buy music discussed on the best mp3 blogs.

I have no idea how much online property of this kind generates monthly in cash, but I am sure that it is sufficient for doing things you enjoy in life. Any of the above websites is a brand name.

Summary: I repeat that the purpose of my post is not to state that the above blogs make easy money – the people behind the websites are smart guys (and ladies?), no doubt. I just would like to show that it is possible to succeed in blogging with some other things besides unique content: with an IDEA or with design or with content presentation, etc.

And there is a chance to succeed in any industry. It should not be a blog on some web related topic – it can be cars, humor, video, travel, business, career – any topic is a good fit.

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Sixteen cities where 6FigureJobs.com and TheLadders.com have had the greatest number of six-figure job listings, and the gross salary required to replicate $100,000 after adjusting for cost-of-living.

While being in the 6figurejobs list can be a marker of a certain level of success, it is not always a marker of buying power.

In many cities, a $100,000 salary only sounds a lot better than it really is because the cost of living is high, taxes are high and even the rate of inflation runs higher than in other parts of the country.

Consider inflation. Over the past 12 months through May, overall inflation in New York was 4.8%. In Cleveland, the rate was 3%. The rate of inflation on rent was 5.6% in New York, while in Cleveland it was just 0.8%.

Consider taxes. State and local taxes make a big difference in how much you net, but so, too, does the federal income tax. Earning a nominally higher salary puts you in a higher tax bracket.

If you adjust for cost of living differences, that $205,000 salary would be worth $102,000 in Cleveland or Denver. The effective federal tax rate on that amount would be just 20.4%, so you would pay $20,868, with $81,480 left over.

It is evident that the greatest number of six-figure jobs tend to be in the most pricey and populous cities, but there are also plenty of opportunities in more affordable ones.

New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. are in the top 10.

Besides being less costly, there is another big advantage these cities offer if you’re in the running to make six figures. To attract talent, companies often will offer the same big salaries that you could earn in New York or San Francisco.

Here is the list of top Cities:

New York            $205,426
San Francisco      $179,034
Los Angeles        $156,106
San Diego           $149,384
Washington, D.C.$141,894
Boston               $137,649
Chicago              $126,929
Seattle               $117,037
Atlanta               $102,805
Denver               $102,348
Cleveland           $101,986
Milwaukee           $101,478
Phoenix              $97,976
Dallas                 $93,665
Charlotte            $92,991
Houston             $88,977