Dropship websites for sale is a good proof for those who doubt if dropship business model works. Here comes another listing of drop ship website for sale:

When I see a profitable website for sale I feel like checking two things first – stats (traffic, sales, etc) and explanation why an owner wants to get rid of a money making website.

Prolongboards.com – Niche Drop Ship Business

• URL: prolongboards.com
• Established: 31 Dec 2005
• Uniques/Month: 1,500
• Page views/month: 10,000
• Monthly Revenue: $500+

Description:

Septemeber saw it get 1,500 Unique visitors and almsot 10,000 pageviews.
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History

Prolongboards was born in the UK as an importer and exporter of longboards to Europe. Since Longboarding is really an American thing, importing them to the UK and the EU seemed to be a trend setting venture. To start with, I bought in $2000 worth of longboards (20 Decks and 5 Complete Boards) which I had to restock pretty quick since initial demand was reletively high. Sales seemed to dip in later months but were still generating around $500 a month revenue.
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Future

I feel that Prolongboards is destined to be a Profit machine. Not only do I have suppliers who will Drop Ship their products (so no need for stock), but the speed that longboarding is growing, especially in Sweden, is extraordinary to say the least. I have made several friends through the shop who keep telling me how popular longboarding is getting in mainland Europe, something which Prolongboards RIGHT NOW has the means to capitalize on!
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Why Am I Selling the Business?

I am selling the business and the site for two reasons.
1) I want to pay back $1000 to my dad who graciously lent me the money to start the shop
2) I want to concentrate more on marketing instead of running a business. Packing and taking stuff to post takes up too much of my time and could be utilized better by someone else, I feel.
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General Traffic / Site Info

The Site has been online since Jan 2006 and has been growing in popularity steadily since its conception. Although it is only PR1, I feel with maybe 6 months, a few more sites will link to prolongboards getting it a higher PR.

Traffic flows have been steady and targetted. We have not been using ANY PPC or Advertising of any sort, apart from posting on two forums. All our traffic is derived from these forums and the Search Engines which it ranks highly on.

For September, its best performing month, we got 1,492 Unique Visitors and 9,683 Pageviews According to Google Analytics.(Proof = http://prolongboards.com/analytics.bmp – *3.75mb watch out*)

For All the months previous to September, Webalizer has been running, which can be seen at http://prolongboards.com/webalizer/default.html
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Specialized Aspects of the site

I myself am preficient with PHP and MYSQL. I coded the Shopping Cart, Stock Facility and Longboard Contruction Wizard, ALL of which have been made from scratch by ME. I did not use a third party shopping cart system as I wanted to concentrate more on SEO which I felt I could achieve better from my own content.

This Coding alone would set you back an easy $900!

I also did ALL of the graphics from scratch, which could have cost $300 if you hired a pro to do it.
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Supplier Info

All the Suppliers are willing to Drop Ship, apart from a wholesaler in the UK. This is unavoidable because I am in the UK but there are many other distributors in different countries so if you wanted to change the shop for a different market, that would be fine.
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PRICE

With Monthly Revenue of around $500, I feel I could ask anything up to $10,000 for this site.

Source

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Once you see your websites become profitable you feel great satisfaction. You realize that the hours of your work were not wasted in vain. From this moment on you have two ways to go with affiliate marketing:

a. You can scale your profitable activity up once you know how to make your website type profitable. Just make a few similar websites in different niches or focus on this website adding new content and features on a regular basis. Or

b. You can test other techniques in affiliate marketing that you know work great with other webmasters, but you had no time to try.

In my opinion, it is the second way to go. The reasons are numerous:

- you diversify your income sources;
- you feel more confident;
- you reduce your risks that in case your current profitable algorithm expires you will have to start from scratch;
- you learn new things, get new ideas, make new contacts;
- you are likely to find ways to earn more than you are doing currently

It is a good idea to make a list of things to learn and try with your profession. The list is not fixed and you can modify your plan according to the situation – you can add new emerging techniques to try and delete the ones that are outdated or inefficient you know from the people you trust.

Every person has his own experiences, level of skills, etc. My list of things to try in Internet marketing includes at this time:

- PPC arbitrage
- Landing pages
- Data feeds (a nice place to learn some basics is here)
- E-mail newsletter (it remains the best way to keep in contact with your audience)
- MySpace marketing (am I too late to the game?)
- Test with new website types to diversify my portfolio
- Actively experiment with AzoogleAds offers

Summary: I guess every person needs a sort of a plan to progress and to keep up with the time.

How much time can the plan like this take? I think each technique will take probably a month or so to get a good idea how things work. And then it is necessary to track the results.

It is not the only work that I have to do, so I think I will be through by the summer of 2007.

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There is a forum discussion: what is the biggest income source with online entrepreneurs. It takes three minutes to analyze the post and get invaluable information.

I paid attention to the webmasters who make really big money online (from my point of view) – their ID’s are tagged with their monthly revenue: $10-50,000 per month. It is gross revenue, do not mix it with net income.

So, the guys who make the biggest money online deal with:

1. coding
2. design
3. e-commerce/ online stores
4. affiliate sales

It is quite a revelation for me that affiliate marketing does not top the list. In fact, it is in the fourth place.

OK, my next move was to discover how big earners make big money with affiliate marketing. I analyzed only those members who stated that affiliate marketing is their primary income source). Another three minute analysis and I discover that it is a matter of niche you are focused on.

Yes, these guys run websites in different niches. But their major source of income:

- ringtone industry
- financial sector (debts, loans, insurance, etc)
- pharmaceuticals
- etc.

And the money comes from AdSense as well as CPA (cost per action programs) – lead generation primarily. CPA is definitely not dead for these guys.

Summary: What does this short analysis show? Diversify. And not just with various website types and industries, but diversify your entire activity, mix it with some offline projects.

You can earn some money with so-called hobby websites. But if your target is to make big money online than you have to search ways to get into these industries.

I do not state that there are no big earners in other niches. I just have an impression that there are more financially successful webmasters in the above mentioned and similar lucrative industries.

My next step was to research some information on affiliate marketing in the financial and pharmaceutical industries (and I do not doubt that it is very difficult to start with them at this time).

I expected that there would be no many detailed guides on the topic, but I have discovered some recent publications that I am still going to explore.

- on financial affiliate marketing
- on pharmaceuticals affiliate marketing

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