August 26th, 2008
Here comes another dropship business case study. The website was successfully sold for $35 000 – there are people confident that dropship business is a lasting business model to invest funds into a website like that
As always I recommend going through our dropship case study category – more products ideas, more techniques how to promote those products.
To tell the truth, I am impressed with the dropship site in question performance. Launched just 10 months ago and with min paid advertising it shows great results. If we assume tat all information is authentic then probably the success keys are proper product research and quality SEO.
Swords are not high price tickets most comes in the range of $20-80.00: so one needs to sell LOTS of swords to make 7K monthly.
And what about the targeted audience? Fast check shows us that top audience is females (58%) aged under 18 (25%). Well I guess I need to better follow what products teenagers and kids find interesting nowadays…
Sell Swords Online – $7k+ Revenue/month
Strong PR4, 1,670 Indexed Pages, Many Top 10 Keywords
• URL: www.heavenlyswords.com
• Established: Sun Sep 30 2007
• Uniques/Month: 20,000
• Page views/month: 155,000
• Monthly Revenue: $7,716.98
• Google Pagerank: 4
Description:
You do not want to miss this outstanding opportunity! It is 100% dropship business.
This terrific site opened its doors last October and since then it has continued to increase its revenue.
The site ranks very high in Google for dozens of terms; I’ll list a small portion of them here:
# 2 for Bleach Swords
# 3 for Anime Swords
# 3 for Fantasy Swords
# 5 for Video Game Swords
Many interior pages carry Page Rank, some of which are PR3.
Expenses are very low, July’s expenses were $294.53 which is broken down below:
AdWords $119.53
Toll Free Answering Service $175 (they answer the phones, take orders, etc.)
Of course, Cost of Goods Sold is also an expense. My markup is about 50%.
Visitors since the beginning of the year are as follows:
Jan. 9,979
Feb. 12,651
March 15,795
April 16,496
May 23,065
June 23,536
July 22,948
As you can see, this site has a steady income stream and huge potential to make even more.
Why am I selling? I am recently engaged; planning for the wedding is taking up a lot of my time so I do not have the capacity to keep growing the business. And since we have to pay for the wedding ourselves, I really need the money.
Revenue Details:
Jan. $2,555.91
Feb. $2,411.36
March $4,597.29
April $4,148.04
May $7,382.83
June $7,296.99
July $7,716.98
Traffic Details:
The site has many repeat buyers!
11.26% Direct Traffic
26.77% Referring Sites
61.97% Search Engines