Dropshipping health products is a good idea – the end of illegal online pharmacies promises a big market and demand for dropshipping vitamins, nutritional supplements and other related products.

One aspect of starting a dropshipping business is the proper choice of products to dropship. In the previous posts you could read success case studies of online dropship businesses that deal with a wide variety of products.

No doubt it is more profitable to sell and easier to market some product lines. To find out what to dropship, you need at least simple demand / supply research, but you should take your time to carry out a much more extensive market research if you are serious about growing your dropship business as your main source of income. For now, enjoy the new case study, make notes to implement best practices with your dropship ventures.

• URL: vitaminbungalow.com
• Established: 9 Sep 2004
• Uniques/ Month: 4,500
• Page views/ month: 15,000
• Monthly Revenue: 8000
• PageRank: 4
• BIN: $14,000

Description:

4 Year old drop ship fitness product website (with sister 3 way link site) for sale. 5-8k visitors a month over 4k in customer database and newsletter subscriber list. Repeat customers , low overhead. Professional SEO and link work throughout

Revenue Details:

Product sales, adwords, affiliates

Traffic Details:

Direct repeat customer, site referrals, Organic search engine we do not do paid search engine listing all traffic is organic. We also use MS product upload and google base uploads for products

New dropship success case study. The below business has been sold for $5600.00, but you have enough info if you browse our website properly to start and profitably run similar business.

In addition to your time and perseverance you will need reliable dropship suppliers and efficient marketing techniques

Poker no doubt gets more and more popular – online and offline. I guess the reason it gets so popular online is that online gambling is illegal in the USA and poker takes its place. So drop shipping poker supplies is likely to enjoy a growing demand. And probably it is the best time to start a poker dropship business at this very time.

OK, here are the details of the latest dropship business case study.

• URL: signaturepoker.com
• Established: 1 Jun 2004
• Monthly Revenue: $8K/yr
• PageRank: 4
• Listed: 29 Jan 2008

Description:

This auction is for the SignaturePoker.com business. SignaturePoker.com is an online drop shipping poker website. It is an established business and brand that has been online for almost 4 years (established June 2004). We sell poker products such as poker chips, poker table tops and poker accessories to our customers.

This has been a very lucrative business for us. If you take a look at the screen shots on the right, you will see that at it’s peak, our business pulled in revenue of over $24,000/yr. This number does not even reflect the $2,500+ that was paid to us in direct advertising.

Last year, even when we didn’t have as much time to devote to our business, you can see by the screen shots we still made over $8,000+ in revenue. Anyone who has time to devote to this business should be able to make much more than that.

Adsense is on the site but not positioned is a place as to distract the customer. Since February 2006 the site has made close to $500 in adsense revenue.

Another great reason to purchase this business is that it is turnkey. Our site is already optimized for the keyword “poker chips”, which we show up for on the first page of Google at approximately the 6th position. We usually bounce between 4th and 9th on the first page of Google for the term “poker chips”. If you enter that term into SEO software (http://www.keyworddiscovery.com/search.html) you’ll see that it is searched for more than 55,000 times per month. The hard part has been done for you!

In addition to the benefit of the SEO done for you, the site also has acquired 38 registered (double opt in) newsletter members over the past year or so. Our newsletter is distributed through Aweber.com.

The reason we are selling our business is that we are opening up a few more online businesses. One of these being an SEO company. We used our white hat SEO techniques to obtain our great position in Google.

What You Need To Run The Site

* We will transfer the domain name to you.
* We will coordinate with our drop shipper. You will need to be approved by them to use their service.
* You will need hosting. We use Yahoo small business solutions.
* You will need a merchant account. We will give you the info to contact our merchant services if you’d like.
* You will need a bank account.
* We update our site with XSitePro/Yahoo small business solutions.
* We can lend a helping hand for a short time after the purchase for questions.
* Aweber or some form of newsletter distributor (optional).

Revenue Details:

This has been a very lucrative business for us. If you take a look at the screen shots on the right, you will see that at it’s peak, our business pulled in revenue of over $24,000/yr. This number does not even reflect the $2,500+ that was paid to us in direct advertising.

Last year, even when we didn’t have as much time to devote to our business, you can see by the screen shots we still made over $8,000+ in revenue. Anyone who has time to devote to this business should be able to make much more than that.

Adsense is on the site but not positioned is a place as to distract the customer. Since February 2006 the site has made close to $500 in adsense revenue.

Traffic Details:

Another great reason to purchase this business is that it is turnkey. Our site is already optimized for the keyword “poker chips”, which we show up for on the first page of Google at approximately the 6th position. We usually bounce between 4th and 9th on the first page of Google for the term “poker chips”. If you enter that term into SEO software (http://www.keyworddiscovery.com/search.html) you’ll see that it is searched for more than 55,000 times per month. The hard part has been done for you!

Ask anyone the question: what is the time of the year when the most purchases are made? The answer that is going to follow will be only one – Christmas time. This is the time when people flood stores (and Internet ones as well) and buy all they see. It is a very nervous time for retailers and for buyers too.

Sellers ask themselves simple questions like “will there be too many orders?”, “will I be able to handle the inrush of clients” and the major question: “will my product supplier be able to provide me with the required quantities of products?”

When you are a home-business owner you go through these things each year. The stock of almost every supplier is emptied incredibly fast during this shopping apotheosis. One can never be sure that his/her customers’ orders will be fulfilled in corpora.

The thing is that you are not alone struggling with the problem. Wholesale suppliers fight side to side with you. Good suppliers prepare their warehouses for the season from mid summer. They have to make sure that there are enough products to satisfy the needs of all their clients. They have to plan the amount of goods that must be in stock in order to cope with demand during the Holiday Season. You have to understand that warehouses are not made of rubber and suppliers cannot have all they would want to. Moreover, they also have bills to pay.

The problem about home-base business is that you cannot be absolutely sure that all your clients will get what they want and you will avoid backorders. Remember: it is business and nothing is 100% sure. All you are left to do is avoid situations when your clients are not satisfied. Here are a few pieces of advice you can follow to pass the shopping season with flying colors.

1. Be super-active. Take the situation in your hands.

Check with your supplier beforehand

You can contact the supplier and find out which products are in stock (and you can also find out the amount of goods) and which are out of stock and are not planned to be received in a short period of time.

2. Post a note on your site

Write something like this: “It is Christmas time and every one wants to buy as many presents and goods as they can. Dear customers, remember about it and try to make orders beforehand. ” You can also explain that with a great flow of clients backorders are inevitable. Thus you will make some kind of backup for yourself.

3. Have extra sources in your pocket

If you see that some products are running out try to find a source where you can get them.

If you anticipate the Holiday Season you will know how to cope with the difficult situation. You don’t have to be afraid, remember, the more clients you serve the more money you get. The Holiday Season rush can be the prime time for your sales.