A very good, recession proof and "eternal" product. This will always be needed. How much time do you have to spend on the site to manage it daily/weekly/monthly?
Unique Niche e commerce Dropship Website
Easy to maintain, low competiton niche with huge potential
http://www.holyurns.com/
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- Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:08:13 GMT
Accepted Payment Methods: Credit Card, PayPal, Western Union, Electronic Transfer
Description
Holy Urns is an unique niche site that sells over 700 different cremation urns and accessories. It is built around the x-cart shopping cart script. The sale includes the transfer of the x-cart license to buyer. This is a very powerful program with many features and options. It includes the following options:
- Advanced Order Management
- X-Magnifier
- Fancy Categories
- X-Offer
It has also been SEO optimized with XC SEO v1.4.0 and the latest x-cart update has been installed. If you're not familiar with x-cart, the back office is very powerful with many features.
All the information on the dropshipper is included. The sales & ordering process is fairly easy. You just log-in to their shopping cart, select the product and place the order. They take care of the shipping, stocking and returns.
I spent many hours in researching what the competitors were selling the same or similar items for (Sales price) and what the funeral homes sell them for (list prices). So the prices listed are fairly competitve. The gross profit averages about 25% per sale based on my present sales price listing.
I advertise with Google Adwords and about 50% of the traffic is pay-per-click. My average monthly PPC is about $95. I also did a linking campaign to get listed in about 530 directories.
It is set-up to accept payments from PayPal, Google Check-out and Merchant Account. You'll need to provide your own API's but it is simple to set up. I also upload the data to Google Base on a weekly basis (recommended) as well as sitemap generation. Both are included in the x-cart back office.
I also have contacts in Asia and India to purchase wholesale products if desired.
Another upsell is the potential to split this into two separate markets. Right now I sell both human and pet cremation urns on the same site. If you split them into two separate markets as most sites do, you could potentially double your income. I already registered a website for the pet products (which I'll include) as I had intended in building a separate site (ascendedpets.com).
Reason for Selling
I presently have two other business ventures that require my immediate attention and focus. They both are doing very well to date and have very large profit potential compared to this market. The major venture revolves around building a local search directory network.
There is definetly a huge potential with this site to generate a nice income. Most of the hard work is done. Just needs more content, backlinks, better PPC campaign, and creative marketing.
Revenue Details
About 49% of traffic is PPC, 18% is Google Organic, 15% is Yahoo Organic, 5% is direct, 3% is MSN Organic and balance is from referral sites. I only bid on four main keywords in PPC (cremation urn, cremation urns, motorcycle urns and NASCAR urns). With a good adsense campaign your traffic should greatly improve.
Traffic Details
About 49% of traffic is PPC, 18% is Google Organic, 15% is Yahoo Organic, 5% is direct, 3% is MSN Organic and balance is from referral sites.
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- Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:20:25 GMT
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- Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:20:51 GMT
Can you provide a breakdown of expenses and net revenue for the past 6 months please?
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- Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:45:19 GMT
This is a public auction...have you decided to answer any of the questions thus far? Don't mean to be a smartass, just have the same questions myself.
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- Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:46:58 GMT
I would also like a breakdown of expenses, net revenue, and traffic stats.
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- Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:00:24 GMT
Me too thanks
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- Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:36:09 GMT
Can you please send me traffic stats, expenses and monthly net revenue
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- Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:38:21 GMT
Your net profit is $2,461.12 for the year, how are you expecting to get 15k buy it now, or even the minimum bid of 5k?
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- Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:57:27 GMT
It would be great if I could also get the questions answered above or noone will be interested unfortunately.
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- Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:57:05 GMT
It seems everyone is more focused on what the present bottom line is on this site instead of what the potential will be with a little effort. This is an unique niche market still pretty much in its infancy. The upside to this is huge as this market matures. Cremation is just starting to become accepted in the United States as opposed to burials. It is more accepted in Europe. As land becomes more scarce and expensive more will look to this method as it is more environmentally safe (Green).
A lot of research, time and effort went into developing this site thus the reason for the expected sales price. It would cost more today to try and duplicate what has been completed with this site. That is if you can find a dropshipper for this market. Not likely since I was lucky to get on board with the only one in this market and who is no longer accepting others.
Hope this helps.
JC
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- Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:41:13 GMT
JC
Two pieces of advice;
1) People pay for realized potential not a hope and a prayer that maybe someday in the future it will work.
2) Also, you need to be responsive in providing information.PS I am on the board of a business broker company that buys and sells businesses on a daily basis. This is friendly advice:) If you do get a buyer consider yourself lucky...
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- Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:26:23 GMT
Yes, people are not buying future potential;they are buying a product with its existing sales and I totally agree with cwinslow, you need to be more responsive to your BUyers. I am afraid this deal is not going anywhere.
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