IGOR SOSHKIN, Founder and CEO - MY SEO SECRETS
You are trying to start an online drop shipping business to sell auto parts. You are passionate about cars and all you need is a good functional car parts website, accurate car parts data and a great drop ship supplier that can offer you competitive prices.
Does this sound like you? Well that is not all that you need. In fact even if you were to get all of that right (website, data, and discounts), you will still hit some major frustrating, time consuming and pricey road blocks ahead. You even risk failing altogether if you don’t know about everything else that you need to do.
Here is a bigger picture of what you need.
Now the chances are you had no idea that you needed to do extensive marketing on your website to even smell any kind of success. When I say extensive I am talking about a few thousand dollars per month in advertising on top of all the other work. If you can comprehend the image I shared with you above you will realize that it is impossible to start an online business by yourself with no help and little capital and actually succeed in the first year. You will be spinning your wheels for the next two years minimum before you realize the big picture for yourself and take action.
So here are your options on how to start your online business:
OPTION A: Starting a Self-Sustained Online Business
You need to budget a minimum of $1000 per month plus 10 hours each day of your time for the next six months to see something happen. When I say something, I am talking about having the profits pay for the expenses for the company (instead of your own pocket) while the company continues to grow.
You need to be prepared to hire and invest even more than $1,000 into the operations and marketing as soon as you can understand the full picture and create a marketing plan that you will feel confident about. It is not a coincidence that all successful companies have very high advertising budgets each month. These companies went from a startup to where they are today, and it wasn’t irony, luck or coincidence. You will not get where you want to be by dreaming or wishing for it to happen. You will also not get there by thinking you know everything without actually knowing much. You will have to take risks and EXECUTE them.
If you think this is for you, than let’s talk. You can visit www.shoppingcartelite.com to see what our platform is all about and I will be more than happy to consult with you on how to go about and succeed with your online business. My email is igor at shoppingcartelite.com
OPTION B: GO TO EBAY / AMAZON / CRAIGSLIST, etc.
You can solve all your traffic problems and website problems by selling on eBay. Sure they are expensive but you know what? Traffic is expensive and you will pay for it one way or another. The only problem is that when you sell on eBay, you are competing with some heavy players in the same arena. This is like having your own website with other competitors showcasing their low price right next to yours, except their price happens to be much lower than yours. This is why many new eBay sellers have such a hard time selling on eBay unless they become the #1 seller.
Can a business make money on eBay? Absolutely. The question is can you make money on eBay? If you are relying on drop shipping, I will probably say the odds are against you. You see out of 100 sellers that sell the same item as you on eBay, only three of them will do well and capture 90% of the sales because of their prices, availability, feedback and sales copy. Then 10% of the remaining sales will be the left over for you and the other 97 eBay sellers that you will be fighting over. I have three videos for you to watch if you are interested in selling on eBay.
All I can say is Good Luck.
OPTION C: CREATE A JOINT VENTURE PARTNERSHIP WITH ANOTHER BUSINESS AND BUILD UP YOUR STARTUP CAPTIAL TO FUND YOUR OWN OPERATION
After building a three million dollar a year retail online business and working with new startups for the past three years, I finally have a solution for a startup entrepreneur that only has $200 per month to invest and can be on the right path to building his own successful online business. The program below is a description of how this joint venture would work.
OVERVIEW
I’ve asked the current owner of Auto Accessory Store, Tom Schenk to participate in this program with his website www.autoaccessorystore.com. Auto Accessory Store invests $150,000 plus per year in advertising. Now you can have a small piece of the pie.
There are eight turn-key eCommerce independent stores available to start. What makes these sites different from others is they are sub-domains of a multi-million dollar retail operation Auto Accessory Store (Ex meganracing.autoaccessorystore.com which specializes in the Megan Racing brand).
This means that you get to tap into the Auto Accessory Store traffic from all the advertising and marketing they do by being a part of their parent domain name. If you have no idea what I just said, here is a good blog post on what Authority Domain means.
Here is how this joint venture deal will work, since these online stores are sub-domains of AutoAccessoryStore.com they are independent from one another even though they share the same domain name. These sub domains have all the benefits of the marketing campaign that Auto Accessory Store does on a monthly basis.
The most important fact that you need to realize is you have the option to actually utilize Auto Accessory Store resources
Suppliers
Discounts
Merchant Accounts
Customer Service Staff
Sales Staff
Marketing
And more.
Depending on your availability if you are doing this part time or full time, you can either run the whole thing yourself and if you took more than you can handle or you realize that you can’t do all of it yourself, Tom will be right there at your rescue to help you with traffic, marketing, customer service, sales and more.
Will Auto Accessory Store sell the same products as you do? NO! … Any products on the main website will actually have redirects to your sub domain if you are selling them. If you decide to sell a specific brand, then there will be no other sub domain competing against you and that includes the main Auto Accessory Store domain as well.
Since each subdomain targets a specific niche you really don’t have a whole lot of work to make this website profitable. Tom took additional steps to make sure this succeeds by extensively researching the niches for you and he chose eight of the most lucrative niches in the automotive industry and already created the independent sub domain stores for you to choose. He even added the product data and got the drop ship suppliers into this deal.
OPPORTUNITY
This is an amazing opportunity for:
ENTREPENEURS WHO WORK FULL TIME
ENTREPENEURS WHO ARE INTERNATIONAL (outside of US)
ENTREPRENEURS WHO ARE BEGINNERS TO ECOMMERCE
ENTREPENEURS LOOKING FOR SIDE INCOME
NOTE: You will not get rich from having one subdomain store. The goal is to either make enough to fund your own online business that will be separate from Auto Accessory Store or make enough profits to pay your personal expenses such as your car, mortgage, etc. You should also consider this venture more of a learning opportunity while making side cash which can eventually take you to the next level of having your own successful online business.
PROFITS
Gross Monthly Sales will range from $1500 - $10,000 depending on the niche you choose. The NET Profit Margins range between 20% - 40%.
JOINT VENTURE DEAL
-More Work, More Profits- You can completely run the business under full control and keep all the profits. This requires your own merchant account to process credit card payments as well as all of the customer service and sales perks that come along with running an online business. There is a 2.5% royalty charge on all sales (excluding shipping fee) if you will do this deal. Auto Accessory Store will cover the organic marketing that will send you traffic to your new website.
-Minimal Work, Less Profits- Partner with Auto Accessory Store to split the daily tasks and split the net profits 50/50. Auto Accessory Store will handle all customer services, sales, accounting day-to-day tasks (customer services/sales/order process). You won’t need a merchant account or even a business to do this as Auto Accessory Store will be using its own company bank account and company name to process everything.
If you are unable to answer phone calls during business hours, or simply want to avoid having more overhead this is an ideal solution. This is PRICELESS for entrepreneurs who are outside of the US. Auto Accessory Store will cover the organic marketing that will send you traffic to your new website.
RISK FREE CONSULTATION
These will not last long. There are literally eight available online sub domain stores available on first come first serve basis.
-Shopping Cart Elite Software Suite Included
-Hosting for the website Included
-Graphic Design / Logo Design Included
-Niche Brand Research Included
-Drop ship Supplier with discount Included
-Sell the same products on eBay / Amazon without royalty
-No contracts or Commitments
-Merchant Account, Customer Service, Sales Staff Included
-Traffic is included
The price for this joint venture deal is only $200 per month which is billed quarterly ($200x3) and it includes everything above. Depending on the deal you will negotiate with Tom Schenk there will be a 2.5% royalty fee or 50/50 net profit split on any successful sale.
COMES WITH A SIX MONTH GUARANTEE
If the online store does not cover itself by the 6th month, your monthly payments will be frozen while you keep running the online store until the profits start to cover the $200 per month.
And of course you read this … sorry I had to put a catchy title because IF YOU DON’T READ THIS, you will miss out! Believe me!
Let me start with a story of my experience and then we will get into what you can do about it. We only have a few clients that are located IN CANADA, sell only in the Canadian market and we do SEO for them.
As you know we have a very powerful blog network that we utilize to create one way back links to our clients. We use the blog network to review the website which in return create back links.
Now my first ranking results that we did for a Canadian client earlier this year, I thought it was a coincidence. We did one month of SEO for two keywords, and ..
Two weeks later, we ranked those two keywords on the first page, top 5 in Google.ca
Two months later, the keywords I didn’t even try to rank… ranked in top 5 in Google.ca
Four months later, two dozen keywords we didnt even try to rank… ranked in top 5. The two we did rank are in top 2 in Google.ca
I thought this was just luck, and this would not be a typical result.
Then we had the second client that we started the SEO for … in 2 weeks I was able to rank them for a keyword that has 40 MILLION competitors, and would take me 7-12 months to rank in Google.com. It was ranked in 2 weeks in top 3 on Google.ca!
I was like … this can’t be real, this is impossible. This keyword got 135,000 SEARCHES PER MONTH! … and I got it to top 3 in 2 weeks?
Now keep in mind we keep improving our SEO exposure every month. So the third client that came in recently, we ranked him for 2 keywords that has a competition of 60 MILLION, in 5 days! Trust me it is a COMPETITIVE KEYWORD.
WHY DO THIS HAPPEN?
I started thinking about why does this happen? and it started to make a lot of sense. US is the most competitive SEO industry in the world. All the other countries? Not even close. Doing SEO in other countries is like doing SEO in US back in the year 1997.
To avoid people spamming, Google made it that you cant rank in all countries. Google webmasters tools allows you to only define ONE COUNTRY per WEBSITE.
Most people target US and all their SEO efforts are concentrated in the US. If you are able to cater to Canada instead of US, you just got yourself a one way ticket to FAST SEO RANKING.
WHAT IS THE OPPORTUNITY HERE?
Again imagine you are in the year 1997! … and you just started a website with the knowledge that you have and with a software such as Shopping Cart Elite. The opportunity here is if you target ranking your website in Google.ca or any other country for that matter. You actually have a GOOD, SOLID chance to truly dominate your niche. You even have a chance with enough marketing budget to become the next leader in your industry. We are talking about tens of thousands of dollars in FREE ORGANIC TRAFFIC DAILY!
JUMP ON IT?
- Not making Money in US? - GO CANADA. Literally, switch all your efforts to sell in Canada as your primary CORE GOAL and US will become secondary. Even without our SEO you will have an easier time. With our SEO, you will rank in a weeks. Make deals with Canadian suppliers and offer incentives to Canadian customers, such as free shipping in Canada.
- ARE YOU IN CANADA? - WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? … I won’t say anymore… START YOUR ONLINE BUSINESS NOW .. and HAVE US DO YOUR SEO!
- ARE YOU SUCCESSFULLY DOING BUSINESS IN US and NOT CANADA? … I am not sure if you can start a sub domain and tell Google that will be for Canadian domain (I haven’t tried it)… if not you can always get a new domain and start targeting your ranking in Google.ca
