The holiday season is here and you can make money dropshipping. Reports indicate that shoppers spent a whopping $1tr between November 2017 and January 2018 comprising Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Christmas, Boxing Day and New Year sales.
With a few hundred dollars or less, zero inventory, global market and unlimited products to choose from, drop shipping is about the perfect business for this season.
Perhaps you’re wondering
What is Dropshipping?
Dropshipping or drop shipping is an ecommerce business model that allows you sell other people’s products at your own price without needing to stock inventory.
Here’s how it works:
- shoppers visit your dropshipping store
- place orders
- you forward their orders to your dropshipping suppliers
- Your suppliers pick, pack and ship items to your customers
All you really have to do is market and market.
And following are 6 products selling like hot cakes in the market right now that you can start dropshipping today.
#1. Men’s Watch
Men’s watch is quite popular these days, making a serious comeback, especially minimalist designs. Men are stepping up their game.
Watches are now selling in the millions thanks to very delicate designs at affordable prices.
There are hundreds of good suppliers online you can count on when you set up to drop ship men’s watch.
#2. Phone Cases (and other accessories)
Phone cases especially customized ones are a favourite with a lot of shoppers.
People buy them primarily for protection and as a style statement. Drop shipping other phone accessories such as earpiece is also great for upselling.
iPhone cases are about the most popular, you might want to consider those.
#3. Lol Surprise! Confetti Dolls
These are highly sought after by parents, uncles and family members as gift items for their nieces, daughters, cousins, etc.
LOL Surprise! Dolls currently have 4-star Amazon rating. The product has all the shimmery, glittery, shiny stuff tiny school girls love, and luckily all the major wholesalers supply them.
The Lol dolls come inside balls called surprise confetti which you have to open to see which doll you got, and also they have a wide range of products that will make your head spin, from doll houses, to pet dolls, to dresses, phone stickers, surprise balls, confetti surprise, lil sisters dolls and so infinitely more, all bright and colourful.
#4. Lego Toys
Boys are not left out too. The Lego bricks is quite popular with kids of all ages, qualifying it as a very good gift item. Lego has a long history and huge following. Like the Lol Surprise! Dolls dropshipping Lego is relatively easy on platforms like AliExpress. Reports say more than 50% of Lego sellers make money online.
#5. Drones
There are thousands of drone manufacturers around the globe pushing for their products in the consumer market. Drones of all shapes and sizes have seized the market and for good reason, they have a wide range of applications.
DJI controls over 70% market share, and is valued at around $8 billion.
Selfie drones are widely sold thus a good product to drop ship.
#6. Sony Play Station 4
The Sony PlayStation is the most popular gaming console in the market right now, with well over 344 million units sold, it is among hottest selling product in the world.
And the latest addition to their stock the PlayStation 4 isn’t performing half as bad, already surpassing 82 million units in sales.
Sony is highly optimistic sales will skyrocket yet again by end of year during the holiday season.
Conclusion
It’s called the holiday season, meaning it is seasonal sales, such as come and go fairly quickly. Now is the time to start laying the groundwork for maximizing this holiday season. This list is by no means exhaustive, it is suggestive of what is hot.
If you have never drop shipped there are a number of really good resources you can find online that will teach you and guide you on how it’s done.
As for veteran drop shippers, this list can act as a guide or pointer to the products you will most likely make big bucks from.