[mkertajaya]

I ran shopebike.com, a dropship of electric bikes and soon electric scooters. I provide customer supports via email and sometimes over the phone.

It has generated around $8000 a year so far, mostly in the warmer months. I tried google ads words in the past, but the cost was too much so I dropped it in the beginning of the year. Maybe I wasn't doing it correctly, but it was almost no conversions.

[thisisdallas]

This is really interesting. I have read a lot of articles about dropshipping being extremely hard to get right. Just out of curiosity, how much time on average did you put into marketing/seo in order to start generating income? Do you also blog about electric bikes?

[mkertajaya]

The article is probably correct. I had access to the manufacturer on this one.

I haven't done much advertising this year. Most of my traffic comes directly from the manufacturer's site.

I don't blog directly but I am actively looking and linking to other blogs/article about our e-bikes.

[icebraining]

What's the upside for the manufacturer in linking to you?