Specialist Ecommerce Website Template Provider Internet Business For Sale

Business description

ZipSkins is a very successful, fully automated ecommerce website business selling high quality, exclusive website templates or skins via digital download for the very popular ClickCartPro ecommerce software.

There are two revenue channels:

1. Skin/Template sales

73% off the businesses revenue is made up in template sales which are fully automated digital downloads processed through the website or through our partner websites.

2. Custom design work or skin customisations

27% of the business revenue is made up in custom design work for the ClickCartPro customer base, anything from custom skins designs to customising the supplied skins.

The business provides off-the-shelf, resalable, templates for the ClickCartPro ecommerce software, (all the templates are designed by and wholly owned by us) the business is the only provider of templates for the ClickCartPro software and we have certified support partner status with the software provider for the USA, Asia and Europe. Not only does this give the business essential credibility with customers, but we also benefit from brand and product marketing by both the USA and UK/EU distributors.
Without this support partner status you cannot sell templates or offer any other services to the customers of this software.

In late 2006 this business reached a deal with the UK distributor to sell our templates directly on their website, generating in-line sales with the software and in September 2007 we negotiated the same deal with the USA distributor and sales have increased dramatically since. Currently about 80-90% of all template sales are generated through our distributors with commissions paid on a monthly basis. Thanks to the freeing up of time from template sales, ZipSkins focuses on custom design and offers phone and email support. We sell our templates not only to individuals, but also design companies using the ClickCartPro shopping cart for their own clients, repeat business from these companies is quite common.

This business is now 2 years old with a profit margin of nearly 86% in the last trading year and 81% over the two years of trading with an increase of 320% in sales revenue in the second year of trading. This is thanks partly to the increased and ongoing marketing and high sales of the ClickCartPro shopping cart software and our own efforts designing new templates. As is very apparent from the profit margins, their are no actual running costs of the website, we have secured a free hosting deal with the web host and the software is paid and fully licensed, the only costs were/are our time in developing the templates which we now sell. The business pays a 25% commission to ClickCartPro for each template sale in return for the ongoing marketing that they do for the business and certified status that they grant us and of course we pay the transaction fees for online orders (currently Paypal) which are 3-5%

The templates/skins and all design work sold is exclusively designed and owned by us and will be included and all rights transferred with the sale of the business. Also include are the domain names (.co.uk, .com, .net) company logo and of course, website.

Property information

Location:

This is a home/internet based business & does not require a specific location.

Other information

Expansion potential:

While ideally suited to a business or individual with experience in design industry, it can be run by anyone ‘as is’ without any further development, selling the templates already in place and included with the business. This makes up the bulk of the business and requires no further work as everything is fully automated.

The proven business model is based on providing exclusive design templates for paid software and as such we have already made contact and established verbal agreements with two more software providers to port existing templates or create new templates for their software and subsequently receive marketing for the new templates and services on offer. ClickCartPro is one of the most popular ecommerce software packages on the web with both the UK and USA distributors running their own marketing campaigns and increasing sales of the software, which also increases the sales of our templates and design services. With a Google page rank of 4 and a highly memorable domain name, there is also the potential to move more aggressively into the design service industry if you have experience in this industry.

Competition / Market:

There is no-one else providing templates for the ClickCartPro software and no other independent providers for many of the other paid software providers. While there are many website template providers, none of these provide unique off-the-shelf templates or skins which are compatible with the ClickCartPro, shopping cart system or any other paid software package.

Support & training:

Website training and support for 3 months, training in the design of templates for the ClickCartPro shopping cart software for experienced web designers can also be arranged.

Reasons for selling:

Other business commitments

Trading hours:

24 Hours

Website:

www.zipskins.com

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