How To Find Reliable Dropship Suppliers

Drop shipping is often looked at as a scam type of business by many people. This simply isn’t true. In fact many successful and legitimate businesses use drop shipping to deliver products to their customers every day. There are a lot of people who are not who they say they are in this business though. Many of them are middle men looking to steal your profits.

If you’re in the market to create your own product you can still use drop shipping companies to get the job done! In fact many people do this in small business. This is because it’s just too hard to do all the work when you’re a solo business owner. If you’re the only employee you’ll be responsible for marketing, customer service, shipping, daily chores, ect.

This becomes very tough to do if you need to grow your business reliably. There’s plenty of great places like ship wire or Amazon that can drop ship your products for you. This means you can still set your own prices and make your own stuff.

You’ll be charged a monthly fee and a packing fee for each box. You send your merchandise to them and they store it until a customer places an order. Many of these types of places even offer automatic information processing for popular e-commerce platforms. This means when an order is placed the information automatically goes to their warehouse and does nothing.

If you’re not into developing your own products you can still use this method. Just keep in mind that using drop shipping in this way will require investment on your part. You’ll be required to buy the merchandise upfront just like any wholesale order and send it to your storage facility. This is a time investment and not a start a business with no money investment. Though you may be surprised at the minimum orders for a lot of wholesale items! It is possible to start small if you need to!

If you’re having a hard time finding a legitimate wholesale supplier for the product you want try contacting the company directly. Most of them are very happy to help you! When I was interested in starting a video game business I contact Sony Computer Entertainment about suppliers. Within a day a friendly representative sent me an e-mail list of all their official distributors in different states and Canada! Using this method you’ll never get a middleman. All of these are official Sony partners, and I’m sure you can do this with any brand you’d like to sell. They are here to make money and they do that through you.

Some of the official distributors may even have drop shipping programs so don’t be afraid to ask them if they offer this. A lot of smaller businesses do this if they need to stock additional inventory, but just don’t have the space. Working with partners lets them share sales! Make sure to shop around. Just because a distributor ships the same product doesn’t mean their price is the same. See if they can cut you a deal and don’t be afraid to name drop if somebody else gave you a better price.