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How to find a good online wholesaler

By Katherine Quirke

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Published: 15Sep2009
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Finding an online wholesaler is a difficult and time consuming task for both first time entrepreneurs and experienced internet marketers. From dealing with picky customer support to planning out order sizes and pricing, finding a trialing a new supplier can be frustrating at best and incredibly stress inducing at worst. With many wholesalers unresponsive to small businesses and new clients, it can be very difficult to get your foot in the door with the best and brightest wholesalers. Fortunately, with just a few small changes, your search for an online wholesaler can go from stress inducing to possibility opening.

When picking an online wholesaler it's fundamentally important to go with one that offers services that scale to meet your business needs. Many location independent business owners, and marketers shipping relatively small amounts of stock, go with dropshipping wholesalers. These providers take responsibility for both providing the product and managing delivery and order fulfillment. All you need to do is make the sale. Unfortunately, getting in the door with one of the major dropshippers can require a large time commitment, and a massive amount of paperwork.

So, what's the best way to start your wholesaler and dropshipper business relationship? Generally speaking, it's best for newbie entrepreneurs to select their wholesalers and dropshippers from a pre-selected list of quality providers. This provides several key benefits that going at it alone doesn't:

- Low quality providers are automatically filtered out
- The barrier to contact providers is much smaller
- Providers are easier to find and compare

These benefits make it much easier to simply pick providers from an established directory than to search independently. With the many different directory services on offer, choices are wide, although the biggest and best wholesalers and dropshippers are almost always the wisest choices in terms of convenience. Make sure to research and stress test any dropshipper or wholesaler before you commit to a long term contract and buy a large amount of stock - you want a stress free business relationship, and those are best tested through rigorous micro-tests and analysis.

The barrier of contact is something that can turn many first time entrepreneurs off instantly. Many wholesalers aren't renowned for their customer service, preferring to work alongside a retail outlet that handles customer enquiries. Perhaps due to the nature of their business, they're somewhat difficult to get masses of information from. This is where the wholesaler and dropshipper directory comes in highly valuable. By taking away the most stressful part of any business relationship -- the initial contact -- the directory provides a unique chance for entrepreneurs to contact dropshippers and wholesalers and create a relationship that will produce long term results for any online business. By saving time in the research phase, online marketers and entrepreneurs can focus their time on creating the most successful business possible.

Katherine Quirke is a successful Australian based business entrepreneur with an IT background, has owned a number of businesses over the last 20 years. Sharing her business knowledge is a passion.To learn obtain your free wholesaler report visit: www.potentialtime.com/freewholesalerreport.htm

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