Here, at Dropshiparea, we contact each supplier that is on our list personally in order to send feedback and discuss the major issues and the existing problems. You can use our trustworthy list for your purposes and remember that the major advantage of collaborating with a wholesale supplier is that you don’t have to store any products.

Do you remember how you set up your first account with a supplier (or think how you are going to do it). It is likely that you are going to find a number of wholesale suppliers that offer the product you are looking for. And then you will probably write e-mails to these suppliers asking to set up new account for you.

Now I would like to cover the technical aspect of such letters.

When you write a letter of this kind you fill in the “To” field with the name of the supplier and “from” field is occupied by your own email

For instance:

To: WholesaleSupplierName@gmail.com

From: YourName@gmail.com

Subject: Setting Up an Account with Your Company

It is perfectly all right if you send this letter to only one supplier. But if you have found 10 or 100 supplier that offer the desirable product and you want to send set up account with all of them and later on decide which of them is the best. In this case your letter will look like this:

To: WholesaleSupplierName@gmail.com, WholesaleSupplier2Name@gmail.com, WholesaleSupplier3Name@gmail.com,…, WholesaleSupplierNName@gmail.com

From: YourName@gmail.com

Subject: Setting Up an Account with Your Company

Do you think that the company that receives such a letter will really think that you are going to choose it from the list of other companies? It might be quite fine, but do you know that setting up an account requires a lot of paperwork for a supplier? As a rule, there is a special employee who is responsible for such tasks. And if the company sees that your e-mail is just a Mass mail, why should they want to collaborate with you and waster their time and effort?

You have to do this mass mailing sensibly

Do not put all the e-mail addresses (I mean the addresses of the suppliers you write to) in the “to” field of your letter. It is much better to use “BCC” field (Blind Courtesy Copy). In this case the recipient will see only one e-mail address and this might work.

But there is one problem. As you send letters to dozens of suppliers and you can put only one address in the “to” field of your letter, only the first supplier on the list gets the letter addressed to it, all the other recipients get email addressed to the first supplier. This might look suspicious. But, again, there is a way out.

Create a new account in your email address book and name it something like “the preferred wholesale supplier” and insert your own e-mail address there. When you write the letter put this contact in the “to” field, and all the other addresses in the “BCC” field. When the emails are receiver by the recipients they will see “the preferred wholesale supplier” in the “to” field and they will not notice anything suspicious.

Remember: the majority of companies will consider mass mailing to be junk and won’t even answer to your letters.

We get email here all the time asking us why Internet Retailers shouldn’t just buy the products they sell, directly from the Factory at wholesale.

Here, at Dropshiparea, we get a lot of mail asking why it is not possible for a retailer to contact the manufacturer directly and buy the products from it at wholesale. Really, it would be much better if you could contact the product manufacturer and buy items at considerably lower prices with no middlemen participating in the process, wouldn’t it?

Of course, it would! But…It is rarely possible in reality. Manufacturers will hardly jump at a chance to collaborate with a single retailer. Why? Let’s find out why.

Manufacturers have their hands occupied even without sales problems. Producing something is a tiresome and time-consuming process.

For, instance, first of all a manufacturer has to patent its new product, then he has to find suppliers of the parts of his product, later he has to buy and set up machines that will manufacture the item. And so on and so force.

When it comes to selling the manufactured products there can be two possible ways:

1. The manufacturer decides not to collaborate with a wholesale supplier. In this case he has to rent its own warehouse. He has to spend years establishing relation with chain stores and single retailers (in this case it is possible to contact the manufacturer directly and buy item from him at wholesale)
2. The manufacturer contacts a supplier. The supplier already has trustworthy mechanisms, contacts and thousands of stores to supply the products to. The supplier also has its own warehouses and the manufacturer can simply sell its product by the truckload.

Do you see it now? Do you really think that a knowledgeable manufacturer will try to reinvent the selling mechanism instead of using a ready one? I don’t think so.

That is why use are not likely to contact a manufacturer and buy directly from it.

Wholesale suppliers are the place every one buys from: consumers and huge corporations. You won’t be able to avoid this kind of middleman in any kind of business.

People who sell things online are always puzzled by the key question of this branch of the market: “What to sell on the Internet?“

People do their best to come to the solution (if there is only one or arrive at some new ideas at least). Don’t think that the choice of goods to sell is a simple choice: even the most successful Internet sellers are puzzled by it. Plus we, average people, want to know what to sell online too. The thing is that even the Internet gurus don’t know for sure, and no one knows for sure. Nevertheless, there are things you can do to make your choice as close to the optimal one as possible. There are some basic rules you may follow (as a great number of successful Internet sellers do) to decide which products to sell:

• Research the DEMAND

We, at Dropshiparea, research the market thoroughly. Don’t think that it is an easy and fast process. In requires careful studying of search engines. When you want to know if there is demand for this or that product you have to find out if people search for this product. Then, when you get the results you have to categorize them according to the most popular searches and thus find out what products are in demand on the market.

• Research the COMPETITION

Do to that, you will have to study the Internet once again. To find out the competition for a certain product you have to check 2 most popular types of Internet sales: Internet stores and auctions. You have to look through a great variety of stores in order to find out if the completion is high and then categorize all the received data.

• Research the GENERAL INTEREST LEVEL

In fact if the competition for a certain product is low as well as the demand it doesn’t really mean that the product is a market failure. You may have discovered an Untapped product market. It is the nest one can find, and if you have done so, you can consider your research a successful one. Then with the help of advertising you can develop the market and later on exploit it.

• Research the ADVERTISING of the product

A few influential and successful Internet sellers advice to consider 3 most trustworthy Pay Per Click Search Engines: Google, Findwhat and Overture. You enter the name of the product you want to sell and search for:

• If there are other people who pay to advertise that product.
• What do their ads say?

If there is too much advertising the competition is likely to be high. That’s not a good thing for you

• Analyze the information

Take your time to thoroughly study all the data and make certain conclusions and decisions. Consider the following factors:

• Low demand
• High competition
• Low general Interest

In fact, you have to compare different demand, competition and general interest combinations and find the best one. I don’t say it is easy, but if you do the right choice, you might hit pay dirt.