How to ChooseThe Best Drop Shipping Wholesaler

The drop shipping business model involves marketing and selling a product online at a price you choose. Once your customer purchases the product, and you receive payment for it, you place an order for the product you just sold with a Drop Shipper. The drop shipper charges you a wholesale price and ships the product directly to your customer. The difference between the wholesale and retail price is all profit to you. The best part is that you have no inventory to worry about, and no shipping hassles. In order to be profitable however,you need to choose your drop shipping company well.

There are many excellent companies out there for example DropShippingWholesalers. It is a members only drop shipping site that allows access to over 500 wholesale drop shippers and also offers an opportunity for individuals to start their own turnkey website business stocked with products from these drop shippers. Some others include Salehoo,Doba,MegaGoods and Shopster.

The good drop shipping companies provide access to top quality products and the tools to sell online. They also have a lot of brand name products that one can retail either from eBay or from their own website. Some companies like DropShippingWholesalers for example build full e-commerce enabled websites for their Platinum Plan members.

You should find out about the customer service of the drop shipping company that you choose to join. This is extremely important as there will be times when a customer may order a product and it becomes out of stock or you have to deal with refunds. All queries and customer support issues should be dealt with promptly no matter how trivial. This is extremely important as it helps in getting profits in a shorter time and building lifelong customers. The best companies also provide extensive step by step online guides to help you manage your business.

Choose a company that has a members area forum where users can interact and share their collective drop shipping experience and new users can gain insight and knowledge from advanced members and power sellers on eBay. This is a unique benefit that only the best of the best businesses provide.

Additionally,you need to choose a service that compliments your budget. Some companies like Doba, MegaGoods, and Shopstor have monthly fees to use their service. Others like DropShippingWholesalers have a one time membership fee and then you get access to their members directory for life with no other fees.

The most important features that you must consider when deciding on the best drop shipper include:

1. Do they provide a free domain name

2. Will you need to pay hosting or monthly fees

3. Is a Merchant account needed

4. Is the ability to customize ones site provided

5. Do hey have an EZpopulate system to upload products from other sources all at once

6. Do they provide the ability to easily add Google Adsense code or banners

7. Is a Real Time Inventory System provided

8. Do they provide shopping cart and integration with paypal and other major credit card processors)

There are many advertised drop shipping companies on the internet that are really just scams. Many of these companies have extremely good sales letters which often make the reader believe that minimum work is involved to gain significant profits. It is important not to fall prey to these companies. Only in depth market research will prevent this.

Some important things to look out for with scam artists are outdated lists,non-working links,links leading to other sites that ask for more money,no help section,no real email support and no refunds. This list is not exhaustive but I hope it will help you in your decision making.

There is a lot of money that can be made with this business model but I cannot overemphasize the fact that market research is extremely important in choosing the best drop shipping wholesaler. You should expect them to charge a minimal fee for access to their program, which is to be expected for any legitimate enterprise that actually has people on staff who are dedicated to helping you make money online.