Good morning good afternoon good evening this is Andy from Wholesale-help.com and welcome
to the most popular video series on wholesale help, coming up in just a moment I'm going
to give you my top picks for where to find dropshipping and wholesale suppliers in 2016,
but before I do that, a quick health warning. this has been a pretty popular video series
for me over the years, I first made a video with this subject line back in 2008 I think,
and that received around about 35,000 views, I recorded an update 4 years later in 2012
and that got over 75,000 views, so 4 years on once again I suppose it's time to do another
update. So as you can imagine allot has changed in
eight years but one thing still remains the same, finding a choosing an honest and reliable
wholesale supplier is still an essential part of building an online business. This part
can win or lose you the game so it's important to make the right choices.
Firstly and most importantly is safety, there are so many scammers out there just waiting
to relieve you of your hard earned investment capital, so if you take one thing from this
video please be careful check check and check again, do your research make sure the person
you're dealing with is real, has the stock and that you can verify past and current customers
that have had a successful experience with them, it's very important.
Alrighty on to my top picks for where to find dropshipping and wholesale suppliers in 2016,
place number 1 is the street. I know it sounds pretty funny but I have found
some very very decent wholesale suppliers just by paying attention to whats going on
around me, if you always keep in mind your niche market as you go about your day you
can look out for appropriate items when you're out and about, and I'll tell you what to do
with them in just a second.
If you haven't researched your niche yet and you don't know exactly what market you want
to sell in I want you to stop and do that first, if you haven't already verified
there is a demand for the product you're looking at and you haven't made sure there is not
too much competition then you could be on to a looser before you do anything, so it's
very important you do some thorough niche research before you start looking for a product.
If you're not sure how to do that I cover it in detail in my 6 week coaching course
which is part of the Wholesale Help gold membership, details in the description box below.
Now lets assume you've done your niche research and you've got a good idea of the type of
item you're looking to buy, keep an eye open for those types of products when you're out
and about living your life doing your thing, and if you find something out and about that
might fit the bill I want you to pick it up and turn it over, on the back down towards
the bottom usually around about where the bar code is you know, the place where no one
ever reads, there will be some small writing that will usually list the distributor and
or the manufacturer. Now I want you to whip out your cell phone and take a picture of
that information, that way when you get home you can look back at that information and
you can get on good old Google and find out about the supplier or the manufacturer. Now
if you've got the supplier for that product you can get on their website, get in touch
and ask to open an account, if you've just got the manufacturers details you can bring
up the website get in touch and ask them for the distributor details for your area, because
quite often a manufacturer will have a distributor for north America and a distributor for Europe
or maybe even the UK, they will be happy to give you the details because its more money
for them, it's that easy, simple and effective I've done it many times and it works really
well. Alrighty on to place number two, and that's
trade fairs. If you're serious about building a profitable and successful online business
you have to start looking for serious wholesale suppliers, and that means going to a trade
fair, looking people in the eye, doing deals and shaking hands. The best way to do this
is to find a niche related trade fair. If you wan to sell pet products you want to go
to a pet trade fair, if you sell clothes find the biggest apparel trade fair in your country
the same goes for music, toys, furniture you name it there will be a big trade show in
your country that you can go to, and if you go to those niche trade shows every single
stall will be related to what you are looking for if you go to a general trade show then
there will be an awful lot of walking around stuff that just is no use to you. They often
have some great deals during the period of the trade show you can pick up an extra 10
or even 20 percent and that makes a big difference to your competition if you've got an extra
10 or 20 percent on them. So I want you to get out there this year and find the trade
shows and get some deals done, and let me know in the comments below how you get on.
Alrighty for place number three I've got to give a shout out to my own Wholesale Supplier
Index, this is my little black book of every wholesale supplier I've used over the last
12 years, and recently I've also updated it with people I've met at trade fairs and found
very nice products for that I haven't got round to using as yet, there is a great selection
from all over the world from North America, Europe, the UK, China and the Far East. Allot
of these suppliers don't advertise and you can only find them by going to trade fairs
or through personal recommendations. So if you want to get hold of some quality profitable
and trusted wholesale suppliers then my Wholesale Supplier index is worth a shout, its part
of the bigger wholesale help gold membership so you also get access to my 6 week coaching
course, my advanced training videos and also my personal eBay critique, when you're ready
I'll take a look at your eBay business and I'll record a special video for you to let
you know what you can do to improve your listings, improve your keywords, an drive more traffic
and generally enhance your eBay business. If you're interested in that check out the
link below to the gold membership and the introduction video will tell you all about
it. Alright that pretty much wraps it up that's
my top three places for where to find dropshipping and wholesale suppliers in 2016, I hope you've
found it useful, if you liked this video please give me a thumbs up it really makes a difference
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Thank you very much for watching my names Andy Lawrence and I will catch you on the
very next video. Bye for now.