What in the WORLD do gourmet chocolate chip cookies have to do with the wholesale, drop ship business? Much more than you think! These days with the huge growth of eBay and people's desire for running their own online business, buying wholesale products and being able to enjoy the fine aspects of drop shipping have become some of the top online buzz words! The sad thing is that the terms have been so over-marketed that you may overlook the most important things needed to being successful when following these avenues.
Think of the wholesale, dropship, eBay business from this perspective....say I email you later today with great excitement about this new gourmet recipe my sister "secretly" tells me about that will practically guarantee the best darn batch of chocolate chip cookies one person would ever have the pleasure of tasting!
She asks me if I'd like to have the ingredients. Of course I beg of her to hurry up and tell me. We'll, she does one better....she hand delivers all the exact ingredients to make these wonderful cookies, tells me how much I'll love them and leaves. Anxiously, I crank up the old oven, grease up the butter bowl and cookie pans and begin to dive in. Six minutes into this cooking splendor and it hits me like a wet spatula.
She didn't bother to give me the recipe, so I have no idea what mixes with what, how much goes into which mix, how much of a pinch of what goes where. Now what a situation I have here for myself. I have ALL the ingredients to make these cookies but absolutely no idea how to actually make them. I could now take the golden cookie ingredients and turn out a batch of total crap that I would feed the neighbors dog, not because I didn't have the right stuff, but because I didn't know how to put it all together.
Same thing happens in this business! In most cases, some of the wholesale or drop shipper sources lists you can buy are not really much to write home about...BUT, you could have the best list of the best types of products sitting right in front of you and if you don't have some sort of directions, instructions...or recipe, if you will....you're flying blind my friend! There is a method to making anything work. It's up to you to try and find the method(s), put them together and then use them to put the products to test and to YOUR advantage.
Want to take a look at the recipe AND ingredients to this business? You should if you want a realistic chance of making wholesale sources or drop shipping suppliers work for you.
Tim Prescott is the owner/operator of http://www.exclusivewholesalers.com and has been providing information and help to people interested in the wholesale, drop ship and eBay businesses since 1998. He gives real life, honest examples of what works, what doesn't and why.