More and more manufacturers and wholesale distributors are starting to realize the benefits of drop shipping for their customers. Drop shipping can make some serious extra dough for any company. They probably pay someone eight to ten dollars an hour to separate the product from the case/carton and ship it to the correct address. In turn, the company will make a few hundred to a few thousand dollars an hour by paying someone ten dollars an hour or less to do their drop shipping.There was a time when it was hard to find a wholesaler or manufacturer to drop ship their goods. Most wholesalers only sold in bulk. But now it is much different. Drop shipping is high in demand and there is a lot of money to be made for everyone. If you were lucky back in the day, you had a good wholesaler that would drop ship bulk orders. But to drop ship single items was unheard of. For about 7 years, there were only a select few wholesalers that were drop shipping for customers.

Some wholesalers and manufacturers drop ship, but they don’t advertise it. Just ask your current wholesaler if they drop ship. Most companies will drop ship if you have been a loyal customer. In the past, it didn’t matter if you were making a million dollars a month; no major name brand company would drop ship single items.

If you don’t have a current wholesale distributor, find one and ask if they drop ship for home business also. Drop shipping has become so big in the past year or so, that most wholesale distributors will be drop shipping by the end of this year. If they don’t drop ship, they will lose business to the competition. Ebay and other online marketplaces have users drop shipping.

Most online marketplaces have strict rules about not drop shipping. You are not supposed to list an item for sale if it is not in your possession. But today’s drop ship companies have become very good at what they do. They actually care about your customers. So they will do whatever they can to get your items out to your customers as soon as possible. They will also put your company name and address on the return label. Your customers will never know the item was drop shipped.

If you have trouble looking for a wholesaler that will work with your home business do some research. Sometimes it is tough to find a wholesaler if you don’t know what to look for. Here is a post I made about how to find real wholesale/drop shippers. You can read it here. That should help you find a drop shipper.

It can be very time consuming to find the right wholesalers to work with. Sometimes it will take you days or weeks to find the right wholesaler. If you wanted to save some research time, you could get a source company to find real wholesalers that will drop ship for you. Source companies have teams of people that constantly do research to find the wholesalers that will work with small business. World Wide Brands are a great wholesaler/drop ship source. I recommend World Wide Brands to any home business looking for real wholesale/drop shippers. They are the only drop ship/wholesaler information source that is recommended by ebay.

Wholesaler source companies can be expensive. Most sourcing companies will charge one hundred to three hundred dollars per lifetime membership. But the benefits of having a source company finding wholesalers for you will save you lots of time to dedicate in to other parts of your business.

Wholesaler source companies have been popping up everywhere in the past couple of years. It is a sign that more and more big wholesale distributors are starting to drop ship. This post should help most of you find the right wholesaler/drop shipper for you. If you have any questions, feel free to email me.

Thanks for reading my blog everyone. See you tomorrow.

LP@thehomedropshipguide.com