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The best place to find new products to sell is a tradeshow. No where else will you find such a concentration of new products, as Brad Beiermann explains:
Did you know there are hundreds of wholesale companies looking for online retailers to sell their products? Many of them offer drop shipping services. If you are considering starting an online business or have already started one, there are wholesale companies trying to find you. Unfortunately, they are not actively looking for you on the Internet.There are hundreds of wholesale companies who attend trade shows trying to get new business. When they attend a show, they are out to achieve some of the following goals:
- Open new accounts with retailers
- Build relationships with current retailers as well as new ones
- Introduce a new product line
- Get new product ideas
- Demonstrate the company’s unique attributes














bailiffs on September 14th, 2004 at 7:32 am
you think this trend is confined to the US, as we don’t seem to get many wholesale trade shows running through Northern England…sounds like a perfect drop shipping venture though, and I’d be interested in finding UK based events such as these mentioned.
Gaurang on September 14th, 2004 at 9:14 am
Exactly what I was looking for.
Bukaboo.com on September 23rd, 2004 at 11:27 am
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NoMinimum Wholesale Drop Shippers on June 27th, 2005 at 10:43 am
This is very good advice to people looking for new drop shipping companies. Research, planning and goal-setting is the golden rule for a successfull business.