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The next step is to contact the wholesaler. The best way is to make a phone call. When you talk to the representatives of the wholesaler, make sure to ask them the following questions :
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A good place to check the market is keyword suggestion tool. The most popular one is the overture suggestion tool. You type in a word and it will tell you how many searches of the word in the last month on overture. Since overture covers most popular search engines like yahoo, msn, altvista and so on, it will give you a good idea that how good the online market is for the keyword. A good market should have at least 1000 search for the keyword you typed in.
Can you sell to me at wholesale price?
Can you drop ship?
Can I marketing your products online?
Then you need a supplier. Finding a good suppliers is important. A good place to find wholesalers is thomasregister.com. You can type the product you like and it will give the manufactures or wholesalers of the product. There will be the phone number, fax and emails of the wholesalers.
If they answer yes to all of the questions, they ask them how to set up an account and how to pay them. The next step will be setting up an online store and start selling.
