The market research wizard developed by Worldwide Brand Inc. is a great tool, which shows in a probability scale whether it is worthy trying to sell your selected product online or not. You can find it over here. (http://www.worldwidebrands.com/?8188)

Locate drop-shipping companies

After selecting product next step is to find a reliable drop-shipper for it. This might not be an easy task! The things that you should look into a drop-shipper are followings:

1. A reputable supplier with drop-shipping experience 2. Ready to ship one item at a time 3. Do not ask for any membership payment 4. Will use your name as shipper 5. Will enclose blank invoice or invoice from you 6. On packaging there will be no indication that they are supplier.

You might think that easiest way of finding a drop-shipper is just to buy one of numerous lists on Internet for sale. I won’t recommend you to use them for number of reasons. Often, these lists are outdated or carry wrong information. Even if you find companies through lists, since many people use these lists, you get into fierce competition for market share not even starting to sell.

Use following approach instead:

Online search

The first step is, naturally, to use search engines. Using various combinations of keywords of your product with words: manufacturer, wholesaler, drop-shipper, dealer, see if you can find original source of product.

If several online retailers are already selling this product, do some detective works! Check out sites thoroughly. May be, you can find a clue, which will help you track down supplier.

If it is an imported product go to sites like Alibaba, ecplaza, Rusbiz, trade-india. Locate manufacturer and get in touch with them to find who you should contact in your country to retail sell their products. If product is manufactured in North America, best source to find them is Thomas register.

Trade exhibitions

You should definitely attend trade shows related to your category of products. This is an easy way to find a number of suppliers, who might be willing to work with you.

Trade magazines

Trade journals and publications are also a good resource for finding suppliers of your products. Although, you might have to go through a sizable quantity of them before you stumble on right supplier.

Conclusion

Drop-shipping has some inherent drawbacks too. The biggest of them is you have to totally rely on drop-shipper to fulfill your order and get product to your customer on time. The others are: you don’t have any control over price or availability of product. However, a good drop-shipper cares for his reputation since his business depends on retailers like you. That’s why you have to be very careful in choosing right drop-shipper.

So how do you deal with these problems? The same way you need to deal with all eBusiness marketing problems. You operate in REAL TIME. You dissect, study, and emulate what successful webmasters, listowners, and netrepreneurs are doing to make money right now.

There are a number of different ways you can do this--but they all involve same three steps: dissect, study, and emulate. In remainder of this article, I will explain website reverse engineering, which is one of real time methods I use to improve my marketing efforts.

You can start by taking a closer look at websites you visit most often. Rather than looking at them as a customer or as a member, think about process that went into making them. You did not find that website by accident. You are not looking at certain products for no reason. If webmaster of this site is a professional, then it was engineered to drive you there and then to look at specific things. Undo this process to learn from it:

Dissect. Study. Emulate.

Look at layout of pages. Check site map. Look at how things are arranaged. Are there popups? Is there a newsletter? Do they have a lot of outgoing links to websites they do not own? Is this website actually mini-site of another bigger site?

Figure out why this webmaster has things setup in way you see them.

How does webmaster really make majority of her revenue? Does this webmaster get a lot traffic? If so, where does it come from (hint: google and alexa have functions that allow you to back-track links and traffic). Does this webmaster use certain techniques to lure you in--and then close a sale? Does mainpage contain primarly free or purchasable items?

How is this webmaster's sales copy constructed? Would this webmaster prefer you to purchase a product or sign up for a list?

Dissect. Study. Emulate.

Answer all of these questions. You can do it for free and you will only get better more you do it.

Now take some of methods you understand best and are technically capable of implementing and then emulate them on your own website, personalizing them to fit in with your own scheme, of course.

If you do this regularly--if you use REAL TIME as your standard of evaluation--you cannot fail. I have personally used this method dozens of times to fix my website, and just recently I adjust my new internet income course, which now not only gets to all of my subscribers, but also teaches them how to accomplish same thing with real time marketing.