I wanted to talk about something I see happening all the time with those getting into internet businesses.  Sometimes the cart is put before the horse and this can really mess things up and I want to help you avoid making costly mistakes when it comes to dropshipping and internet businesses.

Before you go out and spend money on domain names and hosting with your business ideas, make sure you can find a supplier with the products you are wanting to sell.  All to often people get excited about what they want to do online and go and spend all kinds of money on business names, domain names, hosting, business cards etc.. Then they find out that they can't lock down the supplier no matter what they do, or the products they want to offer they can't sell online.  Make sure you have access to the product before setting up a whole business plan.

The best way to access product dropshippers is through a dropship directory list (like the one we have at The Shipper).   You can browse through all our suppliers and make sure that we have the products and suppliers you are looking for and then you can feel comfortable setting up all the other stuff.  You do not want to set up a dropshipping type site doing it any other way!  It simply can backfire in your face and cost money you will never get back.

If the supplier is included in our list, they are legit, and they will work with you as long as you have a legit business name and Tax ID.  Just wanted to remind people of this and hopefully save some money for those of you that might be at this point of setting up an internet business.