Tag: wholesalers

Using Worldwide Brands to Find Drop Shippers

As one of the largest directories of suppliers, Worldwide Brands should be the first resource you reach for when looking for new wholesalers or drop shippers.  The key advantage of membership, which is expensive at $249 for lifetime access, is that Worldwide Brands only lists suppliers that are guaranteed to be reliable – so it's by far the safest place to find new drop shippers.

Worldwide Brands has been around for a long time, it was founded as the original supplier directory in 1999 by Chris Malta, an eBay power seller.  Since then it's grown fast – and now has more than 16 million products available to buy from about 8,000 certified suppliers.

The key advantage of using Worldwide Brands, or any other directory, is that all of the suppliers have been certified – and that means that they are all fully guaranteed to be reliable to trade with.

So, if you're lucky enough to be a member of Worldwide Brands, how do you use it to find new suppliers?

Simply log into the members area and search for the products you want – you can search by keyword and there will likely be a long list of results.  These results can be filtered down by the location of the supplier – or by selecting only the drop shippers.  After that you'll have list of guaranteed suppliers that drop ship in your country – and it's actually pretty easy to contact them too as they are all happy to work with start ups and online businesses.

Doba, Salehoo and Worldwide Brands

Doba is easy to use, but very expensive when compared to Worldwide Brands and Salehoo – so is it worth the extra money, or should you save that to invest elsewhere?

First of all, I want to start by saying that it’s not as easy as many people make it out to be – setting up an online store and making a success of it.  There are a lot of things you’ll need to invest in – fees for Shopify, payment processing, cash flow, stock, etc.  So it’s in your interest to spend as little as possible on things like membership fees to a directory like Doba or Worldwide Brands.

That said, Doba is a great tool – it’s really easy to use and unlike other directories of wholesalers and drop shippers you can use it to find, buy and fulfil all your orders easily.  Unlike Ali Express and DHGate, which are set up similarly, all of the suppliers in Doba are guaranteed to be legitimate.  That makes it much safer to use as well, but there is a downside – it’s more expensive.

Membership to Doba costs between $29 and $249 every month.  Compared to Salehoo and Worldwide Brands, which cost $67 per year and $249 (one off fee) respectively, that’s really expensive.

Doba is only worth the extra money because it saves you time – if you can handle managing the store and fulfilment yourself then you might as well go with another tool like Salehoo or Worldwide Brands because they are much cheaper.