#3: Diversity in Products and Wholesale Suppliers

Make sure that any drop ship directory you sign up with has diversity in the products and suppliers they carry. Signing up with a drop ship directory without diversity will be severely detrimental to your business. Let's say you want to sell i-pods. You sign up with a drop ship directory you believe has i-pods. When it comes down to it, they only had one supplier and that supplier was not accepting any more clients.

You next decide you would like to sell cordless drills. This drop ship directory doesn't sell drills. Now you're in a bit of a bind because the drop ship directory you began to use is useless to you. There is a solution to this problem. Ask the drop ship directory about how many categories of products they have before you sign up to use the directory. Doing this will help you ensure that you can find the products you want to sell.