If you are selling products on the internet these days, you obviously know the importance of wholesale lists. Every time I open my email I am reading of someone else getting scammed by fake wholesalers and their too good to be true "lists".

For those of us who are new to online marketing and do not know what wholesale lists are, here is a little bit of background for you.

Wholesale lists are basically a compiled list of contacts, email links, and phone numbers used to buy merchandise. Most of the time in bulk at a discount price to be sold for profit. Wholesale lists are 100% legal and have proven to be for a number of people including myself, a literal gold mine.

I assume if you are reading this, you have some interest in obtaining a reliable wholesaler. Back when I started my internet marketing career, there were no such "lists". I had to do the research myself, and suffer the pitfalls of making bad choices. Luckily for me, back then there were not many scammers out there. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said today. The internet is chock full of people trying to make a living off of the ignorance of those less informed.

Some things you can do to keep yourself on the right track when creating your wholesale lists start with your internet browser. Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome have some great extensions to help keep you on the right track. I especially like WOT (Web of Trust). Its available for both browsers and I suggest you use it. WOT allows users to input a "trustworthiness" indicator right next to the Google search results. Green for very trustworthy. Yellow for semi trustworthy and so on. I personally will not deal with any wholesaler in the yellow to red sector. Another great tool is the NetCraft tool bar. NTB basically does the same as WOT but uses a host of other references to make its trustworthiness rating. One of the things I like most about NTB is it will tell you where the webpage is being hosted. A good indicator of a fraudulent site would be the location of the web-server. If its in the Ukraine, its probably not a good one to deal with.

Creating your own wholesale lists is not hard. It is a staple of internet marketing and home based business. With the tools I described above and a little common sense, The sky is the limit.

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