How do you find friendly drop shipping companies and suppliers?

Direct contact:
You can contact wholesale suppliers directly who produce and stock products of interest and inquire about a drop shipping partnership with them; you should be a little cautious, especially if the company hasn’t been involved in these kinds of partnerships before. Try to find companies that already have a good foundation in the industry. Although I have taken chances on a few unknown/new companies that just started drop shipping at the right time and have made killer money selling there products before anyone else found out about them. My own little gems I call them…

Search engines:
The other way to go is to hit your favorite search engine and search on the terms:
“drop shipping” + product of interest
or
dropshipping + product of interest
or
“drop ship” + product of interest
or
“dropship” + product of interest
Ensure you encapsulate in quotes where indicated above to ensure the results you get are the most relevant search results.

Dropship resources directory:
(I personally have never used any of them as I prefer to go around the middle man and go straight to the source)
If you’re based in the USA, you can try Doba – they are eBay certified, list over 1.0 million products and add about five new wholesale suppliers and companies every week to their massive directory. Doba is currently running a free trial membership, so you can take a good look around the service without spending a cent.
If you’re based outside the USA, you could give OneSource a try. They give you access to lists of over 1,000,000 products from over 220 different categories in their directory. Like Doba, OneSource lists the *real* wholesale drop shippers, not retail companies or middlemen with links to wholesalers – it’s definitely worthwhile checking out.

To Your Success,
Sam England