Over the last 5 years I’ve been heavily involved with eCommerce sites, both my own and as a consultant working with others. Being around this community for so long I’ve seen an amazing growth in the number of people wanting to start an online store for various good reasons but I find they often come up with the same issue very early on in their journey. How to find brands to supply their new store?

It’s true that for somebody looking into starting an online business the quest of finding reliable, trustworthy suppliers in your chosen niche can be daunting. I recall spending weeks when setting up my first store searching Google for “niche keyword” + wholesale/supplier/trade….it doesn’t work. Well, it does work, but not very well.

So, what does work?

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You and I both know that proactively chasing links is a tiring and often tedious business.

What if I said there was a set and forget way for you to earn links whilst you sleep without lifting a finger? You’d probably think I was about to go spamtastic on you and start preaching the benefits of some push button comment posting software.

Fear not. This is far more interesting.

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