The First Step in Verifying Potential Suppliers

I want to preface this post with the fact that this first step cannot always be used on every supplier. So for those that it cannot be used on go to step two.

Google Earth is a great and easy to use tool. It does not work with all locations and this usually varies country to country. Here is how I started using it when I was just starting.

First you locate a potential supplier’s address and search for it using Google Earth (GE). What you will see will differ, but let’s pretend that the address is an apartment building. Now when you contact the supplier, and I ALWAYS call before I email, you can ask them if their business is a storefront or in an industrial park. If they verify the address you searched and say an industrial park then they are lying and you should promptly avoid further contact. I say that if they are lying about their location what else are they lying about? This is not to say that a business location cannot be an apartment, but instead to check the supplier’s truthfulness.

Stay posted for future tips on the verification of suppliers.