Hey, as the title says i want to make a online store to sell equipment for my hobby. I think its a growing market for it and i see few competitors. These are products i have no chance of making myself, so i will have to partner up with other companies who makes and distributes the equipment. Make a deal where i can buy their products for cheaper and sell it in my country. One of these companies are not very well known, and surprisingly unpopular if you compare to the performance and quality of their products. This company is created by enthusiasts and they are selling efficient and quality equipment with no compromise in performance. No rgb lights and no carbon fiber parts, just pure performance for cheaper. And i think that is a really good model since this hobby is really expensive and i think they are turning a lot of customers by creating cheap but highly performing equipment.

My question is, how can i make a store and know i will get customers before i can partner up with this company, why would they even agree to partner up with me? How does the other stores get these partners?

I feel like there is a step in front of me that is impossible to climb… I have to get traffic, but i cant get traffic if i dont have anything to sell or even a website, so this is a infinite loop i cant solve. How does stores like these start up?

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This is not a dropshipping store or a cheap money grab. I genuinly want to make a store and want to help share this equipment and hopefully make more people like this hobby :)