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Some skills for seeking foreign trade customers

Topic: Business OpportunitiesPublished August 31, 2011

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We know that nowadays, many China suppliers are trying to seek foreign trade customers on the internet.

However, there are massive information about foreign trade customers, how can we find potential customers in a short time and reach an agreement?ãWe need some skills to seek information and screen out information and select valuable information to obtain orders.

First the suppliers could build up their own company website to post product information and certificates, company introduction, contact information etc.

We can search foreign trade websites in foreign countries through search engine, such as Google or Baidu. But the result may not get us into foreign trade business directly since we have to spend a lot of time on communicating with the business partners and verify some information before we get any orders placed by the business partners.

Then we can find some industry association websites to get some industry websites, which may post business offers information.

We can go to some trade show websites since every year there are some trade shows held in different countries, such as Korea, Philippine, Australia, USA, China, India, Russia etc. We can attend trade show on-spot, which is very valuable since we can communicate with the business partners face to face and negotiate on details, which may bring great success to foreign trade.

While if we have no time to attend such trade show, or can not afford such trade shows, we can go to the trade show websites, where some suppliers or international buyers may leave the contact information there. We can start foreign trade business through such contact information, but still there is long way to go for the order placement.

The easy and direct way to seek foreign trade potential customers is to visit some B2B portals. There are more chances for reaching agreement.

IBUonline is an innovative B2B portal, which is aimed to help foreign trade business. If you have interest in online foreign trade, please visit IBUonline homepage and register on it for free. You have one more channel for developing foreign trade business.

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