At the end of 2019, the sudden new crown epidemic swept the world, but also to the people of the world brought an unprecedented test, whether it is life safety, or international economic structure. Let the world’s economic behavior pattern quietly changed, in international trade as purchasers or buyers in the face of external changes, the procurement behavior pattern is forced to follow a change. Once the traditional face-to-face direct buying behavior is completely replaced by online or indirect ways.
In particular, Guangdong Import and Export Fair, Hong Kong Exhibition, Light Asia Exhibition, important offline exhibitions at home and abroad could not be held, the traditional important trade docking window closed, which also made many foreign customers lost the opportunity to develop new resources, new products, new projects. To this day, the epidemic has not been effectively controlled, but life must go on. To develop trade information to communicate new exports. It is also this world crisis that makes the development of the Internet, social media and other economic distribution vehicles a new trend! As an international purchaser how to cater to this change, how to find their own resources from these new ways of business communication, how to select a reliable Chinese supplier?
1. make good use of goolge search engine, find professional suppliers to show a full range of official website
As a business practice, goolge provides a lot of supply resources, of course, we are also one of them for more than ten years led engineering special lamps and lanterns suppliers. Google search China suppliers seems to be the logical first step. The best Chinese suppliers generally have their own external commercial websites. You can contact them! Make some series of matchmaking efforts.
2. Your Industry Social Media
As an emerging business promotion model, you can search your industry’s social media on Linkin, Facebook, and instagram to find the business contact you need who can connect with Chinese suppliers to learn more about your industry’s needs.
3. Video marketing channels.
As Chinese manufacturers will also change with the international situation, will update the product publicity and occurrence channels, such asTikTok, YouTube, the use of the Internet users can take the initiative to spread the characteristics of the product video content that can touch the needs of the target user point to attract the user’s eye, and let them identify, to create empathy, to stimulate the user’s sense of participation, and spontaneous secondary communication, so that Through this way, we can link the buyers with the product manufacturers and suppliers.
4. Introduce suppliers through peers, colleagues, friends, etc.
Learn more about your competitors, so that you can better control your market positioning and get more supply resources! For your business practices to provide cost-effective product support!
5. Go directly to some familiar manufacturers and suppliers website to find products
To the previously cooperated Chinese suppliers to understand the updated products of the website, go to research the local market and import new products. Because it is once cooperated, so in communication, with the work of manufacturers are very familiar with. The cooperation of new products is also smoother.
6. Find suppliers through BB, catalog, industry and other content sites
B2B platforms such as Alibaba、Globalsources 、Tradekey、Made-in-China、HKTDC、Toboc、Diytrade、TradeFord、 Ecrobot more to understand the new industry trends, to find the source factory.
7. Find suppliers through industry magazines, cloud exhibitions, etc.
Exhibitions and magazines are some of the industry precipitation for many years a carrier, there will also be a lot of good supplier recommendations. Small steps of the way to keep trying to find suppliers manufacturers who can cooperate with each other
8. Trading companies
As a traditional business model of foreign trade agents! One-stop procurement is also a good choice, equivalent to an assistant in the country of production of products to help summarize the work of dealing with some of the tedious procurement. Facilitate a lot of communication and docking problems later!
The epidemic when the seller’s market economic environment will be more severe, the market will be more unstable, so the procurement decision will be more careful than before, observe the market to make a decision time will be longer, in the face of the escalation of the epidemic, countries introduced different levels of closure of the country to seal the city policy, the terminal consumer market promotion and publicity activities on hold. The local market downturn demand shrinkage and company layoffs, sales decline. It is all a test. Repeated epidemic, home office or some appear to suspend business, greatly affecting the normal office hours and office efficiency. So face more challenges, so this requires a higher level of judgment, in the face of countless suppliers to make the right selection.
In summary several important methods beyond the above, there are many channels, but the ultimate goal is to find the supplier with a high degree of cooperation, whether it is price, quality, or service! Of course, this process requires a lot of patience to grind, we also sincerely hope that you can find a reliable supplier mutually beneficial, mutual support and common development.