General

How to search for foreign trade orders has always been a difficult problem for newcomers to foreign trade. Let's take a look!

1. Customer recommendation

Foreign trade orders are sometimes introduced by their own customers. Foreign trade enterprises should reach out to more customers, control their products well, establish a good brand reputation for themselves, and ensure that your customers are satisfied with your products. A good reputation from customers can often bring you more foreign trade orders.

2. Online exhibition

Compared to traditional trade shows, online exhibitions undoubtedly have more advantages. They provide convenient, rich, and year-round services for suppliers and buyers, especially in the era of the pandemic. Although this exhibition method does not have the convenience of direct communication with offline exhibitions, it is also very flexible.

3. Paid advertising

The work of overseas online marketing is necessary and necessary. Foreign trade enterprises can consider Google advertising, Facebook advertising, overseas social media promotion, email promotion, search engine optimization of independent foreign trade websites, and other methods to comprehensively layout various promotion methods.

4. Search Engine Optimization

Search engines such as Google and Yahoo are commonly used abroad. This is very important because foreigners are also looking for similar products, suppliers, and so on every day, just like us. If there were more opportunities to showcase in search results, there would definitely be more attention.

5. Social media

Establish your own social accounts and homepage such as Facebook and Twitter, dress up your homepage, establish your own fan base, and maintain these fans like maintaining your WeChat Moments, in order to develop some customers.

6. B2B foreign trade platform

The B2B foreign trade platform is the most traditional and widely used way of receiving foreign trade orders. The most representative B2B platforms are Alibaba International Station, China Manufacturing Network, etc. These foreign trade platforms have stable traffic and sound mechanisms.

7. Independent station

If you stand alone, it can now be considered an emerging way to develop customers. In fact, for a period of time, site group marketing has been very popular. If you stand alone, it is actually good to have strength. This is the era of traffic being king, where independent stations can perfectly integrate platform customer acquisition and traffic. In theory, it is better than B2B.

8. Several communication software columns such as WhatsApp

The marketing of WhatsApp is not much to say. As a communication software with over 2 billion global user groups, the business opportunities inside are infinite. WeChat has only a few hundred million users in China, and has achieved many people who do WeChat business. Therefore, let's not say much, seize the time.

9. Utilizing customs data

Customs data is the fastest way to obtain foreign target buyers. By entering "product keywords or HS codes" with just one click, all "foreign buyers with purchasing needs for the product" can be obtained. Small factories can consider investing some money in this area to directly obtain foreign trade orders from foreigners.

9. Utilizing Google Maps

Based on Google Maps to locate cities, enter keywords to search for customer websites, company names, email addresses, social accounts, and other information, export data with one click, and mine important contact positions and email addresses. Multiple mining interfaces can be opened to simultaneously mine.