International Trade

International Trade - Make The Most of Trade Portals

Billions of dollars worth of international trade is carried out every day, much of it by small businesses, importing and exporting products from and to their counterparts in other nations. As with every type of business an important task is locating people who will lead you to a signed contract - your trade leads.

Traditionally, businesses have found their international leads by attending trade shows in the target country. But this is an expensive and time-consuming way to find leads and besides, attending a show in a foreign country can be quite daunting.

Fortunately there is a great alternative to attending numerous trade shows - a substantial amount of import-export trade is now carried out online via B2B (Business To Business) trade portals.

B2B Trade Portals

These are websites that facilitate the exchange of goods and services between businesses. Our trade portal at http://www.import-export-guide.com is an example of such a site.

All kinds of products are being traded online between people from many different countries. On our portal we have members from Brazil, China, USA, Yugoslavia, Egypt Australia - every continent is represented. And the products they post are just as diverse - shoes, water coolers, gas, fibreglass insect screens, platinized anodes (whatever those are!).

Typically on an online portal you will be able to communicate with the originators of trade leads, submit details of your company and its contact details, upload images of your products and post your own trade leads.

Whilst all kinds are requirements can be posted on trade portals, including those for services, partnerships and others, the two most important types of trade leads are ‘Buy’ Leads and ‘Sell’ Leads.

Buy Leads

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