Alibaba.com Converts Crisis into Opportunities

As our products are quite special, we think that internet is the best way of promotion. We tried to cooperate with many e-commerce platforms; however, it did not yield good results. I attended a lecture delivered by Mr. Mayun, CEO of Alibaba Group at Canton Hotel in 1999, and from then on, I noticed that Alibaba.com is very professional and comprehensive in each catalogue they edited. I also found that if we displayed our products on this website, they were very easy to be found. Therefore, we became a free member of Alibaba.com in 2000. However, we got few inquiries then because many clients thought we were not authentic. At that time, our decision-makers almost lost all faith in that e-commerce platform. Things did not change until 2007. After many rounds of communication by TradeManager, an American client came to our factory and closed an order with us. Although it was not an extremely big transaction, our decision-makers changed their minds and decided to become a Gold Supplier of Alibaba.com. We also created some “Keywords” connected to our main products. From then on, we found that there were more and more inquiries from customers all over the world, some of which turned to be our potential clients later.

This year, everyone, including us, is faced with the challenges caused by the worldwide economical downturn. However, we regard it as another opportunity for us to develop because many clients want to get more products with lower price from China. So we will keep on cooperating with Alibaba.com, and we believe that with the help of Alibaba.com, we can surely improve our overseas business.

Source: http://news.alibaba.com/