Alibaba is the biggest B2B ecommerce platform globally, thousands and thousands of factories and wholesales provides any products needed. You can find almost anything for your business.
Alibaba is safe and reliable platform to use, but you need to know some tips how to use it. including how to choose suppliers, how to find the right products with good quality, how to arrange payment, how to arrange shipping with low costs, how to verify suppliers qualifications…….
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There are different types of sellers on Alibaba, basically 3 types as below
- Manufacturers
- Wholesalers
- Trading company
Most of suppliers on Alibaba is Manufacturers. Almost all medium and large factories has opened Alibaba to boost the sales internationally. Since there are so many factories sell same products and if you don’t invest money to advertisement on this platform, sellers can not acquire more traffic and exposure. When you search the listings on Alibaba, make sure to dig more sellers, the sellers ranking top maybe not the best, just because they invest more money into it.
How to search on Alibaba
The easy way is type the “key words” and choose “best match” and then you get thousands of suppliers, most of people use this way and I suggest this way too.
Make the best use of Alibaba filter system.
- Trade Assurance Suppliers
- Verified Suppliers
How to verify a company’s background
- Business license
- Company or factory location
- Contact information
- Certifications of products
- Onsite video communications
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Quality inspection
Shipping arrangement
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