Monday, 30 January 2012

How To Find Trade Leads

By David Bess


Trade leads are buying and selling offers from importers and exporters. In this article, you will learn about the different ways to find suppliers and potentials clients to boost your business.

Embassies should be an option to get more information about wholesalers and buyers. They are well connected within their community and possess a lot of valuable information for you. Unfortunately, the service level you receive will greatly depend from country to country.

Directories still remain a very traditional way to find trade leads. You will be able to find company names by alphabetical order and industry category. In these directories, you will be able to get telephone numbers and emails if you are lucky. One of the main disadvantages is that these directories can be quite pricey and sometimes you will not be able to buy them online.

Online B2B marketplaces are ideal mediums to find trade leads as they have dedicated search engines where you can browse by country, category and keywords. The great thing about these trade portals is that you can also find priceless business information about a product or country that you are interested in. They are similar to online company directories with many more features to meets the daily needs of businesses. Leading B2B marketplaces include Alibaba.com, Tradekey.com and Mercatrade.com.

Another way to actually meet potential business partners are Tradeshows. These events bring together buyers and sellers from all over the world allowing you to be efficient in your sales and purchases.

You can see that finding trade leads and business opportunities can be quite simple by getting in touch with embassies, accessing directories, browsing b2b marketplace and attending tradehows.




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