More business opportunities from online sales

The first thing for Mr. Lv to do after opening the shop door every morning is to start the computer to check the email or to upload the latest sample pictures on the web. Mr. Lv deals specially in braided bags and beach mats in district F of Yiwu International Trade Mart.

In 2005, Lv registered in alibaba. At that time, he was not sure if this could help him in business.

With the time passing by, he found the online order was increasing when he chatted with customers by the chatting software named aliwangwang. One year later he was surprised to know that his online order doubled previous year's sales value. And in one year's total sales, online ones took up more than half.

Since the beginning of the summer, the beach mats and ice bags are dramatically demanded, and most of the orders come from the web. Especially, the beach mats, no interest from customers when put in the real shop, attract great attentions when put their pictures online. Many people call to ask for information, and demand from Qingdao, Dalian and Putuo is increasing.

Jin just graduated from university and his family has a shop in F3, district G of ITM dealing in zippers. Because of the financial crisis, the foreign trade orders decreased in large numbers.

Jin decided to set up a website to attract potential customers. He employed special person to design lead-in cartoon, took photos of all the zippers and uploaded them on the website. In order to promote the website, Jin went to foreign trade companies to send business cards, and sent e-mails attached with website links to clothes and bags factories after he searched their e-mails through enterprises directory network. Jin said excitedly that this was the third month since the opening and the web hits were over thousand. So far, he had 5 orders and one Arabian customer demanded 10,000 zippers .