Our enterprise is engaged in the fishing and fish processing, located in Sanya harbor, Hainan province of China. For a long time we base myself upon local abundant resources, are mainly engaged in processing and distribution of squids,tilapias,South American White prawns, small whitebaits, mackerels, scads, hairtails,golden thread fish,mackerel pike and so on. We give top priority to product quality, at present our company has GMP certification, HACCP certification, the FDA certification, JAS certification, EU certification, an organic food certification, green food certification ,ISO9000 and ISO14000 certification and so on.
I am the vice-manager of the company and in charge of sales and marketing operation of the company.I feel everything is fresh when I just began to contact with network. When I walked across the diversity of networks I felt very happy and registered at least ten websites ,but have little success. The slogan of some websites are shocked, but they have little service to contact with the customers??The threshold of some websites are very high which can be scared to death. I also made many efforts on those websites but little success.
When I registered the free member of Foods 1 network on June 2rd,2005 I just began to find the feeling of e-commerce and Internet commerce and in succession placed our products including pictures on Foods 1 network. At that time their operation staff properly called me to teach me how to let our products on their website be seen by more buyers and how to let our products and company profiles be included by every great searching engine, at the beginning I am doubtful whether the things on Internet are reliable and later I gradually received some customers?? calls, who got to know us from Foods 1 network, most of the customers come to demand goods and some of them come to ask for the prices. Some of the customers are aquatic companies who come from the local places and others come from coastal cities. While contacting with them I get to know the market and other companies?? situations, during the process I have opened my mind and established the supplying relationship with several major trade companies. I have got the idea that when we make business we do it with people, isn??t different to get customers?? information between Internet and other resources. At that time I have a ultimate change to the network, I can get many good customers from Internet.
At the beginning of 2006 the customers?? service staff from Foods 1 network called to tell us they would participate the Boston Seafood Show at the beginning of March and asked us whether we wanted to become their senior member in order to have a chance of propagandizing our company in the Boston Seafood Show. At that time I was doubtful about the feasibility because I won??t go to Boston Seafood Show and do not know whether they will propagandize for us or not, what is more, we need pay money to become the senior member and then the thing is got down, but from then on I always enter the Foods 1 network instead of entering other websites to browse information, which kind of food is popular now, which countries demand more goods and which kind of goods they need although I can not see their contact information.
In an instant in the end of October ,2006 it is in the shipment season of South American White Shrimp. I wanted to find more EU customers to make more profits, at that time I remembered Foods 1 network and offered to call in order to ask whether they could help us find the customers we need, their customers service staff told us they have a service called ??rade Rapido?? which is specially designed for exporting enterprises like us and if we could join the ??R??, we not only could enjoy the promised service but also propagandized in the China International Seafood Show at the beginning of November. I had a try in order to get orders, with that I signed one-year service contract with them, and set about printing the data of our company so as to let them propagandize in the Show. In succession I began to post data and wait for the news, after the Seafood Show their customer service staff issued some data of international buyer merchants,but all long time foreign customers did not directly find us. We gradually did not many phones, e-mails and faxes from the customers until half a month after the Show ,most of the customers are foreign and some of them are domestic, I chatted well with a Spain company and soon would give us orders; in addition many foreign companies find us through the International website of Foods 1 network and establish good operation relationship. Now the operation members in our company are very interested in international buying information of Foods 1 network and will confirm every item, all of them make me happy and satisfy. Here special thanks to the first food network which helps us make ultimate change with network and e-commerce and attach importance to them ,now I regret not to become their charging member as a result I missed 06 Boston Seafood Show ,after that I especially warned their customers service staff to inform us if there are such shows, it is worthwhile even if we pay more money. It is less than two months since we become their charging member, as a result, we have contacted with so many customers, choice is much more important than endeavor, Friend, I have made a good choice, and you?
