I am the minister of foreign trade department from a seafood company in zhoushan, in 2007 the seafood business was not going well, everyday I had to consider how to break through the outstanding achievement of our company ,so I felt great pressure on me.
Now the frequency of network usage is large in foreign trade, many companies all choose relevant B2B websites to promote, so do I . In the beginning of this year I finally found an integrated website to promote our company after careful choices, I thought what I have done would advance my outstanding achievement, but at last all the outstanding achievement all keeps the formal situation, which also does not give us more orders.
Bit by bit, I quite begin to lose confidence in B2B website and do not believe in B2B website, which can not bring us advanced outstanding achievement.
The chances were year-end of 2007, at that time I received an order with tuna of two containers from a foreign customer, , At that time the storage of our company was not enough, but the order on hand must be done, then I posted a piece of information about looking for the suppliers.
Before long the information has been posted, someone called me to say he was the staff of Foods1 and said he saw the buying information of mine on website, and said there was a paid member who was dealing with tuna , so they wanted to recommended me their products and asked me if we could leave our contact ways to them, after our permission the staff from Foods 1 fax us their company information and the introduction of their products, soon I received the Henan customer??s call ,then fax information each other, after two days, I sent the fillets of two containers, soon, I finished the order.
When seeing the high efficiency of Foods 1, I also begin to show much interest in their website, then I called their service telephone, the service staff who received the call passionally introduced their service , after their service I began to know we could search the buying information on the website, and the information of our company can be sent in the international food exhibition, if the members are not convenient to take part in the exhibition, the staff from Foods 1 could distribute their prompting information for members in the exhibition, at the same time, they wil dispatch the technical staff to pay a visit to international buyers and enquiry which kinds of products they want to buy. After the exhibition the information will be distributed to the member of their website, The combination of online and offline services will bring us rather obvious effect.
After all I have failed in publicizing us in other websites, we still did not choose them to make flack for us although they say their services are perfect.
Although I did not join the paid member ,they did not ignore me , and let us register a free member on their website and post some selling information, and said which would bring us effects, and between whiles they called us to remind me of timely updating posted information , and told me the chances which can be seen by others are much more.
Although being a free member I also could receive calls from others which enquired our products, and I have received three orders by it,. One of them is a foreign customer who saw my information on Foods 1 directly contacted with me. Free member also could receive orders, moreover, I could not see all the international buying information on their website, so many orders could not be done now. Honestly to say, the contacts ways of so many information which was set ahead of me could not be seen, I feel nervous. At that time I had the intention of joining their paid members.
Around December I again received the call from Foods 1 .They said they would join the American Boston Seafood Show , and said if we joined their paid member they could help us publicize in the Boston Seafood Show. Our company had the intention of joining the show, but we could not join the seafood show because of other things of our company were not solved .The publicizing of Foods 1 is suitable for me .After seeing about their website for such a long time, I have the confidence that they could help me well publicize in the seafood show . So I upgraded their paid member without any hesitation.
At present Foods 1 has come back with fruitful results from American Boston Seafood Show , Since the first day they have arrived Boston, I read their seafood show reports on their website every day. When I saw the good news from them I felt excited in my mind and looked forward to obtaining more and better information, and wished them to return home as soon as possible to bring the information to me, Now I have obtained all the information, what I should do now is to contact with the international buyers as soon as possible, I should not waste the good chance in order to shoot for obtaining more orders.
