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Opportunities in China

Like I said in the introduction, it’s not all bad news here. Factories want orders!! Of course, everyone wants them, but factories that are still in business have employees and need to pay for them so they are aggressively looking for new orders. This means that buyers with cash are in a great position. Indeed, if your own financial house is in order, this recession…

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By Diana Wang

Follow up well afterwards

According to our experience, most of the exhibitors and visitors will not actively follow up after the exhibition, maybe because they are busy with catching up with other work postponed due to the trip. Even though you prepare very well before the exhibition and have a wonderful discussion with the right suppliers, the trip will be wasted if you do not follow up adequately. Although the Chinese are learning to be more professional and international in their approach, you can expect to receive 2-3 follow-up letters from the 10 companies you have spoken to. (Perhaps 10 years ago you could have expected all 10 companies to be waiting for you to call them first). In order to establish a healthy relationship with a promising Chinese supplier, you must be prepared to become the side who will take the first step and who can educate them and push them to be more professional.

Here we will talk about some details to pay attention to when you follow up with the Chinese exhibitors: Read the rest of “Achieve Good Results From Sourcing Exhibitions in China – Part 5″ or post a comment

• Exhibitor analysis

Based on market research, you may already be able to get a list of remarkable Chinese suppliers. Then you cross-reference with the exhibitor list to see which remarkable Chinese suppliers will attend the show in China and which will not. It is likely that there will be some exhibitors which are not covered in your market research. You need to do some web research on…

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