Li: The sourcing channel for business experience sharing

Li has introduced the experience sharing of the business process in the previous articles, and talked about team building. This is dedicated to the purchase of shop channel issues, to talk about their views. At present, whether the business or Taobao, Pat Sellers, in how to choose the purchase channel, many in the initial stage of the shop owner can not find the main points. Below, Li on some of the main online purchase channels for classification of the introduction.





1, Wholesale market:


This is the simplest and most common way to find sourcing, but many sellers ignore this simple method and turn their eyes to the origin of the goods. In fact, when you open an online shop in the initial stage, if the sale of goods can not reach a certain amount, in the local market to purchase, has been completely able to meet your needs. If your store is a clothing business, then you can go around some large-scale services wholesale market purchase, in the wholesale market need to have a strong bargaining power, and strive to the lowest prices, and wholesalers to establish a good relationship, in the exchange of goods with wholesalers on the issue to be clear, so as to avoid future disputes. In many places like this market, such as Guangzhou flower Wholesale clothing market, Yiwu commodity city and so on.





Advantages: Quick update, many varieties, disadvantages: easy to break goods, quality is not easy to control; suitable for the crowd: there is such a large market, they have a certain ability to talk about price.





2, Factory direct purchase:


formal manufacturers abundant supply, high credit, if long-term cooperation, generally can win the product exchange. However, in general, the manufacturers of high volume, not suitable for small wholesale customers. If you have enough capital reserves, there are distribution channels, and there is no danger of Yahuo. If you go to the relatives and friends of the factory direct purchase, basically do not need to worry about after-sales service and quality issues, the price is more reasonable, if the continuous shelves for a period of time are not good sales can also be a replacement.





Advantages: Price advantages; Disadvantages: Capital, inventory pressure, product single, suitable for the crowd: have a certain economic strength, and have their own distribution channels.





3, Wholesalers Place purchase:


generally use search engines Google, Baidu and so on can find a lot of these trade wholesalers. They are generally directly supplied by the manufacturers, supply more stable. Insufficient is because they have been bigger, orders more, the service unavoidably sometimes can't keep up. And they all have their own regular customers, and it's hard to talk to them, unless you're a big customer, you'll get discounts and other offers. In the beginning of cooperation will be the delivery time, exchange goods and other issues clear.





Advantages: Abundant supply, many kinds of choice, shortcomings: After-sales service can not keep up, suitable for the crowd: have their own distribution channels, a large sales.





4, Brand agents:


you can pay attention to the regular stores, and must go to contact, there will be many discoveries. But relatively speaking, the direct contact brand dealer, need bigger purchase quantity. The greater the brand, the higher the price discount, the real money, only in the completion of sales after the rebate. But if your shop has developed to a certain extent, want to take the regularization route, this will be a good choice!





Advantages: supply stability, channel formal, goods are not easy to break goods; disadvantages: Newer slow, relatively high price, low profit; suitable for the crowd: Brand flagship store.

5. Affiliate Supplier:
This is one of the most popular forms of supply nowadays. By the supplier to provide pictures and merchandise introduction, after the sale of the supplier can help direct delivery (on behalf of the shipment). For beginners, this is a good choice, because all the product information is complete, the key to see how you sell the goods. However, in the selection of such suppliers, we must pay attention to his credit and commodity quality, otherwise encountered disputes will not be resolved. For example, focus on tea wholesale Tea Tea City (www.evtea.com) rely on Canton Fangcun Tea Wholesale Market (Asia's largest tea market), providing tens of thousands of goods, half a year of distribution channels on the development of dozens of online shop agent to join.

Advantages: Simple and convenient, mouse point, even without their own management, sitting commission, low risk, capital investment in the most province; disadvantages: goods do not pass their own hands, quality is difficult to control, due to the goods may not know enough to communicate with customers more complex, poor operation will be in the evaluation or evaluation. For the crowd: low-cost start-up of the Consumer-to-consumer net shopkeeper.

6, a variety of exhibitions, trade fairs:
Every year, each industry will hold various exhibitions, such as clothing exhibition, agricultural fair, the majority of these exhibitions are manufacturers. Therefore, when the business has been improved, and suffer from the supply is not good enough, to participate in the exhibition of related products, contact the real hand sourcing, bold and manufacturers to truly establish cooperation, long-term development and growth is very good. A variety of trade fairs, will be in the corresponding Business-to-business Web site to announce the date, to participate in this exhibition has a small trick, to participate as a professional, take a good card and ID card, so that manufacturers feel that you are professionals, talk about business is also relatively easy.

Advantages: Low cost, strong competitiveness, stable commodity quality, guaranteed after-sale service. Disadvantages: Generally can not sell, need to have a certain operating and selection experience, capital investment, greater risk. Suitable for the crowd: strong financial strength.

7, concerned about foreign trade products or OEM Products:
       at present, many factories in foreign trade orders outside the surplus or for some well-known brands of OEM production will have some surplus processing, Prices are usually very low, usually about 20 percent-30 percent of the market price, quality work is absolutely guaranteed, this is a good purchase channel. But the general requirements of the buyer all eat, so entrepreneurs must have economic strength.

       Suitable for the crowd: a certain source of supply channels, at the same time have a certain ability to identify.

8, buy inventory backlog or clearance processing products:
      because of the rush to deal with, the price of such goods is usually very low, if you have enough tongue-tied ability, can be eaten at a very low price, However, turn to online sales, using the advantages of online sales, the use of geographical or temporal spreads to obtain sufficient profits. Eat these products, you must have the ability to identify quality, at the same time to grasp the development trend and to establish their own distribution channels.

        Advantages: low cost; Disadvantages: There are a lot of uncertainties, such as the time, place, size, quantity, quality and so on can not be controlled by themselves Suitable for the crowd: a certain amount of financial strength, the industry's understanding of the comparison.

9, special purchase channel:
        If you have relatives and friends in Hong Kong or overseas, you can help them, into some domestic market can not see the goods or higher prices of products, such as you may find someone from Hong Kong into a number of chemicals, brand bags, etc., can also be from Japan into a number of electronic products such as cameras, but also from Russia to some crafts. If you work, live on the border, you can do a pass, yourself out of stock, so there is a distinctive or price advantage.
       If your family has relatives and friends engaged in the manufacture or sale of a particular product, you can directly to the Internet to sell, generally few such products online, so that your profits will be very large.

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