Is your luggage all set?

Do you know what you want to import?

Profits are ready for the reaping!

The question is: where to go in China?

Paying a visit to a country to do business can truly be educational and widens one’s perspective. Surprisingly, many businessmen make the decision to import from China without actually visiting the country.

We must keep in mind that business relationships in China are driven by personal relationships more than in the West.

Success in importing goods from China can be yours if you plan properly.

China has so many trading places and factories to source your products from.

Before we get started, here are some of things you’ll need when you go to China:
• Your Passport.
• Your Business Cards
• and a Chinese interpreter (if necessary)  [...]

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One main difficulty of entering the consumer electronics sector, especially the computer and mobile devices sub-sectors, is the presence of well-established and entrenched global brands; Apple, Samsung and Motorola quickly come into mind. With the fact that these brands are already entrenched in their positions in the global market, the fact that they have established excellent reputations (or at least established a reputation of some sort that attracts exceptional attention from consumers), and the stereotyping of Chinese import goods (which will be your goods) as sub-standard, one might think that it will be impossible to enter this segment of the industry.
Sun Tzu said in The Art of War (a vital reading for business), “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” That is, you must be aware of your weaknesses and strengths, and that of your competitors as well. Here are a few generalizations with regards to global electronics brands.

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If you have a small business and you would like to go global, but are too afraid of the risks entailed by the move, here are some pointers to what you could do to reduce the potential losses. The reality is that you shouldn’t be afraid to enter global markets, as it’s easier to do it nowadays than ever before. There are many resources you can use, and the Internet is a powerful tool. You can use the Internet both to promote your business, and to look for reliable business partners in other countries. Due to the advance of technologies, it’s now easier than ever to contact players in the global market, and to find out all kinds of useful information about going global.  [...]

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