As all major B2B marketplaces, easytrade.com main vision is to become the leading marketplace in the world. Their mission is to fulfill their client needs by providing excellent services.

Easytrade.com was founded in 2002 and in general this online platform was designed to provide assistance to small and medium enterprises. As most B2B marketplaces it is aimed at increasing trade between Western enterprises and Asian suppliers. Even the smallest enterprise can create a showroom via the online platform and sell their products in a worldwide market. Easytrade promotes their products and services in worldwide spectrum. Easytrade provides a series of valuable features and services like; a search engine, huge buyer database, a forum, trade show organization and much more.

Easyrade offers three types of membership; associate, standard and premier. Associate membership is for free so it is possible to give it a try without any additional costs. Of course the more advanced membership types provide more services and features. Easytrade organizes trade shows not only in Asia, but also in Europe and USA. So there are a lot of opportunities for product promotion.

Actually this B2B online platform looks quite good. Of course there are other B2B places and no one can actually tell which one is the best, but in my opinion each and every one provides additional help to conduct successful trade and become filthy rich. Give it a try! It won’t cost you anything, but maybe opens a new route to unseen profits.

The portal has more than 1 million active users and delivers information on 4.3 million items. Quite a nice spread don’t you think? The main language of communication is English which allows conducting trade with Chinese more efficiently. The portal also organizes trade shows which take place in 10 various cities.

A short history – the corporation itself was established in Manila, Philippines in 1990, but the actual B2B portal www.globalsources.com was launched in 1999. During the next ten years the portal has been steadily improved and the branches of its operations expanded which lead to the fact that today it is one of the leading B2B portals worldwide. Their main goal is to promote trade with Asia and especially the emerging economy of mainland China.

A word of caution, although B2B portals provide a wonderful opportunity to conduct international trade even on the private level, one must remember that as it is in real life fraud and scam exist also in the B2B portals. There are companies and individuals whose sole purpose is to make money every possible way which includes fraud and scam. The main reason these people succeed is because business is not conducted face to face, but over the internet and you can never be completely sure who is on the other side.

But don’t despair, it is actually not as bad as it might sound. B2B portals offer a great opportunity to conduct business on international level and it does not matter what size is your enterprise. The international market is accessible fore everyone.

Of course tradeindia.com does not sell any actual products, but it provides valuable services to exporters and importers and also service providers. They all can advertise their products and have a stable platform to conduct business. Tradeindia.com goal is to provide useful and accurate information and as you might know already information is power. Maybe you did not learn anything valuable from all this, but heck at least try this business tool – it free.

Made-in-China.com was developed by Focus Technology Co and launched in 1996. Their main mission is to help small and middle-sized Chinese enterprises to compete in the global market. This gives even the smallest Chinese enterprise the opportunity to advertise their product to world using the power of internet. A global buyer on the other hand receives accurate and dependable information about the product and its producer. And as we all know that not everyone outside China speaks Mandarin Chinese so the site helps both involved parties to conduct efficient business.

Of course this is not the only online trade platform in the world (Alibaba.com trade site), but in my opinion you can never have enough tools and after all this is yet another possibility for you to conduct successful trade operations and earn some money and in the current situation in the global market you have to use every help you can get. At least give made-in-china.com a chance.

Alibaba.com is the World’s largest marketplace for international trade. This is the place where buyer meets the seller online. This way sellers can promote their businesses online.

Alibaba.com itself does not offer any products – it is an online business platform where to post information and find potential business partners.

Two sides: Sellers and Buyers.

Buyers or importers browse for seller’s products and then make inquiries. This is not like eBay where a specific product is sold for a definite price. Here you can find a product picture and description and if you like it, you can start to negotiate price, quantities, quality, looks and other specifics of the product.

Sellers or exporters post their company information and list of offered products (specification, delivery terms and description).

To become a Seller or Buyer you must sign up for your free account, but to obtain all features of this site you must sign up for the Gold membership. The Gold Supplier membership is said to get 22x more inquiries and better return-on-investment, but I strongly recommend to start with the free account though you may post fewer products.

Who is the target audience?

Well, this site is mainly made for Chinese exporters and those who want to import from China. Of course there are other sellers from whole world, but  almost 70% of the sites users are Chinese exporters. Anyways this site is a good place to find business partners and to see what the international competition has to offer.

To better understand what the site has to offer visit Alibaba.com and search for some products, you will see the results – the products themselves and the countries which offer them.

I hope you got the general idea of  Alibaba.com.