Made-in-China.com was established in 1998 and is the earliest B2B cross-border e-commerce platform in China. The platform is divided into domestic trade station and international station. Currently, the international station supports 11 languages, has more than 3,800 product categories, more than 6 million registered supplier members, and more than 14 million registered buyer members. From 2003 to 2006, it was rated as one of the top 100 websites with the most commercial value in China by “Internet Weekly” for four consecutive years.
Made-in-China.com and Alibaba International Station are both membership-based, charged annually, and do not charge commissions, but the inquiry mechanism is different. I personally think that Alibaba adopts a group inquiry mechanism, and the inquiry quality is poor; Made-in-China.com adopts a one-to-one inquiry mechanism, and the inquiry quality is higher.
Platform fees include store entry fees and platform advertising fees.
Personal station fees are divided into the following three types.
①Free member: free registration;
②Gold member: 31,100 yuan/year;
③Diamond member: 59,800 yuan/year.
The difference between gold members and diamond members is that diamond members can enjoy higher-level membership services, and sellers’ companies and products can be exposed through multiple channels on the platform.
Advertising costs mainly include: booths, windows and other fees.
For more platform policies, please see the official website of Made-in-China.com.
B2B platform – Global Sources
Global Sources, also known as global sources, is a NASDAQ-listed company in the United States and was selected by Forbes magazine as one of the top 200 companies in Asia. Global Sources is a more traditional B2B multi-channel international trade platform, serving 240 countries and regions. The platform has accumulated more than 1.5 million international buyers, including 94 of the world’s top 100 retailers. The platform mainly combines offline trade shows with online websites, and cooperates with magazines and other multi-channel publicity to promote trade between buyers and sellers.
The positioning of the Global Sources platform is large and medium-sized B-end enterprises, and the cost and requirements for small and medium-sized enterprises will be relatively high.
Global Sources has a high entry threshold. One is the high annual fee and the other is the high entry requirements.
Entry requirements: either a well-known brand, a merchant with relatively high sales, or a large factory that supports shipments from the place of origin. Merchants must meet one of these requirements before entering.
For more platform policies, please visit the Global Sources official website.