Tradewheel is a b2b platform founded in 2003 in America. It offers similar content as other b2b sites. These generally have a product upload section where you can add your company’s products. The products you upload here will be displayed on the tradewheel site. In this way, buyers who visit the site will be able to see the products you have added and will contact you if they like your products. In addition, buyers who come to the site inform this site about the products they need. As a premium member, you can read these reported needs and contact these buyers. Unlike other b2b sites, you do not have your own website on this site; an area directly extension to the site is reserved for you. There is not much difference between the two situations.
TradeWheel analysis
According to Alexa evaluation, this site is ranked 32,372. It is slightly below average for a b2b site, but this site is gradually moving up the rankings. When we look at the past Alexa average, it is ranked 50,963. During this ninety-day period, our site has managed to rise to the top. The distribution of people visiting the site is as follows, according to Alexa data:
Japan 33.7%
America 23.2%
India 14.2%
The fact that there are not many Indian and Chinese manufacturers and sellers on this list is good for competition. In this way, Turkish manufacturers and sellers can compete more easily than other b2b sites. This may change depending on subsequent evaluations we obtain. Currently, the data above is the distribution of people visiting this site for 30 days.
##TradeWheel membership As with every b2b site, you have two different options: paid and free. There are big differences between these. You can enter the site and register easily for free.
Free membership
In the free membership section, when you enter your products on the tradewheel site for free in the dashboard and then click on the products section, you will see the area where you can upload the products. In addition, a small company of your own will come free of charge in an area where you promote.
paid membership
If you want to use it for a fee, although the prices are generally clear, there are situations where you can talk and get a discount.
TradeWheel, a B2B Platform, offers unlimited access to buyer database with only 399 USD / Annual Premium Membership.
Below are the benefits of Premium Membership:
You will be allowed to Send as many Unlimited Items as you want.
Your products will be prioritized. This way, you will start receiving requests directly to your inbox.
You will have unlimited access to TradeWheel’s buyer database.
You will be able to send offers to TradeWheel’s registered buyers.
Buyers will receive your Quotes in their Inbox as a Verified and Trusted Supplier.
In addition, when adding products, you must be a premium member to save them as a draft and add other products via this draft.
You can pay the premium membership fee via Credit Card, Western Union and PayPal.
When we look at the membership fees on the site, we see the following information.
silver package $499
gold basic 1499 dollars
gold advance $3,999
and finally, there is the Vip package for $7999.
Tradewheel vs other b2b sites
When we compare it with other b2b sites, the tradewheel site falls in the middle. If we need to talk about its positive aspects, it is technologically better. When we compare it with ec21, although ec21 is visited by more users, it is superior technologically and by a very small margin due to the abundance of manufacturers and the fact that there are many Chinese and Indian manufacturers and the site uses a bad infrastructure. When we compare it with Ecplaza, I think Ecplaza is more dominant over Tradewheel. Apart from the fact that more people visit Ecplaza, I think it has a slightly more developed infrastructure than this site.
TradeWheel Advertisement
TradeWheel hosts a large number of buyers and sellers from all over the world. Apart from the premium membership, you can also find buyers with the advertising package. Your ads will be published on tradewheel. I fill in the technical information and details about the ads with the information I get from their website.
Excellent Marketing Opportunities
With ideal marketing solutions, TradeWheel gives buyers or sellers the power to optimize their marketing tools and reach their target audience by displaying their products in our banners, top listing ads and newest products.
Cost-Effective Advertising Options
TradeWheel is the budget-friendly and ideal place for effective advertising. Our professional designers design a creative advertisement for your website for free. You can trust us to get the best free and reliable services.
Ad Types:
• Home Page Advertisement Home page advertisement ensures maximum visibility. Join us and showcase your banner on the front page and get more than 1.7 million views every month.
• Featured Product Advertisement Highlight your products and give them a chance to be the current dollar exchange rate increased so much and companies said they wanted to try Alibaba, but they did not want to lose nearly 2000 dollars.
If it is necessary to explain the joint Alibaba account, we are opening an Alibaba account for a company affiliated with exportyolu.com. We make the documents and payments for this account ourselves. We then distribute this payment to companies that want to publish their products in this account. There are generally 10 companies in these accounts. Therefore, the payment per company is approximately between $250 and $390. We do not ask for any documents from you in this system. What we need:
Images of your products
Prices of your products
Your short company introduction text
Having an employee who knows enough English to correspond via Whatsapp or having such a level of English yourself
We can include companies that meet these conditions in the joint account system. Once the product images and prices arrive, your products will start to be published on Alibaba within 1 to 3 days. There is no paperwork in this joint account as in the other Individual account.
Another issue is that the management of the joint account belongs only to us. The management of this joint account is done by Alibaba experts. They upload the products and they keep track of the uploaded products. They regularly update Alibaba. When you receive a message for your products, they instantly send you the phone number of the person who sent the message via WhatsApp upon request. In this way, you do not need to spend extra time on Alibaba, attend Alibaba trainings and regularly update your products on Alibaba. All of this will be done by alibaba experts. You can see the earnings you will gain thanks to the Joint Account in the list below.
Your products will be displayed on Alibaba for a year. You will be able to see your products when you search on Alibaba.
You have the right to upload at least twenty and at most thirty different products. For example, you have a shoe, this shoe has 6 different patterns. This counts as 1 product in total. Additionally, if you sell boots, this is also considered a different product. You are considered to have loaded two products in total.
Uploading of products to Alibaba, management, product editing and updating, and monthly maintenance are carried out by Alibaba experts.
Messages received about your products will be shared to you instantly via WhatsApp.
You will have your own company name and a short description under your products.
In this way, we share the messages received by companies about their products with them. We send companies the content of the message, the name of the person who sent the message and the WhatsApp number of the person who sent the message. Afterwards, this company will record the phone number of the person who sent the message and contact the company that is interested in the product via WhatsApp.
Individual Account or Joint Account?
Here we will talk about the pros and cons of the two account types.
Customer Finding Status: When we look at the averages, when you open an individual Alibaba account and the management is done by an Alibaba expert, you can receive 50-60 messages per year. In the second case, in the joint account system, this situation is between 35-45 messages. However, in terms of price, the joint account costs 1 in 10. In both cases, there is a situation where no message is received. So, if you spend $3000, you may not receive any messages. Therefore, if you have not tried it before, a joint account will be better for you. Afterwards, if you like the customers who want to buy products from you in the joint account, we can easily move on to opening an individual store. In a way, you test the situation beforehand.
Price situation: The price situation corresponds to approximately 1 in 10. If you are not a large company or holding, we recommend the partner package to you. If you are a large company, an individual alibaba membership will be better for you as an investment of $ 2000-3000 is a payment that you can easily sacrifice. If you do not want to hire a consultant, it would be better to install products according to the basic principles we have written.
Working Conditions: Documentary work is required for opening an individual Alibaba account. Therefore, your store opening time may take 1-2 months. This situation does not exist in the common Alibaba system. Your products are published on Alibaba within 1-2 days.
The result is:
If you are a large company or holding, we recommend the individual package. You can find more customers. If no customers are found, your loss will not affect you. Yes, even if you invest 3000 dollars or even 4000 dollars, you may not find a customer. No company can give you a definitive customer guarantee. In fact, every person who is more or less involved in trade knows this situation. In the simplest example, someone asked you to pay 4000 dollars, saying that he would find guaranteed customers on Alibaba. But you more or less know that it is not right to talk about a product in this way when it has no visuals, no price, and without having experienced it on Alibaba before. Maybe your price will be too expensive compared to your competitors and therefore it will not be preferred. Therefore, do not trust systems with absolute guarantees. You can offer the following, since it is guaranteed to find a customer, state that you want to pay after the customer is found and the sale is made. In such a case, you can even say that you will pay 5000-6000 dollars extra, not 4000 dollars.
If you are a medium-sized company or a new Alibaba member, it would be better for you to start with a joint account first. Because in both cases (both individual and joint accounts) there is a situation where no messages are received. You minimize your damage. In addition, you do not have to deal with paperwork and documents, you can publish your products to Alibaba very quickly. You do not have to install products on Alibaba, update products and perform periodic maintenance on Alibaba. At the end of a year, you can evaluat
