Selling on Alibaba
If you want to sell on Alibaba, you must first open a store on Alibaba. With the latest change in Alibaba , you can no longer open a store in Alibaba for free. You have to pay an annual fee for the store you open on Alibaba. This fee varies approximately depending on the packages you will purchase. Alibaba wants to pay you annually between $1800 and $3000. Later in the article, we will talk about how you can reduce this fee to between 250 dollars and 390 dollars.
There are generally two different methods for selling on Alibaba:
The first of these is to open a store on Alibaba as standard.
The second is to become a partner in the already opened Alibaba account and show your products from there.
First, we will examine whether Turkish manufacturers can sell something on Alibaba and whether it is right for a manufacturer in Turkey to want to sell on Alibaba. Afterwards, we will evaluate these two different methods.
Under what circumstances should manufacturers want to sell on Alibaba?
First of all, those who want to sell raw materials that are not specific to Turkey on Alibaba receive few messages. For example, wanting to sell paper. Since these types of products are very general, they are the products that are directly priced. It is not a shirt or a fruit. For example, companies abroad may choose tangerines grown in the Aegean region. Those fruits specific to that region may be more beautiful or durable. But paper is paper everywhere, so you don’t have much chance in making products that cannot stand out with a certain feature in such a raw material product.
One of the questions we receive most is how will my products be seen among Chinese and Indian manufacturers, how will I find an opportunity from them and buyer companies will message me. First of all, Country-based search is available on Alibaba. A company in Germany wants to buy a living room. When Alibaba searches for a living room, if it wants to buy it from Turkey, it will select the Turkey section in the manufacturers section and only Turkish manufacturers will appear in this section. In this section, you can easily show your products. That’s why this company can send you a message.
Why does a company abroad want to buy more expensive products from Turkey? This is another question we encounter. This truly applies not only to Alibaba, but to all platforms and events. First of all, even if a company in China sells the same product cheaper than you, the company may choose you. The main reason for this may be that the travel costs are cheaper and take less time when you buy from Turkey. Or this product produced in Turkey may be of higher quality, more modern or more suitable than the product produced by other manufacturers in India or China. For these reasons, a buyer abroad can choose products produced by Turkish manufacturers. These situations are valid for all b2b sites .
What is Alibaba?
Founded in China in 1999 as an online shopping site, Alibaba has become the world’s largest trading site by increasing the number of users day by day. This platform, where manufacturers market their products to the outside world and buyers can purchase a much higher number of products at affordable prices, offers advantageous shopping for both SMEs, companies and retailers. Especially for Turkish companies and manufacturers who want to present their products to the world, Alibaba is undoubtedly the first address to turn to. Alibaba, where international wholesale sales stand out, can be a center of income for you, too.
So, what advantages does selling on Alibaba offer to companies? What are the advantages of selling on Alibaba? Let’s see together.
Most Popular E-Commerce Site
Since Alibaba is the most popular e-commerce site today, if you open a store on the alibaba.com website, you will have the opportunity to offer your products to much larger audiences. With millions of users, you have the opportunity to sell to both individuals and companies. For example, while the shop you open on a street in your city will only appeal to your district and city, the shop you open on Alibaba will bring you new customers not only in your city but in all cities and countries. Since other websites do not have such a high number of users and a large audience, you may not be able to earn the same income. But Alibaba will help you multiply your income with its popularity.
Chance to Export to the World with Online Store
If your goals are high and you want to make your name known not only in your country but also in the world, Alibaba is the right address. When you establish a business on alibaba.com, which has users from all over the world, your products will be demanded from dozens of different countries. If you want to become a global manufacturer and grow your company confidently, Alibaba is the best trading site in this regard. Alibaba.com offers a perfect opportunity for those who do not want to be limited to just one country or one city, who want to open
up to the world and be number one in their sector.
Reliable Address with Alibaba
Is it safe to sell on Alibaba? You may have questions in your mind. But you don’t need to doubt this. Alibaba e-commerce site is a reliable platform that controls all its businesses, checks the photos of the products shared, whether it is a real product, their quantities and similar product features. If you are looking for a reliable shopping address for purchases and sales, Alibaba will be suitable for you. Turkish companies that have stores on Alibaba cannot receive payments through Alibaba. Alibaba payment system is a system that is only valid for companies in China.
After talking about general information, let’s now examine the methods by which a company can exhibit its products on Alibaba.
Opening an Individual Store on Alibaba
In order for you to open a store on Alibaba for your individual company, you must contact an Alibaba distributor that Alibaba has a contract with in Turkey and state that you want to open a store. If you want to learn about these companies, we can send them to you, we could not write their names here to avoid any advertisements. These are generally companies that act as a bridge between you and Alibaba. These companies take payment from you, collect documents and help you register.
These companies will ask you for payment for the work they do. Normally, if Alibaba membership is 1800 dollars, they may ask you to pay approximately 2200 dollars to 2500 dollars. Afterwards, when you pay these companies, these companies will send a certain portion of it to Alibaba. They will keep a certain part of it for themselves. Therefore, in some cases, they can give discounts for the parts they purchase. They can temporarily sell packages for 2000 dollars instead of 2200 dollars.
These companies will also ask for many documents and documents about your company after receiving payment from you. Therefore, it may take approximately 1 month, and in some cases up to 2 months, for your company to be visible on Alibaba. These companies review the documents they receive themselves and then send them to Alibaba. Alibaba examines it itself and if there is something it deems deficient, it notifies these companies and these companies tell you about your deficiencies. Once your missing documents are completed, your store will be opened.
After your store is opened, you must upload products to your store and make store settings individually. Companies that act as these bridges will send you a training video once a month. You need to watch these videos regularly and renew your products regularly. Alibaba is a constantly updated platform. That’s why you need to constantly stay on top of it and take care of it.
The solution we offer for companies in this situation is that we handle your Alibaba management, product loading and regular updating of the products. All you have to do is respond to messages about your products. You can benefit from this service by filling out the form below. If you want to continue on your own as an individual, pay attention to the following when managing your store page:
The more products you upload, the less new customers will come. This is not the case. To give an example, you produce and sell trousers. You have uploaded 1000 different products to Alibaba. Only one of the products you upload is selected and displayed on Alibaba. For example, a company in Germany searched for pants. Alibaba buys and shows one product in the trouser category from each company to this buyer. It will choose one of your 1000 products and show it. Therefore, instead of 1000 items, it may be better to load 100 pieces or 20-30 very high quality trousers. If it were otherwise, the more trousers you uploaded, the more they were displayed, one trouser company would upload 10,000 different trousers and cause it to take over all search results.
Your store rating should be at least 1 star. Stores with zero stars generally receive very few messages.
Always keep the response time below at least 10 hours. You’re unlikely to set this too low anyway due to the time difference between countries. A message will arrive at 1-2 o’clock in the night. But try to keep it under 10 hours at least.
The product’s title, category and keywords are the most important parameters. It is important that you do these correctly.
You need to pay attention to these basic situations. You also need to know the general communication rules with customers abroad. It would be useful for you to review our articles such as sending e-mail abroad, communication by phone, communication with your customer abroad via SMS , and most importantly, communication with your customer abroad via WhatsApp . For current and brief information, you can check out our Instagram page.
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