Doing Business on TradeKey.Com

Tradekey.com is one of the best places to business online. However, you need either to be very careful or higher a business consultant at TradeKey (provided in Premium memberships) as the world is full of fraud people. TradeKey also have a “Trust Point” System that assigns points to companies that are found to be doing business fairly. But even then it is better to not trust someone because he has a good record at one place only and you do not know another place. Having good record at two different places or platforms at least is necessary in order to count it a good and proven record, otherwise do not count it as proven record and consider this so-called only as a plus point to not completely trust on the basis of it.

First of all you need an account in order to trade on TradeKey.com; while making account you would be ask to enter whether you are a buyer or a seller so that you may be provided services tailored according to you. After making your account you would be ask to post your offer so that you may find inquiry. But this is not all; the TradeKey has more than 7 million users so that there lays possibilities that your entered sell or buy offer is dug under the loads of other offers. But, premium membership plans solve this problem of their users. The products of premium members are listed above free users so you may be their member to get the high rank on relevant searches on TradeKey.com.

This is not all; if you further want to increase inquiries then you may get benefit by other services of TradeKey. They offer many services like they make product based website for you and do Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine Marketing and Social Media Marketing for it to generate inquiries. They also offer you dedicated salesman and business consultant (as mentioned above) to further increase inquiries. This is not all; TradeKey also offers more services and tools to increase your inquiries that are TradeMate chatting software to live chat with your website visitors to make them buy your products and Trade Alerts.

TradeKey Community Forum for Traders Help

Online trading is distinguished from the traditional practices of the operating of trade. One of the most prominent differences of all is obviously the nature of existence. Converting a website visitor into a buyer is always been a difficult task. To help you in this tradekey was formed. You may easily present and promote your products on tradekey.com website that is actually a marketplace where millions of people come for online trading and post their products and sell or buy offers to whom you may send inquiries; you may also post your sell offer or buy offer and upload your products on tradekey.com.

As you need specific sale oriented pitches and triggers in order to approach your potential customers. In majority of the cases in online marketing, you cannot communicate directly your visitors to present them the most profitable offers. Whereas, tradekey offers a web plug-in, known as TradeMate, to install on your website and chat your visitors directly to increase the numbers of leads.

However, using tradekey.com is easy but using it effectively is not an easy task. In order to do it effectively tradekey has made its community known as tradekey.com community forum to offer different opportunities for traders for getting aware of the techniques that may help them growing their online business and for expanding their aim so that they may approach the unexplored gateways of online trade.

This forum of tradekey contains diversified variety of the forums, for example, ask trade experts, trade forums, how to trade, etc. It is very clear form their side all of these forums are designed for helping traders and providing them pitches and triggers to convert their potential customers into leads. Furthermore, tradekey offers industry and region oriented forums in order to capture more filtered suggestions. A trader can easily report fraudulent issues and scams associated with the company on forum and may also easily find the list of the trusted traders.

Tradekey also contain special forum under TradeKey Forums tab. You may find threads addressing interfacing related and operational issues with tradekey.com on this forum.

TradeKey never misses the chance to deliver prime services to the valued traders.

How to Use TradeKey.Com for Buying and Selling

TradeKey.com is one of the world’s largest B2B portals and one of the leading marketing services providers for manufacturers and suppliers. TradeKey is a commercial enterprise and a leading platform for online business; here you can search for the required products or can find potential customers. You may post your selling or buying offer as well as send inquiry to an already posted offer.

TradeKey.com is the place for sellers and buyers to promote their online business and to find trade opportunities. TradeKey.com connects you with worldwide importers, exporters, wholesalers, agents, manufacturers and suppliers.

To promote your business through TradeKey and to find potential business partners, you should follow following steps.

For Sellers

Sellers can find buyers on tradekey.com in anyone or both of the two simple steps.

By Publishing Sale Offer

You may post sell offers, it will appear in the sell offers list and when the buyers looking for that product would search that product on tradekey.com your offer would be displayed and he will contact you provided that your profile and product specification is attractive (human behavior). If you register as a free member, you may post five to fifty sell offers.

Search for the Offers Posted by the Buyers

Another way is to search tender offers posted by the buyers directly or write the name of the product on the search bar and press enter. A list of products would appear in the search result. You may send inquiry to all the available deals. You may contact the buyer by either sending him message through tradekey.com or by using trademate.

For Buyers

Searching for the products to buy on tradekey.com is very much identical to posting selling offer. The only difference is the category. Like posting selling offer you may post your buy offer in the buy offer section and you can also search for it by using search bar. As a free member you may post as much as twenty buy offers for your products. By posting buy offer, supplier would find you themselves.

However, it is better to use both the ways for selling as well as buying products.

Is My Money Safe on TradeKey.Com?

As tredekey.com is one the biggest b2b portal of the world, it has many controversies. One of the controversies is that is it safe to trade at TradeKey.com? If you have tried to research on internet and has seen negative tradekey reviews and hence are afraid of starting doing business on tradekey.com then you should do some deep research for this. TradeKey has positive and negative reviews both on internet. But the fact is that first you would need to understand that any popular product or brand cannot live without blames and controversies, people do not leave them without negative remarks.

Consider your favorite product and company; whether it is Coca-Cola or Star bucks, it would definitely have negative comments on the internet. But the thing is how to distinguish between genuine and jealous comments. The answer of this question is simple; always check the authenticity and neutrality of the source and individual reviewer. If the source is authentic and known for its neutrality then the review would be authentic otherwise there are many people who write for anyone, good or bad, who pays them for writing reviews. Among them some write only genuine reviews even after taking fees of review writing.

This is not a something that cannot be tracked, you may search for the reviews of the reviewer; and if the reviewer is untraceable then it is not authentic. Some authentic resources that have given coverage to tradekey.com include the Asia’s biggest technology blog tech-in-asia and another authentic resource is one of the Pakistan’s biggest newspaper blog the express tribune. There are also many places where tradekey has been reviewed but these two are the most authentic resources as they are neither in favor nor against tradekey.

If you read these two reviews then you would realize that it is very possible for tradekey to have such a large number of positive and negative reviews. You do not need to think a lot for using tradekey.com for business only if you commit to follow their rules that would help you saving yourself from the scammers out there.

Incoterms on TradeKey.com - Part 2

As discussed in the previous part of this article about incoterns on tradekey.com international chamber of commerce has published Incoterns for international commercial transactions. To remind the users I am repeating that while trading at tradekey you must follow the safety guidelines by an international body. Some of them were discussed in the previous article while some other are discussed in this part.

Carriage and Insurance Paid To (CIP): The risks and obligations of the supplier continue until the product is delivered to the destination of buyer. The supplier should pay the cost of delivery and insurance.

Delivered at Frontier (DAF): The risks and obligations of the supplier continue until the product is delivered the destination that is designated by the buyer, provided the product has not been unloaded from the transport.

Delivered Ex Ship (DES): The risks and obligations of the supplier continue until the product reaches the port, and onboard shipping vessel, provided it has not been cleared for import yet.

Delivered Ex Quay (DEQ): The risks and obligations of the supplier continue until the product is unloaded into quay (wharf or dock) at the designated port, provided that it has not yet cleared for import.

Delivered Duty Unpaid (DDU): The risks and obligations of the supplier continue until the buyer accepts the delivery of products at the designated designations, if it is not yet unloaded and cleared for import. Buyers should clear products for the import.

Delivered Duty Paid (DDP): The supplier is responsible for all the transportation costs including delivery fees and import.

These are some of the points of Incoterm. Although all the necessary information has been discussed in this article and its first part but even then it is better to read the actual terms as you should be very careful in business plans. Business dealings are not like buying a toilet tissue or a set of shoes, it is a very sensitive matter and hence anything done must be discussed before with a legal advisor. If you do not have yet any legal advisor then you should urgently search for a qualified lawyer who has experience of being a legal advisor or have worked on businesses cases and hire him as your legal advisor.