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  1. lovecharm

    Traffic not converting in my B2B e-commerce site.. What else should I do?

    MARKETING 
    You know what, things are starting to make sense now.. Had a major breakthrough today.. I have installed the live chat in the site about 24 hours ago, today for the first time I had a potential client knocking me.. He WANTED TO BUY BUT THE BLOODY BIG COMMERCE IS SHOWING WRONG PRICE. He gave me...
  2. lovecharm

    AMA - Ask me anything on sourcing/importing from Asia..

    SOURCING AMA 
    Hey A) Yeah protection of paypal is enough.. But frankly speaking if you are ready to close the deal and pay them then you should have enough confident on them that they will send the money. I have done bank transfer and western union many times, never had problems.. Well I did have problems...
  3. lovecharm

    Traffic not converting in my B2B e-commerce site.. What else should I do?

    MARKETING 
    Funny, I was shortlisting some copy writer on odesk just now and you mentioned it.. I am mailing you the keywords..
  4. lovecharm

    Traffic not converting in my B2B e-commerce site.. What else should I do?

    MARKETING 
    Well, how do I do that in my site which is Wholesaler - Manufacturer - Importer as we are a wholesaler... If it was retail then I could have thought of something but in wholesale.... So if you can give some examples then it will be good.
  5. lovecharm

    How To Raise Money, AMA Style (or is bootstrapping for bunnies)

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    Hey zen, Good thread I must say.. Now, can you give me some info on getting foreign funds? We are looking for around 10 million dollars loan to open up denim dying project, however the interest rate is quite high in Bangladesh, so we were thinking of getting some funds from abroad as the...
  6. lovecharm

    Traffic not converting in my B2B e-commerce site.. What else should I do?

    MARKETING 
    Thanks promodo. You see I do actually have about 80-90 items in the site, but its not laid out properly.. There is a wholesale site in UK and I really like their design and lay out.. I am thinking of redesigning my site like theirs.. Here is the site that I want to copy the layout and design...
  7. lovecharm

    AMA - Ask me anything on sourcing/importing from Asia..

    SOURCING AMA 
    Well, wanted the spread the bromance to every one in here.. so it would be better if it stayed here instead of being in inside.
  8. lovecharm

    AMA - Ask me anything on sourcing/importing from Asia..

    SOURCING AMA 
    Trendsetter I will need some more info to give you the price. We have our own printing factories, so I can give you the exact price. PM me the details about t-shirt, how much gsm is it, what sort of things you are printing and what sort of print they are etc. But I have a feeling that you can...
  9. lovecharm

    AMA - Ask me anything on sourcing/importing from Asia..

    SOURCING AMA 
    Hey, Ermm.. do you just want to ship it to Bangladesh? Or are you looking to sell it in Bangladesh? If you are shipping to some one then he/she got some work to do as they will have to provide you LC otherwise it will be much difficult to clear, also they will have to let you know which code...
  10. lovecharm

    AMA - Ask me anything on sourcing/importing from Asia..

    SOURCING AMA 
    Well there are many ways to do that.. ONLINE:- Alibaba, esource etc, plus you can google toy manufacturer in.... etc.. OFFLINE:- 1:-Look out for agents who deals with manufacturer, agents are scattered all around the world. They are mostly the first contact point of the manufacturer. 2:- Go...
  11. lovecharm

    AMA - Ask me anything on sourcing/importing from Asia..

    SOURCING AMA 
    Hey I can tell you how we did it but it won't be much use to you because its totally different scenario here. You can easily set up a factory in Bangladesh, not many people worries about orders as there are plenty of customers in the market.. Some may decide to approach the client directly and...
  12. lovecharm

    AMA - Ask me anything on sourcing/importing from Asia..

    SOURCING AMA 
    Well, here are the answers:- 1:- One of your major weapon in negotiation is time.. So if I were you then I would not contact him for several days or weeks, then after a week or two I might just drop him a casual email, do some chit chat and then bring back the topic.. In the mean time, during...
  13. lovecharm

    AMA - Ask me anything on sourcing/importing from Asia..

    SOURCING AMA 
    Hey, First of all, well done on taking the initiative at such a young age. You are definitely ahead of your age group and if you keep working hard then you definitely have a bright future.. I started my first business on ebay when I was 18. I was selling sterling silver jewellery, I saved up...
  14. lovecharm

    AMA - Ask me anything on sourcing/importing from Asia..

    SOURCING AMA 
    Well I know good fright forwarder in UK, China and Bangladesh. But not in USA, I am guessing you are looking for US forwarder right? General rules are:- 1:- In western countries freight forwarding is easy so the companies are easy to deal with and are very helpful generally. Majority of them...
  15. lovecharm

    AMA - Ask me anything on sourcing/importing from Asia..

    SOURCING AMA 
    Well we ship in and out from various countries as we have offices in various countries.. Rules and regulations varies a lot from country to country, however shipping and importing is a bit more difficult in Bangladesh, plus you have to bribe in many places as well.. On the other hand in china...
  16. lovecharm

    AMA - Ask me anything on sourcing/importing from Asia..

    SOURCING AMA 
    Hey, Well, I have explained what we do in this thread, so you can PM with your plan and we will see what can be done.. Congrats on the brokering business.
  17. lovecharm

    AMA - Ask me anything on sourcing/importing from Asia..

    SOURCING AMA 
    The brands we are working or have worked with are Lee, Wrangler, Ecko, Next, MGB, KIK etc. Yes we have textiles, spinning, dying etc. We have a vertical setup.
  18. lovecharm

    AMA - Ask me anything on sourcing/importing from Asia..

    SOURCING AMA 
    Buyers came by word of mouth. We are one of the manufacturing giants in Bangladesh (have over 8000 people), in other words top dogs, so buyers comes to us. Yes we manufacture their designs sometimes we design for them, depends on what they want.. You need to give the counts.. For example, 7...
  19. lovecharm

    AMA - Ask me anything on sourcing/importing from Asia..

    SOURCING AMA 
    1:- Well, Online. Go on alibaba, aliexpress, dhgate etc. See the suppliers and then add them on skype or Trademanager, then talk to them (well chat with them via IM as a lot of them can't speak english properly). I must point out, you need to have good skills to asses people online, in that...
  20. lovecharm

    AMA - Ask me anything on sourcing/importing from Asia..

    SOURCING AMA 
    Cool, will look forward to it.. Mind you, I would also like to point out.. I am new in online marketing world (seo, email marketing, traffic conversion etc), so if any one wants to mentor me on that then I can certainly mentor them or help them source things from Asia.. I have offices and...

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