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Hello,
I'm curious how your interactions went with your potential suppliers and the means you used to communicate them (I'm assuming they are overseas with Alibaba). I have a product that I want to have a company in India manufacture for me(they seem to be the only one I could find that might be able to accommodate me), but I'm not sure if there is a proper way to approach them(email, phone call etc).
Hi mate,
My experience is with Alibaba and it's actually pretty straightforward:
When you find the supplier/product you are interested in, there is an option to 'contact supplier' on the page. Now don't just write one sentence saying you casually want to buy some inventory/dropship, no you need to come across as if you are an already established company and are seeking a new supplier to increase existing sales. You act as the lead purchasing agent.
I'll copy the exact template I use and I always get a good response rate. This is a template I got from a YouTuber but it actually does the job really well. This is dropshipping focussed so if you are buying wholesale, then you will need to change the questions. This gives you the idea though of what sort of thing to put:
Hello, my name is ---- and I’m the Lead Purchasing Agent of ------
I was looking at your store and I am very interested in creating a long-term business relationship with your company.
Our store specializes --------- and I believe that we can increase our sales and grow faster by creating a long-term and beneficial working relationship with your company
Before proceeding, we have a few questions we were hoping you could answer:
- Do you offer Blind Dropshipping - or without sending an invoice and any associated marketing materials including in or on the packaging.
- Do you offer Bulk Dropshipping - We are too busy to place orders individually.
- Is there an MOQ (Minimum Order Quantity) required for any of your products?
- Are you able to send an invoice for the whole bulk dropshipping order at once on Alipay?
- Are you able to apply my company’s logo on the products?
Our company would like to send you an Excel Spreadsheet (CSV) file with each customer’s information (full name, email, address, product, etc.) and have you process each order individually by sending each customer their appropriate product.
You would then send our company a full invoice for the whole bulk dropshipping order, which we would gladly pay via Alipay.
Please let us know if you are interested in forming this mutually beneficial, long-term business relationship with us.
Also, please add us on WhatsApp and send us a message there promptly
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We look forward to doing fantastic business with you in the hopefully soon future.
Sincerely,
------ from --------
Oh, and I wouldn't recommend phoning them as there is already a language barrier.
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