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Re: Business 4 B2B

tradedot — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:04:14 -0000

I will point you to the listing on HKTDC.COM

http://www.hktdc.com/sourci...

There are trade show held in HK and PRC where you can also find the agents:

Go to Globalsources.com.

Hope this will help.

Re: ALIBABA

tradedot — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 11:22:20 -0000

Hi Zack, technically Alibaba is not an e-commerce business. It doesn't come with neither shopping cart nor to charge transaction fee. The revenue model is basically a yellow-page advertising. Alibaba's suppliers pay to be listed on the site and then found by the buyers. Buyers search for free.

But Alibaba is going through a dramatic change of the business model. Monetization will go through its payment system,a.k.a Alipay. However, unlike Paypal which is recognized as a bank, Alipay can only handle single Chinese currency domestic payment.

If you want to know more about Alibaba, you should study its B2C setup, Taobao.com. Taobao is now the biggest Chinese B2C site with the total trading volume bigger than Amazon. But Alibaba runs it for free. That means only the Taobao online shop owners who earn the money, Taobao doesn't charge anything. It is a matter of time for Alibaba to start monetize Taobao and the value will be even bigger than Alibaba.

Alibaba is now bridging the sellers of Taobao to the suppliers of Alibaba. The USP will then become very powerful. Imagine you own all the powersellers of eBay and they become the wholesales buyers of Alibaba.

Alibaba is also expanding its software unit called Alisoft. They are expand into the cloud computing to enhance the SAAS model.

Eddie.

Re: The Next PRC Internet Media Crossfire

tradedot — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:20:42 -0000

I would say foreign buyers are more receptive to do product search on Google. Buyers from the tier-one markets such as US and UK may know Alibaba but the buyers from the new emerging markets such as Central Europe and Latin America have less understanding towards Alibaba. Even the buyers in India, they knows Tradekey better than Alibaba, etc. With the changing economy, the buyers profile is changing. New emerging markets are in the up and rising trend. We all should take note.

Re: Canton Fair Dot Com

tradedot — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:58:20 -0000

Subaye indeed has a couple of co-ops with Google China since 2007. Here is a news clip (in Chinese) about Subaye signing an agreement with Google China for SAAS. But I don't know if there is any cloud computing solution available at the moment.

http://space.itpub.net/1473...

Unlike Alibaba which the coverage is more national, Subaye-Google deal is very likely to be regional for Guangdong province only.

I don't have any source about the subaye booth at Canton Fair but I won't be surprised if they have one.

Re: ALIBABA

tradedot — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 03:03:11 -0000

I would think Google crawls Alibaba's content in a frequent manner. However, the cache deletion on google can be a separated issue. If you have google webmaster tools account, you may try the url removal tool:

https://www.google.com/webm...

Good luck!