1, say the price first:
English Ali is a supplier of 60,000 gold medals and can put 26 pictures. We haven't done the global source yet, but as far as I know, it is about 1.5 million. However, English Ali is promoted by a single website. Although magazines are also published now, they are only published during the exhibition. Universal is promoting websites and magazines, and there will be additional publications during the exhibition. In terms of price alone, Universal is more than twice as high as Ali.
2, and then the number of customers:
At present, English Ali is said to have 430,000 buyers, while Global is said to have more than 490,000 buyers. Relatively speaking, there are a large number of buyers in the world, but there is a problem, that is, Ali was founded only seven years ago, while global sources has 35 years. On the surface, English Ali develops faster, but in fact, as far as I know, there is a reason for this: buyers who count English Ali do not need certification, which means that a factory company like me can register. For global sources, if you want to become a global professional buyer, you need certification. You must provide some data, such as the main products purchased, quantity, company establishment time, scale and so on. So this limits the free registration of buyers to a certain extent. Personally, I think Universal is better than Ali in this respect.
3. Quality customers:
I'm not sure about the customer quality in global sources, but I don't think Ali's customer quality is very high. Basically, it is mainly based on inquiries from some companies, and the order quantity will not be very large. Several of my customers are ultimate retailers, that is, they open their own stores, and some even sell them online. Personally, I feel that the current English Ali is more like C2C websites such as Yi Bei and Taobao. As for the quality of global customers, I think the people who do it have more say, and I hope to come in and discuss it.
4. If you have any enquiries:
Ali's inquiry often adopts the mode of mass sending. For example, our company's main industry is toys, so if a customer sends a toy purchase information online, Ali's system will automatically match it and send it to your email, but I think there is a big problem with this, because I am not the only factory that uses English Ali as a toy. In this way, the system will send the same inquiry to the mailboxes of many factories, such as 100 factory, so it is possible that 90 factories will reply to this 100 factory, which means that this customer will receive 90 reply emails. At this time, many guests don't even read this reply, so they just delete it, which leads to that in many cases we have no information when we reply to an inquiry. Another way adopted by Universal is that if a buyer wants to buy a product, he can customize a purchase information on Universal. If the system finds the matching information, it will send it to the customer's mailbox. For the customer, it is passive to accept the mail and active to receive it. For the buyer, the psychological contrast is great.
5. For suppliers:
Ali is now developing suppliers everywhere. Take Yiwu as an example. Ali's advertisements are everywhere: I want to export, find Alibaba and be a supplier in China. But I think for a platform, it's not how many suppliers you have, nor how good your service provider is. Everyone knows that the market competition is fierce now. In fact, compared with online platforms, the more suppliers there are, the fiercer the competition will be. But for Ali, it is understandable for him to do so himself, because everyone wants to make money. Only when there are more suppliers can he make more money. But if an online platform, of course, I don't know exactly how Universal operates now, and it seems that Universal is also doing this, maybe Ali can't sit still watching.
6. For services:
As I said just now, Ali seems to focus on service providers now, so his services are better, including Tradelink, customer management system and training. These things are really helpful for a foreign trade company that has just started to develop, but Global seems to have failed in this respect.
Having said that, it's just my personal thoughts on using English and my understanding of the world. I hope everyone will discuss it more. My current thinking is that English Ali will probably not be used after it expires. After all, if Ali continues to develop like this, the situation will still be killing each other, just moving the real market to the Internet, so please give me a suggestion, or you can tell me what platform you are using now. thank you