Thursday, June 12, 2003

Trade Leads

Re: [spiers] Trade Leads

Can you recommend any good places to find Import/ export trade leads
preferably for free

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Well if by "trade leads" you mean potential buyers or sellers of goods or
services, then no such list exists. Yes, the US govt maintains at massive
expense long lists of purported trade leads; the World Trade Association
rehashes these lists, and there are other sources, but they are really just
buyers with no money talking to sellers of no resources.

It would be wonderful, wonderful if in the real world people put what they
wanted to buy up on a list and you simply answered and got a sale. ebay, but
bigger.

What makes ebay work is they provide guarantees to both parties. What makes
trade leads never work is there are no guarantees. what makes trade leads
popular is anyone can say anything.

Those buyers and sellers who are legitimate avoid the wasted time and effort of
trade lead lists. I lay out in my classes and book the means legitimate
businesses use, and I wouldn't recommend any other approach.

If anyone on this list has ever had a satisfactory experience with trade lead
lists, please share that with us!

John


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