Cross-border electronic commerce refers to an international business activity in which transaction subjects belonging to different customs reach a deal, make payment and settlement through e-commerce platform, and deliver goods and complete the transaction through cross-border logistics. The full name is cross-border electronic commerce. Cross-border electronic commerce has not only broken through the barriers between countries, making international trade borderless, but also causing great changes in the world economy and trade. For enterprises, the open, multi-dimensional and three-dimensional multilateral economic and trade cooperation model built by cross-border electronic commerce has greatly broadened the path of entering the international market and greatly promoted the optimal allocation of multilateral resources and mutual benefit and win-win among enterprises; For consumers, it is easy to get information from other countries and buy cheap goods.
1. Pre-necessary preparations for cross-border e-commerce include:
Choose business areas according to what you like and are good at; Conduct market research. Market research includes online research and offline research. For example, platforms such as Taobao and Tmall can analyze the sales of goods and users in this field. You can also go to offline retail stores and wholesale markets to learn about the situation, chat with friends and classmates, and listen to your opinions. Information analysis through investigation and analysis, further determine their own entrepreneurial ideas, and refine them to fully demonstrate the feasibility; Investigation and negotiation of purchase channels; Logistics industry research, analysis and negotiation to understand the surrounding logistics industry, after analysis and negotiation, several spare.
2. What is the essence of cross-border e-commerce?
The essence should be selling products. To be a cross-border e-commerce is to sell products from home to abroad. It is inevitable that you will encounter obstacles in the process of starting a business. Even if the store has been doing it for several weeks, it has not seen any effect. If you don't make a bill, there will be no traffic and no page views. Short time is no problem. After a long time, you will doubt whether your product is attractive enough, or you will doubt your ability.
3. It is normal to doubt yourself during the bottleneck period. Of course, more deeply, we will think, think about this industry, change our thinking, and think that we can't sell simple goods. Should we look at it in another way? Is it the product itself or the direction of our thinking? The same is selling goods, opening stores and selling products on the same platform. Why do people sell so well and have no courage to come to you? The essence of cross-border e-commerce is not selling goods, nor is it a simple operational skill. In fact, the most important thing is whether you have business thinking.