18 Important Questions To Ask A New Commodity Buyer To Avoiding Wasting Your Time
The international commodity trading business has thousands of players in the industry collectively employing millions of people and executing transactions worth billions of dollars every day. These heavy activities attract both legitimate and fraudulent players and as a result,...Continue reading
9 Common Challenges You Could Face When Exporting Commodities
Have you ever heard the phrase; “In shipping, nothing is guaranteed”? If you have, you’re not entirely wrong, but knowing most of the things that are not fully guaranteed can help you create procedures and structures to provide the...Continue reading
What To Do If An International Buyer Won’t Pay For The Commodities You Exported To Them
International trade can be highly risky or richly rewarding. And the part of the financial spectrum you fall into depends on how much knowledge you have in the industry, how much experience you’ve garnered, and what type of decisions...Continue reading
9 Important Things To Know Before You Ship Agricultural Products
Shipping commodities from wherever you are to many parts of the world comes with a lot of perks, conditions, and guidelines to always adhere to to ensure you have a smooth operation. Whether you’re exporting solid minerals, agricultural produce,...Continue reading
4 Ways To Quickly Transport Container Cargoes To The Port In Nigeria
Transporting container cargoes to the ports in Nigeria is one of the most tasking challenges faced by exporters. It’s so tough that a lot of containers spend over 4 weeks on the queue just to get into the port,...Continue reading
12 Things You Must Never Say To Any Local Or International Client
What to say to prospects or existing clients could either improve or diminish your relationship with them. It could turn them into one of your best loyalists or into one of your company’s worst critics. Treating and speaking to...Continue reading
How To Launch An Export Business And Immediately Land Your First Client!
So you want to start an export business. But do you know how you can immediately make an impact or land a client in the international marketplace? Drawing attention is difficult for so many people in the export business....Continue reading
A Powerful 5-Step System To Getting A Lot Of Inquiries From International Buyers
Getting international buyers for any import/export business can be really tough. No matter how successful an international trade company appears, the road to prosperity was very long, rough, and doubtful, and this is because every single new or early...Continue reading
13 Reasons You’re Not Finding Any International Buyers Nor Making Any Sales
Sales are the lifeblood of every business. Without it, you wouldn’t have cash flow, and without cash flow, you won’t achieve any form of growth or have enough funds to keep your organisation running. While consistently making sales is...Continue reading
4 Ways To Get Financial & Intellectual Support To Help You Build A Successful Export Business
Success and failure are two asymmetrical constants in everything we do. Just as it could be easy to grow a successful export business if you start and execute the right way, it could also be extremely hard if you’ve...Continue reading
8 Crucial Things New Exporters Must Know Before Starting An Export Business
Decades ago, it used to be very difficult to venture into the export business in many countries around the world. So many bureaucracies were involved and if anyone knew you were into international trade, the conclusion would either be...Continue reading
6 Guaranteed Ways To Avoid The Financial Mistakes Most Exporters Make
The commodity trading business is both high-risk and richly rewarding as long as you follow a set of principles that would set you and your business up for success. But despite best practices to closing safe and secure transactions...Continue reading
What Incoterms Rules Are And How They Can Help Your Import/Export Business Succeed: The Complete Guide
International trade is executed in many forms worldwide. The procedures could be based on CIF, CNF, & FOB terms that have been agreed to between the importer and the exporter. But while these terms are the most popular standards,...Continue reading
How To Use Export Credit Insurance To Protect Your Export Transactions And Ensure You Get Paid No Matter What
It’s always a great feeling when an exporter secures a good deal to export certain commodities to buyers located in various places around the world. When everything is right in this scenario, the exporter would be earning good margins,...Continue reading
4 Dangerous International Trade Scams You Never Want To Fall Victim To
Where there is high risk, there are high profitability potentials, and where there are high profitability potentials, scammers are always lurking around the corner. Over the years, people have told daunting tales of how they’ve lost hundreds of thousands...Continue reading