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Online vendors have recently found a gold mine located just south of Mongolia. The most populous country in the world, China has certainly made a name for itself manufacturing products in bulk, and selling them to the western world. Wholesale electronics suppliers in China face such fierce competition that they continue to offer more features for lower prices. This is good news for those looking to sell Chinese manufactured products in countries around the world. Suppliers are eager to export, and prices are low. However, this does not mean that any uninformed person can make a killing reselling Chinese manufactured electronics. It is important to know what to look for from suppliers.

First, make sure that the supplier you plan to work with is a legitimate wholesaler. If all you know about a company is that their website looks very professional, learn more. Many very sleek looking websites belong to “companies” that are actually scam artists. Do not be fooled by companies that ask for an initial membership fee to do business with them. Be sure to read user reviews of each company, and employ the help of a GOOD wholesale supplier directory e.g Yahoo directory. Do your research! Many companies that claim to be wholesalers are actually retailers, charging much higher prices than a true wholesaler. Once you feel confident that you will get the lowest price for the goods you wish to sell, there are more things to consider.

Check to see if the supplier you are working with offers a dropship service, as described at http://www.bigboxstore.com/dropship-service. If not, you should probably look elsewhere. Wholesale dropshippers offer to ship products to your customers at no extra cost. You simply submit the information of your buyer to the dropshipper, and the product goes directly to them. You never have to see, let alone store, the product you sell. All you see is the profit. This saves the cost and risk of storing goods that haven’t been sold yet, and is a necessary prerequisite for doing business with a Chinese wholesaler. The next thing to check is shipping speed.

One thing that can make or break your new business is the length of time it takes for your goods to reach buyers. While dropshipping is certainly quicker than buying from a manufacturer and then shipping goods to your customers personally, it can still be a lengthy process. Check to see if the company mentions a guarantee about how quickly they package and ship all orders. Verify that they have followed through with this in the past by reading user reviews. You may also want to try out a couple of companies, ordering a few products for yourself, and seeing which arrives in the most timely manner.

Another final thing to check is the company return policy. Consumers know that electronics manufactured in China are likely to be lower quality than those from brand-name companies. A return policy makes them feel much more secure. They feel confident that even if the product turns out to be a dud, they will get their money back. If your supplier has a 6 month - 1 year return policy on most goods, you wont get stuck holding a broken mobile phone that your customer didn’t want. There are Chinese wholesale dropshipping companies with reasonable return policies. Once again, you can learn a lot by reading the reviews written by previous buyers.

There is certainly money to be made by retailing electronics manufactured in China. Just make sure you pick a good supplier to work with. Your business partner should offer a speedy dropship service for wholesale priced goods, and should not ask for any additional fee to do so. They should also be willing to replace defective merchandise. Once you find a company whose user reviews reflect these elements, you are well on your way to becoming a successful electronics retailer.

Danny Stokley is currently a Web Content Writer / Editor at http://www.bigboxstore.com. This website provides direct access to China Wholesale Electronics. The company has also recently added Wholesale Car DVD to their product lines.

The easiest way to keep your translation business profitable is to cultivate a core group of regular clients who will fill your inbox with translation projects, allowing you to spend your time working rather than looking for work. Implementing some of the tips below will help you keep a regular stream of work coming your way.

1. Meet every deadline. If you can’t consistently meet deadlines, you’re not well-suited to being a freelance translator. Remember that your clients have deadlines too, and are sometimes waiting for your work as part of a larger project. As one experienced translator comments, “8:00 means 7:50, not 8:10.”

2. Be easy to reach. Put your contact information in your email signature file, so that a client never has to look up your phone or fax number. Realize that many times, if clients cannot reach you immediately, they will contact another translator. Since over 90% of contacts from clients will be by e-mail, put an auto-responder on your e-mail if you will be out of the office for even a few hours.

3. Follow directions. While it can be time-consuming to follow many different clients’ particular ways of doing things, you will save the client time and money, and thus get more work from them, by following their instructions to the letter. If the client asks you to put your initials in the file name, do it. If the client asks you to put the word “Invoice” in the subject line of the e-mail containing your invoice, do it.

4. Don’t waste your clients’ time. It’s acceptable, and even encouraged to ask questions when you need to clarify something. However, it’s also important to show respect for your clients’ time, and for the fact that yours is probably not the only project they are handling. Keep your e-mails short and to the point, and make your questions clear and easy to answer.

5. Provide referrals. Many translators worry that providing referrals to other translators in the same language combination will lead to less work for themselves, but in fact the opposite seems to be true. Clients like to work with freelancers who solve the clients’ problems, and when you’re too busy and can’t handle their work or are going on vacation, it’s a problem for them. Have the names of two or three translators in your language combination who you really trust, and provide these names to your clients when you aren’t available for work.

6. Be easy to work with. This isn’t to say that you should be a pushover or let clients take advantage of you, but for your regular clients, it’s worth putting in some extra effort. Thank them for giving you their business; be friendly and polite if a payment is unexpectedly late; fill in for them in a pinch when another translator lets them down.

7. Ask for constructive criticism. It’s important to see feedback as part of your quality assurance process, not as an attack on your abilities as a translator. If a client asks for changes in your translation, make them politely and immediately; if you decide later that the changes are unnecessary and you don’t want to work for the client again, it’s another matter. With your regular and trusted clients, periodically ask what you can do to better meet their needs, then implement these changes.

8. Appreciate your clients. Your regular clients are the people who make it possible for you to earn a healthy income while living a flexible and self-directed freelance lifestyle. A small gift at the end of the year is always appreciated when a client has given you regular work.

9. Don’t bicker. If a prospective client offers you a project at a ridiculously low rate, politely decline it, possibly sending them a copy of your standard rate sheet if you have one. Don’t insult them for offering such low pay or make negative comments about their business; just courteously decline to work for them and let them move on to someone else.

10. Charge what you’re worth, and earn it. There will always be another translator out there who is willing to work for one cent per word less than you are, so don’t compete on price alone. Giving your clients a little more effort than necessary proves to them that often, they get the level of service they pay for.

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