Top Trade Leads

The following list of useful resources is by no means complete nor presented with an attempt to assign any sense of relative importance of one topics versus another. There are certainly lot more resources that should be added, many of which I use and have used and I hope to add them as time goes on. Scan the listings, if any one subject strikes your fancy, click the link and have a look.

Your own import export business
Learn How-to Start Your Own Import Export Business, 2-day import business intensive seminar on a CD:

Find suppliers
A Business to Business Marketplace for Importers, Exporters, Manufacturers and Wholesale Distributors.

Sell products online
Selling  products online isn’t hard - but it isn’t easy either. From setting up a website to marketing to getting legal, there’s a lot to learn. You’ll need guidance and support to be successful, but not every company you find online deserves your time - or your trust. Learn Accounting and Financing, Auction and Internet Store Resources, Business Planning and Organization, E-commerce Management, E-Store & Website Resources, Getting Started, Home Office, Insurance Resources, Legal Issues, Market Research, Marketing Tools, and more — bottom line - Learn What To Sell Online, Where To Get It, and How To Sell It!

Sourcing
Read Free ebooks, written by Chris Malta, CEO of Worldwide Brands, full of helpful information and educational content that is even used by eBay University on the subjecy of selling product online:

Chris Malta started an EBiz in his home for $500 and turned it into $15 million business. Why should you care? See his videos…!

Promote your business
Sooner or later you will need publicity to build your business,
to build credibility, to create marketing tools for your business, your websites, to position yourself as an expert, to show who you are and how you are different from your competitors. Find out how to get publicity, get your name in print and tell your story to reporters who want to hear it.
PR LEADS is the fastest, easiest and most inexpensive way to get publicity
for anyone in business but also for writers, experts in any field, speakers, or for any professional.

– Research virtually any question in seconds or minutes instead of hours!
– Tell you what questions are being asked for virtually any subject!<
– Research questions in dozens of languages from dozens of countries!
– Save your research in projects for use later!
Try it now!

Graphic design, website design, photo-editing / learn photoshop
To get your website to look step above the average you will need to create professional looking layout, and to do that you will need to learn more tricks doing graphic design. If you plan on using pictures at your site you best learn Adobe Photoshop. Check out this site - Learn Graphic/Web Design - a series of online courses and on demand training videos.

Web Design, Photoshop
An affordable monthly or annual subscription offers unlimited access to their entire library of video tutorials, including tips and techniques — a great resource for creating great graphics, design, Photoshop editing… also, access their gallery, stock photos, clipart, plugins, downloads available… in short, check out their very useful online tutorials, online courses, online training, graphic design courses, on demand training, graphic design programs, online web design, multimedia programs, business marketing design, instructor-led graphic design, typography courses and more. New videos added weekly!

Internet Marketing
After you’ll have a website, you will need to start learning about internet marketing. The following free 41-page Ebook reveals How To… Written by Soren Jordansen, it’s an excellent step by step guide on how to create successful online business.  Soren wrote this ebook based on a major survey of his lists and a lot of feedback from his members and blog readers. The end result is a formula that makes it impossible for you to fail - if you are completely new to internet marketing, this ebook will give you great introduction to internet marketing. The e-book is written for the new marketer or for any other marketer who is stuck and hasn’t yet experienced success online. Everything is covered - from choosing a web host, building a squeeze page, monetizing the list building process, how to set up a profit pulling email series. The traffic generation system starts with methods that generate tons of free traffic immediately and progresses through more advanced and time consuming tactics as well as using paid traffic to build your business — if you will have a website you will need traffic to that website otherwise it does not matter how good is your product, you will not sell it without potential customers coming in to have a look what you sell — key is how do you find and get those potential customers to come in and have a look at what you’re selling! Get your hands on this free internet marketing e-book and go from there.

Internet Marketing — Online Advertising - Using Google AdWords
Once you have a website you soon realize that using Google AdWords is a one very useful advertising strategy to use to bring traffic to your website. Of course it is not that simple. Yes, you can bid on keywords and get to the first page of search results but all of your competition wants to be on that first page too. Needless to say not all keywords are going to bring in the traffic. How do you know which keywords to use and what keywords does your competition use?
This is where Adwords Spy tool comes is. The following is a free keyword research tool by Brad Callen; he also offers paid version but you can decide on that one later. The free version will get you started.

Basically, you install the software and when you perform a Google search on any keyword, it places a “view keywords” button directly below any Adwords advertiser’s listing. If you click the “view keywords” button, you can see the keywords - ANY Adwords advertiser is bidding on! Plus, a bunch of other very useful information. This is really very powerful information, especially being free. Download it here! 

Couple more references:
In import export business low value of the dollar was good for American exporters as cost of American goods was attractive to overseas importers. The situation was the opposite for the American importers - with dollar so low against most currencies, suddenly cost of goods in China, India, and elsewhere was too high. As export orders plummeted, many exporters in China and India were forced to lay off employees and many went out of business.
Whether you follow exchange rates and Forex market or never have, definitely click here and have a look at this auto-pilot system developed by a highly ranked industry insider and a mathematician that’s making him $100,000+ per year and the likes of Business Week, NBC and CBS and other major media have taken a notice of.

Last, if you may need to find some interesting as well as useful information, be it related to business or anything else, search Newspaper Articles In The Newspaper Article Archive.