DHgate & Alibaba.com

Apparel industry is one of the biggest industry of the world. As an online selling, if you  review on all B2B portals then you will find that apparel industry has the most sellers and manufactures among all the industries. Like other B2B portals, Dhgate.com also has lots of genuine sellers of apparel. As the year 2011 is coming, these premium sellers of Dhgate introduced their hotest apparel collection of the upcoming year. These collection contain dresses, shoes, hair, etc with different colors and styles according to spring and summer seasons. Sellers on Dhgate designed these apparels according to the latest world trends. Lets see what is included in it.

If we talk about colors then nowadays, colors of jewel stones on dresses such are very popular such as colors of ruby red, sapphire blue, emerald, etc. These colors can be confidently worn in the holiday season such as on a beach resort. They are designed rich and full-bodied. Floral prints are also coming back in dresses. The trend of trousers is spreading because the skinny leg style of 80s arose again in 2009. So, trend of broad leg trousers will also be increased in 2011. The styles of “off-the-shoulder” in dresses will also be famous in the upcoming year. That’s why you can really show off your neck with a t-shirt or blouse that have low shoulders. The length of hemlines are getting larger from time to time. But it doesn’t mean that the trend of skirts used in spring is ending. It will also be continue as it is about elegance and sophistication.

To create awareness about the information of the fast growing e-commerce industry, Alibaba.com has launched Alizila. It is a web-based news tutorial that provides the users of Alibaba all the success stories and information about the products and services of Alibaba and also the information of the global b2b and online trade. This information will be provided in the form of many useful ways such as articles, news, blogs, videos, etc.

Alizila.com is specially designed to help those people who use Alibaba services and who want to keep up-to-date themselves about what is going on in the e-commerce industry of the world. The editor of this site is Jim Erickson who is a longtime journalist as well as former senior editor for business and technology for the Asia edition of TIME magazine. He said, “our intent is to provide coverage of developments at Alibaba that otherwise might go uncovered, and to do so with traditional journalistic rigor and skepticism. Our hope is that our target audience, customers, industry analysts and other journalists will come to see us as a credible, useful news source.”

John Spelich who is the vice president of international corporate affairs of Alibaba.com, indicates that Alizila is a good news platform that provides latest information related to Alibaba products, services and b2b industry to the internet users. This site is being operated in beta since it is launched. This site formally debuts on the eve of Alibaba Group’s annual summit for e-commerce entrepreneurs, known as AliFest. In this summit, the speakers were Jack Ma, chairman of Alibaba Group and Arnold Schwarzenegger, governor of California.

Apple peel is the latest device introduced by Apple which has the quality that it can convert iPod into iPhone. This conversion happens with the help of a jailbreak. This device is fastly growing in the markets and exported worlwide. Apple peel has a definite set of different applications and software that are approved by Apple that perform iPod functions into iPhones. By analyzing this importance, dhgate.com also offers iPod with this device and very excited about it. The Apple Peel has available with SIM card, speaker and microphone at very affordable price.

The available Apple Peel which is designed and produced by the Chinese tech company named Yosion, consists of a SIM card and an extended battery. The jailbreak of this device allows it to run different application and softwares due to which your iPod becomes an iPhone. In the previous times, this jailbreak required an opening of the actual iPod which negatively effected on the warranty. But now with recent advance technologies, you can safely jailbreak your iPod into iPhone and your warranty will completely remain intact.

This Apple Peel offered by dhgate.com contains Infineon baseband chip. It includes not only voice calling, but also text messaging and has a powerful 800 mAh battery. Due to that capacity, your iPod/iPhone can provide you 4.5 hours of call time as well as 120 hours of standby power. The one negative factor is that the volume control and GPRS is still unavailable in it so far. But, it is definitely looks like an unbelievable product which saves the price of an iPhone significantly.

After entering into the the market of India, now, the largest e-commerce company of the world Alibaba.com intends to expand its operations in the growing markets of United States and Japan. In Hangzhou, the CEO of the company Mr. David Wei said, “Outside China, these countries are very critical to Alibaba’s success. We want to expand our operations in these countries because a huge quantity of U.S and Japanese buyers are the core base of sellers in China. Investment in these countries will also be stable our presence in China.”

In August, Alibaba published report about its quarterly profit in two years according to which the firm had the bank balance of $1.15 billion. Now, to grow and expand in the markets of U.S and Japan, Alibaba will use different business methods like acquisitions, partnerships and organic growth. In the past same month, Alibaba has also bought a listing and marketing tools providing U.S based site Auctiva. Not only this but also the company has bought an e-commerce firm Vendio earlier in the year.

Alibaba.com said that it was keen for getting more acquisitions. Due to this, it could add technology or commercial applications that are already proven to the firm’s lineup and had more deals in progress. Alibaba is also preparing a plan to open a customer service center in India that will employ up to 100 workers to serve Alibaba.com’s paying sellers there, now numbering around 5,000.

Dhgate.com has a very positive feature that it mostly offers products according to their upcoming fashion or event. Just like soccer jerseys which are offered according to the 2010 – 2011 football season which is going to start. After the world cup football, football league matches are going to start. So dhgate offers many high quality soccer jerseys of all the teams with their printed logo. So, to enjoy the matches as well as to celebrate the victory of your favorite team, you can buy football jerseys through dhgate.com which will be your best support to your teams.

These jerseys are available with all the most popular and favorite footballers of the people like Ronaldo, Henry, Robinho, Messi, Kaka, Christiano Ronaldo, etc. Dhgate offers these jerseys along with soccer strips at around $70. Also, socks and shorts are coming in extra. The jerseys that are available on dhgate.com contain all the major leagues like English, German, Spanish, Italian and French leagues,. Also include Dutch and Scottish leagues and American Major League Soccer. Prices of these jerseys are very cheap and easily affordable to everyone. So this is a good offer for not only the fans of football but also for the world’s leading importers and exporters of soccer jerseys.

Alibaba.com and famous actor of Hollywood as well as Governor of California state Arnold Schwarzenegger announced an initiative to provide employment and provide awareness to the emerging entrepreneurship in the state. Due to this program, a platform will be provided to the youth of California to enhance their entrepreneurial skills in the digital economy of the world by supplying an Entrepreneur Startup Kit to students. This education will be given through lecture as well as websites. Also, it will be provided at a very low fee or free of cost from Alibaba platforms. This program will give youngster a successful introduction of online business, e-commerce, selling and purchasing.

According to this program, Alibaba will invest US $3 million for the education of Entrepreneur to the California youth. The details of this program is still under process and will be officially started  throughout 2011 in the collaboration with 15 state-owned colleges as well as universities throughout the state. California is one of the largest buyer market of Alibaba in which importers and exporters take full advantage of products and services at no cost to themselves to cut costs and grow their businesses. In the past few months, Ailibaba created two big acquisitions of some Californian e-commerce companies who are well-established as well as it also increased its employment in the state from 25 to nearly 200.

Arnold Schwarzenegger said, “California has the 8th largest economy in the world as well as the home of Silicon Valley and Hollywood. It is also a great cultural and economic platform for United States and the world. While launching this program, we hope that we will provide the employment to the people that will enhance the global progress of the state”. Furthermore, CEO of Alibaba David Wei said, “Due to the downturn of the economy, more and more students are willing to join different organizations upon graduation and are thinking to start their own businesses while still in college or university while sourcing their products through Alibaba.com. So we want to make all the process of these students easy and provide them a platform where they use their energies and talent in a right way.”

Dhgate.com which is the leading B2B marketplace of China, launched and introduced its virtual office very first time in China named intrducingsuccess.com. This virtual office is exclusively designed for America’s entrepreneurs and SME retailers. This is a free site that save bundle of information about how to start and run a successful online business. This site also contains a brief guidance on all methods, techniques and tips running an online business, product branding on international level, practical know-how of raising profits through easy dealings with Chinese manufacturers and suppliers.

This virtual site is a very first experiment performed by any B2B portal of the world. The makers of this site contains a team of animated professionals which are expert in their specific field of specialization. All the operations and functions of the site are controlled by the CEO and founder, Maggie Succesco. Through this virtual office, team of dhgate shares resources with their visitors in an easy-to-understand way that provides reliability to the users for seeking suppliers and manufacturers throughout the world.

The company divided the site into three primary areas. First area is related to those who enter newly in the e-commerce business. A questionnaire is provided to them which contains brief details on starting a business. The second area consists of content that range many topics (usually related to online shopping) which helps the retailers to guide them how to shop online nationally as well as internationally. The last area contains useful techniques, tricks and tips related to sales and marketing that can be used by new or experienced sellers. The site of dhgate.com also have important stuff related to doing business with China.

With the massive growth of B2B in India, now Alibaba.com which is the largest B2B portal in the world has started to spread its services and operations in India. Recently in a press conference in China, the CEO of Alibaba Mr. David Wei gave a detail briefing about his plans of investment in India. Alibaba is planning to specially focus the four countries that are China, United States, Japan and India.

In the press conference, Alibaba gave clear sign of highly investment in India. The CEO said that the opportunities of investment in India are unlimited and we will continue our efforts and struggle to penetrate Indian B2B market. Alibaba has created a brief plan to explore itself in India according to which it will facilitate Indian exporters to sell their products around the globe and then an online payment function will be introduced to make payment process easy for users. Alibaba is also focusing specially jewelry and textile industries as these two industries of India have huge demand in the international export market.

However, the factors that are becoming hurdles in the success of Alibaba are the Infrastructure and penetration of broadband. One more important thing is that Alibaba is not spending its money on the advertisement and marketing. It is spending a massive amount (almost 50%) of its revenue on providing the development of service centers, training to not only its employees but also its users and making the bridge of success stories of Alibaba.com to reach at the top.

Due to the security reasons, security products and equipments are very important to keep your things safe. Thats why these security equipments have high demand throughout the world. Premium suppliers of dhgate.com offers a wide range of high quality security alarm systems. These security systems have range from small do-it-yourself products to advance level security networks. These different security systems are available to provide safety to your home as well as business purposes. Alarm systems which are made in China have steady demand in European or US markets as compared to their own made alarm systems. The reason is that Chinese made security products have good quality and are sold at cheapest prices. They are perfect for the security of your home, office and other different public places.

Dhgate is a growing B2B portal in selling and buying of security alarm systems. Resale margins in UK, US and Germany is generally from 80% to 200%. But, in the rest of Northern Europe and France, resale margins are more than that which are usually from 200% to 500% and sometimes reach to 800%. If we talk about accessories of alarm products on dhgate.com, then the resale margin remains 100% to 800% that are normally around 500%. Although, security alarm systems for commercial purposes contain complicated networks and require professional installation. But if we talk about home security alarm systems then they are usually wireless DIY alarm products and are very user friendly. That’s why  users consider them as perfect solutions for online sale and there is no doubt in it that They are great choice for online retailers.

Alibaba.com and Yahoo Inc. developed a long-term strategic partnership in October 2005. In this partnership, Alibaba.com attained Yahoo China and acquired management control of Chinese version of Yahoo and its all operations. The main features of the partnership between Alibaba Group’s and Yahoo! Inc. are:

1. Developing online search to Alibaba.com to develop Alibaba’s e-commerce business.
2. Help to make Alibaba the largest Internet company of China in B2B e-commerce, B2C e-commerce, website-based software solutions, online payments, communications and search.
3. Providing access to Alibaba Group to the world class global internet technology of Yahoo Inc. to make online businesses strong and stable in China as well as around the world.

The chairman and chief executive office of Yahoo Mr. Terry Semel said, “Alibaba and Yahoo developed a marvelous internet partnership in the fastest-growing Internet market today. Through this strategic partnership, we will bond and created a strong e-commerce solution, communications and online advertising efficiency in the new and latest technological ways for Chinese businesses, manufacturers, suppliers and buyers under the management of a strong team of internet experts.”

On this occasion, Jack Ma, the chief executive officer of Alibaba said, “Today is the great strategic partnership between Alibaba and Yahoo Inc. has been created. With addition of Yahoo China into  the portfolio of Alibaba, we are adding some new features and services like search and online communications to our already running e-commerce services. We hope that the growth of Yahoo China will create great opportunities for businesses and consumers in not only in China but also around the world.”

As a result of this great partnership, Yahoo Inc. was able to own more than 40% economic interest in which it had 35% voting rights due to which it became the largest strategic investor in Alibaba. Through this strategic partnership, Alibaba.com became the only internet company of China which has a growing position in the considerable sectors such as B2B e-commerce, B2C e-commerce, online payment, communications and search.