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Do foreign trade, then, is nothing more than retail or wholesale, general retail, then choose AliExpress, Amazon and other electronic business platform, do wholesale, then choose Alibaba international station, China Network and other platforms, but as the competition platform more intense, most people feel the benefits of foreign websites, more or less around the same time to find out about a lot of people to make money through their own trade website, very low-key.
This article I will detail to everyone that how to build yourself a B2B or B2C foreign trade website. Let's foreign trade station for some common problems.
What things need to station foreign trade
A website needs three things, domain names, hosting space, station program.
Buy domain name : domain name buy it, there are many local, national Ali cloud, foreign namecheap, namesoile and so on.
How to buy a domain name Ali says:
First to enter the official website: https://wanwang.aliyun.com/domain/
Com domain name registration is recommended at the end, the price, if you are the first to buy it in the cloud Ali, 23, then a year, otherwise it is 55 yuan a year.
Domestic domain name registration price is still relatively affordable overseas, but you need real-name authentication, you need to upload your own ID card front and back.
Buy hosting space:
Because we are foreign trade website, it is recommended to use foreign hosting space, there are a host of selected foreign countries very much, bluehost host very popular a few years ago, a lot of people recently recommended siteground hosts are very good choice.
Buy Siteground hosts before I have wrote a very detailed tutorial, you can look here:
How to build a complete novice tutorial trade website
DNS: domain name after the purchase is successful we need to resolve the domain name to the host server on top of the purchase, I am here as an example to Ali cloud domain name, the domain name control in the background, as shown click on the "analytic"
Click on "Add Record", note the addition of two records, the host record www and @ respectively, recorded value is the ip address of the host server you buy. In this case, even if the domain name resolves to the host above you buy a.
Select the station program: then select retail sites very much establishment of the station program, such as Shopify, wordpress, opencart, mangeto etc., wholesale Web site, currently use wordpress theme to build better.
What is the cost of foreign trade station
The cost to build it yourself, then the domain name is about $ 10 a year, hosting space cost is about $ 100 a year, wholesale / retail cost of the basic theme of the site at around $ 60.
So the annual cost is about $ 170, of course, if you need to buy some other additional costs, it may increase costs, such as buying accelerated CDN services.
How foreign trade station to find someone like outsourcing
Currently on the market to find someone to face outsourcing, the cost is pricey, I often see some people 5,6 one thousand yuan to find someone to build a trade website, in fact, establishment costs up to about 2,3000 words, I am not saying this money's worth, if the other party can provide you satisfied with the service, it will help you save time costs, it is acceptable.
Of course, if you can understand the point of establishment of knowledge, to have time to try it yourself at how to build a trade website, in fact, it is not a difficult process.
B2B trade website tutorial
Currently wholesale website, it is nothing more than display products, and customers can contact online or submit inquiries, etc. My personal recommendation is to use wordpress + theme wholesale to build.
How to build a wordpress siteground program, I will not repeat them here, B2B theme, I personally recommend are: avada, enflod. . . .
Avada about how to set up foreign trade B2B website, you can look my article:
How Avada theme to build trade website
Foreign trade B2C website tutorial
Retail, then, in fact, there are many establishment of the station program, shopify, opencart, mangeto, wordpress + woocommerce, etc., choice of words is more, of course, we can compare the next several more well-known retail establishment procedures.
mangeto: once very popular, it can be said is essential for the establishment of retail trade program, there are a lot of sites use, but larger than the entire site file, the server load is relatively high, while background operations are more complicated, each plug-use class of more complicated, now is not very recommended.
opencart: its situation with mangeto almost all belong to the retail electricity business program, but the user is not very wide, resulting in background maintenance update is not very good, not a lot of features, unless you find someone for secondary development.
shopify: Currently shopify is very popular, it solves a lot of newcomers to build trade website problem, but the problem is not low cost shopify USD 29 / month and $ 79 / month, $ 299 / month, three price packages, even the most expensive 29 dollars a month, a year cost will be US $ 348, not including the time some of the plug-in you need to buy shopify of.
wordpress + woocommerce: use wordpress program, and then install the plug-in electric providers to form trade retail site, this is the most cost-effective if you know how to build a fully functional trade website, then it is very perfect.
Here I wordpress + woocommerce to detail that the next how to build a retail trade website.
First, we in wordpress background, plugins-Add New, then search woocommerce, click Download.
Then we can upload the products inside the product.
About woocommerce shipping settings, tax settings, etc., you can read my previous article.
To this step, in fact, we can see that we need a more beautiful atmospheric electricity supplier subject, you can Appearance-themes, search keyword "shop" or "store" and so on.
We can see a lot of electricity supplier appearance are good theme.
I am here to give you a recommend retail electricity supplier free theme is oceanwp, very simple and practical.
Of course, having said that, I suggest that you: https://themeforest.net , a direct purchase electricity supplier wordpress themes you can, because the purchase of the theme of the function is very complete, you do not need to download any plug-ins to re-direct drag the renovation site can, of course, you may need to know some knowledge of the station.
Purchase leads which things need to prepare?
Website above a lot of information are essential essential Home poster image, FAQ, contact details, etc., LK station here also provide foreign trade services, because the current market a lot of establishment of service charges above the price is too outrageous, my B2B wholesale site fee is 1200 yuan, B2C website 1000 yuan. A permanent station can use, with the intention of shoes can contact me.
Novice, then why not recommend to build their own trade website, the first time you might spend a long, probably a few weeks or even a month you can not build up a website to their own satisfaction, or professional thing to the professional people better .
Whether you want to outsource their own station or, if you have any questions, you can comment below the article, I will respond promptly.