Foreign salespeople all know that AI can help foreign trade develop customers, but how can they use it specifically?
Here are some sharing:
l ChatGPT+Google search: 3 minutes to accurately locate customers
1. Enter in ChatGPT: "Please help me find cooler bag importers in the US market and list their company names and websites."
2. After getting the company name, go to Google to search the official website and find contact information!
3. Contacting customers through LinkedIn or the official website is more accurate than sending massive group emails!
l AI email assistant to improve the response rate of development letters!
Many people respond poorly to development letters because the emails are too ordinary! Try AI to optimize your development letter
1. Enter in ChatGPT: "Please help me write a short and efficient development letter to introduce our cooler bags and invite customers to communicate."
2. AI will automatically generate a development letter that conforms to the habits of European and American customers. You can adjust it and use it directly.
3. Use AI to write a personalized title to increase the email open rate, such as • "[two layer cooler bag] Best-Selling cooler bags for Your Market!" • "Hi [Customer Name], Looking for High-Quality cooler bags?"
l AI crawls customer information, no more manual search!
Some foreign trade people are already using Python + AI to automatically crawl customer information, such as batch search for importer information in a certain industry, and directly export Excel tables to improve development efficiency.
Conclusion: Using AI + manual search, the efficiency of finding customers is at least 3 times higher!
Quotation negotiation must be strategic to prevent customers from running away!
Many novice foreign trade people disappear directly after quoting? This may be because your quotation method is too simple!
Quotation skills:
Tiered quotation (tiered pricing, guide customers to place orders)
Wrong quotation: "Our price is $10/pcs" → Customers are prone to bargaining or ignoring you directly. Correct quotation:
MOQ 100pcs: $12/pcs
MOQ 500pcs: $10/pcs
MOQ 1000pcs: $9/pcs
Doing so can not only increase profits but also make it easier for customers to make decisions!
l Limited-time offers to increase transaction rates
"If you place an order before the end of this month, we can provide an additional 5% discount or free shipping."
Give customers a sense of urgency and promote quick decision-making!
l Customer follow-up is no longer in vain, AI allows you to increase the transaction rate!
Some novice salesmen have a good chat with customers, but they can't contact them again after sending the quotation. Because you don't know how to follow up!
Methods for efficient follow-up with customers:
Follow up through multiple channels (don't just send emails, try WhatsApp, LinkedIn, and phone calls)
Send value-added information (don't just urge orders, you can share industry information, such as "Global Cooler Bag Market Trends in 2025")
l AI writes personalized follow-up emails (avoid stereotyped urging, make emails more attractive)