Can’t cross-border e-commerce be done in second- and third-tier cities? not necessarily!

Perhaps you will say that I do not have such lofty ideals to create such a brilliant future. I just want to stay in my hometown and spend time with my parents and children. The goal of choosing to do cross-border e-commerce is very simple. I just want to make a living. I hope I can have more freedom than working for others, and I hope I can earn a higher income than working.

Can you live in a small city and earn the income of a big city by doing cross-border e-commerce?

Yes, my answer here is yes.

For beginners, the first threshold for cross-border e-commerce is knowledge accumulation. How to take the first step in opening a cross-border e-commerce store? I think you may have heard that so-and-so is good at cross-border e-commerce, and you would like to try it out.

But it is a small city after all, and the communication environment is relatively closed. I can only turn to the Internet and look for relevant cross-border e-commerce knowledge tutorials on Baidu. The Internet is also filled with a lot of false and fraudulent information. If you are not careful, Will step into the trap.

In the long term, the communication atmosphere of cross-border e-commerce and the timeliness of the latest information will directly affect the seller’s operating performance, but this is not fundamental. Many new sellers participate in various forums and lectures in Shenzhen every day, and can run 2-3 large-scale forum activities a week. They all doubt whether you have time to manage your account.

Perhaps many mainland sellers will certainly envy sellers in Shenzhen. They feel that sellers in Shenzhen have a wide supply of goods, have shipping order resources, many logistics channels, and more choices.

Don’t worry, the Amazon platform may be more suitable for sellers in small and medium-sized cities to try. Because of Amazon’s FBA overseas warehouse advantages, outlets such as Deppon and SF Express have extended to the township level, and all support FBA Amazon warehousing business.

The next 2-3 years will be a time when sellers in strong second-tier cities in the mainland will rise on a large scale.

With the in-depth development of the industry, Shenzhen’s advantage in electronic products has become a red ocean. Instead, advantageous industries in the mainland such as light industry, textile industry, toys, etc. are now the blue ocean products exported to cross-border e-commerce sellers. Wire. There are some Shenzhen sellers who source all their goods from Zhejiang, Yiwu, Kunshan and other places, mail them to Shenzhen, and then label and ship them overseas.

No matter which county you are from in the central province, you only need to prepare full boxes of goods and notify the local SF Express or Debon Logistics to complete the FBA overseas warehouse operation.

In terms of purchasing goods, in addition to factory sellers, 1688 is the preferred goods purchasing center for most cross-border e-commerce companies in the country. You can also complete purchases without leaving home. This method makes it possible to live in a small city and earn the income of a big city.

Despite this, I would also recommend that new sellers, if they have the conditions, try to study and work in some cross-border e-commerce cities such as Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Xiamen, and Yiwu for a period of time to accumulate some experience and resources. Go and experience it in person, communicate with different sellers, service providers, and logistics companies, and it’s not too late to return to a small city.