Trader.lk appointed as Exclusive Global Partner for Alibaba.com

Trader.lk has secured an exclusive partnership with Alibaba.com, the world’s largest online wholesale marketplace, opening new avenues for Lankan producers and exporters, especially SMEs.

Alibaba has over 100 million registered merchants with over 24,000 online transactions happening every minute and a 26 buyers for every seller.

Top international journals and news channels provide media coverage to Alibaba.com while it was awarded the “best of the web” by Forbes magazine and reported in 400+ world famous media every day. Alexa, the leading web-ranking site, ranked Alibaba.com as the number 1 in the e-Commerce category.

Alibaba.com bridges the gap between global buyers and sellers, providing a never-ending tradeshow for all products listed. Alibaba attends all international tradeshows on behalf of all their Sellers to attract Buyers on to the Alibaba platform so that the products gain maximum visibility across the globe.

Benefits such as ‘Trader Manager’, which provides the ability to communicate with other members freely, ‘AliPay’ to make secure international payments and ‘Trade Assurance’ free payment protection and many more features are available with Alibaba.

Trader.lk seeks to develop new ways to help businesses to perform better and provide services required to enhance their performance and increase sales and revenues. We believe in an interdependent world as one continuum and present our solutions as one organism. Our team comprises of experts in digital marketing, finance, IT, engineering and agriculture who can restructure business activities to achieve your business goals and to enter international markets, says Dr. R. de Silva, the founder and visionary behind Trader.lk who is an expert in digital marketing and e-commerce with decades of experience operating in overseas markets.

The internet’s global reach is a cost-effective means for marketing products and services while SMEs can broaden their market presence internationally by adopting e-Commerce or electronic business practices that are user friendly. E-commerce can level the playing field for SME’s based in any corner of the world. 

Dr. de Silva says it is his aim to help Sri Lankan SMEs to reach every market through digital marketing. The use of digital marketing has improved in leaps and bounds in the international arena while we in Sri Lanka have much more to do to reach billions of buyers across the world he says. Being experienced in the export market we are in search of avenues to support Sri Lankan manufacturers to reach international markets. We use our international exposure to find markets for native Sri Lankan products, he says.

Trader.lk provides free consultation for SME exporters, free management consultancy services to export oriented small and medium scale enterprises and entrepreneurs who are exploring avenues to enter export markets.

Among other facilities provided by Trader.lk is a package of services including Alibaba affiliated free CPD programmes, market information and IT support to ensure the entrepreneurs are better trained to acquire international clients online.

Digitalisation is fast invading the business world replacing the conventional way of doing business. Trader.lk’s multi-disciplinary teams are at hand to provide complete solutions to succeed in digital markets which includes digital marketing, creating brand identity, enhancing brand recognition using search engines, social media and automation to support and create a perfect website with enhanced visibility and analytics.

Being in the industry for over 15 years its media division, Shaded Peanut (www.shadedpeanut.com) can help with product photography and cinematography, promotional videos and graphic design for online advertisements.

Conducting CPD programmes is an absolute necessity to keep staff updated with new introductions to the industry. Recording training programmes into an e- learning platform will provide staff access to valuable training material whenever and wherever needed.

Trader.lk’s engineering division Anova Engineering is ready to support clients with engineering service requirements such as 3D product modelling, architectural visualisations, 2D mechanical and architectural drafting. Partnership with AET Flexible space provides Sri Lankan high rises with the underfloor air conditioning allowing e.g. 10 floors to be built for the cost of nine floors. Several blue-chip contractors use this concept worldwide to create free space and save money.