Business Negotiation

How do you negotiate with your China suppliers?

First of all you need to know your supplier’s status or capability, you might want to ask the following questions:

1, how many employee do you hire, and ask them to give you details on the numbers of labors, technician, engineers, sales and management people.

2, how big does your factory cover, they will tell you in square meters.

3, what is your monthly production capability, they will probably ask for your order quantity, then you will need to ask what is your deliver lead.

4, what is your complaint rate or defective rate, and what is your warranty policy.

5, what is your MOQ (Minimum Order Quantity)? If I purchase more, what is the discount?

6, How good is your product quality, can I send someone to do inspection before container loading? If you would like to hire someone to do the inspection, no matter what kind of inspector will conduct the inspection, as long as they know that someone will do inspection, the factory needs to make sure the products pass the standards.

7, what is your payment terms, can I pay you with 100% L/C at sight? They will prefer to do T/T for the fist 3 transaction.

8, what is the percentage of your domestic market sales, what countries are your oversea markets? Do you have customers in our country.

9, Based on the condition above, what is the cost per unit?

Secondly, you need to make sure that their month capability fits your order quantity, this is very important.

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Business Guide and Helper in Shenzhen Electronics market

Are you coming to visit the electronic market in Shenzhen, and you get confused where to go, whether you will buy some fake products, and more over, you find language barrier in the markets because you don't speak Mandarin.
However, if you hire a translator to be your business guide and helper, you will be easier and you can save a lot of time and money when you have an interpreter to accompany you around the market, if you are hiring a male translator, he can even help you carry your luggage.
For this, I set up a website www.ElectronicsShenzhen.com to give foreigners more and more information and guide them around the market online.

Translate for the English Tutors in Shenzhen

I help set up and translate some websites for those foreign English who live in Shenzhen for a long time, I charge them with very reasonal price, and they all enjoy my services, here is one of the websites, www.EnglishTutorsShenzhen.com
If you are looking for a translator for your English Tutoring Services in Shenzhen, please don't hesitate to contact me.

Please be noted that I do translation and advertisement for the English Tutors for free, and when they find students, they will pay me for each student they find through my websites.

What is the future of a translator or interpreter in China?

Some students like to study foreign languages in colleage, and some of them become a translator or interpreter, and some of them work as a translator for a long time before they become something else. But I think in China, translators do not like position for a long period, usually for a few years. Most of the translators are specialized in a certain industry, when they learn enough about their industries, they become something else. One of my friends, Kelly, she knows fashion a lot, after being a translator for a few years, she works hard on fashion and make some money out of this fashion business.

For me, I just want to be a translator or interpreter, but I want to become more and more specialized in the electronics product business, especially in the tablet PC, cell phone and some of the industrial electronics, because this is what I learned in college and what I have been dealt with in the past few years’ working. I know the electronics business keeps changing, and there are so many competitions out there, it is not easy to make money out of it, however, I have no other choice, will just keep on working. Recently, the hottest electronics device is probably the tablet PC such as Ipad, but I think the price of tablet PC’s will drop a lot in the near future, and the capabilities of tablets will increase, many manufacturers are working on that, so I see the future of Tablet PC business is going to be very good, that was why I started www.tabletschina.com, I want to introduce some low cost tablets to foreigners. I even have a crazy idea, I think in the future, the specialized tablet PC (I would call it Dedicated Tablet) that is specific for a certain use will be popular too, one reason is that it is going to be affordable to everybody in the world, another reason is that more and more softwares are will be developed. People can afford to buy a small computer like tablet PC to handle just one thing, so I started www.DedicatedTablet.com as well.

Of course, if there is anything new in the future, I don’t care what electronics device it is going to be, I will keep an eye on that. Another hot electronic thing I guess is LED, LED is very popular now, it is widely used in the goverment projects, but I think it will also be popularly used in the consumer electronics industry soon.

What are a translator's working hours?

I am usually working for my clients less than 8 hours per day, if my client needs me for more than 8 hours, I will have to charge him/her for overtime. It usually starts from 9 A.M. to 6 P.M. , one hour for the lunch.

Is there any extra cost when you hire a translator or interpreter?

Usually there is no extra cost unless the translator or interpreter need to travel a couple hours to arrive at your place, or the translator work for you over time. So the extra cost can be travel expense and over time fee.

Why do you need an interpreter in China?

Why do you need a professional Mandarin to English interpreter in Shenzhen China?

When you come to do business with your suppliers or customers in Shenzhen, it is better to hire a local guy who can help you overcome the language barrier and the culture difference, and also you will look more professional and serious in front of your partners, the interpreter will help you find a taxi and take you to the places you want to see, just to save your some time and trouble, the interpreter will also intepret on your behalf even when your suppliers or customers have their own people who can speak English.

More interpreters available here, http://www.interpretershenzhen.com/