TradeSparq - The Social Network For Global Trade - Review

Lately a new b2b social marketplace caught my eyes with its unique business model. As the founders say it is a combination of Alibaba & LinkedIn models. That is they took B2B part from Alibaba and let buyers & sellers do business on their own in a form of social networking. hmmm... pretty smart huh!

TradeSparq homepage snapshot 13-Aug-2011

As per TradeSparq "Why people sign on Linkedin? One of the reasons is that they want to be connected with guys from their partners, sellers or customers. And why Alibaba has been popular for years, because it enables an easy way for buyers to discover thousands of manufacturers which are mainly from China. However, when you are on Linkedin, usually you don't know what products your contacts' companies are actually selling; and on Alibaba, as a manufacturer if you want more exposure, you should pay certain membership fee which is not cheap (~$3,012 per year for Gold Suppliers membership). As a buyer, you can be easily got lost as you don't know which supplier you should trust more. These are the issues TradeSparq wants to solve."

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