How do you protect your product IP and business interests when doing your product development and manufacturing in Asian countries? This is a common concern for entrepreneurs, hardware startups, and SMEs, and rightly so...after all, you … [Read more...]
9 Ways For Importers To Cut Costs
If you ask any importer if they'd like to reduce their operating costs they're almost certainly going to say yes! But what are the options? Renaud has 9 cost-cutting options for you here regardless of where you're manufacturing. Some, … [Read more...]
The Best Way for Importers To Raise their Business’ Valuations
There are many types of importing businesses. Some sell in their own brick & mortar stores; some sell predominantly on Amazon; others act as wholesalers; and so on. And what is the best way to raise the value of those businesses? In … [Read more...]
How To Improve Supplier Performance? [Podcast]
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In this episode... Renaud talks you through a common query that we get on a regular basis when customers ask us: "How do I get my suppliers to improve?" A recent survey of importers found that 70% said that their biggest challenge was … [Read more...]
QualityInspection.org’s Top Blog Posts & Videos Of 2020
What a year 2020 has been. Little did we know when we published the top posts and videos of 2019 that we'd soon be headed into almost completely unprecedented times in living memory with the global coronavirus pandemic raging and the … [Read more...]
Winners! Our Top Manufacturing Articles & Videos Of 2019
As 2019 draws to a close it's a great time to sit down and look at some of our most popular blog articles and resources from the last year. We also hope that you'll stumble across some great topics that you'd otherwise have missed. … [Read more...]
New Importer from China? Beware the Credulous Foreigner Syndrome!
After about 40 years of openness, and about 15 years of 'direct trade' without Hong Kong trading companies, one might expect that foreign buyers take more precautions when dealing with Chinese suppliers. And, to be sure, some buyers do … [Read more...]
Beware of this China Scam: The Commodity Bait and Switch
We are contacted regularly by overseas buyers who are about to purchase a commodity product from a Chinese manufacturer, and it is nearly always a very risky situation for the buyer as switching out an order of commodities to a cheaper … [Read more...]
Reliability Testing on Electronic Products in China: Don’t Skip It
We have worked with many companies that have designed an electronic product and had it manufactured in China, yet they tend to have a common blind spot: running reliability testing on electronic products. … [Read more...]
Checklist for importers in China and low-cost Asia
Let's say you have done your homework, and you have decided that you should source from China/Vietnam/an other emerging Asian country. Now, what are the steps? Is there something you really don't want to forget? I got this question … [Read more...]