Bikky Khosla, CEO, TradeIndia.com spoke during session 2 on the sourcing aspect of B2B.

B2b offers marketing solutions and sourcing solutions. Every SME is not only selling products and also buys products. If you don’t keep an eye on your vendor and keep prices in check, you’ll be outpriced. Hence sourcing is equally important.

Net gives you excellent visibility, which traditional ways didn’t provide us.”I’m a strong believer of regional trade. You know your customer, time taken is much less” so focusing on regional market will be more effective.

Biggest complaint from international clients is that Indian exporters do not respond fast enough. We need to work on this and have to be more active and responsive, using the internet medium. Many companies are still on free emails. Its important to have own domain and email addresses, because international customers may not have seen you, but they identify you through your website and email. Its important to have right identities.

Only problem we face on the internet is trust. There’re many ways to take care of that. TradeIndia.com offers credit report. Which help a lot in verifying credit worthiness of the other party.

SMEs need to be very active on B2B to gain from it…

With over 624 registrations so far (and counting), our “Free For SMEs” conference, to be held at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi on 6th July will be the most popular IAMAI event till date.

Conference on Web2.0, held in 2007 was the most attended event so far and we’re all set to break this record next week.

We’re very excited about the event and thank each one of you for the overwhelming response. We also thank our Title Sponsor IndiaMart.com, Gold Sponsor 160by2.com and Badge Sponsor One97 for their support.

To make the most of it, reach out to Gaurav Chopra or Kalyan Biswas (gaurav@iamai.in and Kalyan@iamai.in) for sponsorship inquiries.

To register, (Registration is Free) visit http://ievents.iamai.in/ict4sme/register.php

India Habitat Centre, located at Lodhi Road, New Delhi is the venue for our July 6th event “Free for SMEs”.

India Habitat Centre is conceived with a primary objective of developing an integrated physical environment in which various professions and institutions dealing with different facets of habitat and habitat related environmental issues would function, interact and attempt to resolve habitat related problems in a coordinated manner.

More about India Habitat Centre: indiahabitat.org

How to reach India habitat Centre? road map

Distances

From Distance Time

From International Airport 15 Kms. 30 mins.

Domestic Airport 12 Kms. 20 mins.

New Delhi Railway Station 07 kms. 15 mins.

Old Delhi Railway Station 16 kms. 30 mins.

Connaught Place 05 kms. 07 mins.

India Gate 03 kms. 05 mins.

Diplomatic Enclave 05 kms. 07 mins

Information sourced from India Habitat Centre Website.

Below are a few photos of the venue which I’d clicked during the March 24th IAMAI Event, National Conference on Digital Technology.