Yeah, especially for starting or emerging businesses, it is crucial.

Infact, some business people fear risk of importing from a new supplier and so they will never have large order from start.

I think suppliers duty is to focus attention on willing customers and not to be quantity oriented. If you are able to deliver well on contractual terms you can catch other small orders through initial one.

I personal believe that some small orders customers do it intentional to access good quality and performance. 

A big business starts from small. Small orders will become big as the time goes on. For those who help a great gratitude and appreciation will be upon them. Please don't forget - "A helping hand will be blessed enough" 

A buyer always starts from small order with new supplier to evaluate it. The supplier should pay attention to small orders.

Most definitley, for it gives people like myself, who have potential to grow, a fighting chance to develop into a larger entity that will someday give another person a chance to grow. The business realm is a recipricating cycle  that we must understand and abide by, if we ever expect exponential ROI (returns on investments)

Most certainly! They may bring a much smaller profit to be begin with but in a long term they can be a steady source of orders. And eventually brings in much bigger orders.

Small orders can lead to the big deal

Small is beautifull. 

Everyone must start and not only big companies can exist on earth.

Let give to small family companies possibility to growth. Small orders in the begining means less risk and less work to do. Big orders means big trouble .

 

dear sir/madam,

does anyboy know how to move on from placing a sample order that you may get more expensively than it would normally cost you.

i have worked with a couple of manufactuerers from china but not effectively where i can order a hot-selling product to then re-sell on

please email me anybody who might have the knowledge or the experience from moving on to bigger orders when dealing with somebody from china.

best regards

yours faithfully    imran   UK

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A buyer always starts from small order with new supplier to evaluate it. The supplier should pay attention to small orders.

Absolutely correct in my eyes. I can talk from my own experiences. as i`m relativly new in import business there are two reasons for me ordering the first time smaller amounts:

1.) you never know exactly with who you are dealing with!
the one you are talking/mailing to can of course give many infos about his company, his profiles and manufacture-power. but in fact he is several thousand kilometeres away and you don`t fly each time to china before you for example import 100 Sony PSP`s - thats not worth it! So my first order is smaller and when the first deal came to a good end the next order will be bigger. so u must find a basement for both to rely on.

2.)For smaller companies can losing money be the death!
if you invest nearly all your money in a product you think it might be useful for the market in your country, order it and after that you must realize that it`s not the burner in your market although you made researches etc.. or on the other side you might be scammed by a "supplier" who isn`t one in fact.