Full-process AI opens a new paradigm for foreign trade operations. Alibaba International Station fully upgrades AI membership

Nowadays, using AI for foreign trade has become "common sense" among merchants, but many people find it painful to use AI .

Due to the complexity of the foreign trade process, they have to change different AIs in each link , jumping back and forth between countless web pages and APPs , but the final effect may not be good. This is because these AIs not only have uneven capabilities, but most of them are not designed for foreign trade, and there is no connection between them.

This should not be the way to do foreign trade in the AI ​​era . Therefore, in order to adapt to the AI ​​trend and explore a better experience of AI foreign trade applications , the reporter learned that Alibaba International Station recently took the lead in comprehensively upgrading AI membership in China .

This is the first full-process AI developed specifically for the foreign trade industry . It uses the most professional AI capabilities that understand foreign trade for the first time , and runs through all aspects of foreign trade merchants from opening stores to shipping products, matching business opportunities, and marketing to acquiring customers. It also connects the subsequent digital logistics fulfillment and financial services of Alibaba International Station. The "comprehensive foreign trade services" that were often mentioned in the past have been fully transformed into intelligent services through this upgrade.

After opening up the entire foreign trade process, AI is no longer just a simple tool that improves efficiency slightly in a certain link. Alibaba International Station's full-process AI has truly opened up a new paradigm of foreign trade operations for all foreign trade companies.

Whether it is a foreign trade novice, a S OHO entrepreneur, a factory that is switching from domestic trade to foreign trade, or a large enterprise that wants to expand its brand overseas, they can use this full-process AI to solve the practical problems they face. Currently, there are more than 45,000 small and medium-sized enterprises in the world using Alibaba International Station's AI foreign trade products, covering a wide range of enterprise types, making it the most popular AI product in the global trade field .

"Xiaobai" can also explode quickly, foreign trade is truly minimalist

Is foreign trade suitable for entrepreneurs, as it is so complicated? It may have been difficult to say in the past, but now with the help of full-process AI , countless examples have proved that it is suitable.

With the help of Alibaba International Station AI , even inexperienced newbies can now handle complex foreign trade business with ease. The experience of Du Si, a post-90s girl from Yiwu , is a good example. She decided to start a foreign trade business in March this year and opened an Alibaba International Station store . She needed to list 100 product links before the store went online to prepare for the subsequent order opening.

According to the workload of foreign trade salesmen in the past , it would take more than a month for one person to link to 100 products. But after she really started, she found that with the AI ​​business assistant, more than 100 products were listed in just one week.

Not only is the product delivery speed fast, but the product selection of Alibaba International Station AI is also more accurate. With the advice of AI, she stepped into the rhythm of the Christmas peak season in the summer , which is usually prepared long in advance in the B2B field . A novice entrepreneur with almost no basic knowledge successfully achieved the "cold start " of the store and quickly exploded .

Eventually, Du Si built a team by himself and reached the top 50 in the industry in 60 days.

(Photo: Christmas product scene image generated by Dusi using AI business assistant)

The AI ​​products of Alibaba International Station are still being upgraded. The recently added minimalist product delivery function only requires uploading a product picture or a keyword, and AI can automatically generate all the information needed for new product releases . It can shorten the time for merchants to release products from the original 60 minutes to as fast as 60 seconds , bringing foreign trade product delivery into the "second era".

While the speed is extremely fast, the AI - optimized products are even more effective: because Alibaba International Station's AI understands foreign trade better, the pictures, texts, and videos it generates are often more in line with the needs of foreign buyers. Data shows that the exposure of millions of products optimized by Alibaba International Station's AI can increase by 37 % overseas , and the payment conversion rate of overseas buyers can increase by 52.5%.

Feng Lingya, general manager of Yiwu Kiwi Bear Home Furnishing Co., Ltd., has deep feelings about this: "Using the latest AI to ship products is 30% better than expected." Feng Lingya is a pure second-generation Yiwu Trade City employee . Her parents have been rooted in Yiwu Trade City for 16 years . In June this year, she joined Alibaba International Station and started a different foreign trade business from her parents.

Feng Lingya has compared the effects of different AIs . Before AI Business Assistant, she tried ChatGPT, but in comparison, she felt that AI Business Assistant was backed by Alibaba International Station's 25 years of foreign trade experience and was constantly learning the latest foreign trade trends every day. "Every profession has its own expertise, ChatGPT is more universal, and Alibaba International Station's AI does understand foreign trade better."

After sending products using the AI ​​of Alibaba International Station , AI will automatically receive overseas customers. Especially for customers with time differences, AI can achieve "instant replies", and the reply content is more accurate, which provides a better customer experience; and merchants do not need to arrange people to stay up late to take orders, just wake up to read the summary of AI and follow up in a focused manner according to the prompts. For old customers, AI will also take the initiative to maintain them and stimulate potential business opportunities.

This full-process experience can greatly free up merchants' energy and make foreign trade business truly minimalist.

Save time and effort, and your business results will be more secure

After using AI to quickly open a store and select products, can the business performance after the start be guaranteed? The answer is again: Yes.

It is understood that new merchants can start foreign trade business in just 7 days under the guidance of AI . Combined with the comprehensive capabilities of Alibaba International Station such as AI product distribution, AI communication , and AI smart investment, it can guarantee more than 25 business opportunities for merchants on average every month .

In the field of foreign trade, where uncertainty is far higher than that of domestic trade, the reason why we can achieve guaranteed results lies in the upgrade of AI throughout the entire process .

Relevant professionals said that the AI ​​of Alibaba International Station uses the most advanced multi-modal model in the industry, just like using multiple "senses" to understand countless professional copywriting, pictures and videos in the foreign trade field. Therefore, AI can jump out of the traditional single understanding mode, more accurately predict buyer preferences, greatly improve the matching efficiency of buyers and products, and significantly increase the number of effectively matched business opportunities.

At the same time, more types of merchants are also using Alibaba International Station AI to change the marketing methods of global trade, achieving higher conversion rates through fully automatic and precise matching, and saving trouble.

An old factory manager in Qingdao who has been deeply engaged in the field of thermal insulation building materials for 18 years found that his past experience in domestic trade became "invalid" after the transition to foreign trade . However, he did not panic and immediately let his team use the AI ​​smart marketing of Alibaba International Station .

“We have no experience in knowing which high-quality products in the store are worth recommending, but AI does. It can help you place orders automatically, which not only saves you the trouble but also doubles your efficiency. In just two months, we have obtained more than 100 customer leads, of which more than 60% are customers with high purchasing intention.” The old factory manager said that AI smart marketing can also make bids and quotes for different buyers in different countries 24 hours a day. The team does not even need to monitor the market. Based on the feedback, they quickly found several key country markets in Asia and Europe.

(Photo: SMEs learn about Alibaba International Station’s AI foreign trade products at the exhibition )

Another old factory manager, Wang Yongbing, chairman of Zhejiang Yafeng Hat Industry Technology Co., Ltd., had mediocre foreign trade results in the past due to the lack of professional personnel to carry out refined operations . But after the launch of AI intelligent marketing on Alibaba International Station , Wang Yongbing entered the market with a try-and-see attitude, and unexpectedly the results were amazing. "In half a month, the exposure rate, clicks and inquiries increased by more than 400%, which is the sum of the past four months. In just 15 days, I got 4 orders and more than a dozen high-quality customers who can be followed up."

In Wang Yongbing's view, the operational capabilities of foreign trade factories like theirs have always been a shortcoming. Now, through the help of AI smart marketing, they can deliver products across the entire region and provide worry-free hosting. This is equivalent to invisibly adding a professional team that understands the products and rules better than themselves, making the business opportunities more guaranteed.

Data shows that by using Alibaba International Station’s AI for global marketing, merchants’ click-through conversion rate can increase by 40% and the percentage of clicks from high-quality buyers can increase by 20%.

45,000 small and medium-sized enterprises have taken the lead in reaping the benefits of AI foreign trade

" An enterprise that can use AI will definitely eliminate the enterprises that cannot. If my size is similar to yours, but I use AI, I will definitely surpass you in a short time. " Liu Shiqi, general manager of Quanzhou Tivantans Trading Co., Ltd., is a gentle and slightly "arrogant" post-95s .

Liu Shiqi has no mines at home and no relatives have factories, but he uses AI to accurately select products and sells slippers to the European and American markets at a premium of more than 100 US dollars per pair. He has sold 130 types of slippers for 20 million. He has been engaged in foreign trade on Alibaba International Station for 3 years. He used to rely on "endurance" and now relies on "AI".

Data shows that 45,000 small and medium-sized enterprises are currently using AI products from Alibaba International Station. A large number of foreign trade people have already tasted the first wave of dividends in the AI ​​era. After the full-process AI is fully upgraded , foreign trade merchants of different types can all taste the "sweetness" of AI .

Needless to say, those born after 1995 and 2000 are the native group of AI foreign trade. Using AI for foreign trade is almost instinctive for them. With the lowest cost and the least effort, one person can become a super individual of a team, and AI becomes the entrepreneurial partner of this group of super individuals.

On the other hand, traditional foreign trade people born in the 1960s and 1980s, who used to be trapped in the difficulties of online and digital transformation of their businesses, are now using AI to revitalize foreign trade businesses worth tens of millions or even hundreds of millions .

"In the era without AI, finding business opportunities depends on talent. In line with the principle of 'customers are the best teachers', I often chat with customers and judge the market trend from their needs." As a veteran foreign trade worker born in the 1980s, Lv Hongwei, co-founder of Hebei Hangfa Technology Co., Ltd., has relied on China's industrial belt advantages to incubate three stores with annual sales of over 100 million yuan on Alibaba International Station from scratch. Now he is developing a fourth category - "prefabricated houses", or mobile homes.

However, the fourth voyage is different from the previous three. This time, AI is involved in every link, from business opportunity mining to demand analysis, from product listing to customer follow-up.

Take the launch of new products as an example. In the past, there were often disagreements on how to post and who should post the new products. The same product may have completely different traffic-generating effects with different titles. Even the most experienced salesperson will fall into inertial thinking when choosing a title.

"Our salesmen competed with AI. It took the salesmen more than ten to twenty minutes to upload a link, and they didn't receive any inquiries for a week. But it only took AI two minutes, and two customers came on the same day." Lu Hongwei said that now the tedious and repetitive work of shipping products is basically handed over to AI business assistants.

Higher efficiency in launching new products also makes product scenarios richer. In the past, although there were many types of products, due to efficiency issues, the cost of displaying online scene information was often high and inconvenient. With the AI ​​business assistant, you can make products appear in the garden or by the sea with a click of the mouse. Not only can you quickly generate various scene pictures, you can also enter text selling points and quickly generate videos to tell customers, greatly shortening the customer's decision-making process.

"This time is a little different because AI is fully enabled. The growth rate of the new category is a bit beyond our expectations . We achieved sales of 3 million RMB in the first month after going online." With the help of AI business assistant, Lv Hongwei also updated the timetable for the growth of this project . "In the past, it took about three to four years for a new category to reach over 100 million RMB. Now I have set a goal of two years."

For larger companies that want to expand their brands overseas, Alibaba International Station's AI products can also help them easily configure private knowledge bases . In this way, foreign trade merchants can "feed" AI and build their own AI with one click.   Agent , using AI is more flexible, "It is equivalent to letting a foreign trade boss hire a team of virtual digital employees. It is more suitable for high-level merchants with many store products, a large number of new products, and many customers. "

At this moment, using AI for foreign trade is no longer a choice of "yes" or "no", but a question of who can use the full process and more professional AI . Alibaba International Station has already handed over a new paradigm of AI foreign trade to merchants .

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