Prior to this year, kang's foreign trade operations were still mired. Because of his lack of knowledge of english and international trade, he had handed over the ali international station to the operator, but had not made a breakthrough for over a year。
Last year, the ginger seals on the bow also lacked foundations, resulting in a combined sale of only $100,000 for three months and a loss of nearly $700,000。
He was a businessman in the mechanical industry, a trader for eight years, developed into a head and confident in his own new energy forklift. In the area of foreign trade, however, this young man has not been able to begin from scratch。
After three months of depression, kang-seok began to draw on the power of ali international. He uses ai for drawings, distributions, headlines, translation, client reception, emails, and even the promotion of commodities with ai。
In the five months that have elapsed, plus the yearbooks, the company's sales have exceeded $12 million. “it can be said that much of the growth is due to ai applications”。
It took less than half a year to export the forklifts from foreign trade to new energy。
From "the king of inner trade" to "the white trade"
If it had not been for the al wind control of agent's warning, kang-soon's foreign trade operator had already paid for international fraud。
A short while ago, his operator received an inquiry from a “big client”. The other party claimed to be a large purchaser from a certain country “to order millions of dollars”. The clerks were excited and talked to each other for days。
A week later, the big client said he was coming to beijing: "i'm at the airport right now." a little while later he called again, and he was anxious to say, "i was detained by customs because of the excess cash in the euro, and urgently needed 1,500 yuan to respond to the emergency..."
The clerk was unable to sit in his office on the stage, and when he reported to kang-seong, he felt uncomfortable, but he couldn't stop the one-hearted young man。
Just as the young man wanted to pay the client, ai wind at ali international told him that the account was “high-risk” and blocked the other account。
Then they knew that the other was not a big customer, but a professional con。
This thing showed kang how powerful ai was again. For most of the years of his own foreign trade, ai had caused him too much shock. In fact, he is in hebei, not a northern city known for its foreign trade, and most of his colleagues are unaware of it。
This post is part of our special coverage nepal protests 2011. Ever since he was a kid, he wanted to do a career. He had been trying to start a variety of businesses during the university, running laundry and small supermarkets, selling stringes and accumulating $100,000 in start-up funds。
In 2017, he began to sell mechanical products on electric power company platforms such as poaching and kyoto, and developed an impressive team, building his own factories, not only to supply his own goods, but also to work for others。
There are many producers in china, such as him, but few value foreign trade, “so the price battle for domestic trade is strong”. It is clear to him that he needs to break the awareness that foreign trade must go。
In october 2023, kang was admitted to the international station in ali. But, like many bosses, he believes that “investment can produce results” and has recruited three individuals to handle foreign trade, while he continues to focus on internal trade and plant management。
In its first year of work, the foreign trade team “all hand-held, mostly with excel, or simply hand-written notebooks, could not perform its work, and the team lost $700,000 a year”
He felt that his products were internationally competitive. Their new energy forklifts not only drive, but also have the intelligence to plan their own work directly, like the daeji drone, which means that “a factory used to require 100 porters, one is now fully intelligent and no one is needed”。
"so good, not sold, must be my problem." he concluded. At the end of last year, he was determined to disband his team, leaving only one person behind and taking over foreign trade operations。
In the case of the ginger seals, which do not know foreign trade and whose english is only 30 cents in high school, foreign trade is tantamount to leaving him in a foreign country where he will integrate, live and even fight。
And ai, the most powerful weapon in kang-seok's "king mountain". Early this year, ari international launched many ai-related applications. "i thought it would be too late to touch, like a smartphone alternative."
He began by “one-stop” and developed an understanding and learning of all the links between ai drawings, ai video, ai client service, ai wind control, etc., covering the entire process of the foreign trade business。
Take the $11 million order
After deciding to take over the foreign trade business personally, kang was faced with a number of difficult problems: first, the night customer reception and the lack of team language skills。
His main market is in europe and the united states, and the most active consultation time for clients is precisely late in china. In order not to miss any opportunity, the team operates a 7x24-hour shift system, which reverses one third of its staff day and night. But after a while, he found that “the end of it, the younger, the end of it, cannot withstand such an extreme process”
“language” is also a divide. In a three-line northern city, it is difficult to recruit english-speaking professionals. With the exception of two or three members of the team, most of the “after 00” operators have a weak english base. They rely on translation software to communicate with clients, generate hard, unwieldy content and influence professionalism and client trust。
Kang had learned his lesson: he had spoken to a client until 3 a. M. And produced a simple form invoice (pi) for the client, but did not understand professional terms and processes and went back and forth to 4 a. M. You go to sleep, if you don't sleep, you will die. (you go to sleep, or you die)” that makes him very embarrassed。
But these two insurmountable obstacles were all resolved by ai。
In daily communication, they help with mail with okki ai. "it's a lot more natural when it's done with ai. It helps us with the auto-stratification of our clients
The phrase “you will die” was translated by ai, “if you don't rest, you'll get sick”, and ginger realized, “this is much easier to communicate!”
Then he and the team, through ai, optimized the speech more in line with each other's linguistic habits and cultural background, and received feedback from clients that “talking to us is much easier than talking to others and feels that we understand his demands”。
The ai automatic reception system also eliminates the need for night work. “there are more clients at night than during the day, and now all reception work is done by ai.”
On one occasion, an operator talked to a client during the day to ask him about the contact and address of the other to account for the freight charges, but the client was more sensitive and never disclosed. Clients are consulted at night, and ai, through intelligent communication, successfully obtains all information about clients, including model demands, detailed addresses, etc. "when we get to work the next day, we make an offer, and it's done."
This ai, which has a smart response function, changes the understanding of the ginger seal. In the past, their peers used the word “turning” to answer “hello my friend” or “hello dear”, as the client could see at first sight。
The ai self-help reception has been trained through the knowledge base, with very different results. When the customer needs a two-ton forklift, which rises by three metres. Ai would say, "we have a forklift that suits you very well to load two tons and raise three metres. Can you tell me what you're using?"
“it answers not only the client's questions, but also the immediate questions and leads the conversation.” he found that in the ensuing rounds of dialogue, ai would start by summarizing the full needs of its clients in each response and, after wrap-up and cross-examination, by adding an altruistic point to guide clients to follow up。
“it has more expertise than our operators.” kang zhen even told the operator to reverse the ai response。
Today, there are many orders that are received at night by ai and that are eventually settled. The largest of these orders came from malta, where the first order was for more than rmb 300,000, followed by a single annual contract totalling over rmb 11 million。
Another client contacted by ai late at night, in cooperation with kang song, introduced three other trades friends to kang song, hoping that he would be in charge of all his friends ' procurement in china。
We're going to use ai to do business all over the world
At a time when there was a loss of $0. 7 million, kang-seong was promoted manually through a straight-through vehicle, at a time when the cost of a commercial opportunity was up to rmb 800. He stated, “as a domestic electrician, he is very ill-advised and unfamiliar with foreign trade promotion”。
With the ai “all-stop push” of the ali international station, the minimum commercial cost was around $100。
He found that at the same cost, the client accuracy of the purchase was completely different. "we were worried about the exposure, but the client was not accurate."
The fact is that in the three months since the full-stop push started in december 2024, with a low exposure of 300,000, 320,000 and 350,000, the number of shop hits increased by 192 per cent, and the number of queries jumped from 145 to 816, an increase of over 500 per cent。
The volume of business surged and he rapidly expanded his team “from one person i took over to 14 by march, 21 now”. “in the foreign trade sector, a team has grown from one person to more than 20 people, taking an average of two to three years, and we have only taken a few months.”
In addition to increasing the efficiency of outreach, ai has also improved the efficiency of their production and distribution in its daily operations。
His shop, with more than 1,000 links, required thousands of drawings and a work of art for more than half an hour. Kang zhen added the team of artists from one to four for this purpose, but was still busy。
But ai generates scenarios, white maps, and it takes three or five minutes to produce several, "and it's more consistent with platform rules and buyers' search preferences. When you're connected, fill in the data, basically in 20 minutes."
Today, there is only one man left in his work and his workload is not saturated, and he has begun to be a ppt。
“it can be said that without ai's support, our entire team would be struggling, with at least half of the order。
“we have seen the key to the safe, and the password may change next year if we don't start it soon.”
This year, he set the team a target of $40 million. “we have just completed our launch meeting and set a target of $11 million for the august 15th to october 15th. Small partners are very passionate, and they have added their own target to $13. 5 million.”
The ginger seal is no longer the little boss who stayed up till 4:00 in the morning and was "sleeped" by his client. He became an “ai mentor” in the foreign trade circles, and he was often asked to share with you how to do it and how to use it。
The success of kang is a microcosm of the current transformation of domestic traders. He represents a factory-type and custom-made businesser who, with ai's powers, has found a new possibility。
Yellow company, the author of fuji, in guangxi, bobbai county, raised the accuracy of the query by 30 per cent through the generation of hundreds of high-connected keywords by ai within seconds. In the mountains, the woman boss sold chinese traditional handicrafts to high-level shops abroad through ai and even cooperated with luxury brands such as “dio”
In the two short years of contact with ai, zeev, the zephyr, has achieved “high aiization”, and now more than 30 per cent of the company's orders have been made using ai tools
In the same vein, the four tailor-made set of beds by shandong's mother, lee yan, increased the number of deals by 30 per cent with ai and brought a group of treasure mothers to over $20 million
Small and medium-sized businesses with a certain strength are breaking through resource and capacity constraints to achieve previously unattainable growth from “micro” to “medium” and even larger。
For them, ai is more like a toolbox. It is no longer a distant “technology” but a real productivity。
