Premium Membership was the only choice for generating credibility!

Member: Mr. Rory Mcloughney Company: TEL-VI-SAT RORY MC LOUGHNEY LTD Country: Ireland Product: Nanosecond Powerball gyroscope wrist exerciser, NSD Power ball fitness products, Roller ball, wrist ball [Premium member since 2006]

I first noted Alibaba on Alexa when I discovered, with amazement, that it was in the top 50 websites of the world! (The fact that it also contained contact information for what appeared to be over half the world's manufacturers was the icing on the cake!)

In the early stages, before we began using Alibaba to promote our own Powerball products, we always looked for Premium membership before contacting any potential new suppliers as we have had a couple of bad experiences with 'phantom' suppliers in the past who took our money and ran (without sending us the goods we had ordered.) Premium membership virtually guarantees that the company you are dealing with will be a solid, verified business and so, when beginning our own promotions on Alibaba, there really was no contest about becoming a Premium member. it gives us the solid credibility we require in those countries where our company or product aren't well known yet.

Alibaba's Premium Membership is a wonderful tool which generates instant credibility for any company registered with the service. It takes the guessing out of the equation for the customer and brings them immediate confidence about who it is they are dealing with. Add this to the sheer volume of people using the Alibaba service every day and we get serious value from our membership package when compared to our regular Pay Per Click promotions which cost more and more each year for the prime keywords.

Since we began promoting Powerball on Alibaba as Premium members, we receive between 20 and 30 solid International leads each week - which is wonderful for such a niche product like Powerball! No matter how large or small the inquiry, we will always reply to each buyer lead. Often from small, basic inquiries have come significant, multi unit orders once the customer has had the opportunity to evaluate both ourselves and the products we sell - in fact, we actually encourage people to take small quantities first to fully familiarize themselves with the addictive nature of Powerball.

So far, we have acquired 4 premium International dealers who have become significant customers for our products on an ongoing basis and this has lead to thousands of USD in increased turnover. In addition, we have also supplied innumerable orders to smaller, one off customers, who have either promoted our products to their friends and colleagues or sold it in their stores and widened the audience base for Powerball even further. It is true to say that, thanks to the combination of our web site and Alibaba, there is now not a single country in the world where you won't find the shiny spheres!