Anyone who does foreign trade knows that if you want to improve the efficiency of customer development and increase sales, you need to use professional tools. If you haven't used them yet, you've missed out on hundreds of millions. These tools have their own little skills that can greatly improve your efficiency. With them, the work that used to be time-consuming and laborious can be done in minutes!

Without further ado, I will now summarize those highly acclaimed tools from multiple aspects such as browser plug-ins, network security, and customer acquisition tools.

1. Browser plug-ins

These 9 browser plug-ins are most commonly used by foreign trade salesmen. Why not install them now?

1. LeadLeaper

Skill point: Capture buyer's email

This plugin is so good to use with LinkedIn! Students who do foreign trade business know that many times we spend a lot of time and energy to only get a few limited potential customer contact information on LinkedIn.

Leadleaper can find and match the user's contact information on any LinkedIn personal information page, and verify its validity. Through its internal email and contact information capture mechanism, it can give you the potential customer contact information you need in a very short time. With the potential customer's email and phone number, you can use it to develop customers on LinkedIn to think about what development methods and conversation content you should take. Of course, regarding the use of LinkedIn, I do not advocate using LinkedIn as a channel to find email addresses and send development letters, but advocate operating LinkedIn seriously and turning it into a sustainable social customer development platform.

2. Grammarly

Skills: English grammar proofreading

Grammarly is a powerful grammar proofreading tool that can automatically correct spelling and grammatical errors, give real-time modification suggestions, and save your documents for future use. Before writing an email to a buyer, use Grammarly to review the English spelling, grammar, and punctuation to avoid leaving an "unprofessional" impression on the buyer.

3. Google Translate

Skill point: Online translation

The famous Google translate is the undisputed leader among online translation plug-ins. It provides real-time translation, is stable to use, and has high accuracy. Of course, there are also some web-based ones now, such as Deepl and Chatgpt, which are both good.

2. Account Security Network

1. Fingerprint browser

Skill point: Multi-account anti-association

If you want to expand your customer base efficiently through multiple channels and multiple accounts in foreign trade, it is essential to enable a multi-account strategy and build a matrix. For example, popular foreign trade customer development software such as Facebook, TikTok, Linkedln, and WhatsApp all have strict requirements for account isolation, otherwise it is easy to encounter the problem of account closure.

How can we centrally manage multiple accounts while ensuring that the usage environment of each account looks independent on the platform? Fingerprint browsers solve this problem through virtual fingerprint technology, and generally come with team co-management, browser plug-ins, automatic login and other functions, thereby saving time and energy in customer development and improving overall work efficiency. Of course, environmental isolation is not enough, and IP isolation is the key. Since there are many fingerprint browsers to choose from, we will not list them one by one here.

2. Kookeey Global Proxy IP

Skill point: Provide independent IP bound to the account, and isolate multiple account IPs

Proxy IP is a transit station between users and real IPs. It can help users hide their real IP addresses, allowing target websites to identify real IP addresses, break through content restrictions, accurately position the market, isolate real IPs, and other account security and authenticity issues, and avoid account restrictions due to abnormal network environments. Kookeey provides real address resources directly from local operators, and one IP is used by one user, without cross-influence. After IP is bound to multiple fingerprint browsers or other devices, the account environment can be closer to the real local environment of the target market, avoiding detection and better or platform accurate natural traffic.

Of course, some people may ask, can’t ordinary nodes be used? In fact, many people use shared nodes without knowing it. Although this type of IP address can achieve the purpose of positioning, it is not pure enough and is easy to enter the website blacklist. If your account uses this address for a long time, it is easy to be blocked "inexplicably", and the loss will be greater at that time.

The above fingerprint browser + proxy IP combination is also a multi-account solution for many cross-border foreign trade.

3. Customer Acquisition Tools

1. SPOKEO

Skills: Analyze and mine customer information

In the process of developing foreign trade customers, customer background investigation and analysis is indispensable. Once you know any information of a foreign customer, such as name, email address, phone number or address, you can search and mine relevant information on SPOKEO.

2. Picsee

Skill point: Shorten URL

When you want to forward a URL to a customer, or insert a YouTube video in Facebook marketing, if the URL is very long, it will look terrible. Especially when you copy and paste it in WhatsApp or WeChat groups, it will flood the screen in an instant. Picsee is very convenient to use and can quickly shorten your long website to a short URL.

3. Respond

Skill point: Mass marketing information

Respond is a business messaging software that simplifies communication through SMS, WhatsApp, email, social media and website widgets. The platform itself will not provide you with WhatsApp API access, but after connecting the API to your respond account, you can reach your target audience through broadcasts and personalized message history on WhatsApp.

But this approach makes sense only if you need a centralized tool to acquire customers on multiple messengers at the same time (Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, WeChat, LINE, Telegram, etc.).