My opinion on this issue is as follows: "How long will foreign trade take to significantly increase wages.
If you are doing foreign trade, I believe there will be a significant change in salary from the third year to the fifth year, and the income will be very considerable.
In the first year, the main focus is to learn knowledge in the product field, upload products, etc. This year, you will have a new understanding of the foreign trade industry and start to get involved in business. At the beginning, your mood may be excited, and with a passion for investment, you believe that foreign trade is a very high-end profession.
After 3-5 years, you will fuck yourself and say that you are a high-end professional, serving customers every day is as tiring as a dog, of course, this is later on. If someone leads you in the early stages and you have brains, it is easy to quickly make small orders, but the overall salary will not be very substantial because there are no regular customers who continue to place orders, and lack of proficiency in business skills at this time can lead to the loss of many potential customers.
The second year is a year for foreign trade salespeople to truly demonstrate their strength. With the expansion of product knowledge and proficiency in business skills, they will be divided into two levels during the same period: those with good performance and those with poor performance.
A salesperson with good performance naturally demonstrates their strength, relying on their rapidly advancing business skills, proficiency, and ability to accumulate old customers and begin to understand the ability to negotiate large orders.
For salespeople with poor performance, that's really a matter of mindset. From the passionate work atmosphere back then to the current mood of poor performance, people's mentality can easily collapse. Especially for the salesperson who came during the same period, when your performance is not good and someone else's performance is not good, there is really a big psychological gap.
A suggestion for salespeople with slightly weaker performance: persist for another year, and they will wait until the willows and flowers bloom again. Overall, I can earn nearly ten thousand yuan in salary per month.
In the third year, business skills have improved again. At this stage, we have accumulated old customers and started to negotiate big orders. At this time, we must keep up with our psychological quality, and only when there is pressure can we have motivation. We must not have psychological pressure.
At this stage, the income has started to be considerable, with a basic monthly salary income of 15000 to 30000 after tax. For salespeople with slightly weaker performance, if they are still clueless after 3 years, it is recommended to leave this industry. Foreign trade is not as glamorous as people say.
A foreign trade salesperson knows if they are suitable to stay in this industry after working for 3 years.
In the fourth year, we have already had our old customers and big orders ourselves, but we will encounter a bottleneck period. Many people may think this is a bottleneck period, but in fact, it's not a bottleneck period, it's just that progress is too slow.
1-3 years is a visible leap, 4-5 years is a qualitative change. So it's not that you've entered a bottleneck period, it's just that your progress has been slower than in previous years. Suggestions are as follows:
1. Start improving your flagship products, which need to be supported by small, medium, and large machines. Large machines are the source of commission, and ordering for 3 years is the same principle. Medium and small machines are the sources of monthly performance, and with performance, at least one won't feel particularly restless.
2. The mindset begins to change, painful and happy. The pain is that there has been no significant breakthrough in performance, while the joy is that salary income has further increased. The support of old customers has started to generate source income every month.
If you are ambitious, you can consider going it alone. Of course, it depends on individual circumstances. The progress in 4-5 years has been slow, but there has been a qualitative change. Business skills, product knowledge, etc. have all reached a mature stage and are beginning to become a true salesperson.
Every day should have its own plan, such as annual goals, how much salary you hope to receive, etc., and you should earn something from your work.
The foreign trade industry may seem glamorous, but it is actually dull and uninteresting. But every time I have a verbal battle with a client, it makes me feel excited and motivated.
Foreign trade is a bridge for world communication, and our mission is to let more foreigners see the strengths of Chinese products, facilitate more business order transactions, and make customers feel that making in China is truly amazing!