What is the magic of welding videos that attract 1W+ views?Sales increased by 253%, and industrial products became popular all over Amazon
March 11, 2022
“We launched Amazon in 2019. Last year, we participated in events such as the Black 5 7-Day Sale and members-only discounts at the North American site. Sales broke records, with a year-on-year increase of 253%. Among them, orders from corporate buyers increased 314% year over year. Abbottt, Premiere Creative’s creative director.
——YesWelder
Mainly engaged in welding products, including welding caps and welding machines
It's probably hard for you to imagine that Black 5 welding promotion products can also become popular products, achieving an impressive record of 253% year-on-year increase in sales in 2021?!
What's even more surprising is that this welding brand, which sells a lot on Amazon, is still a veritable “fashion influencer.” Everyone who has seen their welding mask is amazed: It's so cool!
YesWelder has hundreds of thousands of fans on overseas social media, far surpassing other welding brands. Just 12 hours after a new video went live, it has already attracted over 10,000 viewers!
How does it build a Chinese brand and get a lot of traffic?
Today, let's talk about the two founders of YesWelder — Zhu Chengfeng (head of brand operation and channel construction) and Zhang Zhouyou (head of e-commerce operations) — to see how YesWelder built a Chinese brand from 0 to 1 and incubated “influencer” exploits.
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Change traditional business models and ways of thinking,
Build your own brand and directly reach overseas end customers
In 2006, a welding equipment manufacturer providing product processing services for foreign welding machine brands was established in Wenzhou (later renamed Wenzhou Zhonglun Electric Co., Ltd.). Over ten years of operation and production, this OEM has gradually matured and expanded, producing a variety of high-quality, high-performance welding products. However, with the development of the foreign trade industry, foreign trade products have also experienced problems such as homogenization, low price competition, and reduced profits, which gave them the idea of expanding into a new direction of development.
In many offline exhibitions, the name Amazon continues to be mentioned. Many customers have purchased a large number of welding products from them and launched on Amazon, and have also achieved impressive results.
“Why can't we do it ourselves and go online on Amazon ourselves?Abbottt, Premiere Creative’s creative director.
Following the birth of this idea, in 2018, several partners of Wenzhou Zhonglun Electric Co., Ltd. decided to establish their own brand YesWelder and launch the Amazon US website the following year to sell their products directly to overseas customers.
Founder Zhang Zhouyou
After research and communication with customers, we discovered that Amazon has huge business opportunities, and also has a variety of mature tools to help operations, including Amazon's logistics, advertising, promotion tools, etc. When business customers buy on Amazon, we can also use the Amazon Business Buy tool to provide business customers with specific pricing and discounts.
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Fast layout of cross-border e-commerce from 0 to 1,
Tap into unlimited overseas business opportunities
● Backed by a strong supply chain, backed by rich experience
YesWelder's journey to sea was not an easy one. When Amazon was first launched, since the original offline OEM was mainly aimed at the South American sector, after the launch of Amazon's US website, the same product broke because the material of the product accessories was not resistant to the low temperatures in the US, causing the first batch of Amazon goods to be returned in large numbers.
More than ten years of welding experience have established a good foundation of cooperation and mutual trust between YesWelder and the factory. Through timely communication with the factory, the problem was finally solved after many revisions and adjustments to materials and abrasives. Later, YesWelder also set up an independent product line for the e-commerce business. Both online and offline channels run in parallel, not only to ensure that its cross-border e-commerce inventory is sufficient, but also to avoid affecting the existing business.
Founder Zhang Zhouyou
Our advantage is that we have more than 10 years of experience in welding, have a good understanding of industry trends, and have accumulated stable high-quality supply chain resources. Not enough, we found that cross-border e-commerce and traditional foreign trade are also very different in terms of way of thinking, and traditional foreign trade no longer works by winning with price. After learning the lessons, we began to change our mindset and reposition our products.
● Differentiated product positioning to create the first choice for welding
In order to avoid homogenous competition of products, after detailed research, YesWelder discovered that American welding products are mainly high-end series and are expensive, which is a huge burden for individual consumers who like to do their own welding.
Therefore, YesWelder grasps this point and leverages overseas online channels with cost-effective products to meet the needs of consumers who are in demand for product quality but have limited budgets.
Founder Zhu Chengfeng
Our product is positioned as the number one choice for getting started in welding. It can even be a regular product for home use, and even novice beginners can easily get started. The price is moderate, and the product is easy to operate and not complicated.
● Reach end buyers and gradually expand products in depth
Founder Zhang Zhouyou
The customer base reached by traditional foreign trade is relatively single. It is difficult to reach end customers and get feedback from them, and there are information gaps. After launching Amazon, we have met many high-quality and diverse new user groups, such as DIY enthusiasts, metalworking artists, and professional welders. We are also directly in touch with corporate buyers that purchase on Amazon, including car repair, pipeline repair companies and factories. This not only reduces intermediate costs, but more importantly, it can also obtain buyer feedback more directly, so as to understand buyers' needs and purchasing preferences.
Considering the different customer groups on Amazon, YesWelder not only provides basic welding products preferred by corporate buyers, but has also launched a large number of trendy and cool designs to meet the individual needs of individual buyers. After determining the competitiveness of its products and the needs of its target audience, YesWelder spent its energy on building the best products, using electric welding caps as the main product, refining and expanding them, and at the same time further expanding more welding products to meet customer needs.
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Open up in-site operations and set off a sales boom,
Get profit growth points
If you want to get enough traffic, it's also important to grasp the operating skills within the site. Considering the insufficient reserves of knowledge about cross-border e-commerce operations in the early stages, YesWelder participated in Amazon's official training courses to fully understand and learn about Amazon logistics, operation and promotion.
Founder Zhang Zhouyou
We started using FBA warehousing logistics when we entered Amazon. From the initial share of 20-30% to now, more than 95% of products have entered the warehouse, which has directly saved us 50% of costs. In addition, Amazon's sophisticated advertising tools also help us increase traffic and build our brand.
For business buyers on Amazon, YesWelder also set up corporate discounts & quantity discounts for products through an exclusive Amazon Business Purchase tool to increase the level of discounts to attract corporate buyers. This also contributed to the excellent results of Black Friday YesWelder in 2021 -- Black Friday sales increased 253% year over year, with orders from corporate buyers increasing 314% year over year!
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Precisely attack the emotional demands of welding fans, play with personalized welding categories, and industrial products can also be very fashionable
YesWelder also carries out content marketing and brand building through overseas social media, posting welding-related topics on various social media channels, encouraging users to share welding stories, and building a fan base to facilitate user communication. Through various methods, YesWelder has collected a large number of “welding ring iron powders”, and further obtained feedback from a large number of consumers to help them optimize their products. In addition, they also invited American illustration designers to design rich decorative patterns for the welding caps, so that the welding caps vividly explain the individual needs of users one by one.
Founder Zhu Chengfeng
We operate social media not to advertise, but to create a circle where welding fans can interact with each other. The fans in our account are slowly accumulating step by step, and the interaction rate is very high. These external voices are all actively voiced by users.
“Starting with trademark registration,
YesWelder is already planned
Things to do in three or five years,
All you have to do from 1 to 10 is go back to the B side,
This sentence has always been engraved in the overall execution process. 1
In January 2022, YesWelder received from
Monthly sales for corporate buyers increased 195% compared to the same period last year!
It also strengthens our confidence to continue to deploy Amazon!Abbottt, Premiere Creative’s creative director.
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