GSW New Broker Application

Probably the biggest misconception everyone makes when they consider becoming a Trade Broker is that they underestimate the business and limit their thinking to the domestic marketplace. This is a mistake.

GSW functions in a global economy and whether you realize it or not, you do too. Chances are, if you look around the room you're in you'll see products from everywhere in the world. Raw materials from one country, components or parts from another, assembly in a third and so it goes.

But where a product is from is just a very small part of the earnings equation. The steps a product takes from raw material to finished product is what is important. Each step represents an opportunity to make money.

Consider what it takes to manufacture, distribute and retail any product. Each and every step of the trade process is arranged by a broker -- from raw materials acquisition, to locating parts and components, to contracting labor, to purchasing equipment and tools, to arranging packaging, to scheduling shipping, to securing funding -- every step is brokered and fees are earned.

Remember too, that many steps in the process are repeated over and over as materials move from company to company.

Use as example the GSW Certified Broker who received an inquiry from an Asian Grocery company that wanted a frozen food product made to their specifications and packaged under their label.

Using the GSW Product Locator, the Broker quickly found several sources that could provide the product and another who could produce the packaging. She earned three separate fees from this transaction; one from the buyer, one from seller and one from the packager. Better yet, the buyer was so pleased with the deal and the service she provided that they offered her more contracts and many repeat orders, and became one of her best clients.