Waiting for orders means: expect large clients, traders, or trade shows to bring opportunities, then you quote. Testing the market means: use low cost and fast speed to first verify whether a product line has demand in a certain market, then decide whether to scale up. In practice, you can prepare product materials in different languages and specs tailored to different regions and buyer types, then track which version generates higher inquiry conversion rates. Or proactively submit a trial small-batch price for a product and observe the response. The key is to generate usable data from each interaction, rather than waiting for one big order to understand what the market actually looks like. This requires your quotations, inquiries, orders, and transaction records to be clean and organized, so you can analyze patterns afterwards.