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Do Business With Latin America And The Caribbean
*Language challenges: Latin America and the Caribbean is a very diverse region with Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, Creole and many more languages. *Hard to find information online: Did you ever try to find information about doing business in Latin America? It is really difficult to find up to date,reliable and useful information. When you do find an interesting website, it is in Spanish only. *Hard to find Trade leads from companies. Trade Leads are basically buying and selling offers. These offers are usually published online on B2B Trade Portals in order to help connect buyers and sellers from all over the world. The Asians are the leaders of B2B Trade portals with successful websites such as Alibaba, Tradekey, EC21 etc. One of the first thing to do if you are considering doing business with Latin America and the Caribbean. At last there is a easy to use and serious B2B Trade Portal for Latin America and the Caribbean. MercaTrade.com went live back in September 2009 and already has a lot of trade leads. Several things I like about this website: *The portal can be viewed in both English and Spanish. *The website is very easy to use and has a minimalistic design. It does not have banners at every corner which I usually dislike in other websites. *Their premium memberships are reasonably priced and packed with features. For example, they have a PowerTrader Virtual showrooms that allows me to basically have a mini website on their portal where I can post unlimited offers with pictures, write the latest news about my company, show my tradeshow attendance, let users subscribe to my product updates and much more. The price for this is just $500.00USD/year which is a bargain considering that I would pay over $2500.00USD/year for other Asian Trade Portals. *If you don't have a money to spend right now, you can still post your offers for FREE. You have some limitations of course but this is a great start. *After contacting them, they stated that they would be adding additional features in 2010 at no additional cost to premium memberships. *Over 200 articles about doing business in the region such as country profiles, trade agreements, business etiquette etc. *There are other services like translation which is always useful when entering new markets. Article Directory: http://www.articledashboard.com Ariel Dess specializes in helping companies successfully do business with Latin America. To access to his valuable resources, tips and links, click here manufacturers directory |
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