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Why Us
Affordable, effective, easy to use.
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Why must I log in?
Your personal profiles keep track of your
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Latest EnquiriesBrowse
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| Electrode Paste | Jennifer Njelesani |
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| Art supplies | Hunter |
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| Sliding doors | Hunter |
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| Kitchen revamp | Hunter |
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Need Something?
Simplify your sourcing! Post your
enquiries here and tell suppliers!
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Free trial!
50 free trade 'airtime' units on joining, to try
it out for yourself without any obligation.
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Features
Many more advanced features!
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Low, low transaction cost
Flat fee of less than $1 per offer for suppliers,
regardless of the value of the trade. No fixed
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Trade groups
Establish your own trade group/s
Refer enquiries to associates
Network locally...more
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Coming soon
More exciting convenience
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Partner branded portals
For large network organisations we can
provide a branded version of the site.
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Why Us?
This enquiry-driven online market is ideal for the smaller
business because it is inexpensive and easy to use:
- No fixed monthly or annual subscriptions
- Buyer enquiries are free
- Suppliers use only 1 "airtime unit" per offer
- Airtime units are purchased online as needed
- Costs are proportionate to usage and value derived
Ease of use
This is a flexible and powerful enquiry<~>response engine,
with many advanced features:
- Track your enquiries, searches, offers and referrals.
- eMail alerts of matching offers
- Store, edit and run multiple searches
Minimal information
Minimal information is needed to join and set up your
Buyer and Supplier profiles
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Why must I log in?
Personalised profiles
Your Buyer and Supplier profiles track your enquiries,
offers and orders, so you need to login to:
- View and edit your own enquiries, offers & orders
- View and edit your personalised searches
- Use separate buying and supplying emails /details
Only relevant, new enquiries
With this personalised approach, you will find only new,
relevant matching enquiries when you run a search.
Pre-defined searches
Setting up and refining your own pre-defined searches
ensures that you find only enquiries for your specific
products. We recommend:
- Making effective use of keywords and categories
- Carefully editing and refining your searches
- Setting up both broad and narrow searches
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Need something?
Simplified sourcing
Compare this to surfing the internet for products and
suppliers! It's so much more effective!
Buyer convenience
Enquiry-driven markets are the most effective way for both
buyers and suppliers:
- You post your enquiry ...in seconds!
- Suppliers find your enquiry and make offers
- You are alerted by email and view the offers
- You select the best offer, or request more info.
Supplier value
Suppliers have a source of specific enquiries for their
products and services:
- Easy enquiry search and response tools
- Reduced advertising costs
- No need to maintain a website
- Global reach!
Join up and try it now!
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Free Trial!
You are automatically credited with 50 free Airtime Units
when you join so you can try it out for yourself!
- Buy enquiries are free
- Supplier offers cost only 1 airtime unit per offer
Join up and try it now!
Buying more airtime (Suppliers)
To continue trading you can buy additional airtime as
you need it. Airtime is available online, via credit card
through a secure, accredited banking connection.
Pre-defining your searches (Suppliers)
Setting up and refining pre-defined searches ensures
you find only enquiries for your specific products.
- Carefully edit and refine your searches
- Make effective use of keywords and categories
- Run both broad and narrow searches
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Features
Many convenient features!
This service offers many advanced features to ensure
a private and personalised trading experience:
- Anonymous pre-trade communications
- Uploading of images and documents
- Edit and run multiple searches
- Set up your own trade groups
- Refer enquiries to your associates
- Post-order tracking of delivery status
- Topical News submitted by Buyers and Sellers
No "single-category" constraints
With our approach you don't have to define your business
into any one particular category of products or services
- Trade in multiple product lines or categories
- Defined purely by criteria you specify
Buy and Supply
Switch easily between making your own enquiries and
responding to enquiries for your products.
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Low, low transaction cost
This market offers a unique per-offer fee structure that
ensures you only pay for the value you derive.
- No fixed subscription fees
- Buy and top up Airtime Units as needed
- Flat rate of a single Airtime Unit per offer
- Cost to suppliers is under $1US per offer *
- Fee is not linked to the value of your trades
Currency
Note: Due to our local banking requirements, airtime is
bought in South African Rands (ZAR), but you can specify
the currency applicable to each enquiry or offer you post.
Buying airtime
Purchase or top up airtime online via credit card through
a secure, accredited banking connection.
* Airtime may be re-priced from time to time, so check the
latest prices on the site when buying airtime.
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Trade Groups
With this portal you can set up trade groups with other
members you are associated with. This allows you to:
- Refer enquiries among your associates
- Have one member handle searches for the group
Uses
This feature is useful for:
- Companies referring enquiries to regional offices
- Business network members exchanging leads
Setting up your Group
To set up a group, all members must first have joined up.
Members can then select the members they wish to add to
their group. Once a group has been set up this way,
enquiries can be referred to one or more other members
instantly.
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Coming Soon
To further enhance the convenience of this service we will
be developing additional features, such as:
- Matching trade alerts to your phone via SMS
- Auto-run and match alerts of searches you select
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Partner branded portals
For a large networking organisation, we are able to set up
a branded version of the portal for your members. (See
associates / partners in the bottom menu for examples of
how this would operate)
Benefits
A branded portal enables your members to access a
branded version of the site. This offers you value:
- Seen as a added benefit you bring to your members
- You can subsidise participation
- You can ring-fence enquiries and categories
Arranging your partner portal
To arrange a branded portal, we would need to discuss the
proposed operation with you.
Drop us an email at:
sales@globaltradeenquiries.com
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