EC21.com Launches B2B Community Service and Discussion Forums

Following the footsteps of other global B2B marketplaces, EC21.com has also launched a service for its members to communicate each other within the website. The new Community Service, which is specially designed for global traders, includes 3 specific categories - Trade-related, Product-related and Non-Business.

Trade related topics such as basics of import and export, buyers lounge, trade shows and safe trading tips are welcomed by many EC21 members. As more users participate and more information is accumulated, the topics are expected to be extended to other areas including custom, tax, trade documentation and etc.
“Working in international trade industry, most of the SMEs suffer from lack of knowledge on international business. To fill the demand of SMEs regarding trade related matters, EC21 has developed a community forum service where users can freely exchange their experience and specialty with other fellow business people”, said System Development officer of EC21.
Same as trend setter Alibaba.com, the Community Service enables members’ active participation by evaluating and rewarding their contribution. Contribution is measured by the number of articles and comments by the user. Members can also evaluate other users by rating the user’s article, which makes new community service more interactive. With these features, the new service is expected to attract more business people to the website www.ec21.com and thus bringing benefits to existing and new-coming user altogether.
“I believe that our new service can help our members actively interact and react to each other so that they can produce ‘User-Created contents’ in its true meaning. This will be a part of our value-added contents and at the same time benefit members” said Tae-Sung Kim, the executive vice president of EC21. Really? Lets see!
It is open for all EC21 paid and free members and it is said that membership registration process will be simplified to help traders more easily become a member of EC21.

For more detail, visit http://community.ec21.com/

EC21 is a Korean online B2B Marketplace online since 1998, is one of the world's B2B marketplaces. So far they have 3 major e-marketplaces: 1. Global B2B marketplace (www.ec21.com) for worldwide exporters and importers, a Chinese-version marketplace (cn.ec21.com), and a Korean version marketplace (kr.ec21.com) for domestic traders in Korea. EC21 is headquartered in Seoul, Korea has 8 regional sales offices throughout mainland China along with sales offices in Vietnam, Turkey, India, Italy and Pakistan.

I liked the popular searches section on their homepage. It shows creative side of this website ;)

EC21.com Launches New Market Research Service - Korea Market Research

Seoul (Korea Newswire) March 3, 2009 -- EC21.com, one of the world's leading business-to-business (B2B) marketplace for global buyers and sellers, has introduced a new service, called Korea Market Research, which provides a web-based market research report for those who seek to start a new business in Korea.

The sole purpose of Korea Market Research service is to help foreign countries understand the Korean market environment, including factors influencing consumer lifestyle choices. Analyzing the market environment will be the first step and initial glimpse into the business market to determine the likelihood of success for the new business.

For those who seek to get into the market in Korea, EC21 has assembled a team of industry experts to launch the service which provides a report of market trends and must-know facts with local resource to help clients understand and develop their designated target market in Korea.

The report will give data on market size, import status of the designated market, a list of potential prospects, relevant trade fairs and exhibitions held in Korea. Information on market trends, market drivers and restraints will also be included. The readers will find a "bullet-point" conclusion delivering a snapshot of each specific market, for a quick understanding of the mechanisms, trends and issues that characterize the market.

"Our team has the unique expertise, vision and strategic perspectives to meet the needs of clients", said Tae-Sung Kim, the executive vice president of EC21. "In short, our goal is to provide key insights for our clients to get into the market successfully", he noted.

"When getting into the market, having detailed target market information can mean the difference between making informed business decisions and using basic estimation", said Tae-Sung Kim, "We hope that our new market research service will help for those who seek to export or start a new business in Korea create effective marketing strategies for reaching their potential market segment at an affordable price." he added.

How Korea Market Research works?

For More Information, Visit
http://www.ec21.com/html/services/KoreaMarketResearch/KoreaMarketResearch.html

Europages partnered EC21

PARIS, Dec 03, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- EUROPAGES have signed a sales co-operation agreement with leading B2B major EC21.com, offering Korean and Chinese SMEs the opportunity to market themselves in European countries.

EUROPAGES is a leading business-to-business search engine in Europe featuring 1.5 million companies worldwide. It has developed a network of representatives in Asia, illustrating its will to help Korean and Chinese companies to take advantage of the tremendous potential of the European Market.

Paolo Giuri, CEO of EUROPAGES, said: "The partnership is great news for companies that want to promote themselves in Europe and worldwide. EC21's strong position on the B2B market and its knowledge of SMEs in Asia will give further exposure to Europages. Over the past few years, traffic from Asian countries has doubled."

"With this agreement, we now have the means to significantly increase our clients' visibility on the world market. We are pleased to work together with EUROPAGES, and strongly believe that this cooperation will further pave the way in delivering best business opportunities to our members", said Mr. Taesung Kim, Vice President of EC21.

Together EUROPAGES and EC21 give advertisers numerous opportunities to generate leads for their business and reach an audience of qualified buyers

EC21.com makes Indian suppliers happy

EC21.COM, the world’s leading business to business (B2B) marketplace for buyers and sellers, which entered the Indian market late last year, recently announced special promotional package for Indian manufacturers, suppliers and exporters to help them effectively promote their businesses. The company, which made its foray into Indian market in September last year, by opening its first sales and marketing office in the region, providing online marketing services and promotional tools to buyers and sellers to find new trade opportunities and promote their businesses online.

The special offer includes, free online promotion to all the Indian suppliers who join or upgrade to EC21’s premium membership services (TradeOK or TradePRO) before April 30, 2008, thereby giving them great opportunity to reach and promote their products to millions of potential buyers and visitors every month.

Globally, EC21 is recognised as a pioneer in B2B e-commerce that helps small and medium enterprises (SMEs) suppliers to promote their products to the Global buyers, and provides an easy sourcing platform for buyers to find and reach new low-cost suppliers. EC21provides free and premium membership services using, which suppliers can easily create their own homepage to showcase products online, locate and contact global buyers, reply to buying leads and post trade offers to sell. Buyers can use the site for free and can easily search for new products, locate and contact suppliers directly, post unlimited buying leads and use advanced e-marketing and communication tools to chat and meet the suppliers.

The opening of new Indian office was formally announced in an official function held in Coimbatore, last year in September. The launch event was attended by over 50 key press and media representatives along with senior management of EC21 Inc, Korea head office that included Kim Tae Sung - executive vice-president, Song Young Look - managing director and Vivek Batra, Global Head - International Business & Strategic Alliances.

The company’s vice-president, Taesung Kim, says, “Our expansion in India is aimed at making international trade easier for Indian companies and our local offices will provide complete guidance to Indian SMEs on how to effectively promote their products to the global buyers. Further, we also want to invite big Indian buyers and large companies to take full advantage of our Global B2B platform to fulfill their sourcing needs. Our trusted and easy to use platform will greatly help Indian buyers to find quality and low cost suppliers from China and other major manufacturing countries”, he added.

V .Suresh Kumar heads the Indian office based in Coimbatore, with sales and service personnel operating directly from strategic locations around the country. The Indian customers can now directly contact marketing team in India for any inquiries or interest in availing EC21 services and to know more about special promotional package. Besides this, Indian companies can also benefit from company’s popular Credit Report service that helps them to check business credentials of any company worldwide, and to know which company is real and which is a fraud.

About EC21.com

EC21.com is one of the world’s largest and most popular B2B networks of buyers and suppliers, where thousands of new buy and sell opportunities are listed every hour. EC21 provides free and premium membership services; keyword and category based top-listing, online advertising, credit reports, and World Trade Zone magazine to buyers and sellers to find new trade opportunities and promote their businesses online.

EC21 is headquartered in Seoul, Korea and has 8 regional sales offices throughout China along with sales offices in Taiwan, Turkey, India, Italy and Pakistan. During last 10 years of successful international operations, EC21 has changed the way, as small and medium enterprises do business. With the trust and support of over 1.5 million buyers and sellers worldwide, EC21 has today become one of the most popular business sites with over 600,000 inquiries exchanged every month.

EC21.com, Global B2B major, Strengthens Sales Operations in India

(openPR) - Seoul, Korea - EC21.com, the world’s leading B2B marketplace for buyers and sellers is strengthening its presence in India with focus on key industry segments and special promotional plans to target big number of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the region. The company, which made its foray into Indian market earlier this year by opening its sales and marketing office in Coimbatore, provides online marketing services and promotional tools to buyers and sellers to find new trade opportunities and promote their businesses online.

Globally, EC21 is recognized as a pioneer in B2B e-commerce that helps SME suppliers to promote their business to the worldwide buyers, and provides an easy sourcing platform to buyers to find and reach new suppliers 24/7 through its business-to-business portal ec21.com. EC21 provides free and premium membership services using which suppliers can easily create their own homepage to showcase products online, locate and contact global buyers, and post trade offers to sell. Buyers can easily locate and contact suppliers, and can post offers to buy.

The opening of new Indian office was formally announced in an official function held in Coimbatore earlier this year in September. The launch event was attended by over 50 key press and media representatives along with senior Management of EC21 Inc, Korea head office that included Mr. Kim Tae Sung-Executive Vice-President, Mr. Song Young Look- Managing Director and Mr. Vivek Batra, Global Head-International Business & Strategic Alliances.

On the occasion, Mr.Taesung Kim said, “ We are pleased with the opening of our new Indian office. India is one of the fastest growing and emerging economies with an increasing demand and need for business support. Our site can greatly help Indian manufacturers, suppliers and exporters to promote their business to the worldwide buyers easily and in most cost effective ways. We have many success stories from all around the world and now we want to extend same benefits and advantages to Indian companies to grow their business”, he added.

The Indian office based in Coimbatore will be headed by Mr. V.Suresh Kumar, with sales and service personnel operating directly from strategic locations around the country. The new office will serve both existing and potential new customers and now Indian customers can directly contact local sales representatives in India for any inquiries or interest in availing EC21 services.