B2B Marketplace, Trade Leads, Buy, Sell, Import, Export, RFP's, RFQ's

(PRWEB) October 29, 2004 -- In a bold move to inform the B2B community of it's intent to become the "First Name in B2B", Terrecom, L.L.C., dba www.terrecom.com, has recently unleashed a B2B affiliate program which offers to all B2B-related websites on the internet the opportunity to earn significant commissions for hosting Terrecom buttons/banners which, when clicked upon, drive visitors to Terrecom's homepage. When a visitor company registers as a Supplier/Vendor on Terrecom, the affiliate website is rewarded with a 30% commission. in addition, there is a two-tier commission of 10% and a one year cookie. This global affiliate program is run on software developed by www.affiliaterunner.com which has proven to be well suited to the task of running such an extensive affiliate program. By visiting Terrecom's homepage and clicking on the "Enroll Now" button along the left margin of the page further information can be viewed and the Affiliate Program Enrollment Form can be accessed and completed. All B2B websites are invited to participate in this exciting new program.

(PRWEB) October 25, 2004 -- For a number of years, the "pay-per-click" search engine model has allowed participating organizations to pay for click-throughs to their websites. The higher the bid per click, the higher on the list a company's description is displayed.

Initially, it was possible to pay relatively little for such click-throughs, but, due to the nature of the bidding process, the cost-per click has risen dramatically. Keywords that used to be available for as little as $.05 per click now cost as much as $5-10.00. That is particularly true of those keywords most in demand. It is easy now to spend hundreds, even thousands of dollars a month on these search engines to maintain even a reasonably good ranking position for a company listing-much less a high ranking-and the costs continue to escalate.

While large companies can afford to pay these click-through rates, most small to medium sized organizations are being driven out of the market. Thus, while large companies rise to the top of the lists and achieve greater visibility, smaller companies get pushed further and further down the list, into relative obscurity.

In response to this situation, Terrecom, L.L.C., dba www.terrecom.com, a local to global business to business (b2b) and business to government (b2g) emarketplace, has introduced a "searchable enhanced seller listing" which allows all registered suppliers and vendors to post a complete corporate description, including all goods and services sold, all brand names sold, and all keywords that may be used to search for them. The order of presentation of these company listings is randomly shuffled for each unique page view, giving all suppliers/vendors an equal chance to be seen in their selected goods/services categories. This searchable listing is only $149.95 per year or $199.95 for two years, and includes an "Rfq" function, allowing buyers to directly contact sellers about purchasing their goods and services, and a category-specific "Sales Bulletin" function that allows sellers to aggressively post unlimited offers to sell goods and services to buyers. No pay-per-click search engines offer such services.

Terrecom's "bundled" services, and the flat yearly fee, provide all organizations (even large ones) with an exceptional sales and marketing opportunity. Oh yes, all buyers and purchasing agents in the world can use the marketplace FREE. Terrecom truly represents a superior alternative to all b2b pay-per-click search engines.

November16, 2000
Editorial
It is way past time for some straight-talk about "B2B". Most of what you hear and read is pure HYPE! Most of the large "B2B" companies being bantered about (Commerce One, Ariba, ,etc) are not engaged in "Real" B2B, rather, they develop software that allows others to DO B2B. This software is typically marketed to the "Global 2000", the largest organizations in the world, so they can implement their own e-marketplaces (primarily to control their buyers/suppliers).

Such software "platforms" or "suites" initially cost millions of dollars for implementation and then vast amounts of money to run per year. In short, 99.99% of the world's organizations will not have the resources to develop their own e-marketplaces. And, while just having your own corporate web-site is very necessary, it is simply not sufficient to capture any real opportunities on the internet.

Why? Because, unless your company name is already "branded"--that is, your organization is so well known everybody can guess your correct web address (i.e. www.att.com, www.ge.com, etc), NOBODY WILL BE ABLE TO FIND YOU! Thus, you will have to spend a fortune letting people know the address of your website, and why they should visit. So, what can you do?

Well, you can participate in one of the large on-line marketplaces sponsored by a large corporation or consortium--but, you must have the correct software to do so. Where do you get that? Why, from the e-marketplace of course, and it isn't free. But, what if you want to participate in more than one "integrated" marketplace?

Then you have to have software compatible with that one also! There is another REASONABLE alternative, however. Use OPEN MARKETPLACES such as www.terrecom.com and others (yes, they are out there-but they aren't as simple, interactive and inexpensive as ours). Terrecom is REAL B2B, available right here, right now--which is more than most of the over-hyped (but still not operational) "integrated" marketplaces can say!