Oh dear, our site suffered a ‘denial of service’ spam attack yesterday causing the servers to be temporarily suspended until this afternoon.  Hope nobody was too badly affected.

Thankfully we’ve some good technical people on hand who are definitely worth their weight in gold - which will be alot of money as the price of gold hits a 25 year peak today. 

I’m sure that bit of news puts a broad smile on the faces of members such as renatoimpex.
           

We’ve added a new type of lead - Partner Leads.

This category is for those of you who:

• Want to establish contacts in a particular country
• Want to form partnerships with people who can help sell your goods
• Don’t have a particular need right now, but want to start building relationships for the future
• Whose requirements don’t really fit into the Buy or Sell categories

Please let us know if you have problems using this or any other part of the site.
           

I’m sure you can’t help but notice the product images on the lead pages.  We’ve included the ability for members to upload upto 2 images of their products, you should all know this by now since an email was sent to everyone.

Some members have been very quick off the mark, special mention going out to Junmeiwang who was the first to post images (of glass beads for road markings).

Why would you want to post images?

Well we all know the saying - ‘A picture is worth a thousand words’.

Human beings are visual creatures and a good image will attract them much more than a wordy description, especially if English isn’t your first language.

So get your cameras out!

Hello everyone, thanks for stopping by.

This is the first entry of my blog so I’m going to keep it short and sweet.

I plan to use this blog to keep you updated about what’s happening on the site, to offer advice on how to get the most out of this Trade Portal and to give you my views about the issues that concern international trade and international traders.

I hope you’ll all stay tuned.