Alibaba.com
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Alibaba.com
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Alibaba.com is one of the world's largest marketplaces for global trade and a leading provider of online marketing services for importers and exporters. Alibaba.com offers a wide range of sourcing tools to buyers to enable them to browse detailed supplier information, including company videos and factory tours -- all online and free of charge.
Since Chinese entrepreneur Jack Ma launched the Web site in March 1999, some 2,500,000 business people from 220 countries have registered to take advantage of this truly global business service.
Hong Kong Principal and Chief Financial Officer, Mr Joe Tsai explained that the main service his company offers is that it allows people to post buy or sell messages to members of over 27 industry categories. Whoever wants to buy or sell something can e-mail their request to Alibaba.comi–﹐ Hangzhou office. Editors will then read and screen the messages for relevance and content, he explained.
"Generally, we eliminate about one third as irrelevant; they are not specific enough, and may simply say i“± want to export to China?" Mr Tsai said.
Keeping postings pertinent and useful has ensured the sitei–﹐ popularity amongst the ever-growing online business community.
The company currently operates four inter-linked Web sites: an English site for the international trade community, a Chinese site for the domestic China market, a site for Japan and one for C2C online trading named TaoBao.
"We categorize our information into over 27 different industry categories -- some of the categories that see the most traffic are electronics, textiles, chemicals, computer and software, and industrial supplies," Mr Tsai said.
One of Alibabaa€?s distinguishing factors is that it is a dynamic trade lead catalog, he said, making it a very current and very liquid marketplace created by the large volume of buyers and sellers who visit and post offers every day. As a leader in the B2B industry, Alibaba has introduced a number of proprietary and premium products to ensure relevancy and integrity are the mainstays of the business culture it fosters.
Members can take advantage of personalized features in order to tailor their experience according to their needs. Alibabai–﹐ Trade Alert Service enables members to receive e-mail alerts of new offerings in the categories they choose while compelling online catalogs and dynamic trade management tools maximize their members?business potential.
A number of other sites offer similar services, but Alibabai–﹐ effectiveness in terms of facilitating business with a high level of customer service have seen it attract a number of accolades from the global business community, including being voted i??est of the Web?4 years in a row, by Forbes magazine.
One thing that will remain the same is the company's philosophy in that membership and basic information should be free and that if it continues to give people what they want, they will continue to say "Open Sesame" to solid business deals.
