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MEsteel.com, crosses 100.000 visitors per month
Posted: 09 May 2005
MEsteel.com was launched in 2000 as The B2B Internet Steel Portal for the Middle East, and meanwhile has become an icon of the Middle East steel community, counting 1650 members and more than 100.000 visitors per month. Operating from Dubai, provides Steel information,
and an interactive database of steel producers, distributors, end-users and servicing companies in the Middle East. The concept is simple " United be Strong " For 1000 AED per year, steel related companies can be member of MEsteel com, and get their own website at minimal cost, to advertise their products on this common portal. Also for companies with an existing website, it's important to be found on the internet jungle. When they join, MEsteel visitors and members will find them easily too, by their activities, brands and products. Mesteel.com guarantees it's members a well focused exposure to the internet, thanks to continuously updating and linking with all major International, Middle East and Steel related search engines and websites. Search on Google, MSN, Yahoo, Altavista# for Saudi steel, Dubai steel, etc# Always MEsteel will show on the first page ahead of x thousand search results. Once on MEsteel, it's very easy to contact all listed members.
On other sites, you often have to go through lengthy registrations or payments, to find little info, while MEsteel is an open showroom for it's members.
Visitors can search companies by name, products bought or sold, activities, brands... They can filter them per country, sort by city, and find in seconds, as example who in Saudi, buys steel angles, or who in Dubai sells stainless steel plates from stock? You can check detailed company profiles and email these companies directly online. You could call MEsteel the Yellow Pages of the Steel Industry in the Middle East, with endless tools and search possibilities.
We see people arriving from abroad, with printouts of MEsteel listings, to contact MEsteel's members once here and offer their products. Local steel buyers find existing and new suppliers Stockists find new steel mills and traders to work with, and get leads on new clients. Contrary to other ecommerce sites, aiming to earn commission on concluded deals,
MEsteel provides members free online trading.
Members can post inquiries - offers, show them online, accessible to the whole world, or email them only to companies of interest.
Not only for steel, but also for fabricated products and steel industry related services.
Negotiations against received inquiries and offers, can be done from wherever you are! The whole negotiation history will be accessible and saved online for both parties. Also lists of suppliers, clients and standard documents can be saved online, so an internet cafe in any place of the world, is enough to follow your business.
Daily steel news worldwide and on the middle east particularly, technical info on steel qualities and products, steel events, steel trade statistics, conversion tables are all at your fingertips on MEsteel. MEsteel members also receive regular Middle East Steel News, special promotion offers on software, seminars, can do email shots to groups and can post free job advertisings online By keeping membership cost low MEsteel targets a large base of subscribers and the aim is to grow to minimum 5000 members in the coming 3 years In the near future, similar steel sites for other continents will be launched by MEsteel as well.
Posted by Editor Pipeline Magazine
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