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PLUSWedsites The most effective way for you to promote your products and services online.
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It's easy for your company to get lost in the eCommerce network - A PLUSWebsite ensures that your information gets to the right place, on time, all the time.
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PLUSTO CREATING TRADE
'Our new PLUSWebsites allow web owners to have all the tools they need to ensure that thier products and services reach the required audience' – Adriaan Gie, Founding Director, Plusto.com
By owning a PLUSWebsite, companies now have the tools that they require to ensure that eCommerce is no longer just a term, but becomes an integral and profitable part of thier day-to-day business. This document demonstrates how a Plusto Website differs from traditional websites, and explains the tools that we make available, to ensure that your company is on the leading edge of web and eCommerce technology. A PLUSWebsite ensures that your company website is not simply a brochure floating in a vast worldwide web, but ensures that your product and service offerings are pro-actively made available to potential customers, across your country and worldwide.
The Product
PLUSTO CREATING TRADE
PLUSWedsites
Highly Relevant Trading Networks
Fully Integrated with Plusto
CargoKey - The worlds first instant freight calculator
Easy to Design and Manage
WorldTariff - Comprehensive Tax & Duty Information
Multi Language Support
FedEx Integration - For sample delivery within 1-3 business days - Worldwide
Search Engine Optimization Email Campaign Management
A word on Plusto. Although E-commerce is made up of Business-to-Business (B2B), Business-to-consumer (B2C) and Consumer-to-Business (C2B), it is becoming clearly evident that B2B holds the most potential. While the global B2C E-commerce is expected to grow from $164 billion in 2006 to $320 billion by 2010 (eMarketer, January 2007), B2B is forecast to grow from $1.2 trillion to $16 trillion. Little wonder that the focus worldover, is now on B2B E-commerce. Three different forms of B2B exchanges exist. The first category is buyer-controlled. It is a consortium of buyers who aggregate their purchases. The recently-formed consortium among DaimlerChrysler, Ford and General Motors (to which Toyota recently joined) is an example. By this process the buyers are looking to efficiently manage the procurement process; lowering administration cost, and ensureing uniform pricing. The second category is seller-controlled. Here the sellers who cater to fragmented markets such as chemicals and auto components come together to create a common trading place for the buyers. While the sellers aggregate their market power, simplifiying the buyer’s search for alternative sources. The third category is third-party exchanges that are neither buyers nor sellers. They thrive purely on the fees generated by matching buyers and sellers. It is only in this instance that a free market can be established and user confidence can be built.
B2B
Plusto is the first business 2 business trading hub that creates a free market by facilitating actual transactions, and provides all the tools necessary for its users to make informed business decisions about trading both nationally and internationally. We call our highly relevant trading network the '+' factor, which will help Plusto to become the world’s largest commercial and industrial trading hub within 5 years.
Our vision is simple: To make Plusto the world leader in International Trade and the best online source for products and services globally. We do this by creating trade through providing a system that efficiently passes relevant information between companies, and then provides the tools to allow them to transact safely and confidently on a national and international level. When we talk about creating trade we mean encouraging trade that does not currently exist, and making existing trade more efficient. Plusto is not simply intended to be a substitute or adaptation of existing platforms such as eBay or Alibaba. We have pioneered the online networks between company types, the products they use and the products they supply. We create unique relationship links between company types and products/services with the assistance of Industry Partners and Consultants. As Plusto grows and a community of users develops, the community assists us in refining these relationships, ensuring that every company that transacts on Plusto receives exactly the information that they require. Once grasped, this concept may seem simple, however it is fundamental to being able to create a network as efficient as Plusto. For more information Click Here
The + Factor
Plusto’s unique system enables you to source and sell a huge variety of products from and to anywhere in the world.
Your PLUSWebsite ensures that you are in control of transferring your product and service information to suitable buyers worldwide, and makes it easier for you to source your product requirements from suitable suppliers around the globe.
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Grow your business By providing small and medium sized businesses with the information they need to make an informed decision regarding importing and exporting, their market can expanded to reach the global community.
Don’t limit your company to conventional boundaries. Trade with the entire world at Plusto.com
Commodity Traders can use all the tools provided by Plusto to broaden their potential customer base and offer all the benefits of an efficient market place to their clients, all the while using their own brand in their dedicated online stores. Plusto is focused on providing network systems that facilitate the efficient distribution of stock between businesses and governments on an international level.
Global trading opportunities open doors for entrepreneurs to source products and sell them to an international market, or source products online for their domestic markets. So if you’re a small, medium or large business, Plusto will make it easier for you to make an informed decision about importing your supplies from abroad, and similarly will expose your products to a worldwide audience.
Suitable for Every Business & Organization Type across the Globe
A PLUSWebsite is suitable for every type of business from Manufacturers, to Importers, to Agents, Wholesalers and Retailers. It is also the perfect product for Service Providers, NGOs, Government Departments and Charities. Whether you are a Mega Factory, International Trader, Home Business, School, Real Estate Group or Fitness Centre, your PLUSWebsite is the most effective way to promote your products and services. We'll connect you to the right customers and suppliers no matter what your business.
Plusto allows its users to get the latest, greatest, most reliable information in the industry. Plusto will tell them what's in stock or what's coming and when, from anywhere in the world, how much it costs, what colours or sizes or shapes or speeds or strengths or anything they would need to know, all at the touch of a button.
Types of Plusto Websites
Freestanding Websites Whether you already own a website or are just starting off, Plusto has created various options to allow you to test our unique systems, so that you can realise the benefit of having a PLUSWebsite. Option 1 : A website with your own URL (website address) eg: http://www.yourwebaddress.com Your own web address fully integrated with Plusto's systems Option 2 : A Free-Standing website with a Plusto Navigation Bar Option 3 : A Plusto URL Extension Website eg: http://yourwebsiteaddress.plusto.com Click here for more information and Website Pricing.
Plusto URL Extention Websites
Registration & Verification With Plusto, you can create and design your company website using dozens of professional templates. With a PLUSWebsite you get to choose your website layout, choose your website colours and fonts, paragraph layouts and website preferences such as currency and language conversion. Creating your PLUSWebsite is Fast & Easy: Register on Plusto (link https://www.plusto.com/register.aspx) Register or transfer your domain (for a Free Standing Website) Create and Manage your Website in the My Website Section of My Plusto. Add Products and Services through Plusto. Create and Manage your Web Pages, Banners and Preferences and keep your website updated. For assistance please contact Charles Scott charles.scott@plusto.com
Plusto Intergration Your products and services are automatically added to Plusto and marketed to relevant buyers all over the world. Websites are automatically submitted to all major search engines. All products are automatically submitted to Google Products, which will display under Shopping Results for Google searches. Advanced search engine optimization (SEO) technology, ensures that your website obtains optimum search engine rankings. ... and its all included.
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Additional Website Features
Language Translation Currency Conversion Cargokey Integration IP recognition and language conversion, which means your website will appear in the correct language based on the viewers country.
Instant and constantly updated currency conversion, allowing your users to estimate the cost of your products in thier currency. Allow users to get instant quotes for shipping your products worldwide. CargoKey can be filtered to only display the results of your preffered Shippers or Freight Forwarders.
FedEx Integration
Allow your customers to get instant quotes for shipping samples of your products to over 220 regions and countries within 1-3 business days.
Email Campaign Software
Newsletter compiling and sending software, allowing you to stay in contact with your customers on a regular basis.
Google Products & News Integration
Submit your products to Google Products automatically and display current and relevant news items on your website.
Managing Your Website
Website Design
Choose from a variety of stylish templates and control all of your website features like colors, fonts, menus and footers.
Website Pages
Manage your Product and Service Categories to ensure that your items are listed logically and are easy for your customers to find.
Product & Service Categories Setup your website preferences to activate various add-ons like Enquiry Baskets, Product Search, Google News, CargoKey Integration and Google Analytics.
Create a limitless number of linked web pages using easy design tools, and layouts with paragraphs, columns and pictures.
Banners
Preferences
Add graphic appeal to your website with banners and links which can be used for Promotions or Advertising.
About Cargokey CargoKey is the world’s first global freight calculator. It uses data supplied by multiple international shipping companies to provide international buyers and sellers with instant quotations for shipping anything from anywhere, to anywhere by sea (LCL & FCL), Air, Road and Rail. It is one of the tools that we have created to allow potential customers to make informed business decisions about buying your products.
With tools like WorldTariff from FedEx Trade Networks and FedEx Rate Finder at fedex.com, you have access to comprehensive customs and tax data between countries and freight services for transporting samples and shipments worldwide via Plusto. As a preferred carrier for Plusto, FedEx is helping sellers and potential buyers worldwide get all the information they need to make informed business decisions about international buying and selling.
Our Relationship with FedEx
At the outset it was decided to establish a foundation, which shall own 1% of the equity in Plusto, the benefit of which shall pass to charitable or social developmental causes, to be decided on by the board of directors. The Foundation is a representation of the principles and culture of the company, and carries through from the Executive Team, Staff, Industry and Country Partners and even Plusto’s users.
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PLUSFoundation has three sources of revenue:
Its pre-IPO stock will generate revenue to provide grants to numerous non-profit groups and social development causes. Plusto’s staff, including its executive, contributes towards the PLUSFoundation directly, and also creates teams which drive charitable causes and programs. Plusto’s staff and executives form the backbone of the PLUSFoundation and can recommend any non-profit organisation for funding. Plusto users are also able to contribute to the PLUSFoundation through PLUSGive, whereby a part of the proceeds of the sale of goods (10-100%), is donated by the user to a charity of their choice. In this circumstance, Plusto donates a matching percentage of its revenue earned from the transaction to the charity. All PLUSGive charities need to be approved by the PLUSFoundation.
Full Circle
In Summary
Imagine yourself in the London Underground for the first time with no help desk, map or knowledge of routes, connecting stations or transit times. It's pretty easy to get lost in the confusion of busy networks. When you decide to get involved in the world of eCommerce, make sure that your platform provides you with all the tools that you need to be successful in achieving your goals, and ensures that your product and service information is pro-actively being made available to relevant potential buyers. Most websites are simply online brochures, which float aimlessly on the busiest network in the world, the internet, hoping to be accidentally discovered by the right users looking for the products or services that the website displays. The intelligence of search engines has made it easier for users to find relevant websites, but there are still limited tools available that can be actively used by companies to ensure that thier products are part of a highly relevant network, where the product supply of one company is accurately linked to the product requirement of another company. Plusto is the world's most highly relevant and effective commercial and industrial hub, and now you can benefit by owning a PLUSWebsite. Your website and its associated eCommerce tools will ensure that it is not just an online brochure, but a working technology that helps you grow your market, provides your customers with all the information they require to make informed business decisions, and ultimately make you more profitable. At Plusto we ensure that your website is a functional working asset, and are continuosly ensuring that your products and services are being pro-actively marketed and promoted in the most effective way possible.
To talk to Plusto in your country, contact us @: www.plusto.com email: za.enquiries@plusto.com or Charles Scott on Mobile: +27 84 626 4002
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