Zoltan’s Business News & Blog

According to a survey published by Datran Media, 8 in 10 marketers cite email as the best-performing medium. Also, 82.4% of respondents stated, that they will increase their usage of email marketing. 63.5% of the respondents stated that they target based on demographics and / or geography.

Another interesting thing is that 81.2% of the respondents stated that they already use targeted email campaigns.

At TradeHolding.com B2B Network, we already have a feature for Targeted Mailing Campaigns, our members can send Targeted Selling offers or Buying requests based on selected keywords and / or regional filters. Our database is full of B2B Buyers and Sellers from all over the world, Members who stated what products and services are they regularly buying and selling. Want to try it out? Just login to your account at TradeHolding.com and send your Target Offer.

This is my first post in 2008, I have not been quite active lately (blogging)…

Couple of things happened this January (and not only):

• we bought a new server for TradeHolding.com B2B Network and put it into production
• launched www.chinatradeholding.com, a specialized website mainly focusing on Chinese Manufacturers, Chinese Wholesalers and Chinese Products; China is a big market and we thought we need tp have a site that is targeting the cheap Chinese B2B Market
• we generated a record revenue for December 2007, so far it looks like 2008 January will be even better
• added Internal Messaging between members
• yesterday (24 January, 2008) we get to another milestone: 60,489 visitors reached our network in just one day
• working hard on making the B2B Network more user friendly
• working on OneLoveNet.com free dating site as well, the installed Forum software might not be the best solution for us, at least we could not integrate it too well with our existing membership structure; the number of members looking for love is also growing day after day, our database now have more than 15,000 single profiles.

More news when I’ll have time.

Over the past five years, proudly left behind, 170,000+ companies joined TradeHolding.com B2B Network since 20 November, 2002. TradeHolding.com B2B Network is The Biggest Business to Business Network used everyday by thousands of buyers and sellers from all over the world.

On our 5th anniversary, we are proud that we reached a few more milestones. We had a record number of visitors (42,267 unique visitors) in November, and it looks like our traffic is growing every month.

Some other milestones:

• record number of contacts in October 2007
• record number of new Top Members in October 2007
• record number of revenue in October 2007. 

We are working extremely hard to keep a clean B2B Network and eliminate scam and fraud as much as it is possible. Our number one goal is customer satisfaction. We try to keep our premium service fees low (compared to our competition we are a lot more cheaper and I can say without any hesitation that some active free members are even getting better results than paid members at our competition….), but at the same time we try to offer the best services.

So, Thanks to all our Members and hopefully, we’ll all use (an even more improved) TradeHolding.com B2B Network at our 10th Anniversary as well!

We, at OneLoveNet.com, just launched the Dating & Singles Forum. We intend to make this place a busy community where you can discuss about many aspects of dating and relationships and not only.

We kindly invite you to login to your OneLoveNet.com account (or join if you do not have an account yet), visit the Dating & Singles Forum and start interesting Topics or participate in existing Topics.

We also have a board exclussively for our Moderators. We already added some guidelines for Moderators, if you are a Profile Moderator, you can read the guidelines here after logging in your acount. If you would like to become a Moderator, please contact us.

It is summer… the weather is hot…. today, there is 40 grade C in Satu Mare…. But, I am working hard.

I am proud to introduce OneLoveNet.com Web 2.0 Community… part 1… many more new enhancements will come in the near future. The goal of this part is to eliminate fraud and scam as much as we can from OneLoveNet.com free dating site. So far, this has been done by me alone… but I realized that the community should decide who’s a scammer and who’s not. So, I need you, I need Moderator members.

Moderators are volunteers who optionally and periodically review profiles and photos and collectively decide if a profile is a scam profile. As a Moderator you can freely contact as many members as you want and based on the communication with the member or your own intuition, you can decide if the profile is real.

Interested? Read more here and apply to become a Moderator.

Just a short summary of June so far, from my point of view:

• TradeHolding.com B2B Network traffic up to an average of 14,000 unique visitors / day
• OneLoveNet.com is now averaging 1,200 uniques / day, the site is in page 1 in search engines for many competitive terms
• Working hard on keeping both TradeHolding.com and OneLoveNet.com spam and scam free…
• The Romanian Internet Market received its first significant venture capital investment (10+ million Euro invested in 2 jobsites: www.bestjobs.ro and www.ejobs.ro), too bad these sites were the 2 biggest email spammers in 2000-2001… but anyway, congrats to the owners
• a new partner joined TradeHolding.com B2B Network: www.southafricab2b.co.za will mainly focus on South African market and hopefully our B2B Network will have a stronger presence in this region
• still working on the real estate portal, it will be launched soon!

I was quite busy in the last months with some technical problems and did not have the chance to write.

Now, I am writing to ask you, the bloggers to review some of our websites: OneLoveNet.com Free Dating Website, European Business Marketplace & Directory or Middle East Business Portal. Write a short review with 1-2 links about any of these sites in your blog and we will reward you with a free link on our high quality business links directory, TradeHolding.org. If you added a review to your blog, just post here and I will add your link.

I am a little late with stats for April but here are just a few numbers:

• 144,000+ members
• 91,000+ trade leads
• 33,000+ products
• 11,000+ unique visitors / day
• 550,000+ trade lead searches and 170,000+ product searches

Our traffic is growing quite fast, and we had a record number of new registrations in April 2007, 3,867 new members joined us.

Some older stats here: October Stats.

Yes, one of the main problems on free dating sites such as OneLoveNet.com is that many scammers are using them. Although we use a number of automatic and manual methods to block and delete these scams our methods can never be 100% safe.

A dating scam usually involves the following steps:

• The scammer posts an attractive photo (such as attractive professional fotomodel photo) and fake profile on a dating website.
• The scammer sends the same message to many members. In this message the scammer usually express his / her interest in the member and provides a freemail address (yahoo or hotmail) and prefers to continue the discussion by email.
• If the scammer gets replies, he/she will present stories (a relative died, he / she was travelling and his / her pocket was stolen, etc.) and will claim how bad his/her current situation is and needs help and support to overcome it in some way. The story is usually very emotional and will easily gain sympathy and affection from the victim.
• No matter what the story is, after a short or long period of establishing trust and desire, the scammer will ask for money to be sent by Western Union, Monegram, cash money orders, send merchandise, etc..

Never send any money to someone you met on the Internet! If you suspect that a member’s profile is fake please imediatelly use the Admin Alert function we have on all profiles, we will investigate and take the required steps to delete / block the profile in question.

Being the fastest growing free dating site, our job, to reveiew all accounts are getting harder, day after day, this is why we always need your help and support to stop or at least minimize dating scam on our website.

…yes, this is exactly what we are doing at TradeHolding.com B2B Network. Buyers and Sellers state what are the products and services they are regulary selling and buying. Then, we are quickly calculating how many sellers are selling the product you are buying and viceversa, then you have the ability to send all of them a message, this way buyers and sellers are connected and a deal is very close.

This feature is especially good in buying process, as an RFQ (request for quote), imagine the need to buy olive oil, or icumsa sugar. You just define your exact needs and send it to hundreds of qualified sellers! They will get back to you with their offer and you have the ability of selecting the best offer!

We received an excellent feedback from members who already tried this feature, they are quite satisfied with the responses. If you would like to try this, just join through one of our partner sites (for example: European Business Directory).