Trade Compass Free Trade Leads Service

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Trade Compass Announces Free Trade Leads Service
http://www.tradecompass.com

Trade Compass, an information and business services system
available on the World Wide Web and the Microsoft Network
has released a free trade leads service. This service is
available at the following url:
http://www.tradecompass.com/forum/e-trade/index.html.
Trade Compass also maintains a hyperlinked list of the major
Internet sources of trade leads on their Trade Leads page located at
http://www.tradecompass.com/forum/leads Before viewing the trade
leads for the first time, you must either register as a Trade Compass
member or enter Trade Compass as a guest. Additional details are
available on our home page http://www.tradecompass.com If you register
as a Trade Compass member, you have the opportunity to create a free
virtual business card which is included in our searchable business
card directory. This directory contains over 800 cards and is
located at http://www.tradecompass.com/member/cards Once you have
become a member or have entered as a guest, you will receive a password
providing access to our non-subscription services.

Other Trade Compass Services:
Trade Compass provides users with the tools to access current business
and trade news, company profiles, trade leads, government documents,
shipping information, tariff regulations and customs information. Trade
Compass contains a comprehensive library of Internet trade
information sources providing users with direct links to the most useful
trade data available on the Internet.

Trade Compass also allows businesses to promote their products and
services to a clientele that is involved international trade.
Advertising on Trade Compass is inexpensive ($100 per page
(includes the design of one graphic) and $25 a month hosting fee).
Unlike other web "malls" and hosting services, Trade Compass
attracts a specific user and our featured companies benefit from
knowing that our users are directly involved in international trade.
Trade Compass recently announced a one page web site which can be
developed and hosted for one year for $99. To see a sample one
page site, please visit the International Projects site at
http://www.tradecompass.com/intlprojects

There are five main categories to Trade Compass:

Trade News:
Contains news briefs, newsletters, periodicals

Trade Library:
Contains 12 categories of information including government, visa/travel,
freight forwarding, legal, shipping and consulting. It houses documents
such as the U.S. Department of Commerce Nafta Facts, and 300
documents from the U.S. Export Import Bank

Market Place:
Contains the web pages of our featured companies, our searchable
database of 12,000 U.S. export companies, and product information.
Since Trade Compass is also available via the Microsoft Network, Trade
Compass featured companies are just a click away from the Trade Compass
forum on the MSN. It also contains a home page for virtually every
country in the world with links to specific trade information about
that country.

Trade Forum:
Contains our searchable database of 4,000 international trade shows, our
hypertexted trade leads, and other links to newsgroups and databases

Search:
Trade Compass has recently installed a basic search engine which
further facilitates the use of Trade Compass. We will soon install a
cutting edge engine which will enable us to provide our members with an
unique automatic search process.

Business Tools
Trade Compass has developed several business tools specifically designed
for internationally oriented businesses. These tools include the
Logistics Management System which contains the U.S. Customs Release
System, as well as full interface to AMS and AES. The U.S. Customs
Release System provides real time information about the U.S. Customs
status of inbound cargo over the Web. Trade Compass has also developed
an Electronic Shipping Schedule which provides access to the outbound
U.S. shipping schedules of most carriers serving U.S. ports in a
searchable database format.

http://www.tradecompass.com