The entire iAbrasive.com site was developed by professionals. All services built into the site, and those offered in addition to onsite services, are designed to facilitate trade between abrasives businesses negotiating worldwide.
The entire iAbrasive.com site was developed by professionals. All services built into the site, and those offered in addition to onsite services, are designed to facilitate trade between abrasives businesses negotiating worldwide.
Company & Product Promotion
•Supplier Showrooms—iAbrasive.com provides an attractive online showroom for suppliers, and easy ways for buyers to communicate with suppliers to send inquiries and start negotiations: Email, Skype, and Yahoo Messenger.
•Company Verification—We provide a service that confirms the authenticity of a registered company within 24 hours of receiving a verification request.
•Gold Member Promotions—For those suppliers who are Gold Members, we give extra company promotion by submitting a press release to high authority online media that is picked up by other hundreds of media for increased exposure. We give extra product promotion by posting your product on iAbrasive's home page just beneath the banner ads. In addition, all Gold Member products are listed first when buyers conduct product searches.
•SEO Rankings—Offsite, iAbrasive staff works hard to generate new prospects via prominent placing in search engines. This attracts new buyers and suppliers to register on iAbrasive.com to look for trades onsite.
Buyer/Supplier Search
With a unique abrasives directory, comprehensive product listings, and attractive showrooms for free, how do buyers and suppliers actually find each other on this site? There are already 40,000 users and more registering every day!
•Bulletin Board—Buyers post buying requests here, which Verified Members (including Gold Members) can see and respond to.
•Company Search—Buyers who already know who they want to trade with can search by company name directly from the "Suppliers" page.
•Detailed Product Search—Buyers who don't have a source for a particular product can do a product search directly from the home page. The more detailed the search, the more likely they are to find their perfect supplier the first time around.
•Product Directory—Click on the home page "Product" tab and you'll see ways to browse through products, either by category or name. Click on a product name, and you'll see a list of all members who sell those materials. Click on a company name to go to their showroom or click on the product photo to go that company's product specifications.
•Buyer and Supplier Directories—Click on the "Suppliers" or "Buyers" tab on the home page. From there you can browse the directories to see who's available to trade with. When you see a company you like, click on the name to go to their showroom (suppliers) or business card (buyers). Only Verified Members can access a buyer's business card.
Buyer/Supplier Communication
Attractive product displays and search engine rankings are not worth much, if abrasives buyers and suppliers are unable to transact business. This site has built in ways for abrasives buyers and suppliers to communicate:
•Onsite Email—Each page of every company showroom includes an email inquiry form for you to contact the supplier. You can also contact a supplier directly from product search pages.
•Instant Messaging—Every company showroom includes Yahoo Messenger and Skype buttons on the company's homepage for immediate communication.
•My Favorites Group Inquiries—Buyer profiles allow them to add preferred suppliers to "My Favorites," then send out group emails when asking for quotes or product availability.
•Company Contact Info—iAbrasive requests buyers and suppliers to post their offline contact information such as company telephone numbers on their profiles. Although transactions can be initiated online, we expect all transactions to be conducted and completed directly between buyer and supplier, whether online or off.
Additional Professional Services
•Industry Updates—Our onsite newsletter Informs buyers and suppliers about new developments in the abrasives industry, gives a more in-depth look at some of our most active suppliers, and provides tips that can help members expand product markets.