ShipServ helps marine & offshore suppliers succeed

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1 ShipServ helps marine & offshore suppliers succeed Generate awareness & build your company s brand Win new business at lower cost Manage orders efficiently & retain customers

2 Overcome your sales & marketing challenges and spend less time and money doing it. Need to build awareness? Find more customers? Introduce new products to market? Trade more efficiently with existing customers? Whatever your challenge, ShipServ can help you. Being a success in the marine & offshore markets is not just about one thing. Everyone s challenges are different. Sometimes it s about having the right products & services. Sometimes it s about being in the right place at the right time. Sometimes it s about responding quickly to customer requests and orders. That s where ShipServ comes in. To buyers, we re the first place to look for trusted suppliers and to trade with them efficiently. And to suppliers like you, we re the most effective and efficient route for you to overcome your sales & marketing challenges. We ve helped over 40,000 suppliers to build awareness, win new business and service existing customers more efficiently. If you supply the marine & offshore markets, ShipServ can help you in three main areas: 1. Generate awareness & build your company s brand Make sure buyers know you, trust your brand and know the products & services you offer. ShipServ can help with a range of easy, low-cost ways to raise your profile across the marine & offshore industry. 2. Win new business ShipServ gets you in front of the industry s most important purchasers: the ones in active buying mode. Make an impact with these buyers and you re on the fast track to new business. 3. Manage orders efficiently and retain customers ShipServ helps you respond quickly to buyers when they re asking for quotes and when they place the order. Serve them efficiently and they ll come back for more. For any supplier to the marine & offshore markets, these are the three most important challenges. And no one has more ways to help you rise to them than ShipServ. ShipServ Supplier Solutions ShipServ s supplier services are not just a collection of standalone tools. They re an integrated suite built around our unprecedented understanding of marine & offshore purchasing decisions the how, what, when, why and where of maritime purchasing. Every day, our online community shares high volumes of sourcing, trading and search data. The insight this data delivers makes our products better, so you can: Sell more to existing customers Retain customers Generate more new business with a lower marketing spend Optimize your marketing spend Serve customers more efficiently Reduce operational costs That s the ShipServ difference.

3 ShipServ facilitates over $3.5 billion of spending power

4 ShipServ Supplier Solutions Our range of products & services to help you grow It s not enough just to be listed on Pages, the biggest and busiest marine search engine. With over 40,000 other suppliers you need to stand out from your competitors with a Premium Profile. There really is a big difference between a basic listing and a Premium Profile. A Premium profile delivers better results more RFQs received via Pages, more offline contacts and more brand exposure. That s because a Premium profile allows you to say much more about your company and you get ranked higher in search results. In 2012, Pages will get over 2 million visits from qualified buyers. Our new Supplier Insight Report enables you to measure your results. On a daily basis, see your profile views, contact views and received RFQs. This makes your investment 100% measurable. TradeNet is the ship supplies trading network. Hundreds of top ship owners, managers, shipyards and offshore rig managers buying for thousands of ships, rigs and yards. They want to trade efficiently and prefer suppliers who do too: - Start Supplier Your free TradeNet access that lets you receive RFQs and orders by and reply using a simple online tool. - Smart Supplier Manage all RFQs, quotes, POs, confirmations and acknowledgements with a slightly more powerful TradeNet supplier application. - Expert Supplier Integrate TradeNet with your sales order system for automated quoting, fast fulfilment, the Transaction Monitor dashboard and in-depth reports. The international marine & offshore ordering guide is a 1,400-page book and CD used daily on board ships, drilling rigs, commercial vessels and in purchasing offices, chandlers and shipbuilders all over the world. All information appearing in Mariner s Annual also appears in ShipServ Pages so that personnel on shore, both buyers and suppliers, can see the same information as seen on the vessel. Run your advertising across our network of top quality shipping industry websites and e-newsletters, reaching hundreds of thousands of marine & offshore professionals. We aggregate demand from hundreds of advertisers like you to negotiate great prices then make it easy for you to buy from one source.

5 ShipServ Supplier Solutions ShipServ Supplier Solutions can be acquired in any combination to get the highest-value package designed just for you. Choose from a range of world-leading products that help you build your company s brand, attract new customers or better serve existing customers. You choose what s right for you. Whether you need a Premium Listing on Pages, a SmartSupplier subscription on TradeNet or an advert on AdNetwork, you re in control. And whatever your choice, ShipServ gives you access to the world s largest marine & offshore buying community, meaning you can trust ShipServ to solve your sales & marketing challenges. ShipServ s solutions deliver powerful, measurable impact across your three most important challenges: raising awareness, winning business and serving customers efficiently. Talk to us about putting any or all of these tools to work for you right away.

6 2.8 million searches in 200 countries every year

7 What can we do for you today? Because ShipServ is trusted by so many buyers, we can offer a broad range of powerful solutions to the supplier community. The chart summarises what we offer and how we re growing to keep serving suppliers with innovative new routes to market. Awareness & Branding New Business Order Management, Efficiency & Customer Retention Advertising creation Online advertising E-newsletter advertising Print advertising Trade shows / Events Reporting / Analysis Partner product Online lead generation Offline lead generation Drive leads to authorised distributors Publish product catalogues and marketing material Promotions / Campaigns / Special offers / New product introduction E-order management from any customer Respond quickly to RFQs Integrate with sales order management Sub-supplier purchase order management Catalog distribution High quality product data in RFQs Branch / Certification / Brand management Business intelligence / Benchmarking Let s get started It s easy to put ShipServ to work for your business. Just get in touch with us (see the back cover) and an account manager will discuss your requirements and recommend the right product or program at the right budget level. Solutions start from a few hundred dollars and deliver fast returns, so you can easily justify investing more when you re ready.

8 About ShipServ ShipServ helps marine and offshore buyers to find the best suppliers easily, trade efficiently and build trusted relationships. Our products and services bring buyers and suppliers together online, in print, on ship and in person. We offer the largest online trading platform, the most used supplier search engine, the leading ordering guide and the first online ad network. The high volumes of sourcing, trading and search data our community shares every day helps us deliver better results and more accurate information to both buyers and suppliers. No one facilitates the intelligent, trustworthy matching of demand and supply better than ShipServ. For more information visit Contact the Global ShipServ Supplier Service Centre Tel: