The e-mail trading posts of Internet Brokers were designed to allow potential trade partners to first meet via e-mail before either party incurs any costs, such as for the company looking for new international trade contacts, the expense of a booth at a trade show; or for the company looking for trade opportunities, the expense of traveling to a trade show.
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International business contacts come partly from a representative of Internet Brokers traveling overseas as a guest of trade organizations in other countries to meet local companies, such as in Peru and Costa Rica, meeting trade delegations from more than twenty countries visiting Chicago*, and giving a presentation at an U.S.-African trade conference.
Internet Brokers is one of the first companies in the world, if not the first, to send subscribers a small number of international trade opportunities via e-mail. Internet Brokers is a virtual company, with few conventional expenses to pass through, such as rent and secretarial salaries, has a Chicago business license, received an article in a Chicago publication about trade, and has dealt with major multinational corporations.
*Internet Brokers has met trade delegations from the following countries in Chicago: Bostswana, Brazil, Canada, Cameroon, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, The Czech Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Hungary, India, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, The Netherlands, Nigeria, The Sultanate of Oman, Peru, Romania, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Uruguay and Vietnam.