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Monday, April 30, 2001
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Issue 6
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VOLUME 1
ISSUE 6
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WELCOME
Here's your latest issue of Really Useful Sites for International Trade Professionals. This free bi-weekly
newsletter reviews useful Web sites from the Web Resources database at FITA's International Trade/ Import-Export Portal at www.fita.org, an
excellent source for trade leads, news, events, and a link
library of 3,000+ sites related to international trade. To see past issues, click on "Archive" on the bottom of this page or go to FITA's Really Useful Sites for International Trade Professionals at www.fita.org/useful.html.
Please feel free to pass this newsletter on to others.
My name is John McDonnell, and for years I wrote a weekly e-
newsletter that profiled business-oriented Web sites. Now I'm
using my Web research skills to find sites that are useful for
international trade, as well as some fun sites that you'll enjoy
visiting.
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E-COMMERCE
There was a time when I had visions of starting my own dot.com
company and getting obscenely rich, then retiring to a hillside
mansion in Hawaii. I never did anything about my visions, and
that allowed me to avoid the bitter taste of defeat that so many
dot.com entrepreneurs experienced in the past year. Although you
don't hear as many people talking about getting rich on the Net
these days, e-commerce is just too attractive a proposition to go
away. More and more companies will find a way to successfully
sell their wares on the Internet. If you want to take a stab at
e-commerce, there's a great site where you can find the resources
you need. Electronic Commerce and the European Union at europa.eu.int/ISPO/ecommerce is a European Union site,
but it will help anyone, no matter where they're located, get
into the e-commerce game. Here you'll find articles, research,
statistics, policy papers, discussion forums, an ask-the-expert
feature, funding sources, trade and employment leads, and much
more.
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BUSINESS.COM
Whether you're researching a country, market, or company,
Business.com at www.business.com is a good place to
start. This site has so much detail you'll be amazed -- as an
example, they have a list of key players in the Condiments,
Spreads & Sauces industry. That's right -- if you want to know
who's the Big Dog in the salad dressing game, you'll find out
here. You can either type in a keyword at the home page, or click
through various levels of categories till you find what you're
looking for.
The information is quite detailed. For example, in the Food &
Beverage category you can view editors' picks for research,
newsletters available, key players (companies with highest market
cap, best stock performance, biggest profit margin, etc), related
associations, and so on. The company finder has links to 10,000
US public companies, 14,000 international companies and 44,000
private companies. Information on the page includes stock quote,
profile, news, key competitors, and more. My only quibble with
Business.com is that the font size is too small, which is hard on
my middle-aged eyes.
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ASK AN EXPERT
You can find answers on the Web to just about every question you
can think of. There are many "Ask an Expert" sites, where you can
ask a question and have it answered by e-mail. AskA+ Locator at www.vrd.org/locator/subject.html has a list of them,
divided by subjects, so you can find your answers even easier.
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WORLD TRAVEL GUIDE
The next time I plan a vacation I'm going to use World Travel
Guide at www.worldtravelguide.net/navigate/world.asp.
This site has all the information I'd need to plan a trip. By
clicking on the world map I can get a complete travel guide to
wherever I want to go, with information about attractions,
accommodations, maps, weather, money, passports & visas, duty-
free shopping, overviews of major cities, and much more. This
site also has detailed guides to world cities, airports, events,
skiing, and weather. There are lots of helpful articles and
resources for business and vacation travelers.
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Archive
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Issue 5
April 16, 2001
Vol. 1
Issue 5
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Issue 4
April 02, 2001
Vol. 1
Issue 4
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Issue 3
March 19, 2001
Vol. 1
Issue 3
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Issue 2
March 05, 2001
Vol. 1
Issue 2
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Issue 1
February 19, 2001
Vol. 1
Issue 1
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Click on a past issue number to see its content
Published by Federation of International Trade Associations
Copyright © 2001 The Federation of International Trade Associations. All rights reserved.
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Are there topics you'd like to see covered in FITA'S Really
Useful Sites? Send suggestions, ideas, or comments to editor John
McDonnell at jaymack@fita.org.
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This newsletter is distributed by the Federation of International Trade Associations (FITA) for the benefit of the worldwide international trade community. If you have a question regarding this service, please contact FITA by email at newsletter@fita.org.
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