18 November 2008
Sales & Marketing Program 2009 (Data Sheet)
The ShipServ Sales & Marketing Program 2009 represents the bringing together of ShipServ’s extensive experience of connecting buyers and sellers into one comprehensive, year-long marketing program. It includes everything you need to market yourself to the world-wide shipping community, including high-profile advertising, PR, events and exhibitions.
Reach more customers at a lower cost
With the global economic downturn affecting all corners of the shipping market, we all need to look at ways to improve our competitiveness to survive.
At ShipServ, we know that money is tight and every sales & marketing dollar needs to be maximized. We also know that it’s hard to reach new customers and decide where to invest money to create more sales. No wonder more than 22,500 suppliers of all sizes and types have chosen ShipServ to help them cost effectively market themselves to the maritime industry.
Introducing the ShipServ Sales & Marketing Program 2009
For nearly 10 years ShipServ has specialized in connecting buyers and suppliers around the world through our ShipServ TradeNet e-commerce platform. In 2008, we will facilitate US$1bn in supplies purchasing for 125 ship owners, managers and yards managing over 4,000 vessels. We manage more then 3.5m transactions per year on behalf of some of the world’s leading shipping companies including Anglo Eastern, Clipper Group, NYK Shipmanagement, MISC, MSC and OSG.
As a result, we know exactly how and where to present companies like yours to the global maritime community. The ShipServ Sales & Marketing Program 2009 represents the bringing together of all this experience into one comprehensive, year-long marketing programme. It includes everything you need to market yourself to the world-wide shipping community, including high-profile advertising, PR, events and exhibitions.
We estimate that the ShipServ Sales & Marketing Program 2009 represents over $250,000 in marketing value made available to you at a fraction of the price.
5 reasons to sign up for the ShipServ Sales & Marketing Program 2009
- Increase your profile to the global shipping community.
- Reduce the need to have in-house marketing resources.
- Get $250,000 of marketing value at a fraction of the price.
- Attend some of the world’s leading shipping events at little cost to you.
- Leverage the combined experiences of ShipServ, the world’s leading maritime e-marketplace.
What’s in the Program?
1. Advertising. At the heart of the ShipServ Sales & Marketing Program 2009 is ShipServ Pages. ShipServ Pages was established in 2006 as a dedicated search engine to help buyers find new suppliers. In just over two years, Pages has developed into the most widely used sourcing platform, with more than 10,000 visitors every week! In fact, in the last 3 months alone, Pages has had 116,144 visits coming from 7,827 cities and the number of buyers is growing by 30% every quarter.
The ShipServ Sales & Marketing Program 2009 includes a banner advertisement on Pages. Advertising on Pages is different to advertising on any other shipping-related site. That’s because all of our visitors are purchasing professionals looking to source new suppliers. There are no casual browsers on Pages. This means you get your company in front of real buyers looking to buy real products - maximizing your sales & marketing spend.
2. Exhibitions. The ShipServ Sales & Marketing Program 2009 also includes presence on the ShipServ booth at some of the world’s leading maritime exhibitions including AsiaPacific Maritime, IMPA Conference, ISSA Conference, NorShipping, Sea Asia, Sea Japan and SMM.
3. PR. ShipServ manages a comprehensive press release program and has excellent relationships with the likes of The Baltic Magazine, Digital Ship Magazine, Lloyds List, MarineTalk, Marine Trader, Ship Management International and The Ship Supplier. We also distribute releases to our global community of 130 ship managers and owners. As a member of the ShipServ Sales & Marketing Program 2009, ShipServ will distribute dedicated releases on your company, as well as include you in more general news releases. In addition you will be featured in our bi-monthly newsletter which goes out to over 50,000 contacts.
4. Connect09. For 5 years ShipServ has been running the world’s largest maritime purchasing conference. Now called “Connect” last year’s event attracted over 100 senior maritime purchasing professionals, and proved to be an excellent networking event for buyers and sellers alike. Connect09 is strictly an invitation-only event and attendees have come to expect a high quality event, both in terms of content and delegates. However, as part of the ShipServ Sales & Marketing Program 2009 you can both attend Connect09 and have the opportunity to become a sponsor and take a booth at the event.