1st German American Energy Conference: Growing Ties in Renewable Energies Market

BERLIN, March 27, 2009 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ ----The sustainable energy supply is a key issue at the forefront of the German-American trade partnership. Despite the global recession, the renewable energies industry continues to project growth. The 1st German American Energy Conference will be held from March 30 to April 2, 2009 in Berlin to discuss the prospects of expanding the transatlantic sustainable energy partnership.

Germany, driven by the eastern federal states, is a global leader in renewable energies production, including photovoltaic, wind, and biofuels, while the United States is the world's largest energy consumer and has seen a dramatic growth of its renewable energies industry in recent years. Currently, President Obama's dedication to sustainable energy sources promises an even higher profile for the sector. Cooperation between these two industry giants has strong implications for the renewable energies industry worldwide.

To underscore the increasing cooperation, the 1st German American Energy Conference is the opening conference in a planned series of biennial meetings that will be held in rotation between the United States and Germany. The theme of this year's conference is "Renewable Energy Boom USA." Organized under the umbrella of the Transatlantic Climate Bridge project of the German Federal Foreign Office, partners include the Federation of German Industries (BDI: undefined, undefined, undefined%) and Germany Trade and Invest, as well as the German Energy Agency (DENA: undefined, undefined, undefined%) and the German American Chambers of Commerce (GACC: undefined, undefined, undefined%). Parliamentary State Secretary Ulrich Kasparick of the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs will be presenting on economic development through renewable energies, in which he will highlight the success story of eastern Germany.

Upward trends in this industry are expected to continue, as can be seen by the ongoing policy commitment in Germany, particularly in the renewable energy powerhouse region of eastern Germany. Renewable energies account for over EUR 30 billion in sales and 280,000 jobs in Germany, including 13,459 workers in photovoltaic in eastern Germany alone. The industry expects further investments in this sector to continue, despite the economic downturn.

The transatlantic partnership in this industry is expected to flourish. In a recent survey by the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham), Germany was the most attractive location in Europe for American investors. One of the primary reasons listed was Germany's ability to better withstand the global recession than other nations. The heavy investment in growth sectors like renewable energies is a major factor, as this industry continues to grow as others scale back.

Germany Trade and Invest will have industry experts present to answer questions and discuss opportunities to invest in Germany's renewable energies and resources industry as well as opportunities for German companies in the US. The conference, held at the Ludwig-Erhard-Haus in Berlin, hopes to further expand cooperation in this sector, with conference topics including the direction of the industry in both countries, business partnerships, and the future of the transatlantic energy dialogue.

Germany Trade & Invest is the foreign trade and inward investment promotion agency of the Federal Republic of Germany. The organization advises and supports foreign companies seeking to expand into the German market and assists companies established in Germany looking to enter foreign markets. All inquiries are treated confidentially.

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Himfr.com Analyzes China's Hardware Industry Development Trends for 2009

BEIJING, March 26, 2009 /PRNewswire-Asia via COMTEX/ ----Himfr.com, one of China's leading B2B search platforms with more than 30 B2B industry websites to its name, analyzes 2009 hardware industry development trends.

With the 2009 financial crisis, the hardware industry, as a basic industry, is also faced with opportunities and crises. How will hardware marketing, regional developments, and the hardware market in general respond in 2009?

According to analyst forecasts, by 2010, China's hardware manufacturing levels will be markedly improved, with some enterprises expected to reach the international advanced level. By 2020, China's hardware manufacturing sector overall will reach the international advanced level. Therefore, the metal products industry has great potential with broad market prospects.

In 2009, the new trend of regional hardware is to foster industrial clusters, forming regional development. At the location of industrial clusters, both at home and abroad, customers, distributors and suppliers are brought together. A variety of the latest market information, product information and technical information will also be available, which will be a source of innovation. Clusters within a variety of information exchanges become more frequent. In addition, competition within the cluster, as well as personnel exchanges between enterprises will also make enterprises put more emphasis on studying while also reducing the cost of study. They will be more prone to lead with a learning effect.

New trends in decorative hardware are ornamental and intelligent. In recent years, people's aesthetics have changed and requirements and standards have become higher for decorative hardware: pleasing in appearance with prominent personality. Decorative hardware trends are quietly changing. For example: the connection between the drawer's panel and it's next plate is quick-loading, thus making the time-consuming and laborious assembly of furniture and architecture into a building block game, saving time and labour. Some of the products favoured by the market use copper or stainless steel, nylon for the substrate to processing, chromium plating for surfaces, and Ti plating, nickel plating, zirconium plating and baking paint methods for decoration.

Hardware Products in 2009 will focus on intelligent designs suitable for all people. Adjustable hardware fittings will be popular. In addition, a number of intelligent products will also be popular, such as voice controlled furniture hardware (http://www.cheaponsale.com/buy-furniture_hardware/ ), making use of one's voice to close doors.

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Online Travel Marketing Conference Online Revealed Introduces B2B Expo to Agenda

TORONTO, ONTARIO - Canada's leading internet travel marketing conference has secured over 20 high profile industry experts from companies including Google, Marketwire, Travelzoo, T4G and many more, to participate in the first ever B2B Expo as part of the annual Online Revealed Conference, which will take place at the iconic Canadian destination of Niagara Falls this April 13-15, 2009.

The conference, which is being held at the Sheraton on the Falls Hotel and Conference Centre, has evolved a unique program focussed on educating and sharing best practices in marketing tourism online and has successfully joined a community of travel professionals and tourism suppliers to connect, share and educate about how to reach a consumer audience that is rapidly changing.

"The B2B expert is a unique opportunity for conference attendees to meet privately one on one for twenty minutes with up to nine travel and tourism industry suppliers of their choice to discuss their personal online marketing initiatives or concerns" said Edward Perry, Senior Director of E-Commerce, WorldHotels, and Co-Chair of the 2009 Online Revealed Conference. "We are thrilled to have experts to discuss topics from social media marketing to best practices of e-mail marketing, to how to best take advantage of the year of the travel deal - all available at the three hour Expo during the conference."

Online Revealed is attended by leading Canadian destination marketing organizations, provincial marketing organizations, hotel brands, franchise groups, independent hotels, attractions, marketing and tourism technology suppliers and beyond.

Interested suppliers can take advantage of this opportunity to take their place amongst travel industry icons Google, TripAdvisor, Travelzoo, TravelAlerts, T4G and QuickMobile, by visiting www.onlinerevealed.com.

Produced by A Couple of Chicks e-Marketing and RadonicRodgers Design+Marketing, the online travel marketing conference is expected to attract over 300 attendees who will hear about marketing destinations online, everything Google, social media marketing, maintaining your company reputation online, integrating online and offline spending and much more. Sponsorship opportunities are still available.

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B2B Marketers Gain Big Results from Marketing Automation Solution

B2B marketers have always been eager to accelerate the sales cycle and help their companies win more deals. But as the economy slumps, companies are making substantial cuts in budgets and resources, leaving marketers needing to do more with less and still deliver value to the bottom line.

WorkForce Software is a leading manufacturer of complex policy and employee compliance management solutions. Its software automates interactions between an employer and its work force, resulting in lower payroll processing costs, compliance with state and federal regulations, and increased productivity and employee satisfaction.

The company's marketing department faced a unique challenge in that its prospects have widely varied business titles, ranging from chief financial officer to payroll director to VP of HR. Because similar job functions have different titles depending on the industry, WorkForce Software had trouble qualifying leads that entered the marketing queue through its Web site.

“After reviewing our lead generation process, we saw a huge gap in our knowledge about the readiness of our prospects in terms of budget, buying intention, business challenges and timeline," said Bob Gallagher, vice president of marketing, WorkForce Software. "Due to the nature of our products and the vastly different buyers we do business with, it was critical to get these prospects engaged with our marketing programs in order to start collecting the information needed to efficiently uncover a growing number of well-defined opportunities. We made a decision to look at marketing automation platforms to achieve this goal."

WorkForce Software reviewed five vendors before choosing Silverpop Engage B2B (formerly Vtrenz). "We had a great desire to work with a proven, mature vendor and Engage B2B had the ability to meet our business needs through automated marketing scenarios that could be executed without any special programming," Gallagher said.

Like so many other marketing operations these days, WorkForce Software's marketing team needed to:

* Collect demographic data from its leads
* Maintain ongoing contact with prospects identified as not yet ready to buy through a lead nurturing program
* Score leads to determine at what stage in the buying cycle each lead is at and move those deemed ready-to-buy to sales

Silverpop Engage B2B allowed WorkForce Software's marketing team to accomplish its goals quickly and effectively.

“Marketing has always been ROI-driven, but it has become even more so with the current economic issues companies are facing," said Bill Nussey, CEO of Silverpop. "Additionally, marketers are increasingly called upon to do more with less, and that is driving a growing interest in lead-management solutions with sound analytics and strong marketing-automation capabilities."

Within 60 days of implementing Silverpop Engage B2B, WorkForce Software was able to reengineer its lead qualification process to ensure incoming leads were providing valuable, self reported information that is ultimately turning into more sales opportunities. Through a combination of Engage B2B email campaigns and an increased investment in pay-per-click advertising, WorkForce Software experienced a 400 percent increase in the number of "Contact Us" and "Demonstration Request" leads coming in through its Web site.

"Now that we have put structure around how to identify quality leads, we can segment those leads by the information gathered during the lead qualification process," said Gallagher. “Sales only acts on qualified leads sent to them via the Salesforce.com integration, which is saving both time and valuable resources."

Source: http://www.crm2day.com/

Sellers in kolkata

A seller is a person who sells something in exchange of money. When we need to buy something it is a selling person or a company that we look for. We go the market or shops and ask the shopkeepers about the thing that we are looking for. If it is available we buy it and if it is not we ask other shopkeepers or sellers. For business concerns, selling is the ultimate mission. Manufacturing and trading companies their products, while service providers sell their services. But the higher authorities of companies do not involve themselves directly with the selling operations. They take their goods and services to the doorstep of customers through a group of people, whom we call sellers. For both general people and business concerns, finding out a seller or a group of sellers in a particular place is very important.

When you are looking for a product or service, which is available locally, finding out a seller is not a big deal. But what will you do if you are looking for a seller or a group of sellers who have operations in a completely different part of the world? How will you get to know about sellers of a particular product or service in a particular city of the world, if as a business-owner, you are eyeing an operation there? The process of searching and finding information has however become an effortless job these days, thanks to the rapid progress of information technology. Today information on everything in this world is easily available on the internet. One just needs to put his /her queries on the search engine and the rest is just a matter of seconds.

As far as searching for information related to business activities are concerned, the B2B portals (business-to-business) are the best option. Planned and designed specially to cater to the needs of business-class people, these B2B portals serve the purpose of guidebooks and yellow pages. Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal is among the largest and most well developed cities in India and a strong base of international commercial operations. The city has got a very strong trade relation with a number of reputed companies that are based in different other parts of the world. They earn huge revenue from the markets in Kolkata by selling their products through their agents.

As a company-owner you too might discover the markets in Kolkata as profit zone, but to bag revenue from here you need to know about the sellers in Kolkata, who deal with different types of products. The Kolkata-based B2B portals could be very useful guides for you here. The city-based B2B portals are loaded with lists of sellers in the city, who deal with a variety of goods and products.

Just as people all over the world search for sellers, the sellers too look for good buyers and enlist their names in these B2B portals so that people could get to know about them easily. Even if you are A seller is a person who sells something in exchange of money. When we need to buy something it is a selling person or a company that we look for.

Source: http://www.bignews.biz