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Investors Overview
Welding.com provides online business-to-business (B2B) services that help small- to medium-sized companies become more efficient, discover new opportunities and reduce the cost of doing traditional business. Welding.com provides:
- Companies to get products and services at a more competitive price
- Companies as easier and effective way to reduce their inventory
- Custom Web site designs
- Business-to-business electronic commerce tools for Web sites
- Web hosting and ISP services
- On-line and CD-ROM catalogs
- Custom database programming
- Internet Consulting
B2B Market Opportunity
Opportunity in the B2B Market is enormous and rapidly growing. The following forcasts by analysts for the technology industry are as follows:
- Many analysts see the B2B sales market exploding from $131 billion, back in 1999 to more than $7.3 trillion by 2004.
Welding.com Market Strategy
Our objective is to exploit these rapidly growing markets by consulting, designing and hosting leading Web sites in the industry. Our strategy to achieve this objective is to create a large multi-national and international customer base in the Welding industry and take advantage of its buying power to provide, high-value applications that enable their customers to evolve into e-businesses. We believe a growing number of members in the industry transacting business on our community (Welding.com) will in turn draw more members to our community. We also believe this growth cycle will help create an effect, where the value to each member in the community increases with the addition of another member, increasing the overall value of our solution. We will achieve this growth by:
- Establishing Welding.com as the premier business-to-business online community Web site for the welding industry.
- Increasing global presence and solution through strategic partnerships to establish Welding.com community internationally.
- Offering a Single Point of Integration into our trading communities for additional third-party service providers.
- Leveraging our Platform using our technical architecture, operating capability, strategic relationships and marketplace experience to rapidly build Welding.com as the premier community for the industry.
- Establishing Market Leadership by targeting large, fragmented markets where we believe aggregation will provide significant value to customers and suppliers.
Additional Welding.com Services
Welding.com has strategic alliance with an information technology consulting business (Headquarters.com Inc.), established in 1994, that can handle back-end or legacy integration for Welding.com's customers who desire to fully incorporate Welding.com into their technology infrastructure. We will therefore be able to provide systems management, security, and technical support.
FAQ
When was Welding.com founded?
Headquarters.Com Inc. founded Welding.com and first registered the domain on October 13, 1995.
When did Welding.com establish presence to the Internet community?
Welding.com recently launched its pilot
business-to-business community in April 2001.
What markets does Welding.com participate
in?
Welding.com provides an online community for the welding
industry. It allows members to access industry-specific content, tools and
services. Welding.com also provides internet consulting and various Web site services to companies in the Welding industry.
What is the primary growth strategy?
Our objective is to create the leading online
business-to-business community in the welding industry. Welding.com is
achieving this goal by providing its community with tools and services that
empower buyers, sellers, and others interested in the industry to get a one-stop shop experience.
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