OTE

About OTE

Online Trade Expo (OTE) is an international online business to business, virtual trade show. It is an ongoing virtual event that showcases your products or services as a seller or service provider to qualified buyers worldwide, 365 days a year. For buyers we bring quality and verified sellers to one location for you to explore and connect with the sources for the products and services you need.

We feel Your Pain!

OTE staff have been involved in every aspect of the trade show business from planning through manning, booths ranging from fold aways to multimillion dollar multilevel exhibits with conference rooms, elaborate multimedia presentations, and every bell & whistle imaginable. We know intimately the cost in resources to a company.

OTE have also been on both sides of the quest for sources, OTE staff know the immense amount of time and energy required to find sources and as a source to find buyers. By creating an easy to use and easy to search industry specific platform for sellers and buyers to connect on we hope to make your job easier.

A Necessary Evil

The quandry is, despite the expense and not just monetary, but also in manpower and time, it is still necessary to exhibit and attend shows if one is to compete. If you are not at the shows and not spending the enormous investment of resources then you are dead in the water.

Strategic Planning

OTE was designed to be one of hopefully many virtual trading centers or virtual trade shows uniting qualified sellers and buyers in a  safe trading environment within their specific industry interests. We serve as an important link in your startegic marketing planning.

Environmentally Friendlier

Considering the energy and resources, a brick & mortar trade show consumes, going virtual even to supplement an active show calendar can help reduce your footprint on the environment while at the same time expanding your resources for products and services.

Take Away vs ROI

The costs of particpating in OTE are negligible, considerably less than even one day's expenses at a brick & mortar show. The take away, except for the expansive convention centers and jostling crowds, is much the same but with a hugely positive Return On Investment (ROI). Whether you use OTE as a stand alone solution or to supplement your marketing strategy, either way it makes a ton of sense.

24/7/365

Months ahead of time all the expense and energy builds in momentum to prepare and execute a brick & mortar trade show. It is all focused on an event that happens within the span of only a few days. OTE is an ongoing virtual event, a showroom of your products or services that is available every single day of the year, 24 hours a day, open for business and accessible from any of billions of PC and mobile internet connections worldwide.

SEO

Having a website is an absolute requirement to do business today. BUT, a standalone website is nothing but a flyspeck on the global web. Getting (and keeping) traffic to it is as time consuming a task as running your business. With your OTE membership you are easily searchable on the OTE site, not buried somewhere in those millions of search returns on Google or Yahoo. On OTE you are within an industry specific online platform whose organic and regular SEO activity, viral, promotional and social networking efforts work to bring qualified buyers from around the globe to you.

 

The International Gift Expo

Our initial site is dedicated to the International Gift Industry because of it's reach to an incredibly diverse sampling of industries and product types. From home based businesses and cottage industries to large scale manufacturers, publishers and suppliers, the International Gift Industry plays a vital part in the balance of trade across the broadest spectrum of consumer buying.