While U.S. businesses face sub-par economic growth at home, exports to China from the United States continue to expand at a rate of 35% a year. Makopolo, a leading on-line marketplace in China for B2B, enables American companies to successfully sell products and services directly into the China market. With the launch of Makopolo’s web service for selling to China, American companies now have a convenient, affordable and targeted tool to pro-actively market and sell their products into the booming Chinese market for B2B.

San Mateo, CA (EMWNews) August 6, 2008 — American companies of all types and sizes are beginning to target global growth markets to increase sales. The biggest of these, China, is growing at a rate of 13% this year, and is set to experience an unprecedented level of economic expansion in the years to come. But for U.S. businesses it is a market that poses significant challenges, with both the language barrier and the great distances between the two markets.

With Makopolo.com, a leading Chinese marketplace for B2B, American companies can now readily market and sell directly into China. With its headquarters in San Mateo California and with offices in Beijing, Makopolo is uniquely positioned to build a bridge between China and the United States, with a special focus on U.S businesses selling to China. And importantly, companies can gain direct access to the China market without the tricky business of working with off-shore vendors. Makopolo’s sales and support lines operate from 9am to 5pm Pacific Standard time.

Makopolo will take a company’s corporate and product information and translate it into Chinese. It will then post these products on to the Makopolo.cn B2B marketplace. U.S businesses get their products in Chinese on a marketplace hosted on servers located in China for maximum search engine visibility. This is important because U.S. business Web sites operate at a disadvantage: typically they are difficult to access when doing searches on Chinese search engines from within China. For American companies to successfully compete in the Chinese B2B Internet market, they need to have their products in Chinese on servers in China.

Makopolo has been engineered to deliver highly targeted leads. In addition to being posted onto marketplaces for B2B in China, companies get their own Web site with their logo and products, even their own Chinese URL. Leads come in as Requests for Quotes and will be translated into English as a part of a yearly service.

Who needs Makopolo.com? Companies that need to get their products into China: Companies that need an Internet presence directly inside this incredible market opportunity: Companies already established that need to drive more business to their Chinese distributors. With Makopolo.com American companies can get on the inside track to doing more and more business in China, now and for years to come.