Euroalert shows in MATELEC how to find new business opportunities thanks to commercial intelligence and public procurement

A few days ago our colleague Mai Rodríguez attended the International Trade Fair for the Electrical and Electronics Industry MATELEC. The event gathered in Madrid more than 40.000 professionals of the sector coming from more than 80 different countries.

In this occasion, in addition to meeting some Euroalert partners ans clients, we also took part in the fair celebrating a technical seminar where we showed how it is possible to exploit the information included in public contracts in order to access new business opportunities. For that reason we entitled the seminar “How to created more business opportunities?” Lear to use competitive intelligence tools and techniques in public procurement”.

Whenever we have the opportunity to share these kind of seminars with companies of any size or coming from whatever sector, participants' reactions are quite the same: “is it really possible to extract that information?”, “tracking all that amount of data and putting all of them in order would take hours... days!”. These are the reactions brought by Euroalert commercial tools.

Some of the possibilities that Commercial Intelligence tools in public procurement can bring are, e.g., having tender alerting services which really adapt to one's needs and allow personal management of the profile or getting lists with companies that have been awarded public contracts to get new customers of find new partners. These are some of the features that are worth exploring in order to enhance a commercial strategy or give support to internationalization resources.

You can find here the presentation Mai used in the seminar about how to explore new business opportunities thanks to public procurement information. If you were not in Matelec or could not attend the seminar, or if you wish to have the information in English, you can e-mail us to TenderAlerts@euroalert.net or contact us through Euroalert Twitter profile or in Facebook and we will give you all the information you need.

¿How to create more business opportunities? Learn to use competitive intelligence tools and techniques in public procurement (Spanish version) from euroalert

Euroalert analyses with exporting companies how to get the most from competitive intelligence tools based on public procurement

As you already know Euroalert provides competitive intelligence tools based on public procurement information which help companies from all sectors to access new business opportunities. Being in contact with companies and sharing with them our experience in the management of these type of tools is without any doubt one of the most satisfying parts of our job. It is for that reason that since Euroalert was invited to be in the panel of a seminar about public procurement opportunities for Irish construction companies organised by Enterprise Ireland a couple of years ago, it is always a pleasure for us to take part in seminars and workshops whenever one of our partners invites us to talk about these opportunities with their businesses.

The last occasion was on 26 April at a seminar organised by the Spanish Association for the Internationalisation of the Electronics, Information Technology and Telecommunications Companies (Secartys). In this seminar we briefly went through the current situation of public procurement in the European Union and discussed how competitive intelligence techniques are an important contribution to any company's strategy. We also analysed how key information can be obtained from public procurement and government contract notices by using competitive intelligence tools such as Euroalert's and revised a few examples adapted to their own sector.

In Secartys' website you can access the programme of the seminar about the use of competitive intelligence tools and techniques in the field of public procurement in the European Union (Spanish version). You can also have a look here at the presentation we used during this seminar.

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If you represent a trade association, a chamber of commerce, an export promotion agency or any other kind of organization working with exporting companies, and you think it could be interesting for them to know how they can use these tools to make their businesses grow, do not hesitate to contact us by e-mail or through Euroalert profiles in Twitter, Facebook or Google+. It will be a pleasure to share our experience and help them to achieve their objective for growth.

Euroalert.net meets International Trade at IMEX 2011

Among the activities our Team has prepared for this month, for whom we will give you some more details in the coming days, Euroalert.net will be on May 11th at the Madrid «Fair for International Business and Investment IMEX 2011», one more opportunity for us to meet institutions and businesses who develop their activity in the field of International Trade.

As you already know Euroalert.net has taken the challenge to build up the most complete pan-European platform aggregating information on all public contracts in the European Union which will help us to provide value services for SMEs. Our services and tools on EU Government contracts information are already being used by institutions and companies in many countries in order to improve their results in the public procurement sector outside their home countries, developing their export strategies and Internationalization Plans.

Among the institutions who already trust Euroalert.net to help their companies to export their products and services to foreign countries, there are organizations such as the Irish Trade and Technology Agency Enterprise Ireland, the London Chamber of Commerce or the Export or the International Promotion Agency for Spanish Madrid region PromoMadrid.

We are sure that this will be a perfect occasion for us to meet institutions and companies willing to improve their market intelligence focused in export activities thanks to Euroalert.net information products and services.

If you are in Madrid in May 11th and have the opportunity to stop in IMEX 2011, you can contact us either by e-mail or via Twitter as the Head of Euroalert.net International Department, Mai Rodriguez Entem, will be there all that day and will be pleased to meet you and chat about how Euroalert.net can help you to export.

IMEX 2011 will also run on May 12th, so if you are close to Madrid Municipal Conference Centre, don't forget: you have an appointment with International Trade!