Notify users when port services are interrupted. Offer your own traditional services online. Build your web site as a one-stop shop so that buyers and sellers can find the information they need in one place. Other services for exporters that cost little to implement are currency exchange-rate calculators, news feeds, shipping movements. Encourage arrangements with industryspecific portal sites.
International buyers source through industry-specific sites before they look at geographic sites.
Rather than focusing exclusively on featuring your national exporters on one TPO portal, develop arrangements and links that feature your exporters on industry-specific exchange sites that you have evaluated. Help exporters to decide when it is wise to invest in their own Internet site, and when it is better to work through existing marketplaces. Encourage local software and content development. One by-product of growing Internet use is an explosion of demand for Internet application software services for local languages and cultures. It is much better if this demand can be satisfied from within your country.