ITALIANMODA NEWSLETTER The Newsletter for the Users of the ItalianModa Business-to-Business Marketplace published four times a year APRIL 2003 Issue #8 Maurizio Verga, Editor, info@italianmoda.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- By subscription only! Welcome to your next issue of "ITALIANMODA NEWSLETTER". You are receiving this newsletter because you requested a subscription or claimed interest in ItalianModa. Unsubscribe instructions are at the end of this Newsletter. ------------------------------------------------------------ IN THIS ISSUE ------------------------------------------------------------ => "Product Display": more Italian Items! => New Companies in the Marketplace => The new ModaDisplay Box => Try the ItalianModa ToolBar for IE 6 => Spotlight on ... => The first E-Catalog of Italian Textile Designs => The ItalianModa E-Catalog Technology for your Company! ------------------------------------------------------------ SPONSORSHIP NOTICE ------------------------------------------------------------ Have you ever tried to resist crystal? Visit Swarovski at Linea Pelle, Bologna, 6-8 May 2003. Still can't get enough? Be inspired by accessories artwork at the Crystal Obsession Exhibition, No Code Gallery, Bologna, 7-8 May 2003. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;5386171;7976466;b?http://business.swarovski.com/accessories/ ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ "PRODUCT DISPLAY": MORE ITALIAN ITEMS! ------------------------------------------------------------ ItalianModa expands the range of its services allowing international professional buyers to know better the offer of the Italian companies joining the Marketplace. After a search or a listing in a Category of the ItalianModa Directory you may find a red button below the data of each company. The button is labelled "Product Display". Click it and you will get a new window with a display of four Items showing a tiny yet comprehensive selection of the current collection of that same company. Pictures and descriptions of these items are updated often, so don't forget to return frequently to the ItalianModa Marketplace and have a look at the "Product Display" service: you will find more and more new Items! If you want to ask for more details to that company you can click the yellow button "E-Mail" placed just below the company data. Clicking each picture displayed within the "Product Display" window, you will get a new window with an enlarged view of that picture. Click the left picture and you will get an outstanding Zoom effect, while still viewing the whole picture in the right pane. ------------------------------------------------------------ NEW COMPANIES IN THE MARKETPLACE ------------------------------------------------------------ Some of the very latest companies joining the ItalianModa Marketplace: DILIAR Very fine Nightwear and Women's Beachwear PELLETTERIA MASSI Quality Leather Belts for Men's and Women's MANIFATTURA FARIOLI Fine Table Linens and Table Cloths IL TRIFOGLIO Men's, women's and children's Clothing PHOENIX TEXTILES Fashion fabrics for clothing STILE Model Development and Style for Apparel Companies NUBIAN 1880 Leader in products for leather care (shoes, handbags) COMEDIT Sportswear and Private Label Clothing FADA TESSUTI Full range of fashion clothing fabrics ICAS Leader in hats and headwear CONFEZIONI MYMODA Women's knitwear at affordable price CMM Classic and fashion men's shirts Go to http://www.italianmoda.com/storefronts to visit the company Storefronts. More new companies join ItalianModa weekly ! *------------------HOT TIP-------------------* Do you want to deliver a Request For Quotation (RFQ) about a product or service to many possible Italian suppliers? Just fill in the simple form at http://www.italianmoda.com/reverse You'll get feedback direct from the companies joining ItalianModa! *------------------HOT TIP-------------------* -------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE NEW MODADISPLAY BOX -------------------------------------------------------------------------- When running a search or browsing a Category in the Directory you can see a new column on the right of your screen. This is the new "ModaDisplay Box", a selection of four Products randomly taken from all of the Electronic Catalogs individually managed by several Italian manufacturers joining the ItalianModa Marketplace. Each Product comes with a picture, a description and its wholesale price (if available). This is a great way to find quickly the manufacturer(s) able to supply to your company the products you have been looking for! Just click the Product you are interested in and you will get a new window with the entry page of the Electronic Catalog of that manufacturer. Please remind that before entering EACH Catalog you must register with EACH of them (just follow the link below the Log In request). Try an example clicking http://www.italianmoda.com/LinkSearch.cfm?search=bra ! ------------------------------------------------------------ TRY THE ITALIANMODA TOOLBAR FOR IE 6 ------------------------------------------------------------ Try our new great tool able to improve your business with Italian Textile or Fashion Companies! Go to http://www.italianmoda.it/toolbar now! You can download and install your FREE copy of the new ItalianModa ToolBar for Internet Explorer 6 (Windows edition). The ToolBar is a terrific tool installing in your IE browser. You will always be able to go to most sections of the ItalianModa Marketplace even without remembering its address or run a search in the ItalianModa database when looking for new wholesale Suppliers to source your next "made in Italy" merchandise. You have also direct access to the other textile B2B Marketplaces of the ItalianModa Network! You can even use the ItalianModa ToolBar to run any type of search through the most important international Search Engines (Google, Altavista, AllTheWeb, MSN Search) and Directories (Yahoo) or Metasearch services (DogPile). Simply and quickly, just from your browser program! Install your FREE copy of the ItalianModa ToolBar at http://www.italianmoda.it/toolbar now! *------------------HOT TIP-------------------* If you need to find a product or company and you have no time to do it by yourself you may use the Free "Moda Advisor" service at http://www.italianmoda.com/advisor *------------------HOT TIP-------------------* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SPOTLIGHT ON ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Have a look at the right column of the ItalianModa main page at http://www.italianmoda.com/index.cfm ! You can see the new "Spotlight on ..." section, where a leading Italian manufacturer will be highlighted each month. Click the link inside the section and you will learn more about that company and how it can be your best supplier! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE FIRST E-CATALOG OF ITALIAN TEXTILE DESIGNS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ If you are a company manufacturing printed or Jacquard fabrics you are certainly interested in more and more designs to make your fabrics even more attractive. ItalianModa has developed, for one of its customers, the first Electronic Catalog devoted to the presentation and sales of Textile Designs. You can visit it at http://www.texdesigns.com (registration is required). TEXDESIGNS offers over 600 designs in a dozen of main Categories, but this number will increase month after month. You can browse the design archive or search a specific design, select it and pay by Credit Card. After the transaction you can download the image file of the design in order to process it with any image processing software or Textile CAD system. Designs are offered at very reasonable rates (as low as 80 Euro, while some are at an astonishing low 50 Euro!) and are available also on an exclusive basis. Technical versions of each design, ready to be processed by a Jacquard CAD system, are available for an additional fee. All of these designs come from the Textile Archive of one of oldest and largest design studios of Como, Italy. Visit TEXDESIGNS now at http://www.texdesigns.com ! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE ITALIANMODA E-CATALOG TECHNOLOGY FOR YOUR COMPANY! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ItalianModa.com company has developed a cutting-edge technology for the deployment and management of an advanced Business-to-Business (B2B) Electronic Catalog exclusively aimed at the textile and fashion industry. More than 33 leading Italian companies are already using such an unprecedented business tool, allowing them to show their products, collect requests for samples, and receive orders. This full-featured B2B E-Catalog is completely managed by your company through your Internet connection and your favorite browser. Despite the outstanding quantity of functions and settings, it is very easy to use and allows your sales department to introduce your textile or fashion products to prospects, customers and agents 24 hours a day. The E-Catalog data structure (Categories, Item Sheet, etc ...) is completely customized for your company. You can even manage very different products from the textile or fashion industry (for example: shoes and neckties) with extreme flexibility. Our B2B E-Catalog technology may be rented or purchased at very attractive rates. ItalianModa.com offers hosting services too, in order to deploy the E-Catalog very quickly and without any trouble for you. If you are a manufacturing company or a wholesale/distributor the ItalianModa E-Catalog technology is your ultimate business tool! Showing and selling textiles and fashions needs special features you can find only in the ItalianModa E-Catalog! Using an all-purpose software for electronic commerce can seriously jeopardize your business opportunities! You may test our technology visiting our DEMO E-Catalog at this address: http://www.italianmoda.info/catalogo Log in with Username: imoda Password: test Please remember this is a DEMO E-Catalog, so nothing is really on sale! Just have a look around and test the many facilities as if you were a customer visiting your next Electronic Catalog! Our technology includes also a full-featured "Back Office" section, where your company has total control over the Electronic Catalog. If you want to learn more about the ItalianModa B2B Electronic Catalog technology and how it can help your company to sell better and more, please feel free to write to info@italianmoda.com now! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright 2003 ItalianModa.com Srl ------------------------------------------------------------ List Maintenance: To subscribe Go to http://www.italianmoda.com/newsletter/newsletter.cfm To unsubscribe Go to http://www.italianmoda.com/newsletter/newsletter.cfm ------------------------------------------------------------ ItalianModa.com Srl mailto:info@italianmoda.com via Carlo Moreschi 60 22072 Cermenate (Como) ITALY ------------------------------------------------------------ SPONSORSHIP NOTICE ------------------------------------------------------------ Have you ever tried to resist crystal? Visit Swarovski at Linea Pelle, Bologna, 6-8 May 2003. Still can't get enough? Be inspired by accessories artwork at the Crystal Obsession Exhibition, No Code Gallery, Bologna, 7-8 May 2003. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;5386171;7976466;b?http://business.swarovski.com/accessories/ ------------------------------------------------------------