eCom Advertising, the owner of the website, has announced that in its endeavour to provide a better service to its clients has set up a private messaging system. Registered users of the website can contact other registered members while online at 2merkato.com or, for example in case of trade leads, they can directly contact the owner of the trade lead.
Meanwhile, it's also been learnt that traders from China, Turkey, India and Ethiopia are posting their buying and selling trade leads and many are listing their companies in the business directory. This is believed to enhance import export trade done on the internet through the trade lead section of the website. Currently, posting buying and selling trade leads is a free service provided by www.2merkato.com. Ethiopian importers or exporters or foreign suppliers or buyers can use the trade leads service without any charge; they just have to register - for free.
Based on the statistics found from Google Analytics, the website has been visited by viewers from 101 countries; chief among them are Ethiopia (28% visits), USA (21% visits), China (9% visits), Turkey (7%visits), Turkey (4%visits) and United Kingdom (4%). And we have seen a steady growth in the number of hits (visits) and page views; there is a 75% growth in visits and a 110% growth in page views compared to the start of 2009.
