Need to know if
a company pays its bills?
Before you do business with anyone, it is
good to know the likelihood you will get paid. As markets become more competitive and
dynamic the decisions you make on doing business with prospects,
customers and partners and the terms you extend can be the difference
between success and failure.
The key to managing these risks is business
information. Dun & Bradstreet's suite of products lets you do
everything from verifying a business' existence to understanding in detail
its payment and financial history so you can extend the most appropriate
payment terms.
Here at ABNsearch you can immediately
verify if a business exists and is GST registered - for free. If you are
looking to develop a trading relationship with a business - it will pay to
know more.
If you need to understand a firm's overall profile - from its
background, principals and operations to its legal and payment
record - consider ordering a D&B Company Check.
A D&B Company Check delivers instant information on:
- Directors
- Shareholdings
- Line of Business
- Court Actions
- Registered Charges
- Dynamic Delinquency Score
- a fresh ASIC extract
If you require an in-depth analysis of all aspects of a company before
pursuing high risk opportunities with a firm - consider ordering a D&B
Report
A D&B Report is the foundation for evaluating medium to high risk
decisions and includes everything in a D&B Company Check plus
financial information, trade payment information, banking and the Dynamic Risk Score.
Both of these products are available right here on ABNsearch - simply
find the business you are interested in and follow the links at the bottom
of the page to order. If you think your business needs this type of
information on a regular basis or you would like to learn more about other
products, take a look at our home site, http://www.dnb.com.au
or talk to one of customer service representatives on 13 23 33 to have
these products explained in more detail.
Interested in researching companies &
their activities?
A well-executed business plan is usually backed up with accurate and timely research. Whether you are
entering a new market, analysing competitors or simply getting the right
background information before that crucial sales call, you want the best business information available.
Dun & Bradstreet has published the leading business
information sources in Australia for many years - but the important news
is these publications are now available, updated nightly, right here in
your browser!
For detailed information on the top
20,000 companies in Australia look no further than the popular Business
Who's Who of Australia. (http://bww.dnb.com.au) Annual
subscribers can access the service whenever they wish and can use the
service to:
- Identify companies in specific industry sectors
- Locate companies by geographic region
- Identify and contact senior decision-makers and their company affiliations
- Determine exporting and importing companies and their trading regions
- Identify company affiliations
- Research competitor activity
- Look up client lists of banks, solicitors, auditors, accountants and insurance brokers
- Search for the highest revenue-earners
- Link to a company’s Internet Home Page from the company record
- Create their own telemarketing or mail-merge data
If your interest is primarily in publicly listed companies in Australia & New Zealand, the
most comprehensive information is found in the well-known Jobson's
Online. (http://jobsons.dnb.com.au)
The premier source for over 70 years on companies listed on the ASX & NZSX - Jobson's
Online - features detailed data on over 1,400 industrial and mining
companies with in-depth profiles on their operations and financial data.
If you would like to know more about the other research and marketing
products available, go to the Dun & Bradstreet Marketing site at http://www.dnb.com.au/marketing
Want to find more customers?
Every business needs more customers and, if your
customers are other businesses, you know the value of targeting the right
prospects.
Effective marketing is all about getting your message in
front of the right people and, if direct marketing through mail, call
campaigns, face-to-face selling & market research is part of your
strategy, you know how important data quality is to succeed.
Dun & Bradstreet's databases can help you locate the
businesses you want to target by letting you select the industry, company
size, executive titles and locations.
You can order a marketing list of companies in the same
industry as any business you are interested in right here at ABNsearch.
When you are making an ABN check take a look at the number of companies
available in the same industry by rolling your cursor over the
"Let me Market to more companies like this one" prompt.
The list can be ordered on-line straight away, the file comma-separated
which you can import directly into your own contacts
management program or spreadsheet for use in mailing.
To create marketing records with customised criteria for
business selection try out MarketNet (http://marketnet.dnb.com.au),
the complete solution for sourcing marketing data online.
Someone owe you money?
Outstanding accounts can not only adversely affect
your cash flow, but can impact your entire business. Maintaining excellent
client relations while trying to recover past due accounts is a time-consuming and tricky process.
With 150 years in the business, we understand the value of having an experienced partner providing
high levels of customer support to achieving your receivables objectives.
You are better off sticking to what you do best - running your
business, and leave your collection needs to us.
The advantages of maintaining a partnership with Dun & Bradstreet’s Receivable
Management Services is our focus on working with you to control your
accounts receivable simply and professionally. We can help you in
Australia, New Zealand and Internationally.
As a client of the service you are provided with constant up-to-date information about the progress
of your accounts through our Receivable Management System. You'll also
enjoy rapid resolution to your debt recovery problems. Seventy percent of
all accounts placed with Dun & Bradstreet are collected before legal
action is necessary. In fact, accounts placed with us that are less than
150 days old could be settled within 21 days.
For more information on D&B’s Receivable Management Services please call 13 23 33.
Improve your records of customers & suppliers
Maintaining a database of your customers - past and present - can be a
constant drain of business resources and time. Yet it is the
quality of information we hold on our customers that is critical to our understanding
of how to market to them.
If you've ever been frustrated by duplicate
records, wrong addresses, incorrect phone & fax numbers or haven't been able
to identify or analyse the opportunities in your customer file, you'll
know the importance of a quality database.
As our core business is rich
and timely data, we can help you improve your records in a number of
critical ways:
File Cleaning - this process checks and adjusts your existing customer
records to ensure addresses include correct suburb, state and postcodes.
We can also update your phone, fax and modem numbers to the correct
AUSTEL telephone number standards
Filematching - involves matching your customer database against the D&B database; enabling
data to be added to update and enhance your customer records. This is the
starting point for our range of analytical and profiling services.
Don't miss the information here on ABNsearch about our ABN
solutions - which could save you big dollars in making your customer
file ready for the GST. When making your file GST compliant, don't forget
to ask about how our file cleaning and matching services might help you
win more business too.
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