Customs Compliance Specialists

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Still working on eCustoms

I notice you're still editing the eCustoms article. Might I suggest slapping an {{inuse}} tag on the page until you're done so that other editors won't interfere with your work? BigNate37 19:57, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Please don't add more than one page for the same subject

I changed your article at eCustoms, Inc. to be a redirect to eCustoms. BigNate37 20:23, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Please do not add commercial links or links to your own private websites to Wikipedia, as you did in Logistics. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of external links. You are, however, encouraged to add content instead of links. See the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. BigNate37 20:31, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

eCustoms, etc.

Hello: I wanted to tell you that a small story about us appeared in the following link: http://www.securitysales.com/t_ci_newsView.cfm?nid=3020

I also wanted to find out if we could add content about our president Rajiv Manucha. He is very special in that he saw a business niche (customs compliance) more than 25 years ago, building the company into a leading provider of global import/export compliance solutions. Is this something we could do, or do you need us to provide the information for you to write. Thank you. -- Customs Compliance Specialists (July 31, 2006)

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Hi I was pleasantly surprised to see our listing expanded. That's wonderful! Thank you.

There is one thing though: the link on point 2) goes to a website that is neither us nor IOMA. Is it possible for you to take that away for the time being. In the meantime, I will try to get a replacement link into the IOMA archive. Is this alright? -- Customs Compliance Specialists.

Let me know when you have the link. BigNate37_T·C 15:08, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Have this link yet? BigNate37_T·C 23:41, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Hello... Thanks for your help in getting our entry in. Really, really appreciate your understanding. If we wanted to give a somewhat fuller account of ourselves, how would we go about accomplishing that? -- Customs Compliance Specialists.

Hi. Out of curiosity, who will be talking about this topic? Thanks.

I've posted the eCustoms article on Wikipedia:Requests for expansion#June. I'm writing exams and then I'll be out of town; I won't be able to get to working on the article for at least this week. BigNate37 18:43, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Hello again. I have put together a list of places where some of our news and columns are published on the Web. Some of our stories and press releases that were once on the web have gone, but I hope that this selection gives you a good idea that we are interacting within our field and that we are a company that is taken seriously by supply chain magazine publishers, the business community and the government.

1) This is a 2004 ranking of export software. Our solution, MSR Visual Exporter, tied for first place among export managers at large corporations (500 employees and over category). The full name of our company is MSR eCustoms. IOMA, the Institute of Management and Administration, is a New York-based producer of newsletters, research reports, conferences, workshops etc. for experiences middle and senior management business executives. http://www.gasp-fr.com/me_review_2004.asp

2) News of our partnership with Headwater Technology published in Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine in January 2006. The Arizona-based magazine focuses on providing intelligence for business executives in the business of Sourcing, Procurement, Logistics, Operations, and Demand Management. Headwater is a specialist in supply chain execution from warehouse management to transportation system. http://www.sdcexec.com/article_arch.asp?article_id=8187

3) This is a column by Jackson Wood, which was published in the October 2005 issue of Multichannel Merchant magazine, a Connecticut based publication that focuses on business processes from manufacturing to supply chains. (Jackson Wood is eCustoms’ Corporate Business Manager). http://multichannelmerchant.com/mag/rule_law_1001/

4) One of our press releases published in USA Export Import, a U.S.-based Export-Import Industry b2b portal and directory http://www.usaexportimport.com/exim/modules/news/article.php?storyid=194 The same release in Today’s Trucking magazine (cached): http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:2ixrNG0AGSYJ:todaystrucking.com/displayarticle.cfm%3FID%3D4118+ecustoms+today%27s+trucking&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3

5) This is an article about the new highway import security system being put in place by U.S. customs along the border with Canada and Mexico. We took part in the story. The story was published in Truck News in the autumn of 2005. (We were even given a good plug by FedEx). Truck News is a sister magazine of Canadian Transportation and Logistics, which focuses on supply chain management issues. http://www.trucknews.com/BorderBound/technology.pdf

6) Listed as one of 50 Best Managed Private Companies (The Financial Post) for 1994. Management Systems Resources is what we were known as back then. The Acronym is MSR. http://www.lib.uwo.ca/business/1994best.htm

7) Listed by the U.S. State Department as a Certified Automated Export System (AES) software vendor (scroll down to page 5). http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/aes/aes-vendors.pdf

8) Listed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection as a certified ACE Electronic Truck Manifest software developer. http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/toolbox/about/modernization/carrier_info/electronic_truck_manifest_info/electronic_truck_dps.xml

9) Listed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection as a company certified to provide Automated Broker Interface software for importers into the U.S. (Note here we are listed simply as eCustoms). http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/import/operations_support/automated_systems/abi/getting_started/vendor.ctt/vendor.doc

10) Listed as computer services provider affiliate member of the National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America. (Note: again, we are listed as eCustoms). http://www.ncbfaa.org/affiliatemembersite/computers/three/three.htm

Let me know what you think. Once again, thanks very much for your help and patience! -- Customs Compliance Specialists

I'm going to put a copy of this on the talk page of the article itself. BigNate37 20:21, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks very much for your help. I will get as much info as I can to you including rankings (one of Ontario's best managed private companies (Financial Post), one of the most popular providers of export software solutions among export managers of large companies (IOMA)). There are several articles in which we were quoted recently. Some of the articles were published over a decade ago(including Globe and Mail), but we can give you PDFs. In this case, how can we get the PDFs to you?

I believe that we are worthy of a little listing because we have done quite a lot in our field. But obviously I will leave that up to you and your colleagues to decide after I send over all the information.

Once again, thank you very much for your advice and help.

-- Customs Compliance Specialists

The best way to get PDFs to me or other potentially offline content is to find it (or put it) on the internet. It needs to be available to other editors if it is going to be used to make a lasting contribution on Wikipedia. Remember, statistics are better than qualifiers like "best". BigNate37 01:41, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

The following three paragraphs copied from User talk:BigNate37:

We would like to post some basic information about our company, eCustoms. We have been quoted in magazine articles, we have columns published in magazines and we have been involved in one ranking. I realize that we aren't IBM or Nike, but we are well known in our field: that of being a developer of import/export compliance systems. As I mentioned, we have appeared in many magazines -- notable supply chain magazines -- over the years. We have been in our niche for over 25 years. Any suggestions you can give to help us list in your Company listing section would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. -- Customs Compliance Specialists.

The first thing you would want to do is remove the {{prod}} tag (PROD stands for proposed deletion) from the article. You're allowed to outright remove a {{prod}}, more on how to contest proposed deletion at WP:PROD. Because it is strongly suggested that you do not write about yourself, you are likely to meet more opposition to your article because of that. Now, I'm not suggesting you create a sock puppet or anything like that. Myself and many other editors would be happy to expand your article, for instance before you created it you could have requested it to be created instead. At this point, the best course of action (and still a good one) would be to request an editor to work on your article.

Personally, I do not have much time to lend to researching topics. If you would like me to work on your company's article, I would be happy to insert content for you if you could point me to some neutral third-party information about eCustoms on the internet. As another alternative, you could ask other editors for help, or visit Wikipedia:Requests to see all the ways you can ask for help regarding Wikipedia. Thanks for coming by to drop a note, it is very nice to see that you're willing to chat about the article. BigNate37 17:22, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

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Nomination of ECustoms for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article ECustoms is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/ECustoms until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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