As RFP-EZ is tested and scaled, a new effort will be launched to improve Federal procurement by building a portal of prices paid by agencies under their contracts.

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The company has been building a small business content portal for many years, in addition to a strong website builder and tools to manage a website and marketing.

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The real money is in building up the site as a portal in its own right, with advertising, discussion groups and even an online bazaar with products distinctive to each country.

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Most plan to make money by selling advertising on their own Web portals, and in the portal game capturing a large number of consumer eyeballs is an essential first step towards building a viable business.

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Killen is making the same kind of push into overseas corporations that Yahoo has started in the U.S. In this case the "corporate portal" that Yahoo builds for a company has a link to a local-language Yahoo, building the local brand.

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