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Company registration form

Please:

• Make sure that it's the kind of company that is interesting enough for thevisitors of this site to be listed. Visitors of this site are users of chips,so PCB designers, repair people, electronics students, embedded systemsprogrammers, chip brokers, chip distributors and many more.
• You save me time by not registering any other companies like casino's etc.
• Make sure it's clear what kind of company you are. That really savesme time. I take these registrations very serious but sometimes it takes me15 minutes or more to figure out what a company mainly does. Looking at WWWsites is often very interesting but when I'm busy adding 100 new companiesit's not very efficient. So please make sure to use any of the methods belowto make clear what it is that your company basically does. If you do somethingvery vague with chips, please explain in the comment field. But don't worry,I'm interested in chips since about 1977 and later became an 'ingenieur',so I'm not easily surprised.
• Don't use this form to ask urgent questions. I usually handle theseforms all at once a few weeks before I publish a new version of the Chipdir.So email me instead. I spend a lot of time on answering email.
• Try to use proper English as much as possible. I'm used to correcting a lotof errors very quickly by now, but some entries need a lot of cleaning up:Don't use all-caps text, don't use unnecessary abbreviations, don't use a point after the state abbreviation.
• Try to give the telephone number in theformat +(country)-(city)-(callee), so in the USA something like: +1-234-567-8901.Split the callee number when it's too large and make the last group 4 digits.Don't use something like +1-(0)123-456-7890 to indicate what your countrymenneed to dial they are clever enough to recognise their own country codeand leave it out, and if not they will learn quickly ;-)Don't use spaces to seperate digits, use dashes ('-') instead.
• In the text about the company, try to write it in the third person plural, so:'They ...' or write the whole text as 'We ...' (not prefered). Don't repeat theplace of location or the URL or an email address and don't ask people to lookat the site: They will when they are interested in your product range.
• Please try to avoid management level words like 'leading', 'biggest','solution', 'advanced', 'good service' and 'quality' etc. These words makethe texts very unreadable for professionals and I will probably removethem anyway. (Only mention it when you're non-leading, non-professionaland don't sell 'solutions' and they are of low quality. Get my drift? ;-)
• Try to write it from the viewpoint of the reader not from that of thecompany. What would the potential customer want to read about the company?(Probably: Small history, focus/products).
• When you're a small chip making company try to list all the chips and theirdescription. You can also send it seperately by email to me later.

Your information will almost certainly be included in the next version of the Chipdir.