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PPC puts smart interactive technology to work for customers.

Tuesday, 8th December 2009


Thanks to PPC's anchor sponsorship of www.buildmind.net, building contractors, concrete product manufacturers, material suppliers and building service vendors are now free to market their services on-line - and to use BuildMind's Facebook-like tools to source leads, opportunities, trends, information, opinion, products, events and skills - simply.

‘PPC's sponsorship of BuildMind membership for our customers is part of a plan to add real value to our customers businesses into the future. BuildMind now gives our customers access to 21st century technology that will help customers to grow their businesses and operate more efficiently' said Richard Tomes, Sales Director at PPC

BuildMind is an on-line building industry specific networking programme that puts everyone in Southern Africa's construction sector in one room - virtually. Powered by The Virtual Works award-winning Web 2.0 technology, BuildMind gives anyone in the building industry the functionality to create and self-manage a business, service and product profile - ensuring that they're instantly matched to visitors needs by the sites powerful search engine and reached through smart messaging and communication tools. Member's profiles are also used to match relevant articles, news and information to each

Project alerts and leads are posted to BuildMind by DataBuild daily and automatically matched to members profiles. The site also gives members the functionality to network and collaborate with specification professionals and project teams.

Given that the toughening market conditions are forcing most construction industry businesses to find more innovative and efficient ways to market and operate, the BuildMind network will prove to be extremely valuable to small and medium sized building industry enterprises.

BuildMind is also sponsored by Plascon, St Gobain, Autodesk, DataBuild, Industry Insight and the Cement and Concrete Institute.

To sign-up go to http://www.buildmind.net/

 
Source: Buildmind


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