This is a high power networking group, members are exclusively NWeSource Clients and Partners – and only those we want to spend time with.  High power personalities, superior customer service, and the strongest of hearts, integrity and power of mission are the qualifications we use as membership criteria!  Do not take an invitation lightly as we will soon be the size of a Chamber of Commerce, with monthly meetings designed to bring you the best information and processes on how to bring your B2B business to life!  Cross promotion, cross marketing, cross merchandising, marketing cost sharing, client synergy and more -these are the buzzwords that will have money making meaning for you and your business in the coming months. With the new Northwest eSource location, this group is primed for a 2010 BLASTOFF!

The time is now – it’s 2010 !!

Our first meeting will be Friday, January 15th at El Indio restaurant for lunch, followed by a tour and short presentation by Charles Montgomery of Northwest eSource at their brand new office next door!

Being an environmentally conscious company they have recently “Gone Green” in their moss removal process and strive to minimize waste of our environmental resources.  They do this by first using a zinc based blend that is not harmful to the environment for killing moss from your property.  They also specialize in maintaining your roof to prevent you from having to tear off and replace it with a new one.  Roofs use a lot of resources and many people end up spending thousands of dollars replacing a roof that they could have had twice as long if they had just maintained it.

JNR Industries offer many services to their clients and strive to give their best in whatever they do, like:

• Tree Trimming
• Roof Cleaning
• Roof Repair and Protection
• Gutter Cleaning
• Moss Control for Roofs, Driveways and Walkways
• Pressuring Washing for your Home, Business, Walkways and Exteriors

With their commitment to the environment and their customer’s satisfaction they are an outstanding service that we proudly recommend to all our readers who may need them.   To find out more about JNR Industries or to get a free estimate go to their website for Portland Roof Cleaning.

On a B2B note, whenever JNR’s clients need a service they don’t offer a direct referral is made within a solid network of service providing contractors.

Quality and performance are what matters to the team at Wheel Kraft NW.  Providing their clients with the best wheel repair service is what they do.  If they can not provide a wheel repair solution, they outsource to someone who can!

They straighten wheels, refinish wheels, and customize wheels.  They save their customers time and money from the cost of replacement and by being a mobile service.  Most importantly they gain the clients trust by putting them first.  Customer loyalty is something a company can not buy.

A Model B2B Model

WheelkraftNW partners with auto dealerships, auto detail shops, and auto repair companies to provide customers with wheel repair services they need through transparent (to the client) outsourcing. “Krafting” these Business to Business (B2B) partnerships has been key to their current expansion and growth.

Teaming up with other businesses in similar industries to provide customers with what they need is a great way to add an additional revenue stream.  You can never go wrong by going the extra mile for your customers, including making a referral to another service provider.  By connecting clients to reputable businesses you can build trust and loyalty with your clients.  It also allows you to start a referral trend with several partner companies, providing each other with solid references and leads.

Designs of All Kinds is a local screen printing, embroidery, and promotional products business serving the Portland and Vancouver area. No matter what products you want to use as promotional items, Designs of All Kinds has you covered. Whether you need personalized banners and signs or things like vehicle wraps, uniforms, hats, sports bags, pens, key chains, magnets, or anything else—there are over 3,000 products available in the online catalog. Your personalized logo and tagline will customize each item you request.

Local Promotional Products and Uniforms – Online

Designs of All Kinds will take the artwork that your company, school, church, sports team, or volunteer group sends and the price you’ve set for each item. One of Designs of All Kinds’ capable designers will work with your team or business managers to make sure the final product is exactly what you wish. After the designs are approved, then these items are recorded in our online catalog under the name of your organization. All you have to do is notify your group of its availability and they can order the items from the online Vancouver Washington promotional products store themselves. Every order is handled online, without you having to handle it yourself.

Fundraising the Right Way!

Aside from the obvious lure of uniforms or customized t shirts for your organization, promotional products are a great way to advertise your group. Creating a list of customized products at Designs of All Kinds is also an easy way to organize a fundraising effort. Because you set the price, if you charge more than what each item costs to create, the extra money will be given to your organization once the fundraising event is over. For more information about organizing a fundraising event, or about any of the available products, please contact one of Designs of All Kinds’ customer service representatives.

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Designs of All Kinds

6016 NE 105th Ave
Vancouver, WA 98662

Phone: 360 892 5597

info@designsofallkinds.com

Portland Human Resources

HR Support is a Portland based small business support services company. With over 12 years of experience in the PEO industry, HR Support provides the highest of quality outsourced human resources services to their clients.  They specialize in small to medium sized  businesses pursuing growth.

HR Support offers business support services that have a value which cannot be measured, including business legal support, payroll management, tax administration, worker’s compensation insurance management, and benefits management. HR Support can alleviate the headaches involved over potentially damaging, time consuming liability issues. Outsourcing your Human Resources Department to HR Support will give you more time to focus on your clients and services. Why waste all your time administrating these details when you and your staff have enough to do?

HR Support excels in providing focused, personal, hands-on care and attention to all clients. The attention to detail, full legal support, commitment to personal service, and dedication to client satisfaction held by their company puts HR Support far above their competitors.

HR Support personnel are members of multiple professional organizations and associations, which allows a better understanding of the companies and industries that they serve. Most companies HR Support serves are in the agricultural, construction, manufacturing and service industries but the services offered are universally beneficial and customizable for your company’s Portland human resources.

For more information on how HR Support can benefit your business, contact them today.

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HR Support, Inc.
1225 NW Murray Rd Suite 206
Portland, OR 97229
(503)493-3647 | (800)646-5716
Info@WeDoHr.com

QuadVan is a Portland based automotive conversion business that converts standard 2 wheel drive Ford vans into 4 wheel drive vehicles (4×4s). Four wheel drive vehicles, like the ones created by QuadVan, are utility vehicles good for year round, all terrain performance. Spending one winter in the Pacific Northwest should show you just how much more functional a 4×4 vehicle can be.

QuadVan implements 4×4 Conversion Systems to create the following types of vehicles:

• 4×4 Vans
• 4×4 Motor Homes
• 4×4 Campers
• 4×4 Wheelchair Vans
• 4×4 Ambulances and
• 4×4 Emergency Vehicles
• 4×4 Buses
• 4×4 Commercial Vans
• 4×4 Armored Transport

QuadVan also has numerous 4×4 van accessories available to outfit your 4×4 conversion vehicles both aesthetically and functionally.

QuadVan conversions are recognized for being the highest quality and best engineered system available in the market. Through the QuadVan conversion process, vehicles are given a tighter turning radius, improved suspension, better braking, and greater ground clearance. The original designer of the QuadVan 4wd system, John McKee, has been installing conversion systems for over ten years. The experience and expertise of Quadvan’s technical staff is just one more reason to trust them for your next 4×4 conversion system.

Unparalleled 4×4 Van Serviceability

QuadVans are also easily serviceable because they use 100% Factory Ford Certified components – and they are the only in the industry that can make that claim. This makes it easy to find replacement parts no matter where you’re located. Everything you might need is available at your local Ford Dealership.

Call QuadVan with any questions at 503.224.3629 or send an email to Info@QuadVan.com

Checkmate is one of the few  IICRC certified professional cleaning service in the Portland/Vancouver area. The professionals at Checkmate are certified for all of the following:  carpet cleaning, water damage, odor control, upholstery cleaning, repair re-installation, color repair, master textile, master restorer and senior practicing carpet inspection. With expertise like that available, why would you want to take a chance with an non-certified cleaning group?

Checkmate is committed to great service for all its customers in the Portland and Vancouver area. If you’re a first time Checkmate customer, you’ll receive one room cleaned free with the purchase of 3 other rooms. Checkmate doesn’t forget repeat customers either. With the new gold member program, being a devoted Checkmate customer really pays off. Customers who have worked with Checkmate for a year automatically receive a 12% lifetime discount as well as a free Checkmate Spot Cleaner with every cleaning.

To find out more about Checkmate’s great cleaning services, visit the Checkmate Carpet and Upholstery Cleaning website or call a customer service representative at the following numbers:

(503) 371-6413 in Portland

(360) 910-3100 in Vancouver

NEW: Northwest eSource just built three additional business blog websites for Checkmate, Carpet Cleaning Portland OR, Carpet Cleaning Portland Oregon and Carpet Cleaning Vancouver Washington

United Plumbing is a highly regarded service company that provides residential and commercial plumbing to the Portland area. They are known for:

• efficiency
• accurate diagnostics of plumbing problems
• utilizing quality parts
• clean worksites
• timely attention to your plumbing emergencies
• guaranteed repair and installation work
• 24 hour emergency service

United Plumbing has a long list of services and expert technicians available to help with any plumbing questions you may have. They carry most plumbing parts in stock and schedule on site meetings in 2 hour windows to lessen your amount of wait time.

Any work taken on by United Plumbing is guaranteed for at least 90 days and some part warranties go for up to 25 years. Any product installed will have the manufacturer’s warranties matched and reinstallation costs will be pro-rated.

To contact United Plumbing, please email Info@UnitedPlumbingLLC.com or call (503) 545–6223.

Member Profiles Coming Soon!

This site is dedicated to a core group of businesses that can and will work together to network for business in Portland and Vancouver, utilizing a synergistic , technology-based approach.  The primary piece of the technology core will be this website – delivering quality content, SEO links, and best of all, social business networking events whose primary focus is on developing winning B2B partnership opportunities.

Another basic yet extremely effective piece of the technology core will be utilizing email marketing that contains the logos, links, coupons, news and core messages of the member consitituency, mailed out on a weekly or bi-weekly basis.  This will be shared marketing among the members, administered by Northwest eSource.  Its goal will be to spread the word about Portland and Vancouver’s BEST BUSINESSES.  By combining quality graphics and content with POWERFUL PRICING SPECIALS with a broad-based combined clientele target market, we should have  a winning formula.

When I get a newsletter from the two computer companies I follow online – Newegg.com and TigerDirect.com – I almost ALWAYS READ THEM.  Why?  Because the prices they put in SOMETIMES are so good, I can’t help but read ALL OF THE EMAILS.  

If we can combine efforts to consistently offer specials that are so good we may make a considerably lower profit margin initally, but our readership will grow exponentially – as will the regular income from regular readers.

One last thing, this effort will be based on our current clientele’s agreement to subscribe or be delivered the newsletter initially.  This means that their loyalty to your company and the relationship you have with them is what is going to bring them into the circle of the best businesses in Portland and Vancouver through Northwest Business Links – so make sure you are collecting email addresses NOW!

 In a Web 2.0 world, using the internet in meaningful ways often will require the expansion of your business model.  Here we look for solid ways to create B2B partnerships to increase your revenue.

Start by asking yourself:

What is your B2B Business Model?

If you don’t have one by now, you may be missing a third of the boat or so - which means you may not float, particularly in a tough economy.

Where does a B2B Business Model really come into play?

When it is well developed, practiced, executed and the demand is there for your company’s products or services – on a wholesale level as is B2B generally – you build for yourself a second revenue stream that will weather a down economy.

Wholesale?  How do I brainstorm for potential B2B partnerships?

You have your retail customers, now think of business owners you have served, and any way you can profitably serve other companies – even if it is at a lower margin.

If I make less money, how does that help?

Less money per client is what we are talking about, and not replacing your current revenue stream but adding to it.  When you serve companies, as opposed to consumers (or ADDITIONALLY), that income stream can become more consistent over time than the retail portion because businesses and business owners tend to still have money in a down economy.

Are your services Resellable?

B2b partnerships often entail you adding someone else’s products or services and them doing the same for you, effectively doubling the scope of your audience.