Whenever we go out and tell new acquaintances about Powerlinx, they immediately get what our value proposition is, as you probably do as well. What Powerlinx stands for is intuitive, straight forward, and it simply makes absolute sense for someone who’s been in business long enough.

And the reason why Powerlinx resonates so much with people, is because it’s the next logical transition stage of technology-enabled innovation.

At Powerlinx, we know better than anyone, how every industry is a world of its own, let alone every business is unique and has its own ways of doing things. With that said, we did spot some common denominators which can help businesses all over the spectrum. Here’s a few of our main takeaways:

Here are a few thoughts that run through my mind when I think of distributorship. Hope you find them insightful!

Here’s what our team thinks of the Powerlinx platform. We’ll walk you through a couple of thoughts and ideas discussed throughout our short but fulfilling history. We are just getting started! 

Unless you increase your sales team or there is a sudden high demand for what your business offers, you shouldn’t expect a drastic increase in the number of new customers without implementing new business strategies. Taking a sampling of experiences from our current Powerlinx members, here are five examples of simple ways your business can ultimately “reach more customers.”

While the concept of benchmarking as a management tool has only been around for the past two decades, it has been widely adopted by businesses looking to get a leg up on competitors. Unfortunately, while benchmark management holds great potential to help enterprises identify and implement best practices, benchmarking itself has been too broadly defined and all too often misunderstood entirely.

Business collaborations entail a merging of and collaboration between disparate teams from the partners, a process that demands a high level of confidence in personnel.

To discover the exact characteristics that make great business partnerships succeed, we surveyed business owners and partnership professionals around how they source partners and the qualities they require for collaboration. Their responses tended to fall into the four major categories below:

Nearly half of business leaders believe their company is not very good at building successful partnerships. It seems existing methods for sourcing new partnerships are not as effective as business leaders would like them to be.

At Powerlinx, we believe there’s a better way to find new partners – and we’re using a combination of “smart” technology and the power of the Internet to build it.

Innovation in the supply chain is helping top companies around the world decrease lead times, minimize risk, cut costs and drive growth. To create this type of supply chain innovation in an era of rapidly changing markets, geographic shifts and expanding capabilities brought on by new technologies, successful businesses are increasingly turning to collaboration with other industry members – and sometimes even with competitors.

Below, find five ways businesses are pooling resources in order to drive supply chain innovation.

The classic yet beautifully designed Rolodex was good enough for as long as it worked. But once the world became one big opportunity hub, the big black knobs used in the rotary file simply would not have been able to hold the number of cards needed to flip through, without the owner not being negatively impacted by missed business contacts.

And even then, as Google became the go-to place to look for virtually everything, searches continued to be burdensome and time-consuming.