{"id":44160,"date":"2013-11-14T14:28:37","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T22:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=44160"},"modified":"2013-11-14T14:28:46","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T22:28:46","slug":"sia-goes-online-with-b2b-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=44160","title":{"rendered":"SIA Goes Online With B2B Website"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Snowsportsb2B\"<\/a>The Snow Industries America <\/a><\/strong>has placed their business-to-business resources online at a special website called SnowSportsB2B.org<\/a><\/strong>. Hard to believe all this info wasn’t already online, but it is nice of SIA to join the web revolution, isn’t it?<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have literally hundreds of innovative and cost-effective business service members,\u201d says Tom Davis<\/strong>, SIA\u2019s supporting membership sales and marketing manager. \u201cSnowSportsB2B.org is a streamlined way for brands, retailers, resorts and all industry professionals to conduct their vendor searches. Knowing all of their vendor options helps them find the most productive business relationships.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, it does make sense. For the official word from SIA, follow the jump.New Business-to-Business Site Connects Snow Sports Suppliers and Business Services Vendors <\/p>\n

WASHINGTON (Nov. 14, 2013) – SnowSports Industries America (SIA), the snow sports industry\u2019s member-owned trade association, launched the website SnowSportsB2B.org for retailers, manufacturers and resorts to easily browse SIA\u2019s business-to-business resources.<\/p>\n

SnowSportsB2B.org, a response to the industry\u2019s need for a directory of service providers with a good industry reputation, features a comprehensive list of all SIA members searchable by name, product category or keyword that collectively provide more than 20 different types of services and products vital to the industry.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have literally hundreds of innovative and cost-effective business service members,\u201d says Tom Davis, SIA\u2019s supporting membership sales and marketing manager. \u201cSnowSportsB2B.org is a streamlined way for brands, retailers, resorts and all industry professionals to conduct their vendor searches. Knowing all of their vendor options helps them find the most productive business relationships.\u201d <\/p>\n

The companies listed on SnowSportsB2B.org support the snow sports industry by being dues-paying members of SIA. Their specialties include POS, e-commerce services, booth design, legal services, marketing\/PR, travel services, buying groups, logistics, design contracting, raw material\/OEM supply, videography\/photography, publications, insurance liability and consulting.<\/p>\n

\u201cFinding trustworthy vendors is tough – it\u2019s great to know SIA\u2019s SnowSportsB2B can help with the process,\u201d said Lauren Wenzel of Snowmass Sports in Snowmass, Colo.<\/p>\n

Snow sports suppliers will use SnowSportsB2B.org when looking for: <\/p>\n

Branding ideas covered during the SIA Snow Show seminars
\nBusiness how-tos from SIA\u2019s snow-sports focused business service members
\nSnow-sports specific business webinars hosted by SIA members
\nMerchandising tips, with new ideas every Monday
\nC1 Partners will host the first SnowSportsB2B webinar series beginning December 4 at 2P EST with an \u201cOverview of Digital Marketing.\u201d The line-up of C1 seminars will be hosted the first Wednesday of every month to cover a series of topics: <\/p>\n

Positioning, Messaging and Persona Development
\nKeywords Targeting
\nWebsite Optimization
\nBlogging For Small Business
\nLinkbuilding
\nPay Per Click Advertising
\nLead Generation
\nLead Nurturing
\nSocial Media for Small Business
\nReporting and Analytics
\n\u201cMaking this information available to SIA members that wouldn\u2019t get it otherwise is really timely and valuable,\u201d said Dan Smink, partner\/owner at C1 Partners, a supporting member that will also host marketing seminars at the 2014 SIA Snow Show. \u201cThe webinars series should make the members much more informed decision makers, whether they decide to do business with us or someone else.\u201d<\/p>\n

Check back on SnowSportsB2B.org for information on how to sign up for the webinars. Contact SIA\u2019s supporting member sales and marketing manager, Tom Davis, at TDavis@snowsports.org for more information about SnowSportsB2B.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Snow Industries America has placed their business-to-business resources online at a special website called SnowSportsB2B.org. Hard to believe all this info wasn’t already online, but it is nice of SIA to join the web revolution, isn’t it? \u201cWe have literally hundreds of innovative and cost-effective business service members,\u201d says Tom Davis, SIA\u2019s supporting membership […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,4,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44160"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44161,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44160\/revisions\/44161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}