New VendorCity LinkedIn Group Available for Our Users
Posted by JC Cameron on December 4th, 2008
We have created an exclusive and private LinkedIn Group for our VendorCity community. We are actively building and creating new tools and features within our own site, but in the meantime, it made sense to launch some basic collaboration opportunities for our business owners and decision makers.
You can join the group here:
http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/1313667
However, you must be a registered VendorCity user before you can join the group and interact with the rest of the community. As an FYI, by joining, you will have immediate access to these resources:
- 2008 Compensation & Entrepreneurship Report in Information Technology
- Best Practices in Speaker Program Management
- Getting a Foothold in Social Media
- 25 Surefire Ways to Capture More Clients and Make More Money - in 90 Days or Less
Thank you to the companies that have shared some of their materials with us for use on our site.
Do you have, or know of, a resource that would be appropriate for our community of small business owners and decision makers? If so, let us know!
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In the next couple of weeks, we’ll be adding a public directory of all the vendors in our database. This will allow site visitors to get an idea of what is in our system before they have to register. It will also provide us with some search engine optimization opportunities and give our vendors that much more exposure.
This past Tuesday, we participated in the first 
We have recently launched our twitter service where you can receive updates on the most highly recommended B2B firms and other critical SMB news and resources.
What helps make VendorCity unique is our unbiased and honest reviews of business-to-business vendors and service providers. Our goal is not to have the most reviews; instead we strive to have the best and most trusted word-of-mouth B2B referrals on the planet. 
One of the single biggest complaints we have received since launching our site is that it takes too long to add recommendations. Our original goal in designing the recommendation process was to make it a simple step-by-step process where you search to see if the vendor exists and if not, add the info for that vendor. Then, once added or selected, you are able to add your rating for that vendor.
As a business owner for more than 15 years, I know the value of good recommendations from my network of contacts. Word-of-mouth referrals has been and will continue to be the best way to find quality vendors and partners. That first-hand, real-life, intimate knowledge of what it is like to work with a vendor provides you and your company with valuable insight into whether or not they would be a good fit.
We are happy to announce that our private BETA launch has gone off very well. Within the first 24 hours, we had more than 30 vendors reviewed in our database and expect to see many more soon. For an idea of what you could already get out of the database, here’s the list of categories that have vendors with 4.5 stars or more: