IndustryPigeon.com is a new social network designed specifically for industrial trade professionals that integrates networking and collaboration tools with practical business applications. Available free of charge, the platform enables coworkers, trade partners, sales representatives, marketers and others to develop personal relationships, discover new business contacts and products, share information, and collaborate on invoices, purchase orders, inventory and other transactions. Motivated by time lost to communication inefficiencies, the platform is intended to connect people within their respective trade verticals, supply chains and distribution channels while addressing the complexities of manufacturing and selling industrial products.
Users can classify each IndustryPigeon contact by choosing from a list of business relationship types, such as customer, vendor, manufacturer representative, employee and so on. To maximize trade connections, users can “follow” certain industries, such as consumer electronics or measurement. The site also automatically recommends business connections based on industry followers and how industrial trades correlate to one another. Users communicate via Pigeon Post, which can be set up for a private discussion with a single contact or a group of contacts selected according to relationship type, industry or other category. Finally, a-la-carte applications such as Task Pigeon, Distributor Locator, Event Promoter and Purchase Order Tracker enable users to customize their interface with specific functionality. For example, Purchase Order Tracker enables industrial buyers to track and collaborate on an order with a vendor.
