SampleBoardOnline

who we are Sample Board Online™, SBO for short, is a free online service designed to create sample boards quickly and effectively, and for suppliers who would like to see their products incorporated in the real-time world of design. SBO is a new generation networking tool for the creative industries. what we do SBO has created an interactive concept that allows suppliers to provide images of products and enables users to quickly fashion sample boards and costing for their clients with a mixture of either own images and designs, or products supplied by a host of design related manufacturers and suppliers. SBO is a platform for quick and easy pulling together of design trends, colour schemes, textures and products either in our library or from images uploaded onto our system under your own personal profile. what we can do for you SBO is a collaboration, it can optimize usage by country or region as suppliers plug into the system from the States to Australia. It is all one world to us. We offer an unprecedented level of direct engagement with real products and brands, while its social features make it a powerful platform for the creation and distribution of user-generated advertising. Not only will SBO be advertising design related suppliers, but in turn generate product sales once the client has approved the electronic sample board through the designers specification. Being online, SBO knows no boundaries as your sample board can be viewed, saved and emailed anywhere for you and your client’s convenience. main target audience? Sample Board Online™ is a design tool for all interior designers, decorators, design students, architects & specifying agents. SBO will also be used by the general public as a decorating application. how will you market the website and drive traffic to your site? Social networking is the new marketing strategy for most website based companies.SBO has a Facebook Page which attracts fans globally and updates and interesting news is sent to Twitter. SBO is registered on all the social networking sites, and posts tutorial videos to YouTube which generate a lot of feet and in turn registered users. Advertising is done by means of Google Ads & Facebook Ads. Regular newsletters / e-zines are sent out promoting new products as well as having a blog increases the traffic to the site. Article Marketing, direct mail and discussion boards & forums are used to create SBO awareness. You can view our discussions on Linked In. Users are your biggest marketers and if SBO becomes their friend, so would you. what makes Sample Board Online different to any other product specification website? SBO is an Application website. An application is a design tool that enables the designer to design a sample board online whilst specifying your product with all its relevant information ie: technical product information with supplier contact name & number engage users with your product Sample Board Online™ offers an unprecedented level of direct engagement with real products and brands, while its social features make it a powerful platform for the creation and distribution of user-generated advertising. viral buzz Let the SBO community do the marketing for you by means of sharing their sample boards online for the web to view. our vision Our vision is to create one global interior design world.Now you can sit in London and design a project in the States, using local American suppliers. And vica versa. financial logistics? Registration fee $ 495. This amount includes the international bank transfer fee, the editing of images, product data capturing, uploading of images & yearly subscription. bank account details Sample Board Online CC First National Bank (FNB) Business Cheque SWIFT code: FIRNZAJJ Account: 622 4210 1004 Branch Code: 201 109 how do i, the supplier, get to join SBO? Please email us a brief company profile including your website address to: suppliers@sampleboardonline.com What do you require from us, the supplier? We would need product images with technical specifications for each product. All images to be of high resolution quality. 300kb - 1MB per image. Only JPG & GIF file types will be accepted. The images can be emailed or a CD can be shipped/posted. Shipping Address On request. What does the ‘technical specification’ entail? We need the following information for each product on an excel spreadsheet.SBO will email you an excel spreadsheet template should you require this. • Product Code & Product Name • Product Price if you wish. • Supplier contact name, phone number & email address Once the excel spreadsheet is complete, please email it to: suppliers@sampleboardonline.com supplier products will fall under the following categories Accessories African design Art Bathrooms Bedrooms Ceiling, wall & floor features Fabrics Flooring Furniture Furniture: Office Furniture: Outdoor Green Products Hardware Decorative Decorative Surfaces Kitchens Lighting Marble & Granite Outdoor Living Photography Sound & Audio Marble & Granite Wall Treatments Window Treatment Timber Veneers Young Designers feedback Please feel free to contact us should you require more information regarding joining this unique and exciting venture! info@sampleboardonline.com