ChemVM Blog

Generate Revenue on Your Unqualified Leads

3 min read time
December 9, 2020
As a chemical service provider, you have unique chemistry, equipment, industry and other capabilities that make your company a perfect fit for many customers. Yet, owners and sales leaders know all too well the cost of wasted effort spent qualifying projects that turn out to be a bad fit with your capabilities and you end up turning down. Meanwhile, procurement and supply chain buyers are left to continue their search. Now, with the ChemVM Affiliate Program, you can capitalize on those unqualified leads by referring them to ChemVM and earning discounts and revenue. Download the Affiliate Program Overview Flyer or read on to learn how it works. 
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ChemVM is Now Open: What do You Think?

5 min read time
November 10, 2020

Excellence in software development requires a number of elements be in place including a proven and flexible structure and process, management’s engagement to provide strategic direction and candid input, and disciplined decision-making. It also takes patience to sweat the details and ensure the user experience is carefully thought through. In this post, I’ll give you a look inside our software development process that led us to an important milestone this week: our 2nd Beta and opening up the ChemVM application to the world. It starts with a development and design team that’s been around the software block a few times.

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Designed for All Chemical Users, from Process Engineers to Procurement

6 min read time
October 21, 2020

Finding a chemical service provider that is an ideal match for your projects, which may range from complex reaction chemistry to custom blends and packaging, bulk storage, and transportation, can require weeks or even months of searching. Suppliers you normally use may not have the right capabilities or location for the new project and searching for a new one poses many challenges that often force you to make sacrifices to stay on track to avoid putting your project timeline and company profits at risk. Complicating things is the uniqueness of each customer’s project and the specific expectations they hold.

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From Trade Shows to Zoom: Chemical Sales of the Future

7 min read time
September 30, 2020

A day in the life of a chemical sales executive...

It’s a glorious day with a nip of fall in the air. I had a great morning walk and am settling into a morning of conference calls in my home office while my spouse and kids all do the same. Such is the new normal – for the time being during Covid-19 anyway. I could have hardly imagined working like this as I began my career in 1990. There were a few cellphones as big as bricks, but they were pretty rare and expensive.

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