Press & Industry Profile

These select items in the popular media outline the values of BuildDirect management, our company culture, and our approach to technology and commerce.

Building on Big Data (Profit Guide, February 26, 2013)

30 People You Should Know: President and CEO of BuildDirect Jeff Booth, 30 Day Adventures (February 19, 2013)

Jeff Booth, CEO of BuildDirect, talks to Cantech Letter (Cantech Letter, November 27, 2012)

Use Analytics to Build Your Business (Financial Post, Oct 22, 2012, BuildDirect CEO and staff profiled and quoted)

BuildDirect CEO Jeff Booth & The All Important Why Question (Frank Online Marketing Podcast, October 18, 2012)

BuildDirect aims to be Amazon of building supplies (Globe & Mail, October 8, 2012)

BuildDirect aspiring to become the Amazon of building supplies (Business In Vancouver, August 14, 2012)

BuildDirect.com hires a Wal-Mart vet to head merchandising (Internet Retailer, July 25 2012)

Eggs and analytics: Unscrambling flood of new market data (Business In Vancouver, July 2012, Co-Founder Rob Banks quoted)

BuildDirect attracts $16-million investment from fund (Vancouver Sun, June 26)

BuildDirect Attracts $16.5 Million Investment From OMERS Ventures – press release (June 25 2012)

Learn How Google Analytics Helped BuildDirect Increase Sales By 50% – Updated from 2004 (Google Analytics blog, June 11, 2012)

BuildDirect: A Case Study in Perseverance (BC Business, June 4, 2012)

How BuildDirect revolutionized the building sector in a down market (Financial Post, February 2012)

BC tech companies celebrate middle-age spread (BC Business, January 3, 2012)

Jeff Booth speaks at Social Media Week in Vancouver, (Socialized.me, September 2011)

How To Be Highly Contagious (Profit Magazine, February 2011)

Entrepreneur interview with BuildDirect CEO Jeff Booth on MO.com

BuildDirect Accredited Better Business Bureau A+ Profile

Video about BuildDirect: An Idea Who’s Time Has Come

BuildDirect Plays Pond Hockey! (video)

BuildDirect is listed in the 20 most innovative companies in B.C. (BCBusiness.com, April 2010)

What My Brother Taught Me (from Jeff’s blog)

Jeff Booth ‘CEOs who use Twitter’

Top tweeter Jeff Booth: message about who I am

BuildDirect Co-Founder Rob Banks featured on Mashable

BuildDirect, logistics, technology and success (Techvibes, January 2009)

Jeff Booth: The 7 Strata of Strategy: Growing Your Business By Verne Harnish

Interview with Jeff Booth of BuildDirect on Flooring the Consumer industry blog

Jeff Booth quote in CNN Money article

BuildDirect saving money and reducing risk (Vancouver Sun, April 2009)

Rob Banks of BuildDirect in China (Video)

BuildDirect Awarded For Exporting Excellence (Thomasnet.com)

BuildDirect Goes To The Races (staff event video)

BuildDirect Embraces Social Media (Techvibes.com, October 2008)

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