Joe works for a small R&D laboratory in Torrance, California.  In order to create their clients’ luxury hair and skin care products, Joe’s team relies on a number of different manufacturers and distributors to provide personal care chemicals. Managing the contact information of  over 190 geographically diverse suppliers can be cumbersome without blist.  For Joe, “it is a necessity to manage accurate contact data and have the flexibility to change it on the fly.”  With blist, Joe can easily access his list from multiple computers, as well as share his list with co-workers.  Now his teammates are always working from the same up-to-date distributor list.


Joe also loves that he can track his suppliers without needing to manage a database server.  Like many businesses operating in the current economic climate, he feels pressure to keep IT costs low:

“My company is a small business and while my background is IT, I have a number of other responsibilities leaving time at a premium. In today’s business environment equipment costs are also important. Blist, as a Software as a Service (SaaS) app frees up more of my time because I don’t have another app on the server to back up and maintain and also helps reduce IT costs because of hardware and storage requirements. I use blist for a supplier database which is a critical tool in my role.

After using blist since May 2008, I sure don’t want to go back to Excel.”


To learn more about how you can use blist for customer, supplier, or distributor contact management, click here.