A tailor-made platform for the sustainable building sector
Welcome to Marketplace+, our tailor-made platform for the sustainable building sector. Marketplace+ is a shop window for your business, a place designed to promote and connect you with the people you need to grow your business – from clients to specifiers, tradespeople, and even prospective partners.
In simple terms, it’s a directory, but it’s so much more: it’s an online ecosystem of the leading names in sustainable building, and it’s stitched into the fabric of the Passive House Plus website.
From simple free listings to features-packed pages that serve effectively as self-contained websites hosted within our site –— which has a large, growing, dedicated, audience –— Marketplace+ caters for your business, whatever its size.
And in a pioneering innovation, Marketplace+ is stitched seamlessly into the fabric of passivehouseplus.ie, offering you the chance to build your brand and sell your wares to a targeted, highly motivated, captive audience.
Here are the main features:
Your own home page, with a short URL
Your own home page, with a short URLInclude as much descriptive text as you’d like – with the ability to include web links. URLs can be as short as www.passive.ie/yourcompany
Territories
Define your business area to specific territories, such as Ireland, the UK – or even specific regions or counties.
Social media integration
You can include your Twitter or Facebook feed in your listing, and link to LinkedIn, Youtube, Pinterest, Instagram and Google+ accounts.
Accreditations & memberships
Proudly display accreditations, product certifications or memberships of associations or trade bodies – which prospective clients can use during searches to find you.
Products & services
A tiered section including categories, and sections for individual products or services, including photo, text descriptions and our “request a quote” button.
Contact form
Include clickable links to make phone calls or send emails at the click of a button, and your website URL.
Project galleries
Include photos and text descriptions of projects you’ve worked on.
Video galleries
Include videos hosted on Youtube or Vimeo, with title and brief description.
About us
Include photos, names, job titles and biographies of the people who put a face on your company.
Downloads
Publish company brochures, reports, manuals or other documentation here.
Partner companies
Display links to listings of other companies who you’re partnered with.
Map
Key in your office co-ordinates if you’d like your listing to include a Google map to help your clients reach you.
Custom tab
Got more to say? The custom tab gives you the freedom to add more – whether it’s a sustainability statement or any more detailed information about what makes your company special.
Featured articles
If your company has featured in an article in Passive House Plus or on passivehouseplus.ie, a side column with links to those articles will auto-populate on the side of your listing page – keeping your listing fresh with new content if you appear in more new articles.
Featured companies
Draw readers into your listing page via the ‘featured companies’ module – with company logo, name and short description – which will appear alongside any articles on our website that mention your company name.
Events
Whether you want to promote a CPD seminar, conference or even your participation at a show, you can upload events to your listing – which will be added to our searchable calendar of events.
Advanced search
Show up in multi-factor searches. For instance, users can search for companies who sell external insulation systems, who serve the Irish market, and who have NSAI Agrément registered applicators.