The Business Network Club - what can I do on it?
At The Business Network Club we are enabling businesses to connect to other
local businesses whilst also providing them with regional, national and
worldwide visibility via this site. We already have a large numbers of
business professionals and businesses that want to promote themselves to
other business owners locally.
Most business owners tell us that they prefer to do business in their local
area. For example take a typical business based in Manchester with customers
in the West Midlands. There are plenty of cost issues to consider when
dealin so far from home. Huge and ever increasing transport costs not to
mention the time spent queuing on the M6 and other roads. Connect with local
people and your profitability and efficiency will increase substantially.
The idea of our club is that members connect to each other locally, get to
know each other and ultimately develop trust and do business together. After
all most people prefer to deal with other people that we know and trust. We
do it already. How many times have you said to family, friends or colleagues
"can you recommend a restaurant, a computer supplier a good reliable local
tradesman etc.." Our club will bring local businesses together. Our meetings
are vibrant, informative and well attended. We will help you build your own
network of great local contacts.
By being a member of The Business Network Club, you will not only get to
know people well but you will receive preferential treatment and indeed
special rates or services not avilable to non-members. We are attracting
hundreds of local business to join us and deal with each other local
businesses.
Take the opportunity of promoting your business to many other like minded
people by meeting them locally at our evening get togethers.
Home page
Without registering you can read the Blogs and current Hot Topic of the week
You can search the Directory of businesses and see what they have to offer.
You can view the BBC News feed
Membership:
Bronze Business:
This is your registration membership which is free. This entitles you to
place your business on our public and private poster boards. Most of the
information is restricted to members of The Business Network Club.
Silver Business
Silver customers can have up to three separate pitches/entries on our poster
boards. The poster boards act as your broadcast to the other members and
visitors.
Gold Business:
Gold businesses get to put all of their poster board pitches/entries at the
top of their business category above the Bronze and Silver members. Your own
profile will also be highlighted. Gold Customers also get a web page on this
site devoted to each pitch/poster entry. These entries are indexed by the
internet search engines. These pages greatly help to raise your profile on
the internet.
Platinum Business:
Platinum businesses get to put all their pitch/poster entries at the top of
all other members entries on the poster board therefore giving you
prominence over all other types of members. As well as an enhanced profile
which again is indexed by the internet search engines, you will also be able
to add a pitch to the main site. This pitch will appear in rotation with
other platinum members on the home page so that it can be seen by all
members and visitors to the site. This will enhance your visibility and give
you and your business great exposure.
Login page:
All members and visitors to the site will get to see all pitches from our
Platinum Members. It does not have be a sales pitch, you can tell everyone
that you are recruiting for example, moving office maybe offering a special
deal. The options are limitless. One member recently anounced his
forthcoming marriage! You can change the pitch at any time. We encourage you
to do this to keep things nice and fresh.
You can edit your own profile, ensuring that all of your details are up to
date.
You can add a posterboard entry - This can be a description of what you or
your company can offer. It may be the company that you work for or the
company that you own.
Profile Page - This is where you complete your details of who you are, which
company you represent and you can also add photos ( jpeg up to 5mb ) We
recommend that you upload a photo as this greatly enhances the number of
enquiries you will get. Don't be shy, we are in the Facebook and MySpace age
and people expect to see you!
Associate Page - You can invite existing members to be associates of yours,
or you can directly invite non members to join the Club . Once they accept
your invitation they will automatically be added to your associates.
Messages - You can send messages to any Club member. Once your message has
been sent through the site, that individual will receive notification from
us telling them that you have sent them a private message. They then log in
to see your private mail.
Blog
Our blogs are designed so that any topic can be discussed by every member.
The latest replies are automatically sent to the top of the blogs. Blogging
is great way to get to know people so we do encourage you to get involved.
It is very easy to add pictures to a blog. All you have to do is add the
message and then click on the link to modify your blog.
You can then upload any jpg image up to 5 mega bytes on to the server and
the image will be compressed and resized ready for the internet.
Groups/Chat
You can set up one or more groups. You might want to get in touch with other
members who have similar interests. This can be anything from sport to music
to a niche such as 18th century art. Other members can join your group and
only the group members see or take part in the chat. A brilliant way to buid
relationships with other like minded members.
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