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support, help, expertise and community for small businesses in and around north london looking to grow

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What Makes Us Different?    How Can We Help YOU?

 

 

SBN is about informal but professional business networking that REALLY works.     But we are about so much more as well...

 

1) Business Growth Strategies

 

What is the one thing that every small business needs above all else? To make a profit of course! And how do you do that? Answer: by knowing exactly HOW to build and market your business to ensure growth. SBN keeps you up to date with the latest techniques in marketing, social media, search engine optimisation, offline promotion, customer relations, branding etc. EVERY SBN meeting equips you with simple, effective business techniques and strategies to grow your businesses.

 

2) Affordability

 

We feel that it’s very important  in the current climate to be as affordable as possible for the people who need us most - small business owners, freelancers and start ups on limited budgets who want to grow their businesses. So we strive to be the most affordable professional networking group around. This means that our fees start from just £99.00 per annum (NO VAT), plus we have  a unique monthly payment option if you prefer to spread the cost of payment, or want to try us out for  few months before committing to a whole year. This means that you only pay an amazing 20-40% of typical networking membership costs.

 

In addition we’ve negotiated a lot of flexibility at our meeting venues so that YOU decide whether you want a meal, or just a drink. This means that the cost of attending our networking meetings is unusually low.

 

3) Multiple Member Benefits

 

We also offer you MANY benefits in return for your membership: for instance - free advertising on our website, and a community blog you can promote your services on whenever you like - both of these can significantly help your online rankings. You also get HUGE exclusive discounts from top business experts on workshops, courses, events, books etc. (Just a couple of these discounts alone could pay for the cost of a year’s membership.) And we are ALWAYS thinking up ways to add more benefits so that you gain even more value from SBN.

 

4) Diversity

 

We have an unusually  diverse mix of business owners - from besuited professionals to hippy chic craftspeople! Many visitors to the group, with prior experience of networking, comment on this unique aspect of SBN meetings and the ‘special vibe’ we have.

 

This means that at a typical meeting you may come across any of the following: accountants, artists, business management consultants, cake makers, coaches, complementary health therapists, computer repair professionals, copywriters, craftspeople, creative writing experts, feng shui consultants, filmmakers, gardeners, graphic designers, hairdressers,  jewellery makers, language tutors, music teachers, natural health businesses, personal trainers, photographers, social media consultants, smartphone marketing specialists,  solicitors, therapists, virtual assistants, voice coaches, web design companies, yoga teachers etc. In short, our members are a very varied, very creative, very dynamic and entrepreneurial bunch!

 

5) No Limits

 

At SBN we prefer not to place restrictions on the numbers from each profession. At first glance you might think this wouldn’t work - if you aren’t the only accountant for instance, aren’t you competing for the same work. In our experience this is not the case. Your perfect customers will naturally gravitate towards you, and the same is true for your so-called ‘competitor’. And you will often find that you have a lot to learn from each other - you may even end up working on a project together. We feel that the world needs to move away from competition towards collaboration. There is space for all of us!

 

6) Recommendations are genuine and unsolicited

 

At SBN members only give recommendations for other businesses if they want to. This means that you know you can trust any referrals you are given. Members are very active in using each other’s services, so referrals happen frequently and naturally. We also help and support each other whichever way they can.

 

7) Local and Personal

 

We are based only in North London (although you are very welcome to come to meetings and become a member if you’re from further afield). This means that we’re very clued up on what’s going on in in this part of the metropolis and the unique conditions that exist for local small businesses in this area. And all our members enjoy a very personal, extra-supportive service that’s often not possible in the national networking organisations.

 

8) Supportive Business Community

 

We love our local SBN business community! It’s grown so much since we set up in March 2007 and it’s great to see the connections forged, friendships made, help given and new business opportunities created. We firmly believe that growing our businesses together gives us a much greater chance of success than if we go it alone.

 

So.....Come And Join Us! We very much look forward to welcoming you!

 

Click here to read some testimonials from our members

 

 

 

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