Friends in Business - Face to Face Friendly Business Networking

Face to Face Friendly Business Networking - in East of England

We believe that knowing each other better helps all our businesses. We meet in Great Yarmouth on the 3 & 4 Tue - Ipswich to follow shortly.

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Re Cleaning Contracts

Started by Bob Mutton in Introduce Yourself Here Jun 10, 2011.

Friends in Business - in Evening Star! 4 Replies

Started by Su Butcher in General Discussion. Last reply by Ian Stirling Nov 1, 2010.

How can we recruit people from medium and larger businesses?

Started by Ian Stirling in General Discussion Oct 31, 2010.

Meeting - your views requested

Started by Ian Stirling in Who came to our last meeting? Oct 31, 2010.

Important news - changes to the Friends in Business format 4 Replies

Started by Steve Wilkes in Good News. Last reply by Ian Stirling Oct 30, 2010.

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Where are Friends in Business????????????

Posted by John A Haresnape on July 2, 2010 at 12:12am — 4 Comments

I'll be back

Posted by Alison Withers on May 4, 2010 at 11:22am

Most Loved Eletcrian

Posted by Graham Barton on March 23, 2010 at 6:01pm

Making The Copywriting Connection

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Do You Show Or Tell?

Posted by Sally Ormond on January 20, 2010 at 4:46pm

Who are Friends in Business?

Welcome to Friends in Business. Update march 2011.

It has taken some time to build a large database in the Ipswich area. This is now complete. We have agreed with the Ipswich and Suffolk Club we can have the 4th Tuesday in the month. The Club in the heart of the town and has free on-site parking for all. We will meet at 18.00 and finish after a buffet at 20.00.

Chris can not make April and as one of use will sometimes have to miss the meeting, are there two other people who would like to join as organiser. No pay but plenty of publicity is for anyone who takes an active part.

At our meeting you will have a chance to promote your business but we do not spend time at every meeting having a 60 second intro each.

The speakers will be selected to provide useful information to those in business, rather than to promote their own business. One business a month can pay £65 (the cost of the room hire) to sponsor a meeting and have up to 10 minutes to sell themselves.

Face to face networking is about building relationships and having time to speak to people regularly about your services.

See our a Welcome blog post for information on how the site works.

All of us in business network to Do more Business. We all want to get introductions to clients, contacts, we want information, knowledge about others and awareness of our business. We want to get something out of it.

But networking is more than that. We want to Create a Community - part of the Ipswich and Suffolk Business Community. Networkers support others - they establish growing relationships with people who they can get to know and assist, people who will also get to know and help them. They share information and ideas. They collaborate and support each other.

Our prime objective is to meet each other regularly, face to face. In this way we get to know each other and our businesses better, and hear about what we are looking for and who we can help. Check the Events section for our next meeting.

What happens at a Friends in Business Meeting?
Read more HERE.