Benefits of Business Connects

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We've created a resource where local business owners can learn from and share with each other in a sustainable, community setting.

                                        Click here to register for one of our weekly meetups. 

Our goal is to create a space for local NJ business owners to meet, network, and share knowledge, building valuable relationships with central Jersey businesses in the process. We know small businesses rely on their communities, and sharing resources and expertise with one another fosters sustainable relationships that organically lead to business growth.

Since 2016, our vision for Business Connects is to create a community in New jersey where hard-working business owners could truly learn from one another. Business Connects provides much more than local networking events, and members provide value far beyond traditional selling and marketing. We have created a space that facilitates the building of real and lasting relationships—which are at the core of any successful business. It’s proven that people do business with people they know, like, and TRUST—and our members can attest to that!

MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS :

Within a full Business Connects membership, members receive:
  • Unlimited attendance to our twice-weekly meetings on Tuesday and Friday mornings for local NJ business networking

  • Twice-weekly opportunities to hear from different local organizations’ offerings and strategies you can deploy for your own business

  • Quarterly opportunities to speak and self-market at chapter meetings

  • Weekly updates via our newsletter, including sponsorship opportunities to share local business events with the Business Connects and local NJ communities

  • Business exposure through various social media platforms, including LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram – including Business Connects post shares

  • A fully Google-optimized listing on the Business Connects website directory 

  • The ability to content market your business and submit a monthly blog for our site

  • An annual interview or filmed in-person intro on the Business Connects YouTube Channel 

SPEAKER OPPS:
 *This opportunity is reserved for members in good standing with dues paid to date. Each member is welcome to present ONCE a fiscal quarter. 

Our members strive to build relationships, so this is an opportunity to educate us, not pressure anyone to buy. In that light, there is an attendance requirement to be a speaker.  By completing this form you agree that you have attended at LEAST 4 times in the past month, or 50% of those meetings. 
*Since we are a professional organization, please keep your topic related to business. 

Please see our forms and procedures for directly communicating your business content (to Business Connects via email.)

Exclusive Business Connects members-only discounted fee for one LinkedIn Training session with Jennifer Wilner of Seeds Digital Marketing.

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EXPECTATIONS: 
After your membership application is received and if you are deemed a good fit for the benefit of our members, you will sign off on our Code of Conduct.  

OPEN NETWORKING STARTS AT 8:15, The 2nd portion of the meeting STARTS AT 8:30. Any member who arrives AFTER 8:30 will be FORFEITING THE OPPORTUNITY TO INTRODUCE themselves during the meeting.