How it Works
How BforB Works and Why It Works So Well
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Most businesses follow the crowd. BforB members lead their industry. Here's how we help you get there.
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Become a Member
Complete our simple membership application and send it to your regional director or to centralservices@bforb.co.uk. Once approved, you're in and so is your business.
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Get Introduced and Recommended
BforB members don't just network, they refer. From day one, your fellow members become an extended sales team, introducing you and recommending you across their own professional networks. Research shows referred leads are 85% more likely to convert than cold outreach. That's not networking. That's growth.
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Build a Business Worth Talking About
Backed by over 25 years of referral marketing expertise across the UK, BforB gives local businesses a structured, low-cost and highly effective route to sustainable growth — built entirely on trust and genuine relationships.
Your first meeting is a no obligation exploratory opportunity.
Come and see what BforB can do for your business.
As a member of BforB, you will have access to an exclusive referral marketing group that are actively on the lookout for new business, contacts and expertise to help you and your business grow. This includes:
Access to meetings:
It is like meeting your business representatives and marketing or sales team. The meetings are used as your opportunity to brief your group to new success stories, achievements and opportunities you are working with or plan to work with.
Social events:
Social events are also organised to bring members together and enhance alliances between members regionally and nationally. This also includes an annual awards dinner which celebrates best practice across the network.
Market sector exclusivity:
Within each group you will be the only member, or guest, specialising in your business sector. Therefore, you will be the only lawyer, plasterer, web designer, or dog walker in your group.
Member Development Programmes:
We want to help you become a successful referral marketer, and have therefore created a host of member development programmes including the proprietary BforB Referral Academy. This new online learning platform is focussed on increasing knowledge, skills and habitual behaviours to support members in getting more out of their experience with BforB.
BforB profile:
Members get a complimentary member profile on our web site. This will give you an opportunity to introduce yourself to the wider community that our website attracts. An additional avenue of winning potential referrals and introductions through BforB.
Referral tracking:
The leadership executive team will help keep track of the referrals being passed to understand where additional support may be required.
What makes BforB different?
We are the UK’s hardest working business network. We believe in creating the best possible environment to develop strong, long lasting cooperative business relationships that result in quality new business leads and referrals.
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Our culture
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BforB meetings are friendly and welcoming, yet focussed on the passing of quality referrals. Our members believe in developing strategic alliances and therefore want to pass quality leads between the group, rather than be forced to pass poor quality introductions.
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Our innovation
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We are constantly assessing how we can add value to our members’ experience of referral marketing. From the first BforB meeting, to the Referral Academy launched in 2016 and new projects planned, the network has always looked to push the boundaries of referral marketing.
Networking Your Way
BREAKFAST MEETINGS:
It is like meeting your business representatives and marketing or sales team. The meetings are used as your opportunity to brief your group to new success stories, achievements and opportunities you are working with or plan to work with.
MID-MORNING MEETINGS:
Social events are also organised to bring members together and enhance alliances between members regionally and nationally. This also includes an annual awards dinner which celebrates best practice across the network.
LUNCH MEETINGS:
Within each group you will be the only member, or guest, specialising in your business sector. Therefore, you will be the only lawyer, plasterer, web designer, or dog walker in your group.
EVENING MEETINGS:
We want to help you become a successful referral marketer, and have therefore created a host of member development programmes including the proprietary BforB Referral Academy. This new online learning platform is focussed on increasing knowledge, skills and habitual behaviours to support members in getting more out of their experience with BforB.
LADIES ONLY MEETINGS:
The leadership executive team will help keep track of the referrals being passed to understand where additional support may be required.
SPECIALIST GROUPS:
Members get a complimentary member profile on our web site. This will give you an opportunity to introduce yourself to the wider community that our website attracts. An additional avenue of winning potential referrals and introductions through BforB.
BforB Networking is about sharing and giving, not taking. We help building trust and helping one another toward goals. Your Business grows as engaging with contacts and tracked referrals business relationship. We help sowing the seeds for reciprocal assistance and achieve your goals.
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BforB network is an excellent source of gaining new perspectives and ideas to help you in your role. Exchanging information on challenges, experiences and goals is a key benefit that our members avail. Our members gain new insights that they have otherwise not thought of.