Firstly I would like to say Thank you to a few people for their valued input
There are so many others I would like to give thanks to but there are too many to list so a big Thank you to everyone who has given their input to develop the B4B website and helped it grow.
January has seen the site grow from just under 200 members to 389 which is fantastic for such a new site. we have our own markting plans coming in to play for 2007 which should see the site grow to 5,000 members by August 2007.
So what is Business 4 Brunch?
Business 4 Brunch is a business community platform where you can meet people, make contacts and do business.
The site was launched in September 2006 to offer people who attended our brunch time networking events an opportunity to continue their networking outside of the events and from the comfort of their executive chairs!
It was also to provide a booking tool for the events and help us manage them better.
Since September the site has grown from user feedback and has undergone some very dramatic changes with this last change being the biggest and the best so far with some 80+ hours of development time to get it where it currently is!
So what's New & What to do?
The overall look and feel of the site has changed from what you see above to the right to what we're seeing right now. The main reason for the change was to provide efinition to different areas of the site and make it a lot clearer what was available on the site.
Upgraded and advanced features such as
- Private messaging and contact system.
- Create and manage contact lists
- Increased capacity mailbox
- Send messages to contacts not in your list
- notification by email of new private message
- Configure the system to your own preferences
- Blogging tool
- Create and Manage your own Blog
- Save drafts to finish later
- add tags to your blog for search engine promotion
- List all your blogs in one place
- Create Articles
- Write press releases about your company
- tell the world you're here an how good you are
- Add Comments to other peoples articles and start a discussion
- Advertise in the Business Directory
- Create a Business Directory listing
- Add Comments to individual listings
- Write reviews
- Done some work on B4B ask your customer to write a review
- Business Forums
- Communicate, Communicate, Communicate
- Introduce yourself
- Search for opportunities
- Add Business Opportunities
- Join in / start a Forum Discussion
- Need help ask in the forums
- Event Management
- Attend B4B Networking Events
- Add your own Events
- Search the calendar for member events
Whats not here but yet to come?
- Business Networking Groups
- join / start a networking group
- Business marketplace (there but being worked on so not public)
- Something to Sell
- Something to Buy
- Something to Barter
As if all that's not enough i still haven't mentioned your own B4B area, the affiliate program we run, the invite tool to build your network or probably half the features and benefits that B4B has to offer
Go take a look around and let me have your comments - please provide any constructive feedback for B4B development in the feature request forum or by Private messaging
Nigel Copley
B4B lead Developer
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