Phoenix Business Owner Association Benefits
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Listing in Member Directory
Features
- Notation of Business Information, products and services offered, location and contact information
- Opportunity to communicate special promotions
- Links to company URL and other promotional Websites and blogs
- Referrals and testimonials, recognition of premier status
Benefits
- Enables other Phoenix-area business owners to easily find you and utilize you as a trusted partner for their needs
- Enables testimonials and referrals to easily be seen and used by others seeking your services
- Improves your own Website performance through links to high-traffic activity
- Promotes your capabilities to the community at-large, enabling them to easily find you and see the value you bring to many satisfied customers
Business Impact
Thousands of Valley business owners and residents will be able to readily find you as a business owner committed to continuously improving yourself, your business, and your community. They will be able to quickly access you to purchase products and services that you offer.
Access to online community bulletin board and social media vehicle
Features
- Online presence with thousands of Valley business owners provides you with a forum for raising and addressing topics of importance to you
- Topics categorized and organized for easy reference and community building
- Access to Panel of Experts
Benefits
- Enables you to get quick answers on issues you are facing
- Provides quick access to referral network
- Gives you a forum to demonstrate expertise
- Provides instantly improved visibility for you and your organization
- Online moderators will keep the content fresh and relevant, ensuring that you keep current on the information important to your success
- Panels of experts will be available to track down difficult questions impeding your progress
Business Impact
- Avoids re-creating the wheel when facing new challenges and opportunities; improves efficiency and profitability
- Easy PR and promotional vehicle, demonstrating your expertise to thousands of potential partners, customers, suppliers
Monthly Meeting with other Business Owners
Features
- Second Monday of each month
- Expert Speakers
- Access to small breakout groups
- Panel of Experts provides multilateral perspective on the important topics for business success
Benefits
- Ensures competence and current knowledge of topics important to your success
- Provides regular opportunity to meet with fellow business owners
Business Impact
- Provides the relationships and information critical for successfully growing your business
- Network with other local business leaders in a casual, non-stuffy, format where everyone is committed to each others' mutual success
Option to participate on industry Advisory Boards
Features
- Access to monthly educational Webinar
- Meet regularly to provide input and feedback on each other's businesses
Benefits
- Stay current on information critical to your success
- Gain insight from peers; learn from their experiences
- Hold each other accountable to meet stated personal and business goals
Business Impact
- Utilize a proven method for achieving optimum results; companies using an advisory board outperform all others in their field
- Get at least one new idea at each meeting that you can implement to improve revenues and profitability
Participation in Community Service Events
Features
- Monthly opportunities to network with other business owners while making a positive inpact with numerous charitable organizations across the Valley
Benefits
- Most business owners wish they could do more to help their community; it's just hard to find the time to organize it
- We organize it for you; you just show up.
- Grow trusted relationships with fellow business owners while doing great things to help those in need
Business Impact
- Fulfill an inner desire to improve the world around you
- Form more trusted “networking” relationships than you might at a cocktail party or card-swap
- Promote yourself and your company as community advocates; the Valley DOES reward local companies that care about the Valley's residents
Free Membership in the Phoenix Business Trade Exchange
Features
- All members will have the opportunity to gain free access to a premier local barter network
Benefits
- Enables members to barter-exchange goods and services, in lieu of using precious cash; all tax reporting occurs automatically
Business Impact
- Improve cash management by conserving cash when using services of a fellow group member
Discounts with other Members
Features
- Each member is encouraged to provide fellow members with unique discounts (min. of 5%; many offer much greater to entice usage)
Benefits
- Entitles you to a discount whenever you utilize a fellow member for purchase of goods and services; significant savings can occur
Business Impact
- Member discounts improve cash and expense management by reducing the hard costs for purchases of goods and services, thereby contributing to improved profit margins
Educational Welcome Gift
Features
- Twitter-in-a-Box
Benefits
- Provides quick-start and quick-reference tool to make you social media savvy in a flash
- Serves as a good reference tool on the basics, as well as provides more advanced tips to drive business
Business Impact
- Quickly utilize social media more effectively to generate new revenues
- Affordable and painless way to improve your online marketing and PR presence
Identification Card and Name Tag
Features
- All members are issued an identification card
Benefits
- Provides easy identification that you are a group member, entitled to all the privileges of membership
Business Impact
- Activate barter and discount capabilities, directly reducing expenses
Certificate of Membership in Good-Standing
Benefits
- Acknowledges your dedication to quality and best business practices
- Recognizes your commitment-to and support-for charitable organizations across the Valley
Business Impact
- Visible demonstration of strong values and positive characteristics promotes goodwill with your employees, your suppliers, your customers and your prospects; goodwill leads to improved satisfaction; improved satisfaction leads to improved retention and acquisition of employees and customers alike
Decal for display purposes
Benefits
- Notifies other members that you are a participating member, thereby qualifying them for discounts and recognizing your mutual service commitment
- Notifies the community that you are a conscientious business owner, committed to improving yourself and your community
Business Impact
- Encourages increased customer usage, as both fellow members and the community at-large recognize and reward your commitment to excellence
Option to participate on industry Advisory Boards
Features
- Access to monthly educational Webinar
- Meet regularly to provide input and feedback on each other's businesses
Benefits
- Stay current on information critical to your success
- Gain insight from peers; learn from their experiences
- Hold each other accountable to meet stated personal and business goals
Business Impact
- Utilize a proven method for achieving optimum results; companies using an advisory board outperform all others in their field
- Get at least one new idea at each meeting that you can implement to improve revenues and profitability
Option to serve on panel of experts
Features
- Panels of Experts serve as reference resources around areas of expertise (e.g., a panel of marketing experts, a panel of finance experts, a panel of technology experts)
- Answer Blog inquiries
- Participate in panel discussions
- Participate in interactions with Advisory Boards
Benefits
- Demonstrate expertise and knowledge to thousands of local business owners – most of whom are potential customers and partners
- Establish one-on-one communication path with people who have identified themselves as having a need
- Be seen as someone who has deep domain knowledge and is perceived to be interested in others' success as well as your own
Business Impact
- Capture the ears of people who are in need of your knowledge and expertise, thereby creating a new sales pipeline
- Be perceived as a go-to person in the larger community: by prospects, by your peers, by the press; improve customer retention and new client acquisiton rates
- Identify possible candidates for additional follow-up, opening opportunities for offering your products and services at a later time
Option to serve as an Online Discussion Leader
Features
- Make regular entries on the group's Community Bulletin Board, thereby stimulating discussion
- Identify communications that require additional follow-up
- Be a subject-matter-expert and discussion facilitator
Benefits
- Be perceived as a wealth of knowledge and an information resource by thousands of local business owners – most of whom are potential customers and partners
- Position yourself as a person-of-interest, thereby opening up additional avenues for your voice
Business Impact
- Have your voice heard by thousands of local business owners, thereby opening doors for future sales opportunities
- Your increased Web activity will raise your visibility in search engines, thereby improving the performance of your own Web activities
