Listed below are the details of local Business Networking Groups.Keep in mind, you aren't going to stay in business if you keep yourself secret – so get out there and make sure people know what you offer when they are ready to buy!
Wendy Gannaway from Onwards & Upwards has written an article entitled 50 Top Tips on Business Networking which is worth reading before attending your next network meeting.
Harlow & District Chamber of Commerce
(HDCC) – for businesses in Harlow
Meetings are usually held once a month at various locations in Harlow
We aim to combine business networking with items of interest to local business
Contact: 01279 271104
Website: http://www.harlowchamber.co.uk/
PING holds monthly meetings for Harlow Businesses which combines face-to-face networking with practical advice on Social Media.We invite experts on the main social media platforms to give talks on the why and how of using these tools.
Meetings are on a 'pay as you go' basis.We meet on the third Friday of each month at The Park Inn Hotel, Southern Way, (M11 Jct 7), Harlow CM18 7BA.
Website:http://pingharlow.com/
Email:ian@ianhudson.org
The Bishop's Stortford Chamber of Commerce
The Bishop's Stortford Chamber of Commerce has been established for more than eighty years and currently has a membership of more than 150 local businesses and organisations.
If you're in business locally, and are not already a member
of the Chamber, we invite and encourage you to join us.We have a great deal to offer.Amongst other things, you'll have the
opportunity to network with other local business people at our monthly
breakfast meetings, to have your business listed and promoted on our website –
with a direct link to your own – and to be invited to business seminars and
social events of particular value in building your business and business
contacts.
Website:
http://www.bschamber.org/index.asp
Contact:01279 505953
The Athena Network Bishop's Stortford and Sawbridgeworth Group
Meet on the 4th Thursday of the month from 12-2pm
Venue:Manor of Groves Hotel, High Wych,
Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire CM21 0JU
Contact: anita.gray@theathenanetwork.com
Tel:01279 422653 / 07703 254001
The Athena Network Epping Group
Meet on the 2nd Wednesday of the month from
12-2pm
Venue:The Bell Hotel Epping, High Road,
Bell Common, Epping, Essex CM16 4DG
Contact:
anita.gray@theathenanetwork.com
Tel:01279 422653 / 07703 254001
The Bishop's Stortford Breakfast Club
The Bishop's Stortford Breakfast Club is an informal networking group for business people in and around the Bishop's Stortford area.The club is free of rules and obligations on members, and has no joining fees.Established in 1995, the club has grown steadily to a membership of over 500 individuals, with about 50 members at each meeting, held at popular venues in and around Bishop's Stortford.
We meet monthly at 8.00am on the second Wednesday of every month.Meetings start with 20 minutes informal conversation and networking followed by a good breakfast at tables of about 8.A short talk where usually, but not exclusively, one of our members provides an informative input to the event, which finishes at about 9.30.
Venue:Great Hadham Golf & Country Club, Great Hadham Road, Much Hadham, Herts SG10 6JE
Contact:Shirley Hoy
or Hayley Gregory at insight Associates on 01279 647447
Website:http://www.bsbc.biz/
Essex Business Network (EBN)
Meet last Wednesday of the month. 6.00pm until 9.00pm.
Venue:Radisson Blu Hotel, Waltham
Close, London Stansted Airport CM24 1PP
Contact:01268 330 716
Website: http://www.essexbusinessnetwork.co.uk/
Email:info@essexbusinessnetwork.co.uk
4Networking
Meet alternate Wednesdays for a breakfast meeting at Swallow Churchgate Hotel, Churchgate
Street, Old Harlow CM17 0JT
£10.00 per person
Website:http://www.4networking.biz/Events/Group/Harlow%20%28Essex%29
BNI Harlow
Meet every Tuesday morning at 6.45am
Venue:Churchgate Hotel, Churchgate
Street Village, Old Harlow CM17 0JT.
Website:http://www.bniharlow.co.uk/index.php
Women in Business – Sawbridgeworth
The Women in Business Network (WIBN) is a membership organisation for women who
wish to gain new business opportunities through word of mouth.Whether employed or a business owner the
network has a huge diversity of businesses involved.Our members support and encourage each other
through collaboration and the sharing of business contacts and opportunities.
Meet:12 midday – 2pm.Monthly on Wednesdays
Venue:The Plume of Feathers, Pye
Corner, Gilston, Essex CM20 2RD
Contact:Sarah Perrysara@saveandearnpounds.co.uk
or call 07946 586 458
Website:http://www.wibn.co.uk/component/content/article/7
Women in Business – Bishop's Stortford
Meet 12-2pmmonthly on a Wednesday
Venue:14 Market Square, Bishop's
Stortford, Hertford CM23 3UU
Contact:Nicky Brown 01279 874810 or
07903 924166 or email: nicky.brown@travelcounsellors.com
Website:http://www.wibn.co.uk/component/content/article/7