Severn Business Network.
Where members benefit from the incredible reach of the SBN digital presence in Shropshire and around the world.
As a member, you’ll tap into the power of the SBN website and its social media programme. Your business will benefit as your Google ranking improves, your online visibility increases, and you connect with a larger base of potential customers.
SBN is a networking group that has traditionally relied on word-of-mouth referrals, but it has evolved into an exclusive group where members enjoy the benefits of its collective online strength.
We meet every Thursday at 7.00am at Shropshire Wildlife Trust, 193 Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury SY2 6AH.
Contact us first if you would like to come to a meeting.
We welcome all businesses from all sectors
One person businesses
If you’re a one‑man or one‑woman band, SBN is the perfect place to meet like‑minded individuals and win new business at our friendly meeting every Thursday.
Corporate businesses
If you represent a larger firm in Shropshire, you can tap into a dedicated group of people who will effectively act as your own extended sales team.
Small businesses
SBN is the ideal place to help a small business grow and expand. With high-quality traffic you’ll get visiting your website you’ll be able to build the SBN digital imprint into your business plan.
Our modern twist on business networking.
We're a group of individuals representing local businesses throughout Shrewsbury, Telford and Shropshire.
We're all seriously-minded about our businesses and the primary objective of our members is to generate opportunities for one-another.
We all benefit from the collective SBN presence online. The power this new, properly managed, SBN website gets from the combination of reciprocal links, co-ordinated blogging on 30 members connected websites and SBN’s social media means that:
We all enjoy improved Google rankings on our own websites by reciprocal linking to the SBN website.
We all benefit from each other’s social media.
Once a month we ‘Spotlight’ one or two our members and we will all promote them for a month. We’ll will all write blogs about our ‘Spotlighted’ member/s on our individual websites. Google will notice this ‘firehose’ of digital attention the ‘Spotlighted’ member is getting from the individual members websites. The SBN website will be harnessing the power all of this collective activity.
Google takes notice when this linked/collaborative activity happens and it will reward us all with better page rankings. Google loves new, good quality content on a website because it wants to deliver good quality search results. Active websites that write blogs get higher rankings on Google.
No other networking group in Shropshire does this and SBN will become the premier business networking group in Shropshire.We still benefit from the traditional word of mouth business referral but the online impact we can all make on a business can be far greater.
There are a couple of things you’ll need to set up on your website to enjoy this benefit. Read this blog for the things you need to do here:
We don’t want members to feel that they’ll struggle with this. Just ask David or Lucy and they’ll help you all the way.
We are a community that supports you and your interests outside of business.
We wrap our arms around you and your business.
We are also a community….
Being in business can sometimes be lonely and so meeting a room of other like-minded business owners can be very supportive.
You’ll make friends and by regularly meeting we’ll get to know you and what you’re interested in.
The group is incredibly supportive and you’ll become part of our community. We all support each others interests outside of of our businesses.
What do I get as a member and why is SBN different ?
As a member you’ll get the advantage of being part of a collective group of likeminded business people.We are all friends and we support each other.
Once a month (very similar to the familiar ‘10 minute’ presentation a member makes each month) we all get to understand one (or two) member’s business. We then all write blogs on our own websites about that member’s business over the coming month. Our collective support is like a ‘firehose’ of digital attention which will make Google take notice of that member’s website.
Google will then see this ‘firehose’ of digital attention pointing to another member in the next month. Google will see the SBN website is in the centre of all of this activity and will reward us all with better rankings.
You get a great breakfast (coffee is good too) on a Thursday and you’ll feel invigorated and ready to tackle the week ahead.
“I can say that my monthly period in the ‘Spotlight’ last year exposed me to a wider market in Shropshire that I would never have been able to access in my normal day to day activities. SBN has been ‘shot in the arm’ for my business”. David Hill. The Glass studio.
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