It has been proven that most business owners benefit more from a good quality business referral than by spending a fortune on advertising. There's never been a better time to promote your business and there's no better way to do so than by building strong working relationships with like-minded entrepreneurs.
Joining ALBA will give you the opportunity to promote your venture locally over a tasty lunch meeting once a month in Abergavenny. ALBA is a ladies only networking organisation that offers a business referral platform and, as a bonus, some excellent social events. With membership growing steadily across many different sectors, ALBA offers its members invaluable support, useful introductions, interesting speakers and much more.
We meet in Abergavenny town centre for lunch once a month but we also arrange a selection of other enjoyable events including social evenings, charity fundraisers and collaborations with other helpful bodies and groups, including The Business Network and the local Chamber of Trade.
You need only to book in online and your place is reserved for you. Visit the website www.albabiz.org for a list of our forthcoming events and for more information on the group.
Being in business certainly has its rewards but it can be challenging and sometimes a little lonely, even in a small town like Abergavenny. Business support can be hard to come by, even from those who really understand the stresses and strains, so why not join Abergavenny Ladies Business Association and build a link with a group of your peers who face the same challenges, and can perhaps advise or help?
Operating within the principle of 'relationship first, business later', ALBA encourages the building of genuine ongoing connections between regular attendees who, like you, are seeking to build their businesses by working with known and trusted colleagues. Who knows, they may even become friends! You'll soon find that belonging to ALBA makes all the difference to the quality of your referrals.
Guests are always welcome to try out our group before they join, but membership brings many benfefits that are worth having, and our subscriptions are amazingly economical. Every meeting includes the chance for members to bring along some promotional material for our brochure table, and there's usually an excellent speaker who will share an interesting nugget of useful information, and will almost certainly tell you something about their line of work that you didn't know before.
Members can also take advantage of booking the speaker slot to deliver a short presentation about what they do, giving members an insight into their business sector and allowing speakers to share their knowledge and expertise in a low-key way. Also at members' disposal is the ALBA website, with its profiles on member businesses, events diary and members' noticeboard, posted free for the entire world to see, and all inclusive in the membership fee.
Gentlemen, you are welcome to come along too - if you think you're man enough! - but we offer a particular quality of commercial relationship building at which women excel, we believe. It's all about honesty, non-competitive collaboration and friendship.
So come on Abergavenny lady entrepreneurs - log on to our website today and book yourself in for one of our forthcoming meetings or socials. Our lunch events are held in the town centre at the Priory Centre in Monk Street, or in the Coach House behind the Kings Head hotel in Cross Street, and there's always room for one more.
To find out more or to book into any of our ALBA initiatives or events, find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pages/ALBA-Abergavenny-Ladies-Business-Association/167030546663876, visit www.albabiz.org, email the secretary Sian Williams on info@albabiz.org or call the Chair, Val Stowell, on 01873 852124.
When you contact ALBA for local business support and networking opportunities, please mention you found them on Thebestof Abergavenny.