Give your members something worth being a member for.

Your members run their businesses on their own. Business Partner tells them every morning what needs their attention, helps them chase what they are owed and helps them find work. You can put it in front of all of them with one link, and it costs nobody anything.

No budget required. No contract beyond a short agreement. No cost to your members.

Before anything else: what this costs.

Most things offered to member bodies need a budget you do not have. This does not.

Nothing

No licence, no seat count, no minimum number of members, no annual fee. You are not buying anything and there is nothing to budget for.

Nothing, permanently

Market Network is free to join and stays free. It is not a trial and there is no end date. A member who wants the full Business Partner subscription can pay for it themselves, and most will not need to.

What your members actually get.

Not a discount code and not a webinar. Something that does work for them every week.

A Business Passport

The documents every buyer asks for, assembled once and reused. Company registration, tax clearance, B-BBEE, insurance, references. They record the date each document expires and Business Passport shows which ones are close, so they find out before a buyer does.

Work they can actually win

Published tenders and opportunities, checked against what their business has. Where they do not meet a requirement, it names which one and what it would take.

Suppliers, and a straight answer

Say what the business needs and see the options Business Partner can find, with the reasons. Sometimes the answer is to stay with the supplier they have, and Business Partner will say so.

Opportunities come from published sources as well as from businesses already here, so this is not a network that only works once it is full. What a member sees depends on which sources cover what they do, and every opportunity says where it came from and when we read it.

What you get.

Evidence you can put in front of a board, a funder or your members at an AGM.

And your introduction is permanent

Every member who arrives through your link is recorded as your introduction, and that record does not expire. It stays even if the member later subscribes, changes what they do, or stops using it for a while.

What you never see

Any member’s financial information, customers or suppliers
What a member asked Business Partner, or what it told them
What a member said they need
Anything at all about an individual member’s business

Bringing a member in does not give you sight of them. We tell them so on the page they arrive on, which is why they will trust it enough to be useful.

What is actually involved.

A short agreement

It covers the introduction and what you will be able to see. There is nothing to pay and no term to commit to.

You get one link

Put it in a newsletter, a member portal, an email, or a slide at an event. Every member who arrives through it is recorded as yours.

They arrive on a page carrying your name

It says who introduced them, that it costs them nothing, and that their information stays their own. Then they start.

You see how they are getting on

As a group, updated as they use it. Nothing about any individual member.

If it works, it can go further.

Two things become possible once members are actually using it. Neither is required, neither is automatic, and both are agreed with us in advance.

Find someone to fund more

You have the members. A corporate with supplier development or ESD spend has the budget and no reach. We can help introduce the two, so that your members get the full Business Partner subscription paid for by somebody else.

A share, where it is earned

Only where a specific role is agreed with us in writing, in advance. Making the link available does not qualify, and nothing here follows from the introduction alone.

Where an association actively drives its members to a paid Business Partner subscription, and we have agreed that role beforehand, you receive 10% of what Business Partner receives on those subscriptions, for twelve months from the first paid transaction.

Your introduction is permanent either way. The share is not. It ends at twelve months, or when a subscription is cancelled, whichever comes first.

Talk to us about it

One link, and see what your members do with it.

If it does nothing for them, it has cost you nothing and cost them nothing. That is not true of most things offered to member bodies.

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