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Next meeting for the Lenham Valley Business Association
Go to poster or download Poster/handout See 20 membership benefits below!
At our November meeting we met at The Dog & Bear - our guest speaker was Laura Dickson, Tourism Manager at Maidstone Borough Council – see photo below with a few of the attendees.
It is now essential that members understand our fastest route to growth is through them. Please print out the posters and display them or hand them out to everyone you know in business. Also carry a couple of the Membership Application forms with you so you can sign people up quickly.
Membership starts at just £65 for a sole trader (£1.24 per week – less than a cup of tea!); members employing from 2 to 9 people costs £1.44 per week; 10 to 99 employees costs £95 pa and over 100 is £165. There are already free monthly meetings, business advice and other benefits will start with a membership directory going to every household, a website will be available very soon (holding page already uploaded). There are lots of other plans. We will be providing a news letter every month and will be holding an exhibition in September. We are on the look out for volunteers for the committee too, please, especially in the finance and law areas.
Registration for the next meeting if you have never registered is available as an online form www.cmr-group.co.uk/online.html You can also register your interest by phone on 01622 820 841. Membership application is available as a download from the same page. Previous attendees can simply answer the email that will have been sent or contact lenhambusiness@btinternet.com
Don’t miss out, sole trader or multi-national MD. Please come to the next Business Association meeting and find out what’s happening in Lenham. Looking forward to seeing you there!
Here's 20 reasons why businesses should join . . .
The Association now has:
1 Over £2,000 worth of members,
2. another £200 worth joining soon,
3. over £2,200 worth of advertising for the Business Directory,
4. a branding and dedicated email,
5. twenty pages of its' own website, lenhambusiness.co.uk
6. free meetings with guest 'celebrity' speakers and a chance to see inside local venues,
7. monthly posters/handouts sent to the whole mailing list to help them promote their association,
8. endorsements from the mayor, the leader of Maidstone Borough and your local MP,
9. regular support from KM, Lenham Focus and Wealden Ad. Other publications are coming on board,
10. a committee to organise the association,
11. a discount scheme primarily aimed at the retail members, that will be promoted to all members to encourage their staff to shop at members companies - two of the largest member companies alone will provide up to 1,000 potential new shoppers,
12. a working domain name LenhamBusiness.co.uk
13. links for the association from online directory sources (more to come) - see http://www.freeindex.co.uk/profile(lenham-valley-business-association)_185939.htm
14. links from other sites, members or not,
15. a searchable term already, Google it and see for yourself,
16. ideas to promote Lenham to tourists (Alan Reading - LVBA Chair - also Chairs Marketing Maidstone Town & Country) and various speakers will be talking about tourism
17. proven successes among the businesses that network every month,
18. an opportunity to self help if businesses join and realise the potential that has been laid at their feet!
19. a business directory to every home from May 2010 (for this point alone the membership fee is a good purchase),
20. an open door to real expertise from professionals who are happy to share their knowledge for free.