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Matches Members Online

BizConnect matches professionals with similar business and personal interests, sending emails every time there is a match! Customize your matching to search for your businesses immediate and long range needs, and set hiring/job alerts. BizConnect's MATCH breaks the ice, making it easy to build business relationships and referrals.  

Consumer-As-Partner Business Trend

By Lauren Kahn- BizConnect Guest Contributor

 

One of the most pressing concerns in sales and marketing is the narrowing window of time to catch consumers’ attention. Successful companies and brands are revolutionizing the way they interact with customers. These companies are viewing their consumers as branding and marketing partners. Engaging consumers as branding partners means moving away from one-way broadcasting and creating a way for customers to share brand perceptions, associations and experiences. 

 

"Perceived Quality" is an important dimension of private brand strength. A retailer of rugged hiking sandals may use a static advertisement to signal quality by communicating a lifetime warranty for the footwear. The retailer who adheres to the consumer-as-partner model, however, may follow up a lifetime warranty message with a campaign encouraging buyers to upload and share pictures of their own tan lines from the footwear, with accompanying stories about their travels, miles covered, and elements fought in their sandals. This dynamic, web-based brand campaign produces a message about quality that comes to life through authentic story telling...read more

BizConnect's

Mega-Networking Event

June 27, 2013

6 - 8:30 p.m.

Register Here!

Seneca Lodge Boyds, MD

*4:30- 5:30 p.m. Free Event Seminar on Facebook & LinkedIn "Getting the Most out of Your Business Contacts".

JOIN BIZCONNECT FOR A MEGA-MARTY NETWORKING EVENT!  BizConnect members and guests please join us and meet great professionals from Team Network, Original Tuesdays, BNI, eWomen Network, Women Business Owners-WBO, Olney Chamber of Commerce, Networking Your Biz, Rockville Chamber of Commerce, and More! Catered affair with free soft drinks and free parking in a Fun Art Gallery atmosphere.

Member Spotlight: Amy Yendall

Amy joined Payroll Network Inc. two and a half years ago as District Sales Manager, focusing on business development for the metropolitan DC area. Payroll Network offers comprehensive workforce solutions, including payroll programs, time and attendance, and other HR solutions. Expense reporting systems are also part of Payroll Network's portfolio of services. 

 

Amy enjoys her work tremendously. She loves analyzing her clients' business objectives and identifying the right Payroll Network offerings that will help them improve operational efficiency and find cost savings opportunities. 

 

A BizConnect member for one year, Amy is impressed with the diversity of the membership. She has developed great relationships with business referral partners after attending BizConnect's networking events. When she's not working, Amy loves to dance! Swing and disco rank among her favorites, and she is an avid golfer. 

What Members Say:

"BizConnect attracts lots of great people who are interested in having rich conversations."

Eric Martin, Eric's Coaching

"I had a very enjoyable time at the latest BizConnect event; it was social and easy to connect with people. BizConnect is a part of my networking strategy."

Jeremy Zissman, CPA Strategies Group)

BizConnect Donates 5% of Event Proceeds to the United Planning Organization (UPO) 

UPO unites people in need with opportunities in the Washington DC area, improving the lives of young DC residents, delivering brings hope, and making our community a better place to live.

Attend our event and help support UPO!

Mobile Web Usage for Business

By Lauren Kahn- BizConnect Guest Contributor

Mobile web usage is booming. Consumers are not only using their smartphones to browse the web, they are also using mobile devices to shop and make purchases, treating these platforms as they would their desktop computers. The number of overall web searches on mobile devices in the U.S. rose 21% from 2012 to 2013. For these consumers, the benefits of mobile is clear-convenience and constant connectedness.  

 

Today, mobile-optimized websites are almost essential to enter a marketplace and are a point of parity.Companies are prioritizing mobile platform integration with in-house IT systems and programs so that employees can work and serve clients wherever they are, at any given time. Not only are mobile business solutions more efficient and convenient, but they also encourage employees to take advantage of data more regularly...read more