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Business development built around people
You do not need to work every room, perfect an elevator pitch or turn yourself into a salesperson. You need the right conversations, followed up properly, with people who can become customers, partners, suppliers, introducers and allies.
For business owners who want a better way to create opportunities, and business communities that want relationships to carry on working long after the meeting ends.
A different view of networking
The room was never the point.
Most networking stops too early. People meet, swap details, connect on LinkedIn and then wait for something useful to happen.
BizQonnect takes a different view. The value is in what happens next. Asking better questions. Understanding what somebody is trying to achieve. Staying in touch. Spotting where two people should know each other. Creating a proper relationship strategy instead of collecting contacts.
Networking is a tactic. Relationships are the strategy.
Two ways to use the thinking
Different businesses need different levels of help. BizQonnect is designed around that reality rather than forcing everybody through the same programme.
A BizQonnector is focused on relationships and opportunities. They are not carrying a product around looking for somebody to pitch it to.
Their job is to ask questions, understand priorities, make useful introductions and keep an eye out for opportunities that a busy business owner may never have had time to spot.
Talk to us about a BizQonnectorSome business owners want the methodology themselves. That means turning the network you already have into something you manage deliberately, rather than hoping your contacts remember what you do.
The aim is not to make you more salesy. It is to give you a practical system for conversations, follow-up, relationships and introductions that works in a way you are comfortable with.
Start with the 3 Minute ChecklistWhat a BizQonnector actually does
That is a very different job from turning up at networking events with a stack of business cards.
They ask first. What matters to you? What are you trying to achieve? Where are you stuck?
They look beyond the obvious sale. The useful person might be a customer, partner, supplier, introducer or somebody with an idea you had not considered.
They keep connecting. Business development does not stop because the meeting finished.
They let you get on with your business. Especially useful if networking and follow-up are somewhere near the bottom of your favourite-things-to-do list.
You do not need more contacts. You need to do more with the right ones.
Technology can support that. It cannot replace the human part. BizQonnect starts with the conversations and adds systems where they genuinely help.
For business groups and communities
A good business group introduces people. A BizQonnector can help those introductions turn into something useful.
A BizQonnector can work alongside a business group, network or community and spend their time understanding members, finding useful connections and looking for opportunities inside and outside the group.
The work can happen online, face-to-face or through a mix of both. The point is not where people meet. The point is what happens because they met.
Where it starts
What are you trying to achieve? Where does new business currently come from? Which parts of business development are working and which ones keep slipping down the list?
Customers, contacts, introducers, suppliers, partners and people you have met along the way. Most businesses have more relationship capital than they realise.
That might mean access to a BizQonnector, installing the network strategy into your own business, working through a business group, or simply starting a useful conversation about what would help.
Mark Layder
I came into this through sales, business and psychology. Over the years I kept seeing the same problem in different forms.
Business owners were being given more techniques, more tools and eventually more technology, while the basic question was being missed: are we actually talking to the right people and building relationships with them?
BizQonnect grew from that thinking. Not networking for networking's sake. Not another reason to post more often. A deliberate way to build relationships, find opportunities and connect people who can help each other.
Mark “MrQoL” Layder
Founder, BizQonnect
Start a useful conversation
If you want somebody focused on making connections for you, want to build a better network strategy yourself, or run a business community that could get more from its relationships, start here.