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Get Paid for the Referrals You Are Already Making
If you use a tool you like, you talk about it. Someone mentions a problem, you say what you use. That happens constantly and almost nobody gets paid for it. How the referral programme works Three steps. Sign up as a referral partner, which takes a couple of minutes. Get
Why We Only Accept Two Vendors Per Category
It is the question we get asked most about the Verified Vendor programme, usually by someone whose category is already full. It is worth explaining the reasoning. The maths of a crowded directory Imagine a directory with forty plumbers. A referral comes in. Your odds of getting it are one
How Our Verified Vendor Network Actually Sends You Work
Most business directories work the same way. You pay, you get a listing, and then you wait. Occasionally someone finds you. Usually they do not. We built the Verified Vendor programme to work the other way round. We make the introduction ourselves When a business in our network needs a
Eat, Educate, Excellerate: What Happens at iCommunity
Most business networking is a room of people waiting for their turn to pitch. iCommunity was built to be a different thing, and the format gives that away. Eat It starts with a full buffet breakfast in a private setting. That is not decoration. Conversation before a session is different
Where to Start When Everything Feels Urgent
Some weeks the list is not a list, it is a wall. Marketing, invoices, that client, the website, the thing you have been avoiding for a month. Everything looks equally urgent, so nothing moves. Urgency is not the right sort Almost everything on a small business to-do list feels urgent,
What a Nonprofit Business Incubator Actually Does
Nonprofit incubator is a phrase that raises reasonable questions. If it is free, what is the catch. If it is a nonprofit, is the help any good. What an incubator is An incubator gives early and small businesses the support that larger companies buy: guidance, tools, introductions, and somewhere to
Get Paid for the Referrals You Are Already Making
If you use a tool you like, you talk about it. Someone mentions a problem, you say what you use. That happens constantly and almost nobody gets paid for it. How the referral programme works Three steps. Sign up as a referral partner, which takes a couple of minutes. Get
Why We Only Accept Two Vendors Per Category
It is the question we get asked most about the Verified Vendor programme, usually by someone whose category is already full. It is worth explaining the reasoning. The maths of a crowded directory Imagine a directory with forty plumbers. A referral comes in. Your odds of getting it are one
How Our Verified Vendor Network Actually Sends You Work
Most business directories work the same way. You pay, you get a listing, and then you wait. Occasionally someone finds you. Usually they do not. We built the Verified Vendor programme to work the other way round. We make the introduction ourselves When a business in our network needs a
Eat, Educate, Excellerate: What Happens at iCommunity
Most business networking is a room of people waiting for their turn to pitch. iCommunity was built to be a different thing, and the format gives that away. Eat It starts with a full buffet breakfast in a private setting. That is not decoration. Conversation before a session is different
Where to Start When Everything Feels Urgent
Some weeks the list is not a list, it is a wall. Marketing, invoices, that client, the website, the thing you have been avoiding for a month. Everything looks equally urgent, so nothing moves. Urgency is not the right sort Almost everything on a small business to-do list feels urgent,
What a Nonprofit Business Incubator Actually Does
Nonprofit incubator is a phrase that raises reasonable questions. If it is free, what is the catch. If it is a nonprofit, is the help any good. What an incubator is An incubator gives early and small businesses the support that larger companies buy: guidance, tools, introductions, and somewhere to