Reminder - This offer ends TONIGHT !!

A special offer from Surrey Business Club...

Join today and save £80.00

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We’re sending this note (and extending a special offer) to all our Surrey Business Club contacts – including former Club Members, and all those who have attended one of our events and expressed an interest in the Club, which includes you!

Our amazingly low subscription rates are about to rise – so if you’ve been thinking of joining SBC, this is the perfect opportunity, because you could lock in a substantial saving if you act fast.

As you know, our current annual subscription includes:
  • 12 meetings (with substantial quality buffets – sometimes even sit-down meals!)
  • 10 presentations by expert speakers on topics highly relevant to SME’s, plus 2 social events (August BBQ and Christmas Quiz Social, food included)
  • Formal and informal networking opportunities at every meeting
  • Your own free webpage on our long-established website, with high search engine visibility
  • Monthly email newsletters
  • Optional social events (tenpin bowling, golf etc)

(*As a not-for-profit club we are not VAT registered - so this tax-deductible amount is all you pay)

For comparison purposes:

  • Most Chambers of Commerce charge a membership fee very similar or higher than ours (+VAT), but every meeting is extra – in the order of £20 + VAT, so to attend 12 meetings your annual cost would be over £400.
  • Weekly breakfast networking groups typically charge £100 + VAT joining fee, £400 + VAT annual membership and £10 a week for breakfast – a total of £1,000 in year one, and £900/annum thereafter
  • Lunchtime or evening networking groups typically charge £300 + VAT membership plus £12- £20 per event +VAT, or a monthly sub including meetings (which in the case of one successful Surrey-based group ranges from £33 + VAT per month up to £150 +VAT per month depending on the level of your membership (from £465 – over £2000/annum).
  • Pay As You Go networking groups charge around £15 - £20 per meeting (£150 - £240 per year) but have no newsletter or website, and often no speakers.

Thanks to a couple of injections of EU funding under the Leadership Skills scheme, we’ve been able to maintain an artificially low subscription, and to offer half-price HeadStart memberships for new businesses. We’ve also welcomed guests free of charge for a trial meeting. Unfortunately, the funding has now dried up, and we have to remain financially viable (although we remain a non-profit making club, run by Members for Members – and the best value business organisation you will find).

The bottom line is that as of 7th May 2008, membership of SBC will be £180 per year (no VAT, remember) plus a £20 joining fee.

However, join now, before the end of April for just £120, and no joining fee!

HeadStart Membership will still be half price at £90. We will be charging guests £15 to come to a trial meeting, and there will be a £20 joining fee for all new Members (or returning ex-Members).

Each member will receive four guest passes per year (which now have a value of £15 each, and this represents exactly the increase in the sub). This means you can invite your contacts, colleagues, customers and prospects to come to an SBC meeting as your guest, and they save £15.

If they subsequently join the Club, you will get a £20 discount on your next year’s sub under our ‘Member Get Member’ scheme. So if you actively promote the Club, you could end up paying even less for your next year’s membership. With these new membership rates we will be able to continue providing a first-class business networking and professional development programme in a friendly sociable environment.

And of course if you accept our offer, you can join by 1 May and get 12 month’s membership of SBC for just ten pounds a month all in – a saving of £80 on the ‘new member’ rate, because we’ll waive the joining fee.

Click this link to pay by credit card or PayPal to save £80! Don’t miss out – it only takes a minute to do it now…

Best regards

Keith Grover

Chairman

 
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