Many successful startups around the world have demonstrated that Networking is a time-tested strategy to achieve business goals. Building a startup itself is immensely challenging. Only personal and business networks can lead the way through this tough journey by making the founders come across the right people, resources, opportunities, ideas, guidance, and strategies that are indispensable for the success of the startup business.

Business Networking specifically helps and supports in

Finding And Attracting Potential Investors

Funding is an inevitable need for establishing a Startup. However, startups often struggle to attract investors. This makes getting the startup off the ground tremendously challenging.

Business networking offers opportunities for startup founders to find and meet the right investors who are enthusiastic about investing in startups with growth potential. Networking allows startup owners to leverage connections while pitching their business idea to investors and convince them that their business has the potential for good ROI and is worth investing in.

Discovering New Business Opportunities

Networking often opens the door to new and promising business opportunities that the startups could not have discovered on their own. Such opportunities can be valuable in entering new markets, increasing sales and profits, cutting down costs, improving products and services, and enhancing the profile and reputation of the startup.

This is enormously important for the growth and success of the startup.

Learning From Others

First-time entrepreneurs usually do not know all about operating a business. Getting in touch with experienced business people through networking helps in gaining valuable insights, industry know-how, best practices, tips and tactics, strategies, lessons regarding mistakes to avoid, dealing with certain challenges, making informed decisions, etc that can be acquired only through experience.

Being in touch with successful people can be very inspiring and help in cultivating a positive attitude for achieving success.

Acquiring Talent

The people you recruit can make or break the startup’s success. For a new company, acquiring talented and responsible employees to build an effective team can be quite challenging.

By connecting with the right people within the industry, startups can easily stumble across and get referred to qualified people who can contribute to the startup’s success.

Keeping Up To Date With Industry Trends

Networking is one of the best ways to stay informed of the latest industry trends. It can help in knowing about new developments and innovations, technological advancements, emerging opportunities, changing consumer behavior, regulatory change, market shifts, etc.

This can be helpful in being prepared for certain challenges and making the most of opportunities, strategic decision-making, and staying competitive.

Building A Solid Support System

Creating a strong support system is essential for a startup as it can be of great help when the founder faces a tough and lonely situation. Such a support system can help in making better decisions, and offer motivation, the right advice, guidance, assistance, feedback, and ideas whenever necessary.

By doing business networking startup owners can incorporate experienced businesspeople, industry leaders, business experts, and professionals in their support system. Whereas, through personal networking, startup founders can get support and mentorship from their friends, family members, and relatives.

Developing Brand Recognition

By networking with more and more business people and potential customers, startup founders will get better opportunities to successfully boost their brand reputation and recognition by showcasing their brand, telling their brand story, promoting the products and benefits, increasing brand visibility, etc.

Getting Referrals

Business networking can often fetch high-quality leads and referrals. This can be really favorable for boosting sales and profits.

Even if it does not, business networks generally offer connections that can open doors to great deals, partnerships, and collaboration opportunities in the future.

Hence, establishing a robust business network can forever be advantageous to startups.

This is why DhuMall – the #1 Biz Marketplace presents you International Business Excellence Network – an online and offline effective networking platform for startups and businesses of all sizes, nature, sectors, and industries around the world to help them to be connected to local, national, and international networks.

By obtaining a membership to IBEN, you can become a part of your IBEN local community – IBEN Chapter which provides complete access to the chapter members’ database. It allows you to attend weekly and monthly online or offline meetings to do networking. It also facilitates participation in the Global Meeting and Global Forum.

IBEN offers two types of memberships – IBEN Chapter President Membership with 2 years of validity as well as IBEN Membership with 1 year of validity. Both of them are renewable and help you build a strong network with a myriad of benefits and opportunities.