Welcome To Supply My Business…

From an initial idea that was formed over a year ago, we’re now just two months away from the realisation of our goal of creating an online community for Kent based businesses that want to do more business locally.

The Concept

We believe that there are many great networking organisations in Kent, and many great social networks that provide marketing opportunities to get noticed. But we wanted to create a website that would connect all Kent based businesses in one place, with the aim of doing more business together. ‘Doing business’ means being able to reach out to others to share your business needs and responding to the needs of other businesses in turn – making the connections needed to help businesses in Kent grow by working together.

Suppliers
search for local businesses

The UK has seen an explosion in the number of small businesses in recent years. We are the backbone of the UK economy and nowhere is this more visible than in Kent. There will always be challenges to doing business – ‘Operation Stack’ is a prime example – but we are committed to helping small businesses in Kent do more business locally and as Kent based small business owners ourselves, we are delighted to be launching our service here.

The Progress

With two months to go before launch, we have received some great feedback from local companies keen to get on the site to start posting their requirements and respond to the needs of others. This has been reflected in the size of the list of interested Kent businesses ready to join us on at launch.

We are well into development of the site and are now testing the core functionality that will allow businesses to post their supplier briefs and for other businesses in turn to respond and quote for meeting these needs.

supply my business tender page
screenshot from the site

It’s a really simple and easy way to search for and find quality, local suppliers for your everyday business needs and save time and money in the process. At the same giving your business access to a much wider market opportunity, to quote for and win business in Kent that it might not otherwise have!

We are also including a section for Kent businesses to post their recruitment requirements too as we believe this ties in nicely with our core focus, and we feel that by keeping it simple and easy to use we can create real value for recruiters and job seekers alike.

For Now…

We’ve got a number of extra features to announce before launch and many businesses are keen to get on the site straight away to take advantage of our FREE 6 month trial period – so if you haven’t yet pre-registered your business then we’d urge you to visit us and get your details in now to hear about updates and be one of the first to try us out when we launch. Some of our pre-registered businesses will also be get the opportunity to become beta testers towards the end of this month too, which will give them the chance to get their business established on Supply My Business before the main launch.

We have been really pleased with the amount of interest to date and the feedback received directly from the Kent business community. We have recently set up a Supply My Business Twitter account so please make sure you follow us there, and also on our LinkedIn page.

Let us know what you think about what we are creating – we appreciate your comments and feedback either in the comments section or Tweet us @supplymybiz.

We really look forward to keeping you updated with our progress as we move closer to launch.

Thanks for your support

The Supply My Business Team

One thought on “Welcome To Supply My Business…”

  1. Hi martin

    Fab! What a stylish email to receive. This just looks and reads better and better.

    One question……. I have a number of local suppliers I think very highly of indeed. When I recommend them do they have to reside in kent or is it ok that they are in Essex but supplying into kent?

    Sharon

    Ps. Quex have asked Hermina to go visit them again . Good news. very pleased she is actually selling now.

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