Successful networking is about developing relationships, which will build your reputation, attract new prospects, and provide referral opportunities. By attending Business 1st meetings on a regular basis, you will grow your contacts and become a trusted colleague to other members within the group. 
Latest Business Group News
May 2009
Local Lichfield networking group has seen its largest number of new recruits/members in 1 month with six new members further swelling the numbers at Business First, who meet every Thursday morning between 6.30am – 8.30am at Darnford Moors Golf Club, Darnford Lane, Lichfield.
The group is pleased to welcome our 6 new record breaking group members:
Marie Tisdale a partner at Ansons solicitors - a progressive law firm with a rich heritage, with offices in Lichfield and Cannock, yet they work with businesses and private clients right across the Midlands with extensive experience and technical ability combined with a dedicated personal approach .
Susan Rubiano of the Utility Warehouse - providing over 200,000 households throughout the UK with home phone, mobile phones, broadband, gas and electricity. And also offering value for money, award-winning customer service, and the convenience of all household utilities on one monthly bill.
Phil Yates of B-Sure Safety & Electrical Solutions - a reliable, specialist PAT Testing company in Lichfield with a long established local and national customer base.Portable Appliance Testing, or PAT Testing as it is better known, is a way of ensuring the safety of electrical appliances in homes and workplaces.
Neil Weyham of Cathedral Chem-Dry - providing professional carpet, upholstery, leather, curtain and rug cleaning, since beginning trading since 1991. Cathedral Chem-Dry operates from lichfield. 90% of work is domestic and 10% commercial. the core business comes from a 10 mile radius of lichfield. Chem-Dry is a national franchise which presently has just over 600 operators within the uk.
Sherman Rubiano of Charismetics - Sherman is a professional and highly competent Medical Aesthetics Practitioner. He is officially licensed as a Registered General Nurse, with over fifteen years experience in the field of medicine. Fully qualified and highly experienced in offering clinical treatments, including botox, dermal fillers, medical peels, microsclerotherapy, semi-permanent make-up, and coming soon, lipodissolve.
Eddie Allison of ECA Plumbing & Heating based in Lichfield is Gas Safe registered (the new name for Corgi registered) and fully qualified for central heating installation and service. For central heating installation and central heating servicing, plumbing emergencies, gas fire installation and servicing.
March 2008
Business First Member Jonathan Bryan, MD of Deaconsfield Financial Planning Ltd took part in the Bangers to Budapest road trip, which involved driving almost 4000 miles around Europe to raise money for First Responders - a charity providing emergency medical aid to people in the local community.
Jonathan and his wife Emma acquired a 13 year old ambulance from Gnosall and District Community First Responders and drove it through France, Germany, Austria, Slovenia and Hungary to Budapest and back to raise money for the charity.
Current Chair of Business First, Colette Bratton says “Jonathan has given so much to this cause. Not only has he donated 10 days of his life travelling across Europe in an old banger, but he’s donated personal money to fund the trip. We hope that the £300 we’ve donated will help him get closer to his goal of raising £10,000 for First Responders in 2007”.
First Responders is a charity made up of a group of volunteers who are trained by Staffordshire Ambulance Service to provide emergency medical aid to people living and working in the local community. Because they are called to emergencies near to where they live, they can be with a patient more quickly than an ambulance crew and provide first aid straightaway. Their aim is to help the ambulance service, not replace it.