EBEN (Entrepreneurial Business Exchange Network), is an Entrepreneurial and business development programme.

We live in a world where the corporates dominate the business environment often at the expense of the smaller emerging business. The truth of the matter is that the small and medium sized businesses employ the majority of people world wide. We add massive value as a whole, but individually we are almost insignificant. The corporates enjoy massive support and trust from investors, bankers, shareholders, fellow corporates in the market and members and subsidiaries of their own corporate group and the list goes on. Small and medium size businesses have very little support and trust in comparison. When considering this along with other factors it is unsurprising that few small and medium sized businesses grow to become large enough to compete on a level playing field with the corporate giants of the commercial world. There is no doubt that times are changing. Faster is rapidly becoming more competitive than bigger. Smaller business will have a huge advantage over our bigger rivals in some areas of competition. However, big companies are making the adjustments they need to make and they have the resources to get it right too. It is therefore clear that small and medium sized businesses need to be resourceful and creative in taking the initiative. The SME’s that take and invest the time, money and effort to differentiate themselves in this way will maximise the time, money and effort that they have invested in their businesses. It’s not so much what in this case but how they choose to do this.

The Entrepreneurial Business Exchange Network objectives

To build an entrepreneurial community of business leaders.

To create an environment that is engendered in trust and is steeped in the principle of win - win interdependence.

To create a mutually supportive community that is committed to supporting each other’s products and services wherever possible.

To establish many of the advantages that the corporates have.

Use our collective buying power wherever possible.

Develop collective marketing joint venture initiatives.

Pool resources where this is feasible and or possible to do so.

To identify opportunities for one another on an on going basis.

To share knowledge and information on a network communications system via the internet.