Opportunities and services
The work that never gets advertised.
Most real business is handed to someone who was already trusted, before it ever reaches a job board or a tender. Opportunities is that moment, made visible: a member posts what they need, other members apply, and the poster chooses.
Posting an opportunity and applying to one are available on every plan.
Looking for a fabrication partner, 400 units a month
Posted 2 days ago · Manufacturing · North West
Steel enclosures, repeat monthly order, existing drawings. Need someone with capacity from October and their own powder coating.
3 applied
Owner, metal fabrication
Bolton · 12 years · Powder coating in house
Director, contract manufacturing
Sheffield · Outsources coating
The poster picks. Nothing is advertised publicly.
Example, not a real member
A member posts a partnership, a role, a collaboration or work they need doing
Specific and time bound, not a vague 'let us connect'. Others apply, and the poster accepts or declines each one.
You see the contract at the point someone decided they need it
Not months later when it has been through three other people, and not never, which is the usual outcome.
This is where a network stops being social and starts being revenue
One accepted application can pay for a year of everything else you do here.
Where it leads
One conversation pays for the year.
A supplier who saves you thousands. A client who stays. The person who introduces you to both. That is what all of this is for.
Services
List what you actually sell.
A job title tells nobody what to buy from you. A services list does: members send an enquiry against a specific thing you offer, and you accept or decline it.
- List the services your business provides, with the detail a buyer needs
- Enquiries arrive attached to a specific service, so the conversation starts at the job
- Accept or decline each enquiry, so your inbox stays yours
- Fewer polite chats that go nowhere, more conversations with someone who needs the exact thing you do
An opportunity
Something someone needs right now
A partnership, a contract, a role, a supplier. Time bound, specific, and the poster chooses who takes it.
A service
Something you always sell
A standing listing of what your business does, so enquiries arrive attached to a specific job rather than to a job title.
Questions people ask
Who can post an opportunity?
Any member. The poster reviews applications and picks who takes it.
Is it a job board?
No. Opportunities are partnerships, collaborations, roles, suppliers and work that a specific business owner needs doing now. They are posted by members, to members.
What is the difference between services and opportunities?
A service is a standing offer of something you sell. An opportunity is a specific thing someone needs right now.
Your next client is already a member. You just have not met yet.
Joining is free, your profile takes a few minutes, and you can be talking to someone useful today.