LinkedIn

Recommended by Real Business Magazine as one of "the best places to meet entrepreneurs", this is a networking organisation for business people that want to selflessly help other business people, to buy services and recommend the services of other people. It's about being helpful, not the hard sell. It's about business karma. It's not a place where you simply sell your services. It's about helping people. It's also about meeting a diverse group of business people, so you are also requested to bring along a representative from another industry not on the NFI list. Certain groups of people are NFI - Not Flipping Invited - not necessarily because they are unhelpful, but generally because there's a saturation of them at networking events. After the event, you are asked to post a comment to the NFI Networking blog or LinkedIn group about the selfless advice, help and sales leads that you offered another person - to prove that you were helpful. Your help should also be validated by the person to whom you tried to help, whether or not the help proves fruitful or not. Those that are consistently unhelpful will end up NFI. And we're big people, so we will be able to stop you entering our events.